fix!: Make AgentGraph traversal topological

[mattrmc1]

Summary

Makes AgentGraphDefinition traversal topological and gives each visitor a dependency-scoped
execution context, aligning the traversal behavior across the LaunchDarkly AI SDKs.

Previously Traverse / ReverseTraverse were plain BFS over a single shared, accumulating context
dictionary. That had two problems:

1. Ordering: where branches of unequal length converge, the convergence node ran on first
   discovery — before all of its predecessors had run.
2. Context leakage & mutation: every callback saw the results of all previously-visited nodes
   (including unrelated parallel branches), and results were written back into the caller's
   initialContext.

What changed

pkgs/sdk/server-ai — Graph/AgentGraphDefinition.cs only (no public API/signature changes):

• Traverse now visits a node only after all of its reachable predecessors have been visited
  (Kahn over in-degree; the root is always released first). On cycles, the unvisited node with the
  lowest remaining in-degree is chosen next, ties broken by discovery order.
• ReverseTraverse now visits a node only after all of its reachable descendants have been
  visited, so the root is visited last (Kahn over out-degree, root excluded from cycle-break
  selection). Pure cycles now visit every node instead of being a no-op.
• Scoped context: each callback receives a fresh dictionary = initialContext plus only that
  node's true dependency results (transitive ancestors forward / descendants reverse). Results are
  kept in a private map keyed by node; unrelated branches and self-loops are excluded, and the
  caller's dictionary is never mutated. Cross-node data flows only through callback return values.
• Determinism: discovery order is the graph's BFS encounter order (root first, then declared edge
  order), used only for tie-breaks. Ready-check uses == 0 to match the reference algorithm and the
  other SDKs.

void Traverse(Func<AgentGraphNode, Dictionary<string, object>, object> fn,
              Dictionary<string, object> initialContext = null);

Behavior change (breaking)

Titled fix! because visit order and callback-context contents change for graphs with convergent
paths, cycles, or parallel branches. Simple linear graphs are unaffected. Cross-SDK parity with
JS/Python/.NET/Java.

Tests

• A data-driven test over the canonical cross-SDK vectors G1–G6 (+G2b) asserts exact visit
  order and exact context keys in both directions.
• Convergence runs the shared node last; pure cycle visits all nodes (root last); caller context not
  mutated; unrelated branches excluded; self-loop excluded from its own context; deterministic across
  runs.

Notes

• No manual CHANGELOG.md edit — release-please generates it from the conventional-commit title.
• Graph tracking / wire parsing unchanged; this PR is scoped to traversal + context.

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Note

Overview
Traverse and ReverseTraverse on AgentGraphDefinition no longer use plain BFS over one shared, mutating context dictionary. They now visit reachable nodes in topological order (predecessors first forward; descendants first backward, root last on reverse), with cycle-safe tie-breaking from BFS discovery order.

Each callback gets a scoped dictionary: initialContext plus only that node’s true dependency results (transitive ancestors or descendants). Node outputs live in a private map; unrelated parallel branches and self-loops are excluded, and the caller’s initialContext is not mutated.

Breaking: visit order and context keys change for convergent paths, cycles, and parallel branches; linear chains stay the same. Aligns traversal with other LaunchDarkly AI SDKs.

Tests add canonical G1–G6 / G2b vectors asserting exact order and context keys in both directions, plus updated cycle and scoped-context expectations.

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[tanderson-ld]

There are a lot of new dictionary calls, toDictionary, as well as several contains and order by. Do you have any performance requirements wrt throughput or memory allocation delays? May be worth a quick benchmark to see if your expected cases are well behaved.

I'm guessing this would apply to the other PRs for the other SDKs if they are following similar implementations.

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Reverse outdeg waits on root

Medium Severity

ReverseTraverse counts edges to the root in outdeg, but the root is visited only after the loop, so those counts are never released. Nodes that point at the root therefore stay blocked and are chosen via cycle-break, which can run them before their real non-root descendants and omit those descendants from scoped context. Traverse already special-cases this dual with indeg[root] = 0.

Additional Locations (1)

• pkgs/sdk/server-ai/src/Graph/AgentGraphDefinition.cs#L207-L212

 

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