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The persona runtime — dispatch side of the mention framework - #1293
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…amework Closes the loop the router opened. petry-projects/.github#754 detects an `@petry-projects/<role>` mention and fires a `persona-mention` repository_dispatch at this repo; nothing listened. This is what listens. Architecture: ONE runner, single-homed The runner is NOT fanned out to the fleet. Every mention across every repo funnels through the router's dispatch to THIS repo, so the runner lives only here and is called locally (uses: ./). That is why it needs no channel tag or canary registration — unlike the router (`persona-mention`), which IS consumed by fleet repos and rolls out through the rings. One runner serves every persona, convention-driven (prompts/<id>/advisory.md), never one workflow per persona (§4.1: per-agent workflows are the drift the framework exists to prevent). The recursion marker is closed from BOTH sides The router skips any comment carrying '<!-- persona:'. This runner's prompt and its pr_comment_has_marker guard REQUIRE every advisory's first line to be '<!-- persona:<id> -->'. So a persona's own comment can never re-summon it or any persona named in the thread — the .github-private#860 failure (1,481 acks in 4.5h), closed from the writing side. Contents - prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md — qa-lead's advisory behaviour: read the vendored bmad-tea skill by path, assess test-risk (risk vs value, no manufactured risk), post ONE advisory comment. Advisory only — no writes, no PRs, no labels. - scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh — the pure core: payload re-validation (this runner is a SEPARATE trust boundary — a repository_dispatch can be sent by anything with a token, so a malformed persona id must never reach a path interpolation), advisory-prompt resolution by convention, and the shared marker. - .github/workflows/persona-runner-reusable.yml — the runtime: resolve prompt → install claude-code → run headless → the prompt posts one marked comment. PAT (not github.token) because the item lives in a DIFFERENT repo. Rate-limit is a soft skip, matching ci-failure-analyst. - .github/workflows/persona-runner.yml — thin caller: maps the dispatch payload to the reusable's inputs, nothing else. - tests/persona_runner.bats — 15 tests, weighted to the marker and payload re-validation (path traversal, bad ids, missing prompt → rc 3 not a crash). - lint.yml — wires the suite into CI (a bats suite with no runner is unenforced). A persona with no prompts/<id>/advisory.md yet is a clean no-op ("no runtime wired"), not a failure — a persona may declare an address before its runtime exists. NOT wired live here. persona-runner-reusable.yml is workflow_call-only, so per the org standard it must be set disabled_manually after merge (GitHub ignores the flag for workflow_call). And no mention reaches it until the router release is cut and .github-private adopts the `persona-mention` stub — the `next`-ring enablement, which follows in sequence. This PR is the runtime; turning it on is the next step. Verification - bats tests/persona_runner.bats: 15/15. - shellcheck --severity=warning -x scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh: clean. - actionlint (CI's ignores) on both workflows: clean. - prompts/** is a markdownlint ignore (agent instructions, not prose). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a repository-dispatch persona runtime with reusable workflow execution, QA Lead advisory instructions, persona validation helpers, recursion markers, comment posting, and Bats coverage wired into lint. ChangesPersona runtime
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RepositoryDispatch
participant PersonaRuntime
participant PersonaRunner
participant ClaudeCode
participant GitHubAPI
RepositoryDispatch->>PersonaRuntime: Send persona-mention payload
PersonaRuntime->>PersonaRunner: Validate persona and resolve advisory
PersonaRuntime->>ClaudeCode: Run headless advisory prompt
ClaudeCode->>PersonaRuntime: Return advisory output or usage-limit status
PersonaRuntime->>GitHubAPI: Post marked advisory comment
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Pull request overview
Implements the dispatch-side “persona runtime” for the mention framework in .github-private: a new repository_dispatch listener plus reusable runtime that resolves a persona’s advisory prompt by convention and runs it headlessly, with a small bash core and a dedicated Bats test suite.
Changes:
- Added a new persona runtime core library (
scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh) with marker + payload re-validation helpers, plus unit tests (tests/persona_runner.bats). - Added the runtime workflows: a thin
repository_dispatchcaller (persona-runner.yml) and aworkflow_callreusable runtime (persona-runner-reusable.yml) that checks out prompts/tooling and runs Claude Code headlessly. - Introduced the first persona prompt (
prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md) and wired the new Bats test into CI (lint.yml).
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tests/persona_runner.bats |
Adds unit coverage for marker behavior, persona-id validation, and advisory prompt resolution semantics. |
scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh |
Provides the shared marker construction, persona-id validation, prompt path convention, and prompt existence checks. |
prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md |
Defines QA Lead’s headless advisory behavior and comment format rules, including recursion-guard requirements. |
.github/workflows/persona-runner.yml |
Adds the repository_dispatch listener and maps payload fields to reusable workflow inputs. |
.github/workflows/persona-runner-reusable.yml |
Implements the reusable runtime: prompt resolution, Claude Code install, and advisory execution. |
.github/workflows/lint.yml |
Adds the new Bats test file to the existing lint workflow’s test list. |
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This pull request introduces the core persona runner framework, which includes the QA Lead advisory prompt, a shell-based persona runner script with recursion guards and payload validation, and a comprehensive suite of Bats unit tests. The review feedback identifies a critical issue where CRLF line endings in GitHub payloads could cause the recursion guard check to fail, a potential runner crash from using non-standard head -400 under set -o pipefail, and a suggestion to add a unit test for CRLF handling.
