fix(sdk,cli): evict stale local bundle cache entries, add cache info/clear commands (#60, #78, #79, #95)

[shwetank-dev]

Summary

This PR bundles four fixes and features from the QA backlog:

#78 — Check platform in loadBundle cache guards

loadBundle was returning a cached bundle even when the cached platform (os/arch) didn't match the current host. Added platform comparison to both the early-return and the registry short-circuit checks.

#60 — Populate bundle cache after bundle pull

bundle pull downloaded the bundle to disk but didn't extract it into the cache, so a subsequent bundle run would re-download unnecessarily. Fixed by calling extractBundle after the download in pull.ts.

#79 — Surface checkForUpdate failures instead of swallowing them

checkForUpdate returned null on both "up to date" and "network error", making the two indistinguishable. Changed the return type to a discriminated union (up-to-date | update-available | check-failed) and wrapped the body in try/catch. The outdated command now emits a stderr warning for check-failed entries instead of silently skipping them.

#95 — Evict stale local bundle cache entries + mpak cache info/clear (phase 1)

Root cause: Local bundles are cached under _local/<hash(absolutePath)>/. Rebuilding a bundle with a new versioned filename (mcp-foo-v0.1.0.mcpb → v0.1.1.mcpb) produces a new hash and a new cache entry — the old one is never evicted. One developer accumulated 2.1 GB from 33 stale local entries.

Fix: After preparing a local bundle, evictOtherLocalBundles(bundleName, currentHash) scans _local/ for other entries sharing the same manifest.name and removes them. One entry per bundle, always. Eviction key is manifest.name (not parent directory) to avoid false positives when multiple different bundles share a dist folder.

New SDK surface:

• MpakBundleCache.evictOtherLocalBundles(bundleName, currentHash) — called automatically on every local bundle prepare
• MpakBundleCache.getCacheInfo() → CacheInfo — returns registry and local entries with per-entry disk sizes and a total
• dirSizeBytes(dir) helper in helpers.ts
• CacheInfo, RegistryCacheEntry, LocalCacheEntry exported from public index

New CLI commands:

• mpak cache info — two-section table (registry / local) with sizes and pull/extract dates; --json supported
• mpak cache clear — deletes ~/.mpak/cache/ entirely; shows size to be freed, prompts for confirmation, --force skips prompt

Test plan

• SDK: 253 tests passing (pnpm --filter @nimblebrain/mpak-sdk test)
• CLI: 187 tests passing (pnpm --filter @nimblebrain/mpak test)
• Eviction: installing same-named bundle from a new path removes the old _local/<hash> entry
• mpak cache info shows registry and local bundles with correct sizes
• mpak cache info --json outputs valid JSON matching CacheInfo shape
• mpak cache clear prompts, reports freed space, deletes cache directory
• mpak cache clear --force skips prompt
• mpak cache clear on empty cache prints "already empty" without error
• Pre-existing @nimblebrain/mpak-web typecheck failure is unrelated to this PR (reproduced on main)

Closes #60, #78, #79, #95

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[mgoldsborough]

Bundling 4 issues into one PR works here, and the platform-guard fix (#78), eviction logic (#95), and cache info/clear commands look solid. Five blockers before merge — three are inline; the two below touch files that aren't in this diff, so I'm including them in this summary.

Blocker 1 — packages/cli/src/commands/packages/run.ts:152-164 not updated for the new checkForUpdate signature

#79 turned checkForUpdate from Promise<string | null> into Promise<UpdateCheckResult> (always an object). The call site in run.ts was not updated:

.then((latestVersion) => {
  if (latestVersion) {  // ALWAYS truthy now — object is always returned
    process.stderr.write(
      `\n=> Update available: ${server.name} ${server.version} -> ${latestVersion}\n` ...

Production effect on every mpak run @scope/pkg:

• when up-to-date → spurious => Update available: pkg 1.0.0 -> [object Object] printed
• when an update is available → message prints [object Object] instead of the version
• when the check fails → spurious Update available printed
• the .catch(() => …) is dead — checkForUpdate cannot reject; failures now return {status:'check-failed'}

TypeScript didn't catch it because object truthiness and template-literal coercion are both valid.

