fix: release item claim on finalize success

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Auto-opened on item done for 8JUrNZbnb19YCLt92Y74T.

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Opened by cursor on flared:c997d745ae66 for item #508 via agentflare.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Redispatch status now indicates whether an item is ready and dispatchable.
  • When dispatch is blocked, details include the active claim owner, claim age, and lease duration.

• Bug Fixes

  • Claims are released reliably when workflows finish, including review-only and unresolved-review paths.
  • Claims remain held while an item awaits an open pull request, preventing premature reassignment.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for blocked redispatches and claim release after workflow completion.

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Walkthrough

The change adds live-claim lookup, reports claim blockers during redispatch, and centralizes claim release during pipeline finalization. Finalization retains claims for in_review responses and releases claims on other tested terminal paths.

Changes

Claim lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Redispatch claim checks crates/agentflare-backend/src/claim.rs, src/mcp_server/item.rs, src/mcp_server/tests/action_tests.rs	Adds live-claim lookup and extends redispatch responses with dispatchable, blocking owner, claim age, TTL, and reason. Tests cover active-claim blocking.
Pipeline finalization claim release src/work_item_pipeline.rs, src/work_item_pipeline/tests.rs	Adds shared best-effort claim release handling. Terminal paths release claims, while in_review responses retain them. Tests cover human-review and review-only completion.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4f3ec

The PR releases an item claim after successful finalization, but a blocked redispatch path can still omit required blocker details, making responses inconsistent; the current head should not merge until this is corrected or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant item_redispatch
  participant live_claim_on_item
  participant ClaimLedger
  Caller->>item_redispatch: request redispatch status
  item_redispatch->>live_claim_on_item: query item claim
  live_claim_on_item->>ClaimLedger: list non-stale claims
  ClaimLedger-->>live_claim_on_item: active claim data
  live_claim_on_item-->>item_redispatch: owner and claim age
  item_redispatch-->>Caller: ready and dispatchable response

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Possibly related PRs

• getappz/agentflare#388: Both PRs modify item claim-release behavior and related action tests.
• getappz/agentflare#531: Both PRs modify pipeline finalization paths.
• getappz/agentflare#547: Both PRs modify review-only finalization and claim handling.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: releasing the item claim after successful finalization.
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In `@src/mcp_server/item.rs`:
- Around line 1167-1196: Update the claim-checking flow to call
live_claim_on_item once, before constructing the response, and derive
dispatchable from whether that snapshot contains another agent’s active claim.
Reuse the same result to populate blocked_by_live_claim, preserving the existing
blocker fields and avoiding a separate has_active_claim_by_other check.

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PM review: not merge-ready

Original #508 ask is mostly landed: finalize now releases on hold / review-only / human-review-gate, and keeps the lease only when item_done returns in_review. Redispatch now returns dispatchable + �locked_by_live_claim. Tests cover the review-only and human-gate release paths plus a blocked-redispatch case. Build/clippy passed.

Blockers

1. CI still red — mt (rustfmt on the new tests) and Validate PR title (title is the item name, not a conventional commit). CI Green fails as a result.
2. CI self-repair no-op — supervisor dispatched cursor:7dFwYfC0N-r5V_zf9SvFc, job reported complete on the same PR, zero new commits. Still ddeee89.
3. Commit quality — single commit is Auto-committed by item done: uncommitted changes at completion.

Gaps (follow-up, not this PR’s original text)

• Fail-path / skipped-finalize still leaks claims (ClaimGuard Drop /
  elease_and_comment still let _ = item_release). That is the fix(flare-workflow): SDD-loop judge-parse retries + item_done in_review no-op #512 leak. This PR does not fix it.
• inalize_release_claim_best_effort also swallows item_release errors (let _ = ...).
• No test that in_review actually keeps the claim.
• Redispatch does two claim-ledger reads (has_active_claim_by_other then live_claim_on_item); CodeRabbit’s single-snapshot nit is valid, not blocking.

Do not merge until fmt + title are fixed and pushed. Fail-path release should stay a separate item if this PR stays scoped to finalize success.