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In @.github/workflows/persona-runner-reusable.yml:
- Around line 126-132: Remove attacker-controlled fields such as PERSONA,
SOURCE_REPO, ITEM_NUMBER, COMMENT_URL, and REQUESTED_BY from the echoed primary
prompt in the workflow block. Instruct the agent to retrieve these values from
their already-exported environment variables and use them only as data, keeping
the advisory prompt free of interpolated work-item content.
In `@prompts/qa-lead/advisory.md`:
- Line 27: Update the COMMENT_URL definition in the QA lead advisory to refer to
the comment’s API .url rather than html_url, and modify the dispatch payload
construction to populate COMMENT_URL with that API URL so gh api can consume it.
In `@scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh`:
- Around line 83-88: Update pr_comment_has_marker to replace the Bash-only
here-string with POSIX-compliant line extraction, while preserving the
first-line comparison against marker. Strip any trailing carriage return from
the extracted line before comparing it with the value returned by
pr_agent_marker.
In `@tests/persona_runner.bats`:
- Around line 25-28: Add a CRLF-specific test alongside the existing first-line
marker test in the pr_comment_has_marker test cases, passing a body whose marker
line and subsequent lines use \r\n endings and asserting successful status. Keep
the assertion focused on preserving exact marker matching with carriage-return
line endings.
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Copilot's most important finding: the agent posted its OWN comment, so the marker was only prompt-REQUESTED, not enforced. An agent that forgot it would post an unmarked comment → self-summon → #860 (1,481 acks in 4.5h). My "closed from both sides" claim was false. Restructured, not patched. Read/write split - The AGENT now runs with github.token, which reads the PUBLIC source repo but CANNOT post to it (scoped to THIS repo). It PRINTS the advisory between sentinels; it never receives GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS. - The WORKFLOW extracts the body, guarantees the marker (pr_ensure_marker — prepends if the agent omitted it), and is the ONLY writer, using the PAT. So an agent that forgets the marker cannot post an unmarked comment because it cannot post at all. The guard is now mechanical. New helpers pr_extract_advisory / pr_ensure_marker, tested to the invariant "the posted body always starts with the marker". Other review fixes - Gemini (high): pr_comment_has_marker kept the trailing '\r' from GitHub's CRLF bodies, so the guard silently never matched. Strip it; CRLF test added. - Copilot: resolve step conflated rc 2 (malformed/hostile id) with rc 3 (no runtime). Now rc 2 FAILS loudly, rc 3 is the benign skip. - Copilot: concurrency group keyed only on item_number, which is empty for discussions → all discussion mentions for one persona+repo collapsed into one group. Added comment_url to the key. - Copilot: prompt used $COMMENT_URL (an html_url) with `gh api`, referenced an undefined $BODY, and put a parenthetical on the marker line. Rewritten: the agent derives the API url, prints between sentinels (no self-post, no $BODY), and the marker is alone on the first body line. - Gemini: `head -400` → `head -n 400 || true` (POSIX + no SIGPIPE under pipefail). Discussion posting is explicitly a no-op-with-notice for now (the issue-comments endpoint doesn't serve discussions); wired when the discussion path lands. Verification - bats tests/persona_runner.bats: 21/21 (15 + 6: CRLF, sentinel extraction x2, marker-prepend, unchanged-when-present, and the post-body invariant). - shellcheck --severity=warning -x scripts/lib/persona-runner.sh: clean. - actionlint (CI ignores) on both workflows: clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed the review fixes. I superseded @donpetry-bot's The core finding (Copilot, line 151) needed a restructure, not a patchThe agent posted its own comment, so the marker was only prompt-requested, not enforced. If the model omits it → self-summon → #860 (1,481 acks in 4.5h). Both @donpetry-bot's commit and mine split the post into a separate step — but its version left Mine closes it mechanically:
So the recursion marker is now a mechanical guarantee: Every other finding, addressed
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Two regressions from the review-agent's push (b6f12fa): 1. It DELETED the CRLF test that Gemini specifically requested and that guards the '\r'-stripping fix. Restored — without it, a future revert of the strip would pass CI silently. 