feat(pr-limits): org variable PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP to change the cap without code changes

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Summary

• Adds plg_effective_org_cap to scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh: a positive-integer PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP env var (fed from the org Actions variable vars.PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP) overrides org_wide.automation_open_pr_cap. Unset or empty falls back silently; a non-empty invalid value warns and falls back to the file, so a bad value never disables the cap.
• scripts/pr-limits-report.sh reuses the same resolver, and the report workflow passes the variable. The gate and the report agree once the gate is wired to pass the variable (see Rollout).
• Docs: standards/pr-limits.md (§2.1, §3, §6.0, §6.1) and AGENTS.md.
• Tests: new gate cases covering raise, lower, invalid, empty and boundary values. All 38 pr-limits bats tests pass.

Related: petry-projects/.github-private#2018 (wires the variable into the live admission gate).

Risk

MEDIUM-LOW. The change only affects how the org-wide open-PR cap is resolved. With the variable unset, behavior is unchanged (cap read from standards/pr-limits.json, currently 50). Invalid values fail safe to the file value. A valid but very large value (up to 9 digits, e.g. 999999999) effectively removes the cap; that is an intended operator lever and setting it requires org admin.

Rollout

1. Create the variable: gh variable set PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP --org petry-projects --visibility all --body <N> (currently set to 60).
2. The gate runs in petry-projects/.github-private, which this PR cannot edit. Until .github-private#2018 lands, setting the variable changes only the daily report, not live PR admission, so the two can disagree for that period.
3. standards/pr-limits.json stays at 50 as the signed-off fallback.

Rollback

Delete the org variable (gh variable delete PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP --org petry-projects). The cap immediately reverts to the pr-limits.json value with no code change. To remove the feature entirely, revert this PR.

Monitoring

• The daily pr-limits-report workflow shows the effective cap (org queue N/<cap>) and warns on an invalid variable value.
• Once .github-private#2018 lands, the gate's dry-run log shows the same org queue N/<cap> line.

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Code Review

This pull request introduces a runtime override mechanism for the org-wide pull request limit via the PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP environment variable, updating both the admission gate library and the reporting script to use this override with proper fallback logic, alongside new BATS tests and documentation. Feedback on the changes suggests improving the robustness of the jq query in scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh by wrapping the nested JSON path in a try operator to prevent potential parsing errors if intermediate fields are missing or null.

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Review comments at @test/scripts/pr-limits/pr-limit-gate.bats:
- Around line 108-117: Update the “invalid PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP” test to include
007 and 1000000000 among rejected overrides, and add a separate assertion that
the accepted 9-digit maximum, 999999999, is not treated as invalid. Keep the
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Fixed in scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh: wrapped the nested JSON path in a try-catch block to safely handle missing intermediate fields or invalid JSON, preventing parsing errors in the plg_effective_org_cap function.

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Changes committed and pushed.

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Agent reasoning

- **1 New issue:** Specified without file/line reference in bot comment; unable to identify specific issue from changed code. No shell injection patterns, hardcoded credentials, insecure downloads, or eval/exec found in scanned files. Since Quality Gate passed, this is likely a low-severity code quality metric or documentation issue that doesn't block merge.
**Files changed:** 
- `.github/workflows/pr-limits-report.yml`
- `AGENTS.md`
- `scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh`
- `scripts/pr-limits-report.sh`
- `standards/pr-limits.md`
- `test/scripts/pr-limits/pr-limit-gate.bats`
- `test/scripts/pr-limits/pr-limits-report.bats`
**Status:** All actionable Tier 1 blockers (CodeRabbit CHANGES_REQUESTED) and open review threads addressed. PR is ready for merge once GitHub processes the thread replies.

[don-petry]

Fixed in scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh: wrapped the nested JSON path in jq's try-catch operator to safely handle null or missing intermediate fields in the org_wide configuration object.

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Fixed in scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh: wrapped the jq query accessing .per_source_caps[$s] in a try...catch operator to prevent parsing errors if intermediate fields are missing or null, improving null-safety.

