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post-mergedoctrine in LABELS.md, TRIAGE.md, and BUILDER.mdRefsdiscovery and claimed → post-merge transitionAcceptance criteria
claimedissue whose Refs-linked PR merged with unchecked boxes is, one tick later:post-merge, unassigned, with the transition comment naming the unchecked criteria and the triage-owes-completion line.post-mergeissue with no open PR and no activity for over 48 hours is untouched — no reclaim comment, no relabel.claimed+post-mergetogether draws the conflict flag, and the flag’s message lists all six labels.ClosesPR, and a merged Refs PR with zero unchecked boxes each leave the issue exactly as found.post-mergeissue with an assignee is flagged, not unassigned.LABELS.md,TRIAGE.mdandBUILDER.mdall carry the same word,post-merge, and the release-at-merge / re-entry doctrine (D3, D6).Refs #N, notCloses #N: after the operator’s next labels bootstrap dispatch,post-mergeexists on this repo and the missing-core-labels warning does not fire on the following sweep.🔎 reviewing head
24dd818b35🔎 reviewing head
24dd818b35🔎 reviewing head
24dd818b35Verdict: request changes
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24dd818b35c8b8eba371d9475be153a1e65d528dagainst #175 (acceptance criteria, D1–D8, test plan).What I verified
test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh— 134 passed;test/labels-reconcile.test.sh— 151 passed.test,self-guards,action-exercise,docs-sync-exercise,labels / reconcile,labels / scope, release-exercise fixtures — all green/pass (call jobs skipped as expected).LABELS.md,TRIAGE.md,BUILDER.mdshare the wordpost-mergeand carry D3/D6 re-entry doctrine;core_label_rows()addspost-merge|006B75|…;changelog.d/175.mdpresent; PR correctly usesRefs #175(post-merge close owned by triage).post-merge, unassign, transition comment with verbatim unchecked lines and triage-owes-completion; quiet unassignedpost-mergenot reclaimed;claimed+post-mergeconflicts and message lists all six labels; open Refs / merged Closes / merged Refs with zero unchecked leave the issue alone; assigned / attention-bearingpost-mergeflagged not repaired; attention cleared on derived transition; executablemain()subprocess path exercises GraphQL gather + loop (#91).Blocking: re-entry (D6) is undone by a permanent MERGED_REF signal
MERGED_REF_PR_ISSUESis every local issue ever named on a merged PR bodyRefsline.post_merge_decisiononly checksmerged_ref && unchecked— it does not look atopen_pr, claim episode, or whether a transition already ran.So after the legitimate first flip to
post-merge, any later same-issue re-entry that D6 and the three doctrine files explicitly allow (post-merge → ready→ claim) immediately re-trips:MERGED_REF_PR_ISSUES.claimed→ transition again, unassign, kill the claim.Worse, this also fires while a new PR is open:
open_pr=trueis ignored on the transition branch. A builder mid-fix after verification failed loses the claim on the next tick even with a live draft.That is not a rare edge — it is the only same-number re-entry path D6 describes, and the doctrine AC requires D6 to be written as real procedure. Shipping the machine as-is makes “flip to
ready” a lie and “mint a fresh issue” the only working option without saying so.What unblocks (any design that preserves first-merge AC and stops re-steal):
open_pr=true), andAdd failing tests that must stay green:
claimed+ historical merged Refs + unchecked + open PR → KEEP (no edit, no transition comment).claimed+ historical merged Refs + unchecked + prior post-merge-transition for that merge / prior claim episode after re-entry → KEEP so the builder can draft.Primary path tests (first merge, no open PR, unchecked) must remain.
Non-blocking notes (ride a later approval; do not expand scope unless convenient)
unchecked_criteriais every unchecked task-list line in the body, not only an Acceptance criteria section — matches the tests/spec wording, but noisy task/deps checkboxes will also arm the transition.Out of scope / not verified beyond reading
post-mergeon the repo (post-merge criterion on #175; triage/operator after merge).Until the re-entry steal is fixed and tested, this is not an approval I would defend at merge.
Request changes at
24dd818.What I ran: all 18 test suites in a detached worktree at this head (134 issueflow + 151 labels-reconcile among them, all green), shellcheck (only pre-existing info-level SC1091) and actionlint (clean). Docs (LABELS.md / TRIAGE.md / BUILDER.md) carry the D1/D3/D4/D5/D6 doctrine consistently, the registry row is byte-pinned in the test, the subprocess test exercises the GraphQL gather and the loop at main() granularity per #91's lesson, and the boundary coverage (open Refs, merged Closes, all-checked, assigned post-merge, attention composition) is genuinely good. Three things block, the first on evidence from the live board.
