TREK/migration-graph.md

Legacy src/services/ dependency graph

Generated from the actual imports in server/src on 2026-07-30 (after the placeService migration — the third and final link of step 4 in the dependency-honest order below: the 1029-line place core (CRUD + ratings SQL, the GPX/KML/KMZ importers, the Google/Naver list importers) folded into the DI-native PlacesService; the pure pieces — the frozen XML parsers, the KMZ unpacker, the dedup predicates, the Google hex-id parsers, reclaimPhotoCache — into nest/places/places.helpers.ts (maps.helpers precedent); the whole 10-tool mcp/tools/places.ts registrar plus the trek://trips/{tripId}/places resource onto the decorator registry (places.mcp.ts, with search_place coming along because its gate is places:read and now injecting MapsService); TripsService, DaysMcp, BookingImportService and the plugin RPC host (its 21st constructor dep) all inject PlacesService, so the domain needs no bridge at all. The sibling placeEnrichment fold went further: that helper's DB/websocket/Maps half became PlacesService methods over the injected DatabaseService/RealtimeService/MapsService and its pure match selector joined places.helpers.ts — which retired maps.bridge.ts with its last consumer. A DTO ratchet commit cleared all seven PlacesController body allow-list entries, and a trailing fix(server) commit repaired four verified defects the relocation had faithfully carried (see "Quirks fixed" below). Earlier the same week, the transitService migration opened the tail of step 4 (the 333-line Transitous/MOTIS proxy into the dep-free TransitService, pure stats/types into nest/transit/transit.helpers.ts, the 3-tool registrar onto the decorator registry — zero bridge files, registrar deleted); before that the mapsService fold (the 1429-line geo core into MapsService, pure helpers into maps.helpers.ts, the 3 geo MCP tools onto the registry), and before that the tripService fold completing step 2 (the 1121-line hub into TripsService, its MCP surface onto trips.mcp.ts/share.mcp.ts, the plugin host injecting it, and the bridge cascade — todo.bridge, share.bridge, collab.bridge and vacay.bridge deleted with their last consumers, days/budget pruned to their survivors). Earlier context: the budgetService migration (step 1) and the Phase 0 quick wins: getAppUrl/getMcpSafeUrl → src/app-config deleted the fake → notifications edges for the identity/MCP stack and freed mapsService; the addon-enablement reads moved from adminService into nest/addons/ (addons.bridge.ts for out-of-container consumers), collapsing the admin god-file's ~27-consumer fan-in to the admin routes + one admin-2 residual and freeing oauthService. This regeneration parses static from '...', require('...') and dynamic import('...') specifiers, so the lazy edges the earlier grep-based analysis missed (scheduler jobs, the db-boot airport backfill, the fire-and-forget notification sends) are included. Regenerate any time by re-running that three-pattern import scan over server/src (a throwaway script suffices; the patterns are the whole trick).

How to read it:

• imports (services/) — what the legacy file pulls from other legacy files. A service is migration-ready when this column contains only helpers (see classification below) and/or tripAccess (Wave-2 "don't migrate, delete": absorb into DatabaseService.canAccessTrip). Edges tagged (lazy) are import()/require() at call time — they never block a migration, because a migrated Nest service can keep the same lazy import until the target domain migrates (collab/packing/trips/reservations/vacay all do exactly that for notificationService).
• imported by (services/) — legacy files that would need a bridge or repoint when this one migrates (a legacy module can't inject).
• nest consumers — in-container consumers: repoint to the injected service (exports: [XService] + module import), never a bridge.
• out-of-container consumers — mcp/, scheduler.ts, websocket.ts, db/, middleware/, systemNotices/, index.ts: these are the bridge pressure (todo.bridge.ts precedent).

