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--update runbook: graph.json backup instruction comes after the diff that needs it, so the graph diff never runs

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Since Oct 18, 2026.

  • #4540 by @sunildivakar96-cpu — open

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
markdown
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Inspect the 14 split-platform references/update.md runbooks and the aider and devin monoliths named in the issue. Trace the order of the Step 4 merge, graph diff, backup, and cleanup instructions; make the backup occur before the merge and add a clear message for a missing backup. Done when each runbook presents those steps in a working order and a missing backup is not silent.

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Description

Version: 0.9.92 (v8 at 86c57be); also present in 0.9.91. All 14 split-platform references/update.md runbooks, plus the aider and devin monoliths.

Problem

The --update runbook ends with a "show the graph diff" block that runs after Step 4. It compares graphify-out/.graphify_old.json, a backup of the pre-update graph.json, with the merged extraction. The instruction that creates that backup sits after the diff block, at the end of the section:

After Step 4, show the graph diff:
  ...diff block reads .graphify_old.json...
Before the merge step, save the old graph: `cp graphify-out/graph.json graphify-out/.graphify_old.json`
Clean up after: `rm -f graphify-out/.graphify_old.json`

An agent that follows the runbook from top to bottom reaches the backup sentence only after Step 4 has rewritten graph.json. By then it's too late:

  • If the agent never takes the backup, the diff block's if old_data: has no else, so the diff prints nothing at all. The user gets no diff and no sign that one was skipped.
  • If it takes the backup on reaching the sentence, the "old" graph is already the new one, and the diff reports no changes.

Repro

  1. Build a graph, change a code file, and run /graphify . --update, following references/update.md in order.
  2. After Step 4 the diff block runs before any .graphify_old.json exists, and it prints nothing.

Expected

The backup is taken before the merge, and the diff block says so when the backup is missing instead of skipping silently.

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