fix(server): a merged pull request wakes the agent that watched it#32881

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Problem

An agent that watches its PR "until it merges" never learns the PR merged. PullRequestWatchReactor ends a watch with a wake when the PR closes, but ends it silently when it merges (both on a host read and when the link's snapshot already says merged). The agent takes no further turn, so it can't do whatever its task needs after the merge, and the thread stays in its last "waiting on CI / merge" state until someone opens it.

A second case loses news: when required checks pass and the PR (e.g. with auto-merge) merges between two sweeps, the next read sees state: merged, so the agent is never told the checks passed either.

This qualifies as a small, focused fix for an obvious defect: a watch the agent started is the agent's way of being told the PR's fate, and merge is the one outcome it was not told.

Fix

A merge now ends the watch with one wake, the same way a close does: the message says the PR merged and watching stopped, and asks the agent to finish what remains and hand the work back. Notification: #N: merged, stopped watching, outcome completed.
Settled and subagent threads still end their watches without a wake, since the orchestrator refuses wakes for them. endsWithoutRead now checks those before "merged", so a merged PR on a settled thread keeps ending silently.
One sentence in docs/user/source-control.md says watching wakes the agent once more when the PR merges or closes.

Verification

Extended wakes once for a state it reported, across a restart and a new watch in runtimeLayer.test.ts: after the checks-passed wakes, the host returns state: "merged"; two sweeps give exactly one #12: merged, stopped watching wake and the watch is gone. It fails without the fix (no merged wake) and passes with it.
vp test run src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests: 161 passed.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck pass. The only test failures (DesktopLinuxUrlHandler.test.ts ×2 and AntigravityInstallation.test.ts ×1) fail identically without this change on macOS.
Not checked: a live run against a real GitHub merge. The reactor path is the same one a close already takes.

Tests were run on a downstream build whose copies of these three files are identical to main apart from this diff.

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fix(server): a merged pull request wakes the agent that watched itd4e2ee5

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Verdict: Approved at d4e2ee5

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Merged pull requests now wake their watching agent once to finish the task, then stop the watch. The change is confined to explicitly enabled watches and preserves silent termination for settled and subagent threads.

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CcoderabbitaiBot3d ago

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Walkthrough

Merged pull-request watches now send a completed monitor notification that wakes the agent to finish remaining work. Settled and subagent threads end without a read before merged state is checked. The test and documentation reflect the updated watch behavior.

Changes: Merged pull-request watch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Merged watch termination `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestWatchReactor.ts`	The read and sweep paths notify and wake the agent when a pull request is merged. Settled and subagent status takes precedence over merged state in the no-read check.
Merged watch test and documentation `apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts`, `docs/user/source-control.md`	The test checks for one merged notice and a cleared watch after repeated sweeps. The documentation lists merge or close as a wake condition and updates the conflict wording.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

Issue 25160: This change adds a wake when a watched pull request merges, but does not implement the requested queue removal.
Issue 21009: This change adds a merged-state wake, but does not implement the requested queued-wake invalidation.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, yash-singh1

Merge Risk: External image Low · up to d4e2e

The merge behavior appears ready, but its test could pass without verifying that the agent actually wakes. Add that assertion to protect the intended behavior.

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title "fix(server): a merged pull request wakes the agent that watched it" clearly describes the main change: a merged PR now sends a wake to the agent that watched it, matching the existing close…
Description check	Passed	The description follows the template's Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the defect (merge ends watches silently while close wakes the agent)…
Linked Issues check	Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title "fix(server): a merged pull request wakes the agent that watched it" clearly describes the main change: a merged PR now sends a wake to the agent that watched it, matching the existing close behavior in PullRequestWatchReactor. It follows conventional commit style and is specific enough for a teammate scanning history.

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The description follows the template's Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The Problem section explains the defect (merge ends watches silently while close wakes the agent) and the second lost-news case. The Change section lists the reactor fix, the endsWithoutRead ordering, and the doc update. Verification names the focused test, the commands run, the results, and what was not checked. The Scope and approval section gives a small-fix justification, which the template allows. It does not link a triaged issue or maintainer approval, and it does not include a model/harness line, though the author notes Claude Code was used. These gaps are non-critical, so the check passes.

