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fix(server): wake PR watches when the merge queue drops a pull request - #24141
An agent watching a pull request with watch_pull_request is never told when GitHub's merge queue drops it. The queue runs its checks on a merge commit of its own, not on the pull request's head. A failed or timed-out queue check can leave the head green, the branch clean and no new comment. The watch only reacts to head checks, comments and conflicts, so the thread stays on "Watching pull request" until someone looks. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20523 has the full analysis.
To reproduce: on a repository that requires the merge queue, watch a pull request, add it to the queue, and let a merge-group check fail, or remove it from the queue by hand. The thread never wakes.
Change
The pull request detail read asks GitHub for the newest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent (id, time, reason) and carries it on the detail as mergeQueueRemoval.
The watch fingerprint counts those events, so a removal triggers a full read on the next pass even when nothing else moved, including one queued and dropped between two passes.
The watch stores the last removal's id in a new optional mergeQueueRemovalId, so saved watches still decode. A removal after the watch started, other than the merged one below, wakes the agent once, with GitHub's reason when there is one. The notice counts it as a failure, like a failed check or a conflict. A read without queue data keeps the stored id, so it never repeats a removal.
The read asks for only the newest removal (last: 1). Two removals between passes give one wake, with the newer one's reason; the older one is not reported.
Both queries enable the merge queue selections with a hostname check: only github.com requests them. Every other host, Enterprise Server included, skips them, so its watches behave as before. This is not a capability check: the Enterprise Server 3.18 and 3.22 schemas include the event, but no Enterprise Server was run. @include controls execution; the host still validates the event type and enum value.
The agent's wake gets one new line:
- It was removed from the merge queue without merging: <reason from GitHub>.
When the queue merges a pull request, GitHub also records a removal with reason merged, up to a second before the pull request reads as merged. That removal does not wake the agent; its id is still stored. Merged and closed pull requests otherwise keep their current handling: the reactor ends the watch before it looks for changes. Nothing requeues automatically, as the issue asks.
Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20523, a bug report with a source-level reproduction that proposes this approach. No maintainer has replied or labeled it yet. The fix adds no setting and no UI: it fills in a missing wake in an existing tool, and watches without queue data behave as before.
Verification
Run on a clean install, on 86f6522 (this branch merged with main on 2026-10-23). The later merged skip and filteredCount fingerprint are covered by their own tests, not by these runs.
cd apps/server && vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts. The new test "reports each merge queue removal once while the head checks stay green" fails on main, which reports no change, and passes here. It covers the first wake and its notice, no repeat on the next pass or after a read without queue data, a second removal, and an older removal staying quiet.
cd packages/source-control-github && vp test run src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson.test.ts. Two tests pin GitHub's shapes: the read maps the newest removal, and the fingerprint's status moves with the removal count. Both fail on main and pass here.
pnpm --filter @t3tools/source-control-github generate regenerated the two .graphql.ts files; no other generated file changed.
vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, typecheck of the 29 affected packages, and the tests beside the changes.
The three new tests fail against main's production code:
The same suites and check:changed on this branch:
End to end: main and this branch side by side, isolated state, the mock ACP agent in place of a provider. Each thread watched a pull request in a public test repository whose required check fails on merge_group, so the queue dropped it (failed_checks). On main the thread stayed on "Watching pull request https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/1" for two or more sweeps. On this branch the next sweep posted "https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/1: removed from merge queue" and started a turn, once per drop. Web and desktop ran production builds on Linux. iOS and Android ran in a simulator and an emulator with production JavaScript, against a server on the same commit.
Web on main, still watching:
Web on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Desktop on main, still watching:
Desktop on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
iOS on main, still watching:
iOS on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Android on main, still watching:
Android on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Real merge queue on 2026-11-11, at e68b33b with main at f697d4d side by side: two T3 servers, each with a thread watching pull requests in the public fixture repository only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture, with a real Codex turn (gpt-6-luna) behind each thread. A failed_checks removal and a manual removal each woke the e68b33b thread once with its reason, and Codex answered in that turn; main never woke. A pull request the queue merged woke neither thread, and both ended the watch as merged. In that run the merged removal and the merge landed in the same second, so the merged skip is covered by its unit test only. Server lines and captures: #24141 (comment)
Not checked:
Enterprise Server. The hostname check skips the event there, so behavior is unchanged and was not run. Its 3.18 and 3.22 schemas include the event, so a later change could enable it there after a run against a real server.
