fix: support trailing globs in path search

packages/server/src/repowise/server/mcp_server/tool_search_symbols.py

@@ -271,7 +271,11 @@ def _path_score(target_path: str, qnorm: str) -> float:
 
 async def search_paths_single(ctx: Any, query: str, limit: int) -> list[dict]:
     """Path search against one repo context. Returns ranked file result dicts."""
-    qnorm = query.strip().lower().replace("\\", "/")
+    # Path mode is substring matching, so boundary ``*?`` markers carry no
+    # information and are stripped. Mid-string globs (``src/*/main.py``) are
+    # left alone: a substring match cannot honour them, so stripping there
+    # would change the query.
+    qnorm = query.strip().lower().replace("\\", "/").strip("*?")
     if not qnorm:
         return []
 

tests/unit/server/mcp/test_search.py

@@ -81,6 +81,56 @@ async def _seed_page(page_id, target_path, page_type="file_page"):
         await session.commit()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("glob", ["*", "?"])
+async def test_path_search_accepts_trailing_glob(setup_mcp, glob):
+    """A trailing glob narrows a path search without becoming a literal."""
+    import types
+
+    import repowise.server.mcp_server as mcp_mod
+    from repowise.server.mcp_server.tool_search_symbols import search_paths_single
+
+    await _seed_page("file_page:tool_overview.py", "packages/server/tool_overview.py")
+    await _seed_page("file_page:tool_answer.py", "packages/server/tool_answer.py")
+
+    ctx = types.SimpleNamespace(
+        session_factory=mcp_mod._session_factory,
+        path="/tmp/test-repo",
+    )
+    result = await search_paths_single(ctx, f"tool_overview{glob}", limit=10)
+
+    assert [item["file"] for item in result] == ["packages/server/tool_overview.py"]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("query", "expected"),
+    [
+        ("tool_overview.py", ["packages/server/tool_overview.py"]),
+        ("  *tool_overview?  ", ["packages/server/tool_overview.py"]),
+        ("*", []),
+        ("?", []),
+        ("tool_*_overview", []),
+    ],
+)
+async def test_path_search_preserves_non_trailing_glob_behavior(setup_mcp, query, expected):
+    """Only boundary glob markers are supported by path-mode substring search."""
+    import types
+
+    import repowise.server.mcp_server as mcp_mod
+    from repowise.server.mcp_server.tool_search_symbols import search_paths_single
+
+    await _seed_page("file_page:tool_overview.py", "packages/server/tool_overview.py")
+
+    ctx = types.SimpleNamespace(
+        session_factory=mcp_mod._session_factory,
+        path="/tmp/test-repo",
+    )
+    result = await search_paths_single(ctx, query, limit=10)
+
+    assert [item["file"] for item in result] == expected
+
+
 class TestDecisionDownweight:
     """Decision records must not crowd file pages out of the top ranks."""