Merge pull request #88 from dan-claude-bot/fix/labels-mergeability-aware

fix(labels): `state:needs-human` means a human could merge it right now
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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
HUMAN="${HUMAN_REVIEWER:-danmt}"
BOTS=(claude-bot-andresmgsl codex-bot-andresmgsl grok-bot-andresmgsl)
STATES=(state:building state:bots-reviewing state:addressing state:needs-human)
STATES=(state:building state:needs-rebase state:bots-reviewing state:addressing state:needs-human)
STALE_AFTER=$((48 * 3600))
log() { printf 'labels: %s\n' "$*"; }
@ -46,10 +46,80 @@ run() { # every mutation goes through here — DRY_RUN=1 logs instead of doing
# HEAD_SHA the PR's current head commit
# REQUESTED newline-separated logins with a review currently requested
# REVIEWS_JSON JSON array of submitted (non-PENDING) reviews
# MERGEABLE MERGEABLE | CONFLICTING | UNKNOWN (GitHub's own verdict)
# CHECKS SUCCESS | FAILURE | PENDING | NONE (the check rollup)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
requested() { grep -qxF "$1" <<<"$REQUESTED"; }
checks_state() { # rollup JSON on stdin → SUCCESS | FAILURE | PENDING | NONE
# The rollup mixes two node types with two different closed enums: CheckRun
# carries `conclusion` (CheckConclusionState), StatusContext carries `state`
# (StatusState). Rather than list the outcomes that block — the version that
# shipped in this PR's first round listed four, and ERROR, CANCELLED and
# STALE fell through its `else` into SUCCESS — this lists the outcomes that
# DON'T, and treats everything else as blocking.
#
# That direction is the point. An outcome we do not recognise is one we
# cannot certify as mergeable, and certifying the unrecognised as green is
# the exact shape of #136. The cost of being wrong is symmetric in form and
# not in consequence: a false FAILURE parks the PR on the agent, who looks;
# a false SUCCESS invites a human to merge a tree that will not merge.
jq -r '
