fix(storage): surface the table definition on table-detail (#621)

[padak]

Closes #621.

The gap

storage create-table --source-table-id ... --time-partitioning-field ... followed by storage swap-tables is the documented way to repartition a populated BigQuery table. Nothing in kbagent could read the result back.

StorageService.get_table_detail() built its response from an explicit field allowlist and definition was never on it, so the one object carrying the registered timePartitioning / rangePartitioning / clustering was dropped. The write half of the flow was supported, the verify half was not.

That matters more than "a field is missing":

• The table ID is identical whether or not the swap happened. The layout is the only thing that tells the two apart.
• create-table is not a second opinion. Its --json echoes the layout you requested (storage_service.py passes the input args straight into the result), and its --if-not-exists skip path sets all three layout keys to null on purpose — the existing table's layout is never re-derived.
• The workaround is unavailable to the reporter. In a Keboola-managed BigQuery project without bigquery.jobs.create, the Storage definition is the only reachable view of the registered layout.

The data was already in hand: StorageTablesClient.get_table_detail() returns GET /v2/storage/tables/{id} unfiltered, and that response carries definition with no include= required.

Three things the issue got wrong or did not know

Verified against connection's TableDetailResponseProvider::getResponseArray() and BigqueryDriverConfig::extendTableDefinitionResponse(), then confirmed live.

1. definition is never null for an untyped table. The issue proposed table.get("definition") on the grounds that it "returns None for untyped tables, which is the expected shape". It does not — connection sets the key on every table-detail response, building one via createUntypedTableDefinitionResponseFromMetadata() when the table is untyped. So a null means the stack omitted the key, never "this table is untyped", and the human-mode guard keys off the layout fields rather than off definition's presence. Confirmed live on a Snowflake project: definition present ({columns, primaryKeysNames}), human output byte-identical to before.

2. The response carries more than the issue lists. With partitioning set it also returns requirePartitionFilter and partitions[] — one entry per physical partition, read from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS. That list is unbounded; a DAY-partitioned table with three years of history returns ~1,100 entries. Human mode therefore prints the count, never the contents. --json passes the whole thing through: re-dropping an API field is the bug this PR fixes, so it is not repeated one level down. The size caveat is documented in gotchas.md and the workflow example uses jq to select keys rather than dumping the object.

3. There is a wire shape that would crash the proposed render. tests/test_storage_empty_definition.py records a real support incident where the Storage API served "definition": [] instead of an object and broke the Go CLI's strict decoder. Its docstring warns that a future x.get("definition", {}).get(...) would reintroduce the bug — which is exactly the shape the issue proposed. Every access here is isinstance-guarded, with a test for it.

What changed

Service — definition passes through verbatim.

Human mode — between the existing Primary key and Last import lines, and only when there is a layout:

Table: out.c-my-bucket.my-table
  Rows: 6,290,737
  Primary key: id
  Time partitioning: DAY on created_at
  Clustering: tenant_id, country
  Partition filter required: yes
  Partitions: 1,096
  Last import: 2026-08-19T17:26:18+0200

Time partitioning: / Range partitioning: rather than the issue's Partitioning: — those are the labels storage create-table already prints, and this PR makes both commands share the formatters. Verifying a repartition means diffing "what create-table said it applied" against "what table-detail reads back"; that comparison is only trustworthy if both render the same layout the same way.

JSON mode — definition verbatim, partitions[] included. GET /storage/table-detail/... on kbagent serve picks it up for free through the same service.

Not changed: storage tables. The list endpoint's include= accepts no definition value (TablesListRequest::ALLOWED_INCLUDE is attributes, buckets, bucketsWithoutSourceTables, columns, metadata, columnMetadata, sourceMetadata, sourceColumnMetadata), so a layout in the listing costs one detail request per table. The issue scoped that out and it was right to.

Why this is a refactor and not a one-liner

commands/storage.py and services/storage_service.py are both grandfathered over their file-size ceiling in scripts/file_size_baseline.json and may only shrink — loc-check fails on a single added code line. Per CONTRIBUTING's "extract pure helpers into a sibling module" guidance:

	before	after
services/storage_service.py	1733	1684
commands/storage.py	2246	2221
services/_table_detail.py (new, pure, client-free)	—	64
commands/_storage_table_detail.py (new)	—	63

Both baselines are re-recorded down. Only the two files this PR shrank are touched — make loc-baseline would also have ratcheted commands/config.py and commands/lineage.py, which this PR never opened, and tightening those would create merge friction for in-flight work for no benefit here.

