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Problem

PR #951 (previously investigated in chat, not a separate PR here) failed
to produce a diagnosis 10/10 times across two full retry cycles --
Gemini returned a completely empty response with finish_reason=STOP
every single attempt, using only a small fraction of the thinking-token
budget (not a budget-exhaustion issue). This is a well-documented,
unresolved, Google-side reliability quirk (see e.g.
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-2-5-pro-with-empty-response-text/81175)
described as cyclical and lasting hours at a time for a given model --
which is exactly why more retries on the same model has a real ceiling.

Changes

1. Increased retries/backoff on the primary model
MAX_RETRIES 5 -> 7, backoff base 2s -> 3s, cap 30s -> 45s.

2. Fallback model tier
Once the primary model exhausts every retry with nothing usable,
call_gemini() now automatically retries on GEMINI_FALLBACK_MODEL
(FALLBACK_MAX_RETRIES=3). _generate_with_retry() takes a max_retries
parameter so both tiers share one retry/backoff implementation rather
than two copies.

Also moves the default models off gemini-2.5-pro/gemini-2.5-flash
(both retire October 16, 2026) to gemini-3.1-pro-preview (primary)
and gemini-3.7-flash (fallback) -- confirmed live against the
osac-ci project that both work, but only on Vertex AI's global
endpoint (not us-central1 or any other region tried); vertex-ai-auth's
default gcp-location changes accordingly. The 2.5-generation pricing
rows are kept in GEMINI_PRICING_USD_PER_MILLION in case those models
are explicitly selected again before retirement.

3. "Reservation" comment on suite start
New e2e-reserve-comment-on-start.yml (triggered on workflow_run type
requested, not completed) posts a "⏳ ... -- Running" placeholder
into the same sticky PR comment as soon as an E2E suite starts. Previously
a PR that hadn't failed yet got no comment at all, so there was no visible
signal that tests were even running. Shares PR resolution with
ai-diagnostic-e2e.yml via a new resolve-pr-from-head-sha composite
action (extracted, not duplicated) and reuses the existing
upsert-pr-comment.py for the sticky-comment mechanics.

comment-success's own trigger condition is broadened to also fire when
a suite never reaches the real full-install job at all (e.g. blocked by
the e2e-readiness gate), resolving the placeholder to "ℹ️ ... -- Skipped" instead of leaving it stuck saying "Running" forever -- the one
real edge case introduced by posting unconditionally.

Testing

  • test_ai_diagnose_failure.py: 52 tests (13 new), including a
    mocked-SDK integration suite (CallGeminiFallbackTests) that exercises
    the real fallback-triggering control flow inside call_gemini()
    itself (via injected sys.modules fakes for google.genai, not just
    the retry primitive in isolation).
  • Live-verified end-to-end against osac-ci: gemini-3.1-pro-preview +
    location=global produces a real diagnosis with correct cost math
    against the new pricing rows; confirmed reachability of
    gemini-3.5-flash-lite/gemini-3.7-flash/gemini-3.1-pro-preview/
    gemini-3-flash-preview (all work) vs gemini-3-pro-preview (doesn't
    -- superseded by 3.1-pro-preview).
  • Live-verified upsert-pr-comment.py's section rendering across the
    full Running -> Skipped -> (another suite's) Running lifecycle.
  • Live-verified the extracted resolve-pr-from-head-sha logic still
    resolves a real open PR from its head SHA correctly.
  • actionlint clean on both new/changed workflow files.

Summary

  • AI diagnostics: Increased retry limits and backoff durations. Added gemini-3.7-flash fallback support and per-model cost aggregation. Updated the default model to gemini-3.1-pro-preview.
  • CI workflows: Added shared PR resolution with validation for unique, open PRs. Added ⏳ Running comments at E2E start. Marked incomplete suites as Skipped. Increased the diagnosis timeout to 20 minutes.
  • Authentication and deployment: Changed the Vertex AI location default to global. Workflows use a GitHub App token for PR comment updates.
  • API surface: Added the resolve-pr-from-head-sha composite action with required inputs and found and number outputs. No application API, controller, or database changes are reported.
  • Tests: Added regression coverage for retries, fallback selection, incomplete responses, pricing, and cost aggregation. Supplied evidence reports 52 tests, live Gemini and workflow-comment verification, and clean actionlint results.
  • Backward compatibility: Gemini and Vertex AI defaults change. An empty fallback model disables fallback behavior. Invalid, closed, batched, ambiguous, or non-unique PR matches are skipped. Application runtime and database behavior remain unchanged.
  • Review findings: No current review findings were supplied. Severity counts are unavailable.

