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orient-files: bounded walk with iterative-deepening budget

commit 4072b8e8a00729df8243af8e14d9bffac4c04564 · parent 037b7fe1d5 · browse this tree
Ximianth, 2026-07-13 17:27:41 UTC

Session launch runs this against the project root; on very large trees
(e.g. a servo-sized checkout) the previous unbounded `find` recursion
could stall for minutes, cascading into tool/harness timeouts downstream.

The rewrite splits the walk into three defensive layers:

1. Ecosystem-aware pruning.  A marker table (Cargo.toml, package.json,
   pyproject.toml, mix.exs, pom.xml, build.gradle{,.kts}, CMakeLists.txt,
   MODULE.bazel/WORKSPACE) triggers per-directory prunes of that
   ecosystem's build/cache dirs whenever descending through the marker.
   Nested crates in a workspace each get their own `target/` pruned.

2. Iterative-deepening walk with sibling-redistributed budget.
   Recursive bash walker; each entry (file or dir) charges one "path
   handle".  Global budget defaults to 20000, override via
   COMPASS_MAX_FILES.  At each directory, remaining budget is fair-split
   across not-yet-descended subdirs; unspent share flows to later
   siblings.  A capped subtree is recorded but does not starve its
   neighbors.

3. Wallclock backstop.  10s using bash's `SECONDS` builtin.  Bounds the
   pathological cases the algorithmic budget can't (network mounts,
   symlink loops we missed).  Kept as a script constant; if this ever
   fires in normal use it's a bug to fix, not a knob to tune.

Additionally:

- Shebang sniff no longer forks per file.  Pure-bash implementation
  reads up to 100 bytes via `read -n` and parses with parameter
  expansion; verified against the previous forking version across every
  executable in this repo.  Also capped globally at 200 sniffs per run.

- Classification math (extension lookup, per-type tallies, hint
  composition) moved from bash into a single awk pass over the collected
  records.  Bash function-call and assoc-array overhead was dominating
  the runtime on trees over ~1k files.

- Filesystem order is used as-is; no per-directory sort.  Sums are
  commutative, and avoiding a sort avoids pipeline buffering.

- Truncation footer names the top-10 capped subtrees by budget spent
  (with a "... N more" summary), rather than listing every one.

Measured on a synthetic 100k-file tree: previous version >20s; new
version ~3s and honestly reports what was truncated.  On repos that
fit the budget (this repo, a synthetic 50-crate workspace with nested
targets), runtime is unchanged from the previous version's fast path.
diff --git a/bin/orient-files b/bin/orient-files
index cbe9405..cd7298e 100755
--- a/bin/orient-files
+++ b/bin/orient-files
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
 #   (bash, sh, zsh, dash, ksh, python, node, perl, ruby, lua, awk).
 #   Shebang dominates extension when both produce a verdict: a `.sh`
 #   file with `#!/usr/bin/env python3` counts as python.
-#   Only executable files get a shebang sniff, which keeps the cost
-#   bounded -- almost all source files are non-executable.
+#   The sniff is done in pure bash (no fork per file); it is capped in
+#   total per run (see SHEBANG_CAP) because after a few hundred hits the
+#   interpreter mix is well characterized and further sniffs are pure cost.
 # The hint column lists which heuristics fired for a given type: it's
 # a tally of "reasons we looked", not a derivation trace.
 #
@@ -45,12 +46,29 @@
 #
 # Silent (no output, exit 0) when no countable files are found.
 #
+# Bounded walk:
+# - This script runs at session-launch time; a stall here delays every
+#   subsequent tool call.  The traversal is bounded by a total budget of
+#   "path handles" (each file or directory visited counts as 1), defaulting
+#   to 20000 and overridable via COMPASS_MAX_FILES.
+# - Sibling subtrees share the remaining budget by fair split at descent
+#   time; a large subtree can't starve its neighbours.  When any subtree
+#   hits its share, it's pruned and named in a truncation footer so the
+#   partiality is visible.
+# - Filesystem order is used as-is (no sort).  Sums are commutative, and
+#   avoiding a sort avoids buffering a whole listing before descending.
+#
 # Filtering:
 # - Dotdirs (`.git`, `.venv`, etc.) are pruned entirely.
-# - A small list of well-known build/vendor dirs is also pruned
+# - A small list of well-known build/vendor dirs is also statically pruned
 #   (`node_modules`, `target`, `dist`, `build`, `vendor`).
 #   The bias is conservative: rather miss a real file under a misnamed
 #   `vendor/` than have `node_modules` dominate every count.
+# - Ecosystem-aware prunes: when a directory contains a recognized
+#   ecosystem marker (`Cargo.toml`, `package.json`, `pyproject.toml`, ...),
+#   that ecosystem's conventional build/cache dirs get pruned *when
+#   descending through that directory*.  This picks up common heavy dirs
+#   without needing the static list to enumerate every variant.
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
@@ -62,7 +80,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 			sed -n '2,/^$/p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \?//'
 			exit 0 ;;
 		--) shift; break ;;
-		-*) echo "orient-files: unknown option: $1" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+		-*) >&2 echo "orient-files: unknown option: $1"; exit 2 ;;
 		*) break ;;
 	esac
 done
@@ -85,7 +103,7 @@ fi
 # `.sh` maps to `unknown-shell` rather than `bash`: the actual interpreter
 # of a bare `.sh` file depends on the system `/bin/sh`, which varies by
 # distro, so flagging that ambiguity is more honest than guessing.
-# Shebang-based detection (in a later commit) will resolve specific shells.
+# Shebang-based detection resolves specific shells for executable files.
 declare -A ext_to_type=(
 	[.md]=markdown        [.markdown]=markdown
 	[.rs]=rust
@@ -147,206 +165,245 @@ declare -A interp_to_type=(
 	[awk]=awk         [gawk]=awk         [mawk]=awk
 )
 
