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Closes the first of the two hard prerequisites the Content Tags epic says must land before any write path ships. Phase 3 (#2494) built reanchorPageTags and deliberately left it with no caller; this gives it one.

Why this is a blocker, not a nice-to-have

Forward-porting through the diff is the primary anchoring mechanism — quote repair is the fallback. Without this hook every edit silently degrades to the fallback, and it decays in the wrong direction: actively-edited pages shed their tags while stale pages keep theirs, which is backwards for retrieval.

Nothing writes content_tags yet, so no anchor can rot today. That grace expires with the first writer.

Where it goes, and why there is only one option

applyPageMutation is the only possible call site: previousContent and nextContent exist together in exactly one transaction in the codebase. The sweep runs on transaction, beside syncMentions, under the same updates.content !== undefined condition — so anchors commit with the content they describe rather than porting to a revision that then rolls back, or leaving a committed page with only some of its anchors moved. That atomicity is what the executor parameter added in #2494 exists for; two reviewers raised it there independently.

Both content modes are passed explicitly

Not defensive padding. The pages row is already updated when the hook runs, so letting the service read the stored mode hands it the NEW mode for BOTH revisions — the exact broken case for convert-content-mode, where the old HTML then projects as raw text and every correctly built anchor fails its hash check. currentPage is read before the write, so it still carries the old mode.

A failed sweep does not fail the save

reanchorPageTags returns a result rather than throwing, so it cannot roll the caller's transaction back. That is deliberate: degraded anchors are recoverable by a later repair pass, a refused page save is not. The failure is logged.

Tests pin the seam, not the behaviour

Every way this wiring can break is silent — the call removed, the wrong executor, the wrong modes. None of them fails anything on its own. The porting behaviour itself stays covered against real Postgres by the 29-case lib integration suite; this file asserts only the wiring, matching apps/web's mocked test convention.

Three mutation checks:

Mutation Result
executor: transactionexecutor: db 1 failed — identity check, so a shape check would not have caught it
hook removed entirely 3 failed
oldContentMode → the post-update mode 1 failed (see below)

My first version of the mode test was green for the wrong reason. The fixture page was markdown and the conversion case also converted to markdown, so the two modes were identical and that third mutation survived untouched. The page is now HTML converting to markdown, and it is caught. Worth stating plainly because the test looked correct and passed.

Validation

bun run --filter web test -- src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts → 4/4.

Per the repo's current local-build embargo I have not run monorepo typecheck/lint/build locally — CI is the gate for those.

Still open after this

The second prerequisite: the cross-drive-move scrub. Pages move between drives, rewriting pages."driveId" for a whole subtree without ever writing content_tags, so the scope trigger cannot see it — a stale row is permissioned against the wrong page and is a latent Art 17 hazard. Not in this PR; it is a different transaction and deserves its own review.

Also still open from Phase 2: the stored per-page content format column. Phase 0 assigned it to Phase 2's schema and it did not ship, which is why reanchorPageTags needs a format-flip guard rather than simply knowing the format.

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  • Improvements

    • Content tag anchors now stay aligned when page content is edited or converted between content modes.
    • Unchanged content updates avoid unnecessary anchor processing.
    • If anchor updating encounters an error, the page save can still complete without losing the edit.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability of content-tag positioning during page updates.

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Page content mutations now re-anchor content tags in a nested savepoint. Failed re-anchoring rolls back independently while the page save continues. Hash constants now compile at the web app’s ES2018 target. Tests cover the new behavior.

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Page mutation anchoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
ES2018-compatible anchor hashing
packages/lib/src/content/anchoring/anchor.ts
FNV-1a constants now use equivalent runtime BigInt calls instead of BigInt literals.
Savepoint-isolated page re-anchoring
apps/web/src/services/api/page-mutation-service.ts, apps/web/src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts
Content updates derive the previous and next content modes, run reanchorPageTags in a nested transaction, log failed sweeps, and continue the outer page save. Tests cover transaction identity, mode conversion, unchanged content, and rollback behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dae19