Other hosts, including GitLab merge trains. Their adapters report no removal, so their watches behave as before.
Desktop on macOS and Windows, physical phones, and release builds of the mobile app. The notice is the same timeline item every other watch change uses.
GitHub runs merge queue checks on a commit of the queue's own, so a pull
request the queue drops can keep a green head with nothing else changing.
Read the newest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent in the detail read and count
them in the watch fingerprint, and wake the agent once per removal that
happens after the watch started.
Fixespingdotgg#20523
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused fix to an existing pull-request watch: GitHub merge-queue removals are surfaced once through the established notification path. The changes are backward-compatible, scoped to the existing provider/watch pipeline, and supported by targeted tests.
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The change adds GitHub merge-queue removal data to pull-request details and watch fingerprints. The watch reports new removals with an available reason, records the last reported removal ID, and classifies the event as a failed notification.
Changes: Merge-queue removal watch
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Summary
GitHub removal data and fingerprint packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestReads.graphql*, packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestBatches.graphql*, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestApi.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson*
GitHub queries now fetch removal details and counts. Mapping selects the latest removal and adds its count to the watch fingerprint. Tests cover decoding and fingerprint updates.
Removal data in pull-request details packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts, packages/source-control-core/src/server/PullRequestProvider.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
Contracts and provider details include optional removal data. The service copies that data into pull-request details when supplied.
Watch tracking and notifications packages/contracts/src/threadPullRequest.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestWatchReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts
The watch reports a new removal at or after its start time, saves its ID, and formats a failed notification. Tests cover timestamp filtering, repeated reads, later removals, and persistence across reactor restarts.
sequenceDiagram
participant GitHub
participant GitHubPullRequestApi
participant PullRequestService
participant evaluatePullRequestWatch
GitHub->>GitHubPullRequestApi: Return removal event details and counts
GitHubPullRequestApi->>PullRequestService: Provide pull-request detail with removal data
PullRequestService->>evaluatePullRequestWatch: Pass removal ID, time, and reason
evaluatePullRequestWatch->>evaluatePullRequestWatch: Save ID and classify removal notification as failed
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#25160: This change adds the merge-queue removal wake described in the issue, but does not add its separate merge and close wakes.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7c63f
A merge-queue removal shortly after a watch starts can be missed permanently if GitHub and server clocks differ. Resolve or explicitly accept that limitation before merging.
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[#20523] The GitHub queries, fingerprint count, event watermark, notice, and tests support queue-removal detection and restart deduplication. Two first-read cases remain incorrect. `pullRequestWatch.t…
Establish a reliable host event baseline for new watches. Distinguish an empty queue-event result from unavailable data, and preserve an uninitialized watermark on unavailable reads. Add tests for first-read clock skew and unavailable-then-…
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The title clearly describes the main change: waking PR watches when GitHub removes a PR from the merge queue.
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[#20523] The provider and contract changes, GitHub queries and generated types, watch evaluation, reactor comparison, and tests support queue-removal monitoring. The summary shows no unrelated changes…
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[#20523] The provider and contract changes, GitHub queries and generated types, watch evaluation, reactor comparison, and tests support queue-removal monitoring. The summary shows no unrelated changes.
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[#20523] The GitHub queries, fingerprint count, event watermark, notice, and tests support queue-removal detection and restart deduplication. Two first-read cases remain incorrect. pullRequestWatch.ts compares GitHub event time with the server's watch start time, so clock skew can suppress a post-start removal and save its ID without a wake. It also sets an absent watermark to null when queue data is unavailable. A later read can then report a historical removal as new, contrary to the partial-read and historical-event requirements.
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Establish a reliable host event baseline for new watches. Distinguish an empty queue-event result from unavailable data, and preserve an uninitialized watermark on unavailable reads. Add tests for first-read clock skew and unavailable-then-historical reads.
