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RHI/Vulkan: diagnostic parity — every MCP render tool now answers on Vulkan

Closes #810.

Follow-up to #691 / #801. The §1.6 relocation made Renderer/Debug/ backend-neutral
in structure; it did not give Vulkan an equivalent answer for what the GL tools
report. This closes the issue's three sections and then goes past them: after the
first three landed, the remaining Vulkan refusals turned out to be reachable too, so
the goal became no MCP render tool refuses on Vulkan.

grep "OpenGL-only" OloEditor/src/MCP/ now returns exactly one hit, and it is a
schema description recording a real feature limitation (inspector texture
previews), not a refusal.

Recorded as ADR 0011 amendment (88); narrative in
docs/agent-rules/rhi-abstraction-boundary.md §15.


1. GPUResourceInspector has a Vulkan arm (issue §1)

Teaching ~15 Vulkan constructors to call OLO_GPU_REGISTER_* would duplicate
bookkeeping the engine already does. Every backend resource registers with
RHI::ResourceRegistry at creation, and that registry is the one place holding
identity + native + kind + owner together — so it grew a Snapshot() and the two
arms have deliberately different discovery models
(IResourceInspectorBackend::DiscoversResources()):

OpenGL Vulkan
how resources arrive pushed — macros from constructors pulledResourceRegistry::Snapshot() each refresh
enrichment GL DSA introspection VulkanImageInfoRegistry, VulkanRootObjectRegistry, VulkanRawBufferRegistry
device memory none — no portable GL budget query, so it declines rather than guessing VMA vmaGetHeapBudgets
previews / async download yes no, and the panel says why

Three consequences that were not obvious going in:

  • The shell keys its map on the IDENTITY, not the native handle. A Vulkan
    framebuffer registers native 0 (no VkFramebuffer under dynamic rendering,
    amendment (83)) and an arena-backed UBO has no native object at all, so several
    live resources legitimately share native 0 — keying on it collapses them into one
    row and under-reports with no error. Same reason Snapshot() decides liveness from
    the freelist, not from Native != 0, which reads like a sane liveness test.
  • Native ids are u64 through the whole inspector. A truncated VkImage is a
    plausible-looking wrong answer.
  • Previews stay GL-only and refuse honestly — a PBO + fence pipeline feeding the
    GL ImGui backend; a Vulkan ImTextureID would need a per-image VkDescriptorSet
    the panel has no lifetime story for.

Surfaced through the panel (both currencies per row, a device-heap table, the
previews-unavailable note) and a new MCP tool olo_gpu_resources, on both
backends.

VulkanVertexBuffer / VulkanIndexBuffer now register in VulkanRootObjectRegistry
under new diagnostics-only kinds — the handle → object hop that answers "how big
is this buffer?", which the RHI registry (handle → native) cannot. Nothing binds
through them.

2. olo_render_probe_pixel / olo_render_target_stats (issue §2)

Both read through RenderCommand::ReadTextureSubImage. That needed
RendererAPI::QueryTextureFormatRHI::TextureFormatInfo: the neutral
RHI::Format where one matches, the native format enum always, plus a
backend-neutral token, channel count, mip/layer counts, shape, and
float/integer/depth flags. Keyed on the Vulkan format from the image-info registry,
never the graph's label — amendment (79).

The trap it surfaced, and the one regression this PR introduced and then caught.
A depth readback must name a depth destination format on both backends: GL
because only those lower to GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT (asking for GL_RED on a depth
texture is GL_INVALID_OPERATION), Vulkan because its identity fast path only fires
when the image really is VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT while this hardware backs
Depth24Stencil8 with D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT. EncodeReadbackTexel gained a
D32Float case so one destination serves both.

CaptureTargetThroughFacade was already naming R32Float for depth — harmless while
that path was Vulkan-only, and broken the moment §3 routed GL through it. Caught on a
self-review of the diff, fixed, and pinned by
FacadeReadbackParity.DepthAttachmentReadsThroughADepthDestinationFormat.

3. The capture fork is retired (issue §3)

olo_render_capture_target's glBackend ? CaptureTexturePng : facade fork is gone.
One path, both backends, live target or mid-frame clone.

4. Beyond the issue: the last four refusals

afterPass (the mid-frame snapshot clone). PassSnapshotBackend.h stated its
native currency was deliberate and that "no RHI::ResourceHandle can exist on this
path", because native -> handle is not recoverable. True for a name somebody else
minted — not for the scratch clone, which that code creates and can therefore
mint with an identity from birth. Nobody had drawn the distinction because nothing
yet wanted the identity, so a correct local observation had hardened into a wrong
global rule that a whole tool family inherited a refusal from.