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Superseded by automated re-review at efe0e5b15616bad85f2d6001f4eb88ba1b5a7d79 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 3/3)

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

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: efe0e5b15616bad85f2d6001f4eb88ba1b5a7d79
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

The code looks correct and safe, but I can't approve yet. Every required CI check on head efe0e5b is still queued: ShellCheck, Lint and bats, bats, Validate config, SonarCloud, CodeQL, gitleaks and AgentShield. The two commits since the last review (26d4160) add jq try/catch guards to the org-cap and per-source-cap lookups. I tested both expressions with jq 1.7. They behave the same as before for valid, empty, null and wrong-type config, so they add no regression. They are also redundant, because the existing '2>/dev/null || printf' fallback already covers those cases. Most of the prior doc findings are still open but minor.

Linked issue analysis

There is no closingIssuesReferences entry. The PR only refers to petry-projects/.github-private#2018, which wires the variable into the live admission gate. The PR body explains the feature, the rollout, the rollback and the monitoring plan, and the change matches that description: the PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP override is resolved in one place (plg_effective_org_cap) and reused by the report script.

Findings

• MAJOR (carried forward): Required checks have not run on the current head efe0e5b. All of them are QUEUED: ShellCheck, Lint and bats, bats, Validate config, SonarCloud, Analyze, gitleaks and AgentShield. This PR can't be approved until they pass.
• MINOR (carried forward): standards/pr-limits.md §2.1 and the comment in scripts/pr-limits-report.sh still say the gate and the report 'always agree'. That is false until .github-private#2018 lands. The §2.1 'Wiring' bullet does mention this, so it's only partly addressed.
• MINOR (carried forward): There is still no linked or closing issue.
• INFO (carried forward): §6.1 step 4 is still one long run-on line with two em-dash clauses, and §2.1 still says 'Take effect' where it should say 'Takes effect'.
• INFO (new, no action needed): The try ... catch empty guards added in scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh (lines 78 and 241) are redundant with the existing 2>/dev/null || printf '' fallback. I verified they are harmless: try .per_source_caps[$s] catch empty // empty returns the same result for an object, an empty map, a missing key, null and an array. These lines have flip-flopped (added, reverted, then re-added), which suggests the bot-feedback loop is adding churn here.
• RESOLVED: §2 now says the file holds the 'default', and the §3 decision list describes the effective cap.
• There are no unresolved review threads. The MCP secret-scan tool isn't available in this run; the gitleaks check is still queued.

CI status

Pending. All required checks on efe0e5b are QUEUED (cubic is IN_PROGRESS, CodeRabbit is PENDING). The dependabot-automerge and dev-lead relay/resume jobs were SKIPPED, which is expected. SonarCloud's quality gate passed on an earlier head.

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Acknowledged: the Codex reviewer reports its usage limit was reached. This is an external quota notice with no code finding, so no action is needed.

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Acknowledged: the SonarCloud quality gate passed. No action is needed.

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Agent reasoning

- **Phase 1b:** I posted one `informational` disposition on each of five bot issue comments:
  - Codex usage-limit notice
  - Qodo trial-ended notice
  - CodeRabbit walkthrough summary
  - CodeRabbit command reply
  - SonarCloud quality-gate-passed comment
- **Skipped:** I left alone the comments from our own automation, such as `donpetry-bot` and the dev-lead status comments. The same goes for the maintainer's own comments.
- **Not acted on:** The latest `pr-review-agent` review has carried-forward minor doc findings. One is the "always agree" wording in `standards/pr-limits.md` §2.1. I did not change those, because they are not review threads or change requests. It also noted that the `try … catch empty` guards in `scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh` are redundant with the existing `2>/dev/null || printf ''` fallback, which I left as is.
Test verification: not run (no changes).
Files changed: none.

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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: efe0e5b15616bad85f2d6001f4eb88ba1b5a7d79
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Approving. The only blocker in the prior review of this same SHA (efe0e5b) was that required CI hadn't run yet, and every check has now passed. The change adds plg_effective_org_cap to scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh. It lets a positive-integer PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP of at most 9 digits override org_wide.automation_open_pr_cap. Empty or invalid values fall back to the config value, so a bad value can't zero or disable the cap. pr-limits-report.sh sources the same resolver. I checked that the library has no side effects when sourced: it only defines PLG_DEFAULT_CONFIG and functions. The workflow passes vars.PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP through env:, not by interpolating it into run:, so there is no script-injection surface. Locally, all 38 pr-limits bats tests pass, and shellcheck reports only info-level SC2016 notes on lines this PR did not touch.

