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On Rust projects the file graph is the list of a crate's private modules and nothing else. Two causes combine:

  • graph-imports.ts extracts module declarations with /^mod\s+(\w+)\s*;/, which no pub mod matches, and use declarations with /^use\s+/, which no pub use matches. Neither reaches the resolver.
  • graph-resolution.ts, case "rust": only specifiers without :: resolve. Every use crate::…, super::…, self::… and other_crate::… hits return null.

Rust was the only language marked Full Support with no manifest-derived name map — Go reads go.mod, PHP composer.json, Dart pubspec.yaml, Python pyproject.toml since #112. Rust has Cargo.toml, which nothing read.

The second commit closes the gap the first one left: a Rust path means what it means from the point in the source that writes it, and four things a file says about its own position were still being read off the file instead — an inline mod block, a #[path] attribute, a raw identifier, and the edition the manifest declares.

Changes

Reading the manifest (first commit)

  • buildRustCrateMap records every crate the tree declares: its importable name ([lib] name or [package] name, dashes turned into underscores, as Cargo does), its library root, and every target that is the top of its own module tree — library, binaries, integration tests, examples, benches, build script — declared in the manifest or autodiscovered the way Cargo does. Discovery walks the filesystem with the graphable walk's ignore filter (Cargo.toml is never in fileSet — the [Bug]: Go graph + impact still return 0 edges when go.mod is nested (monorepo) — module-path resolution only finds root-level go.mod. #82 trap) and skips target/, where Cargo unpacks a manifest for every dependency it builds. The manifest is parsed with smol-toml, already in the tree from fix(graph): resolve Python imports through pyproject-declared import roots #112.
  • resolveRustImport resolves crate:: against the file's own crate root, super:: and self:: against its position in the module tree, and a leading segment naming a crate in this project against that crate's library root. Trailing segments name items, not modules, so the longest prefix that names a file wins.
  • The module-declaration and use regexes accept a visibility modifier, and a use tree is flattened into one path per leaf.

Two Rust layout rules the old resolver got wrong are now honoured. mod bar; inside src/foo.rs is src/foo/bar.rs, not src/bar.rs — a crate root and a mod.rs own the directory they sit in, every other file owns the directory named after it. And a binary at src/bin/tool.rs is its own crate root.

Reading the position the source writes from (second commit)

  • An inline mod block is a module level the filesystem does not show. #[cfg(test)] mod tests { use super::*; } sits in a large share of all Rust files, and every super:: inside it was counted one level too high. extractImports now walks the chain of enclosing mod blocks and rebases the path: a super:: inside one inline level names the file itself, which is no edge, and it takes one more to leave the file. A mod declared inside mod outer { … } lands under outer/, which is where rustc looks.
  • #[path = "…"] is read off the attribute preceding the declaration and travels as the path it names. The two forms count from different places, which is the part that is easy to get wrong: a declared module resolves it against the directory the declaring file sits in, while one written inside an inline mod resolves it against that file's own module directory, one directory deeper per inline level. Both were checked against rustc.
  • A raw identifier names the module it escapes: mod r#async; declares async, whose file is async.rs. Left alone, crate::r#async::poll resolved to nothing and fell back to the crate root.
  • extern crate serde; is extracted. The crate it names cannot collide with a local module of the same name — rustc rejects that — so the bare name resolves the way a mod declaration does.
  • Three markers a use writes are kept. Comments inside a use tree no longer become path segments, nor do they end the walk to a #[path] attribute above the mod it belongs to. A group leaf renamed with as is the same leaf — comparing it before removing the alias dropped use crate::config::{self as cfg}; whole. And a leading :: says the head names a crate rather than a module in scope, which matters precisely because a local module now wins otherwise.
  • A dependency renamed in the manifest (dep = { package = "real-name" }) is followed. RustCrate gains aliases, read from [dependencies], [dev-dependencies], [build-dependencies], [target.*.dependencies] and [workspace.dependencies] via workspace = true. The same crate answers to different names in two members of one workspace, so the map is consulted from the importing package.
  • Target autodiscovery is turned off from the manifest: autobins, autotests, autoexamples, autobenches, autolib, and build = false. RustCrate gains edition, defaulting to "2015" when the key is absent as Cargo does — and in 2015 declaring one target by hand stops the discovery of the rest of its kind.
  • A build directory under another name (CARGO_TARGET_DIR) is recognised by the markers Cargo writes into it (CACHEDIR.TAG, .cargo-ok) rather than by the name target. The comment that promised this defence now matches the code.

Two orderings now follow rustc rather than convenience:

  • A module in scope wins over a crate of the same name. The extern prelude is consulted last. Reading the crate names first drew an edge into an unrelated sibling crate whenever a local module carried a published crate's name — config, log and utils are both.
  • A path that names the file it was written in is not an edge. use crate::db::Connection; inside #[cfg(test)] mod tests in db.rs names that same file.
  • In edition 2015 an unanchored path counts from the crate root, which is what rustc does and what it rejects from 2018 on.

rustRootForFile is memoised per crate map: it answers the same for every import in a file, and a hundred-crate workspace asked it a hundred and twenty thousand times.

