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The v5 rewrite claimed stateless-and-fast, but there were no published numbers behind it, and the stress testing surfaced findings worth recording. This PR documents the benchmark results as a durable doc so the next agent (and future releases) have the measurement instead of the claim.

What's in the doc

docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md — full results, method, and root causes from running v5.0.0 (main) against v3.5.0 (faa0f99) through the tool handlers on identical seeded datasets:

  • Preview/organize 12–35× faster in v5. Root cause verified: v3.5's handlers ran every organize/preview through the ContentAnalyzer + MetadataCache stack plus per-move HMAC manifest signing (~26% of app CPU). The core services alone were equally fast in both versions — the machinery v5 deleted was the overhead.
  • v3.5 organizer reliability bug found: on large mixed-size flat directories, v3.5 exhausts its COPYFILE_EXCL EEXIST retry loop ("100 retries due to race conditions") and fails ~93% of moves; 3,000×4KB files pass, so it is concurrency-dependent. v5 moved 3,000/3,000 with 0 errors. Worth a line in the v5 changelog as a fixed defect.
  • Security unchanged: all 7 path-validation attack cases rejected 2,000/2,000 in both versions; benign-call cost is parity (~430–465µs through the full 8-layer gate). npm run test:security passes on both (v5 carries 56 more adversarial tests).
  • Undo is slower by design (515ms vs 147ms for 300 restores): v5 verifies rollback-manifest HMAC integrity before restoring; v3.5 does not.
  • Duplicate finding is 2.2× faster in v5; scan parity; peak RSS roughly halved on the happy path.

Also adds a short Performance section to ARCHITECTURE.md linking the doc.

Verification

  • npx markdownlint-cli clean on both files
  • Docs-only change; no code touched

Benchmark harness was a scratch script in /tmp (two-version adapters, seeded dataset generator); not committed per repo policy. Cleaned up along with the v3.5 build worktree.


Worked by ZCode (GLM-5.3-Flash) with the ZCode agent harness.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Preview and organize operations are reported as 12–35× faster than the previous version.
    • Organizing large directories now completes successfully.
    • Scanning and path-validation performance remains comparable.
  • Documentation

    • Added benchmark results, security test findings, methodology, and reproduction steps comparing versions.
    • Documented that undo operations include rollback-integrity verification.

Preview/organize 12-35x faster in v5 (content-analysis stack removed from
the handler path), duplicate finding 2.2x faster, organizer no longer fails
on large directories (v3.5 exhausted its EEXIST retry loop on mixed-size
batches), path-validation correctness and cost unchanged. Undo is slower by
design: v5 verifies rollback-manifest HMAC integrity before restoring.

Results, method, and root causes in docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md; linked
from the new Performance section in ARCHITECTURE.md.
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The change adds benchmark documentation for v5.0.0 versus v3.5.0. It records performance, stress, security, methodology, caveats, and reproduction details. ARCHITECTURE.md links to the benchmark results and summarizes the main findings.

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Benchmark results and methodology
docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md
Adds comparative results for preview, organize, find-duplicates, scanning, undo, and path validation. It documents stress-test failures, security checks, test counts, methodology, caveats, and reproduction steps.
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ARCHITECTURE.md
Adds a ## Performance section with the main v5 versus v3.5 findings and a link to the detailed benchmark document.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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125-132: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the exact reproduction inputs.

The document states that the datasets were seeded and that medians came from five iterations, but it does not provide the seed, dataset-generation command, or timing harness. Add those details or link to the script that owns them.

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In `@docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md` around lines 125 - 132, Document the exact
benchmark reproduction inputs alongside the dataset and iteration details:
include the seed, dataset-generation command, and timing-harness command or link
to the script that defines them. Keep the existing environment, entry-point, and
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In `@docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md`:
- Around line 4-5: Update the methodology description in the benchmark document
to distinguish operation benchmarks, which used MCP handler entry points, from
path-validation benchmarks, which directly called validateStrictPath and
therefore bypassed handler-level Zod parsing and response formatting.
- Around line 83-87: Update the benchmark documentation’s description of the v5
move path to state that it still uses exclusive copying and maps destination
races to EEXIST, but no longer retries with _1/_2 suffixes. Replace the
inaccurate “does not have this code path” wording while preserving the reported
benchmark results.
- Around line 91-92: Scope the benchmark conclusions to the measured cases: in
docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md lines 91-92, state that validation correctness
matched for the seven tested cases; in ARCHITECTURE.md line 124, state that v5
completed the tested large-directory scenarios without failures. No other
changes are needed.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@docs/benchmarks-v5-vs-v3.5.md`:
- Around line 125-132: Document the exact benchmark reproduction inputs
alongside the dataset and iteration details: include the seed,
dataset-generation command, and timing-harness command or link to the script
that defines them. Keep the existing environment, entry-point, and
five-iteration information unchanged.

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- state that path-validation was measured via validateStrictPath directly,
  not through the MCP handler layer (operations used handler entry points)
- correct the v5 move-path description: COPYFILE_EXCL/EEXIST semantics are
  kept in atomic-move.ts; v5 dropped the retry-with-suffix loop
- scope correctness/robustness conclusions to the tested cases
- document dataset seeds, sizes, and iteration counts for reproduction
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Addressed all four findings in b2b5531:

  • Methodology (L5): the intro now states that operation benchmarks used the handler entry points while the path-validation micro-benchmark called validateStrictPath directly, below the Zod/response-formatting layer.
  • v5 move path (L83–87): corrected — verified against src/core/io/atomic-move.ts, which does keep COPYFILE_EXCL/EEXIST semantics; the doc now says v5 dropped the retry-with-suffix loop rather than "does not have this code path."
  • Scope (L91–92 + ARCHITECTURE.md): correctness conclusion now reads "matched for the seven tested cases"; the ARCHITECTURE.md Performance line now scopes the no-failure result to the tested large-directory scenarios.
  • Nitpick (reproduction inputs): the Reproducing section now lists the PRNG seeds (42 / 1337 / 777), dataset composition and sizes, and iteration counts. The harness itself remains uncommitted per repo policy on scratch files.

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