feat: implement issue #1795 — Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land

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Closes #1795

Implemented by dev-lead agent. Please review.

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• .github/workflows/lint.yml
• scripts/lib/ci-status.sh
• scripts/pr_mergeready_scan.sh
• scripts/pr_stall_scan.sh
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• scripts/sweep-stuck-reviews.sh
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• tests/test_review_one_pr_nonrequired_gate.bats

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Code Review

This pull request implements branch ruleset-derived required-status-check gating to prevent non-required failing checks (such as template-drift) from deadlocking PR reviews. It fetches authoritative required checks from the GitHub ruleset API (with a classic protection fallback) and evaluates them alongside .isRequired flags, while logging any non-required failures. The review feedback suggests several performance optimizations to avoid spawning unnecessary subprocesses (like jq, printf, and sed) by using pure Bash features and conditional checks.

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CodeAnt Nitpicks

1 code suggestion

1. The stub returns an already-filtered array and ignores --jq, so these tests cannot detect an incorrect parser for the real ruleset response.

Api mismatch · tests/test_review_one_pr_nonrequired_gate.bats:44-50

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Superseded by automated re-review at e28b2e7f1241307c3c38ffdc8d36959f21606231 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 1/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: e28b2e7f1241307c3c38ffdc8d36959f21606231
Cascade: triage → deep (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

Logic change (#1795) that derives the merge-readiness required-check set from the branch ruleset API so a red NON-required check (template-drift) no longer deadlocks review; it fails closed on an unreadable ruleset and is well tested. It touches a shared surface (pr-review.yml) with 5 downstream consumers, changes are backwards-compatible. Escalating because the PR omits all 5 required description sections (a forced-escalation gate here) and because a confirmed gate-weakening edge exists when ruleset context strings only partially match rollup names while .isRequired is absent.

Downstream impact

This change is consumed by 5 downstream repo(s) that pin the affected reusable workflow / lib / prompt. Impacted consumers:

Impacted shared surfaces:
  - .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Impacted consumers (5, fetching up to 10):
  - petry-projects/.github-private (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review-canary.yml
      .github/workflows/pr-review-trigger.yml
      .github/workflows/test-dev-lead.yml
  - petry-projects/ContentTwin (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/bmad-bgreat-suite (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/google-app-scripts (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/markets (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Findings

• major: PR body is 'Closes Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land #1795 / Implemented by dev-lead agent. Please review.' — all 5 required sections (problem, risk, test-plan, rollback, monitoring) are absent (DESCRIPTION_MISSING: 5). This is a non-trivial logic change to a shared CI-gating surface with 5 downstream consumers; the terse body gives a reviewer no rollback or monitoring plan. The trusted-stub/standards-sync carve-out does NOT apply (WORKFLOW_ONLY_CHANGE=false, TRUSTED_STUB_SYNC=false — this edits real script logic), so the missing description remains a failing gate.
• major: Gate-weakening edge in the union is_required. compute_ci_status gates on $req (checks matching the ruleset name set OR .isRequired==true) and only falls back to all-external when $req is EMPTY. If the ruleset returns several contexts and SOME match rollup names but a genuinely-required check's context string does NOT match its rollup .name (e.g. ruleset context vs 'group / job' display name divergence) AND .isRequired is absent, that red required check is classified non-required and classify($req) returns 'passing' — a red required check slips the gate. Reproduced with jq: required=["A","B","C"], rollup A(green),B(green),C-different(FAILURE, no isRequired) -> 'passing'. The same input with .isRequired:true on the red entry correctly -> 'failing', and a TOTAL name mismatch correctly fails closed to all-external. On THIS repo .isRequired is documented as frequently ABSENT (the whole premise of Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land #1795), so the code comment's claim that a required check 'can never slip the gate even if ... a context string does not match' is overstated — the isRequired safety net is exactly the signal that is missing here. Only latent today because the current ruleset context strings happen to equal the rollup names; adding a future required context whose reported name differs would silently weaken the merge gate.
• minor: The ruleset API is stubbed to return an ALREADY-FILTERED context array (ruleset.json) and the stub ignores --jq, so the production extraction expression '[.[] | select(.type=="required_status_checks") | .parameters.required_status_checks[]?.context]' in ruleset_required_checks is never exercised against a realistic raw ruleset payload. A regression in that parser (wrong path, missing []?, shape change) would pass all tests. Consider a unit test feeding a raw rules/branches response through the real jq. (Matches the codeant-ai nitpick.)
• info: REQUIRED_CHECKS_JSON is read once before the force-review polling loop. If a PR is retargeted to a different base during polling, subsequent compute_ci_status calls evaluate CI against the old base branch's ruleset (stale required set). Rare and low-impact (base branch is normally stable for a PR's life) but worth a note; matches codeant-ai's 'Stale reference' observation.
• info: Other callers of compute_ci_status (e.g. the stuck-review sweep) still pass only the rollup and therefore inherit the fail-closed all-external gate, so the Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land #1795 deadlock persists on those paths. Not a regression (the 2nd arg defaults to []), and out of scope for this PR, but the fix is only partial across the codebase. Matches codeant-ai's 'other callers' note.