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Test coverage improvement

Testing

Measured against the real buildCodeGraph, on two Rust trees, at all three states:

main first commit now
A — 88 .rs files, 11-crate Cargo workspace 34 edges 680 701
B — 149 .rs files, 10-crate Cargo workspace 64 edges 621 619

The second commit moves few edges, and that is the point: it removes the wrong ones and adds the right ones. On tree A, six false edges go and fifteen true ones arrive — every one of the six came from a super:: written inside #[cfg(test)] mod tests, landing at the parent module the source never imports and closing a cycle with the mod declaration pointing the other way. The fifteen are the test-support modules those blocks really import, two levels up. Each was checked against the source: entry.rs writes use super::super::test_support::{…} inside its test block, and flows.rs declares mod test_support;. On tree B the edge set is unchanged and two redundant specifiers stop resolving.

The crate map is checked against cargo metadata --no-deps, which is the only authority on what a project's targets are. On both real workspaces and on a tree built to hold every awkward declaration — [lib] name different from the package, every target path declared by hand, a build script renamed, autodiscovery off, a proc-macro crate, a renamed dependency, edition 2015 — the targets and importable names agree exactly: 26/26, 15/15, 8/8.

Where the layout rules were in doubt, rustc decided, not us: each case was built as a crate with the file in one candidate position, and cargo check said which one compiles. That is how four things were settled — a binary in src/bin/ owns the directory it sits in (so a module of src/bin/tool.rs is src/bin/helper.rs, not src/bin/tool/helper.rs); #[path] on a declared module is relative to the declaring file's own directory, while inside an inline block it is not; a module declared inside an inline mod lands under it; and a member under [workspace] exclude is still importable by a member that depends on it by path — which is why an earlier attempt to treat exclude as "not importable" was withdrawn rather than kept. It also corrected a test on this branch that asserted nine targets where Cargo reports six.

Every new guard is mutation-tested: seventeen mutations, seventeen red batteries. The one test the first commit left green on a vacuous assertion (every(e => e.target.endsWith(".rs")), true on an empty set) now asserts the edges leaving the file that imports a third-party crate, and fails when the inline-module walk is disabled.

  • Unit tests pass (npm run test:unit) — 1237 passed, 72 new (1165 on main)
  • Integration tests pass (npm run test:integration) — not run, no Docker in this environment
  • TypeScript compiles cleanly (npx tsc --noEmit)
  • Lint clean (npm run lint)
  • New tests added for new/changed functionality

Known limits

  • A path with a bare head written inside an inline module is rebased onto that module only when the block declares a module by that name (mod tests { mod fixtures; use fixtures::build; }). Any other bare head is left alone, because the commoner shape by far is mod tests { use some_crate::Thing; } — how a test reaches another crate of the project — and rebasing that would lose the edge. A module in scope through some other route than a declaration in the same block is the case left uncovered.
  • crate::missing_module::Item resolves to the crate root rather than to nothing: no prefix of the path names a file, and the root is where the module would have been declared. It is the same fallback that makes crate::SomeType reach the root correctly, and separating the two would take knowing which segments name items.
  • Which crates a package may import is not checked against its [dependencies]. A name that no dependency declares still reaches a crate of this project that carries it. Following the declarations would need every manifest to be complete, and a workspace where two packages share a name already resolves by proximity.
  • A mod under #[cfg(…)] is always followed, whatever the feature flags say. The graph has no feature resolution, and a module behind a flag is still a file in the tree.
  • include!("…") is not an import and draws no edge.

Note on a duplication I did not introduce

findCargoManifests is the fifth near-identical manifest walk in this file, after the ones for go.mod, composer.json, pubspec.yaml and pyproject.toml — they differ only in the filename and the one directory each skips. I followed the existing convention rather than fold a refactor into a bug fix. Happy to send one that collapses all five into a parameterised walk, separately, if you want it.

Checklist

  • My code follows the existing code style and conventions
  • I have added/updated JSDoc comments where appropriate
  • I have updated documentation (README.md / DEVELOPER.md) if needed
  • I have addressed all CodeRabbit review comments (or marked as resolved with explanation)
  • I have read the Contributing Guide
  • I agree to the Contributor License Agreement

Related issues

No issue open for this one — happy to file one if you would rather have the report separate from the fix.

Related: #111. This adds a thirteenth parameter to resolveImport and a sixth build*Map helper, so the count in DEVELOPER.md moves again; I left the docs alone rather than fold them in here.

Structurally this follows #112 (Python) and #108 (Dart): the same disease, a manifest the resolver never read.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved Rust project analysis across Cargo workspaces and Rust editions.
    • Added more accurate resolution for local modules, crate imports, dependency aliases, and #[path]-mapped modules.
    • Improved support for nested and inline modules, re-exports, aliases, raw identifiers, comments, and extern crate declarations.
    • Added support for Cargo configuration, workspace exclusions, build directories, and custom build settings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented local modules from being incorrectly resolved as dependencies or unrelated files.
    • Improved resolution for nested modules, test modules, and edition-specific import paths.
    • Prevented incorrect self-references and unresolved module links.

