Allow dependency-only Ninja nodes (#597)

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Summary

Closes #597.

This draft lowers actions and targets with non-empty deps and no recipe to
Ninja built-in phony nodes. It removes synthetic command: ":" recipes
while preserving manifest compatibility, graph deduplication, serial dyndep
ordering, and failure propagation.

The change intentionally excludes structured command blocks, manifest
composition, Git-aware planning, standard-library expansion, and OrthoConfig
integration; those remain in #593. It is sequenced after #594, which must land
before a true v0.1.1 release commit can be prepared.

Review walkthrough

• Manifest parsing and validation
  represent and constrain dependency-only entries.
• Serial Ninja lowering
  selects the native phony rule without changing staged dependencies.
• Migration guidance
  makes removal of command: ":" the preferred aggregate form.

Validation

• make check-fmt, make lint, make doc-coverage, make test,
  make markdownlint, and make nixie passed on 137bf4f1.
• cargo package passed on 137bf4f1.
• cargo install --path . --root /tmp/netsuke-issue-597-install passed;
  the installed binary reports netsuke 0.1.0-beta2.
• Catnap migration canary: its aggregate all action generated as a serial
  phony node with command: ":" removed.

References

• v0.1.1: remove dependency-only action no-op recipes #597
• Allow command to be optional if deps are present #572
• https://lody.ai/leynos/sessions/56a5b033-2c58-42ef-b46f-353d89a40830

Summary by Sourcery

Support dependency-only actions and targets as native Ninja phony aggregates instead of requiring synthetic no-op recipes.

New Features:

• Allow actions and targets with non-empty dependencies to omit executable recipes and be represented as dependency-only aggregates.
• Lower dependency-only nodes to Ninja's built-in phony rule while preserving dependency ordering, deduplication, and failure propagation.

Bug Fixes:

• Remove synthetic command: ":" recipes from dependency-only aggregates without breaking manifest compatibility.
• Reject dependency-only rules or actions and targets whose rendered dependencies are absent or blank.

Enhancements:

• Centralize Ninja action-rule generation so executable rules are emitted while dependency-only actions are omitted consistently for direct and serial generation.
• Preserve the public recipe enum contract while using an internal marker for dependency-only entries.

Documentation:

• Document dependency-only actions and targets and provide v0.1.1 migration guidance for replacing no-op aggregate recipes.

Tests:

• Add coverage for manifest validation, IR lowering, direct and serial Ninja generation, snapshots, and runtime ordering and failure behavior for dependency-only nodes.

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Summary

Allow actions and targets with non-empty deps to omit command, script, or rule.

• Lower dependency-only entries to Ninja’s built-in phony nodes.
• Remove synthetic command: ":" recipes.
• Preserve v0.1.0 manifest compatibility, dependency ordering, deduplication, and failure propagation.
• Keep explicit empty recipes invalid.
• Reuse action-rule emission for normal and serial dyndep generation.
• Add validation, documentation, migration guidance, snapshots, runtime tests, and the Catnap migration canary.
• Align the implementation with issue #597 and the Netsuke design documentation.

Keep structured command blocks, manifest composition, Git-aware planning, standard-library expansion, and OrthoConfig integration out of scope.

Walkthrough

Dependency-only actions and targets can now omit recipes when they have non-empty dependencies. Validation preserves the manifest contract, IR lowering carries implicit dependencies without commands, and Ninja generation emits native phony edges instead of shell no-op rules.

