fix(issueflow): a per-issue pass commits its whole effect, or none of it

The per-read guards closed the reported class — a failed read never reaches
a decision function — and left one layer standing. A pass could mutate and
only THEN reach a guarded read, fail it, and report the issue as skipped:
`stale` removed, or `needs-triage` minted, under a log line saying the
sweep had touched nothing. That is the same false report #247 exists to
close, told from the other end, and the panel reproduced it on four
separate compositions.

Fixed as the ordering invariant rather than per site. Inside
reconcile_issue_pass's subshell, run() and log() stage their effects, and
commit_staged_effects replays them in order once the pass has completed.
skip_issue emits its own line directly and exits, so the buffer dies with
the subshell. A skip therefore implies zero `gh issue edit`, zero
`gh issue comment`, and no log line about a mutation that never landed —
for compositions nobody has written yet, because reconcile_issue has no way
to mutate directly. Reads stay where they are: they may happen anywhere,
since nothing lands until the end.

Stated per site it would hold until the next composition. Two consequences
worth naming: reconcile_ruling is covered without touching lib/ruling.sh,
because it posts through the sourcing script's run()/log() — the PR surface
keeps its own and is unaffected; and a genuine crash mid-pass now also
lands nothing, where before it left the earlier mutations applied. D4's
handler string, D6's tail and D7's exit 0 are all unchanged, and the
healthy path is byte-identical: every staged write commits under the same
`>/dev/null` its call site already applied.

Refs #247
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cndgrr 2026-08-03 18:55:52 +00:00
parent f965e8404c
commit 6217798e14
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@ -41,16 +41,67 @@ ISSUEFLOW_SKIP=3
SKIPPED_COUNT=0
SKIPPED_ISSUES=""
log() { printf 'issueflow: %s\n' "$*"; }
run() { if [ -n "${DRY_RUN:-}" ]; then log "DRY_RUN: $*"; else "$@"; fi; }
# A per-issue pass is ATOMIC: it commits its whole effect or none of it
# (#247 D1). Inside reconcile_issue_pass's subshell, `run` and `log` do not
# act — they append here, and commit_staged_effects replays them in order
# once the pass has completed. Everywhere else (the arrival path, the sweep's
# own lines) they act immediately, as they always did.
#
# This is the ordering invariant itself, not a fix for the two sites that
# happened to violate it: a mutation reached before a later guarded read is
# what let a pass remove `stale`, or mint `needs-triage`, and THEN report the
# issue as skipped — the sweep saying it touched nothing while a write had
# landed, which is the same false-report class #247 exists to close. Stated
# per site it would hold until the next composition; stated here it holds for
# compositions nobody has written yet, because reconcile_issue has no way to
# mutate directly.
#
# Reads are deliberately NOT staged. They may happen anywhere in the pass,
# because nothing lands until the end.
STAGING=false
STAGED_EFFECTS=()
emit() { printf 'issueflow: %s\n' "$*"; }
apply() { if [ -n "${DRY_RUN:-}" ]; then emit "DRY_RUN: $*"; else "$@"; fi; }
stage() { # $1 = LOG|WRITE, rest = the effect's argv, kept exact by the count
STAGED_EFFECTS+=("$#" "$@")
}
log() { if [ "$STAGING" = true ]; then stage LOG "$@"; else emit "$@"; fi; }
