epic: close the loop — self-running contribution lifecycle (find → build → review → merge → repeat)

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Goal

Turn gittensory from a semi-automated contribution system into a self-running one — a loop anyone can join on either side:

miner finds a valuable issue → builds a polished (non-slop) contribution → submits a PR → maintainer auto-reviews via gittensory CI (hosted or self-hosted) → merge → attribution feeds the next pick → repeat.

Most stages already ship today (plan, pre-submit gate-check, draft, submit, deterministic gate + dual-AI review, autonomy dial). This epic tracks the four remaining gaps that close the loop, plus the public instrumentation that proves it works.

Current state (what already ships)

Loop stage	State
Plan	✅ agent_plan_next_work, build_plan DAG, elicitation prompts
Build	✅ by design — miner's own AI harness (Claude Code / Codex)
Pre-submit gate-check	✅ run_local_scorer, check_slop_risk, predict_gate, lint_pr_text (metadata-only)
Draft PR	✅ draft_pr_body, prepare_pr_packet
Submit	✅ by design — local gh action specs; gittensory never writes
Auto-review	⚠️ finishing — unified engine mid-cutover (#1011 → #1027)
Merge	⚠️ maintainer-only — autonomy dial supports auto but defaults to observe
Repeat / feedback	❌ missing — decision-pack rebuild is debounced, up to ~6h stale

The shared-plumbing insight

Two gaps below (accuracy/trust, and the feedback loop) both need one piece of infrastructure: a durable pr_outcome ground-truth event written to review_audit on the pull_request.closed / merged webhook (the event type and review_targets.terminal_at already exist). Build it once and it powers four things: the public accuracy stat, the maintainer trust dashboard, the autonomy circuit-breaker, and the miner feedback loop. This foundation is owned by the Proof-of-Power sub-issue (deliverable 1).

Children (the four gaps)

• Proof-of-Power public stats + pr_outcome plumbing — see sub-issue. Owns the shared ground-truth foundation; exposes the loop's output as public proof.
• Proactive cross-repo opportunity discovery — see sub-issue. The loop's weakest entry point; the biggest net-new miner gap. Builds on feat(planning): fold upstream-inspired advisor/scan ideas into gittensory miner planning #816.
• Accuracy & trust surfacing — wire the existing computeCalibration / computeGateParity (in src/review/ops.ts, src/review/parity.ts; currently unexposed) to the maintainer dashboard and the autonomy circuit-breaker, so maintainers have evidence to move the dial toward auto. Advances Wire ops/stats/alerts/self-improve (modules ported) + cron tick + tunables D1 #1022 and feat(ui): maintainer repo/org quality dashboard #539. (Consumes the pr_outcome foundation.)
• Real-time feedback loop — on pr_outcome, invalidate the miner's decision-pack (src/services/decision-pack.ts, currently up to ~6h stale) so merged → attribution → next-pick feels continuous. (Consumes the pr_outcome foundation.)
• Self-host stack — runtime portability, storage adapters, pluggable AI (Claude Code / Codex), Docker/compose. The other half of "anyone can join." Advances Roadmap: self-hostable maintainer-automation stack + gittensory convergence #975 / Runtime portability layer (serverless → portable Node core) #976–Dashboard + observability for self-hosted instances #982 / Docker / self-host image (convergence + publish layer over #976-982) #1029.

Sequencing

#1011 (finish cutover)
  └─ pr_outcome plumbing  (in Proof-of-Power sub-issue)
       ├─ accuracy + trust surfacing   ┐ parallel
       └─ real-time feedback loop      ┘
  └─ proactive discovery
  └─ self-host stack  (#975 tree)

Out of scope / guardrails

• Autonomous PR submission stays explicit (local gh, miner-controlled) — intentional safety boundary, not a gap.
• Respect the miner/maintainer privacy boundary throughout: deterministic, metadata-only signals; never expose raw scores, rewards, hotkeys, or wallet data.

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Labels: roadmap, maintainer-only · Assignee: @JSONbored

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2026-07-01 audit re-scope: keeping this epic, scoped to operator-local instrumentation; detached the retired homepage counter (#1059, closed) and cross-repo discovery (#1060, closed).