Content edits now re-anchor page tags without blocking the page save when a sweep fails. The remaining risk is limited to test-fixture naming consistency and does not indicate a user-facing behavioral defect.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant applyPageMutation
  participant Savepoint
  participant reanchorPageTags
  participant Logger
  applyPageMutation->>Savepoint: Start nested transaction
  Savepoint->>reanchorPageTags: Re-anchor content tags
  reanchorPageTags-->>Savepoint: Return sweep result
  Savepoint-->>applyPageMutation: Commit or roll back sweep
  applyPageMutation->>Logger: Log failed sweep
  applyPageMutation-->>applyPageMutation: Continue outer page save
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oldContentMode: previousContentMode,
newContentMode: nextContentMode,
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P2 Badge Isolate re-anchor failures before continuing the transaction

When a SQL statement inside reanchorPageTags fails—for example, an anchor update times out or violates a database constraint—the service catches the exception and returns internal_error, but PostgreSQL still marks the caller's transaction as aborted. Logging that result and continuing here means the subsequent createPageVersion or activity query fails and rolls back the page edit, contrary to the intended best-effort behavior. Run the sweep in a recoverable savepoint/nested transaction, or otherwise clear its failed transaction state before continuing the failure.

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apps/web/src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts (1)

24-24: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Type mockReanchor from the real export.

mockReanchor is an untyped vi.fn(async () => …). A change to the reanchorPageTags signature, for example a reordered parameter or a renamed option, would leave this stub stale and the test would still compile and pass. Type the mock from the real export so signature drift fails the typecheck.

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-const mockReanchor = vi.fn(async () => ({ ok: true as const, data: { considered: 0, updated: 0, orphaned: 0, skippedStaleHash: 0, skippedFormatFlip: 0 } }));
+const mockReanchor = vi.fn<typeof import('`@pagespace/lib/tags/tag-service`').reanchorPageTags>(
+  async () => ({ ok: true as const, data: { considered: 0, updated: 0, orphaned: 0, skippedStaleHash: 0, skippedFormatFlip: 0 } }),
+);

Based on learnings, PageSpace Vitest tests should "type mocks from the real exported function whenever possible, such as vi.fn<typeof import('module').functionName>()", so export signature changes cause TypeScript failures instead of allowing stale stubs.

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In `@apps/web/src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts` at line
24, Type mockReanchor using the real reanchorPageTags export signature,
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In `@apps/web/src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts`:
- Around line 117-120: Update the test’s beforeEach setup to reset
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In `@apps/web/src/services/api/__tests__/page-mutation-reanchor.test.ts`:
- Line 24: Type mockReanchor using the real reanchorPageTags export signature,
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The hard prerequisite the epic says must land before any write path ships.
Phase 3 built `reanchorPageTags` and left it with no caller, which is safe only
while nothing writes tags — forward-porting is the PRIMARY anchoring mechanism,
and without this hook every edit falls through to quote repair. That is the
accuracy floor rather than the target, and it decays in the wrong direction:
actively-edited pages would shed their tags while stale pages kept theirs.

`applyPageMutation` is the only possible call site. `previousContent` and
`nextContent` exist together in exactly one transaction in the codebase, and
this is it. The sweep runs on `transaction`, beside `syncMentions`, under the
same `updates.content !== undefined` condition — so anchors commit with the
content they describe, rather than porting to a revision that then rolls back
or leaving a committed page with only some of its anchors moved.

BOTH CONTENT MODES ARE PASSED EXPLICITLY, and that is not defensive padding.
The `pages` row is already updated by the time the hook runs, so letting the
service read the stored mode hands it the NEW mode for BOTH revisions — which
is the broken case for convert-content-mode: the old HTML then projects as raw
text and every correctly built anchor fails its hash check. `currentPage` is
read before the write, so it still carries the old mode.

A failed sweep does NOT fail the save. `reanchorPageTags` returns a result
rather than throwing, so it cannot roll the caller's transaction back, and that
is deliberate: degraded anchors are recoverable by a later repair pass, a
refused page save is not. The failure is logged instead.

Tests pin the seam, because every way it can break is silent — the call
removed, the wrong executor, the wrong modes. None of those fails anything on
its own. The porting BEHAVIOUR stays covered against real Postgres by the lib
integration suite; this file only asserts the wiring.

