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feat(store): live entities with events plugin and call counts for rxMethod / SignalMethod

What and why

Fixes #34

How it was verified

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  • Docs in apps/docs updated and pnpm docs:build passes (when behavior, options, UI labels or agent tools changed), or the no-docs label added with the reason below
  • pnpm extension:build and extension/ui committed (when app/ changed)
  • Checked in the browser with axe (when the UI changed)

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Entities added (with calls count)
Screenshot 2026-09-30 at 9 30 11 PM

Events added:

Screenshot 2026-09-30 at 9 30 39 PM

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  • New Features
    • Added a dedicated Events section to the NgRx inspector, with filtering, event details, and related state changes.
    • Signal Store details now show entity collection counts and IDs, selected entities, and method timing information.
    • Added agent tools for inspecting Signal Stores and reviewing store history, including events and change details.
    • Improved NgRx state tracking and restore guidance, including clearer reporting when state listeners are not notified.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded NgRx inspector and agent-tool documentation with event, entity, and method timing details.

@github-actions github-actions Bot added area: panel The devtools panel app (app/) area: package The ng-devtools package (packages/ng-devtools) area: extension The Chrome extension area: demo The demo apps area: agents MCP server, agent tools and resources area: docs The documentation site labels Sep 30, 2026
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes extend NgRx inspection with Signal Store change tracking, method timing, entity summaries, dispatched-event history, and agent tools. The inspector displays this data. The travel example uses entity-backed bookings and dispatches booking events.

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NgRx live inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Register Signal Store observation
app/src/pages/store-types.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-shared.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-register.ts, src/main.ts, apps/docs/src/content/guides/ngrx-signals-restore.md
Report types add entity, duration, and event fields. Registration accepts patchState and watchState, and the setup and guide use both functions.
Record changes, durations, and events
packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-collector.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/ngrx-collector.test.ts
The collector uses watchState when available, records method durations and entity summaries, and logs dispatched events with eligible change correlations. Tests cover logging, restoration, and discovery.
Identify signal methods
packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/get-ngrx-store.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/ngrx-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/ngrx-collector.test.ts
Source scanning distinguishes signalMethod from rxMethod; store naming applies the discovered method labels.
Display entities, durations, and events
app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts, app/src/__tests__/store-inspector-focus.test.ts, app/src/__tests__/store-inspector.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/ngrx-store.md
The inspector adds entity summaries, method and entry durations, a page-level Events section, and event detail selection. Tests and documentation describe these views and their limits.
Expose live inspection and history tools
packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/ngrx-live-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/config.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/__tests__/ngrx-live-tools.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md, apps/docs/src/content/agents/resources.md, extension/ui/*
Two read-only agent tools format store details and filtered history. Tool registration, output tests, documentation, resource description, and extension asset references are updated.

Travel booking store example

Layer / File(s) Summary
Model bookings with entities and events
src/app/travel/travel.store.ts
The travel store defines booking events and entity-backed booking state. Booking creation and cancellation update entities, selection, and available seats. The store also tracks recent searches and selection time.
Dispatch booking events
src/app/pages/booking.ts, src/app/pages/trips.ts, src/app/pages/destinations.ts
Successful booking creation and trip cancellation dispatch events. Destination search records the query.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Update button width utility
apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts
The button uses min-w-30 instead of the arbitrary-value minimum-width class.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant Devframe
  participant inspectSignalStoreText
  participant ngrxPages
  Agent->>Devframe: Request store inspection
  Devframe->>inspectSignalStoreText: Format report with filters
  inspectSignalStoreText->>ngrxPages: Read live page data
  inspectSignalStoreText->>Devframe: Return formatted report
  Devframe->>Agent: Return formatted report with untrusted-data preamble
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Suggested labels: enhancement

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39f6c

The new inspector and agent tools mostly work as described. Some edge cases remain: repeat dispatches of the same event object are not logged, component-scoped Dispatchers are not observed, and overflow counts are wrong for very large entity collections. These are worth fixing but do not block merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39f6c

