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fix(repair): bound MCP response reads before buffering - #2647

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Summary

The repair MCP API tool reads the entire response with response.text() before truncating it. A large or unfinished response therefore continues buffering or waiting despite the intended output cap. A local loopback stream reproduces this without model inference. The reader should stop at the byte cap, cancel the remaining stream and preserve complete UTF-8 characters.

Closes #2646.

Changes

  • Bound response reads to 1 MB before buffering, preserving UTF-8 and releasing the reader.
  • Synchronize relevant documentation and add a quiet credited Unreleased changelog entry.
  • No new UI strings or locale keys; maintained version files are unchanged.

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • ♻️ Refactor
  • 📝 Documentation
  • 🧪 Tests
  • 🔧 CI / Build
  • 🚀 Release prep

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  • Hosted CI audit at 2026-10-06T12:35:20.584679+00:00: no failing latest checks; required CLA passes. Some checks remain pending; no all-green claim.

  • Native loopback/subprocess reproduction fails before the fix. After: 4 response cases plus 6 existing repair bridge cases pass; no live speech inference.

  • git diff --check and the repository changelog style gate pass.

  • Focused JavaScript tests used Node 24.19.0 and a reused Vitest 5.0.1 runtime; this repository pins Vitest 4.1.11. No full build qualification is claimed.

  • Full backend suites and bun run check:electron were not run locally. The human CLA signature is registered and the required CLA status passes; hosted results are reported separately below.

  • Additional native fixture controls cover stdout writes split inside UTF-8, child exit before server entry, and a child that never requests. Restoring prior fixture decoding/wait ordering produces 3 failures; all 13 response/bridge tests pass after the fixes. The bounded before harness uses an owned temporary directory and process-group cleanup.

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  • I've tested this locally
  • Every commit author has signed the CLA (the CLA check tells you how)
  • I've updated relevant documentation (if applicable)
  • No local machine paths, logs, or personal env details in this PR
  • Maintained version files are in sync (if an owner-requested bump): root package.json, pyproject.toml, backend/core/version.py, and lockfiles
  • If this PR changes runtime behavior, the regression fixture at tests/fixtures/omnivoice_data/ still loads green on the smoke-matrix CI job (macOS + Windows + Linux)

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Version bumps require owner approval; validated releases are tagged from main
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Users who want stability install an Electron release or pin Docker :stable.

The repair MCP tool now reads response bodies incrementally, stops at 1 MB, cancels the remaining stream, and preserves complete UTF-8 characters; this prevents large or unfinished responses from delaying output. Regression tests cover oversized ASCII and multibyte responses and short error responses. Full platform checks remain pending, so cross-platform behavior still needs verification.

Signed-off-by: Rudy Celekli <47457359+rudycelekli@users.noreply.github.com>
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Retrigger

[Medium risk] Bounds response buffering in the repair diagnostics tool.

No merge-blocking issue was identified in the changes reviewed.

Summary

Bounds repair MCP response reads to 1 MB and adds native subprocess regression coverage and documentation.

Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "test(repair): bound native diagnostic fi..."

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Walkthrough

The repair MCP API now reads response bodies incrementally up to MAX_RESPONSE bytes and cancels the reader at the limit. Tests cover oversized ASCII and UTF-8 responses and a short 503 response. Documentation and the changelog describe the limit.

Changes

Bounded repair API responses

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded response reading
electron/src/main/repair-mcp-server.ts, electron/src/main/repair-mcp-server.test.ts, docs/electron-repair.md, CHANGELOG.md
callApi uses boundedResponseText to read up to MAX_RESPONSE bytes and cancel the reader at the limit. Tests cover oversized ASCII and UTF-8 responses, including a character crossing the byte limit, and a short 503 response. The documentation and changelog describe the limit.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: debpalash

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 05679

The response-limit change has no established production failure, but the regression test can misread UTF-8 output or hang if its child exits early. Fix these test reliability issues before relying on the test results.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 7 | ❌ 1 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Cross-Platform Default Parity ❓ Inconclusive The PR changes the default api_request response handling in repair-mcp-server.ts (lines 33–51 and 71). The implementation uses fetch, Web Streams, and TextDecoder without platform-specific bra… Run the bounded-response regression with the embedded Electron Node runtime on macOS, Windows, and Linux, or add that test to a cross-platform CI matrix. The parity result on all three platforms is needed to decide this check.
✅ Passed checks (7 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#2646] boundedResponseText reads at most 1,000,000 response bytes, cancels and releases the reader, and excludes incomplete UTF-8 characters at the limit. The regression test covers unfinished bodi…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes support [#2646]. The tests, repair documentation, and changelog entry cover or describe the bounded-response behavior; the whole-PR diff shows no unrelated changes.
I18n Completeness (21 Locales) ✅ Passed The changed files are the repair MCP server, its test, documentation, and the changelog. No changed Electron UI code or new t(...) keys appear in the diff. The repair MCP server returns API diagnost…
Local-First Guarantee ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes response reading for an existing repair API request; it adds no cloud call, account, API key, or new endpoint. The repair context uses a 127.0.0.1 loopback bridge, and the new reg…
Backward Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR changes only repair MCP response handling, its test, documentation, and the changelog. The changed server code reads and cancels API response bodies at the 1,000,000-byte limit; it does not cha…
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required conventional-commit format with the repair scope, and the description references issue #2646.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required sections and gives specific changes, testing details, and checklist status. The supplied objective summary says the CLA signature is pending, while the descriptio…
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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Full details: Cross-Platform Default Parity

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The PR changes the default api_request response handling in repair-mcp-server.ts (lines 33–51 and 71). The implementation uses fetch, Web Streams, and TextDecoder without platform-specific branches, but the added regression test is not run on a macOS/Windows/Linux matrix; CI's platform matrix covers backend smoke tests, not this Electron behavior. The available evidence shows no platform divergence, but does not verify parity across all three platforms.

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Review comments at @electron/src/main/repair-mcp-server.test.ts:
- Line 53: Update the wait on streaming so its deadline is installed before the
wait begins and it rejects if the child process exits before making a request;
ensure the existing finally cleanup can then close the server.
- Around line 43-44: Call child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8') before attaching the
data handler so split multibyte characters are decoded correctly when
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All contributors on this pull request have signed the VoiceStudio CLA. Thank you!

Signed-off-by: Rudy Celekli <47457359+rudycelekli@users.noreply.github.com>
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Repair MCP API tool buffers responses before applying its output limit

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