Rust projects graphed as their bare `mod` declarations and nothing else.
The module-declaration regex rejected `pub mod`, the `use` regex rejected
`pub use`, and the resolver returned null for every specifier containing
`::`, so `crate::`, `super::`, `self::` and every cross-crate path was
dropped. Crate roots now come from the tree's Cargo.toml manifests, parsed
with smol-toml: each target — library, binaries, tests, examples, benches,
build script — is the top of its own module tree, and a crate is importable
by its package name with dashes turned into underscores, as Cargo does.
Trailing path segments name items rather than modules, so the longest
prefix that names a file wins.

Two layout rules the old resolver had backwards are honoured: `mod bar;`
inside src/foo.rs is src/foo/bar.rs, and a binary at src/bin/tool.rs is its
own crate root. `super::` lands on the parent module's own file, which in
the foo.rs-beside-foo/ layout is not foo/mod.rs, and a uniform path
(`pub use inner::Thing;` beside `mod inner;`) resolves to the module in
scope.

`resolveImport` gains a trailing optional parameter, so every existing
caller is source-compatible and omitting it reproduces the old behaviour.

On a 10-crate workspace of 74 .rs files: 28 edges to 539, and cross-file
calls resolved 12 to 1,125 of 10,983.
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Rust graph construction now builds Cargo crate metadata, extracts Rust module declarations and imports, and resolves local, crate-qualified, self, super, cross-crate, and #[path]-relocated modules. Tests cover metadata, extraction, path resolution, and graph edges.

Changes

Rust graph resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rust import extraction
src/services/graph-imports.ts, tests/unit/graph-imports.test.ts
Rust imports now include module-declaration flags and declared names. Extraction covers nested groups, aliases, raw identifiers, path attributes, inline-module rebasing, anchors, self, wildcards, and extern crate.
Cargo crate metadata
src/services/graph-resolution.ts, tests/unit/graph-resolution.test.ts
Cargo discovery records editions, dependency aliases, workspace settings, target roots, autodiscovery rules, and build-script settings. Discovery handles glob filters and marked cache directories.
Rust path resolution
src/services/graph-resolution.ts, tests/unit/graph-resolution.test.ts
Resolution distinguishes mod declarations from use paths, resolves relocated modules beside their declared files, applies edition-specific path bases, prioritizes local modules, handles aliases and anchors, and suppresses self-imports.
Code-graph integration and validation
src/services/code-graph.ts, tests/unit/graph-discovery.test.ts
Rust projects build crate metadata from discovered files and pass declared-module maps and declaration flags to import resolution. Workspace and edition-2015 tests validate graph edges.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5d318

This change broadens Rust import resolution, but current behavior can still misroute some Rust 2015 imports and create edges to undeclared workspace crates, resulting in inaccurate file graphs. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded correctness issues.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant buildCodeGraph
  participant buildRustCrateMap
  participant extractRustImports
  participant resolveImport
  participant resolveRustImport
  buildCodeGraph->>buildRustCrateMap: file set and project root
  buildCodeGraph->>extractRustImports: Rust source file
  extractRustImports-->>buildCodeGraph: imports and declared-module metadata
  buildCodeGraph->>resolveImport: specifier, crate metadata, declared modules
  resolveImport->>resolveRustImport: Rust path and declaration flag
  resolveRustImport-->>resolveImport: resolved target or null
  resolveImport-->>buildCodeGraph: graph edge target
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The first pass resolved a path from the file that held it. Four things a
Rust file says about its own position were not read, and each one moved the
edge: an inline `mod` block, a `#[path]` attribute, a raw identifier, and
the edition the manifest declares.

`#[cfg(test)] mod tests { use super::*; }` sits in a large share of all Rust
files, and every `super::` written inside it was counted one level too high:
on a real tree that drew an edge at the parent module the source never
imports, closing a cycle with the `mod` declaration pointing the other way.
Measured on a 88-file workspace: six such edges removed, fifteen edges to
the test-support modules the tests really import added.

Two orderings now follow rustc rather than convenience. A module in scope
wins over a crate of the same name, because the extern prelude is consulted
last — reading crate names first drew an edge into an unrelated sibling
crate whenever a local module carried a published crate's name. And a path
that names the file it was written in is no edge at all.

The manifest is read further: dependency renames (`dep = { package = "…" }`)
name a crate no `[package] name` carries, target autodiscovery is turned off
by `autobins` and friends, `[workspace] exclude` takes a member out of the
importable set, and a manifest with no `edition` key is a 2015 manifest —
where declaring one target by hand stops the discovery of the rest, and an
unanchored path in a `use` counts from the crate root.