run() { if [ "$STAGING" = true ]; then stage WRITE "$@"; else apply "$@"; fi; }
commit_staged_effects() {
# In staging order, so a completed pass's log and writes read exactly as
# they did when each acted at its own call site. The `>/dev/null` is the one
# every `run` call site already applies: a redirection cannot travel with
# the argv, so it is applied here instead — uniformly, because on this
# surface every staged write has it.
local i=0 argc
STAGING=false
while [ "$i" -lt "${#STAGED_EFFECTS[@]}" ]; do
argc="${STAGED_EFFECTS[i]}"
if [ "${STAGED_EFFECTS[i + 1]}" = LOG ]; then
emit "${STAGED_EFFECTS[@]:i + 2:argc - 1}"
else
apply "${STAGED_EFFECTS[@]:i + 2:argc - 1}" >/dev/null
fi
i=$((i + 1 + argc))
done
STAGED_EFFECTS=()
}
skip_issue() { # $1 = issue, $2 = the whole reason clause — ends this issue's pass
# Leaves the issue exactly as it is: nothing is derived from a read that
# did not answer. Called from wherever the read lives, so no call site can
# forget to check — which is why it exits rather than returns. Every caller
# runs inside the per-issue subshell, so the exit ends that issue's pass and
# nothing else. The reason rides its own `#$n:`-prefixed line (#247 D5).
log "#$1: skipped this pass — $2"
# did not answer, and nothing this pass staged is ever committed — `exit`
# discards the subshell that holds the buffer. So a skip implies zero
# `gh issue edit`, zero `gh issue comment`, and no log line claiming an
# effect that never landed, wherever in the pass the failed read lives.
# Called from the read itself, so no call site can forget to check — which
# is why it exits rather than returns. The reason rides its own
# `#$n:`-prefixed line (#247 D5), emitted directly: the skip is a fact
# about the pass, not one of the effects the pass staged.
emit "#$1: skipped this pass — $2"
exit "$ISSUEFLOW_SKIP"
}
@ -575,15 +626,26 @@ reconcile_issue_pass() { # $1 = issue — one issue's whole pass, in its own sub
# is what disables the errexit that would have caught a failed read (#247
# D2). Removing it would revive errexit and lose #91. Explicit per-read
# checks are the mechanism instead, and each one exits with ISSUEFLOW_SKIP.
#
# What the subshell IS, since #247's first round, is the atomicity
# boundary: the staged effects live in it, so ending it — by a skip, or by
# a crash — discards them, and no partial pass can ever reach the board.
local n="$1" status=0
(
# Everything below stages rather than acts, and commits at the bottom —
# so a skip taken at any read, and a crash at any statement, leaves the
# issue exactly as it was (D1). `|| exit $?` keeps a crash's status the
# subshell's own, as it was when reconcile_issue was the last command
# here: the commit must not overwrite it, and must not run under it.
STAGING=true
guarded_read ISSUE_JSON gh api "repos/$REPO/issues/$n" \
|| skip_issue "$n" "could not read the issue: $(read_failure_reason "$READ_FAILURE_STDERR")"
issue_payload_valid "$n" <<<"$ISSUE_JSON" \
|| skip_issue "$n" "the issue read answered a payload that is not issue #$n carrying a label array"
jq -e 'has("pull_request") | not' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON" >/dev/null || exit 0
ISSUE_LABELS="$(jq -r '.labels[].name' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON")"
reconcile_issue "$n"
reconcile_issue "$n" || exit $?
commit_staged_effects
) || status=$?
if [ "$status" -eq "$ISSUEFLOW_SKIP" ]; then
SKIPPED_COUNT=$((SKIPPED_COUNT + 1))

