2026 OpenClaw Frontend on a Remote Mac:
Parse dependency-cruiser JSON, Gate Cycles, and Merge One PR Summary

Run the same command order on your laptop, hosted CI, and the remote Mac so relative paths inside graph.json stay comparable when a gateway rewrites them. The goal is not a prettier graph viewer in chat; it is a policy layer that turns machine output into one comment humans open once per push.

1. Commit .dependency-cruiser.js with explicit roots, excludes, and rule names you will reference in exit-code logic.
2. Emit JSON only to artifacts/depcruise/graph.json (create the directory in the job) and keep stdout for short human logs.
3. Count cycles, maximum cycle length in modules, scanned module totals, and map each bucket to info, warn, or error using the table below.
4. Render Markdown: headline, one-line totals, a three-row cycle table at most, then a truncation note with pipeline coordinates.
5. Trigger summarization only after the artifact upload finishes—webhook body carries GIT_SHA, PR_NUMBER, artifact relative path, and a thresholds_version string.
6. Upsert the PR comment with a stable hidden marker; concatenate dependency output after lint sections or let the gateway emit one bundled document.

When graphs get large, the remote Mac still wins on parity with designer laptops because Apple Silicon throughput matches what you ship to production bundlers—just ensure node_modules caches warm the same way everywhere.

Treat artifacts/depcruise/graph.json as the only downstream input. Parsers should not depend on stdout shape, and you should not paste multi-megabyte JSON into LLM prompts—pass path plus version metadata to the OpenClaw worker instead.

Example command (pin versions in package.json):

Copy the table into your repo README, bump thresholds_version whenever numbers change, and branch policy: warn rows exit 0 but prepend WARN to the Markdown title; error rows exit 1 and block merge on protected branches.

Teams often promote warn → error on release branches only; encode that as a single boolean your gateway reads from the webhook payload so feature branches stay fast while trains stay strict.

Use jq for quick probes in shell pipelines, or a ten-line Node script if you need custom grouping (for example collapsing test-only importers). Extract: cycle count, longest path length per cycle, offending rule names, and total modules to compare against the 800 module budget in the table.

For reviewer ergonomics, print at most three cycles as a Markdown table where each cell shows at most three relative path segments joined with → . Everything else becomes “+N additional cycles (see artifact)”. That compression is what makes the digest merge cleanly with ESLint tables without blowing past provider payload limits.

If you also ship bundle-level graphs, keep dependency-cruiser authoritative for source cycles; do not double-count the same edge twice when you later add import-graph tooling.

Gateway path: CI uploads graph.json, then POSTs a signed webhook to the OpenClaw worker on the remote Mac with repository coordinates, artifact path, and thresholds_version. The gateway reads the file from shared storage, runs the reducer, optionally calls an OpenAI-compatible model on the Markdown only, and returns the final body to a small service that owns the Git host token.

Script path: check in scripts/depcruise-pr-summary.mjs, invoke it from an OIDC-enabled runner after the artifact step, pipe stdout to gh pr comment or your provider SDK. Both approaches should debounce with job concurrency or a lockfile so nightly sweeps and PR pushes do not fight for the same comment revision.

Secrets never belong in repository variables that front-end developers copy for local testing; keep PATs or GitHub Apps on the gateway or CI secret store, as described in the token-auth article linked above.

Reuse the hidden HTML marker pattern from other OpenClaw digests: hash repository slug, pull number, tool name depcruise, and the SHA256 of graph.json. Search existing bot comments before creating a new thread. When merging with lint output, either (a) fetch the prior body, splice in a <!-- depcruise:START --> block, and PATCH, or (b) have the gateway assemble lint + deps in deterministic section order so reviewers scroll one vertical rhythm.

Retry only HTTP 429 and 5xx responses with capped exponential backoff; dependency graphs are expensive to rebuild, so treat transport flakes separately from policy failures.

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