The seam and its GL clone engine are deleted. The snapshot now allocates through
a new RendererAPI::CreateMatchingTextureHandle and copies through
CopyImageSubDataFull.

CreateMatchingTextureHandle takes a source handle, not an RHI::TextureDesc,
and that shape is the decision worth reviewing. A neutral desc would translate the
source's native format out to RHI::Format and back, and RHI::Format is
deliberately narrower than what the render graph creates (a packed 11/11/10 target,
an sRGB swapchain flavour). The failure is not loud: glCopyImageSubData and
vkCmdCopyImage both require format compatibility, so a near-miss yields a garbage
clone the diagnostic reports as fact. "Match this" lets each backend reproduce its
own description and never translate.

TextureFormatInfo grew Shape for the same reason: a 64-slice volume and a
64-layer array report the same layer count and are not interchangeable. (A draft
inferred it from the count with a hardcoded isVolume = false — a bug that would
only ever fire on the froxel-fog volumes.)

On Vulkan the copy records into the current frame's command buffer, which is what
makes "as of that pass" true. A VulkanOneShot would execute before the
still-recording frame (amendment (72)) and silently clone the previous one —
identical output on a static scene, wrong for every reason you would reach for the
tool. The clone is owned by a new VulkanRawImageRegistry rather than a
VulkanTexture2D, because that class builds from an engine ImageFormat and the
whole point is not to translate.

olo_render_validate's compare was not refusing — it was crashing, on master.
It had no backend guard and resolved through Debug::NativeTextureIdForDiagnostics,
which does static_cast<u32>(nativeHandle). On Vulkan that truncates a VkImage
pointer to a nonzero garbage u32 — so the zero-check passed — which then reached
glGetTextureLevelParameteriv with no GL context. Fixed by the same identity resolve.

It is not a separate commit, though it reads like a ride-along fix: the fix reuses
ResolveTargetHandle / PlanProbeRead from §2 and the snapshot's new identity from
§4, so a standalone commit would not build. It is called out in the commit message
instead.

olo_froxel_fog_probe and olo_cluster_grid_stats were cheap:
ReadTextureSubImage already addresses a volume's z as a depth slice on both
backends, and ReadBufferSubData is fully implemented on Vulkan. One thing kept
rather than simplified — ReadStorageBufferStaged's GL staging copy stays on GL: its
comment records that reading a GL_DYNAMIC_COPY buffer directly makes NVIDIA migrate
it VIDEO→HOST and permanently slow every frame that samples it. Vulkan has no such
heuristic and takes the facade path.


Verification

Tests

6233 passed / 1 failed / 22 skipped on the fast subset (L6/L7/L8 excluded). The one
failure was McpAudienceBlocks.BuiltinAdoptionMatchesTheDeliberateList — the pin that
forces a deliberate decision when a tool opts into dual-audience rendering.
olo_gpu_resources genuinely fits its inclusion rule (a resource table plus a heap
table), so it was added to the list rather than having the flag dropped. 97/97 on
the RHI / readback / MCP-contract suites against the final binary.

New: FacadeReadbackParityTest (L1, GL-gated) reads the same texels through the facade
and through raw GL in ONE process and requires bit-equality — the check a
cross-backend A/B structurally cannot make.

Live A/B — same scene, same pinned camera, both backends

Driven over MCP against a real editor (--rhi=opengl / --rhi=vulkan), confirmed
ticking via olo_perf_snapshot's liveness block before each battery.

Every tool answered on Vulkan. Before this change, probe_pixel, target_stats,
froxel_fog_probe and cluster_grid_stats refused, afterPass refused everywhere,
and render_validate's compare crashed.

