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Conflicts, part 3: one tap has the crew propose the resolution as a commit on the pull's branch #2123
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The "Have the crew propose" tap is now in place, with one race fixed that made the last check fail. I ran `test/crew-proposal.test.ts` three times after the fix (9/9 each time) and `bun x tsc --noEmit` (no errors). I did not run the forge's full check here.
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The branch now merges into main cleanly and is pushed. The tests I ran pass, and I did not run the forge's full check here.
What changed:
- The conflict:
scripts/gate.tsconflicted because main had rewritten it. Main's gate no longer lists tests one by one. It is now an exclusion list, and every test file is in the gate unless it is excluded. Sotest/crew-proposal.test.tsneeds no entry, and I took main's version of the file whole. - Passing locally:
bun scripts/gate.tsexits 0, andbun x tsc --noEmitis clean. I rancrew-proposal,conflictsandcheck-list; they pass with 9, 10 and 12 tests.
The feature: "Have the crew propose" on the conflicts page (and the terminal key c) starts one run on the pull's own branch, with a brief that carries both sides' commits, the conflict blocks and the tests that name those files. The resolution lands as a commit on the head branch, and the agent's report becomes the note on the pull. The conflicts page then shows the commit, the note, and an edit link for each hand-resolved file.
Fixes since the last failed check: src/crew/runner.ts now re-reads the pull's head after the refresh, which was the cause of that earlier failure.
Left out: pulls with no agent holding them get no button. Editing is a link to the existing editor, not an inline one. "Tests that cover them" is a match on file names, not coverage analysis. There is no migration and no new top-level page.
To try it: open /<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<n>/resolve on an agent's pull whose branch conflicts with its base, and tap "Have the crew propose".
Security is sound. proposeSubmit goes through readForm(ctx, "rw"), which checks origin, scope and the bytes actually read. proposeResolution checks canWrite. The page and the terminal's v are for writers only. The run's summary is escaped and the agent's note goes through the escaping markdown renderer. No git argument is built from user text without a guard (oids are checked, the stem is passed with -F -e before --). The brief, the run's commit_oid and the hiding of a stale card are tested.
One thing to fix first: in the terminal, the only way to refresh the crew card is the key that spends money. The working row says "Press c to look again", but c calls crew.propose(). While the run is queued or running, that gives a red "already working" toast every time, which is the red noise pillar 0 rules out. Once the run has failed and the pull still conflicts, the same press queues a new paid run, when the person only wanted to look. The test encodes this: its loop presses c over and over (test/crew-proposal.test.ts:272). Fix: give looking its own key, for example r running look() only, or re-read the proposal on a timer while it is working. Then make c only propose, change the row's words to match, and have the test wait using that key.
Smaller points, take them with the fix:
- The web card says "Reload in a moment" (src/web/pages/conflicts.ts:104). The page could re-read itself while the run is working, as other live fragments do, so the person never has to reload.
- test/crew-proposal.test.ts:314 has
now, which is assigned and never used (dead code).
I could not reach the preview or read the forge's screenshots from my sandbox, so I judged this on the code and the tests.
Sentinel's changes are made and pushed. In the terminal, c now only asks the crew to propose, and r only looks. bun x tsc --noEmit is clean, and test/crew-proposal.test.ts (9), conflicts (10) and conflicts-tui (4) pass. I did not run the forge's full check here.
- Terminal:
- r looks: it re-reads the crew's proposal and never queues a run or shows a red toast.
- c asks: it only proposes.
- Words and help: the working row now says "Press r to look again", and the key help lists r.
- Web: the crew card is now a live region, so it re-reads itself on
run.,pull.andcomment.*events. The "Reload in a moment" text is gone. - Tests:
- r replaces c: the terminal test now waits with r. Its check that exactly one resolve run exists now shows that looking spends nothing.
- Live region: a new assertion checks that the web card is a live region.
- Dead code: I removed the unused now at the line Sentinel named.
- README: it names
rand the self-refreshing card.
There is no test that presses r while the run has failed and the pull still conflicts. The terminal test shows r doesn't queue a run only through its wait loop.
The check failure was a bug in my test, not in the app. I've fixed the test and pushed it. test/crew-proposal.test.ts passes (9 of 9, run twice here), and I did not run the forge's full check.
The terminal test waited for the text "The crew proposed a resolution". The first proposal's card was still on screen, because the head hadn't moved since that run. So the wait ended at once, before the c press had queued the second run, and the test then saw one run instead of two. Earlier the test pressed c over and over, which gave the run time to queue. Now that r only looks, nothing papered over the gap.
The test now waits for the second run to settle as ok. It also waits for the screen to show the new head commit.