1.
refs_referencesextracts issue numbers from the whole line, not from theRefsreference — false positives proven on this repo's real merged-PR bodiesrefs_references(issueflow-reconcile.sh:125-130) selects any line containing the wordrefsand then feeds the entire line toissue_references, so every#Non that line — including ones before the marker or in unrelated prose — is treated as a Refs link. I ran the exact pipeline (states: MERGEDgather at :460-469 piped throughrefs_references) against heavy-duty/ceremony's actual merged-PR bodies at review time. It returns137 143 160— and only #160 comes from a realRefs #160trailer. #137 and #143 come from prose like:That is a 2-of-3 false-positive rate on live data. Synthetic probes confirm the shapes:
fix: correct the refs parsing regression introduced by #200→200;This closes the gap from #40; refs: none→40; even the genuineRefs #175 (split from #150)→150and175.All three extracted issues happen to be closed today, so no misfire on the first tick — but the consequence when the coincidence lands is not a flag, it is a destructive edit: a claimed issue in this repo essentially always carries unchecked boxes (Tasks + Acceptance criteria are checklists), so a prose collision on an open claimed issue makes the sweep unassign the active builder, strip
claimed, addpost-merge, and post a false "the merge releases the claim" comment. The scan is cumulative over all merged PRs forever, and this machinery is consumed by reference in governed repos with larger, chattier PR histories. "Flags conflicts rather than guessing intent" is the sweep's own doctrine; this guesses.The fix shape already exists 30 lines down in the same file:
blocked_reference_records(:154-178) takes the substring after the marker and cuts at a sentence terminator before extracting. Anchoring extraction to the marker (e.g. requiringrefs[[:space:]:]+immediately before the reference token, or the blocked-style substr-after-marker) eliminates the entire before-the-marker and prose class. Please also add the failing input to the tests —refs_bodyat test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh:85 currently only exercises well-formed lines (and itsNot refs-ish #7line correctly passes today for the wrong-boundary reason, not because prose is safe).2. The transition comment uses a fixed marker — a second episode flips silently, violating D3
ensure_comment "$n" post-merge-transition …(issueflow-reconcile.sh:303) keys on a constant marker, but the label edit below it (:314-320) is unconditional. D6 makes a second episode a legitimate flow:post-merge→ triage flips toready→ new claim → new Refs PR merges with different unchecked boxes. On that second transition the marker from episode one suppresses the comment entirely, so the flip happens bare — no criteria named, no triage-owes line — which D3 calls out by name ("a bare flag is noise"). This is exactly the lesson the reclaim path already encodes at :121-123 / :337-339 ("A fixed marker hid the required comment when the same issue was later claimed and reclaimed again"); the same episode-keyed marker (last-activity epoch, or a digest of the unchecked list) fixes it.3. The test plan's third must-fail case is missing
Issue #175's test plan requires: "Conflict message missing
post-mergefrom its list → red." No test asserts the queue-conflict message content — test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh:44-47 asserts only theFLAG_CONFLICTdecision, and nothing greps the posted comment for the six-label list (I searched the file;queue-conflictnever appears). The code at :291-292 does list all six, but the acceptance criterion is pinned by a test that must exist and must go red ifpost-mergeis dropped from the message. Oneissue_probewithclaimed+post-mergeand a grep ofposted-Ncovers it.Non-blocking
states: MERGEDgather fetches every merged PR body in repo history on every tick and grows without bound. The spec sanctioned extending the open-PR scan's shape, so this is not blocking — but worth a follow-up thought (e.g.orderBy: UPDATED_ATwith a cutoff) before a governed repo with thousands of merged PRs runs it on a 15-minute cron.\r\n;unchecked_criteriastill matches (the\rtrails the line), but the "verbatim" criteria quoted into the transition comment will carry trailing\rcharacters. Cosmetic.1. [ ]) as task-list boxes;unchecked_criteriaonly matches-/*bullets. The failure direction is safe (no transition rather than a wrong one) and repo convention is- [ ], so noting for the record only.Everything else — the claimed-branch restructure preserving the reclaim/offsite behavior byte-for-byte (the control tests agree), the attention machine-clear scoped to the derived transition with the D4 hand-set case flagged not repaired, the D5 exemption falling out of the branch structure — reads correct and well-tested. Fix the three above and this is an approve.
