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fix(pr-fix): separate human decisions from retry exhaustion (#1218) - #1221
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Introduce a structured outcome model for the PR-fix queue so needs-human means an actual unresolved design/scope/authorization/conflict decision, not bounded retry exhaustion. - Add PARKED status and PrFixOutcome (human_decision | no_progress | infra_failure | security_failure); persist outcome on PrFixQueueItem and PrFixHistory, plus decisionDetail for human decisions. - BLOCKED is now reserved for human_decision (NEEDS_HUMAN lane, needs-human label, marker comment rendering question/options/evidence). Every automatic cap/give-up (attempt, reclaim, refused-FIXED, post-dispatch reopen, failed report) parks as PARKED/no_progress with a diagnostic comment and no needs-human label. - Infra/auth and security failures park and fail closed: never blindly retried, never mislabeled as human design work. - BLOCKED and PARKED are sticky to automatic enqueue/evidence; only explicit operator requeue or a maintainer mark to QUEUED releases them. FIXED keeps its #940 and new-evidence reopen paths. All writes stay generation-pinned. - tasks/report accepts blockReason/decision; a bare blocked report is no_progress (parked), not a human decision. - Truthful metrics: surface workerExecutions (fixAttempts) and enqueueRows separately instead of conflating enqueue rows with worker attempts. - Docs: new pr-fix-outcome-policy.md and updated pr-review-fix-queue.md.
- Retract the needs-human label when a BLOCKED item is later marked PARKED (surfacePrFixParked gains removeNeedsHumanLabel; finishMarked sets it on BLOCKED -> PARKED) so the label never disagrees with the parked outcome. - Add tests: infra/security outcomes through the mark surface path, PARKED sticky to automatic enqueue, and stale-generation no-ops on the reclaim and post-dispatch reopen paths. - Clarify the migration (TEXT/JSONB columns avoid the in-transaction ADD VALUE cast) and document advisory fresh-enqueue outcome semantics.
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Courier: already addressed (run courier-3593ac53b3140f63e3118b4143c36771) PR #1221 (head 1108c02, run branch courier/misospace/dispatch/issue-1218, pushed and in sync with origin; open non-draft). The only review is its-saffron[bot] CHANGES_REQUESTED with no code defect: verdict derived solely from requirement_trace gaps (9 unresolved of 13, all 'no valid enforcement location'; model verdict 'approve'). All findings verified against code at head: outcome model src/types/index.ts:264-283, PARKED/NEEDS_HUMAN split src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:134-135 + :1296-1318, park paths :1065-1078/:884-920/:1684-1738/:1911-1958/:2534-2585, operator requeue :2202-2268, sticky guard :1031-1051, generation pins :2421-2432/:1806-1810/:895-900, metrics :442-443/:463, report-route validation src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/tasks/report/route.ts:207-243 — each with tests added in this diff. Resolved by rewriting the PR body with a per-requirement traceability section (every cited req id mapped to its enforcing production line at head 1108c02 and verbatim test names) plus the invariants/other-paths section. Local validation on head 1108c02: npm run typecheck clean; npm run lint 0 errors (1 pre-existing unrelated warning); targeted vitest 530/530 passed across all 8 touched suites (pr-fix-queue, pr-fix-queue-report, pr-fix-surfacing, pr-followup-ingestion, queued route, tasks/report route, work-summary, mcp); prisma generate valid. No code change was required, so no new commit; PR left open with CI pending for operator verification. |
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Recommendation: approveThis is a well-scoped, well-tested refactor that delivers the policy in issue PR 1218: BLOCKED is reserved for genuine human decisions (NEEDS_HUMAN lane, Claims
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Verdict set from open findings (verdict_policy=strict): 8 blocker/major finding(s) out of 9 open; model verdict was 'approve'. Posted automatically by Dispatch on 2026-10-12T04:24:43.489Z |
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Requesting changes on head 1108c02724b279ee6997ed17dad9e3618b1b93cd. The outcome model and queue cap split are good, and CI is green, but these are blockers against #1218's recovery/surfacing and sticky-human-decision requirements:
[P1] PARKED rows are invisible in the operator PR Fix Queue UI. listQueuedPrFixItems(... includeBlocked:true) now includes PARKED, and the page requests include_blocked=true, but src/app/automation/pr-fix-queue/page.tsx:101-102 partitions items into only BLOCKED and QUEUED. Only those two lists are rendered. As a result, every newly PARKED item disappears from the operator dashboard, with no UI requeue action despite the new API's support. Add a distinct visible PARKED group with its outcome/diagnostics and operator requeue action, plus coverage.
[P1] A genuine human-decision report can be automatically reopened instead of BLOCKED. In src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1602-1615, settlesAttempt includes BLOCKED and hasActionablePostDispatchEvidence takes the unconditional writeReopen path. If a worker reports blocked with blockReason: human_decision while fresh feedback arrived during the run, writeReopen writes QUEUED (or PARKED at cap), clears the decision fields and can re-dispatch without an operator deciding. resolvePrFixFromAgentReport then even returns action: blocked despite the row not being BLOCKED. That violates the explicit #1218 rule that actual human decisions are sticky and never automatically released. Preserve the incoming evidence, but settle the human decision as BLOCKED and require explicit operator release. Add a focused test with nonempty actionable post-dispatch evidence plus a human_decision report.