metric                         | OpenGL                   | Vulkan                   | verdict
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gpu_resources: backend         | opengl                   | vulkan                   | DIFF
gpu_resources: tracked         | 149                      | 1284                     | DIFF
gpu_resources: row0 handle     | 45                       | 0                        | DIFF
gpu_resources: row0 native     | 0x1D                     | 0x90000000009            | DIFF
gpu_resources: previews        | True                     | False                    | DIFF
gpu_resources: heap budget     | (absent)                 | 20248421990              | DIFF
list_targets: count            | 87                       | 87                       | same
probe depth: format            | D24S8                    | D32FS8                   | DIFF
probe depth: value             | 0.9989516139030457       | 0.9989514350891113       | d=1.8e-07
probe texel: format            | D24S8                    | D32FS8                   | DIFF
probe texel: value             | 0.9997435212135315       | 0.9997433423995972       | d=1.8e-07
stats depth: ch0 min           | 0.999856173992157        | 0.9998560547828674       | d=1.2e-07
stats depth: ch0 max           | 1.0                      | 1.0                      | same
stats depth: ch0 mean          | 0.999960613247822        | 0.9999605661287205       | d=4.7e-08
stats color: format            | RGBA16F                  | RGBA16F                  | same
cap depth: format              | Depth24Stencil8          | Depth24Stencil8          | same
cap depth: isDepth             | True                     | True                     | same
cap depth: minValue            | 0.9890934824943542       | 0.9890933036804199       | d=1.8e-07
cap depth: maxValue            | 1.0                      | 1.0                      | same
afterPass stats: ch0 min       | 0.999856173992157        | 0.9998560547828674       | d=1.2e-07
afterPass stats: ch0 mean      | 0.999960613247822        | 0.9999605661287205       | d=4.7e-08
afterPass probe: value         | 0.9997435212135315       | 0.9997433423995972       | d=1.8e-07
afterPass cap: minValue        | 0.9890934824943542       | 0.9890933036804199       | d=1.8e-07
validate: hazards              | 0                        | 0                        | same
validate: cmp bitwiseEqual     | True                     | True                     | same
validate: cmp texels           | 1329162                  | 1329162                  | same
validate: cmp differing        | 0                        | 0                        | same
froxel: scatter avail          | True                     | True                     | same
froxel: extinction             | 0.029998779296875        | 0.029998779296875        | same
froxel: transmittance          | 0.99462890625            | 0.99462890625            | same
froxel: inScatter.r            | 0.0059967041015625       | 0.0059967041015625       | same
cluster: path                  | Forward                  | Forward                  | same
cluster: sampled               | 13824                    | 13824                    | same
cluster: maxLights             | 0                        | 0                        | same

Every DIFF is expected and explained:

  • backend / previews / heaps / tracked / row0 identity — the two backends
    legitimately differ. tracked 149 vs 1284 is the two discovery models, not a leak:
    GL counts only macro-registered objects, Vulkan enumerates every registry entry.
  • D24S8 vs D32FS8 — amendment (79)'s documented substitution, which is exactly
    why the readback keys on the Vulkan format rather than the graph's label.
  • depth deltas of 1.2e-07 … 1.8e-07 — a couple of ULP at the D24 quantum
    (2^-24 ≈ 6e-8). The readback is correct on both.

Everything that should match does, including a bit-identical froxel volume read and
a 1,329,162-texel bitwise depth compare with 0 differing texels. The afterPass rows
match the live rows on both backends, which is the mid-frame clone working.

Two defects the live run caught that the tests did not

  1. Five VUID-VkImageMemoryBarrier2-oldLayout-01211 per capture — mine. The clone
    was created TRANSFER_SRC|TRANSFER_DST on the reasoning that "nothing samples a
    clone", but ReadTextureSubImage settles what it reads into
    SHADER_READ_ONLY_OPTIMAL, which is only legal with SAMPLED. Pixels were correct
    and tests green either way. Usage flags have to satisfy the contract of every API
    the image is handed to, not just the author's intent for it. Fixed; the Vulkan run
    now logs zero validation errors and zero error lines.
  2. The GL arm surfaced only ONE currency — rows came back "backend": "none" with
    no handle, because the registration macros are handed a raw name. That undercuts the
    amendment (77) constraint this PR is built on. Fixed by matching (kind, native)
    against the registry snapshot — unique on GL, since each object family has its own
    name namespace — and leaving any collision alone rather than guessing.

A difference deliberately NOT attributed to this change

SceneColor channel-0 max read 0.756 (GL) vs 0.623 (Vulkan). Before calling that
anything, the noise floor was measured: five consecutive reads on the same backend
spanned 0.693–0.794. The cross-backend difference sits inside frame-to-frame noise
on an animated scene. Depth is the discriminating signal here because the geometry is
static — and depth agrees to seven decimals.

Observed, not caused — worth a follow-up

olo_render_validate reports ok: false on Vulkan with 15 consumedButUnbacked
resources (the post-process chain: Bloom mips, FXAA, ToneMap, SceneColor). That is
outside this change's surface — only the compare path was touched — and it is
newly visible precisely because the tool used to crash on Vulkan. Hazard count is 0
on both backends.

Filed as #890, and it turned out to be a false positive: SceneColor is in the
list while olo_render_capture_target returns real HDR pixels for it in the same
session. IsUnbackedConsumed tests a GL-native u32 id that is 0 for every Vulkan
resource by design, so it means "no 32-bit GL name", not "unbacked".