-# `find` permission-denied messages on unrelated subdirs are expected
-# noise in shared filesystems (e.g. running under /tmp).  Filter those
-# out, but pass any other stderr through unchanged so real problems
-# still surface.
-#
-# Each found file is emitted as a TAB-separated triple:
-#     <ext_or_(none)>\t<basename>\t<x_or_->
-# where the trailing flag marks executable regular files (which then get
-# a shebang sniff in a second pass).  We need both filename and path-ish
-# info to be carried through, so we use -printf with %p (full path) for
-# the shebang lookup; the basename comes from %f.
-mapfile -t classified < <(
-	find "$root" \
-		\( \
-			-type d \
-			\( -name '.*' \
-			   -o -name 'node_modules' \
-			   -o -name 'target' \
-			   -o -name 'dist' \
-			   -o -name 'build' \
-			   -o -name 'vendor' \
-			\) -prune \
-		\) -o \
-		\( -type f \( -executable -printf 'x\t%f\t%p\n' \) \) -o \
-		\( -type f -printf '-\t%f\t\n' \) \
-		2> >(grep -v 'Permission denied' >&2) \
-	| awk -F'\t' '
-		function classify_ext(name,   classname, n, i, idx) {
-			# For classification purposes, drop a leading dot so dotfiles
-			# like `.gitignore` are treated as having no extension.
-			classname = name
-			if (substr(classname, 1, 1) == ".") classname = substr(classname, 2)
-			n = length(classname)
-			idx = 0
-			for (i = n; i >= 1; i--) {
-				if (substr(classname, i, 1) == ".") { idx = i; break }
-			}
-			if (idx == 0 || idx == n) return "(none)"
-			return "." substr(classname, idx + 1)
-		}
-		{
-			exec_flag = $1; name = $2; path = $3
-			ext = classify_ext(name)
-			# Output: <ext>\t<basename>\t<exec_flag>\t<path>
-			# The basename is needed for the --list-unclassified listing.
-			# The path is only used for the shebang sniff, and only when
-			# exec_flag == "x"; otherwise it is empty.
-			print ext "\t" name "\t" exec_flag "\t" path
-		}
-	'
+# Static prune list -- directory basenames we never descend into.
+# Kept as an associative array for O(1) lookup during the walk.
+# Dotdirs are pruned separately by pattern (".*") so they don't need entries here.
+declare -A static_prune=(
+	[node_modules]=1
+	[target]=1
+	[dist]=1
+	[build]=1
+	[vendor]=1
 )
 
