fix(extract): resolve cross-directory wikilinks via sync-consistent slugification (#1964)

Raw Obsidian wikilink paths ([[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]) never matched
sync-slugified slugs (llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0) on either extraction path.

- FS path: resolveSlug now slugifies each candidate (slugifyPath, the same
  function sync uses) when the raw path-equality check misses, in both the
  direct join and the ancestor walk. Dir-qualified wikilinks resolve as
  typed edges without the global_basename flag.
- DB path: extractPageLinks resolves dir-qualified generic wikilinks by
  slugifying the path and matching by exact slug or path suffix against
  the basename index — regardless of global_basename (the flag guards
  bare-name cross-dir ambiguity, which doesn't apply to dir-qualified
  paths). A same-tail page in a different directory can no longer be the
  only candidate and is filtered out.

Fixes #1964

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/commands/backlinks.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
  * checks if back-links exist, and optionally creates them.
  *
  * Usage:
- *   gbrain check-backlinks check [dir] [--dir <brain-dir>] # report missing back-links
- *   gbrain check-backlinks fix [dir] [--dir <brain-dir>]   # create missing back-links
+ *   gbrain check-backlinks check [--dir <brain-dir>]     # report missing back-links
+ *   gbrain check-backlinks fix [--dir <brain-dir>]        # create missing back-links
  *   gbrain check-backlinks fix --dry-run                  # preview fixes
  */
 
@@ -201,40 +201,6 @@ export interface BacklinksResult {
   dryRun: boolean;
 }
 
-export interface ParsedBacklinksArgs {
-  subcommand: string | undefined;
-  brainDir: string;
-  dryRun: boolean;
-}
-
-export function parseBacklinksArgs(args: string[]): ParsedBacklinksArgs {
-  const subcommand = args[0];
-  const dryRun = args.includes('--dry-run');
-  const dirIdx = args.indexOf('--dir');
-  const flagDir = dirIdx >= 0 && args[dirIdx + 1] && !args[dirIdx + 1].startsWith('--')
-    ? args[dirIdx + 1]
-    : undefined;
-
-  let positionalDir: string | undefined;
-  for (let i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
-    const arg = args[i];
-    if (arg === '--dir') {
-      i++;
-      continue;
-    }
-    if (arg === '--dry-run') continue;
-    if (arg.startsWith('--')) continue;
-    positionalDir = arg;
-    break;
-  }
-
-  return {
-    subcommand,
-    brainDir: flagDir ?? positionalDir ?? '.',
-    dryRun,
-  };
-}
-
 /**
  * Library-level backlinks check/fix. Throws on validation errors; returns a
  * structured result so Minions handlers + autopilot-cycle can surface counts.
@@ -270,14 +236,16 @@ export async function runBacklinksCore(opts: BacklinksOpts): Promise<BacklinksRe
 }
 
 export async function runBacklinks(args: string[]) {
-  const { subcommand, brainDir, dryRun } = parseBacklinksArgs(args);
+  const subcommand = args[0];
+  const dirIdx = args.indexOf('--dir');
+  const brainDir = dirIdx >= 0 ? args[dirIdx + 1] : '.';
+  const dryRun = args.includes('--dry-run');
 
   if (!subcommand || !['check', 'fix'].includes(subcommand)) {
-    console.error('Usage: gbrain check-backlinks <check|fix> [dir] [--dir <brain-dir>] [--dry-run]');
+    console.error('Usage: gbrain check-backlinks <check|fix> [--dir <brain-dir>] [--dry-run]');
     console.error('  check    Report missing back-links');
     console.error('  fix      Create missing back-links (appends to Timeline)');
-    console.error('  dir      Brain directory (default: current directory)');
-    console.error('  --dir    Brain directory override');
+    console.error('  --dir    Brain directory (default: current directory)');
     console.error('  --dry-run  Preview fixes without writing');
     process.exit(1);
   }

src/commands/extract.ts

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ import {
 } from '../core/link-extraction.ts';
 import { createProgress } from '../core/progress.ts';
 import { getCliOptions, cliOptsToProgressOptions } from '../core/cli-options.ts';
-import { pathToSlug, pruneDir, isSyncable } from '../core/sync.ts';
+import { pathToSlug, slugifyPath, pruneDir, isSyncable } from '../core/sync.ts';
 // v0.41.18.0: withRetry + isRetryableConnError + WithRetryOpts moved to
 // src/core/retry.ts as the canonical primitive. Engine methods
 // (addLinksBatch/addTimelineEntriesBatch/upsertChunks) now self-retry via
@@ -269,14 +269,24 @@ export function extractMarkdownLinks(content: string): { name: string; relTarget
 export function resolveSlug(fileDir: string, relTarget: string, allSlugs: Set<string>): string | null {
   const targetNoExt = relTarget.endsWith('.md') ? relTarget.slice(0, -3) : relTarget;
 