#890 was then widened to the whole defect class, which includes debt this PR leaves
behind and a little it adds
:

  • the gl* display fields that print a truncated VkImage as a "texture id" on Vulkan
    (olo_render_graph_topology_export, olo_render_transient_plan, olo_material_get)
    — plus RenderGraphPassSnapshot::Result's NativeSourceId / NativeCloneId, which
    this PR introduces. They are diagnostic-only and inert, but they are the same
    currency mistake and should be u64 hex named nativeHandle, matching what
    olo_gpu_resources already emits here;
  • ResolveTargetTexture, which after this PR has only two reporting callers but still
    returns a truncated id under a name that reads like "the texture you can use". The
    next caller to hand that to GL re-creates the crash this PR fixed.

Both were left out of this PR deliberately: they are inert today, and folding a rename
of shipped MCP output-schema fields into an already-large change would obscure the parts
that need review.

Notes for review

  • Net deletion in the debug layer: PassSnapshotBackend.h,
    OpenGLPassSnapshot.cpp, and three native-currency readback helpers in the MCP
    layer are gone.
  • TextureTargetType gained Texture3D / TextureCubeMapArray (append-only, no
    ordinal moves).
  • No #607 capability gap ticked; olo_gpu_resources is new surface rather than one
    of the eight listed.
  • Stayed out of #853's files (DecalRenderPass, PODRenderState, the colour-mask /
    blend-state setters, VulkanPassSuiteTest.cpp).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the olo_gpu_resources diagnostic tool for listing live GPU resources, metadata, memory usage, and optional heap budgets.
    • Extended render diagnostics, pixel probing, statistics, validation, snapshots, froxel probes, and clustered-light reads to support Vulkan where available.
    • Added backend-neutral texture format inspection and resource capture capabilities.
    • Added support for additional texture types, including 3D and cube-map arrays.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of texture formats, mip levels, layers, depth data, integer values, row ordering, and resource identities.
    • Prevented issues caused by truncated 64-bit GPU resource identifiers.
  • Documentation

    • Updated diagnostic tool documentation and architecture guidance for Vulkan support and resource inspection.

drsnuggles8 and others added 2 commits August 22, 2026 11:53
…CP tools

Issue #810 sections 1-3. Follow-up to #691/#801: the §1.6 relocation made
Renderer/Debug backend-neutral in STRUCTURE without giving Vulkan an equivalent
ANSWER for what the GL tools report.

1. VulkanResourceInspectorBackend

Rather than teaching ~15 Vulkan constructors to call OLO_GPU_REGISTER_* —
duplicating bookkeeping the engine already does — RHI::ResourceRegistry gains a
Snapshot(). It is the one place holding identity + native + kind + owner
together, for both backends. The two arms therefore have deliberately different
discovery models (IResourceInspectorBackend::DiscoversResources):

  OpenGL  PUSHED  registration macros; the shell's map is authoritative
  Vulkan  PULLED  registry snapshot, enriched from VulkanImageInfoRegistry,
                  VulkanRootObjectRegistry, VulkanRawBufferRegistry and VMA's
                  vmaGetHeapBudgets

Three consequences worth keeping:

  * the shell keys its map on the IDENTITY, not the native handle. A Vulkan
    framebuffer registers native 0 (no VkFramebuffer under dynamic rendering,
    amendment (83)) and an arena-backed UBO has no native object at all, so
    several live resources legitimately share native 0. For the same reason
    Snapshot() decides liveness from the freelist rather than Native != 0,
    which reads like a sane liveness test and silently drops exactly those.
  * native ids widen to u64 through the whole inspector — a truncated VkImage
    is a plausible-looking wrong answer, the worst failure a diagnostic has.
  * previews and the async download engine stay GL-only and REFUSE with a
    reason; they are a PBO+fence pipeline feeding the GL ImGui backend.

VulkanVertexBuffer/VulkanIndexBuffer now register in VulkanRootObjectRegistry
under new diagnostics-only kinds: that is the handle -> object hop needed to
answer "how big is this buffer?", which the RHI registry (handle -> native)
cannot. Nothing binds through those entries.

Surfaced through the panel (both currencies per row, a device-heap table, and
the previews-unavailable note) and a new MCP tool olo_gpu_resources, which
works on both backends.

2. olo_render_probe_pixel / olo_render_target_stats

Both now read through RenderCommand::ReadTextureSubImage instead of raw
glGetTextureSubImage. That needed RendererAPI::QueryTextureFormat ->
RHI::TextureFormatInfo: the neutral RHI::Format where one matches, the NATIVE
format enum always, plus a backend-neutral token, channel count and
float/integer/depth flags. Keyed on the Vulkan format from the image-info
registry, never the render graph's label (amendment (79)).

It surfaced a cross-backend contract the facade signature hides: a DEPTH
readback must name a depth destination format on BOTH backends. GL because only
depth destinations lower to GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT (asking for GL_RED is
GL_INVALID_OPERATION — a silently zero-filled buffer); Vulkan because its
identity fast path only fires when the image really is VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT,
and this hardware backs Depth24Stencil8 with D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT.
EncodeReadbackTexel gained the D32Float case so one destination serves both.