Changes

Dependency-only aggregate flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manifest contract and validation src/ast/*, src/manifest/mod.rs, src/ir/*, tests/ast_tests/*, tests/ir_from_manifest_tests.rs, tests/ui/command_list_public_api_pass.rs	Accept dependency-only actions and targets with usable dependencies. Reject blank dependencies and dependency-only rules with the stable missing-recipe diagnostic.
Ninja phony lowering src/ninja_gen/*, src/ninja_gen_property_tests.rs, src/ninja_gen_tests.rs	Skip rules for dependency-only actions. Render their edges with Ninja’s built-in phony rule through direct and serial paths.
End-to-end validation and migration guidance tests/documentation_examples_tests.rs, tests/ninja_snapshot_tests.rs, tests/serial_dependency_runtime_tests.rs, docs/users-guide.md, docs/developers-guide.md, docs/v0-1-1-migration-guide.md, docs/contents.md, docs/netsuke-design.md	Verify ordering, deduplication, failure propagation, and generated output. Document declaration and migration requirements.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Manifest
  participant ASTValidation
  participant IRBuilder
  participant NinjaGenerator
  participant NinjaBuildFile
  Manifest->>ASTValidation: deserialize dependency-only entry
  ASTValidation->>IRBuilder: validate non-empty resolved dependencies
  IRBuilder->>NinjaGenerator: register implicit dependencies without command
  NinjaGenerator->>NinjaBuildFile: emit phony edge and omit synthetic rule

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Poem

A recipe steps aside,
Dependencies form the guide.
Ninja calls the phony tune,
No shell wakes beneath the moon.
Ordered tasks now flow bright.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 02f81

This PR changes dependency-only actions and targets to native phony aggregates, removing synthetic no-op recipes. A bounded compatibility risk remains because the public enum change may break downstream exhaustive matches in the patch release; the PR is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up on API compatibility and documentation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 15 | ❌ 5

❌ Failed checks (5 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
User-Facing Documentation	⚠️ Warning	Update the user's guide to remove a direct contradiction. docs/users-guide.md:299 still states, “A rule or target must provide exactly one recipe”. The same guide now documents that a target or acti…	Replace the broad recipe requirement with separate rules: rules must provide exactly one executable recipe; actions and targets must provide one when they perform work, but may omit it when a non-empty deps list is their complete operatio…
Developer Documentation	⚠️ Warning	The pull request leaves contradictory architecture and user documentation. The new implementation allows actions and targets without recipes when deps is non-empty, and the changed sections document…	Update the stale recipe-contract statements in docs/netsuke-design.md and docs/users-guide.md. State that rules require exactly one executable recipe, while actions and targets may omit a recipe only when their rendered deps list is n…
Testing (Property / Proof)	⚠️ Warning	The change introduces invariants over dependency lists and ordering transitions. validate_recipes classifies empty, whitespace-only, and list dependency forms; write_action_rules and serial loweri…	Recommend and add substantive Rust proptest coverage. Generate dependency-only actions and targets with zero, one, many, duplicate, blank, and whitespace dependency values, plus parallel and serial orderings. Assert that valid non-empty d…
Observability	⚠️ Warning	The PR changes build execution by replacing shell no-op recipes with Ninja phony nodes, but it adds no observability for that new state. src/ninja_gen/mod.rs selects phony and skips rule emissio…	Add runner-boundary observability for dependency-only lowering. Record a bounded dependency-only node count and the generation outcome and duration in a production-retained metric and trace span. Add a bounded missing_recipe failure categ…
Performance And Resource Use	⚠️ Warning	The change activates an avoidable allocation path for every dependency-only entry. Deserialization now maps a missing recipe to Recipe::Command { command: StringOrList::Empty } (`src/ast/mod.rs:222-…	Handle StringOrList::Empty before calling render_recipe_string_or_list, either in render_recipe or with an early is_empty_marker() return in the helper. Keep StringOrList::List(Vec::new()) on its existing validation path. Add a re…

