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Summary

  • detect exact-head/source-provenance drift in failed repo-review phases
  • stop futile body-writer retries and quarantine the complete stale repo analysis
  • restart at round 1 so sync, GitNexus, findings, negotiation, and bodies share one fresh exact head
  • retain bounded repair/restart evidence and document the behavior

Root cause reproduced

During the clean weekly rerun, stranske/Pension-Data advanced from 193eb255 to 1703329a after round 1. The body writer correctly rejected the stale source, but the coordinator restored and retried the same stale converged.json twice, then failed closed.

Validation

  • python -m ruff format --check scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py
  • python -m ruff check scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py
  • python -m pytest -q tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py (24 passed)
  • python -m pytest -q tests/scripts/test_repo_review_*.py (446 passed)

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Repository reviews now detect when the source branch advances during processing.
    • Stale analysis, findings, logs, and provenance are quarantined before restarting from round 1.
    • Failed retries stop promptly when source-head data is outdated.
    • Restart attempts remain within the configured repair-attempt limit.
  • Documentation

    • Updated operational guidance to describe source-head drift handling and full-review restarts.

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The repository review coordinator now detects origin/main drift during later rounds, stops stale body-writer repairs, quarantines affected outputs, and restarts the repository workflow from round 1 within the existing repair budget. Documentation and tests cover the new behavior.

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Source-head recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry drift detection
scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py, tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py
Retry execution accepts a terminal-condition predicate. Body-writer retries stop when logs indicate source-head drift. Tests verify that no repair record is created after the early stop.
Repository restart orchestration
scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py, config/repo_review_automation.toml, docs/ops/REPO_REVIEW_PROCESS.md, tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py
The coordinator quarantines stale round outputs and logs, records restart metadata, reruns the full workflow from round 1, and applies the repair-attempt limit. Configuration, operations documentation, and restart tests describe and validate the flow.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4b7ae

The drift recovery improves source consistency, but a filesystem error during quarantine can still abort the cycle before stale outputs are made unavailable or failure is recorded. This fail-closed path should be fixed and tested before merge; restart timing and recovery documentation also need clarification.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Coordinator
  participant BodyWriter
  participant RepairDirectory
  participant RepositoryWorkflow
  Coordinator->>RepositoryWorkflow: run repository review
  RepositoryWorkflow->>BodyWriter: write review body
  BodyWriter-->>Coordinator: report source-head drift
  Coordinator->>BodyWriter: stop stale retries
  Coordinator->>RepairDirectory: quarantine prior round artifacts
  Coordinator->>RepositoryWorkflow: restart from round 1
  RepositoryWorkflow-->>Coordinator: return exact-head results
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There is at least one verified documentation mismatch between the described behavior and the actual implementation (log handling during quarantine/restart).

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Pull request overview

Updates the repo-review coordinator to detect source/HEAD drift in late phases, avoid futile retries against stale analysis outputs, quarantine the stale per-repo artifacts, and restart the repo review from round 1 so all subsequent outputs share a single fresh exact-head provenance chain.

Changes:

  • Add log-based head-drift detection and allow run_subprocess_with_repairs to stop retrying early when drift is detected.
  • Introduce coordinate_repo_with_restarts to quarantine stale per-repo round1/round2 outputs (and preserve logs) and restart from round 1 within the bounded repair budget.
  • Add regression tests and document the new restart/quarantine behavior.
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tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py Adds tests covering early-stop on body-writer head drift and full repo restart/quarantine behavior.
scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py Implements head-drift detection, early retry stop, quarantine+restart flow, and wires it into the main per-repo loop.
docs/ops/REPO_REVIEW_PROCESS.md Documents the head-drift-triggered full restart behavior and what gets preserved/quarantined.
config/repo_review_automation.toml Updates automation narrative to reflect restart-on-head-drift semantics under the existing repair budget.
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In `@docs/ops/REPO_REVIEW_PROCESS.md`:
- Around line 83-84: Update the coordinator restart description to state that
prepare_head_drift_restart preserves coordinator logs in
logs/coordinator/<owner>__<repo>/ by copying them, while only round-1 and
round-2 outputs are moved into the repair directory.