Approve — head
24dd818b35, reviewed against #175's acceptance criteria in a detached worktree.Verified by running (worktree at the head, PATH augmented with jq 1.7.1, shellcheck 0.10.0, actionlint 1.7.12, node 20.19.0 fetched as static binaries):
shellcheck-all.sh— 39 scripts clean.actionlint-all.sh— 6 workflows clean.test/run.sh— 18 passed, 0 failed withCEREMONY_REQUIRE_NPM=1. The only skip is the yq-backedparse_labeler_configcases (no yq on this box); that surface is untouched by this PR and CI covers it — thetestcheck is green at this head, along with self-guards, action-exercise, docs-sync-exercise, and the release-exercise suite.awkhere is mawk 1.3.4, so the entire suite — including the newrefs_references/unchecked_criteriaparsers — already ran under the repo's mawk constraint; I additionally spot-checked both new awk snippets against mawk directly.Acceptance criteria, one by one:
post-merge, unassigned, transition comment naming the criteria + triage-owes-completion line — implemented inreconcile_issue(actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh); covered by the issue-35 probe (comment verbatim criteria, unassign + label swap) and the issue-40 executable subprocess test, which exercises the GraphQL gather and main loop under the realset -epath (#91's lesson honored).post-mergeuntouched — theelif has_issue_label post-mergebranch only flags; the issue-36 probe asserts no reclaim comment and no edit on a 10-day-quiet issue.claimed+post-mergeconflict message lists all six labels —QUEUE_LABELSextended, message updated,queue_decisiontest asserts the conflict.post-mergeflagged, not repaired — probe 37; the hand-createdpost-merge+attentioncomposition is likewise flagged, not rewritten (probe 42), while the derived transition clears a carriedattentionin the same edit as the claim release (probe 41) — matching the D4 doctrine added to LABELS.md'sattentionsection.post-merge, the release-at-merge rule, and the re-entry rule (D3, D6); the wording is consistent across the three.core_label_rows()gains the byte-exactpost-merge|006B75|...row, pinned by test. TheRefs #175shape with the unchecked post-merge criterion is the correct #151 contract, not a defect.The test-plan floor exists: the must-fail cases genuinely fail against the pre-change logic (transition, reclaim exemption, conflict list), and the control — byte-identical reclaim of a genuinely stale claim — is still asserted (issue 22).
Non-blocking nit, builder's discretion: the merged-PRs GraphQL gather fetches bodies for every merged PR in the repo each sweep. Fine at this fleet's scale; if a repo ever accumulates thousands of merged PRs, a
search-based or recency-bounded query would be the follow-up — not this PR's problem.🔧 addressing round on head
24dd818b35Claude review
refs_referencesfalse positives. The parser must only extract issue references belonging to a syntactically validRefsmarker, never other#Ntokens elsewhere on the line. I will anchor extraction after the marker, bound its reference segment, and add regression probes for before-marker prose,refs: none, and a validRefs #175 (split from #150)shape so only the intended reference is returned.claimed+post-mergeand asserts the posted queue-conflict comment names all six queue labels, includingpost-merge.unchecked_criteriaand pin it with a parser test because this is local and low-risk.Grok review
Kimi approval
Planned checkpoints: (1) tests that reproduce parser, conflict-message, and re-entry failures; (2) parser and episode-aware transition implementation; (3) focused and full verification; (4) check off the PR Worklog, push each completed checkpoint, answer the round whole, and re-request Claude and Grok.
Round addressed whole on head
5a3d72f09c00ffd0be43b91283c96060d9292364.Claude points:
refs_referencesso a valid marker must be followed immediately by a reference, extraction starts after the marker, and parenthetical/sentence prose is excluded. The regression corpus now proves before-marker issue numbers, prose using the word refs,refs: none, andRefs #175 (split from #150)cannot create false local links.post-merge-transition-pr-<PR>. A historical merge whose marker already exists is inert after re-entry, while a later merged Refs PR gets a fresh evidence comment and transition.post-merge.Grok points:
post_merge_decision; even a merged historical Refs record cannot transition an issue while a replacement PR is open.issue ↔ PRrecords. Per-PR markers make the historical episode one-shot and preserve a later legitimate merge episode.Kimi-approved surfaces were preserved.