# NEUTRAL and SKIPPED satisfy branch protection — a skipped required check
# is not a failed one, and path-filtered jobs skip constantly here.
["SUCCESS", "NEUTRAL", "SKIPPED"] as $passing
# "" covers a StatusContext still reported with no state at all.
| ["", "PENDING", "IN_PROGRESS", "QUEUED", "WAITING", "REQUESTED", "EXPECTED"] as $waiting
# A re-run does not evict the run it superseded — the rollup keeps both.
# This PR proved it: its own tip carried a CANCELLED `scope` (15:19:39)
# beside the SUCCESS `scope` (15:19:45) that replaced it, same workflow.
# Once CANCELLED blocks, judging every entry would strand this very PR in
# needs-rebase forever, so collapse each context to its newest entry first.
# Key on workflow + name because a bare job name is only unique within its
# workflow.
#
# Dating a run is the subtle part, and getting it wrong restores the bug.
# A run still in flight has no completion, but `gh` does not omit the
# field: its Go struct marshals the zero time as "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
# which is a string, so `//` will not fall through it. Ordering on
# completion therefore sorted the LIVE re-run to the bottom and let `last`
# pick the very run it superseded — reporting the old SUCCESS while a
# replacement was still running, which is #136 again.
#
# So: date a run by when it BEGAN, discarding both spellings of absent
# (null, and the zero sentinel) and falling back only if it never recorded
# a beginning. NOT by the newest stamp of any kind: `max` compares the
# completion of a finished run against the start of a live one, which are
# different quantities and not an ordering on runs. A run cancelled by the
# concurrency group does not stop the instant its replacement starts — the
# runner has to wind down — so predecessor.completedAt > successor.startedAt
# is the ordinary case, and `max` dated the dead predecessor newer than the
# live run that replaced it, narrowing both failures above without closing
# them. The list is already in preference order, so `first` IS that rule.
#
# An entry that carries no usable timestamp at all sorts LAST rather than
# first — something we cannot date is most likely the thing just created,
# and treating it as newest keeps an undateable in-flight run from being
# discarded in favour of a stale success. Every ambiguity resolves toward
# "not settled".
| [ (.statusCheckRollup // [])[]
| { ctx: [.workflowName // "", .name // .context // ""],
at: ([.startedAt, .createdAt, .completedAt]
| map(select(type == "string" and . != ""
and (startswith("0001-01-01") | not)))
| first // ""),
outcome: ((.conclusion // .state // "") | ascii_upcase) } ]
| group_by(.ctx)
| map(sort_by([(.at == ""), .at]) | last | .outcome) as $latest
| if ($latest | length) == 0 then "NONE"
elif (($latest - $passing - $waiting) | length) > 0 then "FAILURE"
elif (($latest - $passing) | length) > 0 then "PENDING"
else "SUCCESS" end'
}
bot_verdict() { # $1 = login → MISSING | BLOCK | APPROVE | STALE | FEEDBACK
local review state commit
review="$(jq -c --arg u "$1" \
@ -85,22 +155,60 @@ human_request_needed() { # 0 when needs-human requires a FRESH human request
decide_state() { # → the one state:* label this PR should carry
if [ "$DRAFT" = true ]; then echo state:building; return; fi
# an explicit human request outranks the bot rounds — it is the final
# gate, and a maintainer pulling a PR to themselves early counts too
if requested "$HUMAN"; then echo state:needs-human; return; fi
local b v verdicts=""
# state:needs-human means ONE thing: a human could merge this right now.
# Anything that makes that false outranks the request that put it there —
# otherwise the board invites a merge that cannot or must not happen, and
# nothing else on the page contradicts it (#136).
#
# A conflicted or red branch is the agent's to fix, not the human's to
# merge. UNKNOWN is deliberately NOT treated as unmergeable: GitHub reports
# it for a minute after every merge while it recomputes, and flapping every
# open PR through needs-rebase on each merge would be worse than the bug.
# An unknown mergeability simply does not trigger this arm; the next sweep
# sees the settled value.
# Both default to the "do not know" value: an unset global (older fixture,
# a failed fetch) must never invent a verdict it did not read.
case "${MERGEABLE:-UNKNOWN}" in CONFLICTING) echo state:needs-rebase; return ;; esac
case "${CHECKS:-NONE}" in FAILURE) echo state:needs-rebase; return ;; esac
local b verdicts=""
for b in "${BOTS[@]}"; do
if requested "$b"; then echo state:bots-reviewing; return; fi
done
# Collect the WHOLE round before applying any precedence. Deciding inside
# the loop let BOTS order pick the winner: a MISSING returned immediately,
# so a STALE belonging to a later bot was never even read, and the mixed
# round (one approval staled by a push, another bot yet to review) came out
# needs-human — the #136 headline shape, with zero reviews bound to the head.
for b in "${BOTS[@]}"; do
v="$(bot_verdict "$b")"
if [ "$v" = MISSING ]; then echo state:bots-reviewing; return; fi
verdicts="$verdicts $v"
verdicts="$verdicts $(bot_verdict "$b")"
done
case "$verdicts" in
# STALE = a verdict for an older head. Unlike MISSING, this outranks the
# human request: every approval it covers was invalidated by a push, so
# NOBODY has reviewed this tree. Handing that to the human is the #136 case
# where everything reads green — mergeable, CI passing, "waiting on the
# human" — over code no reviewer has seen. The agent owes a re-request.
# Checked before MISSING because "unfinished" must not swallow "and also
# stale": a round that is both is a push that outran the re-requests, not
# a maintainer deliberately claiming the PR early.
*STALE*) echo state:addressing; return ;;
esac
case "$verdicts" in
# No verdict at all from some bot, and nothing staled. An explicit human
# request still outranks an unfinished round — a maintainer pulling a PR
# to themselves early is a deliberate act, and the original precedence.
*MISSING*)
if requested "$HUMAN"; then echo state:needs-human; return; fi
echo state:bots-reviewing; return ;;