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watch.startedAt has millisecond precision, but GitHub createdAt values have whole-second precision. A removal in the same second after the watch starts compares as earlier and is rejected. Line 157 still saves its ID, so later polls skip that removal too, and the agent never wakes for it.
Truncate the start time to whole seconds before the comparison:
This also accepts a removal up to 999 ms before the start when both fall in the same second. Whole-second timestamps cannot order those events.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts at line
153:
Update the removal-time comparison in the pull request watch flow to compare at
whole-second precision by truncating watch.startedAt before comparing it with
removal.removedAt. Keep the existing removal ID checks and wake-up behavior
unchanged.
Add a focused PullRequestService.detail test with a provider result that contains mergeQueueRemoval. Assert that the returned detail preserves the event. The new mapper and watch tests exercise either side of this copy, so they would not catch its removal. As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.”
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts around
lines 1773 - 1775:
Update the PullRequestService.detail tests with a focused provider-to-detail
case where the provider result includes mergeQueueRemoval, and assert the
returned detail preserves that event.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts:
- Line 153: Update the removal-time comparison in the pull request watch flow to
compare at whole-second precision by truncating watch.startedAt before comparing
it with removal.removedAt. Keep the existing removal ID checks and wake-up
behavior unchanged.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts:
- Around line 1773-1775: Update the PullRequestService.detail tests with a
focused provider-to-detail case where the provider result includes
mergeQueueRemoval, and assert the returned detail preserves that event.
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GitHub stamps removedAt to the whole second while the watch start keeps
milliseconds, so a removal in the second the watch started was treated as
old news, its id recorded, and the watch never woke for it. Compare against
the start truncated to the second.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tarted
The test for the first-second window only checked the removal stamped at
the truncated start. Add the removal one second earlier, which must still
be ignored, so a widened threshold fails the suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
merged current main with a merge commit. no rebase or force-push. the one conflict was the generated pullRequestReads.graphql.ts (main added label description, this pr added the queue-removal selection). both kept; graphqlgen reproduces the resolved file.
took two fixes from yaacovcorcos's real merge-queue probe:
19fc0166cc: the watch fingerprint counts filteredCount, since totalCount ignores itemTypes and any timeline event forced a full read.
e68b33b1a4: removals with reason merged no longer wake the agent. GitHub writes one up to a second before the pr reads as merged. one new case in the existing pullRequestWatch.test.ts.
left out the reason-code sentences to keep the change's size; agents still get GitHub's raw reason.
first-read clock skew (bot thread on pullRequestWatch.ts): kept as is. only the first read compares timestamps, using the same startedAt rule remarks use; later reads compare ids.
verification through blacksmith-testbox: vp run check:changed github/main passed format, lint, both knip checks, both graphql checks, typecheck of 37 packages, and 451 tests in 8 files.
unverified by me: a live removal waking a provider turn. yaacovcorcos's probe above shows the read path against a real queue.
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Thanks for the follow-ups since last week. The first-second fix (5984498) and the test that rejects a removal one second before the start (ce0f56b) close the sub-second gap nicely. A few things left from reading the current diff:
Clock skew is still possible. The check is now Date.parse(removal.removedAt) >= floor(startedAt to the second). That handles GitHub's whole-second stamps, but removedAt is still GitHub's clock and startedAt is the T3 server's. If the server runs a couple of seconds fast, a removal right after "add to queue, then watch" would be stored as old news and never wake the agent. Recording the newest removal id when the watch first reads the PR and treating any later, different id as new would sidestep clocks entirely. Is there a reason to prefer the timestamp comparison?
Pre-watch removal id is stored silently.mergeQueueRemovalId = removal?.id ?? watch.mergeQueueRemovalId saves an old removal's id even when it isn't reported, which is what keeps it quiet later. That looks intentional; a one-line comment saying so would help the next reader.
Only the newest removal is read. The detail read takes the latest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent, so two drops between passes produce one wake with the newest reason. That seems fine, but a test or a sentence in the PR body would make it an explicit choice.
Enterprise Server gate. The merge-queue read is only enabled for github.com. Is that because GHES rejects the event type, or because merge queue isn't available there? If newer GHES supports it, a follow-up issue might be better than a hard gate.
