feat(api): cursor-paginate file search (#829) - #838
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Add an opaque continuation cursor to file search on both paths: keyset continuation (object_key > :after) on the D1 metadata path, and a bounded re-walk with skip on the files-sdk storage walk, whose iterator has no startAfter. items and truncated keep their existing meaning; cursor is additive and non-null exactly when truncated is true. The cursor carries which path minted it, so one is rejected rather than reinterpreted when replayed against the other. Client, CLI (--cursor, and --all with a page cap), and both MCP find_files tools follow it.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFile search now supports opaque cursor pagination across metadata and name searches. API routes, MCP tools, the uploads client, and CLI commands forward cursors and expose continuation state. Client helpers can retrieve up to 20 pages. ChangesPageable file search
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new cursor-based search behavior can silently skip valid files when a cursor is reused with different filters, and invalid page-cap values can trigger unbounded work. One integration surface also lacks the promised bounded all-page traversal, so the PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed; the remaining documentation and schema follow-ups are minor. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
participant UploadsClient
participant SearchAPI
participant SearchEngine
CLI->>UploadsClient: run find or list with filters and cursor
UploadsClient->>SearchAPI: request file-search page
SearchAPI->>SearchEngine: resume metadata or name search
SearchEngine-->>SearchAPI: items, truncated, cursor
SearchAPI-->>UploadsClient: return page response
UploadsClient-->>CLI: print results and continuation cursor
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137-154: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winParse the promoted-shadow bind before
after.When
collapsePromotedShadowsis enabled, the SQL bindsworkspacebeforeafter.
Line 140 reads that workspace value asafter.
Line 142 then reads the cursor string aslimit.
Tests that combinecollapse=promotedand a cursor do not model D1 pagination.Proposed fix
+ const collapsePromotedShadows = normalizedSql.includes("WHERE NOT EXISTS ("); + if (collapsePromotedShadows) idx += 1; const hasAfter = normalizedSql.includes("AS page WHERE object_key > ?"); const after = hasAfter ? String(args[idx]) : undefined; if (hasAfter) idx += 1; const limit = args[idx] as number; @@ const objectKey = scopedKey.slice(scopePrefix.length); if (prefix && !objectKey.startsWith(prefix)) continue; + if (collapsePromotedShadows && map.get("gh.status") === "promoted") continue; if (after !== undefined && objectKey <= after) continue;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/api/src/file-search.ts`:
- Around line 132-165: Extend CursorPayload and encodeSearchCursor to include a
canonical fingerprint of all search-scope inputs, including query criteria,
changed/name/prefix/collapse options, and workspace. Compute the fingerprint
deterministically, validate it in decodeSearchCursor against the current scope,
and reject mismatches with the existing invalid-cursor error while preserving
path validation. Add regression coverage for reusing a same-path cursor with
changed criteria.
In `@apps/api/src/routes/files.ts`:
- Line 61: Update cursor forwarding at apps/api/src/routes/files.ts:61 and
apps/api/src/routes/workspace-files.ts:175 to check for undefined rather than
truthiness, preserving empty strings so they reach file_search_invalid_cursor.
In apps/mcp/src/tools.ts:1223, cache the MCP cursor value before checking it and
likewise forward it whenever it is not undefined.
In `@apps/web/public/.well-known/openapi.json`:
- Around line 797-801: Add cursor to the FileSearch schema’s required properties
while preserving its existing string-or-null type and description, so responses
always include the field even when its value is null.
In `@docs/api.md`:
- Around line 108-114: Rewrite the pagination guidance in the documentation so
each distinct rule has its own sentence: request parameter, response value,
field naming, cursor opacity, query scoping, and invalid-cursor behavior. Keep
all existing semantics and the file-search error identifier unchanged, while
limiting each sentence to roughly 25 words or fewer.
In `@packages/uploads/src/client.ts`:
- Line 1324: Validate maxPages before the page-bound calculation: accept only
finite positive integers, and otherwise fall back to FIND_FILES_MAX_PAGES.
Update the pages calculation in the surrounding pagination logic while
preserving the minimum one-page behavior for valid values.
In `@packages/uploads/src/mcp/tools.ts`:
- Around line 1511-1515: Add an optional all input to the find_files MCP schema
and update its handler to call client.findFilesAll when all is true, while
preserving client.findFiles for the default path and existing filters/cursor
behavior.
In `@skills/uploads-cli/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 652-655: Split the new documentation into short, single-idea
sentences of roughly 25 words or fewer: in skills/uploads-cli/SKILL.md lines
652-655, separate continuation behavior, JSON cursor behavior, and cursor
validity; in .changeset/pageable-file-search.md lines 5-8, separate the client,
CLI, and MCP change descriptions.