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CcoderabbitaiBotreviewed3d ago

External image Nitpick comments: 1

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts: 1

3505-3515: External image Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Assert the merged notification outcome and run.
The summary and watch assertions can pass if the notification has another outcome or no agent run. Assert that the merged message has outcome completed and exactly one associated run.

Suggested fix

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1 assert.deepEqual(yield* summaries, [
2 "#12: checks passed",
3 "#12: checks passed",
4 "#12: merged, stopped watching",
5 ]);
6 + const { messages } = yield* orchestrator.getThreadRecords(threadId, ["messages"]);
7 + const mergedMessage = messages.find(
8 + (message) => message.notification?.summary === "#12: merged, stopped watching",
9 + );
10 + assert.equal(mergedMessage?.notification?.outcome, "completed");
11 + const { runs } = yield* orchestrator.getThreadProjection(threadId);
12 + assert.lengthOf(runs.filter((run) => run.userMessageId === mergedMessage?.id), 1);
13 assert.isUndefined((yield* orchestrator.getThreadShell(threadId))?.pullRequests?.[0]?.watch);

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2 instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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6 Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts around
7 lines 3505 - 3515:
8 Update the merged-notification test around the summaries assertion to locate the
9 message for “#12: merged, stopped watching” and assert its notification outcome
10 is completed. Verify that exactly one run is associated with that message, while
11 preserving the existing summary and watch assertions.

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7	Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/runtimeLayer.test.ts:
8	- Around line 3505-3515: Update the merged-notification test around the
9	summaries assertion to locate the message for “#12: merged, stopped watching”
10	and assert its notification outcome is completed. Verify that exactly one run is
11	associated with that message, while preserving the existing summary and watch
12	assertions.
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Mmaria1d ago

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Verified unchanged head d4e2ee5a83e6ac145062179e5d1cb66be32a7735 on a Linux Boat VM, against github/main at e4d86abca9. Installed both checkouts with vp i and ran one background dev server at a time. Used repository Playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome, created a project for a real checkout through the UI, and completed real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns.

Exercised the production WebSocket thread.pull-request.watch command with a fresh link to an already merged GitHub PR. The app fetched the real merged snapshot; no mocked host responses, fixtures, database edits, or external PR mutations were used. This specifically exercises the merged-snapshot sweep path.

Observed transcript:

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1	main: watch ended, reason=merged, wakes=0; 1 original completed run; no merge notification
2	head: watch ended, reason=merged, wakes=1; watch cleared
3	head: notification outcome=completed, summary="#33181: merged, stopped watching"
4	head: exactly 1 associated Codex run, completed; assistant replied MERGE_ACK
5	later sweep: still 1 merge notification and 1 associated run
6	neighbor: real provider called watch_pull_request and unwatch_pull_request on this PR; both completed; UNWATCH_OK
7	neighbor: settled thread rejected a new watch; no extra provider run

45 focused existing tests passed through Blacksmith: the runtime lifecycle case changed here, 21 watch evaluator tests, and 23 pull request MCP handler tests. GitHub's reported checks also pass. No source changes or pushes were needed.

Main, after the silent watch termination:

main leaves the Codex thread without a merge notification

PR head, after the merge wake and real provider response:

PR head shows the merge notification and Codex MERGE_ACK

Real provider watch/unwatch interaction:

Codex watches and unwatches through the running app

Not verified

A live open-to-merged transition and the host-read branch were not exercised: the test used an already merged real snapshot to avoid changing any external PR. The close, settled-reactor, and subagent paths have existing automated coverage; only settled request rejection was checked live. Native desktop, iOS, Android, other providers, and remote/relay connections were not exercised on this Linux VM.

JJulius Marminge1d ago

Thanks for this. #26271 makes the same change and is the one being kept: Keep #26271 instead. It fixes the same two silent merge paths, preserves settled/subagent handling, updates the user guide, and provides broader regression coverage for host-read merges and close/reopen/snapshot-merge sequences. It also includes the merge commit and merger when available. All 32 reported checks pass, and a read-only Git merge-tree check against current main completed without conflicts. Main still lacks the behavior. All 3,640 open pull requests were paged; other overlapping submissions include #32582 and #33201. No issues are formally linked. The change addresses the silent-merge portion of #25160, but does not cover queue-removal notifications or the stale queued-wake defect in #21009. No code, tests, or project scripts were executed.

Closing as a duplicate.