When an agent watches a pull request and the branch conflicts with its base, the watch wakes the agent once: "The branch now conflicts with main." The agent rebases and pushes. If that push does not fix the conflict, the watch stays silent. It only speaks again after the branch has been clean and then conflicts again.
So the agent ends its turn expecting to be woken on the next change, and never learns that its fix didn't work. Failed checks already behave the way the agent expects: a push resets them, and a check that fails again on the new head wakes the agent.
evaluatePullRequestWatch now treats the conflict it already reported as belonging to one head, the same way failedChecks does. When the head moves, a conflict the host still reports is news again. While the host recomputes after the push, "unknown" mergeability still keeps the reported state, now for the current head only. Re-watching the same head still restores the ended watch's headSha and conflicting, so it does not repeat a conflict the thread was already told about.
A detail with no headSha now keeps the watch's last known head instead of counting as a push. Azure DevOps omits the head on purpose when its iteration read fails (#20977). Without this, a conflicting Azure PR would re-wake the agent with "conflicting" on each failed read and again when the head came back. The reactor's watch-life telemetry (pushed) keeps the last head the same way.
Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so no prior issue: one wake transition is missing (a push that leaves the branch conflicting), and the sibling check-failure path already handles the same case. 6 non-test lines plus one extended test case. The missing-head part is included because this PR is what makes the Azure re-wake reachable.
Overlap search: local PR index and REST file diffs for the open PR-watch PRs (#28894, #28200, #28020, #27953, #26310, #26271, #25539, #25181, #24981, #24599, #24568, #24141, #23522, #21636, #21239). None change how the reported conflict carries over when the head moves. #23522 baselines existing conflicts at watch start, and #24141 adds merge-queue removal. One gh search prs query returned nothing.
reports a conflict once, until the branch is clean again in pullRequestWatch.test.ts. It fails with AssertionError: expected [] to deeply equal [ { kind: 'conflicting' } ].headSha after a reported conflict fails with AssertionError: expected [ { kind: 'conflicting' } ] to deeply equal [].vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts → 132 passed.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck, tests all pass.vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts → 20 passed; vp run check:changed passes again (tests: 2 files, 21 passed).Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 rounds with GPT-6.1 Sol on high (the second on the full diff with the missing-head fix). Sol verdict: approved.
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — PR watches will report a conflict again when a new push leaves it unresolved, while missing host head SHAs no longer look like pushes. The change stays within existing watch and wake behavior without changing product defaults or permissions.
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The pull request watch retains the saved head SHA when the host omits it. Conflict reporting and saved conflict state now account for whether the head has changed. Tests cover reads without a head SHA and conflict recomputation after a head change.
Changes: Conflict tracking
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Handle conflict state across head changes apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestWatchReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts | The watch retains the saved head SHA when the host omits one. Conflict reporting and preservation of conflict state now depend on whether the head has changed. Tests cover an omitted head SHA and a new head that first has unknown, then conflicting, mergeability. |
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Change: Bug fix
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unknown mergeability result after a push. This change covers that host state in the watch evaluator, but the issue concerns the sync snapshot path.Suggested labels: bugfix
Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge
6809dThe reported conflict replay issue is addressed, and no additional actionable merge-blocking risk was identified.
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| 8 | - Line 130: Update the pull request watch logic around `headMoved` so an omitted |
| 9 | `headSha` preserves the last known head instead of being treated as a push; keep |
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| 129 | - | if (detail.mergeability === "conflicting" && !watch.conflicting) { | |
| 129 | + | // Like a failed check, a conflict a push did not resolve is news for the new head. | |
| 130 | + | const toldConflict = !headMoved && watch.conflicting; | |
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Do not treat a missing head SHA as a push.
AzureDevOpsPullRequestProvider.getChangeRequest omits headSha when its iteration read fails. (raw.githubusercontent.com) If the previous read reported a conflict at SHA A, a failed read makes headMoved true and wakes the agent again. When SHA A returns, the watch can wake a second time.
Preserve the last known head when the detail omits headSha, and add this case to the existing conflict test.