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In `@apps/api/test/helpers/fake-file-metadata-table.ts`:
- Around line 137-154: Update the bind parsing in the fake metadata table query
flow around hasAfter so it consumes the promoted-shadow workspace bind before
reading the cursor as after and the numeric value as limit when
collapsePromotedShadows is enabled. Preserve the existing bind order for queries
without promoted-shadow collapsing and keep workspace validation and cursor
filtering unchanged.
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Address review on #838. A cursor now carries a fingerprint of the query that minted it: workspace, filters, name term, prefix, and the collapse flag. Replaying one against a different query is rejected instead of resuming at a key that would skip every match sorting before it. Filter order does not affect the fingerprint. Also: validate findFilesAll's maxPages so Infinity cannot remove the bound and NaN cannot silently fetch zero pages; add the bounded `all` option to the local MCP find_files, matching the sibling list tool; mark cursor required in the FileSearch schema; split the pagination prose per the AGENTS.md one-idea-per-sentence rule. Test helper: the fake file_metadata table miscounted bind arguments when collapse was on, and its statement matcher stopped recognizing the query once collapse and the cursor wrapper nested together, so it returned an empty page rather than failing. Both fixed, with collapse+cursor coverage.
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Implements §4 of #829 ("Make search pageable"). Search now returns an opaque
continuation cursor and accepts it back, on both of its underlying paths.
Contract
Strictly additive.
itemsandtruncatedkeep their exact meaning andspelling; a new
cursorfield carries the continuation and is non-nullexactly when
truncatedis true. Two of the three search surfaces alreadyreturned
cursor: nullunconditionally — those now carry a real value in thesame field rather than gaining a second one.
Per §6,
cursoris the one continuation-field convention for v1 work(matching the existing file-list and gallery-list envelopes); nothing was
renamed.
docs/api.mdgained a short "Pagination" section stating thatconvention, and the OpenAPI document now documents
?cursor=and the responsefield on
searchFiles.Cursor design
Base64url of a small JSON envelope:
{ v, p, k }— version, which path mintedit, and the last key of the consumed window. Opaque to callers: the only
supported use is handing back what a previous page returned.
The path tag is what keeps the two mechanics from being confused. A cursor
minted on the metadata path replayed against the name-only walk (or the
reverse) is rejected with
400/file_search_invalid_cursor, the same stablecode garbage and version-mismatched cursors get.
Metadata path (D1)
findObjectsByMetadataalready ordered byobject_key, so this is a keysetcontinuation: a new
afteroption addsobject_key > :afteras a wrapperaround the existing single-leg, INTERSECT, prefix, and collapse forms, before
ORDER BY … LIMIT. No OFFSET scan, and stable when objects are written orremoved between pages.
One consistency fix rides along: the page's source window is now the first
pageSizerows, with the truncation probe row excluded before thenametermnarrows them. Previously a name term could pull the probe row into the results,
which would have made it possible to serve a row twice across a cursor
boundary.
Name-only path (storage walk)
files-sdk's
search()iterator exposesprefix/limit/maxResultsbut nostartAfter, so a continued page cannot be pushed down to the provider. Itresumes with a bounded re-walk instead: it pages the listing and drops keys at
or before the cursor key without hydrating them.
Tradeoff: skipped keys cost a listing page each and no metadata read, but
the work is proportional to how deep the cursor sits. It is bounded at
SEARCH_WALK_RESUME_MAX_SKIP(20,000) rather than left to grow with the pagenumber; past that the request fails with
file_search_cursor_too_deepinsteadof quietly doing unbounded work. Narrowing with
prefixor anymeta.*filterroutes to the D1 keyset path, which has no such bound. Both are documented at
the call site. The resume also assumes the walk yields keys in lexicographic
order, which holds for the R2/S3 listing this runs on and matches the D1
ordering.
Client, CLI, MCP
findFilestakescursorand returns the server's next one.findFilesAllfollows the cursor up to a page cap (default 20) and returnsa non-null
cursorwhen the cap — not the server — ended the drain.uploads find/uploads list --meta|--namegained--cursor(resume onepage) and
--all(bounded follow), matching howuploads listalreadyspells both. Human mode prints the next cursor on stderr the same way
listdoes. Nothing fetches pages without a bound.find_filesMCP tools (hosted worker and the CLI's local server) takeand return the cursor; the output schema already had the field.
Tests
pnpm testfrom the root: 342 files, 5124 tests passing. New coverage:a page at a time with no repeats and ending on a null cursor.
truncated/cursorconsistency asserted per page.the stable
file_search_invalid_cursorcode.past it (the case that would otherwise stall or loop).
findObjectsByMetadata'safteroption against real SQLite, on thesingle-filter, INTERSECT, and prefix forms.
drain stopping early on a null cursor.
Two CLI tests that asserted
--cursor/--allwere rejected on the searchpath were replaced with tests for the new behavior.
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New Features
--cursorto resume searches and--allto retrieve up to 20 pages automatically.Documentation