esac
# an explicit human request outranks the remaining bot outcomes — it is the
# final gate, and a maintainer pulling a PR to themselves early counts too
if requested "$HUMAN"; then echo state:needs-human; return; fi
case "$verdicts" in
# FEEDBACK = a comment with no verdict → the agent owes the round-reply.
# STALE = a verdict for an older head → the agent owes a re-request.
*BLOCK* | *FEEDBACK* | *STALE*) echo state:addressing; return ;;
*BLOCK* | *FEEDBACK*) echo state:addressing; return ;;
esac
# the bots all approve — but if the human's standing word is
# changes-requested (and nobody re-requested them yet), the agent owes
@ -125,7 +233,9 @@ bootstrap_labels() { # dispatch-only: ~20 upserts is too chatty for every cron t
state:building|FBCA04|PR is a draft — the coding agent is still building
state:bots-reviewing|1D76DB|Waiting on the bot reviewers to finish the round
state:addressing|D93F0B|All bots reviewed — coding agent owes the single reply + fixes
state:needs-human|8250DF|All bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer
state:needs-rebase|B60205|Does not merge — conflicts or failing checks; the agent owes a fix
state:needs-human|8250DF|Mergeable, green, all bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer
merge-next|0E8A16|Head of the merge queue — merge this one next (set by hand/agent, cleared here)
stale|B60205|No activity for 48h — needs a poke (sweep-managed)
blocked|6A737D|Waiting on another PR or issue to land first
release|0E8A16|Release flow and version/packaging work
@ -174,6 +284,18 @@ reconcile_pr() { # $1 = PR number; relies on the globals set from its fetch
fi
fi
# ---- merge-next: cleared, never set ----------------------------------
# Queue order is INTENT — which PR should land first is a judgement about
# conflicts and dependencies that GitHub knows nothing about, so the
# reconciler must not guess it (LABELS.md's rule for `blocked`/`release`).
# What it CAN do is stop the label going stale the way needs-human did:
# the moment the PR is no longer the thing a human should merge next, the
# claim is removed. Setting it stays with whoever owns the queue.
if has_label merge-next && [ "$desired" != state:needs-human ]; then
run gh issue edit "$n" -R "$REPO" --remove-label merge-next >/dev/null
log "#$n: cleared merge-next (state is $desired, not mergeable-by-a-human)"
fi
# ---- stale: real activity only, and blocked is legitimately quiet ----
last_activity="$(
{
@ -216,6 +338,16 @@ main() {
# PENDING reviews are unsubmitted drafts in someone's browser — not a verdict
REVIEWS_JSON="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/pulls/$n/reviews" --jq '.[]' \
| jq -s '[.[] | select(.state != "PENDING")]')"
# mergeability + the check rollup, the two facts the state machine was
# blind to (#136). `gh pr view` rather than the REST PR object: the API's
# `mergeable` is a tri-state boolean that GitHub computes lazily, while
# this returns the same MERGEABLE/CONFLICTING/UNKNOWN string the UI shows.
# Failure to read them is NOT fatal and NOT treated as broken — an API
# hiccup must never flap every PR into needs-rebase, so both degrade to
# the "do not know" value that triggers nothing.
GH_VIEW="$(gh pr view "$n" -R "$REPO" --json mergeable,statusCheckRollup 2>/dev/null || echo '{}')"
MERGEABLE="$(jq -r '.mergeable // "UNKNOWN"' <<<"$GH_VIEW")"
CHECKS="$(checks_state <<<"$GH_VIEW")"
reconcile_pr "$n"
) || log "#$n: reconcile failed — continuing with the remaining PRs"
done

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@ -6,6 +6,91 @@ on the way to cutting its first release, and this file starts there.
## Unreleased
### Fixed
- **`state:needs-human` no longer appears on PRs a human cannot merge**
(#87, heavy-duty/box#136) — `decide_state()` derived state from three inputs
(draft flag, requested reviewers, submitted reviews) and read *nothing* about
mergeability or checks. Combined with the `if requested "$HUMAN"`
short-circuit at the top of its precedence, the label was **sticky**: once
the maintainer was requested, the PR read `state:needs-human` through
conflicts, through red CI, through a force-push that staled every approval.
Nothing demoted it.