The refusal narrowed rather than vanished: 'afterPass' still refuses on Vulkan,
because the mid-frame clone machinery is GL-native at both ends. Gating the
argument instead of the tool matters — a whole-tool refusal reads to the next
session as "this question is unanswerable here".

3. The capture fork

olo_render_capture_target's glBackend ? CaptureTexturePng : facade fork is gone
for every live target. CaptureTexturePng survives only for the afterPass clone.

Tests

  * RHIResourceRegistryTest: three Snapshot() cases including the native == 0
    one, which is what an obvious implementation drops.
  * FacadeReadbackParityTest (new, L1, GL-gated): reads the same texels through
    the facade AND through raw GL in ONE process and requires bit-equality.
    That is the check a cross-backend A/B cannot make, and it is the guard
    against this change quietly altering the GL arm's numbers. 23/23 pass.

Docs: ADR 0011 amendment (88) + index row, rhi-abstraction-boundary.md §15,
and the mcp-diagnostics-server.md tool tables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…goes neutral

Issue #810, past its three sections. With §1-3 landed the remaining Vulkan
refusals turned out to be reachable, so the goal became "every MCP render tool
answers on both backends". `grep "OpenGL-only" OloEditor/src/MCP/` now returns
one hit and it is a schema DESCRIPTION of a real limitation (inspector texture
previews), not a refusal.

The afterPass mid-frame clone

PassSnapshotBackend.h stated its native currency was deliberate, and that "no
RHI::ResourceHandle can exist on this path" because native -> handle is not
recoverable. That holds for a name somebody else minted. It does not hold for
the scratch clone, which that code CREATES and can therefore mint WITH an
identity from birth. Nobody had drawn the distinction because nothing yet
wanted the identity, so a correct local observation had hardened into a wrong
global rule that a whole tool family inherited a refusal from.

The seam and its GL clone engine are deleted. RenderGraphPassSnapshot now
allocates through a new RendererAPI::CreateMatchingTextureHandle and copies
through CopyImageSubDataFull — one code path, both backends.

CreateMatchingTextureHandle takes a SOURCE HANDLE, not an RHI::TextureDesc, and
that shape is the decision. What the caller needs is a destination the backend's
own image copy will accept. A neutral desc would translate the source's native
format out to RHI::Format and back, and RHI::Format is deliberately narrower
than what the render graph creates (a packed 11/11/10 target, an sRGB swapchain
flavour). The failure would not be loud — glCopyImageSubData and vkCmdCopyImage
both require format compatibility — so a near-miss yields a garbage clone the
diagnostic then reports as fact. "Match this" lets each backend reproduce its
OWN description and never translate.

TextureFormatInfo gained MipLevels / ArrayLayers / Shape. Shape is load-bearing:
a 64-slice volume and a 64-layer array report the same count and are not
interchangeable, and the copy names a target type the driver checks. A draft
inferred it from the count with a hardcoded isVolume=false, which would only
ever have fired on the froxel-fog volumes.

On Vulkan the copy records into the CURRENT frame's command buffer (which
CopyImageSubDataRegion already does). A VulkanOneShot would execute BEFORE the
still-recording frame (amendment (72)) and silently clone the PREVIOUS one —
identical output on a static scene, wrong for every reason you would reach for
the tool. The clone is owned by a new VulkanRawImageRegistry rather than a
VulkanTexture2D, because that class builds from an engine ImageFormat and the
whole point is not to translate.

olo_render_validate's compare was CRASHING on master, not refusing

It had no backend guard at all and resolved through
Debug::NativeTextureIdForDiagnostics, which does static_cast<u32>(nativeHandle).
On Vulkan that truncates a VkImage pointer to a NONZERO garbage u32 — so the
zero-check passed — which then reached glGetTextureLevelParameteriv with no GL
context. When sweeping for "which tools are gated on backend X", the dangerous
entries are the ones the sweep does not match.

Not split into its own commit despite reading like a ride-along fix: it reuses
ResolveTargetHandle / PlanProbeRead from the previous commit AND the snapshot's
new identity from this one, so a standalone commit would not build.

olo_froxel_fog_probe and olo_cluster_grid_stats

Cheap: ReadTextureSubImage already addresses a volume's z as a depth slice on
both backends, and ReadBufferSubData is fully implemented on Vulkan.
ReadStorageBufferStaged's GL staging copy STAYS on GL — its comment records that
reading a GL_DYNAMIC_COPY buffer directly makes NVIDIA migrate it VIDEO->HOST
and permanently slow every frame that samples it. Vulkan has no such heuristic.