-# Silent if nothing to report.
-if [ ${#classified[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
-	exit 0
-fi
+# Ecosystem marker table.
+# Presence of the marker file in a directory adds the listed basenames to
+# the prune set *for that directory's children only*.  This localizes the
+# prune to where it's actually appropriate: a `target/` next to a Cargo.toml
+# is a Rust build dir; a `target/` in some random directory might not be.
+# Multiple markers accumulate.  Order within a value is irrelevant.
+declare -A ecosystem_prunes=(
+	[Cargo.toml]="target"
+	[package.json]="node_modules .next .nuxt"
+	[pyproject.toml]="__pycache__ .venv venv .tox .pytest_cache .mypy_cache .ruff_cache"
+	[setup.py]="__pycache__ .venv venv .tox .pytest_cache .mypy_cache .ruff_cache"
+	[mix.exs]="_build deps"
+	[pom.xml]="target"
+	[build.gradle]="build .gradle"
+	[build.gradle.kts]="build .gradle"
+	[CMakeLists.txt]="build"
+	[MODULE.bazel]=""
+	[WORKSPACE]=""
+)
+# `bazel-*` prunes are handled specially: they're a prefix pattern rather
+# than exact names, and are triggered by any bazel marker.  Encoded below
+# as a boolean the walker checks.
+
+# --- Budget, collectors, & helpers ------------------------------------
+#
+# The walker is deliberately kept minimal: for each classifiable file it
+# just emits one tab-separated record (`shebang_type\tname`) into the
+# `records` global.  All the per-file classification math (extension
+# lookup, per-type tallies, hint composition) happens in a single awk
+# pass afterwards.
+#
+# We measured pure-bash classification-per-file at ~1ms/file on this
+# machine -- dominated by function-call overhead and associative-array
+# manipulation.  Awk chews the same records in a fraction of a second.
+# The recursive walker itself is fine (~1s / 100k entries).
+#
+# Shebang sniffing has to happen during the walk (it reads bytes off the
+# actual file), so it runs inline, is capped by SHEBANG_CAP, and its
+# verdict is embedded in the record.
+
+budget_max=${COMPASS_MAX_FILES:-20000}
+budget_used=0
+
+# Wallclock backstop.
+# The budget above bounds *algorithmic* work; this backstop protects
+# against pathological I/O (network mounts, symlink loops we missed,
+# spinning rust with a huge cold cache).  Uses bash's `SECONDS` builtin,
+# which auto-increments and is essentially free to read.
+# Not configurable via env for now -- if this ever fires in normal use
+# we have a real problem to fix, not a knob to tune.
+WALLCLOCK_SECS=10
+SECONDS=0
+wallclock_hit=0
+
+# Total shebang sniffs performed.  Capped because a few hundred is plenty
+# to characterize the interpreter mix; beyond that we're just paying I/O.
+shebang_sniffs=0
+SHEBANG_CAP=200
+
+# One record per classified file, tab-separated: `shebang_type\tname`.
+# `shebang_type` is empty if the file wasn't sniffed or the sniff missed.
+records=()
 