This repo paid for it directly. During the ten-PR batch merged on 2026-07-20,
every merge re-conflicted the PRs below it through `CHANGELOG.md` — and each
one kept its `state:needs-human` label the whole time, inviting a merge that
could not happen. It was noticed only by opening them one at a time, which is
the exact work the label exists to save.
The rule the label now keeps is that **`state:needs-human` means a human
could merge this right now**, so anything making that false outranks the
request that put it there. A `CONFLICTING` branch or a failing check is the
agent's to fix: new `state:needs-rebase`. Approvals staled by a push mean
nobody reviewed this tree: `state:addressing`, because the agent owes a
re-request. An *unfinished* round still yields to an explicit human request —
a maintainer pulling a PR to themselves early is deliberate, and `MISSING`
(nobody has reviewed yet) is a different fact from `STALE` (everyone reviewed
something else). Precedence is applied to the round as a whole, after every
verdict is collected: deciding inside the loop let the order of `BOTS` pick
the answer, so a round that was *both* unfinished and staled returned on the
`MISSING` before any later bot's `STALE` was read — and came out
`needs-human` over a head nobody had reviewed, the original bug wearing a
different hat.
Whether a check blocks is judged by listing the outcomes that *don't*
`SUCCESS`, `NEUTRAL`, `SKIPPED`, and the pending set — rather than the
outcomes that do. The rollup mixes two closed enums (`CheckRun.conclusion`
and `StatusContext.state`), and an outcome the list forgets is one the label
cannot certify as mergeable: `ERROR`, `CANCELLED` and `STALE` all read as
green under an allow-list of failures. The costs are not symmetric — a false
failure parks the PR on the agent, who looks; a false success invites a human
to merge a tree that will not merge. Superseded runs are dropped first, each
context collapsing to its newest entry: a re-run does not evict the run it
replaced, so box#137's own tip carried a `CANCELLED` `scope` beside the
`SUCCESS` `scope` that superseded it, and judging every entry would have
stranded every re-run PR in `needs-rebase`.
Which entry is newest is dated by **when the run began**`startedAt`,
falling back only if it never recorded one — discarding *both* spellings of
absent. A run still in flight has no completion, but `gh` does not omit the
field: its Go struct marshals the zero time as the string
`0001-01-01T00:00:00Z`, and `//` falls through `null` and `false` only.
Dating by completion therefore sorted the *live* re-run to the bottom and
let `last` pick the very run it superseded — a green context with a
replacement mid-flight read `SUCCESS`, inviting a merge the button had
already disabled, which is #136 restored by the fix for it.
Taking the *newest* stamp each run carries is not a fix either, and this is
the subtle part: it compares a finished predecessor by when it **ended**
against a live successor by when it **began**, which is not an ordering on
runs at all. A run cancelled by the concurrency group does not stop the
instant its replacement starts — the runner has to receive the signal and
wind down — so the predecessor completing *after* the successor started is
the ordinary case, 13s wide on the box#137 tip that motivated the supersede
rule. For that whole drain window the dying predecessor out-dated its own
replacement. One consistent quantity, start time, is the only ordering that
holds. An entry carrying no usable timestamp at all sorts last rather than
first, so something that cannot be dated is never discarded in favour of a
stale success. Every ambiguity here resolves toward "not settled".
`UNKNOWN` mergeability is deliberately not treated as unmergeable: GitHub
reports it for about a minute after every merge while it recomputes, and
flapping every open PR through `needs-rebase` on each merge would be worse
than the bug. A failed read of either fact degrades to the same "do not know"
value, for the same reason.
Also adds `merge-next`, because a correct `needs-human` still does not say
*which* PR to merge first, and order matters when they conflict. Queue order
is intent, so the reconciler never sets it — it only **clears** it once the
PR stops being mergeable-by-a-human, which is precisely the staleness that
made `needs-human` untrustworthy. Both live shapes, the mixed round, the
whole check-outcome enum, and the re-run in every temporal arrangement it
occurs in — superseded, still in flight in both spellings of an absent
completion, undateable, and still draining past its replacement's start —
are pinned in `test/labels-reconcile.sh`. Ported from heavy-duty/box#137 so
the three repos' reconcilers stay byte-identical; fixtures 19 → 51.