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@ -14,3 +14,7 @@
status and on its payload shape; the issue is left exactly as it is and the
sweep continues. A partial pass names its skipped issues after
`reconciled.` (#247).
- A per-issue pass is now atomic: its writes and its log lines commit only
once the pass completes. A skip could previously land after an earlier
mutation, reporting an issue as untouched when a label had already been
written or removed (#247).

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@ -11,10 +11,16 @@
# sweep wrote `needs-triage` onto a healthy epic and called the pass a
# success (crew#329, #247).
#
# Two helpers, both used on both surfaces:
# Two helpers:
# - guarded_read — run a read, keep its stderr, report its status
# - read_failure_reason — render that stderr into one bounded log line
#
# `read_failure_reason` is called from both surfaces. `guarded_read` is
# called from the issue surface only, and that is deliberate rather than
# unfinished: labels-reconcile's two capture sites are byte-identical to each
# other and predate this file, and converting them is a cleanup #247 does not
# own. Do not go looking for a labels-side caller — there is none yet.
#
# What the CALLER does with a failed read is the caller's: labels-reconcile
# leaves the PR alone for the pass, issueflow-reconcile skips the issue. The
# one thing neither may do is carry a degraded value into a decision.

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@ -1082,4 +1082,164 @@ check "...ends on the byte-identical reconciled. line, with no tail after it" 0
check "...and says nothing about skipping" 1 "" \
grep -q 'skipped this pass' <<<"$whole_out"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The ordering invariant (#247 D1): a skip implies ZERO writes, wherever in
# the pass the failed read lives. Round 1 measured what the per-read guards
# alone left standing — a pass could remove `stale`, or mint `needs-triage`,
# and only then reach a guarded read, fail it, and report the issue as
# skipped. The sweep said it had touched nothing while a write had landed:
# the same false report #247 exists to close, one layer along.
#
# Every composition is driven TWICE against identical fixtures, differing
# only in whether the late read answers. The healthy run is the control — it
# proves the mutation is genuinely on this path, so the failing run's "no
# edit" is a fact about the guard and not about a branch that never fired.
# Executed through the sweep, because staging is a property of the pass.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ORDER="$TMP/order"
mkdir -p "$ORDER"
cp "$SWEEP/graphql-open.json" "$SWEEP/graphql-merged.json" "$ORDER/"
order_board() { printf '%s\n' "$1" >"$ORDER/repos_owner_repo_issues_state_open_per_page_100.json"; }
order_fixture() { # $1 issue, $2 labels JSON, $3 body
jq -n --argjson n "$1" --argjson labels "$2" --arg body "${3:-}" \
--arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 10 * 86400)))" \
'{number: $n, created_at: $at, user: {login: "triage-one"},
labels: $labels, assignees: [], body: $body}' \
>"$ORDER/repos_owner_repo_issues_$1.json"
}
order_run() {
: >"$ORDER/edits"
env PATH="$ARRIVAL/stub:$PATH" GH_FIXTURES="$ORDER" ISSUEFLOW_NOW="$INOW" \
REPO=owner/repo LABELS_CONF="$ARRIVAL/labels.conf" \
bash "$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh" 2>&1
}
# The late read fails, or answers. `guarded_read` is what turns either into a
# skip, so which endpoint carries the sentinel is what picks the composition.
order_breaks() { printf '%s\n' "$GH_STUB_ERROR_BODY" >"$ORDER/repos_owner_repo_issues_$1_$2.json.http-error"; }
order_heals() { rm -f "$ORDER/repos_owner_repo_issues_$1_$2.json.http-error"; }
# A skip must leave no trace of the staged effect: not the write, and not the
# log line that would have announced it. Both halves, because a landed write
# under a "skipped" line and a "reconciled" line over no write are the same
# lie told from opposite ends.
order_wrote() { grep -qF "issue $2 $1" "$ORDER/edits"; }
# -- 1. unstale, then a failed activity read (the round's first composition) -
# `needs-ruling` heals an applied `stale` off before the tail reads the
# issue's activity. The read is two statements later; the write is already
# gone.
order_fixture 80 '[{"name":"ready"},{"name":"needs-ruling"},{"name":"stale"}]'
order_board '[{"number":80}]'
order_heals 80 comments
healthy_unstale="$(order_run)"
check "the control: a healthy pass really does unstale a pending ruling" 0 "" \
order_wrote 80 edit
check "...and says so" 0 "issueflow: #80: unstale (a ruling is pending)" \
printf '%s\n' "$healthy_unstale"
order_breaks 80 comments
broken_unstale="$(order_run)"
check "a failed activity read skips the unstale composition" 0 \
"issueflow: #80: skipped this pass — could not read its activity history: $GH_STUB_STDERR" \
printf '%s\n' "$broken_unstale"
check "...and the stale label is still on the issue" 1 "" order_wrote 80 edit
check "...and nothing claims it came off" 1 "" \
grep -qF 'unstale (a ruling is pending)' <<<"$broken_unstale"