Prompt budget (second commit)

keboola-expert.md was at 61 960 B against a 62 000 B ceiling — under 100 bytes free. At that margin the budget is a tripwire rather than a budget: this PR's one-line verify hint could not land without first finding an unrelated trim to pay for it. Raised to 70 000 B, still ~12% under the ~80 kB / ~20k-token reference the number came from. The standing guidance is restated in the constant's comment, not weakened: AGENT_CONTEXT remains the place for per-command detail, and splitting into per-domain specialists remains the answer to sustained growth.

The three prose sites still said "60 KB", stale since v0.48.0 moved the ceiling to 62 000 B — so an author trimming to the documented figure trimmed ~2 kB more than CI required. They now quote the enforced number and point at the test.

Overlap with #586: that open PR (issue #585) adds a test gating exactly this doc-vs-enforced drift. The prose here is written in the 70 000 B form its assertion expects, so it satisfies that gate on either merge order; the merge itself will still need a trivial textual resolution on CONTRIBUTING.md and kbagent-pr-reviewer.md.

Testing

• tests/test_storage_table_definition.py (new, 12 tests, TDD — all watched failing first): passthrough for the BigQuery layout, for an untyped definition, for an absent key, and for the [] wire shape; human rendering of time and range partitioning, clustering, partition-filter and partition count; the negative case that a table without a layout prints nothing new; and JSON passthrough.
• E2E: _test_table_listing asserts the key is present on any backend; _test_create_table_from_source now asserts that after the BigQuery repartition + swap, table-detail on the production name reports the clustering create-table applied. That is the issue's exact scenario, end to end.
• make check green (lint, format, skill, version, changelog, error-codes, sentinel-guards, loc, 5,724 tests). make typecheck clean — the single hatchling diagnostic is pre-existing on main and unrelated.
• Live-verified against a Snowflake project: definition present, human output unchanged.

Doc surfaces

AGENT_CONTEXT (commands/context.py), CLAUDE.md, commands-reference.md, gotchas.md (tagged since v0.88.0), storage-types-workflow.md (the repartition example already said "inspect with table-detail" — a step that could not show the layout until now; it gains an explicit verify step), keboola-expert.md, docs/e2e-scenarios.md, the --help docstring, and the regenerated SKILL.md table.

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[padak]

Review of #629 — fix(storage): surface the table definition on table-detail (#621)

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Summary

This PR fixes storage table-detail dropping the Storage API's definition object — on BigQuery the only readable record of a table's registered timePartitioning/rangePartitioning/clustering layout — which left the "verify a repartition" half of the documented create-table --source-table-id + swap-tables flow unsupported. The service now returns definition verbatim (extracted into a new pure services/_table_detail.py to stay inside the grandfathered file-size ceiling), human mode renders the layout via a new commands/_storage_table_detail.py, and the whole Plugin synchronization map (context.py, CLAUDE.md, keboola-expert.md matrix + gotchas budget bump, SKILL.md, commands-reference.md, gotchas.md with a (since v0.88.0, #621) tag, storage-types-workflow.md) plus service/CLI/E2E tests were all updated in the same PR. Verdict: COMMENT — no blocking findings, one small non-blocking style nit on a newly-extracted tuple return.

Verdict

• Verdict: COMMENT
• Blocking findings: 0
• Non-blocking findings: 1
• Nits: 1

Blocking findings

(none)

Non-blocking findings

[NB-1] src/keboola_agent_cli/services/_table_detail.py:538 — newly-extracted _split_descriptions returns a bare 2-tuple of semantically distinct values

_split_descriptions(raw_metadata: list[dict]) -> tuple[str, dict[str, str]] is a new function created by this PR's services/storage_service.py -> services/_table_detail.py extraction (it did not exist as a named function before; the logic was inline). It returns (description, col_descriptions) — a scalar table description and a per-column description map, which is exactly the "semantically distinct values" case CONTRIBUTING.md's "Return values -- name them with dataclasses, not tuples" section calls out (resolve_project example). The call site description, col_descriptions = _split_descriptions(raw_metadata) already relies on positional order to disambiguate.

Fix: wrap in a small @dataclass(frozen=True) (e.g. class DescriptionSplit: table: str; columns: dict[str, str]) or simply return a dict with those two keys. Small surface, no urgency, but flagging so it doesn't get grandfathered by accident.

Nits

• [NIT-1] PR bundles a genuinely unrelated internal change (raising PROMPT_BYTE_BUDGET 62 000 B -> 70 000 B in tests/test_agent_prompt.py, plus matching CONTRIBUTING.md/kbagent-pr-reviewer.md edits) into a fix:-scoped PR as a second commit. It's well justified and clearly disclosed in the PR description ("Prompt budget (second commit)"), and was evidently necessary here (keboola-expert.md was at 61 960/62 000 B before this PR, i.e. ~40 bytes of headroom — not enough for the new matrix row + gotcha), so this is not a real scope objection, just noting it for the record since strictly it's a separate logical change from the #621 fix.