Two defects the live run caught that 6233 green tests did not

  * Five VUID-VkImageMemoryBarrier2-oldLayout-01211 per capture. The clone was
    created TRANSFER_SRC|TRANSFER_DST on the reasoning that "nothing samples a
    clone", but ReadTextureSubImage settles what it reads into
    SHADER_READ_ONLY_OPTIMAL, which is only legal with SAMPLED. Pixels were
    correct and tests green either way. Usage flags must satisfy the contract of
    every API the image is handed to, not just the author's intent for it.
  * The GL arm surfaced only ONE currency: rows came back backend "none" with no
    handle, because the registration macros are handed a raw name. That
    undercuts the amendment (77) constraint this work is built on. Fixed by
    matching (kind, native) against the registry snapshot — unique on GL, since
    each object family has its own name namespace — and leaving any collision
    alone rather than guessing.

Also fixed: CaptureTargetThroughFacade named R32Float for depth, harmless while
that path was Vulkan-only and broken the moment the capture fork folded GL onto
it (GL_RED on a depth texture is GL_INVALID_OPERATION). Pinned by
FacadeReadbackParity.DepthAttachmentReadsThroughADepthDestinationFormat.

TextureTargetType gained Texture3D / TextureCubeMapArray (append-only).

Verification: 97/97 on the RHI / readback / MCP-contract suites; live A/B on
both backends with a pinned camera. Depth agrees to 1.2e-07..1.8e-07 (a couple
of ULP at the D24 quantum, GL storing D24S8 against Vulkan's D32FS8), the froxel
volume read is bit-identical, and the 1,329,162-texel bitwise depth compare
reports 0 differing texels on both. afterPass rows match the live rows on both
backends. Zero validation errors on the Vulkan run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change replaces OpenGL-specific diagnostic paths with RHI-based handles and facade readback. It adds Vulkan resource discovery, memory reporting, identity-aware texture snapshots, the olo_gpu_resources tool, and tests for readback and registry snapshots.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
RHI contracts and inspector interfaces
OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/RHI/*, OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/RendererAPI.h, OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/RenderCommand.h, OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/*Backend*, OloEngine/src/Platform/OpenGL/OpenGLResourceInspectorBackend.*
RHI texture metadata, resource snapshots, matching texture creation, and 64-bit native identifiers are added to the diagnostic interfaces.

Identity-aware texture snapshots

Layer / File(s) Summary
Identity-aware texture snapshots
OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/RenderGraphPassSnapshot.*, OloEngine/src/Platform/OpenGL/OpenGLRendererAPI.*, OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanRendererAPI.*, OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanRawResourceRegistries.*
Pass snapshots create matching RHI textures, copy mip and layer data, and release Vulkan snapshot images through deferred reclamation.

Cross-backend resource inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cross-backend resource inspection
OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/GPUResourceInspector.*, OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanResourceInspectorBackend.*, OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanBufferResources.*, OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Core/Application.cpp, OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/ResourceInspectorBackend.cpp
The inspector tracks RHI identities, discovers Vulkan resources, reports memory heaps, and runs in debug builds on both supported backends.

MCP readback and resource tools

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP readback and resource tools
OloEditor/src/MCP/McpToolsRender.cpp
Pixel probes, target statistics, validation, after-pass captures, froxel reads, and clustered-light reads use RHI handles and facade readback. The olo_gpu_resources tool reports live resources and optional heap data.

Validation coverage and documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validation coverage and documentation
OloEngine/tests/Rendering/*, OloEngine/tests/MCP/McpAudienceBlocksTest.cpp, docs/adr/*, docs/agent-rules/rhi-abstraction-boundary.md, docs/guides/mcp-diagnostics-server.md
Tests cover readback parity, format queries, depth data, stale handles, and registry snapshots. Documentation describes Vulkan inspection and neutral readback behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPTool
  participant GPUResourceInspector
  participant ResourceRegistry
  participant RendererAPI
  MCPTool->>GPUResourceInspector: Request GPU resource details
  GPUResourceInspector->>ResourceRegistry: Snapshot live resources
  GPUResourceInspector->>RendererAPI: Query backend metadata
  RendererAPI-->>GPUResourceInspector: Resource and heap data
  GPUResourceInspector-->>MCPTool: Filtered resource response
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3289-3371: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unused ProbeFormat code. DescribeProbeFormat has no callers, and ProbeFormat has no uses beyond this declaration.

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In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpToolsRender.cpp` around lines 3289 - 3371, Remove the
unused ProbeFormat declaration and the DescribeProbeFormat function, including
its format mappings, since neither symbol has any callers or other uses. Leave
surrounding rendering code unchanged.

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Remove the unreachable non-OpenGL refusal branch.