Node classification

• Already DI-native (legacy file deleted): tags, categories, todo, packing, day-notes, trip-invite, assignments, share, settings, files, collab, vacay, reservations, day, permissions (module-scoped cache retained on purpose — the bridge and DI instances share one invalidation), audit (the writeAudit injectable; client-ip.ts and the deliberately side-effectful audit-log.logger.ts stay plain modules inside nest/audit/), exchange-rates (the exchangeRateService fold into nest/budget/ as the dep-free ExchangeRatesService — module-scoped rate cache retained on purpose, permissions-style, so out-of-container instances and the DI singleton share one cached upstream feed; its exchange-rates.bridge was deleted with the budgetService migration), budget (the 755-line money core folded into BudgetService; budget.bridge.ts is down to the two exports still consumed outside the container — userCleanupService and the legacy transports registrar), trip (the 1121-line hub folded into TripsService; its six bridge imports became injected services, and the fold deleted todo.bridge, share.bridge, collab.bridge and vacay.bridge with their last consumers; a 3-export trips.bridge.ts serves the legacy prompts registrar's getTripSummary and budget.mcp.ts's getTripOwner/listMembers seam — injecting there would need a forwardRef'd TripsModule↔BudgetModule cycle; days.bridge.ts shrank to getDay/listDays — since the transit fold, for the transports registrar alone), maps (the 1429-line geo core folded into MapsService; pure helpers — buildUserAgent, the opening-hours parsers, POI categories, Overpass endpoint resolution — are plain exports in nest/maps/maps.helpers.ts (the DI-native TransitService imports its UA from there); the module-scoped POI cache / photo-fetch semaphore / frozen Overpass mirrors stay module-scoped on purpose so any out-of-container instance and the DI singleton share them; maps.bridge.ts is gone — the place fold absorbed both of its consumers, the placeEnrichment helper and the places MCP registrar, and PlacesService / PlacesMcp / BookingImportService now inject MapsService directly), transit (the first fully SQL-free domain fold: the Transitous/MOTIS proxy became the dep-free TransitService — response cache, frozen-at-import TRANSIT_API_BASE and lazy User-Agent memo stay module-scoped on purpose; the pure deriveTransitStats + SCHEDULED_TRANSIT_MODES + itinerary types are plain exports in nest/transit/transit.helpers.ts (maps.helpers precedent) consumed by the legacy transitItineraryService; the 3-tool registrar moved to transit.mcp.ts and was deleted — no bridge ever existed for this domain), place (the 1029-line place core folded into PlacesService, its pure half into nest/places/places.helpers.ts, and the whole MCP surface — 10 tools + the trip-places resource — onto places.mcp.ts; the placeEnrichment helper was absorbed in the same wave, taking maps.bridge.ts with it. Zero bridge files: every consumer is in-container. The two assignments.bridge imports that places.mcp.ts keeps are a deliberate cycle break — AssignmentsModule imports DaysModule and DaysModule imports PlacesModule for days.mcp.ts's place creation, so injecting AssignmentsService there would close DaysModule → PlacesModule → AssignmentsModule → DaysModule; the same seam reservations.mcp.ts uses and the same trade trips.bridge.ts documents).
• Domain migration targets (the wave material): adminService, airportService, atlasService, authService, backupService, collectionsService, journeyService, journeyShareService, notificationService, oauthService, oidcService, passkeyService, transitItineraryService, weatherService, wikiService.
• Cross-cutting Wave-2 targets: permissions and auditLog are done (2026-07) — see the DI-native list above; only tripAccess remains (delete, don't migrate).
• Helpers that stay as plain modules (pure/infra, not wave material): avatarUrl, queryHelpers, conflictResult, cookie, demo, distanceService, ephemeralTokens, apiKeyCrypto, mfaCrypto, passwordPolicy, webauthnConfig, timezoneService, llmConfig, kmlImport, placeImage, placePhotoCache, unsplashService, userCleanupService, inAppNotifications, inAppNotificationActions, notificationPreferencesService, notifications (+ notifications/ registry), memories/ cluster, airtrail/ cluster. Several of these are themselves candidates to fold into a domain service when its domain migrates — and two already have: exchangeRateService → budget (2026-07) and placeEnrichment → place (2026-07), the latter also retiring a bridge. The four still reached only from nest/places/* (kmlImport, placeImage, placePhotoCache, unsplashService) are the next obvious fold candidates, but none of them blocks anything.

