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Problem

GitHub drops about 60% of scheduled ticks here: give the budget poller a second cron slot and a staleness window that matches

From the issue: The dry-run budget poller (.github/workflows/budget-poller.yml, merged in PR 2031) is scheduled hourly (17 * * * *) and is schedule-only by design (no workflow_dispatch, because a manual dispatch could run branch code that receives the Claude token). Its liveness rule warns when no OK record is newer than bp_stale_hours (default 3 hours), and the retry cron (#2139) ignores a record older than that same bound.

Risk

Medium — changes GitHub Actions workflow behavior, which is exercised only post-merge; verify via the affected workflow runs.

Test plan

Tests added/updated: tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_poller.bats. Verification: bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh (shellcheck --severity=warning) ran pre-commit; the bats suite runs in CI.

Rollback

Revert this PR. No non-revertible side effects (no tags, migrations, or external state).

Monitoring

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Closes #2160

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Code Review

This pull request updates the dry-run budget poller to run on two hourly cron slots instead of one to address dropped scheduled ticks, adjusts the staleness warning threshold from 3 to 6 hours, and adds tracking for trigger events, cron schedules, and start delays. Feedback suggests using a structural YAML parser like yq instead of raw text scanners (grep and awk) in the tests to ensure robust assertions on the workflow configuration.

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CodeAnt Nitpicks

1 code suggestion

1. With an even number of delay samples, this selects the upper middle value instead of averaging the two middle values, so the reported median is wrong.

Logic error · scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh:368

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CodeAnt PR Risk: Low Risk

• The PR appears safe to merge; the poller changes are covered by focused tests for scheduling, delivery reporting, and stale-record behavior.
• The 6-hour staleness window intentionally changes how long consumers trust a poll; tests cover the new default and the existing override.

Assessed commit: 7396ce74ef45

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All reported issues were addressed across 7 files

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Dev-Lead — review-changes (applied)

Changes committed and pushed. Requested items addressed:

• tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_poller.bats:704 — applied
• scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh:368 — applied
• tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_poller.bats:674 — applied

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PR: #2163
No changes were committed, but the PR still can't be marked done: required check CodeQL is still pending. The retry cron will re-attempt automatically. Next attempt after: 2026-10-09T23:25:18Z

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Fixed in scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh line 368: added explicit | floor to array index calculations when computing the median for even-length arrays. This ensures jq treats the indices as integers, preventing the median from incorrectly selecting only the upper middle value instead of averaging the two middle values.

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Existing test changed without justification — human attention needed

The fix-bot-comment pass changed, deleted, or skipped existing test(s) to go with its fix: tests/dev-lead/unit/test_budget_poller.bats. A previously-passing test that disagrees with a change is a reason to question the change, not to edit the test, so dev-lead did not push this pass (#2013).

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• scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh:52 — not applied

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Fixed in scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh: explicitly floor the division result before using it as an array index in the even-length case to ensure both middle values are correctly selected and averaged, rather than selecting only the upper middle value.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
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Addressed 0 new threads. The one open thread was already fixed in a previous pass.
- **Thread PRRT_kwDOR9SdIs6q_gFL** (maintainer thread, `scripts/lib/budget-poller.sh:52`): the fix is in commit d68a6ff. That commit updated `tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dev_lead_retry_budget_hold.bats` for the new 6h stale default and added the two 3h01m-record cases the reviewer asked for. This pass didn't commit anything, so I posted no new reply, addressed-marker or claim. A reply already exists on the thread, and the thread stays open for the maintainer because it has no automation marker.
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 7396ce74ef45daa9ea6591d8967a7df09922417e
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Adds a second cron slot (:47) to the dry-run budget poller, raises the default staleness window from 3h to 6h (still overridable), and records trigger/scheduled-slot/start-delay fields so tick delivery can be measured. The fleet monitor now reports runs received in 24h against the 48 expected. Schedule-only, read-only permissions, and the single existing secret are all unchanged. The triage-approved assessment holds.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #2160. All four scope items and all four acceptance criteria are addressed:

• AC1: a yq-based static test asserts exactly two crons, schedule as the only trigger, contents:read,actions:read permissions with no job-level or write scopes, and only CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN.
• AC2: tests cover the 6h default and the BUDGET_POLLER_STALE_HOURS override. The dependent retry-cron test in test_dev_lead_retry_budget_hold.bats is updated, with the reason stated in a comment. It also gains FRESH-at-default and STALE-at-3h cases.
• AC3: bp_build_record tests cover the scheduled fields, previous-hour aliasing, null for non-hourly or invalid crons, an end-to-end run, and carry-forward of pre-#2160 records.
• AC4: the ShellCheck and bats checks are green.
• The AGENTS.md rationale for 6h is present, and so is the interaction-model table update.

Findings

No blocking findings.

• Security: github.event.schedule is passed through env: (BUDGET_POLLER_CRON), not interpolated into run:, so there is no injection surface. No new secret, no new trigger, no permission change. concurrency: budget-poller with cancel-in-progress: false prevents overlap between the two slots.
• Correctness: the jq scheduled() def safely yields null for non-matching or >59 minute crons, via capture(...)? + select + // null. The median in bp_delivery_line now averages the two middle values for even samples, and a test pins this (600/1200/1800/3600 -> 25m). bp_delivery_line is best-effort (|| true) and handles a missing log.
• Prior threads: all 5 review threads are resolved. These include the maintainer's required update to the retry-hold test, which was verified at this head. The ack-test-deletion label covers the intentional edits to existing staleness tests (seeds moved from 4h/5h to 7h for the new default).
• Nit (non-blocking): the retention comment changes from 720 records (~30 days) to ~15 days at two slots an hour. At ~40% delivery the real span will be longer; this is documentation only.

CI status

All required checks pass: Lint, ShellCheck, shellcheck, bats, unit, unit-tests, CodeQL, SonarCloud (quality gate passed), gitleaks, actionlint, AgentShield, and the stub/permissions guards. cubic is NEUTRAL (advisory; it says all reported issues were addressed). Skipped jobs are not applicable to this PR. The MCP secret-scanning tool is not available in this run, but the gitleaks check is green.

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