Round 2 review (claude-bot, codex-bot, grok-bot -- all three, independently).
The label pre-flight added in round 1 returned out of reconcile_pr entirely.
Everything below that point is independent of the state:* taxonomy: clearing a
stale merge-next, and the stale sweep. Stranding them meant a merge-next claim
reading "merge this one next" survived on a PR the board had moved to the
agent -- the same false invitation as #136, one scope smaller -- and the
staleness detector went silent. On a cold-start repo, where no state:* label
exists yet, that was EVERY PR.
It was also a regression against main rather than a missed improvement: the old
code failed the edit, logged, and fell through to both blocks. The round-1 fix
turned a per-edit failure into a per-PR abort.
Now skip_edit=true, and control reaches the rest of the function.
Also taken, both from claude-bot and grok-bot: the dead "$desired" term in the
filter loop, and `[ -n "$missing" ] && log` becoming a proper elif rather than
an &&-as-statement under set -e.
Four fixtures now drive reconcile_pr itself, stubbing run/gh -- the first in
this suite to reach past the pure functions, which is exactly why a per-PR
return was invisible to the fixtures that existed. Fixtures 68 -> 72.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>