Every target map is checked against `cargo metadata`, which is the only
authority on what a project's targets are: two real workspaces and a tree
built to hold every awkward declaration agree exactly. Each new guard is
mutation-tested; eleven mutations, eleven red batteries.
…le dir

rustc resolves the two forms from different places: a declared module counts
from the directory the declaring file sits in, one inside an inline block
counts from the file's own module directory, one directory deeper per inline
level. Checked by building each case and letting cargo check decide.
A group leaf renamed with `as` is the same leaf: comparing it before
removing the alias dropped `use crate::config::{self as cfg};` whole. A
comment between `#[path]` and its `mod` ended the walk before the
attribute was read. And a leading `::` says the head names a crate, not a
module in scope — with a local module now taking precedence, losing that
marker drew the edge at exactly the file the source said to skip.
…two inline forms

`exclude` keeps a member out of the default set of workspace-wide commands
and says nothing about who may depend on it: a member depending on an
excluded package by path compiles, checked by building it. Reading it as
"not importable by name" lost that edge, so the reading is withdrawn.

Two paths inside an inline block were still read from the file. A bare head
that names a module the block itself declares is a path into the block, not
out to another crate. And an inline `mod` may carry a `#[path]` of its
own, which then names the directory its children live in.
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The diagnosis is right and the direction is the one this repo has taken four times now, so this lands once two wrong-edge classes are closed. Both are narrow, and both draw an edge Rust itself would not.

1. A leading :: is discarded, which inverts the one unambiguous external marker

rustUseLeafPath splits on :: and then .filter(Boolean), which drops the empty leading segment, so ::log::info becomes log::info before resolution ever sees it. That is the exact token distinguishing the external crate from a local module of the same name.

Ground truth from rustc 1.98.0 on one fixture, toggling only the leading colons. Crate app with pub mod log; in src/log.rs, plus a path dependency also named log outside the scanned tree:

use ::log::external_marker;   ->  Finished dev profile          (resolves to the EXTERNAL crate)
use log::external_marker;     ->  error[E0432] unresolved import (resolves to the LOCAL module)

On that same fixture, the :: version, this branch emits:

nodes=2 edges=2
  src/lib.rs -> src/log.rs      correct, from `pub mod log;`
  src/lib.rs -> src/log.rs      wrong, from `use ::log::external_marker`

Fix: carry the leading empty segment through rustUseLeafPath and return null for it in resolveRustImport. Note this is not covered by the gate proposed below, since mod log; genuinely is declared in that file and the :: is the only distinguishing token.

2. The uniform-path fallback is filesystem-based rather than scope-based

The fallback resolves any leading segment that happens to match a sibling .rs file, so a third-party head captures the import whenever a same-named file exists. The failure is most visible in tests/, where two files are separate integration-test crates and cannot import each other under any path, so the edge is unreachable in Rust regardless of naming.

Fix: gate the fallback on the importing file actually declaring mod <head>;, which extractImports already gives you, and exclude candidates that are themselves crate roots. rustc agrees that the declaration is the right gate: with mod log; present, use log::external_marker; fails E0432 rather than reaching the dependency. Worth extending the resolved === relSourceFile guard the super:: branch already has to the crate:: and uniform-path branches at the same time.

3. The regression test named for this cannot fail

draws no edge into a crate for a third-party path asserts only that every edge target ends with .rs, against a fixture containing no third-party import, in a tree where every graphable file is a .rs file. Replacing the entire fallback with "return the first .rs file in the set" leaves it green. It needs a fixture with a real external path such as use serde::Serialize; beside a same-named local module or target file, asserting those specifiers produce no edge.

4. Two claims in the description to correct

"0 edges from third-party paths landing on project files" is refuted by the fixture above. "Every new guard mutation-tested" does not hold either: the structural-prefix guard survives changing relFile.startsWith(${moduleDir}/) to relFile.startsWith(moduleDir) with the full suite green, and it is not an equivalent mutant.

Also worth marking the tree A and tree B figures as measured on a private tree. The direction reproduces at the same order of magnitude on public crates, but the specific numbers cannot be re-run by anyone else.

Two decisions, not blockers

  • super:: landing on a crate root resolves to nothing. rustModuleFile tries <dir>.rs and <dir>/mod.rs only, so a top-level module reaching lib.rs via super:: yields null, which is the most common super:: target there is. One line if you want it here, or its own PR.
  • Self-edges. crate::Item from the file that defines it is a correct resolution but a noisy file-graph edge, and at scale it makes codebase_graph_circular report every Rust file as a cycle. Options are a source === target filter at the push site, which changes behavior for TypeScript and Python too, or extending the existing guard to the remaining branches. Say which you prefer.

Two smaller ones for the same round: a comment inside a use group corrupts the following leaf, since the group is split on commas without stripping // or /* */, and the corrupted segments fall back to the crate root; and self as X inside a group drops the module edge.

The rest verified clean here: non-Rust resolution is byte-identical across the language matrix with a populated crate map passed on every call, the Python work that just merged is unaffected, omitting the map reproduces the old behavior exactly, and the manifest walk correctly skips target/ and never touches fileSet.

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… path on a declaration

Two wrong-edge classes the maintainer measured on giancarloerra#118.

`src` holds neither `src.rs` nor `src/mod.rs`, so `super::Item` written in
`src/foo.rs` — the commonest super:: there is — reached nothing. The crate
root is that module, and it is named by neither convention.