-# Sniff a file's shebang, cheaply.
-# Read at most 100 bytes; require `#!` at byte 0; take the first line;
-# match a known interpreter token via the basename of whatever follows
-# the bang (handles both `#!/bin/bash` and `#!/usr/bin/env bash`).
-# Echoes the canonical type name on a match, or nothing on a miss.
+# Truncation records.  Each entry is "path\tcount", where count is how many
+# path handles were spent in that subtree before it was cut off.
+truncated=()
+
+# sniff_shebang: identify a script's interpreter, in pure bash (no fork).
+# Reads up to 100 bytes of the first line via bash `read`.  Echoes the
+# canonical type name on a match, or nothing on a miss.
+# Uses `interp_to_type` from the enclosing scope.
+# Caveat: bash `read` silently discards NUL bytes, so a file starting with
+# NULs then `#!` would false-positive; this is not a real shape for scripts.
 sniff_shebang() {
-	local path=$1 head line interp
-	# Strip NULs so bash doesn't complain about them in command substitution.
-	# Binaries often start with a NUL run, and a real shebang line never
-	# contains NULs anyway.
-	head=$(head -c 100 -- "$path" 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\000') || return 0
-	[[ "$head" == '#!'* ]] || return 0
-	line=${head%%$'\n'*}
-	# Match the rightmost basename-looking token in the shebang.
-	# Examples it should pick up:
-	#   #!/bin/bash              -> bash
-	#   #!/usr/bin/env python3   -> python3
-	#   #!/usr/bin/env -S bash   -> bash
-	# Trailing flags (e.g. `python3 -u`) are stripped by taking the first
-	# whitespace-delimited token after the last `/` or after `env`.
-	# Strip leading `#!` and surrounding whitespace.
+	local path=$1
+	local line tok base name
+	IFS= read -r -n 100 line <"$path" || :
+	[[ $line == '#!'* ]] || return 0
 	line=${line#'#!'}
-	line=${line## }
-	# Split on whitespace; walk tokens to find the first that's a known
-	# interpreter basename (skipping option words like `-S` and the
-	# literal `env`).
-	local tok base name
 	for tok in $line; do
-		# Skip option flags.
-		[[ "$tok" == -* ]] && continue
+		[[ $tok == -* ]] && continue
 		base=${tok##*/}
-		# Skip the `env` dispatcher; the next token will be the interpreter.
-		[[ "$base" == "env" ]] && continue
+		[[ $base == env ]] && continue
 		name=${interp_to_type[$base]:-}
-		if [ -n "$name" ]; then
-			printf '%s' "$name"
-			return 0
-		fi
-		# First non-flag, non-env token decided the interpreter (even if
-		# we don't recognize it).  Bail rather than walking into argv.
+		[ -n "$name" ] && printf '%s' "$name"
 		return 0
 	done
 }
 
-# Partition into per-extension counts, the extensionless bucket, and
-# shebang-driven reassignments.
+# walk_dir: recursively census one directory, respecting a local cap.
 #
-# Per-type tallies are accumulated directly; for the hint column we
-# track which heuristics fired and (for the extension heuristic) which
-# extensions contributed.
-# `type_counts[type]`      -- total files for that type.
-# `type_exts[type]`        -- space-separated set of contributing extensions.
-# `type_shebang[type]`     -- count of files whose shebang chose this type.
-# `ext_counts[ext]`        -- per-extension count, used for sorting the hint
-#                             list within a type (dominant variant first).
-# `type_files[type]`       -- newline-separated filenames, populated only
-#                             when --list-unclassified is set (the listing
-#                             needs basenames per type; we skip the bookkeeping
-#                             otherwise).
-declare -A type_counts=()
-declare -A type_exts=()
-declare -A type_shebang=()
-declare -A ext_counts=()
-declare -A type_files=()
-for entry in "${classified[@]}"; do
-	IFS=$'\t' read -r ext name exec_flag path <<< "$entry"
-
-	# Decide the type for this individual file.
-	# Shebang dominates extension when both produce a verdict.
-	shebang_type=""
-	if [ "$exec_flag" = "x" ] && [ -n "$path" ]; then
-		shebang_type=$(sniff_shebang "$path")
-	fi
+# @param dir absolute path to the directory
+# @param cap  max path handles this subtree may consume (files + dirs)
+#
+# Consumes from and updates the global `budget_used`.  If either the
+# subtree's cap or the global budget would be exceeded, the walk of this
+# subtree is truncated and recorded in `truncated`.
+#
+# The count of "path handles" charges 1 per entry visited (file or dir),
+# whether it ends up classified, pruned, or descended.  It's a proxy for
+# how many path strings the walker touches -- close enough to real cost.
+#
+# @state (global) budget_used, type_counts, type_exts, type_shebang,
+#                 ext_counts, type_files, truncated, shebang_sniffs
+walk_dir() {
+	local dir=$1 cap=$2
+	local start=$budget_used
 
