fix: read directories in name order so Bun indexes like Node

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What changed

• Directories are read in name order through a new readDirEntries helper (src/directory.ts), used by the file scanner and the resolution walks. Node's readdirSync returns sorted names (libuv sorts); Bun returns the filesystem's order. Under Bun, files were indexed in a different order, and equal-score search and explore results (tie-broken by insertion order) came out differently from Node's. Reduced repro: three identical markdown files; Node indexes large-doc0, 1, 2, Bun indexes large-doc2, 0, 1.
• bounded-tokenize.ts calls c.channel?.unref?.(). Bun's subprocess channel has no ref/unref (subprocess.channel is an empty Control stub (missing ref/unref/refCounted/unrefCounted) — breaks execa's execaNode() oven-sh/bun#33593), so the highlight worker never started and every slice fell back to plain text.
• New __tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts fails on Bun without the fix.
• Docs: CHANGELOG entry, viewer-launch changelog entry for the highlight fix, README Bun claim, and the build-validation skill no longer say the Bun suite is green.

Results

Suite	Before	After
Node (npm test)	8,740 passed at 2bf24ef4	685 files, 8,741 passed, 0 failed, 39 skipped
Bun (npm run test:bun)	37 failed of 8,779	19 failed of 8,780 (-49%)

The remaining 19 Bun failures are test-harness differences, listed in the README and the skill: syncBuiltinESMExports is a no-op in Bun (13 tests), vi.mock is not applied in the grammar-load-failure file (4), PATH='' still finds git (1), and V8-only gc (1). The earlier mcp-daemon failure no longer occurs; I did not isolate why.

README rows checked: the Node or Bun paragraph under Measured results (updated); the Runtimes row (dated 48903f5, unchanged); no feature, command, tool, language or config key changed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Search and explore results with equal scores now appear in consistent filename order across Node and Bun.
  • Syntax highlighting now works when the server runs on Bun, instead of falling back to plain text.
• Documentation
  • Updated Bun testing guidance to describe known differences in test results and clarify that new failures outside the listed cases are not expected.

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Walkthrough

Directory scans now use name-sorted entries, and equal-score search results have a filename-order test. The change also guards Bun syntax-highlighting setup when a child channel lacks unref and updates Bun test documentation.

Changes

Deterministic Directory Ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add the sorted directory-entry helper src/directory.ts	readDirEntries sorts directory entries by name in ascending order.
Use sorted entries across scans src/directory.ts, src/extraction/index.ts, src/resolution/*, __tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md	Directory and resolution scans use readDirEntries. The new test checks filename ordering for equal-score search results. The changelog records the directory-order change.

Bun Syntax Highlighting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard child-channel setup src/ui-server/highlight/bounded-tokenize.ts, docs/viewer-launch-changelog.md	ensureChild calls unref only when the child channel provides it. The viewer changelog records the Bun highlighting fix.

Bun Test Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document Bun test results .claude/skills/codegraph-build-validation/SKILL.md, README.md	The documentation lists 19 Bun-only test failures that pass on Node and describes their categories.

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 516eb

Directory scans are sorted and Bun highlighting tolerates a missing unref method. Add an explore-order assertion to protect that separate behavior; no current explore-order failure is established, so the PR is otherwise mergeable with this bounded follow-up.

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✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: sorting directory entries by name to make Bun indexing consistent with Node.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Suppressions Explained		PASS. The pull request adds no lint, type-check, or compiler suppression directive. The changed code adds readDirEntries, replaces directory reads, adds a test, and changes optional method invocatio…
User-Visible Changes Documented		PASS. The PR changes directory traversal order, Bun subprocess-channel handling, tests, and documentation. It does not add, remove, or rename a CLI command or flag, MCP tool or argument, supported lan…

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__tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts (1)

16-31: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the documented codegraph_explore tie behavior.

The test calls only cg.searchNodes(...). codegraph_explore builds file candidates separately and applies its own comparator, so an explore-only ordering regression can pass this test. Add a companion assertion that invokes codegraph_explore with the same fixture and checks the documented filename order.

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Review comment at @__tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts around lines 16 - 31:
Extend the `breaks equal-score search ties in file-name order` test with a
companion assertion that calls `codegraph_explore` on the same fixture and
verifies its results are ordered by filename. Keep the existing `cg.searchNodes`
assertion.

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Review comments at @__tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts:
- Around line 16-31: Extend the `breaks equal-score search ties in file-name
order` test with a companion assertion that calls `codegraph_explore` on the
same fixture and verifies its results are ordered by filename. Keep the existing
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• .claude/skills/codegraph-build-validation/SKILL.md
• CHANGELOG.md
• README.md
• __tests__/index-order-ties.test.ts
• docs/viewer-launch-changelog.md
• src/directory.ts
• src/extraction/index.ts
• src/resolution/import-resolver.ts
• src/resolution/index.ts
• src/resolution/workspace-packages.ts
• src/resolution/workspace-source-entries.ts
• src/ui-server/highlight/bounded-tokenize.ts

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Review: #436 (review)
Head: 516ebe4
Reason: Not adding an explore assertion to this file. A tiny fixture does not discriminate: a query that names the files pins them in query order, and a bare query finds nothing relevant. I tried both on Bun without the fix and the output order matched Node's. The explore ordering is already covered by tests/explore-cap-notices.test.ts ('reports a capped section dropped at the final output boundary'), which failed on Bun before this change and passes now.