Risk classification

  • Applied label: risk:show.
  • Criteria: Formal labeling criteria were not supplied. The change modifies shared CI control flow, external AI model selection, retry behavior, authentication, and PR comments.
  • Nearby classification: risk:ship was not selected because shared workflow authentication and comment-update behavior changed. Qualification for risk:ask cannot be determined because its formal criteria were not supplied.

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Problem

PR #951 (previously investigated in chat, not a separate PR here) failed
to produce a diagnosis 10/10 times across two full retry cycles --
Gemini returned a completely empty response with finish_reason=STOP
every single attempt, using only a small fraction of the thinking-token
budget (not a budget-exhaustion issue). This is a well-documented,
unresolved, Google-side reliability quirk (see e.g.
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-2-5-pro-with-empty-response-text/81175)
described as cyclical and lasting hours at a time for a given model --
which is exactly why more retries on the same model has a real ceiling.

Changes

1. Increased retries/backoff on the primary model
MAX_RETRIES 5 -> 7, backoff base 2s -> 3s, cap 30s -> 45s.

2. Fallback model tier
Once the primary model exhausts every retry with nothing usable,
call_gemini() now automatically retries on GEMINI_FALLBACK_MODEL
(FALLBACK_MAX_RETRIES=3). _generate_with_retry() takes a max_retries
parameter so both tiers share one retry/backoff implementation rather
than two copies.

Also moves the default models off gemini-2.5-pro/gemini-2.5-flash
(both retire October 16, 2026) to gemini-3.1-pro-preview (primary)
and gemini-3.7-flash (fallback) -- confirmed live against the
osac-ci project that both work, but only on Vertex AI's global
endpoint (not us-central1 or any other region tried); vertex-ai-auth's
default gcp-location changes accordingly. The 2.5-generation pricing
rows are kept in GEMINI_PRICING_USD_PER_MILLION in case those models
are explicitly selected again before retirement.

3. "Reservation" comment on suite start
New e2e-reserve-comment-on-start.yml (triggered on workflow_run type
requested, not completed) posts a "⏳ ... -- Running" placeholder
into the same sticky PR comment as soon as an E2E suite starts. Previously
a PR that hadn't failed yet got no comment at all, so there was no visible
signal that tests were even running. Shares PR resolution with
ai-diagnostic-e2e.yml via a new resolve-pr-from-head-sha composite
action (extracted, not duplicated) and reuses the existing
upsert-pr-comment.py for the sticky-comment mechanics.

comment-success's own trigger condition is broadened to also fire when
a suite never reaches the real full-install job at all (e.g. blocked by
the e2e-readiness gate), resolving the placeholder to "ℹ️ ... -- Skipped" instead of leaving it stuck saying "Running" forever -- the one
real edge case introduced by posting unconditionally.

Testing

  • test_ai_diagnose_failure.py: 52 tests (13 new), including a
    mocked-SDK integration suite (CallGeminiFallbackTests) that exercises
    the real fallback-triggering control flow inside call_gemini()
    itself (via injected sys.modules fakes for google.genai, not just
    the retry primitive in isolation).
  • Live-verified end-to-end against osac-ci: gemini-3.1-pro-preview +
    location=global produces a real diagnosis with correct cost math
    against the new pricing rows; confirmed reachability of
    gemini-3.5-flash-lite/gemini-3.7-flash/gemini-3.1-pro-preview/
    gemini-3-flash-preview (all work) vs gemini-3-pro-preview (doesn't
    -- superseded by 3.1-pro-preview).
  • Live-verified upsert-pr-comment.py's section rendering across the
    full Running -> Skipped -> (another suite's) Running lifecycle.
  • Live-verified the extracted resolve-pr-from-head-sha logic still
    resolves a real open PR from its head SHA correctly.
  • actionlint clean on both new/changed workflow files.