[P2] The stale-handout reclaim-cap PARKED transition doesn't surface diagnostics. In reclaimStalePrFixHandouts (src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:881-934), the cap path writes PARKED/no_progress and history, increments report.blocked, then continues without calling surfacePrFixParked. The other new cap paths post a diagnostic marker, as promised in the PR description and outcome policy. Ensure this transition emits the parked diagnostic (outside the transaction) and test it. Consider renaming the report counter so blocked doesn't count newly parked work.
No objections to the broader model; these three targeted fixes should make this mergeable.
…RKED UI) Settles the three blockers joryirving raised on the #1218 PR: P1 — A genuine human-decision report can be auto-reopened instead of BLOCKED. settlesAttempt included BLOCKED, so a worker reporting `blocked` with blockReason: human_decision while fresh post-dispatch feedback arrived silently flipped the row back to QUEUED (or PARKED at cap), cleared the decision fields, and re-dispatched without an operator. Narrow the post-dispatch reopen path to FIXED only; BLOCKED and PARKED settlements are now sticky on fresh evidence. The bounded re-decision loop and the forced-fallback tail both honor the same rule; the sticky pair skips the head fetch so a never-released row never costs a GitHub round-trip. New evidence stays recorded on the row for operator visibility; only an explicit operator requeue (or a maintainer mark to QUEUED) releases it. P2 — Stale-handout reclaim-cap PARKED transition didn't surface diagnostics. reclaimStalePrFixHandouts wrote PARKED + history but never called surfacePrFixParked, so the parked marker comment was missing on this transition while every other cap path posted it. Add the call outside the DB transaction so operators see every PARKED item in one place, and rename the report counter: a new `parked` field is the truthful name going forward; `blocked` is kept as a backwards-compatible alias. P1 (operator UI) — PARKED rows were invisible in src/app/automation/pr-fix-queue/page.tsx. Partition them into their own visible group with the structured outcome, the worker's attempt count, and the same requeue action the BLOCKED group already had. Tests: - Update the pre-existing tests that expected BLOCKED → QUEUED reopen to expect the new sticky behavior with the operator-facing decision payload preserved. - Add a focused report-handler test for the reviewer-flagged scenario (human_decision + actionable post-dispatch evidence). - Reassert that the cap parks transition posts the parked diagnostic. Local validation: 176 files / 4191 tests pass, 16 skipped, 1 todo. `npm run typecheck` clean. `npm run lint` clean (one pre-existing unrelated warning in src/app/login/page.tsx). CI/checks on this PR are pending — not claimed green.
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Handoff (current head All three blockers from joryirving's CHANGES_REQUESTED review (and the two follow-on AI-review concerns at this head) are settled by commit
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REQUEST_CHANGES on exact head f810c15. The prior three findings are fixed: the operator page renders PARKED with requeue, post-dispatch evidence no longer automatically reopens a human decision, and the reclaim-cap path surfaces parked diagnostics. Core head checks were green at review time (automated review pending). One new P1 state-ownership blocker remains.
[P1] A worker can erase a genuine human decision by marking PARKED at the same attempt generation.
src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:33–41,62–66 explicitly allows worker-tier PARKED and BLOCKED marks when they supply generation. markPrFixItem does not bump generation when it settles QUEUED -> BLOCKED. At src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1843–1850, the settlement updateMany conditions include id, optional generation, and empty post-dispatch keys, but do not require status: "QUEUED" or otherwise guard the status read. A second mark for the same generation therefore succeeds after the first decision has been recorded. nextStatus === "PARKED" in markPrFixItem (:1663–1666) clears decisionDetail, sets lane NORMAL and outcome no_progress; finishMarked (:1807–1819) then calls surfacePrFixParked with removeNeedsHumanLabel: true. The result is that a genuine unresolved human decision disappears from the human queue without operator authorization.
Deterministic repro: Start with QUEUED generation 1. Submit markPrFixItem({status:"BLOCKED",expectedGeneration:1,decision:{question:"Which behavior?"}}); observe BLOCKED/NEEDS_HUMAN/human_decision with generation 1. Submit markPrFixItem({status:"PARKED",expectedGeneration:1,outcome:"no_progress"}) (also permitted through the worker mark API). It succeeds, changes the row to PARKED/NORMAL, clears the decision and retracts the label. pr-fix-queue.test.ts:4389–4411 currently asserts this downgrade succeeds, rather than guarding it. A race between two settlement requests holding generation 1 has the same issue.
Required: Preserve a genuine BLOCKED/PARKED settlement at the write boundary against any stale or second worker settlement on the same generation. Pin the expected active status, not just generation, at commit time (including the bounded re-decision / forced fallback paths). Allow only an explicit maintainer-authorized recovery/reclassification path to release a recorded human decision. If supporting operator correction from BLOCKED to PARKED is intentional, make that a separate explicitly authenticated operation, not an ordinary worker settlement. Add tests covering sequential and read→write-gap worker marks at unchanged generation, asserting the original decision, label, and decisionDetail remain intact and no misleading parked comment is surfaced. Keep existing operator requeue, evidence-on-sticky, and terminal upstream cleanup behavior.
No changes requested to the other verified #1218 fixes. I have not merged the PR.
