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Older linked members of a native stack can keep a shorter layer list after a new layer is linked, because their own summaries have not changed. This addresses the server sync cause of #20370; the snapshot-ordering work in #20388 is separate.

When a stack read finds different ordered layer numbers, the reactor flags already-linked siblings in the same project and native stack for fresh reads. Stack identity includes normalized host, repository and stack id. Comparisons prefer fresh reads from the current sweep over saved snapshots. Retry reads invalidate the cache before the summary, with a second guard for flags arriving while the summary is in flight.

The late-flag fix in 46dd916 consumes the existing retry flag immediately before the stack read. A sibling flag raised during that read now survives for the next ordinary sweep; failure paths still re-add the flag. A Deferred-synchronized regression covers this overlapping-read case. A retained overlap flag can conservatively cause one extra cache-skipping stack read next sweep, even when the in-flight answer was already fresh.

Propagation stays within one project because projects can use different credentials and see different memberships. It compares layer numbers/order without cascading refreshes solely for state or branch changes. Project-scoped requests, pending requests, rate-limit pauses and unstacked handling are preserved. Retry flags are in memory and do not survive restart; continuously inconsistent host answers cannot guarantee convergence within a fixed number of sweeps.

Validation at 990cece7, integrated with pinned main c2fb438b:

• All 28 focused reactor tests passed. Restoring pinned main's production reactor made four behavioral regressions fail (24 passed), including sibling convergence, retry cache bypass and both in-flight flag cases. The summary-race fixture uses a recent update timestamp so main's quiet cadence still exercises the intended interleaving.
• Targeted format/lint checks and server typecheck passed; lint retains two pre-existing unused-variable warnings in unchanged main tests. No repository-wide suite was run.
• Fresh independent full cumulative reviews by Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol approved this candidate with no blockers or required source changes. These local results do not substitute for CI on the published head. Post-push CI and configured-review follow-up belong to the campaign coordinator; publication does not claim merge readiness.

Main's five-minute polling for quiet open PRs and GitHub stack ETag revalidation are retained. Pending stack retries remain eligible on the next ordinary one-minute sweep, subject to project/host rate-limit pauses; a flag does not schedule an earlier sweep. Quiet ordinary polling, ETags and retained overlapping-read retries change request counts, so the historical observations below are not measurements of the current head.

Historical real-host backend proof at e4074072 only: the production GitHub adapter, request policy, service, filesystem cache, reactor, orchestrator and SQLite persistence converged two synthetic stale local snapshots after linking the already-existing third member locally. The real host already contained #21983, #21984 and #21985. All three persisted lists were verified after exit, and effect workers were drained after each sweep.

At that historical head only, observed stack-list / GraphQL HTTP requests were 0/0 at baseline, 1/1 for third-link discovery, 2/2 for the next due sweep's sibling convergence, and 0/1 for the following ordinary sweep. These exclude preflight/revalidation; runtime totals were 19 requests (9 stack-list, 3 stack-detail, 7 GraphQL), plus one external rate-limit preflight. No stack-detail or other REST requests occurred in those four phases. GraphQL cost extensions were absent, so HTTP counts do not establish GraphQL point costs. Shared credential quota deltas are not attributed to the proof.

Proof limits: no exact-current-head live proof was captured. No remote stack growth or GitHub mutation occurred; stale data was seeded in local saved snapshots, not host responses or the cache. Due sweeps used a controlled clock with live provider batching, so no real wall-clock convergence latency is established. The real-host proof did not force the late stack-read race. No client/UI rendering or broader platform verification was exercised; screenshots are not applicable to this backend proof.

Original contributor commits and recovered pending merge parents are preserved through merge commits, including contributor head 46f55fde. The canonical pending worktree and its 19,219 preservation artifacts were left untouched. Publication uses a normal non-force push to the original fork branch.

Credit: only21mil authored the original fix and regression scenarios in #20415, with Claude Opus 5.5 via claude_auto / Claude Code in T3 Code, as recorded in the original description. Takeover and late-flag regression tests: Claude Opus 5.5. Integration implementation, late-flag fix and pinned-main cadence integration: Claude Fable 5.1, through Claude Code in T3 Code. Independent reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 / Claude Code and GPT-6.1 Sol / Codex. Publication: GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code. Unmerged; auto-merge is not enabled.

Closes #20370

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Verdict: Approved at deeaabc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized server bug fix that refreshes stale stack members when a stack grows, with targeted tests covering convergence and repository-specific stack identity. Its extra reads are bounded to the period of disagreement, and the PR introduces no schema, deployment, security, default, or static-analysis changes.

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The reactor compares repository-scoped native stacks during each sweep. It retries same-project siblings when layer sequences differ and invalidates affected pull-request cache entries. Tests cover stack growth, cache expiry, concurrent reads, stale reads, and repository isolation.

Changes: Stack synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compare and retry sibling stacks apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts	The reactor compares fresh layer sequences for same-project siblings with the same native stack identity. The test harness observes dispatched sync commands and validates stack growth and repository isolation.
Refresh summaries for stack retries apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts	Stack retries invalidate pull-request cache entries before reads. Concurrent retry flags remain pending, and stale in-flight reads trigger a fresh stack read. Tests cover cache expiry and concurrent reads.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequestSyncReactor
  participant NativeStackReader
  participant PullRequestCache
  participant SiblingGroup
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>NativeStackReader: read native stack
  NativeStackReader-->>PullRequestSyncReactor: return layer numbers
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>SiblingGroup: flag differing sibling
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>PullRequestCache: invalidate retry entry
  PullRequestSyncReactor->>NativeStackReader: reread complete stack

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The previously identified retry race is addressed, and no actionable issue remains from this review. The change is mergeable after normal checks.

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Refresh propagation remains within the same project, repository, and native stack, with no identified expansion of access or privilege. Recovery after interruption or restart remains best-effort and is not fully established.

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Security Blast Radius

• observed — The new retry fan-out is limited to already-linked groups sharing a project, normalized host/repository, and native stack ID. It can refresh affected thread snapshots and invoke existing layer-link discovery; it does not propagate merely because another repository or project reports the same stack ID.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Provider-returned layer data influences retry decisions and existing link/sync writes. Sibling reads retain their own project's reference rather than adopting the triggering sibling's authority. The existing service cache keys include project identity, expected account, and credential namespace, and stack reads retain the credential-aware wrapper.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Inconsistent host layer lists can sustain repeated cache-bypassing reads within the eligible scope. Existing concurrency and rate-limit controls constrain execution, but the change does not establish a fixed convergence bound. This is an operational limitation, not a demonstrated security attack path.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: re-reading stack layers for all members when a stack grows.
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