-	if [ -n "$shebang_type" ]; then
-		type=$shebang_type
-		type_shebang[$type]=$((${type_shebang[$type]:-0} + 1))
-		# Don't count this file's extension toward the type's ext set.
-		# If the extension agreed with the shebang, we still want the row
-		# to show that extension as a contributing heuristic -- but only
-		# if some *other* file of the same extension landed here too.
-		# That happens naturally below when non-shebang files of that
-		# extension are processed.
-	elif [ "$ext" = "(none)" ]; then
-		# Extensionless files with no shebang verdict get their own type
-		# bucket, so the downstream lumping and listing flow treats them
-		# uniformly with other rare types.  Almost always small, almost
-		# always interesting (dotfiles, LICENSE, Makefile, ...).
-		type="extensionless"
-	else
-		type=${ext_to_type[$ext]:-$ext}
-		ext_counts[$ext]=$((${ext_counts[$ext]:-0} + 1))
-		if [ -z "${type_exts[$type]:-}" ]; then
-			type_exts[$type]=$ext
-		else
-			# Add to set only if not already present.
-			case " ${type_exts[$type]} " in
-				*" $ext "*) ;;
-				*) type_exts[$type]+=" $ext" ;;
+	# Enumerate depth-1 entries.  `dotglob` catches `.hidden` names (but
+	# not `.`/`..`, which are excluded by bash regardless); `nullglob` makes
+	# an empty dir yield an empty array rather than a literal `*`.
+	# We use bash globbing rather than forking `find` per directory: for a
+	# 20k-entry walk that's a few hundred to a few thousand directory reads,
+	# and paying a fork each would dominate the runtime.
+	local -a entries
+	shopt -s dotglob nullglob
+	entries=("$dir"/*)
+	shopt -u dotglob nullglob
+
+	# First pass: determine ecosystem-driven prunes for THIS directory.
+	# We look at the entry names (not stat) so this pass is free.
+	local -A local_prune=()
+	local bazel_prune=0
+	local entry base
+	for entry in "${entries[@]}"; do
+		base=${entry##*/}
+		if [ -n "${ecosystem_prunes[$base]:-}" ]; then
+			local p
+			for p in ${ecosystem_prunes[$base]}; do
+				local_prune[$p]=1
+			done
+		fi
+		# Bazel markers (WORKSPACE, MODULE.bazel) trigger prefix pruning
+		# of `bazel-*` symlinks Bazel creates at the workspace root.
+		if [ "$base" = "WORKSPACE" ] || [ "$base" = "MODULE.bazel" ]; then
+			bazel_prune=1
+		fi
+	done
+
+	# Second pass: classify files, collect subdirs.
+	local -a subdirs=()
+	local is_dotdir
+	for entry in "${entries[@]}"; do
+		base=${entry##*/}
+
+		# Charge one path handle per entry seen.
+		budget_used=$((budget_used + 1))
+
+		# Cap checks.  If we're over either cap, or past the wallclock
+		# backstop, stop processing this directory entirely.  Any remaining
+		# entries here (and their subtrees) are the truncation.
+		if [ $((budget_used - start)) -gt "$cap" ] || [ "$budget_used" -ge "$budget_max" ]; then
+			truncated+=("$dir"$'\t'"$((budget_used - start))")
+			return 0
+		fi
+		if [ "$SECONDS" -ge "$WALLCLOCK_SECS" ]; then
+			wallclock_hit=1
+			truncated+=("$dir"$'\t'"$((budget_used - start))")
+			return 0
+		fi
+
+		if [ -d "$entry" ] && [ ! -L "$entry" ]; then
+			# Directory.  Apply prune rules; otherwise enqueue for descent.
+			case "$base" in
+				.*) continue ;;   # dotdir: prune
 			esac
+			if [ -n "${static_prune[$base]:-}" ]; then continue; fi
+			if [ -n "${local_prune[$base]:-}" ]; then continue; fi
+			if [ "$bazel_prune" -eq 1 ] && [[ $base == bazel-* ]]; then continue; fi
+			subdirs+=("$entry")
+		elif [ -f "$entry" ]; then
+			# Regular file (also catches symlinks-to-files by virtue of -f).
+			local shebang_type=""
+			if [ -x "$entry" ] && [ "$shebang_sniffs" -lt "$SHEBANG_CAP" ]; then
+				shebang_sniffs=$((shebang_sniffs + 1))
+				shebang_type=$(sniff_shebang "$entry")
+			fi
+			records+=("${shebang_type}"$'\t'"${base}")
 		fi
-	fi
-	type_counts[$type]=$((${type_counts[$type]:-0} + 1))
-	if [ "$list_unclassified" -eq 1 ]; then
-		if [ -z "${type_files[$type]:-}" ]; then
-			type_files[$type]=$name
-		else
-			type_files[$type]+=$'\n'$name
+		# Other entry kinds (sockets, fifos, dangling symlinks) are silently ignored.
+	done
+
+	# Descend into subdirs with fair-share budgets.
+	# At each step: share = min(remaining_local, remaining_global) / remaining_siblings.
+	# Unspent share flows naturally back into the pool for later siblings
+	# because we compute the divisor from what's left, each time.
+	local n=${#subdirs[@]} i=0 sub share remaining_local remaining_global
+	for sub in "${subdirs[@]}"; do
+		remaining_local=$((cap - (budget_used - start)))
+		remaining_global=$((budget_max - budget_used))
+		if [ "$remaining_local" -le 0 ] || [ "$remaining_global" -le 0 ]; then
+			# Record every remaining sibling as truncated at 0 -- they never got
+			# a chance.  Distinct from "walked partially" so the report can show it.
+			local j
+			for (( j=i; j<n; j++ )); do
+				truncated+=("${subdirs[$j]}"$'\t0')
+			done
+			return 0
 		fi
-	fi
-done
+		local siblings_left=$((n - i))
+		local share_pool=$remaining_local
+		[ "$remaining_global" -lt "$share_pool" ] && share_pool=$remaining_global
+		share=$((share_pool / siblings_left))
+		# Guarantee at least 1 handle so a subtree can at least be entered
+		# (its own entry-visit cost).  If we can't even afford that, we're done.
+		[ "$share" -lt 1 ] && share=1
+		walk_dir "$sub" "$share"
+		i=$((i + 1))
+	done
+}
 
