fix(issueflow): the evidence clock is not the claim clock

The nudge rode `last_issue_activity`, which counts `assigned` timeline
events because assignment is the claim the 48-hour reclaim protects.
`post-merge` has no claim: an assignee there is the invalid composition
the flag beside it reports, so counting the assignment let a broken board
buy the item another 7 days of silence — this issue's failure direction
taken backwards.

One computation, two clocks over it: `issue_activity_at` is the body,
`last_issue_activity` keeps the reclaim and ruling clocks byte-identical,
and `last_issue_comment_activity` is the evidence clock. Both clocks are
read before this branch posts anything, the ruling one included — read
after, it would date the issue by the evidence nudge's own comment and
silence the ruling nudge, which is the self-silencing the branch already
guarded against in the other direction.

Refs #254
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cndgrr 2026-08-03 23:38:53 +00:00
parent 37d138fecf
commit d4a82707f2
2 changed files with 119 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -491,7 +491,11 @@ offsite_timeline() { # unreadable timelines are deliberately silent
gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$1/timeline" 2>/dev/null || return 1
}
last_issue_activity() { # $1 issue, $2 created_at → epoch; non-zero if a read failed
issue_activity_at() { # $1 issue, $2 created_at, $3 with-assignment|comments-only
# One body, two clocks over it — a second activity computation is the drift
# the reuse exists to prevent, and the two callers below are the whole
# difference between them.
#
# Both reads are checked, and a failure reports rather than answering an age
# (#247 D1). Swallowed, the comments read falls back to `created_at`, and a
# `claimed` issue created months ago but commented on seconds earlier is
@ -499,19 +503,42 @@ last_issue_activity() { # $1 issue, $2 created_at → epoch; non-zero if a read
# hours of silence. `needs-triage` is cheap to remove; that is not.
# gh's stderr is left to flow to this function's own, where the caller's
# guarded_read captures it for the reason line.
local n="$1" created="$2" comments timeline latest
local n="$1" created="$2" mode="$3" comments timeline="" latest
comments="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$n/comments" --jq '.[].created_at')" \
|| return 1
# Assignment is the claim itself. Ignoring it would let an old issue be
# reclaimed in the seconds between assignment and its required draft PR.
if [ "$mode" = with-assignment ]; then
timeline="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$n/timeline" \
--jq '.[] | select(.event == "assigned") | .created_at')" || return 1
fi
latest="$(printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n' "$created" "$comments" "$timeline" | sort | tail -n1)"
date -d "$latest" +%s
}
last_issue_activity() { # $1 issue, $2 created_at → epoch; non-zero if a read failed
# The claim clock, and the ruling clock with it. Assignment is the claim
# itself. Ignoring it would let an old issue be reclaimed in the seconds
# between assignment and its required draft PR.
issue_activity_at "$1" "$2" with-assignment
}
last_issue_comment_activity() { # $1 issue, $2 created_at → epoch; non-zero on a failed read
# The evidence nudge's clock (#254). Same computation, one input fewer, and
# the input it drops is the one that would starve the criterion: on
# `post-merge` there is no claim for an assignment to protect, and an
# assignee there is the invalid composition the `post-merge-assigned` flag
# reports. Counting it would let a broken board buy the item another 7 days
# of silence — the failure direction of #254 taken backwards.
#
# A comment the sweep itself wrote is still activity here, deliberately:
# the nudge carries no marker, so its own comment is what rate-limits it,
# and no machine comment can be exempted without exempting that one too.
# Reading authorship back into the clock would mean a body read this issue
# forbids.
issue_activity_at "$1" "$2" comments-only
}
reconcile_issue() {
local n="$1" decision refs cross_refs states age created assignees open_pr=false label owners
local n="$1" decision refs cross_refs states age evidence_age created assignees open_pr=false label owners
local merged_ref_pr="" transition_marker="" transition_handled=false parsed_set="" parse_marker=""
local unchecked="" remove_claimed=claimed
local attention_active=true attention_suppression=""
@ -611,9 +638,26 @@ The merge releases the claim; no builder owes a draft. Triage owes completion in