Merge with main (8340738). The merge resolved a conflict in packages/contracts/src/threadPullRequest.ts. Worth a quick check that the new optional mergeQueueRemovalId survives alongside whatever main added there, and that watchesEqual in PullRequestWatchReactor.ts still compares every field. The new persistence test (52e41a6) suggests it does.
Nice that the removal counts as a failure in the wake summary, so the agent treats it as something to act on.
merge-queue removal remains unverified. this pass verified the real watch pipeline and neighboring behavior, but could not reproduce the original bug or prove the new removal wake.
Verified in a real dev environment
installed and ran github/main at 40d335a7ba in ../main, then stopped it before running the exact pr head 52e41a6fad9693b576e6b9fa86a36d55c2578c81. only one dev server ran at a time, both in the background with isolated empty state.
used repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. added the real repository as a project through the app and submitted real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web composer. no runtime mocks, fixtures, or demo data.
on main: codex called watch_pull_request for this pr; the watch survived a reload; a subsequent codex turn called unwatch_pull_request and confirmed the pr stayed linked with watching: false.
on the pr: codex started the watch; it survived a reload. clicking the web stop control removed it, and a reload retained the stopped state. restarting the watch then read github's 8 passing required checks, persisted a #24141: checks passed notice, and automatically resumed a real codex turn. that turn stopped the watch and left the pr linked.
all 267 tests passed in the four existing watch, runtime, service, and github decoding suites through blacksmith-testbox. check output. the first root-level attempt failed loading an excluded mobile dependency; running from the owning packages resolved that setup issue. hosted ci reports 27 successful checks.
runtime transcript. one startup event-loop stall of 9201 ms recovered; no provider turn stalled for 10 minutes. both dev servers are stopped. no source changes or pushes.
main baseline, ordinary watch active. this is not a reproduction of a queue drop:
pr head, live required-check notification and automatically resumed codex turn:
pr head, clicking stop removes the watch. the startup stall warning is visible at the beginning. this clip shows the neighboring stop interaction, not a merge-queue removal:
Not verified
the changed merge-queue behavior, its reason text, and once-per-removal deduplication through a live provider turn. github's active main-branch rules are deletion, required_status_checks, and pull_request, with no merge-queue rule. this pr has no queue entry and its removal-event query returns an empty node list. generating the event would require changing repository rules or using another pr. neither was done. consequently the original main bug was not reproduced, and this pass does not certify the fix end to end.
native desktop, ios/android, macos/windows, ghes, other forge providers, comment/conflict/close/merge transitions, and server-restart deduplication. only the web client, codex, and live github reads were exercised here. the focused tests cover additional logic, but do not replace live merge-queue proof.
inline clip playback in the forge comment. reopening it confirmed that github renders the screenshots, but its image renderer does not play the mp4; git.cafe renders the external media as links. the uploaded mp4 itself was opened in chrome, played, and sought successfully.
@aravhawk Fair question. The timestamp is there because the watch is created with a start time but no baseline removal ID, so the first read needs some way to tell a removal after the watch started from an older one. An ID-only check against the current empty field would report any historical removal.
Your clock-skew concern is valid, though: a server clock ahead of GitHub's can reject a real post-start removal and still save its ID, which suppresses it for good. An explicit ID baseline set when the watch starts, with a distinct "initialized, no removal" state, would avoid comparing clocks. Maria owns the branch now, so I'll leave that change to her.
On the other points: the pre-watch ID assignment is intentional and deserves an inline comment; only the newest removal is reported (last: 1), which should be documented or tested; and the GHES gate is a hostname check rather than a capability check, so the description should state the actual limit.
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- Around line 147-156: Update the first-read removal handling around the
mergeQueueRemovalId assignment so a clock-skewed removal is not suppressed and
permanently recorded as reported. Establish a host-observed baseline when the
watch starts, or retain an unconfirmed first-read removal for reconciliation;
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Do not permanently discard a first-read removal because of clock skew.
If a removal happens after watch creation but before its first read, GitHub can stamp it earlier than watch.startedAt when the clocks differ. Line 151 then suppresses the wake. Line 156 still saves the ID, so later reads cannot report that removal. Establish a host-observed baseline when the watch starts, or retain an unconfirmed first-read removal for reconciliation instead of marking it reported.