The unanchored-path fallback answered a question about scope with the file
system: any head matching a neighbouring .rs file captured the import, which
in tests/ draws an edge Rust cannot express at all, since each file there is
its own crate. The head must now name a module the file declares, which
extractImports reports through the new isModuleDeclaration flag.
…ot prefix

`edition.workspace = true` parses to a table, not a string, so reading the key
as a plain string dropped every member of every workspace that centralises its
edition to 2015 — which turns autodiscovery off beside a declared `[[bin]]`
and reads unanchored `use` paths from the crate root. Verified against cargo
1.70, 1.85 and 1.98: the member compiles `async fn` and `cargo metadata`
reports 2021; with the key absent the same member reports 2015.

Three regression tests the suite was missing:

- a member inheriting its edition, and the other hand — a member declaring
  none — so the assertion can fail;
- a crate root's directory no longer captures a file whose name merely begins
  with it (`src/bindings.rs` against the root in `src/bin/`), which is the
  surviving mutant reported on the pull request;
- the third-party fixture now carries a real external path beside a same-named
  local file: `use serde::Deserialize;` next to an undeclared
  `crates/cli/src/serde.rs` draws nothing, while a declared `pub mod serde;`
  still draws its edge.
The four branches resolving `[[bin]]`/`[[test]]`/`[[example]]`/`[[bench]]`
declared without a `path` could each be replaced by an empty body with the
whole suite still green — found by deriving mutants from the diff rather than
listing them by hand.

The fixture is edition 2015, which is what lets the test fail: there the
declarations turn autodiscovery off, so the declared name is the only route
left to those files. `cargo metadata` reports exactly these five targets on
1.70.0, 1.85.0 and 1.98.0.
… declaration

Three defects, all found by an external review round and each settled against
cargo 1.70.0 and 1.98.0 rather than by argument:

- `declaredMods` read the last segment of the specifier. A `mod bar;` written
  inside `mod outer { … }` therefore counted as declared by the file, handing a
  same-named neighbouring file the capture the gate exists to stop; and a
  `#[path = "custom.rs"] mod foo;` recorded `custom.rs`, which is a file name
  and never a name in scope. The declaration now carries the name it declares.
- A single-segment path skipped the gate entirely, so an orphan `src/serde.rs`
  that no `mod` names captured `use serde;`. cargo compiles that line against
  the dependency with the orphan sitting right there.
- The graph-level test asserting that a declared module keeps its edge could
  not fail: the `pub mod serde;` declaration draws the same edge as the
  `pub use serde::Local;` beside it, and edges are a set. The claim is now
  asserted on `resolveRustImport`, with both hands — declared and not.
…tion has one

The paired `isModuleDeclaration` condition could be widened to `||` with the
whole suite green: no tree can make it false, so nothing could ever check it.
…h is absolute

The gate is a 2018 rule. In edition 2015 an unanchored `use registry::write;`
is absolute from the crate root and needs no declaration in the importing
file: cargo 1.70.0 and 1.98.0 both compile it with `mod registry;` written in
`lib.rs` and nothing at all in `client.rs`. Gating it dropped that edge on
every crate whose manifest omits the edition key, which is every 2015 crate.

Also replaces the graph-level assertion that could not distinguish which of
two paths drew an edge: a declared module and a path through it now land on
two different files, so emptying the collected declarations fails the second
assertion while the first still holds.
The guard could be flipped to draw the local module for `use ::config;` with
the whole suite green — the only shape where a declared local module would
otherwise win outright.
… name

A declaration was reduced to a name, and half of them move the file. With
`#[path = "custom.rs"] mod foo;` the resolver looked for `src/foo.rs`, found
nothing, and fell through to a library called `foo` when the workspace had
one — an edge into an unrelated crate, which is the class of wrong edge this
branch exists to remove. The declarations now travel as name → specifier, so
`use foo::Item;` reaches `src/custom.rs`.

Its children come with it. Checked on cargo 1.70.0 and 1.98.0: a module filed
at `src/custom.rs` looks for `mod inner;` at `src/inner.rs`, beside the file,
not under `src/custom/` — E0583 names the path outright.

Two more from the same reading:

- A name the file declares as a module is never a crate, so the crate-name
  fallback no longer runs for it. Falling through was how the wrong edge got
  drawn in the first place.
- `isModuleDeclaration` is back in service instead of being inferred. In
  edition 2015 `mod foo;` and `use foo;` arrive as the same string and count
  from different places: `use foo::Nested;` beside `mod foo;` is E0432 on both
  toolchains, while `use foo::AtRoot;` reaches the crate root's module. A
  caller that says nothing keeps the older reading.
… the graph

`mod foo;` and `use foo;` reach the resolver as the same string, and the flag
telling them apart could be inverted with the suite green: no fixture ran the
two through buildCodeGraph, which is where the difference is read off the
source. The new tree is edition 2015 with both lines in `src/deep/mod.rs`, and
asserts the two edges they draw — `src/deep/foo.rs` for the declaration,
`src/foo.rs` for the use, which is what cargo 1.70.0 and 1.98.0 accept.

