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fix(#2086): gate each dev-lead retry payload on the target repo's pinned parser - #2088

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Problem

The dev-lead retry sweep runs scripts/ at a single channel: the one this repo's dev-lead.yml pins (#2050 / #2083). It then dispatches retries to every repo in the org, and each target parses the payload with dev-lead-intent.sh at its own pin. As a result, a target pinned to an older channel can receive a client_payload field its parser drops. That is the #2017 / #2050 skew, now between repos instead of over time.

The concrete case is comment_node_id: the v1 parsers don't read it, so a fix-bot-comment retry sent to a v1-stable repo would misroute.

Change

The first version of this PR skipped whole repos pinned older than the sweep. That would have stopped all retries for the fleet (stable / v1-stable), even though most payloads only carry fields every release reads. This version gates each payload separately instead.

scripts/lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh works per target:

  • It finds the target's pin: the dev-lead.yml agent_ref, or the reusable's default main when there is none.
  • It reads the fields that pin's dev-lead-intent.sh reads: every .client_payload.<key> in the parser and in the lib/*.sh files it names, followed transitively, with comments stripped. This is the same reading check-retry-payload-fields.sh does in CI.
  • Both lookups are cached per sweep.

The payload is sent only when the target reads every non-informational field. Informational fields are the same ones the CI check uses (repo, attempt).

  • If the target pins the same channel as the sweep, no lookup is needed.
  • If the target has no dev-lead.yml (a 404 on a repo the token can read), the payload is held with no warning.
  • If the pin, the repo or the parser can't be read, the payload is held with a ::warning:: (fail closed).
  • If a field isn't read, the payload is held with one ::warning:: per repo and field set, naming the field.

Where the gate runs:

  • Every dispatcher calls dcg_payload_allowed on the payload it built. A new test enforces this for any function that POSTs to /dispatches.
  • The bot-comment scan checks BOT_COMMENT_RETRY_FIELDS before posting its retry marker. Otherwise a marker would block the comment for the whole pending window. A test pins this list to the dispatcher's payload.
  • main() no longer skips repos. It turns the gate on from SWEEP_AGENT_REF, which dev-lead-retry.yml now passes from its resolved channel.
    • An invalid SWEEP_AGENT_REF fails the sweep.
    • With SWEEP_AGENT_REF unset, as in unit tests or check-retry-payload-fields.sh sourcing the sweep, the gate is off and logs that it is.

Risk

Low to medium. The change only removes dispatches. A held payload leaves its markers in place, so the retry resumes once the target is repinned. Today the only held case is fix-bot-comment to repos whose pinned parser doesn't read comment_node_id. The extra API reads are cached: one stub read per repo, and a few file reads per distinct pin.

Test plan

  • shellcheck --severity=warning scripts/*.sh scripts/lib/*.sh: clean. bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh: clean.
  • bash scripts/check-retry-payload-fields.sh: OK at v139-next, ring0, ring1 and stable. The new lib introduces no dispatcher and no dispatches global.
  • tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dispatch_channel_gate.bats: 27/27. The mock gh fails on any unexpected call.
  • tests/dev-lead/unit/test_bot_comment_retry.bats: 67/67, including an end-to-end test where the target drops comment_node_id, so no marker is posted and nothing is dispatched.
  • Mutation checks: removing the early bot-comment gate, or any dispatcher's gate, fails a test.
  • These suites also pass: test_retry_payload_fields, test_delayed_rate_limit_retry, caller_stub_freeze, and test_{auto_rebase_retry,bot_thread_retry,dev_lead_retry,dev_lead_retry_channel,dev_lead_retry_pr_escalation,hold_notice,channel_stub_forward_guardrail}.

Rollback

Revert this PR. There are no non-revertible side effects.

Monitoring

The dev-lead-retry run logs [retry] sweep channel: dev-lead/v…. A held payload logs ::warning::[retry] holding retries for <repo>: it pins <ref>, whose scripts/dev-lead-intent.sh does not read client_payload field(s) … and [hold] <repo> ….