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lines 147 - 156:
Update the first-read removal handling around the mergeQueueRemovalId assignment
so a clock-skewed removal is not suppressed and permanently recorded as
reported. Establish a host-observed baseline when the watch starts, or retain an
unconfirmed first-read removal for reconciliation; preserve the existing
behavior for confirmed removals.
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria
leaving this as is. the first read compares host timestamps with the server's startedAt, which is the same rule remarks already use (remarksThrough: startedAt in the watch-start command). after the first read, removals are compared by id, so skew no longer matters. a host-observed baseline would need a pr read in every watch-start path (mcp and client), and that is wider than this fix.
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Establish a reliable host event baseline for new watches. Distinguish an empty
queue-event result from unavailable data, and preserve an uninitialized
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Pre-watch removal id: intentional, and now commented in pullRequestWatch.ts (661f904).
Newest removal only: the description now says it. The read asks GitHub for last: 1, so two removals between passes give one wake with the newer reason, and the older one is not reported.
Enterprise Server: the description now says the gate is a hostname check, not a capability check. The 3.18 and 3.22 schemas include the event, but no Enterprise Server has been run, so the gate stays for now.
Merge with main: mergeQueueRemovalId survived it, watchesEqual compares it (PullRequestWatchReactor.ts:181), and 52e41a6 tests that the stored id persists across reactor restarts.
On "merge-queue removal remains unverified": here are real removals from a real merge queue, read through this PR's own code.
Setup. A public throwaway repo, ScientFactory/merge-queue-watch-probe, has a merge queue (MERGE, one entry at a time) and one required check, check. That check fails only on merge_group, and only when FAIL_IN_QUEUE exists. The probe reads the PRs with this PR's real GitHubPullRequestApi: getPullRequestWatchFingerprint and getPullRequestDetail. It builds the layer from GitHubPullRequestApi.test.ts with FetchHttpClient and a real token. It waits 10 s between rounds of reads, and 250 ms while the last PR lands. It then replays every read, in order, through evaluatePullRequestWatch and pullRequestWatchMessage. As the reactor does, the watch ends on the first read that is not open.
In the run with #4–#6 (58 reads), each PR also woke once for its own passing check. Each removal woke once, and later reads did not repeat it. An earlier run (#1–#3, at 7c63ff1 unchanged) gave the same wakes. #7 was a single read after its removal.
So the removal wake works against GitHub. Three things turned up that the fixtures can't show:
GitHub also records a removal when the queue merges. Each time the queue lands a PR, GitHub writes a RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent with reason merged, at the same second as MergedEvent or one second before it. Examples: probe Git integration: branch picker + worktrees #3, removal 23:46:54Z and merge 23:46:55Z; fix(web): keep chat typing fast beside open PDFs and LaTeX ScientFactory/scient-desktop#801, 14:34:33Z and 14:34:34Z. Neither probe run caught a read in that gap. If a read sees the removal while the PR still reads as open, this PR wakes the agent with "removed from the merge queue without merging: merged".
Reasons are codes. GitHub's schema types reason as a plain string and lists no values. Across all 471 removals on scient-desktop since 2026-09-29, it sent 363 merged, 73 failed_checks, 22 manual, 5 invalid_merge_commit, 4 merge_conflict and 4 checks_timed_out. The tests here use "Merge conflict" and "CI failed", so a real wake reads "…without merging: failed_checks."
totalCount ignores itemTypes. On timelineItems(itemTypes: [REMOVED_FROM_MERGE_QUEUE_EVENT]), totalCount counts every timeline item. Probe Git integration: branch picker + worktrees #3 had no removals and read 1. Probe Add open-in-editor feature with Cmd+O shortcut #2 went from 1 to 2 to 3 as it was queued and then removed. filteredCount gives 0, 1 and 0. The wake still fires, because a removal still changes the number. But any timeline event (queued, labelled, assigned) forces a full read.
yaacovcorcos/t3code@2cebedd3e7: skip merged removals, and turn failed_checks, checks_timed_out, merge_conflict and manual into sentences. Other codes, such as invalid_merge_commit, still show as GitHub gives them. A failed_checks or checks_timed_out wake says the checks ran on the queue's own commit, not on the head, since the head stays green. Its new tests fail on 7c63ff1.
yaacovcorcos/t3code@0b0375464c: the fingerprint counts filteredCount. It updates the existing fingerprint test so that a timeline item that is not a removal must leave the status alone. On 7c63ff1 that test fails.