✅ Passed checks (15 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	Accept the title: it accurately states the dependency-only Ninja node change and includes the linked issue number (#597).
Description check	✅ Passed	Accept the description: it clearly explains the implementation, scope boundaries, validation, documentation, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Accept the changes: they implement #597 by supporting dependency-only actions and targets, preserving compatibility, ordering, deduplication, failure propagation, documentation, migration coverage, an…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Accept the changes: the implementation, documentation, and tests remain within #597. The description explicitly excludes unrelated #593 and OrthoConfig work.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 48 functions across 20 files. (2 skipped: 2…
Testing (Overall)	✅ Passed	Pass the Testing check. The pull request adds substantive coverage across the full behaviour path: manifest parsing and validation, direct AST-to-IR lowering, native phony generation, serial dyndep …
Module-Level Documentation	✅ Passed	Accept the module-level documentation. Every Rust file changed by the pull request has an inner //! module docstring. The two new modules document their test purpose, and the affected implementation…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	✅ Passed	Pass the testing check. Additions cover successful parsing and serialisation, missing and blank dependency errors, direct AST validation, deduplication, phony lowering, preserved empty-command-list re…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	✅ Passed	Pass the check. The PR adds compile-time UI coverage for the preserved public Recipe enum: tests/command_env_ui_tests.rs compiles tests/ui/command_list_public_api_pass.rs against the built libra…
Unit Architecture	✅ Passed	The change preserves the stated unit boundaries. validate_recipes, is_dependency_only, and is_blank_content are read-only queries. Manifest validation returns explicit Result errors, and `Buil…
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	PASS — The change preserves the repository's compiler layers. src/ast adds manifest-level recipe validation and an internal marker without importing Ninja, filesystem, transport, persistence, or fra…
Security And Privacy	✅ Passed	Pass the Security and Privacy check. The PR adds no credentials, tokens, certificates, permissions, authentication logic, or sensitive data. The changed deserialization path validates dependency-only …
Concurrency And State	✅ Passed	PASS — The PR changes serial ordering and Ninja execution, so this check applies. The implementation keeps mutable SerialStages local to one bundle generation and passes it by exclusive mutable refe…
Architectural Complexity And Maintainability	✅ Passed	Accept the change. The new abstractions have immediate, local reuse: write_action_rules removes duplicated executable-rule emission and serves both generate_into and serial bundle generation; `Ren…
Rust Compiler Lint Integrity	✅ Passed	Pass. The pull request adds no broad #[allow(...)] or #[expect(...)] lint suppression. The changed diff adds no .clone() calls or equivalent ownership work. New helpers and items have real calle…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Accept the changes: they implement #597 by supporting dependency-only actions and targets, preserving compatibility, ordering, deduplication, failure propagation, documentation, migration coverage, and repository validation.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 48 functions across 20 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

Pass the Testing check. The pull request adds substantive coverage across the full behaviour path: manifest parsing and validation, direct AST-to-IR lowering, native phony generation, serial dyndep generation, snapshots, documentation examples, and real-Ninja runtime behaviour. The tests assert non-vacuous outcomes, including preserved dependency order, absence of command = recipes, rejection of invalid empty dependencies and dependency-only rules, action deduplication, failure short-circuiting, and absence of an aggregate output file. Existing empty command-list rejection remains covered, while the new StringOrList::Empty marker is exercised as a valid dependency-only recipe. Test modules and snapshots are registered in the repository.

Full details: User-Facing Documentation

Explanation

Update the user's guide to remove a direct contradiction. docs/users-guide.md:299 still states, “A rule or target must provide exactly one recipe”. The same guide now documents that a target or action with non-empty deps may omit its recipe at lines 381–384 and shows this form at lines 433–454. The implementation confirms that rules require a recipe, while dependency-only actions and targets do not. The migration guide is present and linked, but the user's guide is not clear while the unqualified target requirement remains.

Resolution

Replace the broad recipe requirement with separate rules: rules must provide exactly one executable recipe; actions and targets must provide one when they perform work, but may omit it when a non-empty deps list is their complete operation. Update nearby recipe wording if needed so no unqualified statement says that every target requires a recipe. Keep the dependency-only example and native phony explanation.

Full details: Developer Documentation

Explanation

The pull request leaves contradictory architecture and user documentation. The new implementation allows actions and targets without recipes when deps is non-empty, and the changed sections document that contract. However, docs/netsuke-design.md:78-80 still says that every target must specify exactly one recipe, and docs/users-guide.md:299 still says that every rule or target must provide exactly one recipe. The pull request makes both statements false. The developer guide does document the dependency-only marker, BuildEdge::implicit_deps, shared Ninja rule emission, and phony lowering. Roadmap item 3.14.3 is checked off, the pre-existing dependency execplan is marked complete, and no locale or new execplan issue was found.

Resolution

Update the stale recipe-contract statements in docs/netsuke-design.md and docs/users-guide.md. State that rules require exactly one executable recipe, while actions and targets may omit a recipe only when their rendered deps list is non-empty and then lower to Ninja phony. Cross-check the remaining design and user documentation for the old unconditional recipe requirement, then run the documentation validation gates.