# -- 2. ADD_NEEDS_TRIAGE, then a failed activity read (the second) -----------
# The mint falls through — unlike FLAG_CONFLICT, which returns — into the
# same tail. crew#329's own label, written and then disowned by the log.
order_fixture 81 '[{"name":"enhancement"},{"name":"needs-ruling"}]'
order_board '[{"number":81}]'
order_heals 81 comments
healthy_mint="$(order_run)"
check "the control: a healthy pass really does mint needs-triage here" 0 "" \
order_wrote 81 edit
check "...and says so" 0 "issueflow: #81: needs-triage (no queue state)" \
printf '%s\n' "$healthy_mint"
order_breaks 81 comments
broken_mint="$(order_run)"
check "a failed activity read skips the needs-triage composition" 0 \
"issueflow: #81: skipped this pass — could not read its activity history: $GH_STUB_STDERR" \
printf '%s\n' "$broken_mint"
check "...and crew#329's label is not written on the way out" 1 "" \
order_wrote 81 edit
check "...and nothing claims it was" 1 "" \
grep -qF '#81: needs-triage (no queue state)' <<<"$broken_mint"
# -- 3. the blockers->ready flip, then a failed TIMELINE read ----------------
# The wider class: the failing read is the second one inside
# last_issue_activity, so the comments read answers and the marker check and
# the flip both complete first. A comment AND a label edit are staged.
printf '%s\n' '{"number":82,"state":"closed"}' \
>"$ORDER/repos_owner_repo_issues_82.json"
order_fixture 83 '[{"name":"blocked"},{"name":"needs-ruling"}]' 'Blocked by #82.'
order_board '[{"number":83}]'
order_heals 83 timeline
healthy_flip="$(order_run)"
check "the control: a healthy pass really does flip cleared blockers to ready" 0 \
"issueflow: #83: blockers closed -> ready" printf '%s\n' "$healthy_flip"
check "...writing the label edit" 0 "" order_wrote 83 edit
check "...and posting the blockers-cleared comment" 0 "" order_wrote 83 comment
order_breaks 83 timeline
broken_flip="$(order_run)"
check "a failed timeline read skips the blockers->ready composition" 0 \
"issueflow: #83: skipped this pass — could not read its activity history: $GH_STUB_STDERR" \
printf '%s\n' "$broken_flip"
check "...leaving the issue blocked" 1 "" order_wrote 83 edit
check "...with no comment posted about it" 1 "" order_wrote 83 comment
check "...and nothing claiming the flip happened" 1 "" \
grep -qF 'blockers closed -> ready' <<<"$broken_flip"
# -- 4. a posted nudge, then a failed TIMELINE read -------------------------
# The comment-only half of the class: an epic nudge is staged, and the
# ruling tail's activity read fails after it. A comment is as much a
# mutation as a label — it is the thing markers exist to make idempotent.
order_fixture 84 '[{"name":"epic"},{"name":"needs-ruling"}]' \
'## Task list
- [x] #82'
order_board '[{"number":84}]'
order_heals 84 timeline
healthy_nudge="$(order_run)"
check "the control: a healthy pass really does nudge a completed epic" 0 \
"issueflow: #84: completed epic nudged" printf '%s\n' "$healthy_nudge"
check "...by posting a comment" 0 "" order_wrote 84 comment
order_breaks 84 timeline
broken_nudge="$(order_run)"
check "a failed timeline read skips the epic-nudge composition" 0 \
"issueflow: #84: skipped this pass — could not read its activity history: $GH_STUB_STDERR" \
printf '%s\n' "$broken_nudge"
check "...and the nudge comment is never posted" 1 "" order_wrote 84 comment
check "...and nothing claims it was" 1 "" \
grep -qF 'completed epic nudged' <<<"$broken_nudge"
# -- the skip is still just a skip: counted, tailed, and green (D4, D6, D7) --
check "a mutation-bearing composition that skips is still not a crash" 1 "" \
grep -qF 'reconcile failed' <<<"$broken_flip"
check "...is still counted in the D6 tail" 0 \
'issueflow: 1 issue skipped this pass on an unreadable fact: #83' \
printf '%s\n' "$broken_flip"
order_board '[{"number":83}]'
order_run >/dev/null
check "...and still leaves the job green (D7)" 0 "" test $? -eq 0
# -- the invariant is enforced at the source, not remembered ----------------
# Staging only holds while every mutation goes through run(). A future call
# site reaching gh directly would reopen this hole silently, so it is pinned
# here rather than left to review — the shape lib/ruling.sh already uses for
# #50 D9. reconcile_opened_issue is deliberately exempt: it runs outside the
# per-issue subshell, under live errexit, and stages nothing (#247 D8).
mutation_calls() {
grep -nE '(^|[^_[:alnum:]])gh issue (edit|comment)' \
"$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh" "$ROOT/lib/ruling.sh" \
| grep -vE '^\S+:[0-9]+: *#' || true
}
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # positional parameters belong to bash -c
check "every issue mutation on this surface goes through run()" 0 "" \
bash -c 'while IFS= read -r line; do
[ -n "$line" ] || continue
case "$line" in *"run gh issue "*) ;; *) printf "unstaged mutation: %s\n" "$line"; exit 1 ;; esac
done <<<"$1"' _ "$(mutation_calls)"
check "...and the pin sees the call sites it is guarding" 0 "" \
test "$(mutation_calls | wc -l)" -ge 8
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