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| 6 | Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts at line |
| 7 | 130: |
| 8 | Update the pull request watch logic around `headMoved` so an omitted `headSha` |
| 9 | preserves the last known head instead of being treated as a push; keep the |
| 10 | existing conflict behavior in `toldConflict` intact. Add the missing-head-SHA |
| 11 | case to the existing conflict test and verify the watch does not wake again when |
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of saphid
Declining for this PR. headMoved is computed on main as (detail.headSha ?? null) !== watch.headSha (line 45), and main already uses it to reset failed checks, passed checks, owed checks and the progress flag. So an Azure detail with no headSha after a failed iteration read already counts as a push for those states today. A failed check reported at SHA A can be reported again the same way. This PR only applies the existing per-head rule to conflicts as well, so conflicts behave like failed checks. Keeping the last known head when a provider omits headSha would change all of those states together, so it belongs in its own PR. It may be better handled in the Azure provider, so it stops dropping the SHA on a transient read failure.
@saphid Understood. The supplied code confirms that headMoved also resets check state and the progress flag. Preserving the last known SHA would therefore change behavior beyond conflict reporting.
I accept deferring that broader change. The missing-SHA concern remains valid, but it does not need to be addressed in this PR.
Would you like me to open a follow-up issue to evaluate the Azure provider and shared head-tracking behavior?
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On reflection, this PR is what makes the Azure case reachable for conflicts. On main, a missing head only reset check state and the comment wake budget. With this PR it would re-tell "conflicting" on every failed iteration read, and again when the head came back. Fixed in 6809d984d8: when the provider omits headSha, the watch keeps its last known head (detail.headSha ?? watch.headSha), and the reactor's pushed telemetry does the same. The conflict test now covers a read with no head after a reported conflict, then the same head again. Neither wakes. No follow-up issue needed.
@saphid Thanks for the fix and clarification. The supplied code confirms that an omitted headSha preserves the last known head, so it cannot reset conflict reporting. The regression cases you describe cover both the missing-head read and the return of the same head. No follow-up issue is needed.
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partial verification at 65ba6a236612db957203a22a358e1e661306c465 on a linux boat vm. this does not verify the conflict-after-push fix.
ran github/main (61c3794c32) in a separate worktree first, then the exact pr head, with vp i, isolated t3 homes and one background dev server at a time. used playwright from the repo with /usr/bin/google-chrome, real projects, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. no mocks, fixture state or demo provider.
watch_pull_request call registered the watch. the scheduled reactor poll delivered "#29767: checks passed", resumed codex, and its reply appeared in the web client.reads=1, wakes=1; restarted watch reads=1, wakes=0.pullRequestWatch.test.ts and runtimeLayer.test.ts: 132 tests passed. github ci is green at this head. no source changes or pushes.real codex checks-passed wake and restored watch in the web client
30-second interaction recording, with idle time between stop and rewatch removed:
stop watching and rewatch through the real web client and codex provider
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the original bug on main and the changed conflict → new push → still-conflicting wake remain unverified. the only permitted pr is currently MERGEABLE. reproducing that sequence requires a controlled conflicting pr or deliberately introducing a conflict here; neither was authorized under the restriction against touching other prs. clean-pr watch results and green tests do not prove this fix.
also unverified: transient unknown mergeability after a push, a real azure devops iteration-read failure omitting the head, and native desktop/ios/android clients. verification here covered the linux web client and codex provider path.
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Thanks. Agreed that a clean PR can't exercise this. At the evaluator layer the sequence is pinned exactly. In pullRequestWatch.test.ts ("evaluatePullRequestWatch"), the watch sees a conflicting PR and wakes. Then a push arrives with a new head and mergeability: "unknown", then the same new head comes back still conflicting. With main's pullRequestWatch.ts swapped in, that last step fails:
| 1 | AssertionError: expected [] to deeply equal [ { kind: 'conflicting' } ] |
| 2 | ❯ src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts:365:12 |
| 3 | Tests 1 failed | 19 passed (20) |
On this head, 20/20 pass. The same test also covers a poll that omits the head (as the Azure DevOps iteration-read failure does), which must not wake. If you want a live run, I can set up a deliberately conflicting scratch PR on the saphid fork, so no upstream PR is touched, and capture main against this head. Just say if that's worth doing.