RenderCommand::ReadBufferSubData returns void, so no read result can be propagated. The first non-OpenGL branch returns before the second branch, which is dead code and has contradictory comments.

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In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpToolsRender.cpp` around lines 5171 - 5191, Remove the
unreachable second non-OpenGL refusal check and its contradictory comments after
the RenderCommand::ReadBufferSubData path. Keep the first non-OpenGL branch,
including handle validation, the read call, and successful return, followed by
the existing OpenGL staging logic.
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Inline comments:
In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpToolsRender.cpp`:
- Around line 5370-5373: Update the stale comments surrounding ProbeVolumeTexel
and its related froxel probe diagnostics to remove references to
glGetTextureSubImage, raw GL, and the diagnostics hatch; describe the current
RenderCommand::ReadTextureSubImage backend-neutral path consistently with the
function body.
- Around line 3838-3847: Update PlanProbeRead so ReportChannels is clamped to
ReadChannels after the destination format and read-channel count are determined,
ensuring ReportChannels never exceeds ReadChannels even when texture format
metadata reports zero channels. Preserve the existing channel-selection behavior
for valid channel counts.
- Around line 5833-5873: Update the output schema in Handle_GpuResources to
declare the conditional note string property emitted when the tracked resource
list is empty, matching the existing note declarations used by other tools in
the file.
- Around line 5662-5677: Add a direct include for ResourceInspectorBackend.h in
McpToolsRender.cpp so the visible use of IResourceInspectorBackend::MemoryHeap
does not depend on GPUResourceInspector.h’s transitive inclusion.

In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/GPUResourceInspector.cpp`:
- Around line 1215-1223: Before constructing BufferInfo in the discovered-buffer
else branch, classify entry.NativeTarget through the backend’s
ClassifyBufferTarget mechanism and use the resulting resource type when
selecting the record type, so counts, memory usage, filters, and
olo_gpu_resources rows retain vertex, index, uniform, and storage distinctions.

In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/Debug/RenderGraphPassSnapshot.cpp`:
- Around line 202-214: Update the RenderGraphPassSnapshot texture cloning logic
to treat Texture3D resources as volumes: preserve their source depth in Vulkan
image metadata, create the clone with the matching depth, and copy each mip
using imageOffset.z and extent.depth rather than array-layer indices. Keep the
existing array-layer behavior for non-3D textures and ensure the full volume is
copied for every supported mip.

In `@OloEngine/src/Platform/OpenGL/OpenGLRendererAPI.cpp`:
- Around line 2093-2095: Remove the anonymous-namespace DrainGLErrors helper and
use the existing Utils::DrainGLErrors implementation consistently throughout
OpenGLRendererAPI.cpp, including the call shown in the diff.

In `@OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanRendererAPI.cpp`:
- Around line 5221-5234: Extend VulkanImageInfo to store the source image sample
count and populate it when querying or constructing image metadata, including
VulkanTexture2D multisampled images. In CaptureOne, reject sources whose
recorded sample count is not VK_SAMPLE_COUNT_1_BIT before creating the clone;
keep the existing single-sample cloning path unchanged.

In `@OloEngine/src/Platform/Vulkan/VulkanResourceInspectorBackend.cpp`:
- Around line 442-457: Reserve nativeTarget value 0 for unknown by biasing
VulkanRootObjectKind encoding in DescribeBufferFromRootRegistry, then subtract
that bias when decoding in ClassifyBufferTarget, GetBufferTargetName, and
FormatBufferUsageName. Ensure unset or raw-buffer entries remain classified and
displayed as unknown rather than UniformBuffer, while valid root-object kinds
retain their existing mappings.

In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/PropertyTests/FacadeReadbackParityTest.cpp`:
- Around line 97-104: Update each raw OpenGL read in the test, including the
flow around glGetTextureSubImage, to save the current GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT, set the
required alignment, capture the read error, restore the saved alignment, and
then assert on the captured error. Apply the same pattern to the other affected
read rather than leaving context-global pack state modified.

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In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpToolsRender.cpp`:
- Around line 3289-3371: Remove the unused ProbeFormat declaration and the
DescribeProbeFormat function, including its format mappings, since neither
symbol has any callers or other uses. Leave surrounding rendering code
unchanged.
- Around line 5171-5191: Remove the unreachable second non-OpenGL refusal check
and its contradictory comments after the RenderCommand::ReadBufferSubData path.
Keep the first non-OpenGL branch, including handle validation, the read call,
and successful return, followed by the existing OpenGL staging logic.
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… multisample refusal

Twelve review findings, all verified still-valid against the code before being
acted on. Two were confirmed with live measurements rather than by reading, and
two are fixed a layer below where the review pointed — noted individually.