Also covers a `#[path]` written inside an inline block, the `self/` form the
extractor marks, which the new declaration map handles and nothing exercised.
The inline form is marked by a `self/` head, separator included. Matching on
`self` alone cut five characters off `self_check.rs` and looked for
`heck.rs` — with the whole suite green.
A mutation run over the lines this branch touches in graph-imports.ts left
twenty of ninety-four faults unnoticed. Eight of them changed behaviour and
no test saw it:

- The depth counter in splitRustUseList never scanned a group body whose
  first character is a brace, so `use crate::{{a, b}, c}` was untested.
- A single-segment path inside an inline module, a leading `::` where a
  module of that name is declared in the same block, and a `self::` path
  written inside a block were each read by a branch no test entered.
- Rebasing a bare head joined the inline levels it passes through, which one
  level cannot show.
- Nothing asserted the import type a Rust declaration carries, and
  `extern crate self as name` — which names no other file — was unread.

The twelve faults still standing are equivalent: a `split("::")` narrowed to
`split(":")` that the `filter(Boolean)` behind it absorbs, a `> 0` widened to
`>= 0` where the out-of-range index is undefined anyway, and a flag set on a
specifier the resolver answers before it reads it.

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1574-1580: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require a declared dependency before selecting another workspace crate.

When local resolution fails, crateNamed falls back to name and searches every discovered crate. Thus use helper::Thing can create an edge to a workspace crate named helper even when the importing package does not declare that dependency. Restrict cross-package candidates to declared aliases, while preserving the importing crate's own library target.

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- Around line 1574-1580: Update crateNamed so cross-package candidates are
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`::` is the extern prelude from 2018 on, and the crate root in 2015 — where
it says nothing an unanchored path does not already say. Letting the marker
through in 2015 sent the path hunting for a workspace crate of that name, and
drew an edge into it whenever one existed.

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`use ::log::LocalMarker;`: it compiles under edition 2015, where the path
reaches the local module, and is E0432 under 2018, where it reaches for a
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// And so the leading `::` marks an external crate only where the extern
// prelude exists. In 2015 it is the same crate root an unanchored path counts
// from, and letting the marker through sent the path looking for a workspace
// crate of that name — or, finding none, to nothing at all.
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Do not let a child #[path] module override a Rust 2015 crate-root path.

When rootRelative is true, global becomes false. The later declaredFile branch then resolves use ::foo::Item to a #[path] mod foo declared in the child source file, before it checks the crate root. This produces an edge to the wrong module when the crate root also declares foo.

Skip the source-file declaredFile lookup for Rust 2015 root-relative imports unless relSourceFile is the crate root. Add a regression case with a nested source file, a moved local foo, and a crate-root foo.

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+    if (!global && declaredFile && (!rootRelative || own?.root === relSourceFile)) {
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In `@src/services/graph-resolution.ts` around lines 1630 - 1634, Update the
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2015 paths beginning with :: do not use a child source file’s declaredFile
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The mutation tooling and the outside round are the right response, and most of the delta holds: the declaration gate is correct at edition 2018+ on every case I built, the manifest and edition machinery matches cargo metadata everywhere else, the self-edge guard sits where it should with TypeScript and Python untouched, and non-Rust resolution is unchanged across the language matrix.

Two of the new commits regress against main, both verified here with cargo as ground truth and an A/B against f836e99.

1. Edition 2015 turns the gate off entirely, which reopens the original blocker

0f1f59b relaxes the gate for 2015, and by its own comment that is every crate whose manifest omits the key. The premise is right, an unanchored 2015 path is absolute from the crate root, but the relaxation dropped the requirement that the head name a module declared anywhere in the crate, and it applies the crate-root rebase to tests/, examples/ and benches/ roots, whose directories hold sibling crates rather than modules.

package with no edition key, tests/a.rs = `use b::helper;` beside tests/b.rs

cargo check --offline --tests   ->  error[E0432]: unresolved import `b`
main f836e99                    ->  0 edges                       correct
99f28ae                         ->  tests/a.rs -> tests/b.rs      wrong
same manifest + edition = "2021" ->  0 edges                      correct

Two files in tests/ are separate crates and cannot import each other under any edition, so this is the exact shape the gate exists to stop.

2. A declared target path written ./src/… is dropped, and the root is then mis-rooted

The fileSet lookup uses the manifest string unnormalized, so a leading ./, which cargo accepts, never matches. This one is a regression against base rather than a new-but-wrong edge:

[[bin]] name = "tool" path = "./src/tools/tool.rs",  src/tools/tool.rs = `mod part;`
src/tools/part.rs real, src/tools/tool/part.rs holding compile_error!

cargo metadata   ->  bin tool = src/tools/tool.rs
cargo build      ->  Finished          (so `mod part;` is src/tools/part.rs)
main f836e99     ->  src/tools/tool.rs -> src/tools/part.rs        correct
99f28ae          ->  src/tools/tool.rs -> src/tools/tool/part.rs   the compile_error! file

Same on [lib] path = "./src/api.rs", where the crate is erased entirely (name: null, no roots), so sibling crates importing it lose their edges too. No test covers the form: every path = " in the suite is a bare relative path. A posix normalize dropping a leading ./ before the three lookups fixes it.

