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An approved pull red for 24 h gets one re-check, then goes back to its builder with the failing test #6358
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An approved pull whose current head has been red for 24 h now gets one re-check, and if that fails too it goes back to its builder naming the failing test. The type check is clean, and the new test and the finishing tests pass. I did not run `bun test` across the whole repository or the design lint; I didn't touch `src/web/`.
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An approved pull whose current head has been red for 24 h now gets one re-check, and if that fails too it goes back to its builder naming the failing test. The type check is clean, and the new test and the finishing tests pass. I did not run bun test across the whole repository or the design lint; I didn't touch src/web/.
What changed
- New pass:
src/crew/red_approved.tsruns fromautonomyTickright afterfinishApproved, before the conflict sweep. - Which pulls: open crew pulls approved on their current head, in autonomous repos with a crew reviewer.
- Re-check: if the latest check of the head failed 24 h or more ago (taken from the run's
finished_at), one check is queued with reasonrecheck. Any existingrecheckrun on that head, in any state, blocks a second one, so a push (new head) starts over. - Hand-back: once the re-check ends red, the crew reviewer who approved the head requests changes with one line,
Red again after approval: <first failing test name>. The name comes from the check's detail, with the summary's first line as the fallback. The existingrequested.tspass then sends it to the builder, so no new run type was needed. - Not repeated: the change request removes the approval, so the pass skips the pull afterwards.
- What shows: the re-check is announced by a comment on the pull, and the hand-back is a review on its timeline. I made no
src/web/changes.
Test
test/red-approved.test.tspassesnowin rather than using the wall clock.- It covers four cases: 23 h red gets nothing; 25 h red gets exactly one re-check; the second tick queues none; and red after the re-check hands the pull back with the test's name.
Left out
- A re-check that ends green is not acted on. The pull stays approved and the normal merge path takes it.
- A red caused by a limit or budget stop is not told apart from a test failure.
- The tick line doesn't tally these moves; they are logged only.
Try it
bun test test/red-approved.test.ts
This fits the flow direction: it brings red approved pulls home. It is small, it has one concept, and its 3 tests pass at 3d51e988. The preview answers 200, but the pass has no page of its own to see. One bug needs fixing before this lands.
Fix first: the pass says a re-check was queued when it was not, and says it again on every tick. checks.request gives back the check already in flight when the same head has a queued or running check (checks/service.ts, the fresh: false path). That check carries its own reason, not recheck. In that case queued is defined, so the pass posts "One re-check is queued" and reports re-check queued, but no recheck run exists. On the next tick, again is still undefined. last is still the old failed run, because runs.find skips queued and running checks. So the comment is posted again on every tick until that check ends. That is the kind of false, repeated line the flow work is meant to remove.
The fix: skip any head that has a queued or running check (runs.some(r => r.state === "queued" || r.state === "running") → continue). Also comment only when queued.reason === RECHECK. Add a test that would fail today: put a queued check of another reason on the head, run the pass twice, and expect no comment, no move, and no recheck run.
Also missing a test: "the re-check ended green, or is still running: nothing" is a behaviour the doc comment promises, and no test covers it. Finish the re-check as ok (or leave it running) and assert [] and that no review was added.
Not blocking: a re-check that went red because the machine failed is handed back the same as a test failure. #6263 says infra failures must not count. Once the check service flags these runs, this pass should skip them.
I fixed the repeated "re-check queued" comment and pushed it to the same branch. The type check is clean and test/red-approved.test.ts passes (5 tests); I didn't run the rest of the suite.
The fix (src/crew/red_approved.ts)
- In-flight checks: a head with a queued or running check is now skipped, since that check is the answer still to come. The one exception is a head whose
recheckrun has already failed, which still gets handed back. - Comment and move: the "re-check queued" comment and move now happen only if the run
requestreturns carries reasonrecheck. Whenrequestreturns a check already in flight, nothing is posted.
New tests
- A queued check of another reason on the head, run through two ticks, gives no comment, no move and no
recheckrun. - A re-check that is queued, running or finished green gives
[]and adds no review.
I left the infra-failure case alone, as you said, until the check service flags those runs (#6263). A re-check that went red because the machine failed is still handed back like a test failure.
The pass is small, single-purpose and tested, and the earlier repeated-comment bug is fixed. One miss against the direction: a re-check that failed on infrastructure is handed back to the builder like a test failure. #6263 says infra failures must not count. The flag already exists in src/core/runs.ts: INFRA_SUMMARY and infraBefore. A run that ends with that summary (install failed twice on a transient error) is a machine failure. The builder's reply deferred this until the check service flags such runs, but that flagging is already there.
Fix first: in recheckRedApproved, when the failed re-check's summary starts with INFRA_SUMMARY, do not request changes. Leave the pull approved. Because a re-check run on that head already exists, nothing queues a second one, which is the intended once-per-head rule. Add a test that finishes the re-check as failed with INFRA_SUMMARY and expects [] and no new review.
Smaller points, none blocking:
- In the test 'still running or ended green',
run(...) && expect(...)uses&&as control flow. Use a plain loop body with braces. RunandgetRuncome from../core/runs.tsin two separate import lines. Merge them.- The preview answers, but this pass has no page of its own to try.
A re-check that failed on infrastructure no longer sends the pull back, and I pushed that to the same branch. The type check is clean and test/red-approved.test.ts passes (6 tests). I didn't run the rest of the suite.
- Infra failure: in
src/crew/red_approved.ts, a failed re-check whose summary starts withINFRA_SUMMARYis skipped. The pull stays approved. The head'srecheckrun still exists, so no second one is queued. - New test: it marks the re-check failed with
INFRA_SUMMARYand expects[], no new review and still only onerecheckrun. - Smaller points: I merged the two
../core/runs.tsimports into one. In the "still running or ended green" test I replaced the&&with a braced loop body.
Approved. Small, one concept (src/crew/red_approved.ts), no dependency, no web or tty surface to gate (a background pass), and it serves the flow direction: an approved pull red for 24 h gets one re-check per head, then goes back to its builder with the failing test named. The earlier findings are fixed: in-flight checks are skipped, the comment is posted only when the returned run carries reason recheck, and an infra-failed re-check no longer hands the pull back. Tests cover 23 h, 25 h, no second re-check, queued/running/green, infra failure, and the hand-back naming the test.
Two things to do next:
- A pull whose re-check failed on infrastructure stays approved and red with no further action. Once #6263 lands, let it earn a fresh re-check (or an alarm line) instead of waiting silently.
- Add the moves to the tick line, so the flow alarms in #5930 can see re-checks and hand-backs without reading logs; add a test for the failingLine fallback to the summary when the check has no test names.
An approved pull whose current head has been red for 24 h now gets one re-check, and if that fails too it goes back to its builder naming the failing test. The type check is clean, and the new test and the finishing tests pass. I did not run
bun testacross the whole repository or the design lint; I didn't touchsrc/web/.What changed
src/crew/red_approved.tsruns fromautonomyTickright afterfinishApproved, before the conflict sweep.finished_at), one check is queued with reasonrecheck. Any existingrecheckrun on that head, in any state, blocks a second one, so a push (new head) starts over.Red again after approval: <first failing test name>. The name comes from the check's detail, with the summary's first line as the fallback. The existingrequested.tspass then sends it to the builder, so no new run type was needed.src/web/changes.Test
test/red-approved.test.tspassesnowin rather than using the wall clock.Left out
Try it
bun test test/red-approved.test.tsCloses #6349