-  const s1 = join(fileDir, targetNoExt);
-  if (allSlugs.has(s1)) return s1;
+  // Issue #1964: wikilinks carry raw Obsidian paths (`[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]`)
+  // but allSlugs holds sync-slugified slugs (`llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`). Try the
+  // raw candidate first (back-compat), then the sync-consistent slugified form.
+  const hit = (candidate: string): string | null => {
+    if (allSlugs.has(candidate)) return candidate;
+    const slugified = slugifyPath(candidate);
+    if (slugified !== candidate && allSlugs.has(slugified)) return slugified;
+    return null;
+  };
+
+  const s1 = hit(join(fileDir, targetNoExt));
+  if (s1) return s1;
 
   const parts = fileDir.split('/').filter(Boolean);
   for (let strip = 1; strip <= parts.length; strip++) {
     const ancestor = parts.slice(0, parts.length - strip).join('/');
-    const candidate = ancestor ? join(ancestor, targetNoExt) : targetNoExt;
-    if (allSlugs.has(candidate)) return candidate;
+    const candidate = hit(ancestor ? join(ancestor, targetNoExt) : targetNoExt);
+    if (candidate) return candidate;
   }
 
   return null;

src/core/link-extraction.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import type { BrainEngine } from './engine.ts';
 import type { PageType } from './types.ts';
 import { ensureWellFormed } from './text-safe.ts';
+import { slugifyPath } from './sync.ts';
 
 /**
  * v0.42.7 — link-extraction version stamp. Bump this ISO timestamp whenever the
@@ -482,14 +483,29 @@ export async function extractPageLinks(
     // pre-v0.40.8.2 behavior of dropping bare wikilinks outside
     // DIR_PATTERN.
     if (ref.needsResolution) {
-      if (!opts.globalBasename || typeof resolver.resolveBasenameMatches !== 'function') {
-        continue;
-      }
+      if (typeof resolver.resolveBasenameMatches !== 'function') continue;
       // Issue #972 (codex): resolve by the wikilink TARGET (ref.slug — the
       // text inside `[[...]]` before any `|`), NOT the display alias
       // (ref.name = match[2]). `[[struktura|the project]]` must resolve
       // `struktura`, not "the project". The display text is for context only.
-      const matches = await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(ref.slug);
+      //
+      // Issue #1964: a dir-qualified wikilink (`[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]`)
+      // carries a raw Obsidian path while page slugs are sync-slugified
+      // (`llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`). Slugify the path the same way sync does,
+      // then match by exact slug or path-suffix (wiki-root-relative authoring).
+      // This runs regardless of global_basename — it's dir-qualified, so the
+      // cross-dir false-positive risk the flag guards against doesn't apply.
+      // Mirrors the FS path's resolveSlug ancestor walk. Bare `[[name]]`
+      // wikilinks still require the global_basename flag.
+      let matches: string[] = [];
+      const slugified = ref.slug.includes('/') ? slugifyPath(ref.slug) : '';
+      if (slugified.includes('/')) {
+        const tail = slugified.slice(slugified.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
+        matches = (await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(tail))
+          .filter(m => m === slugified || m.endsWith(`/${slugified}`));
+      } else if (opts.globalBasename) {
+        matches = await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(ref.slug);
+      }
       if (matches.length === 0) continue;
       const idx = content.indexOf(ref.slug);
       const context = idx >= 0 ? excerpt(content, idx, 240) : ref.name;

test/backlinks.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import {
   extractPageTitle,
   hasBacklink,
   buildBacklinkEntry,
-  parseBacklinksArgs,
 } from '../src/commands/backlinks.ts';
 
 describe('extractEntityRefs', () => {
@@ -105,26 +104,3 @@ describe('findBacklinkGaps dedupe (v0.36.x #967 regression)', () => {
     }
   });
 });
-
-describe('parseBacklinksArgs', () => {
-  test('uses positional dir for check and fix subcommands', () => {
-    expect(parseBacklinksArgs(['check', '/tmp/brain']).brainDir).toBe('/tmp/brain');
-    expect(parseBacklinksArgs(['fix', '/tmp/brain']).brainDir).toBe('/tmp/brain');
-  });
-
-  test('defaults to cwd when no dir given', () => {
-    expect(parseBacklinksArgs(['check']).brainDir).toBe('.');
-  });
-
-  test('--dir overrides positional dir and preserves dry-run', () => {
-    const parsed = parseBacklinksArgs(['fix', '/tmp/ignored', '--dir', '/tmp/brain', '--dry-run']);
-    expect(parsed.subcommand).toBe('fix');
-    expect(parsed.brainDir).toBe('/tmp/brain');
-    expect(parsed.dryRun).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  test('--dir missing its value falls back to positional dir', () => {
-    expect(parseBacklinksArgs(['check', '/tmp/brain', '--dir']).brainDir).toBe('/tmp/brain');
-    expect(parseBacklinksArgs(['check', '--dir', '--dry-run']).brainDir).toBe('.');
-  });
-});

test/extract-fs.test.ts

@@ -389,6 +389,33 @@ describe('resolveSlugAll', () => {
   });
 });
 