### Added
- **`rig platform` — what is this machine, calculated at run time, stored

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@ -17,12 +17,38 @@ single reply, and a human takes the final review.
| `state:building` | `#FBCA04` | the coding agent, still building | PR opened as draft | marked ready + bot reviews requested |
| `state:bots-reviewing` | `#1D76DB` | the reviewer bots to finish the round | ready with reviews requested, or fixes pushed and reviews re-requested | all three bots have reviewed the round |
| `state:addressing` | `#D93F0B` | the coding agent to reply and push fixes | all bots reviewed the round, not all approved | the single round-reply is posted and fixes pushed |
| `state:needs-human` | `#8250DF` | the human reviewer | the human review is requested — by the author when the round passes, or automatically on three formal head-current approvals | merged — or changes requested, which cycles back to `state:addressing` |
| `state:needs-rebase` | `#B60205` | the coding agent to rebase or fix | the branch does not merge — GitHub says `CONFLICTING`, or a check has failed | it merges cleanly and checks are green again |
| `state:needs-human` | `#8250DF` | the human reviewer | the PR **could be merged right now**: mergeable, checks not failing, three formal head-current approvals — and the human review is requested | merged — or changes requested, which cycles back to `state:addressing` |
`bots-reviewing` and `addressing` are deliberately distinct: staleness in the
first means *poke the bots*, staleness in the second means *the agent dropped
the ball*. Collapsing them loses exactly the information a sweep needs.
**`state:needs-human` means one thing: a human could merge this right now.**
Anything that makes that false outranks the review request that put it there,
because the label is the only signal a maintainer scanning the board (or a
phone) actually reads — and a label that says "your turn" on an unmergeable PR
is worse than no label at all. Two things therefore take precedence over an
explicit human request:
- **it does not merge**`CONFLICTING`, or a failing check → `state:needs-rebase`
- **nobody reviewed *this* head** — every approval staled by a push → `state:addressing`,
because the agent owes a re-request
The second is the more dangerous of the two: with a conflict, GitHub at least
disables the merge button, while a staled-approval PR reads green, mergeable
and "waiting on the human" over code no reviewer has seen.
`UNKNOWN` mergeability is deliberately **not** treated as unmergeable. GitHub
reports it for about a minute after every merge while it recomputes, and
flapping every open PR through `needs-rebase` on each merge would be worse than
the bug this precedence fixes.
An *unfinished* round still yields to an explicit human request — a maintainer
pulling a PR to themselves early is a deliberate act. `MISSING` (nobody has
reviewed yet) and `STALE` (everyone reviewed something else) are different
facts and are treated differently.
## Cross-cutting (PRs and issues)
| Label | Color | Meaning |
@ -30,6 +56,7 @@ the ball*. Collapsing them loses exactly the information a sweep needs.
| `stale` | `#B60205` | No activity for 48h. Sweep-managed, never hand-applied. `state:building` + `stale` is precisely a forgotten draft. |
| `blocked` | `#6A737D` | Waiting on another PR or issue to land first. Quiet *legitimately* — the staleness sweep skips it. |
| `release` | `#0E8A16` | Release flow, versioning, and packaging work. |
| `merge-next` | `#0E8A16` | Head of the merge queue — **merge this one next**. Queue order is *intent* (which PR lands first, given how they conflict), so the reconciler never sets it: you or the agent maintaining the queue do. The reconciler only **clears** it, the moment the PR stops being something a human could merge — so it cannot go stale the way `state:needs-human` did. |
## Scope — which surface? (PRs and issues, any number)
@ -69,7 +96,9 @@ missing label idempotently. To create them by hand (needs push access):
gh label create "state:building" --color FBCA04 --description "PR is a draft — the coding agent is still building" --force
gh label create "state:bots-reviewing" --color 1D76DB --description "Waiting on the bot reviewers to finish the round" --force
gh label create "state:addressing" --color D93F0B --description "All bots reviewed — coding agent owes the single reply + fixes" --force
gh label create "state:needs-human" --color 8250DF --description "All bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer" --force
gh label create "state:needs-rebase" --color B60205 --description "Does not merge — conflicts or failing checks; the agent owes a fix" --force
gh label create "state:needs-human" --color 8250DF --description "Mergeable, green, all bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer" --force
gh label create "merge-next" --color 0E8A16 --description "Head of the merge queue — merge this one next (set by hand/agent, cleared here)" --force
gh label create "stale" --color B60205 --description "No activity for 48h — needs a poke (sweep-managed)" --force
gh label create "blocked" --color 6A737D --description "Waiting on another PR or issue to land first" --force
gh label create "release" --color 0E8A16 --description "Release flow and version/packaging work" --force

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@ -146,5 +146,183 @@ REQUESTED="$HUMAN"
expect "live human request suppresses re-request" not-needed "$(human_request_needed && echo needed || echo not-needed)"
REQUESTED=""
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# #136: state:needs-human must mean "a human could merge this RIGHT NOW".