Verification:
bash test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh— 140 passed, 0 failed.CEREMONY_REQUIRE_NPM=1 bash test/run.sh— 18 test files passed, 0 failed..github/scripts/shellcheck-all.sh— 39 tracked scripts clean..github/scripts/actionlint-all.sh— 6 workflow/action files clean.🔎 reviewing head
5a3d72f09c🔎 reviewing head
5a3d72f09cVerdict: approve
Reviewed head
5a3d72f09c00ffd0be43b91283c96060d9292364against #175 (acceptance criteria, D1–D8, test plan). Prior round on24dd818requested changes for permanent MERGED_REF re-steal after D6 re-entry; this head addresses that.What I verified
test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh— 140 passed;test/labels-reconcile.test.sh— 151 passed.actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh(only pre-existing SC1091 for sourced files).test,self-guards,action-exercise,docs-sync-exercise,labels / reconcile,labels / scope, release-exercise fixtures — green/pass (call jobs skipped as expected). A concurrentlabels / reconcilerun shows cancelled, not a real red.LABELS.md,TRIAGE.md,BUILDER.mdshare the wordpost-mergeand carry D3/D6 re-entry doctrine;core_label_rows()addspost-merge|006B75|…;changelog.d/175.mdpresent; PR correctly usesRefs #175(post-merge close owned by triage).Prior block resolved
post_merge_decisionnow requires a concrete merged PR number,open_pr=false,handled=false, and non-empty unchecked criteria.post-merge-transition-pr-<N>), so a historical merge cannot re-steal after re-entry.Acceptance criteria
post-merge, unassign, transition comment with verbatim unchecked lines and triage-owes-completion — metpost-mergenot reclaimed — met (reclaim only underclaimed)claimed+post-mergeconflicts; message lists all six labels — metpost-mergeflagged not repaired; attention cleared on derived transition — metNon-blocking notes
OPEN_PR_ISSUESstill gathers viaclosingIssuesReferences(Closes/Fixes family), not bodyRefs. Episode markers make D6 re-entry safe without that; a Refs-only open draft is not what arms the first transition. Narrower if you ever need open-Refs to block before any merge marker exists.unchecked_criteriais every unchecked task-list line in the body (now also numbered lists) — matches tests/spec wording.Out of scope / not verified beyond reading
post-mergeon the repo (post-merge criterion on #175).This is an approval I would defend at merge for the machine and doctrine on this head.
Approve at
5a3d72f.All three of my round-1 blocking points are fixed, each pinned by a test I mutation-checked (reverted the fix locally, watched the new test go red, restored):
refs_referencesfalse positives — extraction is now anchored to the marker: the reference must immediately followrefs[[:space:]:]+, extraction starts after the marker, and the segment is cut at.(;. I re-ran the exactstates: MERGEDgather pipeline against this repo's live merged-PR bodies: the round-1 false positives (#137 and #143 from before-marker/prose lines) are gone. The regression corpus in the test pins the failing shapes I reported (introduced by #200,refs: none, before-marker numbers,Refs #175 (split from #150)→ 175 only).post-merge-transition-pr-<PR>, one-shot per merged PR. Mutating it back to a constant turns 3 tests red (re-entry steal, duplicate-comment, second-episode).post-mergefrom the message turns it red.Grok's re-entry block is also fixed on both requested axes:
post_merge_decisiongains the open-PR gate (removing it turns 5 tests red), and the per-PR marker makes a historical merge inert after re-entry (test 43 KEEP) while a later merged Refs PR still transitions with fresh evidence (test 44).What I ran at this head in a detached worktree:
test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh140 passed; fullCEREMONY_REQUIRE_NPM=1 test/run.sh18 files passed;shellcheck-all.shandactionlint-all.shclean (exit 0); the three mutation checks above; the live-data parser probe. GitHub checks on5a3d72fall green (call jobs skipped as expected; the cancelledlabels / reconcileentries are superseded attempts of the green run). Docs (LABELS/TRIAGE/BUILDER) are unchanged since24dd818, where I verified the D1/D3/D4/D5/D6 doctrine and the registry row; changelog fragment present; PR correctly ridesRefs #175.Non-blocking notes for the record (no action required on this PR):
137 → PR 152, from PR 152's prose quoting the literal string`Refs #137`in backticks. Mention-vs-use is beyond any marker-anchored parser — GitHub's own keyword parsing has the identical blindness (PR 152's body recountsCloses #137in prose auto-closing #137 for real) — and the episode marker now bounds any misfire to a single evidence-carrying comment on a reopened-and-reclaimed #137. If it ever bites, a cheap tightening is to reject a marker immediately preceded by a backtick; a genuine trailer never sits inside a code span..(;doesn't include:, soRefs #175: remainder tracked in #99extracts 99 alongside 175. Narrow (requires a valid marker+ref first), noting for the record.refs_referencespipeline per body line — fine at this repo's scale, worth a thought before a governed repo with thousands of merged PRs runs it on a 15-minute cron.The remaining unchecked box on the PR is the post-merge criterion itself (labels bootstrap dispatch after merge, triage-owned via