Full details: Module-Level Documentation

Explanation

Accept the module-level documentation. Every Rust file changed by the pull request has an inner //! module docstring. The two new modules document their test purpose, and the affected implementation modules document their roles and relationships to the manifest, IR, and Ninja-generation components. A repository-wide scan found the same documentation coverage for all 514 Rust files.

Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)

Explanation

Pass the testing check. Additions cover successful parsing and serialisation, missing and blank dependency errors, direct AST validation, deduplication, phony lowering, preserved empty-command-list rejection, and serial staging. Exercise the real Ninja process for declaration order, failure short-circuiting, and shared-work reuse. Exercise the built netsuke CLI with the documented manifest and verify the generated Ninja output. The tests therefore cover local behaviour, edge cases, error paths, invariants, and the relevant external workflow.

Full details: Testing (Property / Proof)

Explanation

The change introduces invariants over dependency lists and ordering transitions. validate_recipes classifies empty, whitespace-only, and list dependency forms; write_action_rules and serial lowering must preserve phony selection, dependency order, deduplication, and failure behaviour. The new tests use fixed examples and rstest cases. The active Ninja property tests still generate executable aggregate actions, and the pull request removes the previous proptest for empty command representations. No added diff or commit text recommends property-based testing, and no property test covers the new dependency-only branch.

Resolution

Recommend and add substantive Rust proptest coverage. Generate dependency-only actions and targets with zero, one, many, duplicate, blank, and whitespace dependency values, plus parallel and serial orderings. Assert that valid non-empty dependencies lower to phony without a rule or command, preserve dependency order and deduplication, and keep direct and serial lowering consistent. Assert that every blank or empty dependency representation is rejected with the stable diagnostic.

Full details: Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)

Explanation

Pass the check. The PR adds compile-time UI coverage for the preserved public Recipe enum: tests/command_env_ui_tests.rs compiles tests/ui/command_list_public_api_pass.rs against the built library with rustc, and the fixture performs an exhaustive match over Command, Script, and Rule. This is a repository-specific equivalent to trybuild. The new Ninja snapshot is focused and meaningful: it asserts a phony aggregate, asserts that command = : is absent, and records deterministic content-derived action IDs without timestamps, paths, versions, or secrets.

Full details: Unit Architecture

Explanation

The change preserves the stated unit boundaries. validate_recipes, is_dependency_only, and is_blank_content are read-only queries. Manifest validation returns explicit Result errors, and BuildGraph::from_manifest maps invalid input to IrGenError::InvalidManifest. Ninja output uses the explicitly named write_action_rules writer with a fallible return type. The change adds no hard-coded client, clock, network handle, global mutable state, or hidden external side-effect. Manifest environment access remains behind the existing injected EnvReader. No explicit Unit Architecture failure condition is introduced.

Full details: Domain Architecture

Explanation

PASS — The change preserves the repository's compiler layers. src/ast adds manifest-level recipe validation and an internal marker without importing Ninja, filesystem, transport, persistence, or framework concerns. src/manifest validates after YAML/Jinja rendering. src/ir lowers the validated manifest into the build graph and reports invalid direct AST input. Ninja-specific lowering remains in src/ninja_gen, where the marker maps to the built-in phony rule for direct and serial output. The diff adds no adapter implementation details to the manifest or graph model, and the tests exercise the AST, IR, and Ninja boundaries separately.

Full details: Observability

Explanation

The PR changes build execution by replacing shell no-op recipes with Ninja phony nodes, but it adds no observability for that new state. src/ninja_gen/mod.rs selects phony and skips rule emission, while src/ninja_gen/dyndep.rs applies the same change to serial edges. No logging, metrics, or tracing files change. Existing bundle telemetry records only aggregate action, target, and dependency counts; it does not record dependency-only nodes. The production metrics recorder also accepts only configuration metrics, so bundle metrics are not retained by the application. New validation failures return only the generic missing one of command, script, or rule message and are surfaced through the generic runner failed log without a stable operation or failure category.