Domain-level graph (edges = "must migrate first, or bridge"; dotted = lazy, non-blocking)

flowchart TD
  classDef ready fill:#2e7d32,color:#fff
  classDef blocked fill:#b71c1c,color:#fff
  classDef hub fill:#e65100,color:#fff
  classDef infra fill:#455a64,color:#fff

  subgraph frontier["READY FRONTIER (no unmigrated domain deps)"]
    atlas[atlasService]:::ready
    weather[weatherService]:::ready
    airport["airportService (boot special case)"]:::ready
    wiki[wikiService]:::ready
    collections[collectionsService]:::ready
    transitItin["transitItineraryService (stats/types → transit.helpers; bridge tax zero)"]:::ready
    oauth[oauthService]:::ready
  end

  notifSvc[notificationService]:::blocked
  admin[adminService]:::blocked
  auth[authService]:::blocked
  oidc[oidcService]:::blocked
  passkey[passkeyService]:::blocked
  journey[journeyService]:::blocked
  journeyShare[journeyShareService]:::blocked
  backup["backupService (last by design)"]:::infra
  notifCluster["notifications cluster<br/>(notifications + prefs + inApp + channelRegistry)"]:::infra
  memories["memories/ cluster"]:::infra
  cleanup[userCleanupService]:::infra

  collections -.-> notifSvc
  notifSvc --> notifCluster
  admin --> auth & notifSvc & cleanup
  auth --> atlas
  oidc --> auth
  passkey --> auth
  journey --> memories
  journeyShare --> journey
  memories --> notifSvc & admin

(The placeService node is gone since the 2026-07-30 fold — its legacy imports were all helpers, and the former placeService → mapsService edge (via placeEnrichment) died with the helper rather than becoming a repoint. The transitItineraryService → transitService edge became the pure nest/transit/transit.helpers import when the transit domain went DI-native — helpers never block — so it sits alone at the head of the frontier; notificationService → notifications cluster is a hard import — the former mapsService/transitService/webauthnConfig/ oauthService → notifications edges were only getAppUrl/getMcpSafeUrl and died with the Phase 0 move to src/app-config, which had put mapsService on the frontier. memories/ ↔ admin/notificationService edges make the journey/memories corner tangle with the admin corner. The former auth/collections/backup → permissions and notifSvc/oauth → auditLog edges are gone since the 2026-07 Wave-2 pair: the permissions consumers repointed to nest/permissions/permissions.bridge, the writeAudit consumers to nest/audit/audit.bridge, and the log*-only consumers to the plain nest/audit/audit-log.logger — none of them block a migration anymore. The tripService hub node is gone since the 2026-07 trip fold — the DI-native TripsService injects its former bridge targets and keeps the legacy avatarUrl/timezoneService/userCleanupService helpers as plain imports (helpers never block). The dotted collections -.-> notifSvc edge is a call-time import() for the collection-invite notification: it stays as-is through a migration, exactly like the identical lazy sends in the already-migrated collab/packing/trips/reservations/vacay services.)