Correctness

  * Discovered buffers were never classified. ResourceTypeForDiscovered mapped
    every RHI::ResourceKind::Buffer to VertexBuffer while its own comment
    claimed the backend decided vertex/index/uniform. Measured on a live
    Vulkan editor: GL reported IndexBuffer 12 / UniformBuffer 41 /
    VertexBuffer 50, Vulkan reported VertexBuffer 188 and no index or uniform
    rows at all. Now routed through ClassifyBufferTarget; re-measured after the
    fix: IndexBuffer 33 + UniformBuffer 106 + VertexBuffer 46 + Other 3 = 188,
    exactly the miscategorised set redistributed.

  * A 3D image cannot be copied by array layer. VulkanRendererAPI's
    CopyImageSubDataRegion passed srcZ/dstZ as baseArrayLayer with
    extent.depth = 1, which for a VK_IMAGE_TYPE_3D image is a validation error
    and a copy of the wrong subresource — for a 3D image baseArrayLayer must be
    0 and the slice is the copy's z OFFSET. GL takes one z for both and sorts
    it out itself, so only this backend was wrong.

    Fixed in the BACKEND rather than in the snapshot's clone loop as the review
    suggested: that is where the defect is, it needs no facade change, and it
    fixes 3D copies for every caller. The barrier subresource ranges had the
    same split. The caller half is fixed too — a volume's depth halves per mip
    while an array's layer count does not, so the loop was addressing slices
    that do not exist at the smaller mips of a mipped 3D target.

  * Vulkan could not detect a multisampled source. RendererAPI.h promises
    CreateMatchingTextureHandle returns the null handle for one and the GL arm
    already did; the Vulkan arm had no sample count to check, so it would have
    cloned single-sample and let vkCmdCopyImage reject the copy — an empty
    clone reported as the pass's output. VulkanImageInfo gained Samples,
    QueryTextureFormat now reports Texture2DMultisample, and the create refuses.
    Rejecting in the allocator rather than in CaptureOne (as the review
    suggested) puts it where the contract is written and where GL does it;
    CaptureOne's existing shape check now refuses it as well.

  * ReportChannels could exceed ReadChannels. The compaction in
    ReadRectFloatsThroughFacade indexes raw[t * ReadChannels + c] for
    c < ReportChannels, so a format reporting 0 channels (seed defaults to 4,
    the <= 1 branch reads one) walks off the readback buffer. No mapped format
    reports 0 today, so this is latent; the clamp enforces the invariant the
    loop already assumes.

  * nativeTarget 0 meant UniformBuffer. VulkanRootObjectKind::UniformBuffer is
    0 and DiscoveredResource::NativeTarget defaults to 0, so every raw buffer
    and every size-unknown buffer classified and displayed as
    "UniformBuffer (frame arena)". The encoding is biased by one so 0 stays
    "nothing described this buffer"; those rows now group as Other and read
    "Buffer (unclassified)".

Hygiene

  * FacadeReadbackParityTest left GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT at 1. The suite shares one
    GL context, so that is process-global state leaking into every later GPU
    test — and asserting the error before restoring meant an early ASSERT
    return skipped the restore entirely. Both raw reads go through one helper
    that saves, reads, captures the error, restores, and returns the error.

  * Dead ProbeFormat / DescribeProbeFormat removed (no callers since the probe
    moved to the facade), along with the last GL-enum format table in that area.

  * The unreachable second non-OpenGL refusal in ReadStorageBufferStaged
    removed — it sat after the Vulkan arm's early return and contradicted it.

  * One DrainGLErrors, not two. The anonymous-namespace copy in
    OpenGLRendererAPI.cpp predates this work and duplicated Utils::
    DrainGLErrors; two same-named helpers in one TU is a shadowing trap. NOTE:
    this changes the drain's iteration cap from 32 to 64 on two pre-existing
    call sites — a guard both implementations describe as unreachable, so
    nothing observable moves, but it is a real difference and not a silent one.

  * Stale comments: the froxel probe still advertised "GL readback",
    "glGetTextureSubImage" and "the sanctioned use of the diagnostics hatch",
    and olo_render_probe_pixel's section header still said "GL readback". All
    describe the facade path now.

  * olo_gpu_resources' OutputSchema now declares the conditional `note` it
    emits (16 of the other 17 note-emitting tools already did).

  * McpToolsRender.cpp includes ResourceInspectorBackend.h directly rather than
    leaning on GPUResourceInspector.h's transitive include for its visible use
    of IResourceInspectorBackend::MemoryHeap.

Verification: 6235 passed / 0 failed / 22 skipped on the fast subset; 76/76 on
the RHI, readback and MCP-contract suites. Live Vulkan re-measurement of the
buffer classification above, with zero validation errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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