Both merge cleanly with main at 8ee7183. On that merge, the watch and GitHub tests pass, server and source-control-github typecheck, lint passes, and graphqlgen leaves the generated files unchanged.
Cherry-pick them, or take only the ideas, whichever suits you. I'll keep the probe repo up until this merges, so the events stay inspectable.
@yaacovcorcos Thanks for running this on a real merge queue. Your four removals answer the "remains unverified" note, and they turned up the merged removal and the totalCount count, which our own fixture run today also showed. In that run, in the full app, the watching thread never woke for a failed_checks or manual removal on current main and woke once for each on 7c63ff1. Your 2cebedd and 0b03754 cover everything our local fix did and also turn the reason codes into sentences, so we would take yours over ours. maria-rcks owns this branch now, so whether to pick them up is her call.
timelineItems totalCount ignores itemTypes and counts every timeline item,
so any timeline event forced a full watch read. filteredCount honours the
filter. Found by Yaacov against a real merge queue.
GitHub records a removal with reason merged when the queue lands a pull
request, up to a second before it reads as merged, which woke the agent
with "removed from the merge queue without merging: merged".
@maria-rcks I ran your open item on a real GitHub merge queue in the public fixture repo only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture. Main at f697d4db3e (the main your merge took in) and e68b33b1a4 ran side by side, each a T3 server whose thread watched the same fixture pull requests, with a real Codex turn (gpt-6-luna) behind each thread. Each wake below started a Codex turn that answered with the item, and no removal woke a thread twice on the sweeps through 08:48Z:
failed_checks removal (GitHub 08:35:01Z): main never woke; e68b33b1a4 woke once at 08:36:07Z with "It was removed from the merge queue without merging: failed_checks."
manual removal (GitHub 08:38:32Z): main never woke; e68b33b1a4 woke once at 08:40:08Z with "It was removed from the merge queue without merging: manual."
Queue merge of fixture PR 3 (MergedEvent and the merged removal both at 08:43:09Z): neither thread woke, and both ended the watch as merged (main 08:44:02Z, e68b33b1a4 08:44:09Z).
Not checked: the one-second window e68b33b1a4 guards did not occur, since the next sweep already read PR 3 as merged, so its unit test is still the only cover for that branch. I opened the captures in the Browser panel by clicking each thread; nothing was typed or sent.
GitHub queue events (fixture repo)
$ queue.sh enqueue 1 # local 2026-11-11T08:34:11Z
{"data":{"enqueuePullRequest":{"mergeQueueEntry":{"state":"QUEUED","position":1,"enqueuedAt":"2026-11-11T08:34:11Z"}}}}
$ queue.sh events 1 # local 2026-11-11T08:35:07Z
{"data":{"repository":{"pullRequest":{"state":"OPEN","merged":false,"mergedAt":null,"isInMergeQueue":false,"headRefOid":"35de6ad6cf38fa28a0a68ca23e38b6655eabf833","timelineItems":{"filteredCount":14,"nodes":[{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT5zv2A","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:10:12Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT58njw","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:11:37Z","reason":"failed_checks"},{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT6a3qQ","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:16:27Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT6b4FQ","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:16:35Z","reason":"manual"},{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVHvDlg","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:34:12Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVHzjFA","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:35:01Z","reason":"failed_checks"}]}}}}}
$ queue.sh enqueue 1 # local 2026-11-11T08:38:23Z
{"data":{"enqueuePullRequest":{"mergeQueueEntry":{"state":"QUEUED","position":1,"enqueuedAt":"2026-11-11T08:38:24Z"}}}}
$ queue.sh dequeue 1 # local 2026-11-11T08:38:31Z
{"data":{"dequeuePullRequest":{"mergeQueueEntry":{"state":"QUEUED"}}}}
$ queue.sh events 1 # local 2026-11-11T08:38:36Z
{"data":{"repository":{"pullRequest":{"state":"OPEN","merged":false,"mergedAt":null,"isInMergeQueue":false,"headRefOid":"35de6ad6cf38fa28a0a68ca23e38b6655eabf833","timelineItems":{"filteredCount":16,"nodes":[{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT6a3qQ","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:16:27Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIT6b4FQ","createdAt":"2026-11-10T15:16:35Z","reason":"manual"},{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVHvDlg","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:34:12Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVHzjFA","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:35:01Z","reason":"failed_checks"},{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVIEevQ","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:38:24Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABZXvA6s8AAAAIVIFJdQ","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:38:32Z","reason":"manual"}]}}}}}