In `@scripts/repo_review_coordinator.py`:
- Line 1026: Separate the restart-loop limit from the per-phase repair_attempts
setting used by coordinate_repo, or enforce a cycle-level deadline that prevents
additional restarts once the wall-clock budget is exhausted. Update the restart
logic around coordinate_repo and add the corresponding smaller configuration key
in repo_review_automation.toml if using a separate limit; document the chosen
budget decision in the operational notes.
- Around line 1054-1060: Wrap the prepare_head_drift_restart call in
coordinate_repo_with_restarts with OSError handling, converting the quarantine
failure into the existing controlled failed report and stopping further
restarts, consistent with run_subprocess_with_repairs and prepare_phase_retry.
Add a test that makes prepare_head_drift_restart raise OSError and verifies
coordinate_repo_with_restarts returns the failed report without propagating.

In `@tests/scripts/test_repo_review_coordinator.py`:
- Around line 863-865: Add a persistent-drift test around run that makes
fake_coordinate_repo always return body-writer failure with a drift log,
exhausting the repair budget; assert calls equals repair_attempts + 1, both
head_drift_restarts and prior_stale_head_attempts contain repair_attempts
entries, and verify the failure report is written while aggregate outputs are
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Addressed exact-head review feedback in a6420f2f:

  • quarantine the stale per-repo evaluator brief and regenerate active-repo preflight inputs before round 1
  • contain quarantine/evidence I/O failures in the normal fail-closed report path
  • distinguish copied coordinator logs from moved round outputs in operator docs
  • document the bounded worst-case wall-time tradeoff
  • cover successful restart, I/O failure, and persistent-drift budget exhaustion

Validation: 26 focused tests and 448 repo-review tests pass locally.

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Provider Summary

Provider Model Verdict Confidence Summary
openai gpt-5.6-terra PASS 87% The change implements bounded full-repository recovery when a failed later phase reports exact-head or source-provenance drift. It detects recognized drift diagnostics, prevents futile phase-local...
anthropic claude-sonnet-5 PASS 72% The PR implements head-drift detection and a bounded full-repo restart mechanism in the repo review coordinator, replacing futile per-phase retries when origin/main advances mid-run. Config and doc...
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openai

  • Model: gpt-5.6-terra
  • Verdict: PASS
  • Confidence: 87%
  • Scores:
    • Correctness: 9.0/10
    • Completeness: 9.0/10
    • Quality: 9.0/10
    • Testing: 9.0/10
    • Risks: 8.0/10
  • Summary: The change implements bounded full-repository recovery when a failed later phase reports exact-head or source-provenance drift. It detects recognized drift diagnostics, prevents futile phase-local retries, quarantines repo-scoped stale analysis and logs, refreshes the active-repo preflight, and restarts processing from round 1 so checkout synchronization, GitNexus data, findings, negotiation, and body generation share fresh head provenance. Restart evidence and restart limits are recorded and use the existing repair-attempt budget. Documentation and configuration text were updated to describe the behavior and increased bounded runtime. The coordinator tests were substantially expanded to cover drift detection, quarantine/restart behavior, retry suppression, evidence, and bounded restart handling. The implementation is readable and appropriately isolates drift detection and restart preparation; the remaining reliance on known diagnostic text markers is a reasonable compatibility tradeoff given the existing subprocess/log-based phase interface.