The new queries remain read-only, and the inspected event paths apply redaction before reporting data. More granular history increases the information collected, while incomplete privacy and failure-path coverage leaves limited residual uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — Without a page filter, the new queries cover all reporting connected pages; without a store filter, history includes all stores and standalone events. Exposure is therefore broader than the currently selected inspector store, within the connected-page reporting scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new tools are classified as read operations and pass through central agent configuration and page-tool filtering. Read-only mode blocks action tools; it does not prevent authorized reads of reported state and history.
  • observed — Agent responses wrap live-tool output with an untrusted-data preamble. The history formatter exposes serialized event payloads and state diffs, while correlated changes display the causing event type rather than its payload.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Watcher attachment failure leaves the batched fallback active. Existing attached watchers retain their captured cleanup handles after registration replacement, but the realm-global registration does not migrate those observers to a replacement provider.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider an independent option to omit event payload collection where events carry sensitive transient data that is not retained in store state. This would provide data minimization beyond heuristic redaction.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The pull request implements the main [#34] objectives: live signal-store state and history, same-tick watch entries, computed values, method timing, entities, events, inspector views, and both MCP too… Record the specific withReducer case for each dispatched event. Expose that case in the change history, inspector, and MCP history output. Add automated tests for the association.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The signal-store implementation, tests, demo events, documentation, and extension integration support [#34]. The change in apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts only changes the Copy Markdown … Remove the unrelated apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts styling change or link it to a separate issue.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 14.81% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 54 functions across 25 files. (4 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the primary changes: live Signal Store entities and events data, plus method-call timing metrics.
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The pull request implements the main [#34] objectives: live signal-store state and history, same-tick watch entries, computed values, method timing, entities, events, inspector views, and both MCP tools. The collector correlates state changes with event type and payload. The available implementation summary does not show the specific withReducer case that handled each event. The tests and documentation establish event correlation, but not case-level association.

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The signal-store implementation, tests, demo events, documentation, and extension integration support [#34]. The change in apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts only changes the Copy Markdown button width from min-w-[7.5rem] to min-w-30. The available evidence does not connect this styling change to [#34].

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Review comments at @app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:
- Line 466: Move the selected event detail panel out of the `store()` guards so
events selected through `selectEntry(evt.seq)` show their full details even when
no live store exists. Keep store-specific state and restore controls guarded by
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have pendingBefore before calling the original dispatch, then correlate only
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- Around line 104-141: Update inspectSignalStoreText so unfiltered output
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Thanks for this, the entities summary and the events wiring are a nice start. Before it goes in, can you go through the NgRx Signals docs (watchState, the events plugin, signalMethod) and line it up with what #34 asks? A few things I hit:

  1. The Dispatcher lookup stops after 5 misses, and Dispatcher only exists once something injects it. Open the demo on /, go to /booking, and no events get logged. Keep looking until it's found and add a test.
  2. If a withReducer case sets a value it already has, finish() returns before clearing pendingEventByTracked, so the next change (even a plain method call) gets tagged with that old event. Clear it before the early return and in untrack, and use a WeakMap.
  3. devframe sends positional args as arg0/arg1/arg2, so agents can't pass storeId/since by name. Register both tools with agent.registerTool and a named inputSchema (page, storeId, since) like the router and forms tools.
  4. Please keep the ng-devtools:ngrx-store resource, the issue doesn't ask to remove it.
  5. State changes should come from watchState like #34 says, so every change in the same tick is its own entry. Right now they're merged.
  6. Clicking an event shows its detail inside the store's change log, somewhere else on the page, and focus doesn't follow. Give events their own selection with the detail right under the list.
  7. Smaller: cap the tool output and add the untrusted-data line like the forms and router tools, don't set payload on events without one (shows {"@type":"undefined"}), label signalMethod correctly, and mention scoped dispatchers and sync-only tagging under Limits.

I'll take another look after that.

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Review comments at @app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:
- Line 397: Render the change-log detail through the shared entryDetailTpl
instead of its inline detail, passing a distinct idPrefix for its heading so it
remains unique when both panels render. Move the change-log-specific escape
handler, focus targets, dispatch-again button, and unrestorable hints into
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- Around line 90-92: Update the resource documentation to match the existing
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- Line 43: Update the sentence describing method tags in the State, Computed and
Methods section to mention both signalMethod and rxMethod members, keeping the
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- Around line 3-15: Resolve the merge conflict in the NgRx Store page by
removing every conflict marker and consolidating the front matter to one
description that mentions entities, events, restore, and dispatch; retain the
origin badge table and Dispatch again in the change log, add the duration and
Caused by event text, and keep both the Events and Dispatch an action sections.

Review comments at @packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/ngrx-collector.test.ts:
- Line 1776: Update the test title and comment to reflect that Store lookup
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test’s `lookups` assertion, require exactly 13 view-injector lookups to verify
five Store scans plus eight Dispatcher scans.

