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feat: implement issue #2185 — dev-lead fix-bot-comment edits a verbatim org-standard stub on a standards-sync PR when a bot suggests it — the PR drifts from the template it syncs - #2191
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A shallow checkout may weaken the protection against changing synced stubs. Check history completeness before relying on the guard; the risk is bounded to that condition. Pre-merge checks |
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Issue #2185 requires bot-driven changes to synced stubs to be blocked, maintainer restores to remain actionable, and sync-PR files outside standards/ plus non-sync PRs to remain unaffected. The prom… |
Limit the sync-stub scan to files in standards/ or files with a valid in-scope SOURCE OF TRUTH header. Preserve the explicit headerless allow-list for known synced standards files. Add a regression test showing that a sync PR file outsi… |
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Docstring coverage is 78.95% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 4 files. (4 skipped: … | Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title accurately identifies the affected dev-lead pass, synced stub, standards-sync PR, and template drift. It is overly long but remains clear and directly related to the main change. Description check The description includes the required Problem, Risk, Test plan, Rollback, and Monitoring sections, with issue context and validation details. It omits the Summary section and the checklist, but the co… Out of Scope Changes check The changed prompt rules, sync-stub guard library, harness wiring, and Bats tests directly implement or verify issue #2185. No unrelated change is established by the available PR summary.
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#2185requires bot-driven changes to synced stubs to be blocked, maintainer restores to remain actionable, and sync-PR files outsidestandards/plus non-sync PRs to remain unaffected. The prompt updates andssg_evaluatewiring support the bot refusal, template pointer, no-push path, maintainer override, and non-sync bypass. The added Bats tests cover these guard paths. However,ssg_scan_passadds every path from${merge_base}..${pre}topr_pathsand treats any changed path in that set as synced content, even when the path is outsidestandards/and has no validSOURCE OF TRUTHheader. That can block an unrelated file in astandards-syncPR, which does not meet the third acceptance criterion.Resolution
Limit the sync-stub scan to files in
standards/or files with a valid in-scopeSOURCE OF TRUTHheader. Preserve the explicit headerless allow-list for known synced standards files. Add a regression test showing that a sync PR file outsidestandards/is not blocked.
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Docstring coverage is 78.95% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 4 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)
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This pull request introduces a sync-stub guard mechanism to prevent bot-driven passes from modifying synced org-standard stubs on standards-sync pull requests. This is achieved by adding prompt guardrails across several dev-lead prompt files, implementing the guard logic in scripts/lib/sync-stub-guard.sh, integrating it into the dev-lead-fix-reviews.sh harness, and adding comprehensive unit tests. Feedback on the changes suggests improving shell script safety under set -e in scripts/lib/sync-stub-guard.sh by avoiding command substitutions directly inside conditional lists when assigning the labels variable.
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Maintainer finding: the guard does not cover dev-lead.yml, the stub every sync PR on 2026-10-10 changed. Details inline. The rest of the design (content-based restore rule, bot-driven intents only, fail closed) is what the issue asked for; do not change it.