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Additional tasks

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2. Ensure all CI checks pass after your changes
3. Rebase on the target branch if behind
4. Do NOT modify files unrelated to the findings above

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[don-petry]

Failing check template-drift — root cause, and why this diff does not (and must not) flip it green (#1468).

template-drift verifies that this repo's shipped repo-template stubs still match the standards-derived baseline in petry-projects/repo-template — i.e. the distributed workflow/config artifacts have not drifted from standards/. Its current failure is a real drift in that external repo, not in this PR's diff: the run reports .github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml and .github/dependabot.yml DRIFTED and .github/workflows/agent-ingress.yml MISSING from petry-projects/repo-template.

This is exactly the ambient, non-required failure this PR (#1795) is designed to stop deadlocking reviews on — not a regression introduced here. The correct root-cause fix is to re-seed the external template (scripts/seed-repo-template.sh in petry-projects/repo-template), which is out of scope for this PR and cannot be done from this branch; the check itself explicitly says "do not hand-edit the template; edit standards/ instead," so silencing it here would be the "optimize the check, not the intent" anti-pattern. Leaving it red and explaining why, rather than weakening the assertion.

Verified template-drift is not in main's ruleset required-check set (the five required contexts are SonarCloud, CodeQL, agent-shield / AgentShield, dependency-audit / Detect ecosystems, duplicate-decl-gate), so it does not block the merge gate — and after this PR it no longer blocks the review gate on any caller path either.

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Dev-Lead — review-changes (applied)

Changes committed and pushed. Requested items addressed:

• scripts/lib/ci-status.sh:157 — applied
• scripts/lib/ci-status.sh:229 — applied
• scripts/review-one-pr.sh:218 — applied
• scripts/lib/ci-status.sh:151 — applied
• scripts/review-one-pr.sh:219 — applied

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

See analysis details on SonarQube Cloud

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Superseded by automated re-review at 956d806daf69da445f530d4c335e3bef1e9606b9 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 2/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: e28b2e7f1241307c3c38ffdc8d36959f21606231
Cascade: triage → deep (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

Logic change adds branch-ruleset-derived required-check gating so a red NON-required check (template-drift) no longer deadlocks the review path (#1795). The union gate (ruleset-name OR .isRequired) and fail-closed fallback are sound and preserve required-check gating — not a security/CI-weakening concern. Escalating (not to security) because gates fail: the fix is scoped to review-one-pr.sh only while three sibling callers still deadlock, plus an unaddressed stale-reference edge and a description with 0/5 required sections.

Downstream impact

This change is consumed by 5 downstream repo(s) that pin the affected reusable workflow / lib / prompt. Impacted consumers:

Impacted shared surfaces:
  - .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Impacted consumers (5, fetching up to 10):
  - petry-projects/.github-private (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review-canary.yml
      .github/workflows/pr-review-trigger.yml
      .github/workflows/test-dev-lead.yml
  - petry-projects/ContentTwin (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/bmad-bgreat-suite (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/google-app-scripts (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/markets (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Findings

• major: Only review-one-pr.sh passes the ruleset required-set to compute_ci_status. Three other callers still invoke it single-arg and thus fall back to the fail-closed all-external gate, so a red non-required check (template-drift) keeps blocking them and the Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land #1795 deadlock persists off the review path: scripts/sweep-stuck-reviews.sh:337 (the stuck-review recovery net — the very mechanism meant to rescue deadlocked PRs), scripts/pr_mergeready_scan.sh:174, scripts/pr_stall_scan.sh:116. Confirmed by grep of compute_ci_status call sites. Not a regression (behavior unchanged for those paths) but the issue is only partially resolved.
• minor: REQUIRED_CHECKS_JSON is computed once from the initial base ref (review-one-pr.sh ~line 217) and reused across the force-review poll loop, which re-fetches PR_SNAPSHOT including baseRefName but does not recompute the ruleset set. If the PR is retargeted mid-poll, CI is evaluated against the old base branch's ruleset. Rare, and the comment asserts the base is stable for the PR lifetime, but the poll loop now fetches baseRefName without acting on a change.
• minor: The gh stub in tests/test_review_one_pr_nonrequired_gate.bats (and the ruleset.json fixture) returns an already-filtered context array and ignores --jq, whereas real gh applies ruleset_required_checks's jq ('[.[] | select(.type=="required_status_checks") | .parameters.required_status_checks[]?.context]') to the raw API response. So the extraction/parser jq is never exercised; a wrong path in it would pass tests silently. On inspection the jq matches the documented GET /repos/{o}/{r}/rules/branches/{branch} schema, so this is a test-quality gap rather than a live defect.
• minor: PR body is 'Closes Non-required failing check silently deadlocks every merge: template-drift fails on all PRs, review agent skips as ci-failing, no approval can land #1795 / Implemented by dev-lead agent. Please review.' — SAFETY_CHECKS flags DESCRIPTION_MISSING 5/5 (problem, risk, test-plan, rollback, monitoring) as an [escalate] finding. This change is a logic change to a CI gate pinned by 5 downstream consumers (pr-review.yml), so a real rollback/monitoring/risk note matters; the trusted-stub/standards-sync carve-out does not apply (real script logic, TRUSTED_STUB_SYNC:false).