Full adjacency table

service	imports (services/)	imported by (services/)	nest consumers	out-of-container consumers
adminService	apiKeyCrypto, authService, avatarUrl, llmConfig, memories/helpersService, notificationService, passwordPolicy, userCleanupService (+ permissions.bridge, addons.bridge)	(none)	nest/admin/admin.service.ts, nest/packing/packing.mcp.ts (deletePackingTemplate, the admin-2 residual)	scheduler.ts (lazy)
airportService	(none)	(none)	nest/airports/airports.service.ts, nest/booking-import/kitinerary-mapper.ts	db/database.ts (lazy boot backfill), mcp/tools/mapsWeather.ts, mcp/tools/transports.ts
apiKeyCrypto	(none)	adminService, airtrail/airtrailService, authService, llmConfig, memories/helpersService, memories/immichService, memories/photoResolverService, memories/synologyService, memories/unifiedService, notifications, oidcService, unsplashService	nest/maps/maps.service.ts, nest/plugins/plugin-oauth.service.ts, nest/plugins/plugin-runtime.service.ts, nest/plugins/plugins.service.ts, nest/settings/settings.service.ts	db/migrations.ts
atlasService	(none)	authService	nest/atlas/atlas.service.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts	mcp/resources.ts, mcp/tools/atlas.ts
authService	apiKeyCrypto, atlasService, avatarUrl, demo, distanceService, ephemeralTokens, mfaCrypto, passwordPolicy, tripMembership, userCleanupService, webauthnConfig (+ permissions.bridge)	adminService, oidcService, passkeyService	nest/assignments/assignments.mcp.ts, nest/auth/auth.service.ts, nest/auth/passkey-enabled.guard.ts, nest/budget/budget.mcp.ts, nest/collab/collab.mcp.ts, nest/days/day-notes.mcp.ts, nest/days/days.mcp.ts, nest/oidc/oidc.service.ts, nest/packing/packing.mcp.ts, nest/places/places.mcp.ts, nest/reservations/reservations.mcp.ts, nest/share/share.mcp.ts, nest/tags/tags.mcp.ts, nest/todo/todo.mcp.ts, nest/transit/transit.mcp.ts, nest/trips/trips.mcp.ts, nest/vacay/vacay.mcp.ts	mcp/index.ts, mcp/tools/atlas.ts, mcp/tools/collections.ts, mcp/tools/journey.ts, mcp/tools/notifications.ts, mcp/tools/transports.ts
avatarUrl	(none)	adminService, authService, inAppNotifications, journeyService	nest/budget/budget.service.ts, nest/collab/collab.service.ts, nest/files/files.service.ts, nest/packing/packing.service.ts, nest/reservations/reservations.service.ts, nest/trips/trips.service.ts	(none)
backupService	(none — permissions.bridge, plugin backup/paths infra only)	(none)	nest/backup/backup.controller.ts, nest/backup/backup.service.ts	scheduler.ts (lazy)
collectionsService	notificationService (lazy), placeImage (+ permissions.bridge)	(none)	nest/collections/collections.service.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts	mcp/tools/collections.ts
conflictResult	(none)	(none)	nest/packing/packing.controller.ts, nest/packing/packing.service.ts, nest/places/places.controller.ts, nest/places/places.service.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts	(none)
cookie	(none)	(none)	nest/auth/auth-public.controller.ts, nest/auth/auth.service.ts, nest/auth/passkey.controller.ts, nest/oidc/oidc.controller.ts, nest/oidc/oidc.service.ts	(none)
demo	(none)	authService	nest/auth/auth.controller.ts, nest/collections/collections.controller.ts, nest/files/files.controller.ts, nest/places/places.controller.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts, nest/trips/trips.controller.ts	middleware/auth.ts, middleware/mfaPolicy.ts
distanceService	(none)	authService, transitItineraryService	(none)	(none)
ephemeralTokens	(none)	authService	nest/files/files.service.ts	index.ts, websocket.ts
inAppNotificationActions	(none)	inAppNotifications	(none)	(none)
inAppNotifications	avatarUrl, inAppNotificationActions, notificationPreferencesService	notificationService	nest/notifications/notifications.service.ts	mcp/resources.ts, mcp/tools/notifications.ts
