fix(server): PR sync waits out a GitHub rate limit pause instead of failing every PR

[t3dotgg]

Problem

While GitHub was rate limited on bb-1, SourceControlRateLimit paused GitHub reads until the reset. The PR sync sweep did not know that. Each minute it still tried every due pull request (about 74). Each read failed at once inside the rate limiter and logged one pull request sync skipped line with no cause, about 1,800 lines an hour. The failed keys stayed due, so the sweep kept doing this for the whole pause.

Change

• PullRequestSyncReactor reads the rate limit pause from the failed read (PullRequestProviderError with reason rate-limited and retryAt, in the PullRequestOperationError cause chain). It then skips reads for that project and host until retryAt. The check runs as each read starts, so a pause found early in a sweep also holds the rest of that sweep. Other hosts keep their normal cadence.
• The pause is keyed by project and host, because each project reads with its own credential. One account's pause does not stop another account on the same host.
• Requested refreshes (requestSync) wait for the same pause. The rate limiter refuses them anyway, so trying would only add failures. They stay requested and the first sweep after retryAt reads them.
• After the pause, the deferred reads go out in the same sweep. They use the existing batching (concurrency: 25, batched summary reads), so about 74 pull requests become a few GitHub requests. I did not add more spreading.
• The warning no longer carries state across sweeps. Each sweep logs one line per failure reason, with its own count and first key. This also answers the bot findings about one reason hiding another.

Scope and approval

Requested by Theo after the bb-1 disconnect investigation.

Verification

• New test leaves a rate limited host unread until its pause ends: a GitHub read fails with a pause until retryAt. The sweep reads GitHub once, then makes no GitHub reads in later sweeps or for a requested refresh. A link on another host is read every minute. At retryAt both GitHub pull requests are read again. With the pause check removed, the test fails (expected [ 7, 8 ] to deeply equal [ 7 ]).
• vp test run src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts in apps/server: 17 passed.
• vpr typecheck in apps/server: exit 0, no errors.
• vp lint on the changed files: no errors. The two no-unused-vars warnings are on older test lines.

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Walkthrough

The pull-request sync reactor detects provider rate limits and pauses reads for the affected project and host until the retry time. It skips paused reads, continues reads for other hosts, and aggregates non-interrupt failure warnings during each sweep.

Changes

Pull request sync rate-limit handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect rate limits and control sweep reads apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts	The reactor extracts retry times from nested provider errors and tracks pause deadlines by project and host. It skips reads during a pause and aggregates non-interrupt failures by reason. Tests cover paused summary and stack reads, continued reads for another host, and resumption after the pause.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequestSyncReactor
  participant Provider
  participant OtherHost
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>Provider: Read pull-request summary or stack
  Provider-->>PullRequestSyncReactor: Rate-limit error with retry time
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>PullRequestSyncReactor: Pause reads for project and host
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>OtherHost: Continue reads for another host
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>Provider: Retry reads after pause expires

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0ab62

This change makes pull request sync wait out a GitHub rate limit pause instead of failing every read, while other hosts keep syncing. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the server-side PR sync fix and its behavior during a GitHub rate-limit pause.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, change, and verification in detail. The scope section says the change was requested by Theo, but it does not link a triaged issue or approval discussion, or expla…
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- Around line 347-356: Replace firstSkip-based suppression with tracking of the
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Suppression state is keyed to the first failure only. A different failure reason can be hidden.

lastSkipReason stores only the reason of the first skipped group in a sweep. Assume group A fails with "paused" in every sweep. Group B starts to fail with "signed out" later in the same sweep. The sweep compares only firstSkip.reason with lastSkipReason. The new reason stays hidden while A keeps failing first.

The ordering is also nondeterministic. Effect.forEach runs with concurrency: 25, so the "first" failure depends on completion order. With mixed reasons, firstSkip can alternate between reasons. This produces a warning on each alternation. It also contradicts the stated goal of one warning per failure reason.

Track the set of distinct reasons in the sweep. Report when the set differs from the last reported set.

Proposed direction

-    let firstSkip: { readonly key: string; readonly reason: string } | undefined;
+    const skipReasons = new Map<string, string>(); // reason -> first key

-            firstSkip ??= { key, reason: skipReason(cause) };
+            const reason = skipReason(cause);
+            if (!skipReasons.has(reason)) skipReasons.set(reason, key);

Then compare a sorted, joined reason signature with lastSkipReason. Log one warning for each new reason, or log once with the reason list.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts
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Replace firstSkip-based suppression with tracking of the distinct skip reasons
observed during each sweep, so concurrent Effect.forEach completion order cannot
hide or repeatedly alternate warnings. Compare a deterministic signature of the
current reason set with the last reported set, and emit a warning when that set
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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes production scheduling by gating pull-request reads during rate-limit pauses, rather than making a purely mechanical or harness-only change. Its pause cache may not align with shared credential rate-limit state across projects, so the runtime behavior warrants human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+23 B (+1.9%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−17 B (−0.3%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−17 B (−1.4%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

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10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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🟡 Medium orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts:371

pausedUntil only suppresses reads for the current projectId, so when two projects share a GitHub credential, a rate limit discovered in one project does not suppress the other project's due groups. Those groups continue calling summary, are rejected by the shared limiter, and emit skipped-read warnings throughout the pause. Key this cache by the credential scope (or conservatively by provider/host) instead of projectId.

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In file @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts around line 371:

`pausedUntil` only suppresses reads for the current `projectId`, so when two projects share a GitHub credential, a rate limit discovered in one project does not suppress the other project's due groups. Those groups continue calling `summary`, are rejected by the shared limiter, and emit skipped-read warnings throughout the pause. Key this cache by the credential scope (or conservatively by provider/host) instead of `projectId`.

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Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Leaving this as is. Every project records its own pause on its first refused read: readGroup sets pausedUntil for that projectId + host. So a second project on the same credential makes one more read, which the shared limiter refuses locally without a GitHub request, and then skips until retryAt like the first. That is one fast local failure per project per pause, not one per sweep. Keying by credential would mean depending on how SourceControlRateLimit scopes credentials, and that coupling costs more than the one extra local read it saves.