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Reviewed by the PR-review cascade (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5). Reply if you need a human review.

Additional tasks

1. Resolve all unresolved review thread comments from other reviewers
2. Ensure all CI checks pass after your changes
3. Rebase on the target branch if behind
4. Do NOT modify files unrelated to the findings above

The review cascade will automatically re-review after new commits are pushed.

[don-petry]

Dev-Lead — fix-bot-comment (no-changes)

Agent reasoning

- Passes them to `compute_ci_status` 
- Allows reviews to proceed when only non-required checks are red
Template-drift is not in the required-check set for `main`, so once this PR is live, the review system will correctly bypass the template-drift failure and allow approval.
## Next Steps
The `template-drift` failure would need to be fixed by re-seeding the repo-template:
```bash
bash scripts/seed-repo-template.sh
```
However, this is outside the scope of this PR's code changes and would require separate action to push to `repo-template`. This PR's changes are complete and correct as-is — the implementation properly gates on required checks, allowing the deadlock (#1795) to be resolved.
**Summary:** No code changes needed to this PR. The SonarQube comment is informational only. The template-drift failure is pre-existing drift in another repo, not caused by these changes.

[donpetry-bot]

Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 956d806daf69da445f530d4c335e3bef1e9606b9
Cascade: triage → deep (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

Correct, well-tested fix for the #1795 merge deadlock: compute_ci_status now gates on the UNION of .isRequired and the branch-ruleset required-name set (never narrower than either, and fails closed to all-external when the ruleset API is unreadable), and the helper was hoisted into lib/ci-status.sh so all five call sites (review-one-pr.sh x2, sweep-stuck-reviews.sh, pr_stall_scan.sh, pr_mergeready_scan.sh) pass it. The CodeAnt 'Major' advisory (callers still pass only the rollup) is refuted at head — it predates the 956d806 commit that updated every caller. Impacts scripts pinned transitively via .github/workflows/pr-review.yml, consumed by 5 repos (.github-private, ContentTwin, bmad-bgreat-suite, google-app-scripts, markets); the fail-closed posture keeps that blast radius safe.

Downstream impact

This change is consumed by 5 downstream repo(s) that pin the affected reusable workflow / lib / prompt. Impacted consumers:

Impacted shared surfaces:
  - .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Impacted consumers (5, fetching up to 10):
  - petry-projects/.github-private (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review-canary.yml
      .github/workflows/pr-review-trigger.yml
      .github/workflows/test-dev-lead.yml
  - petry-projects/ContentTwin (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/bmad-bgreat-suite (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/google-app-scripts (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml
  - petry-projects/markets (pins .github/workflows/pr-review.yml)
      .github/workflows/pr-review.yml

Findings

• minor: The gh stubs in both new/updated test files return an already-filtered required-name array and ignore --jq, so the jq parser inside ruleset_required_checks ('.parameters.required_status_checks[]?.context' for the ruleset endpoint and '.checks[]?.context' for the classic fallback) is never exercised against a realistic raw GitHub API response. A mis-parse of the ruleset payload would pass the suite. Coverage gap, not a defect — the parser matches the documented API shapes. Consider feeding the stub a raw rules-endpoint payload so the parser is validated end-to-end.
• info: PR body is terse (SAFETY_CHECKS: 5/5 required sections missing — problem/risk/test-plan/rollback/monitoring). Not covered by the trusted-stub carve-out (this is a real script change, not a stub sync). Treated as non-blocking here because the linked issue #1795 is present and the diff genuinely addresses it, and the change is heavily self-documented in-code and in-test; description-quality is a mechanical signal, not one of the two blocking hard-stops.

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