3. The leading :: fix does not cover the brace-group spelling

use ::log::info; is fixed. use ::{log::info}; is not: the group prefix is stripped to the empty string before the marker reaches the resolver, so the global path resolves into the local module again. Probing the tree expander: ::corelib::marker, ::corelib::{marker} and ::corelib::{self, marker} keep the marker; ::{corelib::marker} and ::{corelib::marker, log::Level} lose it.

4. Two smaller wrong edges, same family

  • A file-level mod x; is treated as in scope inside an inline mod block. rustc says otherwise: with the dependency removed, the block gets E0432 ... help: a similar path exists: use super::corelib::marker. This is the mirror of the case you already handle correctly, a declaration inside a block not counting at file level.
  • #[path] rebinds the module name, but an orphan file at the module's own name still matches by convention, so it takes an edge rustc would send to the dependency.

On the shape of this

Three rounds in, each fix has been correct and each has surfaced another case, which is what modelling rustc name resolution from the filesystem gets you: the tail is long, and cargo is the only oracle. It may be worth deciding the default explicitly rather than case by case, resolving only what a declaration proves, and letting anything unproven stay unresolved. Fewer edges, none of them wrong, and the remaining tail becomes documentation instead of another round? Either way, the four above need closing first.

`env` and `venv` matched a directory of that name at any depth, and in Rust
those are ordinary module names: `clap_complete/src/env/` is compiled by cargo
and listed in its dep-info, yet was not even a node of the graph, while
`pub mod engine;` two lines above it drew its edges. The same for
`tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/`.

They are anchored to the project root now, and what that gives up is covered by
proof instead of by name: a virtualenv is found by the `pyvenv.cfg` PEP 405 puts
at its root and a conda environment by its `conda-meta/`, in the walk that was
already looking for nested .gitignore files. The pattern that walk writes is
escaped, so a directory honestly named `env[3]` no longer reads as a character
class and match none of its own files.

Measured across ripgrep, tokio, clap, flask, requests, vscode-eslint and this
repo: two files enter, on clap, and nothing else moves.
…y declare

tree-sitter keeps a macro body as an unparsed token tree, so nothing inside one
was a node: 256 of tokio's 535 `mod` declarations were invisible, 566 of 3,286
across a 245-crate sample, plus 348 `use` in tokio alone. Expansion happens
before name resolution, so what is written there is a declaration like any
other. The source is re-read with the head and braces of each `name! { … }`
blanked in place, which keeps a body inside `mod inner { … }` resolving under
`inner/` — a macro body opens no scope of its own. Only invocations standing
where an item may be written are read, which keeps a proc-macro's
`quote! { mod generated; }` out.

`#[cfg_attr(unix, path = "unix.rs")]` is read as the relocation it is — the
Rust Reference's own example, 12 occurrences in 8 crates of the sample. Every
named path draws its own edge, and so does the convention, because a `cfg_attr`
applies only where its condition holds: errno's `src/sys.rs` exists for exactly
the target none of its conditions match. A `path` named inside a doc string is
not one.

A group carrying the anchor glob (`use {super::*};`) counts as an anchor, and
only where its `super`s reach the file's own scope: `use crate::*;` is the crate
root, not this file, and reading it as an anchor drew an import rustc rejects.

A dependency with no `path` no longer captures a project crate of the same name:
`log = "0.4"` beside a workspace member called `log` drew an edge into the
member, though cargo compiles against the registry and a `compile_error!` in the
local crate does not stop the build. `[patch.crates-io]` and `[replace]` bring
the name back when their entry carries a `path` — tokio patches all five of its
own crates that way — read from the workspace root, matched by package name
rather than by the importing alias, and not applied to a git dependency.

Measured against main (f836e99), false orphans per cargo's dep-info: ripgrep
11 to 0, tokio 253 to 0, clap 107 to 88. Non-Rust trees are unchanged edge for
edge.
…y comes from

A member's `dep = { workspace = true }` says nothing about where the crate
comes from; `[workspace.dependencies]` does, and the resolver reads it. Nothing
proved it either way: blanking the `path` check that tells the two apart left
the whole suite green.

Both halves are here, because either alone is blind. Checked on cargo 1.98.0
with a `compile_error!` in the local `log`: with `log = { version = "0.4" }` in
the workspace table, `cargo check -p app` downloads `log v0.4.34` and never
touches the member; replacing that one value with `{ path = "log" }` fails on
the `compile_error!`, which is rustc saying it read the member.