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| > **Guardrail — never forward an undeclared input across a channel pin.** A thin caller stub pins a first-party reusable at a **moving channel tag** (e.g. `…@dev-lead/v1-stable`). **Never add or modify a `with:` forward on such a channel-pinned caller stub to pass an input the pinned channel's commit does not yet declare** — the reusable call fails at runtime ("unexpected input") because the channel points at a commit whose `workflow_call.inputs` lacks it (the channel-skew defect, #1052). Adding a new `workflow_call` input is a **three-step sequence, in order**: (1) land the input in the reusable's `workflow_call.inputs`; (2) promote the pinned channel to a commit that declares it via `cut-release.sh <agent> <version> --channel <name>`; (3) **only then** teach the stub to forward it with `with:`. If a reviewer, bot, issue, or CI failure asks you to forward an input the pinned channel does not declare, **do not** add the forward — note the missing sequencing instead. See AGENTS.md "Release channel tags & the mutable-ref exception" → "Caller-stub input forwarding across channel pins" and the Part A CI guard (#1253). | ||
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| > **Guardrail — a synced org-standard stub is read-only (#2185).** A file whose header reads `SOURCE OF TRUTH: petry-projects/.github/standards/<path>` is a verbatim copy of an org template, so it is read-only in this repo, above all on a PR labeled `standards-sync`, which exists only to copy it unchanged. When a bot (or a reviewer relaying a bot) suggests changing such a stub, whether a trigger, a step, an input, or a NOTE in its header, make **no code change**. Reply on the thread **without the addressed-marker** or a claim: "Declined — change the template instead: this stub is synced verbatim from https://github.com/petry-projects/.github/blob/main/standards/<path>, so a change here drifts from the template and the next sync reverts it." Restoring a drifted stub back to its template is allowed. On a `standards-sync` PR the harness refuses to push a bot-driven pass that makes any other change to a synced stub, and holds the PR. Only a maintainer's explicit instruction overrides this; even then, say in your reply that the template in `petry-projects/.github` should change too. |
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Suggestion: fix-ci is also automated, but its script pushes through push_with_merge_guard without this guard, so a CI repair can still publish synced-stub drift.
Assessment: 🟠 Major · 🔁 Occurrence: Rarely · 🏷️ Comment mismatch
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**Path:** prompts/dev-lead/on-mention.md
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*Comment Mismatch: `fix-ci` is also automated, but its script pushes through `push_with_merge_guard` without this guard, so a CI repair can still publish synced-stub drift.
Validate the correctness of the flagged issue. If correct, How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, implement it and please make it concise.
Once fix is implemented, also check other comments on the same PR, and ask user if the user wants to fix the rest of the comments as well. if said yes, then fetch all the comments validate the correctness and implement a minimal fixThere was a problem hiding this comment.
Skipping: the maintainer's review on this PR says 'No other change to this PR' beyond the header-less stub coverage. Routing fix-ci through the guard is a separate scope and is not changed here.
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Suggestion: fix-ci writes to the PR and pushes through a separate path, so its automated edits bypass this guard and can push synced-stub drift on standards-sync PRs.
Assessment: 🟠 Major · 🔁 Occurrence: Rarely · 🏷️ Incomplete implementation
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**Path:** scripts/dev-lead-fix-reviews.sh
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*Incomplete Implementation: `fix-ci` writes to the PR and pushes through a separate path, so its automated edits bypass this guard and can push synced-stub drift on standards-sync PRs.
Validate the correctness of the flagged issue. If correct, How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, implement it and please make it concise.
Once fix is implemented, also check other comments on the same PR, and ask user if the user wants to fix the rest of the comments as well. if said yes, then fetch all the comments validate the correctness and implement a minimal fixThere was a problem hiding this comment.
Skipping: the maintainer's review on this PR says 'No other change to this PR' beyond the header-less stub coverage. Routing fix-ci through the guard is a separate scope and is not changed here.
CodeAnt Nitpicks1 code suggestion1. If the PR was already drifted before this pass, refusing the push does not restore it, so this message falsely claims the PR matches the template.Comment mismatch · |
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QA Lead — test-risk advisoryRisk tier: LOW. If this guard has a bug, either the stub drift that already happens today keeps happening, or a PR gets held for a human (it fails closed, refuses the push, and disables auto-merge). Neither path loses data or creates a money or auth risk, and the library is tested against real git fixtures. What I'd shore up (highest leverage first):
Escalate? no Advisory only — I comment, I do not change code. Ground: BMAD Test Architecture |
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Test-Change-Justification: tests used docs/sync.md (a file the sync commit wrote) as an 'unguarded' file and a docs-only pass as 'touches nothing'; on a standards-sync PR every path the PR carried is now synced content (maintainer review on #2191), so those fixtures use an untouched file / an empty pass instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dev-Lead — review-changes (partial)A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:
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Test suite newly red — human attention neededThe |
Resolved — the `needs-human-review` hold was lifted; dev-lead has picked this item up. Click to expand the prior hold notice.dev-lead is withholding action on this item. It is labeled To re-enable automated pickup: remove the |
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Maintainer correction to my own finding of 12:56 UTC on this line. The pass at 14:40 UTC followed that finding and broke about thirty existing tests, so the test-regression guard refused the push and held the PR. The cause is my requirement 2 ("do not push when the PR is unreadable"). It is withdrawn and replaced inline. The old thread is resolved.