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The pull request adds Gemini primary and fallback handling, shared pull-request resolution, exact workflow pinning, diagnostic workflow updates, and a workflow that reserves E2E status comments.

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Gemini fallback and usage accounting
.github/scripts/ai-diagnose-failure.py, .github/scripts/test_ai_diagnose_failure.py, .github/actions/vertex-ai-auth/action.yml
The diagnosis script adds Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash configuration, separate retry budgets, fallback selection, pricing, and combined usage accounting. Tests cover these paths. Vertex AI defaults to the global endpoint.
Shared pull-request resolution
.github/actions/resolve-pr-from-head-sha/action.yml
A composite action resolves open pull requests for merge-group and other workflow events. It rejects lookup failures, closed pull requests, batched pull requests, and non-unique matches.
Diagnostic workflow integration
.github/workflows/ai-diagnostic-e2e.yml
The workflow uses exact repository revisions and shared pull-request resolution. It propagates primary and fallback model settings, increases the timeout, and updates comments for passing or skipped suites.
E2E start-comment reservation
.github/workflows/e2e-reserve-comment-on-start.yml, .github/actionlint.yaml
A new workflow updates the diagnostic sticky comment when supported E2E runs start. It preserves running cost totals and skips unresolved or closed pull requests. Actionlint ignores unsupported workflow schema properties.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant Resolver as resolve-pr-from-head-sha
  participant GitHub as GitHub API
  participant PRComment as Diagnostic pull-request comment
  E2EWorkflow->>Resolver: Resolve pull request from workflow metadata
  Resolver->>GitHub: Query commits and open pull requests
  GitHub-->>Resolver: Return matching pull request
  Resolver-->>E2EWorkflow: Return found and number
  E2EWorkflow->>PRComment: Find, update, or create running status
  PRComment-->>E2EWorkflow: Store diagnostic status
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aborting the step. Preserve the existing unique (`#N`) matching and counting
behavior when trailers are present.

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Three changes, prompted by PR #951 failing 10/10 retries with an empty
Gemini response ("finish_reason=STOP", well under the thinking-token
budget -- the documented, unresolved, cyclical Google-side reliability
quirk, not a prompt problem):

1. Increase retries/backoff on the primary model: MAX_RETRIES 5 -> 7,
   backoff base 2s -> 3s, cap 30s -> 45s.

2. Add a fallback tier: once the primary model exhausts every retry with
   nothing usable, automatically retry on GEMINI_FALLBACK_MODEL (fewer
   retries -- FALLBACK_MAX_RETRIES=3). A different model is the actual
   mitigation for a quirk reported as an hours-long, per-model outage --
   more retries on the SAME model just keeps hitting the same window.
   _generate_with_retry now takes a max_retries parameter so both tiers
   share the identical retry/backoff implementation rather than two
   copies that could drift.

   Also moves the default model lineup off gemini-2.5-pro/gemini-2.5-flash
   (both retire October 16, 2026 regardless) to gemini-3.1-pro-preview
   (primary) and gemini-3.7-flash (fallback) -- confirmed live against the
   osac-ci project (both work, but only on Vertex AI's "global" endpoint,
   not us-central1 or any other region tried; vertex-ai-auth's own default
   location changes accordingly). The 2.5 pricing rows stay in
   GEMINI_PRICING_USD_PER_MILLION in case they're selected again before
   retirement.

3. New workflow (e2e-reserve-comment-on-start.yml, workflow_run type
   "requested" rather than "completed") posts a "⏳ Running" placeholder
   into the same sticky PR comment as soon as an E2E suite starts, not
   just once something fails -- previously a passing-so-far PR got no
   comment at all, easy to miss that tests were even running. Shares PR
   resolution with ai-diagnostic-e2e.yml via a new resolve-pr-from-head-sha
   composite action (extracted rather than duplicated) and shares the
   sticky-comment upsert mechanics via the existing upsert-pr-comment.py.
   comment-success's own trigger condition is broadened to also fire when
   a suite never reaches the real full-install job at all (e.g. blocked by
   the e2e-readiness gate) so that placeholder gets resolved instead of
   being stuck saying "Running" forever -- the one real edge case
   introduced by posting the placeholder unconditionally. That resolution
   message deliberately doesn't assert a specific cause (readiness gate
   vs. a doc-only PR that just didn't need the suite) since this step has
   no cheap way to tell which one actually happened.