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…rase a recorded human decision (#1218 review) A worker-tier mark to BLOCKED/PARKED on a row that already records BLOCKED/PARKED/FIXED at the same generation must no-op rather than overwrite the genuine human classification. markPrFixItem now requires 'status: QUEUED' at the commit-time updateMany for worker-tier BLOCKED/PARKED settlements (and the re-decision / sticky force branches); a same-generation second mark, or a read→write gap that flipped the row to BLOCKED/PARKED, returns 'generation-mismatch' instead of erasing the recorded decision. Operator reclassification (BLOCKED → PARKED to correct an outdated decision, or vice versa) is a separate, explicitly-authenticated path: the route handler forwards the auth-derived actorTier, and only a maintainer-tier caller with allowStickyReclassify=true bypasses the status pin. Workers cannot forge a maintainer tier — the tier is sourced from the auth result, not the request body. Audit log records the 'reclassify=true' flag when the operator path is taken. Tests: - new: 'status pin prevents worker erase of a recorded decision' suite covers sequential BLOCKED→PARKED, sequential PARKED→BLOCKED, commit-time guard on an already-BLOCKED row, operator reclassification, and fail-closed worker allowStickyReclassify=true. - updated: 'retracts the needs-human label when a BLOCKED item is later parked' now exercises the operator reclassification path. - updated: pr-fix-queue-report.test.ts where-clause expectation to include the new status: QUEUED pin.
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#1218) The reclaim-cap path now parks as PARKED in the NORMAL lane with outcome=no_progress (bounded no-progress exhaustion, not a human decision), but three doc comments still described the old BLOCKED + NEEDS_HUMAN behavior: - prisma/schema.prisma handoutReclaims column comment - prisma/migrations/20261009000000_add_pr_fix_handout_acks/migration.sql - src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts reclaimStalePrFixHandouts docstring All three now describe the same parking behavior the code path implements (src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:915-988) and point at the operator-requeue release path. No code change. Settles the minor stale-doc finding from the automated review at head 27c37c5. Local validation: typecheck clean; lint 0 errors (1 pre-existing unrelated warning in src/app/login/page.tsx); full vitest 4273 passed / 16 skipped / 1 todo; prisma validate valid.
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Handoff (head Settles the minor stale-doc finding flagged in the automated review at head Changes (docs only, no code):
Three places described the same behavior; all three updated for coherence. No code change, no migration change (the column is unchanged; only the documentation comment was refreshed). Local validation on head
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REQUEST_CHANGES on head 531eace (P1, remaining same-generation settlement hole). The previous BLOCKED→PARKED exploit is fixed: worker BLOCKED/PARKED writes now pin status: "QUEUED" in their fast, retry, and forced paths; operator-only reclassification is explicitly gated. The previous UI, sticky-evidence, and parked-surfacing findings are resolved. All 14 exact-head checks are green.
[P1] A second worker can still release an existing human decision using FIXED or STALE at the same generation. The new pinToQueuedForStickySettlement predicate in src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1583–1586 applies only when incoming nextStatus is BLOCKED or PARKED. But src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:33–41 also permits worker-tier FIXED and STALE marks with expectedGeneration, and settling BLOCKED/PARKED does not bump the generation.
Sequential repro: start QUEUED generation 1; worker marks BLOCKED with human_decision and decisionDetail; row is now BLOCKED/NEEDS_HUMAN, still generation 1. Worker holding that same token marks STALE generation 1. In markPrFixItem, STALE clears decision fields (:1730–1734) and the unconditional fast-path updateMany (:1887–1895) has no status predicate for this incoming status, so the row becomes STALE without a lifecycle verification or operator decision and disappears from the active operator listing.
FIXED is even more impactful. A worker's same-generation FIXED mark from BLOCKED also bypasses the status pin. If alreadyAddressed is accepted, or the head-moved guard passes, the fast-path mark writes FIXED and finishMarked retracts needs-human. If the head is unchanged, the refusal fallback at :1748–1827 can instead write QUEUED/PARKED (its updateMany checks id + generation, not status), clearing the decision and potentially re-dispatching; no successful push is required. In-flight FIXED settle/reopen/forced paths must also be covered, not just the happy-path mark.
Required narrow fix: Keep worker-issued terminal outcomes from overwriting a recorded BLOCKED/PARKED/FIXED settlement on the same generation. Apply a commit-time status: "QUEUED" predicate to all ordinary worker terminal status writes, including FIXED's refused-head fallback, post-dispatch reopen/redecision, and STALE; reserve intentional correction/release for maintainer-authorized operations (preserve genuine upstream merged/closed reconciliation as appropriate). Add regressions for BLOCKED gen N → worker FIXED (head unchanged and head moved/alreadyAddressed) and BLOCKED gen N → worker STALE, including a read→write race, proving status/decisionDetail/needs-human/history remain unchanged. Ensure operator requeue/reclassification and legitimate QUEUED worker settlements still function.
The newer BLOCKED/PARKED tests do not cover FIXED/STALE, and their claimed read→write-gap test runs the two marks sequentially; an actual mocked gap test would be valuable. No other code blocker found. Do not merge this head.
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Addressed the remaining FIXED/STALE same-generation settlement hole from review 5492110431, building on the existing actorTier/allowStickyReclassify structure. The commit-time status pin now covers every terminal outcome a worker token may submit — FIXED and STALE in addition to BLOCKED/PARKED — and is applied to every settlement write in markPrFixItem: the fast path, the evidence reopen, the refused-head FIXED rollback, the bounded re-decision loop, and the forced fallback. A recorded BLOCKED/PARKED settlement never bumps the generation, so without this a worker holding the same token could release or erase a genuine human decision via FIXED (happy path, refused rollback, or racing-evidence reopen/force) or STALE. Maintainer-authorized operations keep their broader transitions: operator requeue and explicit reclassification (allowStickyReclassify) are unchanged, and the #1105 needs-human cleanup tests now exercise the maintainer tier explicitly. Regressions added:
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Addressed the P2 from the latest review: maintainer tier alone no longer overwrites a recorded BLOCKED/PARKED classification. The pin predicate now keeps the two contracts distinct:
Regression added: maintainer marking an already-BLOCKED item PARKED without Validation: 250 targeted tests passed; typecheck and lint passed. Leaving this open for your review. No approval or merge performed. |
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Approved at e6360d0 after re-review. The last P2 finding is resolved: BLOCKED/PARKED reclassification requires explicit maintainer opt-in, while worker FIXED/STALE same-generation marks are pinned to QUEUED across fast, refusal and race paths. Regression tests cover those cases; build, test, typecheck, lint, database integration, migrations, coverage, smoke and Docker checks are green. The historical BLOCKED-row migration behavior is a separate rollout audit, not a code blocker.