MY FIRST VERSION OF THE MODE TEST WAS GREEN FOR THE WRONG REASON. The fixture
page was markdown and the conversion case also converted to markdown, so the two
modes were identical and the mutation that swaps old for new survived
untouched. The page is now HTML converting to markdown, and that mutation is
caught. Three mutation checks: swapping the executor for the db singleton,
removing the hook entirely, and reading the post-update mode for both revisions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MuVE5VZCUJ1RBqAVXXmQxa
TWO PROBLEMS, BOTH SURFACED BY WIRING THE HOOK UP.

CI went red on all three jobs with one root cause: `web#build` failed with
"BigInt literals are not available when targeting lower than ES2020", pointing
at packages/lib/src/content/anchoring/anchor.ts — a Phase 0 file, untouched
here, and green on master. It was latent. `apps/web` compiles at ES2018 and had
never reached that module; importing tag-service from the mutation service is
what first pulled it in transitively.

Fixed by replacing the three BigInt LITERALS with BigInt() CALLS, which are not
literal syntax and compile at ES2018. Verified the values are byte-identical
rather than assuming: the constants compare equal, and hashText output matches
across empty, ASCII, Unicode and 5000-char inputs. No stored anchor is
invalidated. Raising the web app's target would also work, but that is a
build-wide change to fix one constant.

CATCHING THE SWEEP'S ERROR WAS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE IT BEST-EFFORT, which review
caught and I had asserted the opposite of in a comment. Postgres marks the
ENTIRE transaction aborted on any statement error, so a failed UPDATE inside
`reanchorPageTags` poisons the caller's transaction even though the service
swallows the exception and returns a result. Every later statement —
createPageVersion, the activity log — would then fail with "current transaction
is aborted" and roll back the page edit. The previous comment claimed "a sweep
failure does NOT fail the save"; for a SQL-level failure that was false.

The sweep now runs in a SAVEPOINT (drizzle's nested transaction). Released on
success, so ported anchors still commit with the content they describe; rolled
back on failure, which clears the aborted state and leaves the outer
transaction healthy to finish the save. The throw inside the savepoint is what
triggers the unwind, since reanchorPageTags returns a result rather than
throwing.

The mode declarations sit OUTSIDE the try on purpose: only the savepoint call
is guarded, so a programming error above it propagates instead of being logged
away. That distinction was not theoretical — an edit of mine dropped those
declarations and the catch turned the ReferenceError into a log line with the
sweep silently never running. The test caught it because it asserts the sweep
was CALLED, not merely that the save resolved.

Mutation-checked: replacing the savepoint with a direct call on the outer
transaction fails both the executor-identity test and the rollback test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MuVE5VZCUJ1RBqAVXXmQxa
`transaction.transaction` is a module-level spy, so its call count accumulates
across cases. The savepoint assertion — called exactly once — therefore held
only while its test happened to run first; a case added above it, or randomised
order, would have failed it for a reason unrelated to the savepoint.

Verified rather than assumed: inserting a sweeping case ABOVE it reproduces the
break without the clear ('expected 1, got 2') and passes with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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const currentPage = {
id: 'page-1',
driveId: 'drive-1',
revision: 1,
type: 'DOCUMENT',
content: 'the original content',
contentMode: 'html',
title: 'Doc',
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use UPPER_SNAKE_CASE for immutable module-level values.

Rename currentPage, savepoint, and baseInput to UPPER_SNAKE_CASE. This keeps test fixtures and sentinels consistent with the repository naming rule.

As per coding guidelines: “Use UPPER_SNAKE_CASE for constants.”

Also applies to: 56-57, 107-114

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Confirmed against the rule rather than taken on faith — AGENTS.md:102 does say Constants: UPPER_SNAKE_CASE, and currentPage, savepoint and baseInput are module-level constants, so this is a real convention violation on my side.

This landed after the PR merged, so I cannot fix it here. Rather than spend a dedicated PR and a full CI run on a three-identifier rename in one test file, I am folding it into the next tags PR — the cross-drive-move scrub — which is the remaining prerequisite in this epic and touches adjacent ground.

Flagging it explicitly so it is not lost if that PR gets reordered.

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@2witstudios Thanks for confirming the convention and the planned follow-up.

The finding remains valid for this merged PR. Would you like me to open a GitHub follow-up issue for the UPPER_SNAKE_CASE rename, with the cross-drive-move scrub PR as the planned implementation location?

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