# Both cases below were observed live in this repo on 2026-07-20, and both
# showed state:needs-human while being unmergeable in different ways.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL_APPROVE="$(reviews \
"$(rev "$BOT1" APPROVED head1 "" t1)" \
"$(rev "$BOT2" APPROVED head1 "" t2)" \
"$(rev "$BOT3" APPROVED head1 "" t3)")"
# -- flavour 1: not mergeable. The merge button is disabled, yet the board
# said "your turn" on #119/#120/#127 for hours.
DRAFT=false HEAD_SHA=head1 REQUESTED="" REVIEWS_JSON="$ALL_APPROVE" MERGEABLE=CONFLICTING CHECKS=SUCCESS
expect "a CONFLICTING PR is needs-rebase, not needs-human" state:needs-rebase "$(decide_state)"
REQUESTED="$HUMAN"
expect "...even with the human explicitly requested" state:needs-rebase "$(decide_state)"
# -- red CI is the same claim: not something a human should merge.
REQUESTED="" MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE CHECKS=FAILURE
expect "a red PR is needs-rebase" state:needs-rebase "$(decide_state)"
REQUESTED="$HUMAN"
expect "...and a human request does not override red CI" state:needs-rebase "$(decide_state)"
# -- UNKNOWN is NOT unmergeable. GitHub reports it for ~a minute after every
# merge while it recomputes; treating it as broken would flap every open PR
# into needs-rebase on each merge — worse than the bug being fixed.
REQUESTED="" MERGEABLE=UNKNOWN CHECKS=PENDING
expect "UNKNOWN mergeability does not trigger needs-rebase" state:needs-human "$(decide_state)"
# -- flavour 2 (the dangerous one): mergeable, green, human requested, and
# NOBODY has reviewed this head. Observed on #119 after a rebase: every
# signal read "merge me" and nothing on the page contradicted it.
MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE CHECKS=SUCCESS REQUESTED="$HUMAN"
REVIEWS_JSON="$(reviews \
"$(rev "$BOT1" APPROVED oldhead "" t1)" \
"$(rev "$BOT2" APPROVED oldhead "" t2)" \
"$(rev "$BOT3" APPROVED oldhead "" t3)")"
expect "stale approvals outrank the human request (nobody reviewed this tree)" state:addressing "$(decide_state)"
# -- ...and a round that is BOTH unfinished and staled is still the agent's.
# Deciding inside the bot loop made this depend on BOTS order: the MISSING
# returned before any later bot's STALE was read, so the mixed round came
# out needs-human with nothing bound to the head. Pinned at both ends of
# the array, because the whole failure was one of ordering.
MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE CHECKS=SUCCESS REQUESTED="$HUMAN"
REVIEWS_JSON="$(reviews \
"$(rev "$BOT1" APPROVED oldhead "" t1)" \
"$(rev "$BOT2" APPROVED oldhead "" t2)")"
expect "stale approvals + a bot yet to review is addressing, not needs-human" \
state:addressing "$(decide_state)"
REVIEWS_JSON="$(reviews "$(rev "$BOT3" APPROVED oldhead "" t3)")"
expect "...and the same when the stale verdict is the LAST bot in BOTS" \
state:addressing "$(decide_state)"