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Summary
This PR adds a structured PrFixOutcome model that separates genuine human decisions (BLOCKED + NEEDS_HUMAN + needs-human label, with decision payload) from bounded retry/no-progress exhaustion and operational failures (PARKED + NORMAL + diagnostic marker, no label). Migration adds the enum value and the outcome/decisionDetail columns; worker settlement paths are generation- and status-pinned to prevent same-generation erasures; surfacing distinguishes workerExecutions from enqueueRows; and the report API accepts/validates blockReason and decision. Coverage is genuinely broad — the diff grew ~2400 lines of mostly test code against ~640 lines of production diff in pr-fix-queue.ts.
Recommendation
Approve. The change is well-scoped, the contract across the queue/ingestion/surfacing/UI surfaces is consistent, and every must-check item has production and test evidence. Both automated review concerns raised on prior heads are addressed in code I can see, and CI is green on e6360d0.
Change-by-change findings
- Schema/migration (
prisma/schema.prisma,prisma/migrations/20261012000000_add_pr_fix_outcome/migration.sql).PrFixStatus.PARKEDenum value added;PrFixQueueItem.outcomeanddecisionDetail(Json?) andPrFixHistory.outcomeadded as nullable columns;handoutReclaimscomment in#1218is updated to describe the parked outcome and release path. The migration header explicitly explains the choice to keep these as plain TEXT/JSONB so the new enum value can be added in the same transaction without the ALTER-TYPE/ADD-VALUE constraint that Postgres would otherwise impose. No destructive backfill — additive enum value + nullable columns are safe on an existing table. The companion20261009000000_add_pr_fix_handout_acksmigration's header comment is rewritten to describe the PARKED outcome instead of the BLOCKED routing it previously documented (consistency between doc and code). - Types (
src/types/index.ts:264–289). NewPrFixOutcometype,VALID_PR_FIX_OUTCOMES,isValidPrFixOutcome,normalizePrFixOutcome(trims + lowercases), andPrFixDecisionContextinterface. Validation helpers are exported;normalizePrFixOutcomeis case-insensitive. - Status pin (
src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts).MarkPrFixInputgrowsoutcome,decision,actorTier,allowStickyReclassify.pinToQueuedForStickySettlementappliesstatus: "QUEUED"to every settlement write — fast path, refused-head rollback, evidence reopen, forced fallback, and gap-reopen — for both BLOCKED/PARKED (unlessactorTier: "maintainer"+allowStickyReclassify: true) and for FIXED/STALE from non-maintainer callers. This addresses the P1 same-generation settlement hole. - Enqueue + queue (
src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts).enqueuePrFixItemtreats BLOCKED and PARKED as sticky terminal states (alongside STALE/IGNORED); the cap path now parks instead of handing to a human; outcome/decisionDetail are persisted in the same write; surface calls branch onwasBlocked/wasParked.listQueuedPrFixItemsincludes PARKED whenincludeBlocked: true.requeuePrFixItemnow accepts PARKED and releases the outcome. - Reclaim (
src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:reclaimStalePrFixHandouts). Reclaim cap writes PARKED + NORMAL +outcome: "no_progress", increments bothreport.parkedand the legacyreport.blocked, and posts the parked diagnostic viasurfacePrFixParked. Concurrent re-issue test added. - Report API (
src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/tasks/report/route.ts). New optionalblockReason(validated against the enum viaisValidPrFixOutcome, 400 otherwise) anddecision(validated shape: object with optional trimmed stringquestion, array of trimmed-non-emptyoptions, optional trimmed stringevidence). Both flow into the idempotency hash and are forwarded to the resolver. - Mark route (
src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts).WORKER_SETTLE_STATUSESadds PARKED alongside FIXED/BLOCKED/STALE. The route sourcesactorTierfrom the authenticatedauthobject (not the body) and only honorsallowStickyReclassifyfor maintainer callers, with defense-in-depth by stripping it from worker requests. - Surfacing (
src/lib/pr-fix-surfacing.ts). NewPARKED_COMMENT_MARKER = "<!-- dispatch-pr-fix-parked -->",buildParkedCommentwith per-outcome headlines (no_progress / infra_failure / security_failure / human_decision), andsurfacePrFixParked(no label applied; supportsremoveNeedsHumanLabel: true; folds Dispatch markers in place).surfacePrFixUnblockednow preserves whichever marker the existing comment carried. - Work summary (
src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/work-summary/route.ts). Countsparkedalongsideblocked. - Automation UI (
src/app/automation/pr-fix-queue/page.tsx). New "Parked" card with outcome label and requeue affordance; renamedrequeueBlocked→requeue. - Ingestion (
src/lib/pr-followup-ingestion.ts). Parked marker added toINFORMATIONAL_COMMENT_MARKERSso Dispatch's own parked comments do not re-enqueue the same item. - MCP (
src/mcp/server.ts).includeBlockeddescription updated to mention PARKED. - Docs (
docs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.mdnew;docs/pr-review-fix-queue.mdupdated). New file summarizes the outcome table, budgets, and recovery; existing file documents PARKED status and outcome columns, the new mark acceptance criteria, and the abandoned status pin from priorrouted to a humantext.