# would let the assigned-flag comment silence the nudge for another 7
# days — the same self-silencing the ruling nudge avoids by reading its
# facts once, at the top of the pass.
#
# Its own variable, not `age`: the ruling block below reuses `age` when
# it is already set, and the evidence clock is deliberately narrower than
# the ruling clock. Leaking it there would silently change what a ruling
# nudge means depending on which queue label the issue sits under.
created="$(jq -r '.created_at' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON")"
guarded_read evidence_age last_issue_comment_activity "$n" "$created" \
|| skip_issue "$n" "could not read its activity history: $(read_failure_reason "$READ_FAILURE_STDERR")"
# The ruling clock is read HERE, not in the ruling block, for the same
# reason the evidence clock is: that block reads only when `age` is
# unset, and by the time it runs this branch may have posted the
# evidence nudge — so its read would date the issue by this sweep's own
# comment and silence the ruling nudge. Both waits are answered from
# facts that predate anything this pass writes. The cost is one extra
# comments read on `post-merge` + `needs-ruling`, and only there: an
# ordinary `post-merge` issue reads once.
if has_issue_label needs-ruling; then
guarded_read age last_issue_activity "$n" "$created" \
|| skip_issue "$n" "could not read its activity history: $(read_failure_reason "$READ_FAILURE_STDERR")"
fi
if [ "$assignees" -gt 0 ] || has_issue_label attention; then
ensure_comment "$n" post-merge-assigned \
'This `post-merge` issue has an assignee or `attention`. The sweep will not undo hand-set intent; triage must clear the invalid composition or move the issue back into buildable queue state.'
@ -636,8 +680,8 @@ The merge releases the claim; no builder owes a draft. Triage owes completion in
# mandatory config — `load_issueflow_config` refuses to run without it —
# so there is nothing to fall back to, and a silent fallback is exactly
# how the wrong addressee comes back.
if [ "$(ruling_nudge_decision "$NOW" "$age")" = NUDGE ]; then
local quiet_days=$(((NOW - age) / 86400))
if [ "$(ruling_nudge_decision "$NOW" "$evidence_age")" = NUDGE ]; then
local quiet_days=$(((NOW - evidence_age) / 86400))
run gh issue comment "$n" -R "$REPO" --body "@${TRIAGE_ACTORS[0]} — this \`post-merge\` item has had no activity for ${quiet_days} days: https://github.com/$REPO/issues/$n
Its wake evidence is still owed. \`post-merge\` means the merge landed and

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@ -637,6 +637,14 @@ check "...only the evidence nudge speaks" 0 "1" \
grep -c -- '^----$' "$TMP/posted-36"
printf '[]\n' >"$(cfix 37)"
# The live shape of an assigned `post-merge` issue: the assignee in the issue
# payload AND the `assigned` event that put it there in the timeline. With an
# empty timeline this fixture could not see the defect it exists to guard —
# the evidence clock counting that hour-old assignment as activity and
# silencing the nudge for another 7 days, on the one board state where an
# assignee is itself the bug being reported.
jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 3600)))" \
'[{"event":"assigned","created_at":$at}]' >"$(tfix 37)"
issue_probe 37 post-merge 1 >/dev/null
check "assigned post-merge is flagged" 0 "" \
grep -qF '<!-- issueflow:post-merge-assigned -->' "$TMP/posted-37"
@ -711,6 +719,40 @@ fresh="$(issue_probe 83 post-merge 0)"
check "an hour-old comment does reset it" 1 "" \
grep -q 'post-merge evidence nudge' <<<"$fresh"