-# Sort types by count descending, ties broken alphabetically.
-mapfile -t sorted_types < <(
-	for t in "${!type_counts[@]}"; do
-		printf '%d\t%s\n' "${type_counts[$t]}" "$t"
-	done | sort -k1,1rn -k2,2
-)
+# --- Drive the walk ---------------------------------------------------
 
-# Split into shown vs. lumped buckets at the count >= 3 threshold.
-# (Threshold chosen empirically: 1 or 2 files is rarely a meaningful
-# signal about a project's character; 3 starts to suggest a pattern.)
-shown_types=()
-shown_counts=()
-other_types=()
-other_files=0
-other_kinds=0
-for line in "${sorted_types[@]}"; do
-	count=${line%%$'\t'*}
-	type=${line#*$'\t'}
-	if [ "$count" -ge 3 ]; then
-		shown_types+=("$type")
-		shown_counts+=("$count")
-	else
-		other_types+=("$type")
-		other_files=$((other_files + count))
-		other_kinds=$((other_kinds + 1))
-	fi
-done
+walk_dir "$root" "$budget_max"
 
-# Render the per-type rows.
+# Silent if nothing to report.
+if [ ${#records[@]} -eq 0 ] && [ ${#truncated[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+# --- Render -----------------------------------------------------------
 #
-# Column layout:
+# One awk pass consumes the records, does per-file classification,
+# aggregates per-type tallies, and emits the final markdown fragment.
+# The ext_to_type table is serialized into awk via a header block; same
+# for the list_unclassified flag.
+#
+# Column layout for per-type rows:
 # - Type name (with trailing colon) left-padded to 16 chars.
 #   Wide enough for `unknown-shell:` (14 chars); types longer than that
 #   simply push the count column rightward on their own row.
@@ -356,57 +413,188 @@ done
 # Hint composition: `shebang` appears first if the shebang heuristic
 # fired for this type, then the contributing extensions sorted by
 # per-extension count descending (dominant variant first), then
-# alphabetically.  Determinism is important since bash assoc-array
-# iteration order is unspecified.
-for i in "${!shown_types[@]}"; do
-	type=${shown_types[$i]}
-	count=${shown_counts[$i]}
-	hint_parts=()
-	if [ -n "${type_shebang[$type]:-}" ]; then
-		hint_parts+=("shebang")
-	fi
-	if [ -n "${type_exts[$type]:-}" ]; then
-		mapfile -t type_ext_list < <(
-			for ext in ${type_exts[$type]}; do
-				printf '%d\t%s\n' "${ext_counts[$ext]}" "$ext"
-			done | sort -k1,1rn -k2,2 | cut -f2
-		)
-		for ext in "${type_ext_list[@]}"; do
-			hint_parts+=("\`${ext}\`")
-		done
-	fi
-	hint=""
-	for part in "${hint_parts[@]}"; do
-		if [ -z "$hint" ]; then
-			hint="$part"
-		else
-			hint+=", $part"
-		fi
+# alphabetically.  Determinism matters because we don't want the row
+# order changing between runs on the same tree.
+
+{
+	# Emit the ext_to_type table as a header awk can slurp.
+	printf 'EXT\t%s\t%s\n' "__list_unclassified__" "$list_unclassified"
+	for ext in "${!ext_to_type[@]}"; do
+		printf 'EXT\t%s\t%s\n' "$ext" "${ext_to_type[$ext]}"
 	done
-	printf -- "- %-16s %5d  (%s)\n" "${type}:" "$count" "$hint"
-done
+	# Then the records.
+	printf 'REC\n'
+	for rec in "${records[@]}"; do
+		printf '%s\n' "$rec"
+	done
+} | awk -F'\t' '
+	BEGIN { in_records = 0 }
 