Closes #2086

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  • Bug Fixes
    • The retry sweep now skips repositories pinned to an older harness channel, preventing incompatible dispatches. Skipped repositories are reported.
    • If the sweep’s channel cannot be resolved, the compatibility check is disabled and repositories remain eligible for scanning; a warning is displayed.

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The retry sweep now resolves a dev-lead channel pin and checks each target repository’s pin before scanning. It skips repositories with missing, invalid, older, or unknown-compatible pins when the sweep pin is available. If sweep-pin resolution fails, it warns and scans all listed repositories.

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Retry sweep channel gating

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse and resolve channel pins
scripts/lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh, tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dispatch_channel_gate.bats
The new library validates channel refs and reads pins from workflow files. Tests cover parsing, pin-read outcomes, and default or overridden sweep-ref resolution.
Check target pin compatibility
scripts/lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh, tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dispatch_channel_gate.bats
The library compares differing refs, caches comparison results by target ref, and determines dispatch eligibility. Tests cover comparison statuses, caching, and skip decisions.
Apply the gate in the retry sweep
scripts/dev-lead-retry.sh, .github/workflows/dev-lead-retry.yml, tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dispatch_channel_gate.bats
The sweep applies the eligibility check when it resolves a channel pin, counts skipped repositories, and reports a nonzero count. Comments describe the pin behavior, and tests cover sweep outcomes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Retry as dev-lead-retry.sh
  participant Gate as dispatch-channel-gate.sh
  participant GitHub as GitHub API
  Retry->>Gate: Resolve sweep channel ref
  Gate->>GitHub: Read host dev-lead.yml pin
  GitHub-->>Gate: Return host pin
  loop Each target repository
    Retry->>Gate: Check dispatch eligibility
    Gate->>GitHub: Read target dev-lead.yml pin
    GitHub-->>Gate: Return target pin
    opt Target pin differs from sweep pin
      Gate->>GitHub: Compare target...sweep refs
      GitHub-->>Gate: Return comparison status
    end
    Gate-->>Retry: Allow or skip repository
    Retry->>Retry: Scan eligible repository
  end
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d732c

Update the workflow comment to explain when repositories are skipped and when compatibility remains unverified. This documentation issue does not appear to block merging.

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #2086 requires per-target pin handling or an equivalent shared-channel check. scripts/lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh reads each target repository's dev-lead.yml agent_ref, compares the targe…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The workflow documentation, retry-script wiring, dispatch-channel gate, and Bats tests directly support issue #2086. No unrelated change is established by the reviewed summary or inspected files.
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: gating each dev-lead retry payload based on the target repository's pinned parser.
Description check Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, risk, test plan, rollback, and monitoring. It is mostly complete, although it omits the template's Summary heading, Interaction contract section, …

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This pull request introduces a per-target-repo channel gate to prevent dispatching payloads to repositories pinned to older, incompatible dev-lead channels. It adds the dispatch-channel-gate.sh library to resolve and compare channel pins via git ancestry, integrates this check into the main retry script, and includes a comprehensive suite of unit tests. The review feedback highlights several instances where command substitutions are executed directly inside conditional lists under set -e, which can silently swallow failures. It is recommended to assign these substitutions to variables first and check their exit statuses explicitly to ensure robust error handling.

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CodeAnt PR Risk: Medium Risk

  • The PR needs attention before merging because repeated compatibility checks can consume excessive GitHub API calls during a large sweep.
  • In dispatch-channel-gate.sh, pin and parser-field lookups run inside command substitutions, so their cache updates are lost and repeated payloads refetch the same files.

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Dev-Lead — review-changes (partial)

A commit was pushed, but not every requested change was applied. Per requested item:

  • scripts/dev-lead-retry.sh:1281 — not applied
  • scripts/lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh:59 — not applied
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- Around line 34-38: Update the explanatory comment in the dev-lead retry
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Existing test changed without justification — human attention needed

The fix-bot-comment pass changed, deleted, or skipped existing test(s) to go with its fix: tests/dev-lead/unit/test_dispatch_channel_gate.bats. A previously-passing test that disagrees with a change is a reason to question the change, not to edit the test, so dev-lead did not push this pass (#2013).