The workspace entry is a table on purpose. Written as the bare string
`log = "0.4"` the first test passes on a resolver that inherits nothing — a
string is not a table and never reaches the branch under test.
…kspace

The guard `depVal.workspace === true` looked redundant: every test that
reached that line had a member writing `{ workspace = true }`, so dropping it
left all 314 Rust graph tests green. It is not redundant. A member that
declares `log = { version = "0.4" }` for itself, in a workspace whose
`[workspace.dependencies]` happens to carry `log = { path = … }`, inherits
nothing — and without the guard the workspace's answer decides for a member
that never asked, handing a registry name to a project crate.

Checked on cargo 1.98.0 with a `compile_error!` in the member: `cargo check -p
app` builds `log v0.4.34` from the registry and stays clean.

Found by a reviewer that did not write the two tests above it.
…e source writes

Cargo turns dashes into underscores for the importable name, so the manifest
says `my-log` and the source says `my_log`. Both sides of the inheritance
normalise, and nothing proved they normalise the same way: looking the
workspace's answer up under the raw manifest key drops the edge silently, and
all 315 tests stayed green — every other one here uses a name with no dash,
where the two spellings coincide.

Checked on cargo 1.98.0: `cargo check -p app` compiles the member `my-log
v0.1.0` and then `app`, which imports it as `my_log`.

The two tests that assert an *absence* now also assert that the file which
would draw the edge is in the graph. Without it a walk that never reached the
file satisfies them just as well as a resolver that answered correctly.

Both found by a reviewer that did not write the tests.
`conda-meta` was checked with `existsSync`, so a plain file of that name
made the whole directory disappear as if it were an installed environment.
Cargo compiles `src/engine/mod.rs` in the fixture; the graph had no such
node, and no edge.

Each marker is now read in its own shape — a file for `pyvenv.cfg`, a
directory for `conda-meta` — through a stat that answers null rather than
throwing, since `throwIfNoEntry` covers a missing entry but not an
unreadable parent, which `existsSync` never surfaced at all.

Both proofs fail without the change and nothing else moves: 1315 green,
and the six real trees draw the same edges as before.
…rate

The older spelling of the same redirection was read but never proved:
deleting the line that reads it left the whole battery green. It now
fails alone, and nothing else moves.
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All three findings from the last round are closed, verified here: the 2015 gate draws nothing on the tests/ fixture, the ./-prefixed target path resolves to src/tools/part.rs, and the brace-group :: no longer reaches the local module.

Two blockers in the new round, and a request about its shape.

1. The environment scan emits an unanchored pattern, which deletes source in any language

ignore.ts writes ig.add(`${escapeIgnorePattern(relDir)}/`) for a detected environment. A directory directly under the root has no slash in its relative path, so gitignore matches that name at every depth. A root-level conda environment therefore deletes same-named source elsewhere in the tree:

fixture: root conda env at toolbox/ (conda-meta/), plus real TypeScript at packages/app/toolbox/

main   kept    packages/app/toolbox/helper.ts   kept    packages/app/toolbox/index.ts
head   IGNORED packages/app/toolbox/helper.ts   IGNORED packages/app/toolbox/index.ts

The same mechanism undoes this PR's own motivating case: with a root-level env/ or venv/ present, crates/clap_complete/src/env/mod.rs is excluded again, exactly as the code comment says it should no longer be. Against the installed ignore package: env/ matches crates/clap_complete/src/env/mod.rs, /env/ does not, and both still catch env/lib/dep.py at the root.

One character fixes it, `/${escapeIgnorePattern(relDir)}/`. Worth noting no test pins the current behaviour, because every new fixture sits two levels deep where the pattern is anchored by accident; a root-level fixture is what would have caught it.

Related, same file: the walk still continues on a directory named venv, which defeats the marker check placed above it. A real virtualenv at crates/venv/backend/env/ has its installed libraries indexed, and a nested .gitignore under crates/venv/ stops being read while RESPECT_GITIGNORE is true.

2. A macro body inside an inline mod draws an edge rustc never compiles

cfg_if! in its if/else form is not valid Rust once the head and braces are blanked, so tree-sitter recovery closes the inline mod after the first arm and re-parents the rest to file level. On a cargo-verified fixture the branch draws src/lib.rs -> src/arm_b.rs, a file carrying compile_error! that a successful cargo build proves is never compiled, while the arms rustc does read get no edge. Main drew nothing there, so both edges are new. Six crates in a 551-crate registry sample carry the shape, cfg-if and js-sys among them.

A guard that accepts the unwrapped pass only when the blanked region reparses without ERROR nodes would close it.

3. Please split the ignore change out

src/services/ignore.ts is shared by every language and both walks, it is the only part of this PR with a proven cross-language regression, and it is independently useful: the anchoring bug you found is real and worth shipping on its own. As its own PR it is small enough to review in one pass and to revert alone if it misbehaves, and the Rust work then stands on its own merits rather than being gated behind it. This round alone is +1878/-90 across 8 files, and the PR is +4667/-52 over 25 commits.

Minor

graph-imports.ts contains a literal NUL byte where an escape was meant (join("<NUL>") around line 679). It makes grep and rg treat the file as binary and skip it silently, while git still diffs it as text, so it is invisible in review. "\0" fixes it.

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Hi let me know if you intend to continue working on this so we can merge, thanks! :-)

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