Coverage of Claims to Falsify
- Claim 1:
surfacePrFixBlockedis no longer applied to give-up caps;markPrFixItemno longer funnels every cap into BLOCKED + NEEDS_HUMAN. Held: 12/12 items. All enumerated call sites are either rewritten (giving-up caps now park) or unchanged benignly (docs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.md:5,11,12,16,20,22,26,docs/pr-review-fix-queue.md:14,15,67,68— all consistent with the new model). - Claim 2: Outcome table (human_decision → BLOCKED + NEEDS_HUMAN + needs-human + marker with question/options/evidence; no_progress → PARKED + NORMAL + diagnostic marker + no label; infra/security_failure → PARKED + NORMAL + diagnostic + fail closed). Held: 12/12 items.
docs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.md:1–20and:14,16,18,20describe exactly this; behavior in code (resolvePrFixOutcome,buildParkedComment,surfacePrFixParked) matches. - Claim 3: Attempt cap, reclaim cap, refused-FIXED cap, post-dispatch reopen cap, failed-report cap, enqueue cap — every one parks as PARKED + no_progress. Held: 12/12 items. Confirmed at
src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:enqueuePrFixItemcap branch ("PARKED", "NORMAL", outcome: "no_progress"), reclaim-cap (reclaimStalePrFixHandouts),writeReopencapped branch, refused-head cap,forceDatacapped branch,resolvePrFixFromAgentReport"blocked"and"failed"cap paths, all switchingsurfacePrFixBlocked→surfacePrFixParkedwithoutcome: "no_progress". Tests assert this insrc/lib/pr-fix-queue.test.tsandsrc/lib/pr-fix-queue-report.test.ts. - Claim 4: BLOCKED and PARKED are sticky to automatic enqueue/evidence; only an explicit operator requeue (or maintainer mark to QUEUED) releases them. Held: 12/12 items.
enqueuePrFixItem'sisTerminalStatusnow includes BLOCKED and PARKED (sticky lane preserved),pinToQueuedForStickySettlementkeeps worker-tier settlements from overwriting a prior settlement,requeuePrFixItemaccepts both BLOCKED and PARKED, and a maintainer mark to QUEUED clears outcome/decisionDetail. NewsurfacePrFixUnblockedpreserves the existing marker comment when folding. - Claim 5: Need-trace changes are added in response to
requirement_tracegaps. Held. No code defect was claimed; the changes are the new types/migration, validation, status pin, and result actionparkedplus the budget-context surfacing.
Standards Compliance (AGENTS.md)
- Repository conventions: No agent-specific names in generic docs — verified (
docs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.mdand the diffed sections ofdocs/pr-review-fix-queue.mduse no agent names). Label hygiene — the PR does not introduce any new per-attempt/per-model labels; the parked outcome is encoded via the existingneeds-humanabsence and theoutcomecolumn, which matches the umbrella-label guidance. Themanaged-labelcontract is unchanged. - Prisma: Schema only adds nullable columns and a new enum value with a default; no relationship relaxation; migration is consistent with the Prisma model.
- Validation: Inputs are validated before DB operations at every entry point —
parseEnqueuePrFixInputandparseMarkPrFixInputreject malformedoutcome/decision; report route validatesblockReasonis a valid outcome (400 otherwise) anddecisionshape (400 otherwise); MCP route is read-only. - No commit of secrets: No
.env/credential changes. - Lint/typecheck/CI: CI run on
e6360d0shows Build, Tests, Typecheck, Lint, Database integration, Workflow lint, Database migrations, Coverage, Docker Build, Docker Build (MCP), smoke, npm audit all success.
Linked Issue Fit (PR 1218)
The PR satisfies every acceptance criterion in the linked issue body:
- Structured outcome model with question, options, evidence —
src/types/index.ts:264–289,src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:parseDecisionContext,src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/tasks/report/route.ts:289–332. - Productive pushes advance, stale feedback consumes no budget, independent brakes —
isKnownEvidenceno-ops (no fixAttempts bump),handoutReclaims/PR_FIX_MAX_ATTEMPTSare orthogonal (keeps the attempt cap and the reclaim cap independenttest). - Exhaustion parks with diagnostics; needs-human stays only for genuine decisions — every cap path now produces
PARKEDand posts a comment viasurfacePrFixParked;surfacePrFixBlockedis reserved forhuman_decisionreports. Surfacing retractsneeds-humanwhen a BLOCKED is operator-downgraded to PARKED. - Stale generations cannot overwrite newer outcomes —
pinToQueuedForStickySettlementapplies on all settlement paths; commit-time pin catches the read→write gap; tests cover sequential and race cases. - Truthful metrics —
buildPrFixBlockedContextemitsworkerExecutionsfromfixAttemptsandenqueueRowsfrom history, never astotalAttempts. - Tests prove the bullets — 14 suites pass; the new
PR-fix outcome separation (#1218)andstatus pin prevents worker erasedescribes cover the bullets explicitly.
The PR explicitly scopes itself to PR-fix queue/marking/reporting surfaces as instructed; it does not touch unrelated code/config/labels.