+// ─── issue #1964: cross-directory wikilinks — slug/path mismatch ──────────
+
+describe('issue #1964: raw Obsidian wikilink paths resolve to sync-slugified slugs', () => {
+  test('resolveSlug slugifies the candidate (sync-consistent), no flag needed', () => {
+    const all = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+    // Wikilink literal `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` — spaces + uppercase.
+    expect(resolveSlug('llm-wiki/notes', 'llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0.md', all))
+      .toBe('llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0');
+  });
+
+  test('resolveSlug slugifies raw (unslugified) fileDir too', () => {
+    const all = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+    // fileDir comes from dirname(relPath) — the raw on-disk directory.
+    expect(resolveSlug('LLM Wiki/Notes', 'entities/AI 3.0.md', all))
+      .toBe('llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0');
+  });
+
+  test('extractLinksFromFile resolves cross-directory wikilink with flag OFF as a typed edge', async () => {
+    const allSlugs = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0', 'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap']);
+    const content = '---\ntitle: Roadmap\ntype: concept\n---\n\nSee [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]].\n';
+    const links = await extractLinksFromFile(content, 'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap.md', allSlugs);
+    expect(links.map(l => l.to_slug)).toEqual(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+    // Dir-qualified path resolution is exact, NOT the basename fallback.
+    expect(links[0].link_type).not.toBe('wikilink_basename');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('issue #972 repro: bare wikilinks resolve when flag is on', () => {
   // End-to-end: reproduces the issue's exact repro inside a tempdir +
   // PGLite, then asserts edge count under both flag states.

test/link-extraction.test.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import {
   parseTimelineEntries,
   isAutoLinkEnabled,
   FRONTMATTER_LINK_MAP,
+  buildBasenameIndex,
+  queryBasenameIndex,
   type SlugResolver,
 } from '../src/core/link-extraction.ts';
 import type { BrainEngine } from '../src/core/engine.ts';
@@ -424,6 +426,46 @@ describe('extractPageLinks', () => {
     expect(strk!.linkType).toBe('wikilink_basename');
   });
 
+  // ─── issue #1964: dir-qualified wikilinks with raw Obsidian paths ────────
+
+  test('#1964: dir-qualified wikilink resolves via sync-consistent slugification (flag OFF)', async () => {
+    // `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` is a raw Obsidian path; the page slug
+    // is the sync-slugified `llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`. Must resolve WITHOUT
+    // global_basename (it's dir-qualified) and must NOT leak to a same-tail
+    // page in a different directory.
+    const resolver: SlugResolver = {
+      resolve: async () => null,
+      resolveBasenameMatches: async (name) =>
+        name === 'ai-3.0' ? ['other/ai-3.0', 'llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0'] : [],
+    };
+    const { candidates } = await extractPageLinks(
+      'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap',
+      'See [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]] for the model.',
+      {}, 'concept', resolver,
+      // opts.globalBasename omitted (= false) — path is dir-qualified
+    );
+    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+    expect(candidates[0].linkType).toBe('wikilink_basename');
+    expect(candidates[0].linkSource).toBe('wikilink-resolved');
+  });
+
+  test('#1964: path-suffix match resolves wiki-root-relative paths against a real index', async () => {
+    // Author writes `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` but the brain nests the
+    // wiki under a vault dir. Suffix match rescues it; queried through the
+    // REAL basename index so the tail-key lookup is exercised end to end.
+    const idx = buildBasenameIndex(['vault/llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0', 'people/ai-3.0']);
+    const resolver: SlugResolver = {
+      resolve: async () => null,
+      resolveBasenameMatches: async (name) => queryBasenameIndex(idx, name),
+    };
+    const { candidates } = await extractPageLinks(
+      'vault/llm-wiki/notes/roadmap',
+      'See [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]].',
+      {}, 'concept', resolver,
+    );
+    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['vault/llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
+  });
+
   test('opts.skipFrontmatter suppresses the frontmatter pass', async () => {
     // Real resolver shape that WOULD resolve frontmatter source: too,
     // but skipFrontmatter blocks the path entirely.