Resolution

Add runner-boundary observability for dependency-only lowering. Record a bounded dependency-only node count and the generation outcome and duration in a production-retained metric and trace span. Add a bounded missing_recipe failure category at manifest or IR validation, and include the affected action, target, or rule in the user-facing diagnostic without putting manifest content or unbounded identifiers into telemetry. Add tests for successful phony lowering, validation failure telemetry, metric retention, and bounded labels. Do not add an alert unless the project defines an actionable threshold for this failure mode.

Full details: Security And Privacy

Explanation

Pass the Security and Privacy check. The PR adds no credentials, tokens, certificates, permissions, authentication logic, or sensitive data. The changed deserialization path validates dependency-only entries before IR lowering. Ninja generation maps these entries to the constant built-in phony rule, omits shell commands, and keeps existing path validation and escaping for dependency paths. The added error contains only the static text missing one of command, script, or rule. The diff contains no new secret-like values or unsafe command, file, or network sink.

Full details: Performance And Resource Use

Explanation

The change activates an avoidable allocation path for every dependency-only entry. Deserialization now maps a missing recipe to Recipe::Command { command: StringOrList::Empty } (src/ast/mod.rs:222-224). Manifest rendering dispatches this marker to render_recipe_string_or_list (src/manifest/render.rs:104-109), which creates a label and clones the complete Vars map, then inserts two placeholder values (src/manifest/render.rs:175-204) before its StringOrList::Empty arm performs no work (src/manifest/render.rs:183-190). This can duplicate large per-target variable maps and allocate placeholder strings for each dependency-only action or target. The existing context-allocation test covers command lists only and does not cover this marker. The other new scans and sorts remain linear or existing O(n log n) work.

Resolution

Handle StringOrList::Empty before calling render_recipe_string_or_list, either in render_recipe or with an early is_empty_marker() return in the helper. Keep StringOrList::List(Vec::new()) on its existing validation path. Add a regression test that renders a dependency-only entry with variables, resets the recipe-context counter, and asserts that no recipe context is prepared.

Full details: Concurrency And State

Explanation

PASS — The PR changes serial ordering and Ninja execution, so this check applies. The implementation keeps mutable SerialStages local to one bundle generation and passes it by exclusive mutable reference; it adds no async tasks, threads, locks, global mutable state, or background workers. The ordering model is explicit: DependencyOrder::Serial creates staged phony gates in declaration order, and the generated aggregate uses those gates. Runtime tests execute Ninja with -j 3 and cover declaration order, early-failure short-circuiting, and shared-work deduplication. No explicit concurrency or state failure condition is introduced.

Full details: Architectural Complexity And Maintainability

Explanation

Accept the change. The new abstractions have immediate, local reuse: write_action_rules removes duplicated executable-rule emission and serves both generate_into and serial bundle generation; RenderedAction keeps the shared rule name and restat contract between direct and serial edge rendering; validate_recipes centralizes one AST invariant used at both parse and direct-IR boundaries. The StringOrList helpers stay in the AST layer and isolate the internal marker and blank-dependency rules. InvalidManifest extends the existing IR error boundary. The feature adds no crate dependencies, traits, registries, global state, generated code, or parallel extension mechanism. Commit messages and code documentation state the reuse purpose. No explicit architectural complexity failure is introduced.

Full details: Rust Compiler Lint Integrity

Explanation

Pass. The pull request adds no broad #[allow(...)] or #[expect(...)] lint suppression. The changed diff adds no .clone() calls or equivalent ownership work. New helpers and items have real callers: validate_recipes, is_dependency_only, is_empty_marker, is_blank_content, MISSING_RECIPE_ERROR, write_action_rules, RenderedAction, and DisplayEdge::action_name are all referenced in the changed code. The new test modules are attached with path-based mod declarations. The recipe_kind UI helper is called and provides real exhaustive matching coverage for the public Recipe enum. Existing suppressions and clone calls are outside the introduced changes or remain in their prior uses.

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Reviewer's Guide

Allows actions and targets with non-empty dependencies to omit recipes, validates the new manifest form, and lowers those entries to native Ninja phony nodes while preserving deduplication, serial dyndep ordering, failure propagation, and manifest compatibility; documentation and regression coverage guide and verify migration from command: ":".