Human Review Disposition
The human reviewer's outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED is from joryirving against a prior head (531eace), title "[P1] A second worker can still release an existing human decision using FIXED or STALE at the same generation." I verified in the current head (e6360d0) that the pinToQueuedForStickySettlement predicate at src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1590–1607 now covers FIXED and STALE (not just BLOCKED/PARKED) for non-maintainer callers, and the predicate is applied at every settlement write (fast-path settleWhere at :1914, refused-head rollback at :1811, evidence-reopen writeReopen at :1646, gap reopen clearedRow at :1989, forced fallback at :2093, sticky-force at :2043). Regression tests for sequential BLOCKED → FIXED (head moved | alreadyAddressed | STALE) and BLOCKED → FIXED (head unchanged) no-op both exist and pass. Additionally, the maintainer-only allowStickyReclassify requirement is preserved (isOperatorReclassify guard at :1585).
Tool Harness Findings
read_fileofdocs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.md,docs/pr-review-fix-queue.md,prisma/migrations/20261012000000_add_pr_fix_outcome/migration.sql,prisma/migrations/20261009000000_add_pr_fix_handout_acks/migration.sql,prisma/schema.prisma,src/types/index.ts,src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:100–300— all matched the assertions in Claims 1–5.git_grepforsurfacePrFixBlocked|surfacePrFixParked|needs-human|dispatch-pr-fix-blocked|dispatch-pr-fix-parked|removeNeedsHumanLabel|NEEDS_HUMAN_LABEL|PARKED_COMMENT_MARKERinsrc/lib— confirmed thatsurfacePrFixParked,PARKED_COMMENT_MARKER, and thedispatch-pr-fix-parkedreference inpr-followup-ingestion.tsare wired; tests mock all the right functions; no stray references to applyingneeds-humanto a parked outcome.- The grep returned
not_toHaveBeenCalled()lines forsurfacePrFixBlockedagainst parked/noprogress paths andtoHaveBeenCalled()lines forsurfacePrFixParkedagainst the same — exactly the behavior Claim 1, 3 demand.
Unknowns / Needs Verification
- I could not independently verify a CI re-run on the absolute head
e6360d0, but the visible CI matrix is fully green and the PR's doc-only follow-up was already validated locally peritsmiso-ai's handoff comment. Not a blocker. - Behavior on a worker-tier
surfacePrFixUnblockedagainst a never-stuck item would callremoveIssueLabeleven if the label was never present; existing tests cover the positive fold, and removal of an absent label is treated as success byremoveIssueLabel— not a blocker but worth a future test ifremoveIssueLabelever changes to throw.
Requirement trace (7 unresolved of 13)
7 of 13 requirement(s) not fully traced to enforcement and a test:
req-f4397b72c271— unverifiable (src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:42): Reclaim/attempt-cap exhaustion is routed to PARKED via outcome no_progress rather than BLOCKED/NEEDS_HUMAN; worker tokens settle to FIXED/BLOCKED/PARKED/STALE and require maintainer for requeue; tests cover bare blocked→parked and worker auth-tier checks.req-18e29e78bbd8— unverifiable (src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/queued/route.ts:17): Exhaustion paths (bare blocked, reclaim-cap, attempt-cap) persist status=PARKED with outcome=no_progress and never set needs-human; operator requeue path remains accessible via /api/pr-fix-queue/requeue and the requeueingKey UI flow.req-03af24bafa04— unverifiable (src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:59): A recorded BLOCKED outcome (lane=NEEDS_HUMAN, outcome=human_decision, decisionDetail set) is sticky: same-generation mark cannot silently reclassify it (allowStickyReclassify flows from server-side auth.tier only, stripped for workers) and automatic enqueue/evidence never auto-releases BLOCKED.req-00b537059048— unverifiable (src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/tasks/report/route.ts:292): infra_failure and security_failure map to status=PARKED with outcome classification (never human_decision); resolver/test assert the no_progress branch on bare blocked and the validation that prevents unrecognized blockReason from being silently coerced.req-5623137590c6— unverifiable (prisma/migrations/20261009000000_add_pr_fix_handout_acks/migration.sql:11): fixAttempts counts only worker executions; handoutReclaims/PR_FIX_HANDOUT_TIMEOUT_MS are tracked as independent budgets with their own cap, and the schema comment + migration specify no new numeric thresholds are introduced.req-582421fffc68— unverifiable (src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:99): Mark and report write paths use generation-conditional updateMany (compare on current generation); the route forwards actorTier so markPrFixItem can enforce commit-time status pin. Tests cover generation guard rejection and the parked-on-bare-blocked boundary that depends on the new outcome semanticreq-edeb8d078913— unverifiable (src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/work-summary/route.ts:100): Work-summary introduces a distinctparkedcounter on PrFixLaneCounts and adds an explicit PARKED branch separate from BLOCKED, so worker-execution metrics and queue-state counters remain disjoint. Test 'counts PARKED items under parked, not blocked' enforces the separation.
Outstanding Human Change Requests
- @joryirving's change request (531eace, head moved since) judged addressed at this head:
src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1590–1607 defines pinToQueuedForStickySettlement as true for FIXED/STALE from non-maintainer callers (in addition to BLOCKED/PARKED unless allowStickyReclassify). It is applied at the fast-path settleWhere (src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1914), refused-head rollback where clause (s…
Approval withheld: the review completed, but an in-scope requirement lacks verifiable enforcement or test evidence, so it is publishing as an advisory comment rather than an approval.
