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feat: implement issue #1698 — qa-lead over-escalates test flakiness at production tier — the one held-out case parity did NOT fix (HIGH/escalate where MEDIUM/no is correct) - #1773
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds QA lead risk-tier guidance, three holdout cases, a Bats regression suite, and lint workflow coverage for the new test suite. ChangesQA Lead calibration
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This calibration can produce inconsistent risk decisions and allow existing scored recommendations to change unnoticed. Resolve both regression-contract gaps before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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This pull request introduces three new holdout cases to calibrate the QA Lead risk-tiering logic, updates the advisory prompt guidelines with clear instructions on distinguishing test-infrastructure flakiness from production defects, and adds a BATS test suite to verify these calibration cases. The reviewer suggested replacing the heredoc in the BATS test suite with an inline Python script using python3 -c to improve portability and robustness across different BATS versions and shell environments.
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Scored calibration run (AC #4 — maintainer-delivered) — 1.000, 9/9Run 34720130354 against this
The bias is fixed, and it did not trade for a worse one
The check that mattered more was All three new calibration cases pass on their first scored run (0.95 / 0.99 / 0.97), including One thing to watch, not to fix here
Not a blocker — it passes, and re-running for a single case would mostly measure judge noise. But it Trajectoryqa-lead's held-out score across this workstream: 0.167 → 0.333 → 0.833 → 1.000. The first three |
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In `@prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md`:
- Around line 123-126: Update the “Reserve HIGH / escalate” guidance in
qa-lead-hold-coverage-gaming so coverage-quality issues such as meaningless
assertions receive MEDIUM severity with escalation handled separately; reserve
HIGH only for issues with substantial production blast radius.
In `@tests/test_qa_lead_holdout_calibration.bats`:
- Around line 52-55: Update assert_case to validate the six preserved
recommendations against fixed expected record values, rather than only checking
that recommend is non-empty. Snapshot the pre-existing records or compare all
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓
Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 98033c6c1734e670e2072d056f71adadb07e420c
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)
Summary
PR #1773 recalibrates qa-lead risk tiering for test flakiness (issue #1698): new 'Calibrating the risk tier' guidance in prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md, three new holdout cases (harness-flakiness=MEDIUM/no, flakiness-masking-real-race=HIGH/yes, slow-deterministic=LOW/no), a BATS regression guard pinning the six pre-existing references byte-exactly, and one lint.yml line registering the test. Both findings from the prior review (cycle 2) at ca1ccce are resolved at this head: the coverage-gaming HIGH/MEDIUM inconsistency is fixed by the new escalation-independent-of-tier prose that explicitly pins coverage-quality gaps at MEDIUM/escalate, and assert_case now pins exact recommend text for the six preserved references. CodeRabbit approved after the fix; all five review threads are resolved. No security surface: prompt/eval/test text only, plus a single test-path addition to an existing bats list in lint.yml.
Linked issue analysis
Closes #1698 (qa-lead over-escalates test flakiness at production tier). Substantively addressed: the advisory prompt now tiers by production blast radius rather than harness symptom severity, distinguishing harness-caused flakiness (MEDIUM/no) from flakiness masking a real production race (HIGH/yes) and slow-but-deterministic suites (LOW/no), with a fixture-vocabulary guard against payments-sandbox inflation. A maintainer-delivered scored calibration run at true parity (engine_tier=persona, opus-4-8) reports 1.000, 9/9 — including the previously failing flaky-network-e2e case — satisfying the issue's acceptance evidence.
Findings
- Prior major (advisory.md HIGH-list vs coverage-gaming holdout inconsistency): RESOLVED — new prose decouples escalation from tier and explicitly sets meaningless-coverage gaps to MEDIUM/escalate=yes, matching the holdout reference and BATS assertion.
- Prior minor (assert_case only checked recommend non-empty): RESOLVED — the six pre-existing references now pin exact recommend strings; the three new AC #1 cases intentionally require only non-empty recommend.
- No new issues introduced by the fix commit (ca1ccce..98033c6 touches only advisory.md and the bats test).
- Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool not available in this environment — skipped, not fabricated. Manual diff review (prompt/eval/test text only) found no credentials; gitleaks CI check passed.
CI status
All checks green at 98033c6: Lint, ShellCheck, bats, unit-tests, CodeQL (actions+python), gitleaks secret scan, SonarCloud quality gate, agent-shield, holdout-guard, validate-eval-cases, validate-fixtures, and all org guard checks SUCCESS. Cancelled entries are superseded earlier runs of dev-lead/review workflows; the latest run of each is green. mergeStateStatus=BLOCKED only pending the required review this approval satisfies.
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓
Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 98033c6c1734e670e2072d056f71adadb07e420c
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)
Summary
Recalibrates qa-lead risk tiering per issue #1698: adds explicit tiering guidance to prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md separating harness-caused flakiness (MEDIUM/no-escalate), flakiness masking a real production race (HIGH/escalate), and slow-but-deterministic suites (LOW/no-escalate); adds 3 matching holdout cases; adds a bats regression test pinning the 3 new cases and the 6 pre-existing references (with exact recommend strings); wires the test into lint.yml. Purely additive (170+/0-).
Linked issue analysis
Closes #1698 (qa-lead over-escalates test flakiness at production tier). Substantively addressed: the fix targets exactly the failing case pattern (flaky-network-e2e HIGH/yes vs reference MEDIUM/no) with calibration guidance and characterization cases, while explicitly guarding against weakening the existing references (payment-happy-only stays HIGH/yes, etc.). A maintainer-delivered scored calibration run (AC #4) reports 1.000, 9/9 on the expanded holdout, confirming the recalibration works at production tier.
Findings
- No security-sensitive changes: no auth/secrets/credentials, no migrations, no security anti-patterns. The lint.yml change is a one-line addition of the new bats file to the existing test list — no permissions, actions, or trigger changes.
- Bot review threads (gemini, codeant, coderabbit) are all resolved; the coverage-gaming HIGH/MEDIUM conflict flagged by bots was fixed in the prompt text (now explicitly MEDIUM/escalate), and the bats test now pins exact recommend strings for the six references as CodeRabbit suggested.
- Known limitation (acknowledged in a resolved thread): the bats test validates the holdout fixture, not live qa-lead output — acceptable since live behavior is covered by the scored calibration run.
- Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool not available in this environment; gitleaks CI check is green.
- Risk MEDIUM because this changes an agent's decision-making prompt (non-trivial behavior change), mitigated by holdout regression tests and the 9/9 calibration run.
CI status
All checks green at 98033c6: Lint, bats, unit-tests, shellcheck, actionlint, CodeQL (actions + python), Agent Security Scan, agent-shield, gitleaks, SonarCloud, holdout-guard, validate-eval-cases, prompt-coverage, and all repo guards SUCCESS. Cancelled entries are superseded runs from earlier commits; skipped entries are ecosystem-gated dependency audits.
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