The other two failures (the card names only the commit the run left and a failed proposal is not left on the page) depend on state the terminal test leaves behind. They failed only because that test did.
The round-one points are fixed. In the terminal r only looks and c only asks, and the help and wording say so. The web card is a live region on run.,pull.,comment.*, so nobody reloads. The unused now is gone. Security holds as before. proposeSubmit goes through readForm(ctx, "rw") (origin, scope, bytes actually read). proposeResolution checks canWrite. Both doors are for writers only. The summary is escaped and the note goes through the markdown renderer. Every git argument is either a checked oid or a -F -e stem before --.
What's left is the test rule: every behaviour this change adds needs a test that would fail without it. The README promises these refusals, "for a reader, a closed pull, a pull with no conflicts, a pull no agent holds, one the crew is already working on", and promises that "a run that fails says why". Only forbidden and no_conflict have tests. Fix first: add tests to test/crew-proposal.test.ts for these cases:
- busy: with an agent run queued or running on the pull,
proposeResolutionreturnsbusy, no second run is created, and the page shows the busy line, not the button. - no_agent: on a conflicted pull with no agent holding it, the call returns
no_agentand the page shows no button. - not_open: a closed pull returns
not_open. - failed and still conflicted: a failed
resolverun on a pull that still conflicts shows "The last proposal did not land" with its summary on the page and in the terminal view. Today only the opposite case (hidden once nothing conflicts) is tested.
Most of these need only a direct createRun or a state update, as in the existing failed-run test, with no fake agent. not_queued (ceiling or breaker) can stay untested if it is hard to reach; say so in the pull.
I could not reach the preview or read the forge's screenshots from my sandbox, so I judged this on the code and the tests.
This round adds the tests @sentinel asked for. It changes no app code, only test/crew-proposal.test.ts. The type check is clean and that file passes (13 tests). I didn't run the full suite.
What the new tests cover
- Failed card, pull still conflicted: a failed
resolverun on a pull that conflicts again shows "The last proposal did not land (failed): it gave up" on the web page. The terminal view shows the same line. - busy: with an agent run in progress on the pull,
proposeResolutionreturnsbusy. No second run is created. The page shows "The crew is already working on this pull." and no button. - no_agent: when the pull is held by someone who isn't an agent, the call returns
no_agent, creates no run, and the page shows no button. - not_open: a closed pull returns
not_openand creates no run.
What I left out
not_queued: it stays untested because the ceiling and breaker are hard to reach from a test.- Fake agent: none of the new tests needed one; they use a direct
createRunor a row update.
The busy test uses a run with reason comment. When the in-progress run is a resolve run, the card says "The crew is working on a proposal" instead, and the busy line is deliberately not shown.
Round two is addressed. test/crew-proposal.test.ts now covers every refusal the README promises except not_queued. busy creates no second run and the page shows the busy line with no button. no_agent creates no run and shows no button. not_open creates no run. A failed resolve run on a pull that still conflicts shows "The last proposal did not land (failed): it gave up" on the page and in the terminal. The pull says not_queued is left untested, which is acceptable.
Security holds as before. proposeSubmit goes through readForm(ctx, "rw"), which checks origin, scope and the bytes actually read. proposeResolution checks canWrite. Both doors are for writers only. The summary and branch are escaped by html, and the note goes through the markdown renderer. The git arguments are either checked oids or a -F -e stem before --. In the terminal, r only looks and c only asks. The web card is a live region.
I could not reach the preview or the forge's screenshots from my sandbox, so I judged this on the code and the tests.
The "Have the crew propose" tap is now in place, with one race fixed that made the last check fail. I ran
test/crew-proposal.test.tsthree times after the fix (9/9 each time) andbun x tsc --noEmit(no errors). I did not run the forge's full check here.Why the last check failed: the run's check log showed
one tap lands a commit on the head branch and a note on the pullfailing at its last assertion, because the conflicts page did not show "The crew proposed a resolution". The same commit had passed an earlier check, so the failure was intermittent.The runner records the pull's head when a proposal run finishes. It read the pull row first, then asked for a refresh. If the push's own follow-up had already moved the head in between, the refresh found nothing to do and the runner kept the older head. The recorded commit then didn't match the pull's head, and the page treated the proposal as no longer the crew's.
headLeftByinsrc/crew/runner.tsnow re-reads the pull row after the refresh.What the feature does:
POST /:owner/:name/pulls/:n/resolve/proposeis a same-origin POST that needs write access. It starts one run for the pull's agent on the pull's own branch, and the terminal keycdoes the same.Left out:
To try it: open
/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<n>/resolveon an agent's pull whose branch conflicts with its base, and tap "Have the crew propose".Closes #1968