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Summary
Closes #1218. The PR-fix queue conflated genuine human decisions with bounded retry/no-progress exhaustion:
surfacePrFixBlockedunconditionally appliedneeds-human+ thedispatch-pr-fix-blockedmarker, andmarkPrFixItemfunnelled every cap/give-up intoBLOCKED+NEEDS_HUMAN. This separates the two with a structured outcome model, parks exhaustion, and keeps genuine decisions visibly human-blocked.Design (settled)
Structured
PrFixOutcome:human_decision | no_progress | infra_failure | security_failure, persisted onPrFixQueueItem.outcome(+decisionDetailJSON for human decisions) andPrFixHistory.outcome.human_decisionBLOCKEDNEEDS_HUMANneeds-humanlabel +<!-- dispatch-pr-fix-blocked -->comment rendering question/options/evidenceno_progressPARKEDNORMAL<!-- dispatch-pr-fix-parked -->comment, no labelinfra_failure/security_failurePARKEDNORMALPARKEDstatus. Every automatic cap/give-up (attempt cap, reclaim cap, refused-FIXEDcap, post-dispatch reopen cap, failed-report cap, enqueue cap) now parks asPARKED/no_progressinstead ofBLOCKED+NEEDS_HUMAN.BLOCKEDandPARKEDare sticky to automatic enqueue/evidence; only explicit operator requeue (or a maintainer mark toQUEUED) releases them.FIXEDkeeps its [P2] A pr-fix item marked FIXED on workload exit alone strands the PR forever, with no way back #940 and new-evidence reopen paths. Every write stays generation-pinned.tasks/reportaccepts optionalblockReason+decision { question, options, evidence }. A bareoutcome: "blocked"withoutblockReasonisno_progress(parked), not a human decision.workerExecutions(fixAttempts) andenqueueRowsseparately instead of the old "Total attempts" that counted enqueue/history rows.docs/pr-fix-outcome-policy.md(new) +docs/pr-review-fix-queue.md(updated).Requirement traceability (head
1108c02)Added in response to the automated review's requirement-trace gaps (no code defect was found; the CHANGES_REQUESTED was
requirement_traceonly). Every location below is a production-code line at this head;(pre-existing)marks unchanged predicates that predate this PR, each pinned here by tests added in this diff. Test names are verbatim.AC1 — structured outcome model; human decisions carry question, options, evidence.
src/types/index.ts:264-266(PrFixOutcome,VALID_PR_FIX_OUTCOMES),:268-275(isValidPrFixOutcome/normalizePrFixOutcome),:283(PrFixDecisionContext). Persistence:prisma/schema.prisma:134(PARKEDenum),:162(outcome),:165(decisionDetail);PrFixHistory.outcomeat:242.src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:191-193and:250-252(enqueue/mark reject unknown outcomes),:143-165(parseDecisionContextnormalizes question/options/evidence).src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/tasks/report/route.ts:207-214(blockReasonvalidated against the enum viaisValidPrFixOutcome, 400 otherwise),:217-243(decisionshape validation),:314-315(forwarded to the resolver). Resolvesreq-fcc48530103c.AC2 — productive push + fresh feedback advances; stale feedback consumes no budget; attempt / reclaim / wall-time budgets independent.
fixAttemptsincrements only on a fresh attempt:src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:1133-1136, gated byisFreshAttempt; known/stale evidence is detected at:1022(isKnownEvidence) and never takes the increment or moves status at:1056. Budget read sites are disjoint per budget: attempt capmaxPrFixAttempts():525-530(envPR_FIX_MAX_ATTEMPTS, default 5; only enforcement:1069,:1524,:1576,:1684,:1911,:2534); reclaim capmaxPrFixReclaims():553-556(envPR_FIX_MAX_RECLAIMS, counted byhandoutReclaimsincrement:945); wall timePR_FIX_HANDOUT_TIMEOUT_MS:538-551, read only by the hand-out sweep:767. Fresh-attempt/stale-feedback gating logic(pre-existing, #1074/#1119); no new thresholds introduced. Resolvesreq-5623137590c6.AC3 (headline finding) — exhaustion parks with diagnostics and a reversible operator requeue, never adds
needs-human; genuine decisions stay human-blocked and are never auto-released.src/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:134-135(resolvePrFixOutcome:BLOCKED⇒human_decision;PARKED⇒ explicit outcome orno_progress).:1065-1078(PARKEDat:1075); hand-out reclaim cap:884-920(PARKED+no_progresswrite at:902-904); refused-FIXEDcap:1684-1738; post-dispatch reopen cap:1911-1958; failed-report cap:2534-2585(resultparkedat:2623); blocked-report give-up:2469-2474.:1296-1318—surfacePrFixBlockedruns only on a newBLOCKED(:1298),surfacePrFixParkedonly on a newPARKED(:1308). Label logic:src/lib/pr-fix-surfacing.ts:276(surfacePrFixBlockedappliesneeds-human),:350(surfacePrFixParkedposts the diagnostic marker comment and applies no label; retracts a staleneeds-humanbefore parking,:376). Resolvesreq-85803192cfde,req-18e29e78bbd8.requeuePrFixItemsrc/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:2202-2268— releases only fromBLOCKED/PARKED/FIXED(:2214-2218), resets both budgets (fixAttempts: 1:2237,handoutReclaims: 0:2247), clearsdecisionDetail(:2235), and folds the marker comment / drops the label (:2266). Resolvesreq-f4397b72c271.:1031-1051— aBLOCKED/PARKEDsnapshot keeps its status and lane against automatic enqueue/evidence (:1038-1039, lane preserved:1050-1051); only an explicit operator requeue or a maintainer mark toQUEUEDreleases (mark-to-QUEUED fresh-attempt path:1630-1651).pr-fix-surfacing.test.ts), "parks a bare blocked report (a give-up is NOT a human decision)".AC3b — infra/auth and security failures fail closed, are never blindly retried, never labeled human.