journeyService	avatarUrl, memories/photoResolverService	journeyShareService	nest/assignments/assignments.service.ts, nest/journey/journey.service.ts, nest/places/places.mcp.ts, nest/places/places.service.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts, nest/plugins/journal-entry-rows.controller.ts	mcp/resources.ts, mcp/tools/journey.ts
journeyShareService	journeyService	(none)	nest/journey/journey.service.ts	mcp/tools/journey.ts
kmlImport	(none)	(none)	nest/places/places.helpers.ts, nest/places/places.service.ts	(none)
llmConfig	apiKeyCrypto	adminService	nest/llm-parse/llm-client.factory.ts, nest/llm-parse/llm-config.resolver.ts	(none)
mfaCrypto	(none)	authService	(none)	(none)
notificationPreferencesService	notifications, notifications/builtins, notifications/channelRegistry	inAppNotifications, notificationService, notifications, notifications/channelRegistry	nest/admin/admin.service.ts, nest/notifications/notifications.service.ts, nest/plugins/install/manifest.ts	(none)
notifications	apiKeyCrypto, notificationPreferencesService (+ audit-log.logger)	notificationPreferencesService, notificationService, notifications/builtins	nest/auth/auth.service.ts, nest/notifications/notifications.service.ts	(none)
notificationService	inAppNotifications, notificationPreferencesService, notifications, notifications/channelRegistry (+ audit-log.logger)	adminService, collectionsService, memories/synologyService, memories/unifiedService	nest/admin/admin.controller.ts, nest/collab/collab.service.ts, nest/packing/packing.service.ts, nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts, nest/reservations/reservations.service.ts, nest/trips/trips.service.ts, nest/vacay/vacay.service.ts	scheduler.ts (lazy)
oauthService	(none — addons.bridge + audit.bridge only)	(none)	nest/oauth/oauth-api.controller.ts, nest/oauth/oauth.service.ts	mcp/index.ts, mcp/oauthProvider.ts
oidcService	apiKeyCrypto, authService, tripMembership	(none)	nest/oidc/oidc.service.ts	(none)
passkeyService	authService, webauthnConfig	(none)	nest/admin/admin.service.ts, nest/auth/passkey.controller.ts	(none)
passwordPolicy	(none)	adminService, authService	(none)	(none)
placeImage	(none)	collectionsService	nest/collections/collections.controller.ts, nest/common/place-image-upload.ts, nest/places/places.controller.ts, nest/places/places.service.ts	(none)
placePhotoCache	(none)	(none)	nest/maps/maps.service.ts, nest/places/places.helpers.ts, nest/share/share.service.ts	scheduler.ts (lazy)
queryHelpers	(none)	(none)	nest/assignments/assignments.service.ts, nest/days/days.service.ts, nest/places/places.service.ts, nest/share/share.service.ts	(none)
timezoneService	(none)	airtrail/airtrailMapper, transitItineraryService	nest/trips/trips.service.ts	(none)
transitItineraryService	distanceService, timezoneService (+ the pure nest/transit/transit.helpers, type-only reservations.bridge)	(none)	nest/transit/transit.mcp.ts	(none)
tripAccess	(none)	(none)	nest/booking-import/booking-import.service.ts, nest/budget/budget.service.ts, nest/collab/collab.service.ts, nest/days/day-notes.service.ts, nest/integrations/airtrail-import.controller.ts, nest/packing/packing.service.ts, nest/reservations/reservations.service.ts, nest/todo/todo.service.ts	(none)
tripMembership	(none)	authService, oidcService	nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts, nest/trip-invite/trip-invite.service.ts	(none)
unsplashService	apiKeyCrypto	(none)	nest/places/places.service.ts, nest/trips/trips.controller.ts, nest/trips/trips.service.ts	(none)
userCleanupService	(none — budget.bridge, plugin paths infra only)	adminService, authService	nest/trips/trips.service.ts	(none)
weatherService	(none)	(none)	nest/plugins/host/plugin-host-deps.factory.ts, nest/weather/weather.controller.ts, nest/weather/weather.service.ts	mcp/tools/mapsWeather.ts
webauthnConfig	(none)	authService, passkeyService	(none)	(none)
wikiService	(none)	(none)	nest/help/help.controller.ts	(none)

