fix(#156): add CI coverage regression severity calibration

[fullsend-ai-coder]

Add a "CI coverage regression severity" subsection to the correctness sub-agent prompt. This guides the agent to rate coverage regressions as HIGH when they remove merge-queue or PR-gate signal for a class of changes that previously had it, and Medium when only advisory checks are affected.

The key heuristic: if a PR touching affected paths can now land on main without CI checks that previously guarded them, the finding is HIGH severity. This addresses the recurring severity miscalibration where coverage regressions affecting merge gates were rated medium instead of HIGH, leading to non-blocking comment verdicts instead of blocking request-changes verdicts.

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Closes #156

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[ben-alkov]

/fs-review

[fullsend-ai-review]

🤖 Finished Review · ✅ Success · Started 7:49 PM UTC · Completed 7:58 PM UTC
Commit: 12bd957 · View workflow run →

[fullsend-ai-review]

Review

Findings

Medium

• [protected-path] skills/pr-review/sub-agents/correctness.md — This file is under the skills/ protected path. The PR links to issue Review correctness sub-agent should escalate CI coverage regressions to HIGH when they remove merge-gate signal #156 and clearly explains the rationale (severity miscalibration for CI coverage regressions). Human approval is always required for protected-path changes, regardless of context.

Low

• [style-conventions] skills/pr-review/sub-agents/correctness.md:62 — Severity labels use inconsistent casing: **HIGH** (all caps) and **Medium** (title case) in the new section, while sibling sub-agent files (e.g., security.md) use bold lowercase (**high**, **medium**, **critical**, **info**). The existing correctness.md also uses title-case "Medium-severity" (line 52), so the inconsistency predates this PR, but the new section introduces **HIGH** (all caps) which is a novel pattern. Consider normalizing to bold lowercase for cross-file consistency.

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Labels: PR modifies the review agent correctness sub-agent prompt.

[fullsend-ai-review]

See the review comment for full details.

[ben-alkov]

/fs-fix

[fullsend-ai-coder]

🤖 Finished Fix · ✅ Success · Started 8:13 PM UTC · Completed 8:19 PM UTC
Commit: 12bd957 · View workflow run →

[fullsend-ai-coder]

🔧 Fix agent — iteration 1 (human-triggered)

No action taken. The review body was empty and no human instruction was provided. The existing change to skills/pr-review/sub-agents/correctness.md (adding CI coverage regression severity calibration) was verified to be well-formed and consistent with the file's existing conventions. Secret scan passed with no leaks found.

Disagreed (1):

1. No review findings provided: The review body was empty (review-body.txt contained only a newline) and no human instruction was provided (HUMAN_INSTRUCTION=none). The existing code change in skills/pr-review/sub-agents/correctness.md was verified: markdown is well-formed, heading hierarchy is consistent with the file's existing structure, severity level formatting (HIGH vs Medium) matches the file's established convention, and the new section slots correctly between existing sections. No code changes are needed.

Tests: passed

Decision points

• No changes made because there are no review findings or human instructions to act on (alternatives: Attempt to infer issues from the code diff, Make speculative improvements to the PR; rationale: The fix agent's scope is strictly limited to addressing review feedback or human instructions. With an empty review body and HUMAN_INSTRUCTION=none, making speculative changes would violate the surgical-changes principle. The code was verified to be correct as-is.)

_{Updated by fullsend fix agent}

[rh-hemartin]

@ben-alkov merge this when possible

[fullsend-ai-retro]

🤖 Finished Retro · ✅ Success · Started 6:16 PM UTC · Completed 6:28 PM UTC
Commit: a52f5c5 · View workflow run →

[fullsend-ai-retro]

Retro: PR #157 — CI coverage regression severity calibration

Timeline

Date	Event	Run
Jul 13	Issue #156 filed (CI coverage severity miscalibration)	—
Jul 13	Triage agent classified, applied ready-to-code	29269186313
Jul 13	Code agent created PR #157 (+17/−1, 1 file)	29269483734
Jul 16	Human (ben-alkov) rebased, triggered /fs-review	—
Jul 16	Review agent posted COMMENT review: medium (protected-path), low (style-conventions casing)	29529444576
Jul 16	Human triggered /fs-fix	—
Jul 16	Fix agent got empty review body, took no action (~7 min wasted)	29531136875
Jul 17	Human manually fixed casing via force-push	—
Jul 20	Human (rh-hemartin) approved	—
Jul 23	Merged via merge queue	—

What went well

• Code agent produced a clean, well-scoped 17-line fix that correctly addressed the issue.
• Review agent correctly identified a style inconsistency (severity label casing) and the protected-path requirement. Its verdict (COMMENT, not CHANGES_REQUESTED) was appropriate for non-blocking findings.
• Human review provided substantive approval, satisfying the protected-path requirement.

Key finding: fix agent pipeline drops COMMENT review findings

The fix workflow's pre-fetch step uses a jq filter that only selects CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews from the review bot. When the review agent posts a COMMENT review (appropriate for lower-severity findings), the filter matches nothing and the fix agent receives an empty review-body.txt. Additionally, the review agent's detailed findings are posted as an issue comment (marked <!-- fullsend:review-agent -->), while the formal PR review body contains only a redirect — so even matching COMMENT reviews would yield only redirect text, not findings.

This forced the human to manually fix the style-conventions finding rather than having the fix agent handle it.

Existing issue coverage

• fullsend-ai/fullsend#4675 covers the platform-level root cause: the fix workflow fetches from the Pulls reviews API, but findings live in the review bot's sticky issue comment. PR fix(#156): add CI coverage regression severity calibration #157 provides additional evidence of the same pattern — the fix agent received an empty review body because its jq filter excluded COMMENT reviews, and the actual findings were in an issue comment.
• fullsend-ai/fullsend#5205 covers a related but distinct filter dimension: human-authored CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are also excluded by the .user.login filter. Our case involves the .state filter dimension instead.

Novel proposal filed

One proposal below: add an API fallback in the fix-review skill so the fix agent can self-heal when the pre-fetched review body is empty, regardless of the platform-level fix timeline.

Proposals filed

• Fix-review skill should fetch review findings from GitHub API when pre-fetched review body is empty (in fullsend-ai/agents)