$ queue.sh enqueue 3 # local 2026-11-11T08:42:19Z
{"data":{"enqueuePullRequest":{"mergeQueueEntry":{"state":"QUEUED","position":1,"enqueuedAt":"2026-11-11T08:42:20Z"}}}}
$ queue.sh events 3 # local 2026-11-11T08:43:12Z
{"data":{"repository":{"pullRequest":{"state":"MERGED","merged":true,"mergedAt":"2026-11-11T08:43:09Z","isInMergeQueue":false,"headRefOid":"0e182c4f256dac02e224d510b430bc09192a2db7","timelineItems":{"filteredCount":3,"nodes":[{"__typename":"AddedToMergeQueueEvent","id":"ATMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABePqcqc8AAAAIVIXzhw","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:42:20Z"},{"__typename":"MergedEvent","id":"ME_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABePqcqc8AAAAIVIbwRg","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:43:09Z"},{"__typename":"RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent","id":"RFMQE_lADOVUtqWs8AAAABePqcqc8AAAAIVIbx9g","createdAt":"2026-11-11T08:43:09Z","reason":"merged"}]}}}}}
2026-11-11T08:32:29.238Z | user | Call the T3 tool watch_pull_request with url https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1 (use tool search to load it if needed). Call no other tool. Then reply "watching" and end your turn.
2026-11-11T08:32:36.717Z | assistant | watching
2026-11-11T08:34:05.810Z | user | Update on pull request #1 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- All 1 required check passed on 35de6ad.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:34:09.821Z | assistant | - “All 1 required check passed on 35de6ad.”
2026-11-11T08:36:07.004Z | user | Update on pull request #1 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- It was removed from the merge queue without merging: failed_checks.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:36:08.406Z | assistant | - “It was removed from the merge queue without merging: failed_checks.”
2026-11-11T08:40:08.684Z | user | Update on pull request #1 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- It was removed from the merge queue without merging: manual.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:40:09.952Z | assistant | - “It was removed from the merge queue without merging: manual.”
2026-11-11T08:40:28.505Z | user | Call the T3 tool watch_pull_request with url https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/3 (use tool search to load it if needed). Call no other tool. Then reply "watching" and end your turn.
2026-11-11T08:40:32.739Z | assistant | watching
2026-11-11T08:42:09.879Z | user | Update on pull request #3 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/3), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- All 1 required check passed on 0e182c4.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:42:11.577Z | assistant | - “All 1 required check passed on 0e182c4.”
2026-11-11T08:32:29.270Z | user | Call the T3 tool watch_pull_request with url https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1 (use tool search to load it if needed). Call no other tool. Then reply "watching" and end your turn.
2026-11-11T08:32:40.885Z | assistant | watching
2026-11-11T08:33:59.775Z | user | Update on pull request #1 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/1), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- All 1 required check passed on 35de6ad.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:34:03.279Z | assistant | - “All 1 required check passed on 35de6ad.”
2026-11-11T08:40:28.465Z | user | Call the T3 tool watch_pull_request with url https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/3 (use tool search to load it if needed). Call no other tool. Then reply "watching" and end your turn.
2026-11-11T08:40:32.047Z | assistant |
2026-11-11T08:40:39.302Z | assistant | watching
2026-11-11T08:42:02.521Z | user | Update on pull request #3 (https://github.com/only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture/pull/3), which T3 Code is watching for you:
- All 1 required check passed on 0e182c4.
Look into each item and act on it as your task requires. This PR stays linked and watched, so do not link, watch, or list it again. End your turn when you are done, and T3 Code wakes you on the next change. When you hand the work back to the user, call unwatch_pull_request first so the thread returns to their inbox.