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- Around line 633-652: Update wrapDispatch to expose the current event only
while original.apply runs, restoring any previous value afterward, and have
appendChange use that in-flight event before falling back to
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Review comments at @app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:
- Around line 1816-1820: Replace the event-detail heading focus `effect` with
`afterRenderEffect` so it runs after the `eventDetailHeading` view query is
available. Focus the heading only when `selectedEventSeq` transitions from null
to a sequence; do not move focus on subsequent event selections, preserving
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- Around line 187-197: Update the filtering and ordering in
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Thanks for the update, this is a lot closer. Everything from the last round is in, and the CodeRabbit ones too. What's left:

  1. With { patchState, watchState } registered (like the demo), a restore logs twice: a patchState entry from the watcher and then Restore #N with the same diff. Have the restore label the watcher entry (push a Restore #N frame on methodStack and skip finish when the store is watched), and add a test with both registered.
  2. Add inspect-signal-store and signal-store-history to PAGE_AGENT_ENTRIES in config.ts, otherwise they show up over stdio, which has no page.
  3. signal-store-history is oldest first and then cut at 15k, so on a full log the agent loses the newest entries. Keep the newest rows that fit and say how many older ones were dropped (and to use storeId/since). While you're there, apply since per page, or require page when more than one page reports, since each page has its own seq.
  4. Please drop the @ngrx/signals auto-import in ngrx-overlay.ts. A bare specifier with @vite-ignore doesn't resolve in the browser, and if it did it'd be a second copy of the library. Remove the sentences about it in the guide and in ngrx-register.ts too.
  5. Event detail focus: use afterRenderEffect and only move focus when the selected event changes. Right now typing in the filter can pull focus into the detail.
  6. Docs: remove the em dashes and "will" (ngrx-store.md Limits, the guide, the tool descriptions), withEffects should be withEventHandlers, use ../inspectors/ngrx-store.md instead of /inspectors/ngrx-store in tools.md, and update "How changes are recorded" plus the registerNgrxSignals({ patchState }) line (and the restore message) for watchState.
  7. A couple of panel tests for the Events section (its own selection and focus) and the entities and duration rows.

I'll take another look after that.

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🟠 Major · Deduplicate event streams, not dispatches. · ngrx-collector.ts:607-612

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Deduplicate event streams, not dispatches.

If an app dispatches the same event object twice, loggedEvents suppresses the second dispatch. The change log then omits a real event. The Dispatcher accepts an event object on each call; its dispatch path does not require a new object. Deduplicate the reducer and queued emissions for each dispatch without retaining event identity for the collector's lifetime. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update logEvent and loggedEvents so deduplication is scoped to each dispatch’s
reducer and queued emissions, rather than retaining event identity for the
collector’s lifetime. Preserve suppression of duplicate emissions within one
dispatch while allowing the same event object to be logged again when dispatched
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🟡 Minor · Use col.count for entity overflow. · store-inspector.ts:1990-1991

app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:1990-1991
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Use col.count for entity overflow.

serialize keeps at most 500 array items and appends a "[N more]" marker. For collections larger than 500 IDs, col.ids.length - 30 undercounts the hidden entities. The title also shows a partial serialized list without identifying it as partial.

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-                              [title]="entityOverflowTitle(col.ids)"
+                              [title]="entityOverflowTitle(col.ids, col.count)"
                               >
-                                +{{ col.ids.length - 30 }} more
+                                +{{ col.count - 30 }} more
...
-  entityOverflowTitle(ids: (string | number)[]): string {
-    return ids.slice(30).join(', ');
+  entityOverflowTitle(ids: (string | number)[], count: number): string {
+    const overflow = ids.slice(30).join(', ');
+    return count > 500 ? `${overflow} (partial list)` : overflow;
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Update the entity overflow display to use `col.count` rather than
`col.ids.length` when calculating the hidden entity count. Update
`entityOverflowTitle` to accept the count and mark its returned list as partial
when the count exceeds 500, while preserving the existing overflow IDs.
🟡 Minor · Include component-scoped Dispatcher instances in discovery. · ngrx-collector.ts:587-599

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Include component-scoped Dispatcher instances in discovery.

NgRx 22.0.1 allows provideDispatcher() in a component injector. Its default dispatch stays in that scope. The per-element scan currently accepts only SignalStore tokens, while findDispatcher() scans only environment injectors and resolves through rootInjector. A component-scoped Dispatcher can therefore be missed, so its events and correlations may be absent. Discover and attach Dispatcher instances from component injectors with a self lookup, and clean them up with the existing lifecycle.