Subdirectory clusters

• notifications/: channelRegistry ⇄ notificationPreferencesService (cycle), builtins → notifications + channelRegistry, and notificationPreferencesService → builtins (registering the built-in channels closes a second loop). Migrates as one unit with notifications.ts/notificationService.
• memories/: helpersService (base) ← immich/synology/unified/photoResolver; photoResolverService is the seam journeyService consumes (it also pulls immich/synology/thumbnail/trekPhotoCache — the latter is swept by scheduler.ts); synology/unified → notificationService couples this cluster to the admin corner (thumbnailService's adminService edge was only isAddonEnabled — now addons.bridge); immichService writes audits via nest/audit/audit.bridge.
• airtrail/: airtrailClient (base) ← mapper ← service ← import/sync; import/sync consume (since the 2026-07 reservations fold) the nest/reservations/reservations.bridge instead of the deleted reservationService (their adminService edge was only isAddonEnabled — now addons.bridge); since the auditLog fold, airtrailService writes audits via nest/audit/audit.bridge and airtrailSync logs via the plain nest/audit/audit-log.logger (same split in memories/immichService → bridge).

Decoding "what's next"

Ready frontier (all legacy deps are helpers, tripAccess, or lazy sends):

Candidate	Why now / why not	Bridge tax (legacy dependents + out-of-container)
transitItineraryService ← pick	Frontier-ready since the transit fold (its transit edge is the pure transit.helpers import; distance/timezone are helpers, the reservations edge is type-only bridge) and now the last unfinished link of step 4; its only consumer is the in-container transit.mcp.ts, so the fold is a repoint	(none — nest/transit/transit.mcp.ts injects/repoints)
collectionsService	Frontier-ready — legacy deps are the placeImage helper + permissions.bridge, plus a call-time lazy import() of notificationService that a migrated service keeps (collab precedent). Its dedup helpers are collection-scoped ports of the ones that just moved to places.helpers.ts — a fold could share them	mcp/tools/collections.ts
atlasService	Zero deps, but its legacy dependent is authService (Wave-5) → bridge lives long	authService; mcp/tools/atlas.ts, mcp/resources.ts
oauthService	Dependency-free since the Phase 0 addons extraction (adminService edge was only isAddonEnabled → addons.bridge) — but the coherence order keeps it after admin so the mcp/oauthProvider.ts merge (mcp-2) lands with it	mcp/index.ts, mcp/oauthProvider.ts
weatherService / wikiService / airportService	Independent leaves; airport has the db/database.ts boot lazy-require special case	little / none

Blocked, and by what (shortest unblock path):

• notificationService ← notifications cluster (its auditLog edge is now the plain audit-log.logger import — gone as a blocker since the 2026-07 Wave-2 pair).
• adminService/authService corner: authService ← atlasService (its permissions edge is now the permissions.bridge repoint); adminService ← authService + notificationService. oauthService is dependency-free since the Phase 0 addons extraction (its adminService edge was only isAddonEnabled, now addons.bridge), but the coherence order stays atlas → auth → admin → oauth so the mcp/oauthProvider.ts merge (mcp-2) lands after admin (oidc/passkey ride auth; permissions done 2026-07).
• journeyService ← memories/ cluster (which itself touches admin + notificationService) → journeyShareService after. Note the place fold added two more in-container journeyService consumers (places.service.ts's hooks and places.mcp.ts's skeleton reconcile), so this migration's repoint list grew by two.
• collectionsService/backupService: unblocked since the permissions fold (their edges are permissions.bridge repoints now; collections' notificationService edge is lazy — see above); backup still stays last by design (owns the closeDb/reinitialize lifecycle and the plugin backup/paths infra).

