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fix(server): wake PR watches when the merge queue drops a pull request - #24141
An agent watching a pull request with watch_pull_request is never told when GitHub's merge queue drops it. The queue runs its checks on a merge commit of its own, not on the pull request's head. A failed or timed-out queue check can leave the head green, the branch clean and no new comment. The watch only reacts to head checks, comments and conflicts, so the thread stays on "Watching pull request" until someone looks. #20523 has the full analysis.
To reproduce: on a repository that requires the merge queue, watch a pull request, add it to the queue, and let a merge-group check fail, or remove it from the queue by hand. The thread never wakes.
Change
The pull request detail read asks GitHub for the newest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent (id, time, reason) and carries it on the detail as mergeQueueRemoval.
The watch fingerprint counts those events, so a removal triggers a full read on the next pass even when nothing else moved, including one queued and dropped between two passes.
The watch stores the last removal's id in a new optional mergeQueueRemovalId, so saved watches still decode. A removal after the watch started wakes the agent once, with GitHub's reason when there is one. The notice counts it as a failure, like a failed check or a conflict. A read without queue data keeps the stored id, so it never repeats a removal.
Both queries enable merge queue selections only for github.com. Enterprise Server does not return queue data. @include controls execution; the host still validates the event type and enum value.
The agent's wake gets one new line:
- It was removed from the merge queue without merging: <reason from GitHub>.
Merged and closed pull requests keep their current handling: the reactor ends the watch before it looks for changes. Nothing requeues automatically, as the issue asks.
Scope and approval
Fixes#20523, a bug report with a source-level reproduction that proposes this approach. No maintainer has replied or labeled it yet. The fix adds no setting and no UI: it fills in a missing wake in an existing tool, and watches without queue data behave as before.
Verification
Run on a clean install, on this branch merged with current main.
cd apps/server && vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts. The new test "reports each merge queue removal once while the head checks stay green" fails on main, which reports no change, and passes here. It covers the first wake and its notice, no repeat on the next pass or after a read without queue data, a second removal, and an older removal staying quiet.
cd packages/source-control-github && vp test run src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson.test.ts. Two tests pin GitHub's shapes: the read maps the newest removal, and the fingerprint's status moves with the removal count. Both fail on main and pass here.
pnpm --filter @t3tools/source-control-github generate regenerated the two .graphql.ts files; no other generated file changed.
vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, typecheck of the 29 affected packages, and the tests beside the changes.
The three new tests fail against main's production code:
The same suites and check:changed on this branch:
End to end: main and this branch side by side, isolated state, the mock ACP agent in place of a provider. Each thread watched a pull request in a public test repository whose required check fails on merge_group, so the queue dropped it (failed_checks). On main the thread stayed on "Watching pull request #1" for two or more sweeps. On this branch the next sweep posted "#1: removed from merge queue" and started a turn, once per drop. Web and desktop ran production builds on Linux. iOS and Android ran in a simulator and an emulator with production JavaScript, against a server on the same commit.
Web on main, still watching:
Web on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Desktop on main, still watching:
Desktop on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
iOS on main, still watching:
iOS on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Android on main, still watching:
Android on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Not checked:
Enterprise Server. The event is not requested there, so behavior there is unchanged and was not run.
Other hosts, including GitLab merge trains. Their adapters report no removal, so their watches behave as before.
Desktop on macOS and Windows, physical phones, and release builds of the mobile app. The notice is the same timeline item every other watch change uses.
Prior PRs: none attempted this fix. #12916 by @yuriharrison and #15800 by @AryaBuddha showed a Queued badge for #12499, a different change. They closed over their UI evidence, and this PR shares no code with them. Thanks to @ntindle for the analysis and proposed fix in #20523.
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GitHub runs merge queue checks on a commit of the queue's own, so a pull
request the queue drops can keep a green head with nothing else changing.
Read the newest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent in the detail read and count
them in the watch fingerprint, and wake the agent once per removal that
happens after the watch started.