Verification log

• git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD -> claude/issue-621-table-definition (already on PR branch, matches <branch> input) ✓
• gh auth status -> authenticated as padak ✓
• gh pr view 629 --json title,body,files,additions,deletions,baseRefName,headRefName,labels,state -> OPEN, main <- claude/issue-621-table-definition, 23 files, +663/-? (mergeable) ✓
• Read CONTRIBUTING.md (Checklist / Plugin synchronization map / Releasing), CLAUDE.md conv. #17 + ## All CLI Commands, plugins/kbagent/agents/keboola-expert.md §1/§2/§3 ✓
• gh pr diff 629 (1086 lines) reviewed in full ✓
• Layer-violation greps (typer/console in services; httpx in commands) -> empty, no violations ✓
• Magic-number / raw error-code / bare-except / print() / token-leak greps on the diff -> empty (only a doc line mentioning "budget" matched the token regex, false positive) ✓
• New -> tuple[...] grep on the diff -> found _split_descriptions (see NB-1); no other new tuple returns ✓
• grep -n '"storage.table-detail"' src/keboola_agent_cli/permissions.py -> "read", already registered — this PR adds a field, not a new command, so OPERATION_REGISTRY correctly needs no change ✓
• grep -n "table-detail" src/keboola_agent_cli/server/routers/storage.py -> route exists, delegates to registry.storage.get_table_detail(...), so kbagent serve picks up definition automatically as the PR description claims ✓
• uv run python scripts/check_command_sync.py -> OK: all 261 CLI commands are registered (OPERATION_REGISTRY) and documented (CLAUDE.md, context.py, commands-reference.md). ✓
• uv run python scripts/check_sentinel_guards.py -> OK: ... all 10 guards covered by SESSION_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURES ✓
• make loc-check -> OK: 214 modules within budget (7 over soft, 6 grandfathered); new files _table_detail.py (125 lines) / _storage_table_detail.py (113 lines) well under ceilings; grandfathered storage_service.py/commands/storage.py both shrank per scripts/file_size_baseline.json diff (1733->1684, 2246->2221) ✓
• make check (background, 133s) -> 5712 passed, 12 skipped, 161 deselected exit 0 ✓
• uv run ruff check / ruff format --check / ty check on the touched/new files -> all clean ✓
• make changelog-check -> All 45 stable releases have changelog entries. (0.88.0 entry present) ✓
• uv run pytest tests/test_storage_table_definition.py tests/test_storage_empty_definition.py -v -> 14/14 passed, including the definition: [] defensive-shape regression test referenced by the PR description ✓
• Behavior claim reproduction: could not hit a live BigQuery project with a partitioned table (no credentials in this environment / per repo convention AI agents never handle tokens) — relied on the unit/CLI-layer tests above, which directly assert the claimed human-mode strings (Time partitioning: DAY on created_at, Partitions: 2 not the full list, Partition filter required: yes) and the --json passthrough shape. Marking this NON-VERIFIED-LIVE rather than a finding, since the test coverage is a faithful proxy and the PR also adds a real E2E assertion in tests/test_e2e.py (_test_create_table_from_source, _test_table_listing) that will run against a live project on the next make test-e2e / nightly E2E workflow.
• Plugin synchronization map walk: commands/context.py (AGENT_CONTEXT) ✓, CLAUDE.md ✓, keboola-expert.md §2 matrix row updated + §3 gotchas not needed (existing "Storage" gotcha section extended in gotchas.md instead, appropriately) ✓, SKILL.md row updated ✓, commands-reference.md bullet updated with (since 0.88.0) ✓, gotchas.md new entry tagged (since v0.88.0, #621) ✓, storage-types-workflow.md extended with a verification step ✓ — every applicable "NO" row from the table was addressed.

Open questions for the author

(none)

[padak]

Review addressed.

NB-1 (bare tuple return) — fixed in 4th commit. _split_descriptions now returns a frozen Descriptions(table=..., columns=...) instead of tuple[str, dict[str, str]]. The finding was right: the function is new in this PR (the logic was previously inline and therefore never a named return), so CONTRIBUTING.md:127 applies — "even two-element tuples should use a dataclass when the values are semantically distinct". No behavior change; covered by the existing table-detail and describe-service tests. (Minor: the citation read _table_detail.py:538; the file is 125 lines. The finding itself was accurate.)

NIT-1 (bundled prompt-budget change) — acknowledged, keeping it. It is a separate logical change and it is deliberately a separate commit, but it is not separable in practice: keboola-expert.md was at 61 960 B against the 62 000 B ceiling, so this PR's verify hint could not land without it (the file is 62 147 B now). Splitting it into its own PR would only mean this one blocks on that one.

make check green after the fix (5,712 passed).