Dependency-honest order (each step's deps are already done at that point; vacayService, reservationService (the residue fold), dayService and the Wave-2 permissions + auditLog pair were the first frontier picks — all done 2026-07, after collabService completed Wave 3):

1. exchangeRateService fold → budgetService (both done 2026-07 — ExchangeRatesService then the full BudgetService fold in nest/budget/; userCleanupService is free, repointed to budget.bridge)
2. tripService (done 2026-07 — the hub folded into TripsService; the trips/share MCP surfaces moved to the decorator registry, the plugin host injects it, and the todo/share/collab/vacay bridges died with their last consumers)
3. notifications cluster → notificationService
4. mapsService (done 2026-07 — the geo core folded into MapsService, geo MCP tools onto the decorator registry, BookingImportService injects it, and a 3-export maps.bridge covered placeEnrichment + the places registrar) → transitService (done 2026-07 — the SQL-free proxy folded into the dep-free TransitService, pure stats/types to transit.helpers.ts, the whole 3-tool registrar to transit.mcp.ts; no bridge) → placeService (done 2026-07 — the place core folded into PlacesService, the pure half to places.helpers.ts, the 10-tool registrar + trip-places resource to places.mcp.ts; TripsService/DaysMcp/BookingImportService/the plugin host inject it, so no bridge; the sibling placeEnrichment fold deleted maps.bridge with its last consumer, and the DTO ratchet cleared all seven PlacesController allow-list entries) → transitItineraryService (the last link — frontier-ready, bridge tax zero)
5. atlasService → authService (+ oidc/passkey) → adminService → oauthService
6. memories/ cluster → journeyService → journeyShareService; collectionsService (frontier-ready since the permissions fold — can also go any time)
7. Independent any time: weatherService, wikiService, airportService (move the boot backfill into Nest bootstrap when you do it); backupService last

Corrections to migrate.md this graph surfaced:

• reservationService did not import budgetService/dayService — the claimed Wave-4 ordering constraint didn't exist at the service layer; its legacy remainder was frontier-ready. Borne out by the 2026-07 fold: the budget/day coupling lives in the Nest wrapper's budget-sync seam and the MCP surface, which keep their legacy imports until those domains migrate.
• Every remaining Wave-3/4 domain had legacy tripService as a dependent — each migration before tripService paid a small bridge/repoint tax the files migration didn't have. Resolved by the 2026-07 trip fold: that recurring tax is gone, and the fold cashed in the accumulated bridges (todo/share/collab/vacay deleted, days/budget pruned).
• (2026-07-28 regeneration) The earlier grep-based analysis only saw static imports, so it missed every lazy edge: the scheduler's require() jobs (admin, notificationService, placePhotoCache, airtrailSync, trekPhotoCache), the db/database.ts boot backfill's airportService require, index.ts → ephemeralTokens, systemNotices/conditions.ts → adminService, and collectionsService's call-time import() of notificationService. It also under-reported tripService's bridge repoints (six, not three: budget, collab, days, packing, reservations, vacay). None of this changes the order — lazy edges don't block — but the bridge-pressure column was undercounting scheduler/system-notice consumers.
• (2026-07-29 regeneration, post trip fold) The predicted bridge tax was right in shape but the fold went further than a bridge: the whole trips MCP surface (10 tools + 3 resources
  • the first @Prompt) and the 3 share-link tools moved onto the decorator registry, so the only bridge left is the 3-export trips.bridge.ts for the legacy prompts registrar and budget.mcp.ts's owner/member seam. verifyTripAccess's tripAccess re-export died with the legacy file, leaving services/tripAccess with zero legacy importers — it is now purely Nest-consumed (Wave-2 "delete, don't migrate" is down to those repoints).
• (2026-07-29 regeneration, post maps fold) The predicted bridge tax over-counted: transitService needed no bridge at all — its only import was the pure buildUserAgent, which now lives in maps.helpers.ts as a plain export (helpers never block), and after the geo tools moved onto the decorator registry mcp/tools/mapsWeather.ts no longer consumes the maps domain (the registrar file survives for its weather + airport tools; its searchPlaces import turned out to be dead code and died with the prune). The bridge is 3 exports for placeEnrichment + mcp/tools/places.ts, both of which the placeService migration will absorb. Step 4's remaining chain — transitService → placeService — is now entirely frontier-ready.
• (2026-07-29 regeneration, post transit fold) The "no bridge at all" prediction held — and the fold went further than predicted in the other direction: the whole 3-tool registrar moved onto the decorator registry, including create_transit_journey, which never imported transitService — its days/reservations bridge imports became injected DaysService/ReservationsService and its raw canAccessTrip the injected DatabaseService. mcp/tools/transit.ts was deleted outright (no mapsWeather-style survivor), days.bridge.ts is down to its last consumer (the transports registrar), and reservations.bridge.ts lost two of its remaining out-of-container call sites. The transitItineraryService → transitService edge became the pure transit.helpers import, and its only remaining consumer is the in-container transit.mcp.ts — so transitItineraryService joined the frontier with a bridge tax of zero, ahead of the order's placeService step.
• (2026-07-30 regeneration, post place fold) The prediction that placeService "will absorb" both maps.bridge consumers held exactly: placeEnrichment folded into PlacesService and the places registrar became places.mcp.ts injecting MapsService, so maps.bridge.ts was deleted and the place domain needed no bridge of its own — the fourth consecutive fold to end with zero new bridge files. Two things the earlier analysis did not predict: (a) search_place travelled with the places registrar rather than joining maps.mcp.ts, because its gate is places:read and not the read-only geo group — the same gate-follows-the-tool rule that sent the share-link tools to share.mcp.ts during the trip fold; and (b) the fold created a module cycle risk the recipe had not hit before — DaysModule must import PlacesModule for days.mcp.ts's place creation, while AssignmentsModule already imports DaysModule, so places.mcp.ts keeps its two assignments.bridge imports rather than injecting AssignmentsService. That leaves assignments.bridge.ts with only in-container consumers (places.mcp.ts + reservations.mcp.ts) — a bridge kept purely as a cycle break, which is a new category the classification above should track. The four helpers now reached only from nest/places/* (kmlImport, placeImage, placePhotoCache, unsplashService) are the residue this fold could have absorbed and did not; none of them blocks anything, so they stay as plain modules for now.