Also fixes issues caught in two rounds of review:
- resolve-pr-from-head-sha: the merge_group PR-batching check's
  `grep | sort -u | wc -l` aborted the whole step under set -eo pipefail
  whenever a commit message had zero "(#N)" trailers (a common, legitimate
  case, not an error) -- confirmed by direct reproduction, fixed with
  `|| true` on the pipeline.
- resolve-pr-from-head-sha: a failed `gh api commits/...` lookup silently
  fell through as an empty commit_message, making the batching count read
  as 0 ("confirmed no batching") instead of "unknown" -- could attribute a
  genuinely-batched merge-queue failure to the wrong PR. Now fails closed
  (found=false) immediately when the lookup itself fails.
- ai-diagnostic-e2e.yml's GEMINI_FALLBACK_MODEL used
  `inputs.gemini-fallback-model == null` to detect the native-trigger
  case, which likely never matches if that context actually yields an
  empty string rather than null there -- would silently disable the
  fallback tier on the primary (fork-PR) diagnosis path. Reworked to use
  inputs.gemini-model's own truthiness as the workflow-call discriminator
  instead (always non-empty whenever this run went through workflow_call
  at all, falsy otherwise, regardless of which falsy value GitHub actually
  produces) -- verified by hand-tracing all three cases (native trigger;
  workflow_call with no override; workflow_call with an explicit "").
- All three of this file's own Checkout repository steps (previously a
  bare `repository: osac-project/osac-test-infra` defaulting to whatever's
  on the default branch at checkout time) now pin
  job.workflow_repository/job.workflow_sha instead, matching e2e-on-
  label.yml's already-established pattern and this file's own new
  e2e-reserve-comment-on-start.yml sibling: the exact commit THIS running
  reusable workflow was actually invoked from, not whatever main moved to
  in between.
- resolve-pr-from-head-sha's merge_group PR-batching check calls
  commits/{sha}, a Contents API endpoint -- but the resolve job only
  granted pull-requests: read, not contents: read. Combined with the
  fail-closed fix above, this meant every merge_group-triggered diagnosis
  403'd on that lookup and silently resolved to found=false, disabling
  merge_group diagnosis entirely. Added contents: read to the resolve
  job's permissions (diagnose/comment-success already had it, for their
  own checkout steps) and updated the action's github-token description
  to document both scopes it actually needs.

Testing:
- test_ai_diagnose_failure.py: 52 tests (13 new), including a mocked-SDK
  integration suite (CallGeminiFallbackTests) exercising the actual
  fallback-triggering control flow in call_gemini() itself, not just the
  retry primitive.
- Live-verified end-to-end against osac-ci (github-runner@osac-ci-1):
  gemini-3.1-pro-preview + location=global produces a real diagnosis
  (confirmed correct cost math against the new pricing rows); gemini-3.5-
  flash-lite/gemini-3.7-flash/gemini-3.1-pro-preview/gemini-3-flash-preview
  all confirmed reachable the same way, gemini-3-pro-preview confirmed not
  (superseded by 3.1-pro-preview).
- Live-verified upsert-pr-comment.py's section rendering for the full
  Running -> Skipped -> (another suite's) Running lifecycle.
- Live-verified the extracted resolve-pr-from-head-sha logic still
  resolves a real open PR from its head SHA correctly, that its pipefail
  fix handles both zero- and multi-trailer commit messages, and that its
  failed-lookup path now fails closed instead of falling through.
- Hand-traced the GEMINI_FALLBACK_MODEL expression fix against all three
  invocation cases.
- Confirmed commits/{sha} is a Contents-permission API endpoint (not Pull
  requests) against GitHub's own REST API permission documentation.
- actionlint clean on both new/changed workflow files.
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eliorerz merged commit 0febb54 into osac-project:main Sep 15, 2026
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