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Problem

When a PR has no required checks, the watch only sends checks-passed once every check passes. If one check fails early, for example a cancelled SonarCloud run, the agent wakes once with "checks failed" while the rest are still running. Nothing wakes it again when they finish. The agent ends its turn waiting for CI and stays idle until a person nudges it. Fixes #28019.

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evaluatePullRequestWatch now records the gate checks that are still pending when a failure is reported, in the existing owedChecks field. Once all of them have finished, and none failed (a new failure already sends its own checks-failed wake), it sends one checks-finished wake that lists the gate checks still failing. Only a failing gate check owes this wake. An advisory failure next to a required check's rerun does not. The notification outcome is failed, matching checks-failed. The contract change is a doc comment only. owedChecks already exists and is persisted.

Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious bug, which CONTRIBUTING allows without prior approval. It touches one pure function in the watch evaluation. #23904 fixed the same kind of missing wake for checks still pending after the required ones pass; this covers the case where the gate fails first. The bug is filed as #28019.

Verification

  • Real incident replayed as a test. The new test follows the check-run timeline from the PR that hit this: sonar cancelled while unit and e2e are pending, then unit passes, then e2e passes. Expected wakes are checks-failed, nothing, checks-finished listing sonar, and nothing on a repeat read. It also covers a later failure among the owed checks, which sends checks-failed. If another owed check is still running, the final wake lists both failures.
  • Required gates. A second test fails one required check while another required check and some advisory checks are pending or failing. Only the required check is owed. The wake lists only the failing required check and ignores the pending advisory one. pullRequestWatchMessage gives outcome failed, summary #7: checks finished, and the expected text. Rerunning the failed required check while an advisory check is failing sends no wake. A new advisory failure keeps the owed set as it was instead of owing a required check that started later (from CodeRabbit's review). An owed check also stays owed while it runs when the failed check turns required and the gate shrinks to the required checks (CodeRabbit). Another gate failure adds the gate's running checks to the owed set instead of replacing it, and the last owed check finishing still wakes the agent when an unrelated check fails in the same read (CodeRabbit). That case fails if the condition goes back to "any check failed".
  • The test fails on main. With the source change stashed, vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts reports × wakes once when the other checks finish after one failed where none is required (1 failed, 20 passed). With the change, 22/22 pass.
  • Checks. vp test run src/orchestration-v2/ passed 1983/1983 across 113 files (one earlier run on this loaded host reported 1978/1983 and passed in full on rerun). tsc --noEmit on apps/server is clean. The pre-commit hook passed vp fmt, vp lint and vp run knip:check.

Unverified

  • A live wake on a running server. I checked the evaluation function and the orchestration suite, which includes the reactor's runtime tests. I haven't deployed the change and watched it wake a real thread.

Decisions

  • Reuse owedChecks instead of adding a field. Its meaning, checks still pending that are owed one wake, already fits. A new field would need a contract and Orchestrator change for the same behavior.
  • Watches saved before this change that are already failing miss this one wake. gpt-6.1-sol (Codex review, P2) pointed out that such a watch has failedChecks but no owedChecks, so it never records what was still pending. The alternative is to owe pending checks whenever the gate is failing, but then every advisory check that starts later re-arms the wake, which is the churn fix(server): wake PR watches when remaining CI checks finish #23904 avoids. The gap closes on the next push or failure, the same transition the no-checks clock accepts for watches saved before it existed.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 rounds with gpt-6.1-sol. Sol verdict: approved

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The PR watch now tracks pending gate checks after a failure and emits a checks-finished update when those checks finish. The update lists checks that remain failed and is classified as a failure notification.

Changes: PR watch check updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track pending checks after failures
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts, packages/contracts/src/threadPullRequest.ts
The watcher records pending gate checks after a failure and emits a change when previously owed checks finish. The owedChecks comment describes this case and its wake condition.
Format and validate finished-check updates
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts
The watcher formats checks-finished and classifies it as a failure. Tests cover pending checks finishing after required and non-required failures, including a rerun while another check remains pending.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#25497: The PR covers the reported case when gate checks were pending at failure. It does not add a wake when no gate checks were pending.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 202d9

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: PR watches wake when checks finish after an early failure.
Description check Passed The description covers the problem, change, scope justification, linked issue, verification results, unverified live-server testing, design decisions, and agent attribution. It matches the required te…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #28019 requires one additional wake after a gate failure when the gate checks that were pending finish. The change records pending gate checks in owedChecks, emits checks-finished after they…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within the watch evaluation behavior required by issue #28019. The new change type, message formatting, failed outcome, contract comment, and focused tests support that behavior. No u…
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The description covers the problem, change, scope justification, linked issue, verification results, unverified live-server testing, design decisions, and agent attribution. It matches the required template and provides specific evidence.