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The CodeRabbit rate-limit notice is an operational notice, not a code finding. The substantive issues (3 violations from Cubic) have been addressed via fixes to the workflow comment, test mock, and permission-checking logic.

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don-petry added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
…rs and parses the parser at every channel (#2085)

Fixes #2081.

scripts/check-retry-payload-fields.sh (lint job `retry-payload-fields`) fails when the dev-lead retry sweep sends a client_payload field that scripts/dev-lead-intent.sh does not read at any channel (next/ring0/ring1/stable) of the pinned major.

- Sent side: every sweep function whose body names `dispatches` is executed with `gh` stubbed; every dispatch is captured in every gh request form (--input -/<file>/=<file>, -f/-F/--field/--raw-field separate or attached). An empty or unreadable payload, an endpoint held in a global, or a sweep that aborts while sourcing is a setup error.
- Read side: the parser and the libs it sources (recursively) are bash-parsed at each channel tag; only jq-path `.client_payload.<key>` reads count, and not after a `#` on the line. A missing lib is a setup error.
- Channel tags are refreshed from origin (no shallowing of a full clone); in CI an unfetchable tag fails closed.

Cross-major exposure of fleet repos still on dev-lead/v1-* is tracked in #2086 / #2088.

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@don-petry don-petry added the dev-lead:hands-off Exclude from dev-lead agent automation label Oct 9, 2026 — with Claude
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dev-lead is withholding action on this item.

It is labeled dev-lead:hands-off (deliberately kept off-limits to dev-lead (e.g. changes to the dev-lead automation itself)), so dev-lead will not pick it up while that label is present. This notice is posted once so the withhold is visible rather than looking like a stalled run.

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…t whole repos

Review feedback: skipping every repo pinned older than the sweep would stop all
retries for the fleet (stable / v1-stable), though most payloads carry only
fields every release reads. The gate is now per payload:

- lib/dispatch-channel-gate.sh reads each target's dev-lead.yml agent_ref (the
  reusable's default `main` when absent), then the `.client_payload.<key>` reads
  in dev-lead-intent.sh and the libs it names at that ref (comments stripped),
  cached per sweep. A payload goes out only when every non-informational field
  is read; same pin as the sweep needs no lookup. No stub, an unreadable pin or
  parser holds the payload (fail closed); a missing field warns once per repo.
- Every dispatcher calls dcg_payload_allowed after building its payload; the
  bot-comment scan checks BOT_COMMENT_RETRY_FIELDS before posting its marker.
- main() no longer skips repos. The gate is on only when SWEEP_AGENT_REF is set
  (dev-lead-retry.yml now passes its resolved channel); an invalid value fails.
- Tests: mock gh fails on any unexpected call; dispatcher coverage and the
  marker-field list are pinned; end-to-end bot-comment hold test.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019K6UsD7r25pAcRjJL3G6Kx
… itself is readable

Review (cubic P2): GitHub also answers 404 for a repo the token cannot read, which
the gate would have held silently as 'no stub'. Confirm the repo is readable
first; otherwise it is an unreadable pin and holds with a ::warning::.

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@don-petry don-petry changed the title feat: implement issue #2086 — dev-lead-retry: resolve the dev-lead channel pin per target repo, not once for the whole sweep fix(#2086): gate each dev-lead retry payload on the target repo's pinned parser Oct 9, 2026
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Review (CodeAnt): the pin and parser-field lookups run inside command
substitutions, and the bot-comment scan is itself called in one, so the in-memory
cache was discarded on every return and each payload refetched the target's stub
and parser files. dcg_init now makes a per-sweep cache directory (RUNNER_TEMP);
pins, parser fields and warn-once keys are files there. A test drives the gate
three times through $(...) and asserts one read of each file.

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