route.ts:207-214;resolvePrFixFromAgentReportsrc/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:2469-2479parks every non-human_decisionreason with its explicit outcome (status: isHumanDecision ? "BLOCKED" : "PARKED"at:2474, outcome carried at:2479); mark path:1625-1628(PARKED⇒ laneNORMAL, explicit outcome stored,decisionDetailcleared).:1031-1051means no automatic enqueue, evidence re-observation, or sweep re-dispatches aPARKEDitem — release requires the operator requeue above.surfacePrFixParked(pr-fix-surfacing.ts:350-429) writes the machine-readabledispatch-pr-fix-parkeddiagnostic and never a label. Resolvesreq-00b537059048.AC4 — late/stale generations cannot overwrite newer outcomes; metrics distinguish worker executions from enqueue rows.
:2421-2432(stale generation ⇒action: "skipped", zero writes)(pre-existing, #1074); the report resolver pins every settlement write to the attempt generation (expectedGenerationderived:2462, passed:2476, forwarded into the guarded mark).markPrFixItem's single settlement write is a conditionalupdateManypinned togeneration: expectedGeneration(:1806-1810) and skips the history row on a pin miss(pre-existing, #1074); all newBLOCKED/PARKEDlabeling flows through that one path (:1620-1633,:1808); the terminal reclaim-capPARKEDwrite is generation-pinned inside its own transaction (:895-900); post-dispatch reopen re-decisions re-check the pin (:1850). Resolvesreq-e9cea0b5725a,req-582421fffc68.pr-fix-queue-report.test.ts), "a late worker generation cannot overwrite a human-decision outcome", "a late worker generation cannot overwrite a parked outcome", "a stale generation cannot reopen a PARKED item via post-dispatch evidence", "a concurrent re-issue no-ops the terminal PARKED write at the reclaim cap", "skips a generation-conditional mark when the generation no longer matches".buildPrFixBlockedContextsetsworkerExecutionsfromfixAttemptsatsrc/lib/pr-fix-queue.ts:442-443andenqueueRowsfrom the history enqueue count only at:463; rendered as two separate lines atpr-fix-surfacing.ts:108-112(old "Total attempts" removed). Resolvesreq-edeb8d078913.Invariants kept, and the other paths enforcing each
BLOCKEDcarriesneeds-human. Enforced insurfacePrFixBlocked(pr-fix-surfacing.ts:276); kept because the new park path uses the separatesurfacePrFixParked(:350), the surfacing split atpr-fix-queue.ts:1296-1318routes by status, andsurfacePrFixParkedretracts a stale label when aBLOCKEDitem re-parks (:376). The worker-token settle allowlist insrc/app/api/pr-fix-queue/mark/route.ts:37(WORKER_SETTLE_STATUSES) now includesPARKEDso a worker can report exhaustion without ever reaching theBLOCKEDlabeling (which stays decision-only atpr-fix-queue.ts:1620-1623).updateMany(pr-fix-queue.ts:1806-1810) or generation-pinned transactions (:895-900reclaim;:1065-1180enqueue re-decide loop); no new unguarded write path was added.BLOCKED/PARKEDare sticky to automatic flows. The single enqueue sticky guard (:1031-1051) also governs the newPARKEDvalue; the followup ingestion marker awareness (src/lib/pr-followup-ingestion.ts:212,PARKED_COMMENT_MARKER) prevents Dispatch from re-ingesting its own parked notice as new feedback.GET /api/pr-fix-queue/queuedwithinclude_blockednow returnsPARKEDtoo (src/app/api/pr-fix-queue/queued/route.ts:17); the agent queue exposesoutcomeand the listing exposesPARKED(toAgentQueuePrFixItem,pr-fix-queue.ts:2170);work-summarycounts distinguish executions (src/app/api/agents/[agentName]/work-summary/route.ts).:525-556); park decisions reuse the existing caps.Acceptance criteria
needs-human.Scope decisions
tasks/reportcontract now carries the distinction, so Courier needs no change beyond optionally supplyingblockReason/decision.Validation (local)
npm run typecheck— clean (re-run on head1108c02).npm run lint— clean, 0 errors (one pre-existing unrelated warning insrc/app/login/page.tsx).1108c02of the touched suites: 530/530 passed (pr-fix-queue,pr-fix-queue-report,pr-fix-surfacing,pr-followup-ingestion, pr-fix-queue queued route, tasks/report route, work-summary, mcp).npx prisma validate— valid.CI/checks on this PR are pending — not claimed green. Migration
20261012000000_add_pr_fix_outcomeadds thePARKEDenum value plusTEXT/JSONBcolumns (no backfill needed; existingBLOCKEDrows read ashuman_decisionby policy).Review
One independent adversarial review pass was run over the integrated diff; the blocker it found (BLOCKED → PARKED left a stale
needs-humanlabel) and its test-gap findings are fixed in the second commit. The follow-up automated review (CHANGES_REQUESTED at head1108c02) raised no code defect — its verdict came from a requirement-traceability gap (requirement_trace, 9 unresolved of 13, all "no valid enforcement location"; model verdict was "approve"). The traceability section above maps every acceptance criterion to its enforcing production line(s) at head1108c02and to the tests added in this diff, resolving each cited requirement id; no code change was required.