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No extraction path for .css/.scss: design-token systems are invisible to the graph (measured: 714 tokens, 1334 edges recoverable) #3473
.css / .scss appear in none of detect.py's extension sets — not CODE_EXTENSIONS, not DOC_EXTENSIONS — so a stylesheet contributes zero nodes even when it is the authority for a
project's design system. On a codebase whose colours, spacing and radii all resolve through CSS
custom properties, the graph cannot answer "what defines --color-brand" or "which components
use it", and a token rename's blast radius is invisible.
(Related but different: #2498 covers the filename-based sensitive filter dropping a tokens.css that would otherwise be scanned. This is the missing extractor underneath it —
even un-skipped, the file has no extraction path.)
What a minimal extractor recovers
I measured this by writing an external pass over the same repo (4 stylesheets: a token layer, a
brand ramp, an admin theme, a globals file) and merging its output into graph.json:
token nodes (--name: definitions)
714
defines_token edges (stylesheet → token)
714
uses_token edges (var(--name) in .css/.ts/.tsx)
620
Two things that turned out to matter, in case they save someone the same iteration:
Brace depth, not a flat regex. One globals file had 609 --name: declarations of which
only 22 were definitions — the other 587 were components locally overriding an inherited
token (.some-scope { --spacing: ...; }). Counting those as definitions makes every
consumer look like a definer.
Token identity is per-file, not per-name. Two separate design systems in one repo both
defined --color-card; merging them by name would have fused two deliberately unshared
themes. Scoping the node to (file, name) and fanning uses_token out to same-named
candidates kept them distinct.
Deliberately excluded: resolving Tailwind-style utility class names back to tokens. var()
references are unambiguous; utility-name inference is not.
Suggested shape
Add .css/.scss to CODE_EXTENSIONS with an extractors/css.py that emits a node per
custom-property definition (with source_location) plus defines_token / uses_token edges. tree-sitter-css exists, though for custom properties specifically a brace-depth scan was
enough — no grammar needed, which may matter given the packaging discussion in #2959.
Fixed by #4263, which supersedes #3480 and the CSS/SCSS halves of #3067 and #2240 (all raised against older v8 revisions and no longer merge).
.css/.scss/.less are now first-class code with a dependency-free, brace-aware design-token extractor:
a node per custom-property definition in a root/theme context (:root, :host, html, body, [data-theme…], .dark, .theme-*, @theme), with defines_token edges;
var(--x) uses resolved to a same-file definition, or to exactly one cross-file definition — ambiguous or missing uses emit nothing (no fan-out);
a custom property declared locally (outside a root context) shadows a same-named global, so a component override does not invent a false cross-file edge; a file that also declares the token in :root keeps its same-file edge;
wired through the incremental cache (raw_token_uses) and id-remap passes; warm and cold builds agree.
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nothariharan commentedon Oct 9, 2026
Fixed by #4263, which supersedes #3480 and the CSS/SCSS halves of #3067 and #2240 (all raised against older
v8revisions and no longer merge)..css/.scss/.lessare now first-class code with a dependency-free, brace-aware design-token extractor::root,:host,html,body,[data-theme…],.dark,.theme-*,@theme), withdefines_tokenedges;var(--x)uses resolved to a same-file definition, or to exactly one cross-file definition — ambiguous or missing uses emit nothing (no fan-out);:rootkeeps its same-file edge;raw_token_uses) and id-remap passes; warm and cold builds agree.See #4263.
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