# -- but an UNFINISHED round still yields to an explicit human request: a
# maintainer pulling a PR to themselves early is deliberate, and was the
# original precedence. MISSING differs from STALE — nobody has reviewed
# YET, versus everyone reviewed something else.
REVIEWS_JSON="$(reviews "$(rev "$BOT1" APPROVED head1 "" t1)")"
expect "an unfinished round still yields to an explicit human request" state:needs-human "$(decide_state)"
REQUESTED=""
expect "...and without that request it is still bots-reviewing" state:bots-reviewing "$(decide_state)"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# checks_state: the rollup classifier. It lived inline in main() for the first
# round of this PR, which is why nothing here caught it calling ERROR,
# CANCELLED and STALE green. Extracted so the enum can be pinned down.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rollup() { jq -n --argjson c "$1" '{statusCheckRollup: $c}'; }
run_() { jq -n --arg n "$1" --arg o "$2" --arg t "${3:-2026-07-20T15:00:00Z}" \
'{__typename:"CheckRun", workflowName:"ci", name:$n, conclusion:$o, completedAt:$t}'; }
ctx_() { jq -n --arg n "$1" --arg s "$2" --arg t "${3:-2026-07-20T15:00:00Z}" \
'{__typename:"StatusContext", context:$n, state:$s, createdAt:$t}'; }
expect "no checks at all is NONE" NONE "$(rollup '[]' | checks_state)"
expect "all green is SUCCESS" SUCCESS \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b SUCCESS)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a queued run is PENDING" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b QUEUED)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a plain failure is FAILURE" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b FAILURE)]" | checks_state)"
# -- the round-1 gap: outcomes that are neither success nor pending, and that
# leave a required check unsatisfied. All three reached the old `else`.
expect "a commit status ERROR blocks" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(ctx_ lint ERROR)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a CANCELLED run blocks" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b CANCELLED)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a STALE run blocks" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b STALE)]" | checks_state)"
expect "an outcome the enum does not know blocks, it does not pass" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b SOME_FUTURE_STATE)]" | checks_state)"
# -- NEUTRAL and SKIPPED satisfy branch protection; path-filtered jobs skip
# constantly, and calling that red would park every PR on the agent.
expect "NEUTRAL and SKIPPED are not failures" SUCCESS \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b NEUTRAL),$(run_ c SKIPPED)]" | checks_state)"
# -- latest-wins. The rollup keeps superseded runs, so this PR's own tip
# carried a CANCELLED `scope` beside the SUCCESS `scope` that replaced it.
# Without collapsing, making CANCELLED block would strand it forever.
expect "a re-run supersedes the cancelled original" SUCCESS \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ scope CANCELLED 2026-07-20T15:19:39Z),\
$(run_ scope SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:19:45Z)]" | checks_state)"
expect "...and the reverse order is not a re-run passing, it is one failing" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ scope SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:19:39Z),\
$(run_ scope CANCELLED 2026-07-20T15:19:45Z)]" | checks_state)"
# same job name in a different workflow is a different context, not a re-run
expect "same name in another workflow does not supersede" FAILURE \
"$(rollup "[$(jq -n '{__typename:"CheckRun",workflowName:"labels",name:"scope",conclusion:"FAILURE",completedAt:"2026-07-20T15:00:00Z"}'),\
$(run_ scope SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:19:45Z)]" | checks_state)"