Sequence diagram for dependency-only manifest generation

sequenceDiagram
    participant Manifest
    participant Parser
    participant BuildGraph
    participant NinjaGen
    participant Ninja
    Manifest->>Parser: Deserialize recipe fields
    Parser->>Parser: Recipe::DependencyOnly
    Parser->>BuildGraph: validate_recipes()
    BuildGraph-->>Parser: Valid dependency-only entry
    Parser->>NinjaGen: BuildGraph
    NinjaGen->>NinjaGen: is_dependency_only()
    NinjaGen->>Ninja: Render edge with phony
    Ninja-->>NinjaGen: Preserve deps and serial gates

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State diagram for dependency-only entry validation

stateDiagram-v2
    [*] --> Parsed
    Parsed --> DependencyOnly: no command, script, or rule
    DependencyOnly --> Valid: deps non-empty
    DependencyOnly --> Invalid: deps empty
    Valid --> Phony: Ninja lowering
    Invalid --> ParseError: MISSING_RECIPE_ERROR
    Phony --> [*]
    ParseError --> [*]

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Flow diagram for dependency-only Ninja lowering

flowchart LR
    Manifest[Manifest action or target\nnon-empty deps, no recipe] --> Parse[Recipe::DependencyOnly]
    Parse --> Validate{deps non-empty?}
    Validate -- No --> Error[Manifest parse error]
    Validate -- Yes --> Graph[BuildGraph edge]
    Graph --> Lower[Select Ninja rule]
    Lower --> Phony[Native phony edge]
    Phony --> Deps[Preserve dependencies\nand ordering]
    Deps --> Ninja[Ninja build graph]

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Represent recipe-less actions and targets as validated dependency-only manifest entries while preserving serialization compatibility.	Add a dependency-only recipe variant and retain the existing missing-recipe diagnostic. Allow omission of recipes only when actions or targets have non-empty dependencies; continue rejecting recipe-less rules and empty dependency lists. Render dependency-only entries without synthetic command fields and document the migration from command: ":".	src/ast/mod.rs src/manifest/mod.rs src/manifest/render.rs src/ir/from_manifest.rs docs/contents.md docs/users-guide.md docs/v0-1-1-migration-guide.md tests/ast_tests/dependency_only.rs tests/ast_tests/parsing.rs
Lower dependency-only graph actions to native Ninja phony edges without emitting executable rules.	Skip dependency-only actions when writing named Ninja rules. Select phony for direct and serial dependency-only edges while preserving restat metadata and staged serial dependencies. Keep graph action deduplication and existing dependency ordering behavior intact.	src/ninja_gen/mod.rs src/ninja_gen/dyndep.rs src/ninja_gen_property_tests.rs tests/ir_from_manifest_tests.rs tests/ninja_snapshot_tests.rs tests/snapshots/ninja/ninja_snapshot_tests__dependency_only_manifest_ninja.snap
Add regression coverage for phony generation, serial ordering, failure propagation, and removal of synthetic aggregate execution.	Test parsing and validation for dependency-only actions and targets. Verify generated Ninja contains phony nodes and no synthetic recipe or command = :. Update serial runtime tests to confirm dependencies execute in order, stop after failures, and do not execute an aggregate recipe.	src/ninja_gen/dyndep_tests.rs src/ninja_gen/dyndep_tests/dependency_only.rs tests/documentation_examples_tests.rs tests/serial_dependency_runtime_tests.rs

Assessment against linked issues

Issue	Objective	Addressed	Explanation
#597	Allow actions and targets with non-empty dependencies to omit a command and lower as genuine dependency-only Ninja nodes, while rejecting recipe-less entries without dependencies.	✅
#597	Preserve compatibility and existing graph behavior, including v0.1.0 manifests, dependency deduplication, serial ordering, and failure propagation, without introducing the excluded v0.2.0 features.	✅
#597	Update user and migration documentation to recommend dependency-only aggregate actions instead of synthetic command: ":" recipes, including a downstream aggregate canary.	✅

Possibly linked issues

• Allow command to be optional if deps are present #572: The PR implements the issue’s dependency-only manifest and Ninja lowering requirement.
• v0.1.1: remove dependency-only action no-op recipes #597: The PR directly addresses issue 597 by supporting recipe-less dependency nodes and generating native Ninja phony edges.