2026-11-11T08:42:06.589Z | assistant | - “All 1 required check passed on 0e182c4.”
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Problem
An agent watching a pull request with
watch_pull_requestis never told when GitHub's merge queue drops it. The queue runs its checks on a merge commit of its own, not on the pull request's head. A failed or timed-out queue check can leave the head green, the branch clean and no new comment. The watch only reacts to head checks, comments and conflicts, so the thread stays on "Watching pull request" until someone looks. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20523 has the full analysis.To reproduce: on a repository that requires the merge queue, watch a pull request, add it to the queue, and let a merge-group check fail, or remove it from the queue by hand. The thread never wakes.
Change
RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent(id, time, reason) and carries it on the detail asmergeQueueRemoval.mergeQueueRemovalId, so saved watches still decode. A removal after the watch started, other than themergedone below, wakes the agent once, with GitHub's reason when there is one. The notice counts it as a failure, like a failed check or a conflict. A read without queue data keeps the stored id, so it never repeats a removal.last: 1). Two removals between passes give one wake, with the newer one's reason; the older one is not reported.@includecontrols execution; the host still validates the event type and enum value.The agent's wake gets one new line:
When the queue merges a pull request, GitHub also records a removal with reason
merged, up to a second before the pull request reads as merged. That removal does not wake the agent; its id is still stored. Merged and closed pull requests otherwise keep their current handling: the reactor ends the watch before it looks for changes. Nothing requeues automatically, as the issue asks.Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20523, a bug report with a source-level reproduction that proposes this approach. No maintainer has replied or labeled it yet. The fix adds no setting and no UI: it fills in a missing wake in an existing tool, and watches without queue data behave as before.
Verification
Run on a clean install, on 86f6522 (this branch merged with main on 2026-10-23). The later
mergedskip andfilteredCountfingerprint are covered by their own tests, not by these runs.cd apps/server && vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts. The new test "reports each merge queue removal once while the head checks stay green" fails on main, which reports no change, and passes here. It covers the first wake and its notice, no repeat on the next pass or after a read without queue data, a second removal, and an older removal staying quiet.cd packages/source-control-github && vp test run src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson.test.ts. Two tests pin GitHub's shapes: the read maps the newest removal, and the fingerprint's status moves with the removal count. Both fail on main and pass here.pnpm --filter @t3tools/source-control-github generateregenerated the two.graphql.tsfiles; no other generated file changed.vp run check:changedpasses: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, typecheck of the 29 affected packages, and the tests beside the changes.The three new tests fail against main's production code:
The same suites and
check:changedon this branch:End to end: main and this branch side by side, isolated state, the mock ACP agent in place of a provider. Each thread watched a pull request in a public test repository whose required check fails on
merge_group, so the queue dropped it (failed_checks). On main the thread stayed on "Watching pull request https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/1" for two or more sweeps. On this branch the next sweep posted "https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/1: removed from merge queue" and started a turn, once per drop. Web and desktop ran production builds on Linux. iOS and Android ran in a simulator and an emulator with production JavaScript, against a server on the same commit.Web on main, still watching:
Web on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Desktop on main, still watching:
Desktop on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
iOS on main, still watching:
iOS on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Android on main, still watching:
Android on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Real merge queue on 2026-11-11, at e68b33b with main at f697d4d side by side: two T3 servers, each with a thread watching pull requests in the public fixture repository
only21mil-test/merge-queue-fixture, with a real Codex turn (gpt-6-luna) behind each thread. Afailed_checksremoval and amanualremoval each woke the e68b33b thread once with its reason, and Codex answered in that turn; main never woke. A pull request the queue merged woke neither thread, and both ended the watch as merged. In that run themergedremoval and the merge landed in the same second, so themergedskip is covered by its unit test only. Server lines and captures: #24141 (comment)Not checked:
Prior PRs: none attempted this fix. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/12916 by @yuriharrison and https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/15800 by @AryaBuddha showed a Queued badge for https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/12499, a different change. They closed over their UI evidence, and this PR shares no code with them. Thanks to @ntindle for the analysis and proposed fix in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/20523.
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Fixes #20523