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Issue #28019 requires one additional wake after a gate failure when the gate checks that were pending finish. The change records pending gate checks in owedChecks, emits checks-finished after they settle, and lists the gate checks that still fail. The tests cover the no-required-checks scenario, repeat-read suppression, later failures, and required-check behavior.

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The changes stay within the watch evaluation behavior required by issue #28019. The new change type, message formatting, failed outcome, contract comment, and focused tests support that behavior. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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still pending in detail.checks. Add a regression case showing an owed
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- Around line 89-97: In the failed-gate branch, update the `newlyFailed` check
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Review summary at 006682a

  • Pushed fixes:
    • f6fcf7b (gpt-6.1-sol, sol-loop round 1): only a failing gate check owes the checks-finished wake, so an advisory failure next to a required check's rerun no longer sends an empty "Still failing:" list. It also adds tests for required gates, a second failure while another owed check is still running, and the wake message.
    • 006682a (CodeRabbit): a new advisory failure keeps the owed set instead of re-arming it.
  • Open P1/P2s: none. gpt-6.1-sol approved round 2, and CodeRabbit's last review had no actionable comments. All 28 checks pass.
  • Scope: this changes only the watch evaluation and a contract doc comment. Watches already failing when this deploys miss the extra wake, by design (see Decisions in the PR body).
  • Checked and fine: no reactor-level test is needed, since there are no new persistence, restore, or equality paths (gpt-6.1-sol). Required checks passing early with advisory checks owed (fix(server): wake PR watches when remaining CI checks finish #23904) is unchanged, and its tests pass. A head move clears owed checks through the existing reset.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts: 1

96-97: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep pending owed checks after another gate failure.

Suppose sonar fails while e2e runs, then sonar becomes required. This change preserves e2e. If a new required check then fails while e2e still runs, this branch drops e2e. Its completion produces no wake.

Preserve pending owedBefore entries when adding pending gate checks for the new failure.

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Update the gateNewlyFailed branch that assigns owedChecks to retain pending
entries from owedBefore while adding currently running required gate checks, so
an already-owed check such as e2e can still trigger a wake when it completes.

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- Around line 89-101: Update the evaluator’s owedChecks handling when passedNow
is false to retain each previously owed check while it remains pending or
succeeds; remove an owed check only when that check itself fails or the gate
resolves the obligation.
- Around line 96-97: Update the `owedChecks` assignment guarded by
`gateNewlyFailed` to retain every still-running check from `owedBefore` while
adding pending checks in `running` that match `gateNames`; deduplicate the
combined checks so a new gate failure does not discard an existing obligation.
- Around line 98-101: Update the `checks-finished` condition so it is suppressed
only when a newly failed check overlaps with `owedBefore`, rather than whenever
any check newly fails. Preserve the requirements that owed checks existed and
`owedChecks` is empty before emitting the completion change.

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required gate checks, so an already-owed check such as e2e can still trigger a
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With no required checks, the watch only sends checks-passed once every
check passes. A check that fails early, such as a cancelled advisory
analysis, woke the agent while the rest were still running, and nothing
woke it again when they finished. The gate checks still running at a
failure are now owed one checks-finished wake.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An advisory failure alongside a required check rerun sent checks-finished
with an empty failing list. Cover required gates, partial failures, and
the wake message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only a new gate failure re-arms the owed set; a new advisory failure no
longer owes gate checks that started after the gate failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a failed check turned required, the gate shrank to the required
checks and an owed advisory check still running was dropped, sending
checks-finished early.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… beside one

A new gate failure adds the gate's running checks to those still owed
instead of replacing them. The last owed check finishing still sends
checks-finished when an unrelated check fails in the same read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review summary at 3fc9251 (rebased onto main at 4146e51198; this replaces the earlier summary)

  • Pushed fixes, after b3d09a1 (the fix itself):
    • 81feec6 (gpt-6.1-sol, sol-loop): only a failing gate check owes checks-finished. Adds tests for required gates, partial failures, and the wake message.
    • 215d61c (CodeRabbit): a new advisory failure keeps the owed set.
    • 2b5bbaf (CodeRabbit): owed checks stay owed while they run, even when the gate changes.
    • 3fc9251 (CodeRabbit): another gate failure adds to the owed set instead of replacing it, and the last owed check finishing still wakes when an unrelated check fails in the same read.
  • Open P1/P2s: none. gpt-6.1-sol approved, and CodeRabbit confirmed or withdrew every finding. All checks pass and no review threads are unresolved.
  • Declined: keeping owed checks through a pending rerun of the failed check. Every rerun outcome already wakes the agent, and CodeRabbit withdrew the finding.
  • CI note: one earlier "Build and Typecheck" failure came from main (AgentSessionScanner.ts homePath, fixed upstream). The rebase picked up the fix.
  • Checked and fine: no reactor-level test is needed (no new persistence, restore, or equality path). The fix(server): wake PR watches when remaining CI checks finish #23904 path (required checks passed with advisory checks owed) is unchanged. A head move clears owed checks through the existing reset.

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