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feat: implement issue #2174 — Remove a PR from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue) - #2183

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Remove a PR from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue)

From the issue: Maintainer decision (2026-10-10): when the fleet withdraws an approval from a PR that is in the merge queue, the PR must be removed from the queue. Without this, withdrawing an approval no longer stops a merge.

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

Test plan

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

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

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Closes #2174

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…he fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue)
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  • .github/workflows/lint.yml
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  • New Features
    • Pull requests in the merge queue are now removed when they no longer have an approval on their current revision. This check runs after review approvals are dismissed and after review verdicts are posted.
    • A notice is posted when a pull request is removed, with separate notices for successful and unsuccessful removal.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Closed or already-removed pull requests are handled without unnecessary action. If removal fails while the pull request remains queued, a notice alerts maintainers.
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Walkthrough

Review-processing scripts now check whether a pull request remains approved on its current head after review actions. If it is queued and no approval stands, a shared helper dequeues it and posts a notice. New Bats tests cover the helper and script integrations.

Changes

Approval withdrawal and merge queue

Layer / File(s) Summary
Live-state dequeue logic
scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh, tests/test_merge_queue_dequeue.bats
The helper reads live pull request and review state. It dequeues an open, queued pull request when no approval stands for the current head. It handles races and failures without failing the caller, and uses per-head markers for notices. Tests cover decisions, idempotency, and failure paths.
Review-script hooks and validation
scripts/invalidate-standing-approval.sh, scripts/post-pr-review.sh, scripts/review-one-pr.sh, AGENTS.md, .github/workflows/lint.yml, tests/test_merge_queue_dequeue.bats
The scripts call the helper after applicable review dismissals and verdict posting. Documentation records the dequeue conditions and rollout details. Tests cover script integrations and confirm the stale-review workflow contains no dequeue logic. The lint workflow runs the new Bats suite.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReviewScript as post-pr-review.sh
  participant GitHub
  participant DequeueHelper as mq_dequeue_if_unapproved
  ReviewScript->>GitHub: Dismiss prior review and post verdict
  ReviewScript->>DequeueHelper: Check pull request after review actions
  DequeueHelper->>GitHub: Read live queue and approval state
  DequeueHelper->>GitHub: Dequeue if no current-head approval stands
  DequeueHelper->>GitHub: Post success or failure notice
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5acf4

The change dequeues PRs that lose their last approval. In the rare case where the live state cannot be read, only a run-log warning is produced and the PR may stay queued. Consider posting a notice or a step summary for that path, but it does not need to block the merge.

Pre-merge checks | Passed 3 | Failed 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Issue #2174 requires any approval for the current head, from a bot or a human. scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh queries latestOpinionatedReviews(..., writersOnly: true), so it does not establish… Read approval state without restricting the query to writers, and add coverage for an approving non-writer if that state is supported by the API. Use one per-head idempotency marker across successful and failed dequeue notices, then update …
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: removing pull requests from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval. It is longer than necessary but remains specific and relevant.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Problem, Risk, Test plan, Rollback, and Monitoring sections, plus the linked issue. The Summary section and template checklist are omitted, but the description is…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed helper, call sites, workflow test registration, Bats coverage, and AGENTS.md guidance all support issue #2174. The changes do not add dequeue logic to the stale-review workflow or change r…


Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2174 requires any approval for the current head, from a bot or a human. scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh queries latestOpinionatedReviews(..., writersOnly: true), so it does not establish approval state for every reviewer. Issue #2174 also requires one marker comment per head SHA. The helper uses separate success and failure markers, and the test explicitly expects two comments for one SHA after a success followed by a failed dequeue. The implementation does satisfy the live queue/head checks, post-verdict integrations, race handling, failure exit status, documentation, and most listed tests.

Resolution

Read approval state without restricting the query to writers, and add coverage for an approving non-writer if that state is supported by the API. Use one per-head idempotency marker across successful and failed dequeue notices, then update the retry and failure tests so a head SHA never receives two notices.



Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)




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Code Review

This pull request introduces a mechanism to automatically dequeue a pull request from the GitHub merge queue when its last approval is withdrawn, implemented via a new helper script scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh and integrated into the review post-processing and invalidation workflows. Comprehensive tests have also been added. The review feedback focuses on improving shell script robustness under set -e environments, specifically recommending that command substitutions be assigned to variables before conditional checks to avoid swallowing exit statuses, adding error handling and portable templates for mktemp, and providing fallback defaults in jq queries to prevent potential parsing crashes.

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CodeAnt PR Risk: Low Risk

  • The PR appears safe to merge; it checks live approval and queue state before removing an unapproved PR.
  • The helper handles read and dequeue failures without failing the caller, and tests cover human approvals, races, retries, and failure notices.
  • The review-channel rollout follows the next autocut, so the protection will not reach that channel until promotion.

Assessed commit: 976f7dd814f7

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-10-10T11:34:47Z.

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Risk tier: MEDIUM. This is a merge-gate control: it decides whether unapproved code can merge. If it fails, it leaves the status quo in place rather than adding a new hazard. The 23 bats cases cover the decision table, the races, idempotency and set -e safety well. What's still open is how far the mock matches real GitHub behavior.

What I'd shore up (highest leverage first):

  • Check the mock against a recorded GitHub response. The stateful gh mock builds latestOpinionatedReviews itself. It ignores writersOnly, keeps DISMISSED, and groups reviews by user. Record one real GraphQL response for a PR that has a dismissed bot approval and a human approval, and run _mq_read_state on it. In particular, confirm the bot counts as a writer. If it doesn't, every re-approval of a queued PR dequeues it, and PRs bounce in and out of the queue.
  • The read-failure path fails open. If the state can't be read, the code only logs a warning and the PR can still merge without approval, which is exactly the Remove a PR from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue) #2174 failure. Decide on purpose whether this path should post the manual-removal notice like the failed-dequeue path does, then pin that choice with a test.
  • Read-after-write lag on the approve path. No test covers a fresh approval that isn't visible yet in the live read. In that case the PR is dequeued, and the notice wrongly says the review "withdrew its approval". Add a test, or a short re-read before dequeuing.
  • Verification only happens after merge. The change ships through pr-review/v1-next and ring promotion. Run one live canary on a throwaway PR in a queue-enabled test repo (enqueue, dismiss, then check for one dequeue and one notice) before calling Remove a PR from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue) #2174 verified.

Escalate? no

Advisory only — I comment, I do not change code. Ground: BMAD Test Architecture
(bmad-tea v1.19.0). Opt out on this item with the qa-lead:hands-off label.

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Dev-Lead — review-changes (partial)

A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:

  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:64 — applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:96 — applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:123 — applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:153 — applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:51 — applied
  • scripts/invalidate-standing-approval.sh:137 — not applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:126 — applied

The unaddressed items above still need work.

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Maintainer review against "Remove a PR from the merge queue when the fleet withdraws its last approval (reviews are only checked when a PR joins the queue)" (#2174). The helper reads live state, handles the already-merged and failed-call cases, and posts one marker per head, all as specified. One required change, inline: two dismissal sites are missing, including the one that produced both observed bypasses.

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-10-10T11:44:33Z.

Comment thread scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh
…ailure marker

Test-Change-Justification: marker_count now matches both dequeued and dequeue-failed notices, because the failure notice got its own marker per the Graphite review on #2183 (thread PRRT_kwDOR9SdIs6rDVko); the failure-notice assertion now looks for the dequeue-failed marker.

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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (partial)

A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:

  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:130 — not applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:15 — applied
  • scripts/lib/merge-queue-dequeue.sh:76 — not applied

The unaddressed items above still need work.

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- Around line 100-105: Update the `_mq_read_state` failure branch in the
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