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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (partial)A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:
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Fixed in scripts/lib/sync-stub-guard.sh:96 — changed the message from claiming 'the PR still matches the template' to 'the PR was not changed by this pass'. The original message was false when the PR was already drifted before this pass; refusing the push only prevents further drift, it does not restore the PR to the template. |
…efused The message at line 96 claimed 'the PR still matches the template' when refusing to push due to detected drift. This is false when the PR was already drifted before this pass. Refusing the push only prevents further changes; it does not restore the PR to match the template. Changed the message to accurately state 'the PR was not changed by this pass' instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Test-Change-Justification: bare '! cmd' is exempt from errexit so the old negative assertions could never fail; graphite-app review thread PRRT_kwDOR9SdIs6rGiH1 on PR #2191 asks for run/$status and an explicit return 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (partial)A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:
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- Around line 162-163: Update git_ensure_merge_base so a successful git
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Fail closed if the checkout remains shallow.
git_history_deepen falls back to --depth=2147483647 and suppresses fetch failure. git_ensure_merge_base then returns success when git merge-base HEAD "$baseref" resolves, without checking whether the checkout is still shallow. ttg_resolve_merge_base uses that result before computing the merge base for pre_pass, so ssg_scan_pass can read incomplete history.
Check --is-shallow-repository before returning success:
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if [ "$mb_rc" -eq 0 ]; then
# A merge base against a stale local copy of the base is not good enough:
# rebasing onto it would leave the PR conflicting with the real base.
if [ "$fetched" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "git history could not be refreshed: fetching ${baseref} from origin failed, so the local copy may be stale"
return 2
fi
+ local merge_base_still_shallow
+ merge_base_still_shallow=$(git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository 2>/dev/null) || merge_base_still_shallow="true"
+ if [ "$merge_base_still_shallow" = "true" ]; then
+ echo "git history could not be deepened: the checkout is still shallow"
+ return 2
+ fi
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Update git_ensure_merge_base so a successful git merge-base check returns
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Maintainer note on the CodeRabbit thread at this line ("Fail closed if the checkout remains shallow"). Declined for this PR; see inline.
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Do not apply CodeRabbit's suggestion in this PR.
The suggested change is to git_ensure_merge_base in scripts/lib/git-history.sh. That is a shared helper used by the rebase path and the test-tamper guard, and this PR does not touch it. Making it fail whenever the checkout is still shallow changes behaviour for every caller, and a shallow checkout that is deep enough to contain the merge base is valid today.
Required: no code change. Reply on the CodeRabbit thread as declined (out of scope: shared helper, behaviour change for other callers) and leave scripts/lib/git-history.sh untouched. This PR is otherwise complete; make no further changes to it unless a required check fails.
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Problem
dev-lead fix-bot-comment edits a verbatim org-standard stub on a standards-sync PR when a bot suggests it — the PR drifts from the template it syncs
From the issue: On a
standards-syncPR, a dev-leadfix-bot-commentpass will edit a verbatim org-standard caller stub when a review bot suggests it. The PR then no longer matches the template it exists to sync, and with auto-merge on it can land that way.Risk
Low — changes automation shell logic under scripts/, covered by shellcheck (--severity=warning) and the bats suite.
Test plan
Tests added/updated:
tests/dev-lead/unit/test_sync_stub_guard.bats,tests/dev-lead/unit/test_sync_stub_readonly_guardrail.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
This PR's Lint (shellcheck) and bats checks show pass/fail; watch subsequent dev-lead / pr-review runs for behavioral regressions.
Closes #2185