# Neither is an assignment. That event is the *claim* clock's activity fact —
# 48 hours of silence must not include the seconds between a claim and its
# required draft PR — and `post-merge` has no claim for it to protect: an
# assignee here is the invalid composition the flag above reports. Counting
# it would let a broken board buy the item another 7 days of quiet, which is
# this issue's failure direction taken backwards. No current assignee on this
# probe, so nothing stands between the clock rule and the nudge.
quiet_comment 93 $((8 * 86400))
jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 3600)))" \
'[{"event":"assigned","created_at":$at},{"event":"unassigned","created_at":$at}]' >"$(tfix 93)"
assigned_clock="$(issue_probe 93 post-merge 0)"
check "an hour-old assignment does not reset the evidence clock either" 0 "" \
grep -q 'post-merge evidence nudge' <<<"$assigned_clock"
# The two clocks over the one computation, asserted directly rather than
# through a probe: same fixture, one input's difference, and the reclaim
# clock is pinned unmoved by the split.
jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 5 * 86400)))" \
'[{"user":{"login":"triage-one"},"created_at":$at,"html_url":"https://x/c95","body":"evidence pending"}]' \
>"$(cfix 95)"
jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 3600)))" \
'[{"event":"assigned","created_at":$at}]' >"$(tfix 95)"
two_clocks="$( (REPO=owner/repo; gh() { issue_stub_gh "$@"; }
printf '%s %s\n' \
"$(last_issue_activity 95 "$(iso_at $((INOW - 10 * 86400)))")" \
"$(last_issue_comment_activity 95 "$(iso_at $((INOW - 10 * 86400)))")") )"
check "the claim clock counts the assignment, the evidence clock the comment" 0 \
"$((INOW - 3600)) $((INOW - 5 * 86400))" printf '%s\n' "$two_clocks"
# One body, two callers: a second activity computation is the drift the
# reuse exists to prevent, so the timeline read has exactly one spelling.
check "the timeline read is not respelled for the evidence clock" 0 "1" \
grep -c 'issues/\$n/timeline' \
"$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh"
# Both waits are quiet, both are owed, and to different parties: suppressing
# one because the other spoke is a starved criterion, which is the failure
# this nudge exists to remove.
@ -766,7 +808,7 @@ check "the 7-day rule is not respelled in the sweep" 1 "" \
"$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh"
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # the call site is asserted as a literal
check "...it is reused from lib/ruling.sh" 0 "" \
grep -qF 'ruling_nudge_decision "$NOW" "$age"' \
grep -qF 'ruling_nudge_decision "$NOW" "$evidence_age"' \
"$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh"
# `post-merge` is the one queue state whose whole meaning is that the machine
@ -1188,6 +1230,28 @@ check "...no unassign, no label swap, and no reclaim comment" 0 "" \
bash -c 'test "$1" -eq "$(wc -l <"$2")" && test ! -f "$3"' _ \
"$claim_edits_before" "$TMP/issue-edits" "$TMP/posted-50"
# -- the quiet diagnostic: a 504 on a post-merge activity read (#254) --------
# The guarded read is unconditional at the top of the branch, so a
# `post-merge` issue can be skipped where before this change it never could —
# and the assigned flag, which needed no read at all, goes quiet with it.
# That is #247 D1's direction (a whole pass or none of it, never a verdict
# derived from a read that did not answer) and the trade `claimed`, `blocked`
# and `needs-ruling` already make. It is still a new way for that diagnostic
# to fall silent, so it is pinned here rather than left to inspection.
jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at $((INOW - 10 * 86400)))" \
'[{"user":{"login":"triage-one"},"created_at":$at,"html_url":"https://x/c94","body":"evidence pending"}]' \
>"$(cfix 94)"
printf '%s\n' "$GH_STUB_ERROR_BODY" >"$(cfix 94).http-error"
post_merge_skip_edits="$(wc -l <"$TMP/issue-edits")"
check "a 504 on a post-merge activity read skips the issue" \
3 "#94: skipped this pass — could not read its activity history: $GH_STUB_STDERR" \
issue_probe 94 post-merge 1
check "...so neither the nudge nor the assigned flag speaks" 1 "" test -f "$TMP/posted-94"
# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # positional parameters belong to bash -c
check "...and the skipped pass edits nothing" 0 "" \
bash -c 'test "$1" -eq "$(wc -l <"$2")"' _ \
"$post_merge_skip_edits" "$TMP/issue-edits"
# -- the suppressed comment: a 504 on the marker read -----------------------
# The marker is on the issue. Read as "no marker", a failed read re-posts the
# comment the marker exists to suppress — every sweep, forever.