The semantic collectors admitted Node timers, fetch, WebSocket, JSON.parse and global coercions from the identifier spelling alone, so a source that replaced those globals (`setTimeout = () => null`) still produced resolved built-in effects. Require the existing isUnmodifiedGlobalReference guard, which the static analyzer already uses for fetch and WebSocket, before admitting these effects. The guard treats any visible possible write as a replacement without evaluating order or reachability, so computed global writes and guarded polyfills also remove the resolved effect. The workflow docs now say so. Fixes #3367
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Cross-layer JavaScript application workflows
REA derives a complete reachable feature trace from one authenticated JavaScript
Application Graph and compares two authenticated graph versions. The MCP tools
are inspect_analysis_view, trace_application_feature,
trace_javascript_semantics, compare_application_versions,
compare_source_to_bundle, and compare_javascript_export_shapes; their CLI
equivalents use the same names with hyphens. inspect_analysis_view projects a
summary, module page, typed module references, or one module from already completed application
Evidence; it does not walk relationships.
inspect_analysis_view also projects retained inspect_binary_layout
Evidence. The remaining workflows consume Evidence produced by
analyze_javascript_application or reconcile_javascript_runtime. They do not
read an artifact, execute application code, attach to a process, or open a
native-analysis provider. Static artifact observations, passive runtime
observations, relationship inferences, and unknown or unavailable facts retain
their original graph authority.
analyze_javascript_application Evidence retains the structural JavaScript
Application Graph and a separate semantic relation graph bound to the same root
artifact digest and structural graph ID. Semantic tracing requires the semantic
relation graph and reports when it is unavailable rather than treating missing
data as an empty graph.
Explicit TypeScript import type and export type declarations remain source
facts and do not create runtime import or export relationships. Type export names
are reported separately from value export names. Inline type specifiers can
leave an empty import or re-export with side effects under
verbatimModuleSyntax;
REA retains those dependency candidates and reports the unavailable compiler
options rather than assuming the dependency is erased.
The semantic graph wire format stores shared non-location provenance once in
its required evidence_contexts table. Each node, relation, fingerprint, and
unknown retains its exact evidence.location and names the owning context with
evidence.context_id. This is a breaking representation change: consumers
reading fields such as evidence.authority must look up the context by ID and
combine its fields with the fact's location. Semantic trace results include the
canonical context subset referenced by their returned facts, so those facts
remain self-contained in the response.
Retained module facts
For canonical identities and retained source-range counts, query the existing
inspect_analysis_view tool with a typed module-reference projection:
{
"source": {