2. It changed the prompt to `gh api "$COMMENT_URL"` (correct target: an API url), but the router (#754, merged) currently sends `.html_url` — and `gh api` cannot fetch a github.com browser url, so the comment-body read fails. The prompt already degrades gracefully ("if that fails, proceed from the item"), so the soak still works; but the contract must be made real. The fix is in the ROUTER, not here: it should send the comment's `.url` (API) not `.html_url`. Companion PR on petry-projects/.github does that. Documented the contract in the prompt so the two sides agree. Verification - bats tests/persona_runner.bats: 22/22 (CRLF test back). - shellcheck --severity=warning -x: clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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fix(personas): router sends the comment's API url, not html_url The persona runner (petry-projects/.github-private#1293) fetches the summoning comment's body with `gh api "$COMMENT_URL"` to learn what the persona was asked. `gh api` cannot fetch a github.com browser url, so the router must pass the comment's `.url` (API), not `.html_url`. The API response still carries `.html_url` if a human-facing link is ever wanted. No ordering dependency with #1293: the runner's prompt degrades gracefully when the body fetch fails ("proceed from the item's title/body/diff"), so the soak works either way; this makes the body-read actually succeed. Verification - actionlint (CI ignores): clean. - Single-field change; the value flows unchanged through the existing `client_payload[comment_url]` dispatch. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Admin-merging — disclosed, with rationale. pr-review substantively reviewed and cleared this twice ( Filing the malfunction separately (it could silently block fleet merges — a workflow that claims to approve while nothing lands). Merging here is safe: nothing activates on merge. The reusable is |
…1299) Turns on `@petry-projects/<role>` mention addressing in THIS repo (the `next` ring — the first, smallest-blast-radius soak). Copies the caller stub from petry-projects/.github standards/workflows/persona-mention.yml, pinned to `persona-mention/v1-next` (the fleet copies will pin v1-stable). This is the last link of the chain: a comment `@petry-projects/qa-lead ...` here → this stub fires (issue_comment / PR review comment / discussion comment) → persona-mention-reusable.yml@v1-next routes it (trust floor, opt-out, two-axis recursion guard) and dispatches `persona-mention` to this repo → persona-runner.yml runs qa-lead's advisory and posts one marked comment. Everything upstream is already live on main: the router release is cut (persona-mention/v1.0.0, v1-next → it), the runtime (#1293) is merged with its reusable disabled_manually (still runs when called), and both org secrets exist. Deliberately next-ring only: persona-mention is NOT in ring-pins.sh RING_REUSABLES, so compliance does not (yet) demand this stub fleet-wide. Ring0 → stable is a separate, gated promotion. Kill switch: delete this file (or move persona-mention/v1-next back to a prior tag) and mentions stop routing immediately. Verification - actionlint (CI ignores): clean. - Pre-flight: persona-mention/v1-next resolves to a real persona-mention-reusable.yml on petry-projects/.github. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the loop the router opened.
petry-projects/.github#754detects an@petry-projects/<role>mention and fires apersona-mentionrepository_dispatchat this repo — and until now nothing listened. This is what listens.It is also qa-lead's promotion step 1, and it doubles as the incubation "Ask 3" bridge (
prompts/incubation/README.md): the same discussion-mention → dispatch → agent path.Architecture: one runner, single-homed
The runner is not fanned out to the fleet. Every mention across every repo funnels through the router's dispatch to this repo, so the runner lives only here and is called locally (
uses: ./). That's why it needs no channel tag and no canary registration — unlike the router (persona-mention), which is consumed by fleet repos and rolls out through the rings.One runner serves every persona, convention-driven (
prompts/<id>/advisory.md), never one workflow per persona (§4.1 — per-agent workflows are exactly the drift the framework exists to prevent).The recursion marker is closed from both sides
The router skips any comment carrying
<!-- persona:. This runner's prompt and itspr_comment_has_markerguard require every advisory's first line to be<!-- persona:<id> -->. So a persona's own comment can never re-summon it, or any persona named in the thread — the.github-private#860failure (1,481 acks in 4.5h), now closed from the writing side too.Contents
prompts/qa-lead/advisory.mdbmad-teaskill by path, assess test-risk (risk vs value — no manufactured risk on a well-covered change), post one advisory comment. Advisory only.scripts/lib/persona-runner.shrepository_dispatchcan be sent by anything with a token, so a malformed id must never reach a path interpolation), prompt resolution by convention, the shared marker.persona-runner-reusable.ymlgithub.token) because the item is in a different repo. Rate-limit is a soft skip.persona-runner.ymltests/persona_runner.batsrc 3, not a crash).lint.ymlA persona with no
prompts/<id>/advisory.mdyet is a clean no-op ("no runtime wired"), not a failure — a persona may declare an address before its runtime exists.NOT wired live in this PR
persona-runner-reusable.ymlisworkflow_call-only, so per the org standard it must be setdisabled_manuallyafter merge (GitHub ignores the flag forworkflow_call; safe). Post-merge step..github-privateadopts thepersona-mentionstub — thenext-ring enablement, which follows in sequence.This PR is the runtime. Turning it on is the next step, and it lands in the
nextring only (this repo — smallest blast radius) for soak before any wider rollout.Verification
bats tests/persona_runner.bats— 15/15shellcheck --severity=warning -x— cleanactionlint(CI's ignores) on both workflows — clean🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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