fix(server): skip PR polling for unknown providers

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Problem

Repositories whose source-control provider cannot be identified were still sent through listChangeRequests. The unsupported unknown provider failed on every lookup, producing repeated background warnings during status refreshes and automatic settlement sweeps.

Fix

• Model unresolved provider lookups as a non-definitive ProviderUnknown cache outcome.
• Resolve the provider once per lookup and skip hosting API calls while it is unknown.
• Retry unknown states on the existing short, exponentially backed-off cadence, capped at the normal PR lookup interval.
• Preserve the last known PR badge during a temporary provider-detection hiccup.
• Return no settlement PR for unknown providers instead of surfacing an operational failure, while explicit source-control actions retain their existing errors.
• Add focused coverage for API-call suppression, provider refinement, sticky PR state, and the settlement lookup path.

Fixes #9170

Validation

• vp test run apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts (100 tests)
• vp fmt --check apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts
• vp lint --report-unused-disable-directives apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts
• vp run --filter t3 typecheck (passes; existing suggestions only)

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Medium Risk
Changes PR badge and settlement lookup behavior for unidentified providers and when provider detection flips between known and unknown; sticky last-known PR logic should be verified for callers that expect null vs stale PRs.

Overview
Stops background PR lookups from calling hosting APIs when the source-control provider is still unknown, which previously drove repeated failures and warnings on every status refresh.

GitManager now models lookups with PrLookupOutcome: a definitive Complete result (nullable PR) versus ProviderUnknown. findLatestPrForHeadContext resolves the provider once and returns ProviderUnknown without listChangeRequests. lookupStatusPr falls back to the last known PR for that branch when the provider is unknown; branchPullRequest returns null instead of treating it as a hard lookup failure.

Unknown outcomes use the existing short backoff / retry cadence (capped at the normal PR cache TTL) so detection can recover without hammering the provider. Tests cover API suppression, provider refinement after cache expiry, sticky PR during a temporary unknown state, and branch PR lookup.

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Note

Skip PR lookup for unknown providers in GitManager and retain last known PR

• Introduces PrLookupOutcome discriminated type in GitManager.ts to distinguish a definitive PR result (including null) from ProviderUnknown
• findLatestPrForHeadContext resolves the source-control provider once and returns ProviderUnknown without calling the provider API when the kind is unknown
• lookupStatusPr falls back to the last known PR when the provider is temporarily unknown, instead of treating unknown as a definitive null
• PR lookup cache stores ProviderUnknown outcomes on the shorter failure-streak cadence with backoff up to the normal lookup TTL; definitive results reset the streak and use the normal TTL
• branchPullRequest returns null early for cached ProviderUnknown outcomes
• Risk: GitManager.status PR resolution now depends on the new PrLookupOutcome shape — any in-tree or out-of-tree consumer of the PR lookup cache in GitManager.ts must handle the ProviderUnknown variant

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved pull request lookup behavior when the source control provider cannot be identified.
  • Retained previously cached pull request information during temporary provider availability issues.
  • Added faster retry handling after provider details become available.
  • Prevented temporary lookup failures from being treated as definitive “no pull request” results.
  • Correctly reports no pull request when a branch is not associated with one, including after its remote URL is removed.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a localized PR-polling bug fix with regression coverage, but it adds static-analysis suppression directives in the tests and has an unresolved Medium correctness finding concerning provider-refresh caching.

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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

When rebasing onto current main, update the refreshMissingPullRequest cache check to the new outcome shape too. It currently reads cached.value.latest; it should invalidate only a Complete outcome whose latest is null. Treating ProviderUnknown as a missing PR would bypass the retry backoff this change adds.

Keep main's resolveLookupHeadContext handling for published local branches when resolving the other conflict.

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Walkthrough

GitManager now represents unknown providers with tagged outcomes, applies retry backoff, preserves cached pull requests, skips unsupported provider calls, and returns null for affected branch lookups. Tests add dynamic provider fixtures and validate provider transitions, cache retention, retry cadence, and remote URL removal.

Changes

Pull request lookup handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Typed outcomes and cache cadence apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts	PR lookups now return Complete or ProviderUnknown outcomes. Unknown providers use retry backoff, while definitive results retain normal cache behavior.
Provider resolution and status flow apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts	Status and branch lookups consume tagged outcomes, preserve known pull requests, skip unsupported provider calls, and return null before repository validation when the provider is unknown.
Provider transition test harness apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts	Tests support static or dynamic provider kinds and cover skipped lookups, provider refinement, retry cadence, cached PR retention, and branch lookup behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitManager
  participant ProviderRegistry
  participant SourceControlProvider
  participant PRCache
  GitManager->>ProviderRegistry: resolve provider kind
  ProviderRegistry-->>GitManager: unknown or GitHub
  alt unknown provider
    GitManager->>PRCache: read cached outcome
    PRCache-->>GitManager: ProviderUnknown and last-known PR
  else resolved provider
    GitManager->>SourceControlProvider: list change requests
    SourceControlProvider-->>GitManager: latest PR or no result
    GitManager->>PRCache: store Complete outcome
  end

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #9170 coding requirements are met. GitManager returns the tagged ProviderUnknown outcome before listChangeRequests, uses failure backoff capped at PR_LOOKUP_CACHE_TTL, and invalidates th…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The whole-PR changes are limited to apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts and its focused tests in apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts. The implementation and tests directly support issue #9170. No…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: skipping pull request polling for unknown providers.
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Rebased this PR onto current main and resolved the conflicts.

• refreshMissingPullRequest now invalidates only a Complete outcome with latest === null, so ProviderUnknown keeps its retry/backoff behavior.
• Preserved main's resolveLookupHeadContext handling for published local branches.
• Re-formatted the touched GitManager files and verified the merged behavior is present.
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In `@apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts`:
- Around line 672-680: Update the provider construction in makeManager to use
input.sourceControlProvider when supplied, falling back to the registry provider
otherwise; then apply sourceControlProviderKind to that selected service so the
GitLab mock and expected glab behavior remain reachable.

In `@apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts`:
- Line 2209: The repository identity resolution flow should return null
immediately whenever a Cache.get result has outcome tag ProviderUnknown, before
performing repository identity validation or evaluating canVerifyIdentity.
Update each relevant Cache.get path in resolvePrLookupRepositoryIdentity and add
a regression test covering a previously known remote identity becoming
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