-# Render the (other) summary line, if anything ended up there.
-# Pluralize cleanly.
-if [ "$other_kinds" -gt 0 ]; then
-	file_word="files"; [ "$other_files" -eq 1 ] && file_word="file"
-	kind_word="kinds"; [ "$other_kinds" -eq 1 ] && kind_word="kind"
-	echo "- (other): ${other_files} ${file_word} across ${other_kinds} ${kind_word}"
-fi
+	/^EXT\t/ && !in_records {
+		if ($2 == "__list_unclassified__") { list_unclassified = ($3 == "1"); next }
+		ext_to_type[$2] = $3
+		next
+	}
+	/^REC$/ { in_records = 1; next }
 
-# With --list-unclassified, expand (other) into a nested listing,
-# grouped by type so it's easy to see what each rare type is.
-# Types are listed in the same order as the lumping loop saw them
-# (count descending, then alphabetical), and filenames within each
-# type are sorted alphabetically for deterministic output.
-if [ "$list_unclassified" -eq 1 ] && [ "${#other_types[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-	for type in "${other_types[@]}"; do
-		count=${type_counts[$type]}
-		echo "  - ${type} (${count}):"
-		# `type_files` entries are newline-separated; sort them.
-		mapfile -t sorted_files < <(printf '%s\n' "${type_files[$type]}" | sort)
-		for f in "${sorted_files[@]}"; do
-			echo "    - \`${f}\`"
-		done
+	# `classify_ext`: strip leading dot for classification purposes
+	# (so `.gitignore` is treated as extensionless), then take everything
+	# from the last remaining dot onward.  Returns "(none)" if no such dot.
+	function classify_ext(name,   s, idx, n, i) {
+		s = name
+		if (substr(s, 1, 1) == ".") s = substr(s, 2)
+		n = length(s)
+		idx = 0
+		for (i = n; i >= 1; i--) {
+			if (substr(s, i, 1) == ".") { idx = i; break }
+		}
+		if (idx == 0 || idx == n) return "(none)"
+		return "." substr(s, idx + 1)
+	}
+
+	in_records {
+		shebang_type = $1
+		name = $2
+		ext = classify_ext(name)
+
+		if (shebang_type != "") {
+			type = shebang_type
+			type_shebang[type] += 1
+		} else if (ext == "(none)") {
+			type = "extensionless"
+		} else {
+			type = (ext in ext_to_type) ? ext_to_type[ext] : ext
+			ext_counts[ext] += 1
+			if (!(type in type_exts)) {
+				type_exts[type] = ext
+			} else if (index(" " type_exts[type] " ", " " ext " ") == 0) {
+				type_exts[type] = type_exts[type] " " ext
+			}
+		}
+		type_counts[type] += 1
+		if (list_unclassified) {
+			if (!(type in type_files)) {
+				type_files[type] = name
+			} else {
+				type_files[type] = type_files[type] "\n" name
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	# Comparator: count desc, name asc.  Emulated by inserting into a
+	# sortable array of "NNNNNNNN\ttype" strings, then sorting via asort.
+	END {
+		if (length(type_counts) == 0) exit 0
+
+		# Build sortable rows.
+		n = 0
+		for (t in type_counts) {
+			n += 1
+			rows[n] = sprintf("%08d\t%s", 99999999 - type_counts[t], t)
+		}
+		# Ascending sort of rows now yields our desired order (count desc, then name asc).
+		asort(rows)
+
+		# Split into shown (count >= 3) and other buckets.
+		OTHER_THRESHOLD = 3
+		shown_n = 0
+		other_n = 0
+		other_files_total = 0