anthropic

  • Model: claude-sonnet-5
  • Verdict: PASS
  • Confidence: 72%
  • Scores:
    • Correctness: 7.0/10
    • Completeness: 7.0/10
    • Quality: 7.0/10
    • Testing: 7.0/10
    • Risks: 6.0/10
  • Summary: The PR implements head-drift detection and a bounded full-repo restart mechanism in the repo review coordinator, replacing futile per-phase retries when origin/main advances mid-run. Config and docs are updated consistently to describe the new restart behavior and its bounded budget reuse. The code adds a stop_retry_when hook to the existing repair loop, a marker-based drift detector, and a prepare_head_drift_restart function that quarantines round-1/round-2/body-writer artifacts and logs before restarting at round 1. Test file additions (331 lines) appear to substantially cover the new logic, and CI (selftest-ci.yml, pr-11-ci-smoke.yml) both report success on relevant test suites, supporting the acceptance criteria's pytest requirements. The diff was truncated before showing the full implementation and its integration into the main loop, limiting full correctness verification, but the visible changes are coherent, well-documented, and consistent with the stated acceptance criteria. Given the additive nature of the change (new optional parameter, new functions) and passing CI test suites, this satisfies the acceptance criteria with only minor completeness/robustness concerns around the marker-based drift heuristic and unseen loop integration details.
  • Concerns:
    • The diff was truncated in review; the full implementation of prepare_head_drift_restart and its integration into the main coordination loop could not be fully verified for correctness (e.g., whether restart_number/repair budget accounting correctly bounds restarts, and whether quarantine correctly moves all round-1/round-2/body-writer artifacts).
    • Head drift detection relies on substring matching against a fixed tuple of log message markers (HEAD_DRIFT_MARKERS); this is brittle if underlying error messages change wording, potentially causing false negatives (missed drift detection) or false positives.
    • Cannot independently confirm the stated test counts (24 passed / 446 passed) from the diff alone, though CI results (selftest-ci.yml Python Tests success) support tests are passing.
    • Documentation changes (config toml and REPO_REVIEW_PROCESS.md) appear consistent with the described behavior, but full verification of interaction between stop_retry_when callback and existing repair loop logic requires seeing the complete run_subprocess_with_repairs and caller code, which was cut off.
    • New Callable-based stop_retry_when parameter changes the signature of run_subprocess_with_repairs; if there are other callers not shown in the diff, backward compatibility should be confirmed (though default None suggests it's additive and safe).

Agreement

  • Verdict: PASS (all providers)

Disagreement

Dimension openai anthropic
Correctness 9.0/10 7.0/10
Completeness 9.0/10 7.0/10
Quality 9.0/10 7.0/10
Testing 9.0/10 7.0/10
Risks 8.0/10 6.0/10

Unique Insights

  • openai: The change implements bounded full-repository recovery when a failed later phase reports exact-head or source-provenance drift. It detects recognized drift diagnostics, prevents futile phase-local retries, quarantines repo-scoped stale analysis and logs, refreshes the active-repo preflight, and r...
  • anthropic: The diff was truncated in review; the full implementation of prepare_head_drift_restart and its integration into the main coordination loop could not be fully verified for correctness (e.g., whether restart_number/repair budget accounting correctly bounds restarts, and whether quarantine correctly moves all round-1/round-2/body-writer artifacts).; Head drift detection relies on substring matching against a fixed tuple of log message markers (HEAD_DRIFT_MARKERS); this is brittle if underlying error messages change wording, potentially causing false negatives (missed drift detection) or false positives.; Cannot independently confirm the stated test counts (24 passed / 446 passed) from the diff alone, though CI results (selftest-ci.yml Python Tests success) support tests are passing.; Documentation changes (config toml and REPO_REVIEW_PROCESS.md) appear consistent with the described behavior, but full verification of interaction between stop_retry_when callback and existing repair loop logic requires seeing the complete run_subprocess_with_repairs and caller code, which was cut off.; New Callable-based stop_retry_when parameter changes the signature of run_subprocess_with_repairs; if there are other callers not shown in the diff, backward compatibility should be confirmed (though default None suggests it's additive and safe).

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Closer verifier readback: Agents Verifier run 34206037597 completed successfully; the durable report is dual PASS (OpenAI 87%, Anthropic 72%). No source issue is awaiting closure.

The full GitHub diff resolves the report's truncation caveat: prepare_head_drift_restart preserves coordinator logs and quarantines repo-specific round1, round2, and preflight artifacts; coordinate_repo_with_head_recovery bounds restarts by repair_attempts, refreshes preflight before round1, and stops on I/O/preflight errors. The added stop_retry_when defaults to None, preserving other callers. Tests in the same diff cover repeat drift exhausting the budget and preparation/preflight failures. Fixed diagnostic markers remain a documented maintenance limitation, not a newly demonstrated failure. The supplemental current-checkout coordinator test completed after a slow startup: 28 passed in 3.39s. Existing recorded CI and implementation validation also remain available.

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