# -- a run still IN FLIGHT. `run_()` cannot express this: it always carries a
# real completedAt, which is exactly why the supersede rule shipped dating
# runs by completion and nothing caught it. Both spellings of "no
# completion" are pinned, because `gh` emits the zero sentinel (a string,
# which `//` does not fall through) while the API emits null.
inflight_() { jq -n --arg n "$1" --arg t "$2" --arg c "${3:-0001-01-01T00:00:00Z}" \
'{__typename:"CheckRun", workflowName:"ci", name:$n, status:"IN_PROGRESS",
conclusion:"", startedAt:$t, completedAt:(if $c == "null" then null else $c end)}'; }
expect "a re-run in flight beats the success it superseded (zero sentinel)" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ build SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:00:00Z),\
$(inflight_ build 2026-07-20T15:10:00Z)]" | checks_state)"
expect "...and the same when the absent completion is null" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ build SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:00:00Z),\
$(inflight_ build 2026-07-20T15:10:00Z null)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a replacement in flight for a CANCELLED run is pending, not failed" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ build CANCELLED 2026-07-20T15:00:00Z),\
$(inflight_ build 2026-07-20T15:10:00Z)]" | checks_state)"
# an entry carrying no usable timestamp is treated as newest, not oldest —
# ambiguity resolves toward "not settled" rather than toward a stale success.
# Guarded by the sort tiebreak rather than the dating expression: reverting
# only `at:` leaves this passing, so the two changes are separately pinned.
expect "an undateable in-flight run is not discarded for a stale success" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(run_ build SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:00:00Z),\
$(jq -n '{__typename:"CheckRun",workflowName:"ci",name:"build",conclusion:"",startedAt:null,completedAt:null}')]" \
| checks_state)"
# ...and the reverse direction, which stops "in flight sorts last" being
# widened into "in flight always wins": a run that FINISHED after an earlier
# in-flight entry is the newer word, and the context is settled.
expect "a finished re-run supersedes an earlier in-flight run" SUCCESS \
"$(rollup "[$(inflight_ build 2026-07-20T15:19:00Z),\
$(run_ build SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:19:45Z)]" | checks_state)"
# -- the wind-down window. A predecessor cancelled by the concurrency group
# does not stop the instant its replacement starts, so its completion
# routinely lands AFTER the successor's start — on box's aa5a6ba the
# replacement started 15:19:38 and the run it cancelled finished 15:19:51.
# Dating by "newest stamp of any kind" compares the dead run's completion
# against the live run's start, which is not an ordering on runs, and the
# predecessor wins. Every fixture above spaces completion before start, so
# none of them can see it. run_() cannot express the overlap either — it
# carries no startedAt — hence the explicit payloads.
overlap_() { jq -n --arg n "$1" --arg o "$2" --arg s "$3" --arg c "$4" \
'{__typename:"CheckRun", workflowName:"ci", name:$n, conclusion:$o,
startedAt:$s, completedAt:$c}'; }
expect "a predecessor finishing after its replacement started is still older (CANCELLED)" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(overlap_ scope CANCELLED 2026-07-20T15:19:00Z 2026-07-20T15:19:51Z),\
$(inflight_ scope 2026-07-20T15:19:38Z)]" | checks_state)"
expect "...and the same when it finished green — mid-flight is not mergeable" PENDING \
"$(rollup "[$(overlap_ build SUCCESS 2026-07-20T15:19:00Z 2026-07-20T15:19:51Z),\
$(inflight_ build 2026-07-20T15:19:38Z)]" | checks_state)"
# -- the classifier feeds the state machine: a cancelled required check must
# take the PR off the human's plate, which is the whole point of #136.
DRAFT=false HEAD_SHA=head1 REQUESTED="$HUMAN" REVIEWS_JSON="$ALL_APPROVE" MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE
CHECKS="$(rollup "[$(run_ a SUCCESS),$(run_ b CANCELLED)]" | checks_state)"
expect "a cancelled check reaches decide_state as needs-rebase" state:needs-rebase "$(decide_state)"
# -- the happy path survives all of the above.
REVIEWS_JSON="$ALL_APPROVE" MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE CHECKS=SUCCESS REQUESTED=""
expect "mergeable + green + three head-current approvals is needs-human" state:needs-human "$(decide_state)"
# -- and a draft outranks everything, including a conflict.
DRAFT=true MERGEABLE=CONFLICTING
expect "a draft is building even when conflicted" state:building "$(decide_state)"
DRAFT=false MERGEABLE=MERGEABLE CHECKS=SUCCESS REQUESTED="" REVIEWS_JSON='[]'
printf 'labels-reconcile tests: %d passed, %d failed\n' "$pass" "$fail"
[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]