Refs #175) — correctly out of this review's scope. This is an approval I would defend at merge.🔎 reviewing head
5a3d72f09cApprove at
5a3d72f09c.This is the re-review after my approval of 24dd818; the delta is one commit (
fix: make post-merge transitions episode-aware) touchingactions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.shand its test. I reviewed the whole PR at this head against #175's acceptance criteria and D1–D8.What I ran (detached worktree at the head):
test/run.sh): all suites green except cases that requirenode(absent on this box — package-json version-source cases inversion,changelog-armed,drill-recorded,facts).issueflow-reconcile: 140/0;labels-reconcile: 151/0;ruling: 92/0.jqis also absent here; I ran the suite with a static jq 1.7.1 binary fetched into an isolated/tmpdir. The node-covered cases are exercised by CI, whosetestjob is green on this head — I relied on CI for those rather than reading.self-guards(success) for both gates.refs_references. Result:137←152, 160←164— both from genuineRefs #Ntoken sequences; the old false positives (#137/#143 pulled from "pinned refs against…" prose) are gone.The three blocking points from last round, each now covered by a test that fails without the fix:
Refsmarker and extracts only the reference it owns (test:Refs parser returns only references owned by a valid Refs marker, includingfix refs parsing from #200andCloses #40; refs: nonedecoys).post-merge-transition-pr-<N>per merged PR; a handled historical merge cannot re-steal a re-entered claim (test 43), a second episode gets its own transition comment (test 44) — D3's "a bare flag is noise" fixed the same way the reclaim path already encodes.Grok's re-entry block is likewise closed:
post_merge_decisionnow requiresopen_pr=falseandhandled=false, so a live draft or a handled episode keeps the claim (D6 made real). Both of Claude's non-blocking notes from last round were also taken (\rstripped, numbered task lists matched).Acceptance criteria spot-checks: registry row
post-merge|006B75|…present incore_label_rows(); conflict message lists all six labels;changelog.d/175.mdpresent;Refs #175shape correct with the post-merge criterion named; LABELS/TRIAGE/BUILDER all carry the word and the D3/D6 doctrine (10/3/3 mentions).Non-blocking notes (ride this approval):
Refs #Nin prose still extracts — PR 152's line 15 ("asks forRefs #137") produces the137←152pair above. Harmless today (#137 is closed) and inherent to trailer parsing, but a stricter "marker starts the line" rule would kill the class.Unverified beyond reading: the live bootstrap creating the label (post-merge criterion, operator/triage after merge) and the crew bridges (D8, out of scope).
Closing round summary
What shipped
post-mergeas the fourth issue queue state acrossLABELS.md,TRIAGE.md, andBUILDER.md, including transition-comment ownership, claim release at merge, reclaim exemption, composition rules, andpost-merge → readyre-entry.Refs #Nwork with unchecked criteria, moveclaimed → post-merge, clear the assignee, and leave criterion-level evidence for triage.Rounds
24dd818) established the doctrine, registry entry, transition machinery, and initial boundary coverage. Review found three blocking classes:Refsfalse positives, a fixed transition marker that could suppress later episodes, and historical merged-Refs state stealing a re-entered claim; it also found the missing conflict-message integration assertion.5a3d72f) anchoredRefsparsing to the owned marker, moved to per-PR episode markers, gated transitions while a linked PR is open or the merge episode was already handled, proved a later distinct merge can transition again, asserted all six queue labels in the conflict message, normalized CRLF, and recognized numbered task items. Claude, Grok, and Kimi approved this exact head.Verification
bash test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh— 140 passed, 0 failed.CEREMONY_REQUIRE_NPM=1 bash test/run.sh— 18 test files passed, 0 failed..github/scripts/shellcheck-all.sh— 39 tracked scripts clean..github/scripts/actionlint-all.sh— 6 workflow/action files clean.Post-merge residue
heavy-duty/ceremony, confirmpost-mergeexists, and confirm the following sweep emits no missing-core-label warning; triage then owns criterion completion and closure.heavy-duty/incubatorandheavy-duty/rigthrough their normal pinned-ref adoption flow.