Fix:

.then((result) => {
  if (result.status === 'update-available') {
    process.stderr.write(
      `\n=> Update available: ${server.name} ${server.version} -> ${result.latestVersion}\n` +
        `   Run 'mpak run ${server.name} --update' to update\n`,
    );
  }
});

Blocker 2 — packages/cli/tests/bundles/run.test.ts:319, 332, 342 hide blocker 1

These mocks still use the old string | null shape:

mockCheckForUpdate.mockResolvedValue('2.0.0');   // line 319
mockCheckForUpdate.mockResolvedValue(null);      // line 332
mockCheckForUpdate.mockRejectedValue(new Error('network timeout')); // line 342

The real checkForUpdate cannot return any of those values anymore — it returns UpdateCheckResult and never rejects. Update the mocks to the new shapes ({status:'update-available', latestVersion:'2.0.0'}, {status:'up-to-date'}, {status:'check-failed', reason:'network timeout'}). Once updated, the existing assertions in this block should fail until run.ts is fixed — which is the behavior we want.

Also worth fixing

• PR body says "SDK: 253 tests passing" — actual run is 252 passing, 1 pre-existing validate.test.ts failure that reproduces on main. Reword like the mpak-web typecheck note: "252 passing, 1 pre-existing failure unrelated to this PR."
• Optional polish: checkForUpdate collapses "not cached" and "TTL-throttled" into {status:'up-to-date'}. Consumers happen not to care, but the public SDK type is now lying. Consider a skipped variant or document the conflation.
• getCacheInfo reads .mpak-local-meta.json with raw JSON.parse while the rest of the cache uses readJsonFromFile + Zod. Worth a LocalMetaSchema for consistency.

What looks good: platform check is symmetrical across both guards with tight unit tests; eviction runs on every prepare (not just on extract); eviction key is manifest.name, not parent dir; outdated cleanly switches on the union and surfaces stderr; new cache-info / cache-clear tests cover empty/prompt/abort/force/freed-size paths.

[mgoldsborough]

This writes to and deletes from the developer's real ~/.mpak/cache/. Anyone who runs pnpm test -- tests/integration locally loses their cached @nimblebraininc/echo bundle and ends up with a Linux/x64 artifact in the cache on whatever host they're on.

The integration suite is excluded from default pnpm test, so CI is fine — but local dev is a footgun.

Fix: extend tests/integration/helpers.ts so run() accepts an env map, then point this test at a tmp MPAK_HOME:

const mpakHome = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'mpak-int-'));
const cacheMetaPath = join(mpakHome, 'cache', 'nimblebraininc-echo', '.mpak-meta.json');
await run(
  `bundle pull ${TEST_BUNDLE} --os linux --arch x64 --output ${outputPath}`,
  { MPAK_HOME: mpakHome },
);

[mgoldsborough]

extractBundle (this function) and downloadAndExtract (lines 440-467) are now ~95% duplicates — same temp-path scheme, same rmSync of cacheDir, same extractZip, same writeCacheMetadata. The only delta is the download step.

This is the kind of duplication that drifts: the next change to one (preserving lastCheckedAt on re-extract, switching temp dirs, adding fsync, tightening collisions) will silently miss the other.

Suggested collapse:

private async downloadAndExtract(name: string, downloadInfo: DownloadInfo): Promise<void> {
  const data = await this.mpakClient.downloadContent(downloadInfo.url, downloadInfo.bundle.sha256);
  await this.extractBundle(name, data, downloadInfo.bundle);
}

[mgoldsborough]

The mock is set up but no test asserts that extractBundle is actually invoked — the whole point of #60 is unverified at the unit level. The integration test covers it end-to-end, but a unit assertion catches a missed wire-up in a few ms instead of a 30s network test.

Add to the happy-path test:

expect(mockExtractBundle).toHaveBeenCalledWith('@scope/bundle', bundleData, metadata);

While we're here: with --json set, pull.ts returns before calling extractBundle, so mpak pull --json still doesn't fix #60 for scripted callers. Worth either moving the extract above the JSON return, or adding a --json test that asserts the asymmetry so the choice is recorded.