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tests/ir_from_manifest_tests.rs

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    Ok(())
}

#[test]

❌ New issue: Code Duplication
The module contains 2 functions with similar structure: duplicate_rules_emit_distinct_actions,minimal_manifest_to_ir

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src/ninja_gen/mod.rs

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        if action.recipe.is_dependency_only() {
            continue;
        }

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generate_into has 2 blocks with nested conditional logic. Any nesting of 2 or deeper is considered. Threshold is 2 blocks per function

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        if self
            .rules
            .iter()
            .any(|rule| rule.recipe.is_dependency_only())
            || self
                .actions
                .iter()
                .chain(&self.targets)
                .any(|target| target.recipe.is_dependency_only() && target.deps.is_empty_content())

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- Around line 381-384: Reconcile the manifest contract between the recipe
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173-177: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve Recipe compatibility before merging.

netsuke::ast is public, and Recipe is an exhaustive public enum without #[non_exhaustive]. This variant makes downstream exhaustive match expressions fail to compile. Preserve the enum shape in a compatible release, or move this change to a documented breaking release.

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In `@src/ast/mod.rs` around lines 173 - 177, Remove the new DependencyOnly variant
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• The public-enum compatibility finding was valid. Recipe retains its original three public variants; a crate-internal empty-command marker represents a valid recipe-less aggregate, and a UI compile test proves downstream exhaustive matches remain valid.
• Property / proof: not added. The existing focused AST, IR, direct/serial Ninja, runtime, and deterministic-output coverage exercises non-empty, blank, duplicate, and ordered dependency behaviour. A second generated suite over the same lowering semantics would be disproportionate to this v0.1.1 compatibility fix.
• Observability: not added. Existing bounded runner generation telemetry already records action, target, dependency, outcome, and error information. Tracking the private dependency-only marker as a new metric would expose a lowering detail and widen this release beyond the manifest-polish scope.

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@leynos Reconcile the follow-up findings as resolved.

The current checkout is e3c6e6c7231642a5f12a59ebaee4be33d434d0d8.

src/ast/mod.rs::Recipe retains only the public Command, Script, and Rule variants. Recipe::is_dependency_only identifies Recipe::Command { command: StringOrList::Empty } as the internal marker. tests/ui/command_list_public_api_pass.rs::recipe_kind exhaustively matches those three public variants. This preserves downstream exhaustive-match compatibility.

Keep the focused test strategy. The current tests cover dependency presence, blank dependencies after rendering, direct AST-to-IR validation, deduplication, direct and serial phony lowering, runtime ordering and failure behaviour, and deterministic serial-bundle generation. Do not add a second generated suite for the same lowering contract.

Keep the existing telemetry boundary. src/runner/dyndep_generation_telemetry.rs::instrument_bundle_generation records bounded action, target, dependency, outcome, and error-category data. Do not add a dependency-only marker metric. That metric would expose a private lowering detail without improving the release-level operational contract.

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Learning: In `tests/ast_tests/dependency_only.rs`, dependency-only manifest validation coverage uses focused `rstest` cases. The cases assert the stable missing-recipe diagnostic for invalid actions and targets with missing or empty dependencies, rules without an executable recipe, blank values, rendered blank recipes, and direct AST lowering.

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docs/developers-guide.md (1)

280-292: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Synchronize this section with the dependency-only marker contract.

Replace the statement at Lines 273-276 that requires direct IR to reject
StringOrList::Empty. This PR uses that value as the valid dependency-only
marker, and generation succeeds when its edge has dependencies. Retain
rejection for StringOrList::List(Vec::new()).

Replace src/ninja_gen.rs at Line 305 with src/ninja_gen/mod.rs. Line 289
already identifies the correct module path.

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+/// Return the recipe kind used by this API compatibility fixture.
 fn recipe_kind(recipe: Recipe) -> &'static str {

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