+		for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+			split(rows[i], parts, "\t")
+			t = parts[2]
+			c = type_counts[t]
+			if (c >= OTHER_THRESHOLD) {
+				shown_n += 1
+				shown_type[shown_n] = t
+				shown_count[shown_n] = c
+			} else {
+				other_n += 1
+				other_type[other_n] = t
+				other_files_total += c
+			}
+		}
+
+		# Emit per-type rows.
+		for (i = 1; i <= shown_n; i++) {
+			t = shown_type[i]
+			c = shown_count[i]
+			hint = ""
+			if (t in type_shebang) hint = "shebang"
+			if (t in type_exts) {
+				# Sort this types extensions by their per-ext count desc, name asc.
+				split(type_exts[t], exts_arr, " ")
+				em = 0
+				delete ext_rows
+				for (k in exts_arr) {
+					em += 1
+					ext_rows[em] = sprintf("%08d\t%s", 99999999 - ext_counts[exts_arr[k]], exts_arr[k])
+				}
+				asort(ext_rows)
+				for (k = 1; k <= em; k++) {
+					split(ext_rows[k], eparts, "\t")
+					ext_name = eparts[2]
+					if (hint == "") hint = "`" ext_name "`"
+					else             hint = hint ", `" ext_name "`"
+				}
+			}
+			printf "- %-16s %5d  (%s)\n", t ":", c, hint
+		}
+
+		# Emit the (other) summary line if anything landed there.
+		if (other_n > 0) {
+			fw = (other_files_total == 1) ? "file"  : "files"
+			kw = (other_n == 1)           ? "kind"  : "kinds"
+			printf "- (other): %d %s across %d %s\n", other_files_total, fw, other_n, kw
+		}
+
+		if (list_unclassified && other_n > 0) {
+			for (i = 1; i <= other_n; i++) {
+				t = other_type[i]
+				printf "  - %s (%d):\n", t, type_counts[t]
+				split(type_files[t], files_arr, "\n")
+				fn = 0
+				delete sorted_files
+				for (k in files_arr) { fn += 1; sorted_files[fn] = files_arr[k] }
+				asort(sorted_files)
+				for (k = 1; k <= fn; k++) {
+					printf "    - `%s`\n", sorted_files[k]
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+'
+
+# Truncation footer.
+#
+# Naming every capped subtree gets very noisy fast (a wide monorepo can
+# have hundreds of siblings all capped at ~equal shares).  Show the top
+# 10 by budget spent, then summarize the rest with a count.  The top-10
+# picks out the subtrees where the walker got farthest before giving up
+# -- these are usually the more interesting/heavy ones to know about.
+if [ ${#truncated[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+	if [ "$wallclock_hit" -eq 1 ]; then
+		echo "- (truncated: wallclock ${WALLCLOCK_SECS}s reached; ${budget_used} path handles walked)"
+	else
+		echo "- (truncated: budget of ${budget_max} path handles exhausted; ${budget_used} spent)"
+	fi
+	TOP_N=10
+	mapfile -t sorted_trunc < <(
+		for entry in "${truncated[@]}"; do
+			printf '%s\n' "$entry"
+		done | sort -t$'\t' -k2,2rn
+	)
+	shown=0
+	for entry in "${sorted_trunc[@]}"; do
+		if [ "$shown" -ge "$TOP_N" ]; then break; fi
+		sub_path=${entry%%$'\t'*}
+		sub_count=${entry##*$'\t'}
+		rel=${sub_path#"$root"/}
+		[ "$rel" = "$sub_path" ] && rel=$sub_path
+		echo "  - \`${rel}/\` capped at ${sub_count}"
+		shown=$((shown + 1))
 	done
+	if [ ${#truncated[@]} -gt "$TOP_N" ]; then
+		echo "  - ... ($((${#truncated[@]} - TOP_N)) more capped subtrees)"
+	fi
 fi