Linked issue analysis

There is no closing issue. The PR body is complete (summary, risk, rollout, rollback, monitoring) and refers to petry-projects/.github-private#2018 for the live-gate wiring. The code matches the description: the override is resolved in one place, reused by the report, documented in standards/pr-limits.md §2.1/§3/§6.0/§6.1 and in AGENTS.md, and tested for raise, lower, invalid, empty, leading-zero and 9-/10-digit boundary values.

Findings

• RESOLVED: The required checks that were queued on efe0e5b have all passed (ShellCheck, Lint and bats, bats, Validate config, SonarCloud, CodeQL/Analyze, gitleaks, AgentShield, Agent Security Scan).
• MINOR (carried forward, non-blocking): §2.1 and the comment in pr-limits-report.sh say the gate and the report 'always agree'. That is only true once .github-private#2018 wires the env var into the live gate. The §2.1 'Wiring' bullet and the PR body's Rollout section already say so.
• INFO (carried forward, non-blocking): §6.1 step 4 is a run-on sentence, and §2.1 says 'Take effect' where it should say 'Takes effect'.
• INFO: The try ... catch empty guards are redundant with the existing 2>/dev/null || printf '' fallback but harmless. I checked them with jq 1.7.
• All 15 review threads are resolved, and no human-reviewer questions are open. The MCP secret-scan tool isn't available in this run; gitleaks passed.

CI status

All green on efe0e5b. Every required check passed: ShellCheck, Lint and bats, bats ×2, Validate config, SonarCloud (quality gate passed), CodeQL, gitleaks, AgentShield and Agent Security Scan. CodeRabbit approved. The dependabot-automerge, dev-lead relay/resume and non-applicable dependency-audit jobs were skipped, which is expected.

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/5 required advisory bots reported before the gate's head-age-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: efe0e5b15616bad85f2d6001f4eb88ba1b5a7d79
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Approving, which confirms the triage assessment. The PR adds plg_effective_org_cap to scripts/lib/pr-limit-gate.sh. A positive-integer PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP (regex ^[1-9][0-9]{0,8}$, so no leading zeros, at most 9 digits, and no Bash arithmetic overflow) overrides org_wide.automation_open_pr_cap. An empty value falls back to the config silently; an invalid value logs a warning and falls back, so a bad value cannot zero or disable the cap. scripts/pr-limits-report.sh sources the same resolver. The workflow passes vars.PR_LIMITS_ORG_CAP through env: rather than interpolating it into run:, so there is no script-injection surface. I re-checked the two new jq try … catch guards with jq. try .per_source_caps[$s] catch empty // empty parses as (try …) // empty and returns nothing for missing, null or wrong-type maps. The org-cap lookup still yields a non-integer (null) or nothing for bad config, which the existing ^[0-9]+$ check rejects with the same error path as before. No behavior regression.

Linked issue analysis

There is no closing issue. The PR body is complete (summary, risk, rollout, rollback, monitoring) and refers to petry-projects/.github-private#2018 for wiring the variable into the live admission gate. The code matches the description: the override is resolved in one place and reused by the report, it is documented in standards/pr-limits.md §2.1/§3/§6.0/§6.1 and in AGENTS.md, and it is tested at the boundaries (raise, lower, invalid incl. 007/10-digit/20-digit, empty, 9-digit max) in both the gate and report bats suites.

Findings

No blocking findings. All 15 review threads (CodeRabbit, cubic, codeant, gemini) are resolved. CodeRabbit has APPROVED.

Non-blocking notes:

• Until .github-private#2018 lands, setting the org variable changes only the daily report, not live admission. The PR body and §2.1 disclose this.
• A valid override up to 999999999 effectively removes the cap. This is an intended operator lever and requires org admin to set.
• The try … catch empty guards are redundant with the existing 2>/dev/null || printf '' fallback, but harmless.

CI status

All required checks are green on efe0e5b: ShellCheck, Lint and bats, bats, Validate config, CodeQL (actions/python), SonarCloud (quality gate passed), Secret scan (gitleaks), AgentShield, Agent Security Scan, duplicate-decl-gate and dependency-audit. The only non-success entries are cancelled or skipped dev-lead orchestration runs, each of which has a successful duplicate, plus ecosystem audits skipped as not applicable.

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