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Update the per-element injector scan alongside SignalStore discovery to
recognize component-scoped Dispatcher tokens, resolve each instance from its own
component injector with a self lookup rather than through rootInjector, and
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Review comments at @apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/ngrx-store.md:
- Line 82: Update the watched-method description near “one log entry” to
distinguish per-patch change entries from method aggregates: when watchState is
active, each patchState call creates a change entry, while synchronous method
duration is recorded only in method aggregates, not on those entries. Align it
with the existing per-patchState description and avoid implying one change entry
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Review comments at @app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:
- Around line 1990-1991: Update the entity overflow display to use `col.count`
rather than `col.ids.length` when calculating the hidden entity count. Update
`entityOverflowTitle` to accept the count and mark its returned list as partial
when the count exceeds 500, while preserving the existing overflow IDs.

Review comments at @packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-collector.ts:
- Around line 607-612: Update logEvent and loggedEvents so deduplication is
scoped to each dispatch’s reducer and queued emissions, rather than retaining
event identity for the collector’s lifetime. Preserve suppression of duplicate
emissions within one dispatch while allowing the same event object to be logged
again when dispatched later.
- Around line 587-599: Update the per-element injector scan alongside
SignalStore discovery to recognize component-scoped Dispatcher tokens, resolve
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Thanks for turning this around so fast, almost there. Most of the last round is in: the agent entries, the history cap, dropping the auto-import, the focus with afterRenderEffect and the panel tests all look good. What's left:

  1. The per-dispatch dedup logs an event twice when a handler dispatches another one during it. With withEventHandlers(() => ({ chain$: events.on(a).pipe(map(() => b())) })), dispatching a logs a, b, a: the nested dispatch swaps dispatchDedup before our events$ subscriber sees a. Dispatcher.dispatch sends every event to both reducerEvents and events, so subscribing to reducerEvents.events$ only and dropping the dedup fixes it. Please add a test with a real withEventHandlers chain.
  2. The restore fix works, but it still needs the test with both patchState and watchState registered (one entry, Restore #1). While you're there, could the restore entry skip args/durationMs? Right now it shows "0ms".
  3. Component-scoped dispatchers: the "Events: only the platform Dispatcher" section in ngrx-store.md still says provideDispatcher() isn't picked up, so please update it and add a test. Each one also stays in dispatcherUndo after its component is gone, so please release them in discover() the same way untrack does for stores.
  4. ngrx-store.md "watchState needs registerNgrxSignals" and the restore message still say registerNgrxSignals({ patchState }), please make them { patchState, watchState }. "How changes are recorded" says watched entries carry no duration, but they do (the time from the start of the method to that patch), so describe that in the docs and in the signal-store-history description.
  5. Small ones: the leftover auto-import comments in ngrx-collector.ts (around line 343) and ngrx-collector.test.ts (around line 1304), the two new em dashes in ngrx-live-tools.ts (the since message and the "older entries omitted" note), and a commit body so pnpm commit:check passes.

I'll take another look after that.

Adds a real-time inspector for @ngrx/signals stores and the classic
@ngrx/store: state, computed values, per-method call counts and
durations, withEntities() summaries, a per-patchState change log with
diffs and event correlation, restore to any logged state (with watchState
notification when registerNgrxSignals is called), dispatch-again for
@ngrx/store actions, and MCP/agent tools that expose the same data.

Key implementation details:

- Subscribes to reducerEvents$ only; dropping the events$ subscription
  removes the withEventHandlers chain double-log and the dispatchDedup
  WeakSet entirely
- currentDispatchedEvent variable (set synchronously during dispatch)
  correlates watchState-recorded patchState calls with their event
- Component-scoped Dispatchers from provideDispatcher() are picked up in
  discover() and released when their element is gone
- Restore entries skip args and durationMs; "not notified" message now
  says registerNgrxSignals({ patchState, watchState })
- watchState entries carry durationMs: elapsed from method start to that
  specific patchState call
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Also addresses the review: the collector is ported onto the shared
HostTree, component-scoped dispatchers are attached once and released
with their component, events and restores have tests with a real
withEventHandlers chain and with patchState plus watchState, the MCP
tools are tested end to end, removed entries no longer end in a
dangling arrow, and the docs describe event tagging, watchState and
durations as they work.
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