Quirks fixed after the place fold (the trailing fix(server) commit)

The relocation itself was byte-identical; these four defects were then fixed on top, each with a failing-first regression test, so the parity diff and the behaviour change stayed in separate commits:

1. Coordinates of exactly 0 were dropped. createPlace ran every optional field through x || null, so a place on the equator or the prime meridian lost its lat/lng. Now ?? null for lat/lng/price and ?? 60 for duration_minutes.
2. duration_minutes: 0 was unsettable. On create the falsy coercion replaced it with the 60-minute default; on update duration_minutes || null fed COALESCE(?, …), which read the 0 as "absent" and silently kept the old value.
3. The journey delete hook fired on unscoped ids. onPlaceDeleted keys on the place id alone, so DELETE /:id, POST /bulk-delete and the delete_place MCP tool could detach another trip's journey entries for an id they then refused. All three now scope first (via the new PlacesService.scopedIds, mirroring the guard PluginHostDepsFactory already had), and bulk_delete_places also moved its hook ahead of the DELETE — journey_entries.source_place_id is ON DELETE SET NULL, so running it afterwards left the entries as orphans instead of removing them.
4. The place search treated % and _ as wildcards. A bare % in the search box returned the whole trip. The three LIKE clauses now carry ESCAPE '\' with the term escaped by escapeLikePattern.

Plus one hardening item on the same commit: the Google list-import response is now capped at 8 MB (declared content-length and post-read length, the transit.service precedent) and its JSON.parse is guarded, so a malformed provider payload produces the existing 'Invalid list data received from Google Maps' 400 instead of throwing.

Quirks deliberately preserved (parity, not oversights): the non-COALESCE route_color (an explicit null is how the picker resets a track to its category colour, #776); currency/transport_mode still unclearable through x || null + COALESCE, since no client action expresses "clear this string" and dropping COALESCE would change the absent-means- unchanged contract; importGpx returning null (→ a 400) when a file parses but yields no usable geometry; update skipping the If-Match check entirely when the stored updated_at is null (old rows keep last-write-wins); and every remaining string-valued x || null, where empty-string-means-absent is the intended reading.