Fixespingdotgg#20523
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
The change adds GitHub merge-queue removal data to pull-request details and watch fingerprints. The watch reports new removals with an available reason, records the last reported removal ID, and classifies the event as a failed notification.
Changes: Merge-queue removal watch
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Summary
GitHub removal data and fingerprint packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts, packages/source-control-core/src/server/PullRequestProvider.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestReads.graphql*, packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestBatches.graphql*, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestApi.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson*
Contracts and GitHub queries now carry removal details and counts. Mapping selects the latest removal and adds its count to the watch fingerprint. Tests cover decoding and fingerprint updates.
Removal data in pull-request details apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
The service copies removal data into pull-request details when the provider supplies it.
Watch tracking and notifications packages/contracts/src/threadPullRequest.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestWatchReactor.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts
The watch reports a new removal at or after its start time, saves its ID, and formats a failed notification. Equality checks include the saved ID. Tests cover repeated reads, later removals, and removals before watch start.
sequenceDiagram
participant GitHub
participant PullRequestService
participant evaluatePullRequestWatch
participant pullRequestWatchMessage
GitHub->>PullRequestService: Provide pull-request detail with removal data
PullRequestService->>evaluatePullRequestWatch: Pass removal ID, time, and reason
evaluatePullRequestWatch->>pullRequestWatchMessage: Format removal notification
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pingdotgg/t3code#23996: Changes the watch detail contract used by this PR’s merge-queue removal evaluation.
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The merge-queue removal flow is mergeable with no verified actionable risk remaining.
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Title check
The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: waking pull-request watches when the merge queue removes a pull request.
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The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope and issue reference, focused verification results, broader end-to-end checks, and untested environments. …
Linked Issues check
The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#20523]. GitHub detail reads expose the newest removal event with its ID, timestamp, and reason. The GitHub watch fingerprint counts removal events, inc…
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The changed contracts, provider mapping, GitHub queries and generated types, fingerprint logic, watch evaluation, reactor comparison, and tests directly support [#20523]. The changes add no unrelated …
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The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope and issue reference, focused verification results, broader end-to-end checks, and untested environments. It also identifies the agent model and harness.
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The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#20523]. GitHub detail reads expose the newest removal event with its ID, timestamp, and reason. The GitHub watch fingerprint counts removal events, including enqueue and removal between polls. The watch reports a post-start removal once, preserves the stored ID when queue data is unavailable, includes the reason, and marks the notification as failed. Legacy watch state remains compatible. Merge and close handling remains unchanged, and no automatic requeue is added. The added tests cover deduplication, missing queue data, later removals, timestamp boundaries, and fingerprint mapping.
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The changed contracts, provider mapping, GitHub queries and generated types, fingerprint logic, watch evaluation, reactor comparison, and tests directly support [#20523]. The changes add no unrelated setting, UI feature, automatic requeue, or queue behavior for unsupported hosts. Existing behavior remains for Enterprise Server and other providers that do not supply queue data.
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watch.startedAt has millisecond precision, but GitHub createdAt values have whole-second precision. A removal in the same second after the watch starts compares as earlier and is rejected. Line 157 still saves its ID, so later polls skip that removal too, and the agent never wakes for it.
Truncate the start time to whole seconds before the comparison:
This also accepts a removal up to 999 ms before the start when both fall in the same second. Whole-second timestamps cannot order those events.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts at line
153:
Update the removal-time comparison in the pull request watch flow to compare at
whole-second precision by truncating watch.startedAt before comparing it with
removal.removedAt. Keep the existing removal ID checks and wake-up behavior
unchanged.
Add a focused PullRequestService.detail test with a provider result that contains mergeQueueRemoval. Assert that the returned detail preserves the event. The new mapper and watch tests exercise either side of this copy, so they would not catch its removal. As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.”
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts around
lines 1773 - 1775:
Update the PullRequestService.detail tests with a focused provider-to-detail
case where the provider result includes mergeQueueRemoval, and assert the
returned detail preserves that event.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.ts:
- Line 153: Update the removal-time comparison in the pull request watch flow to
compare at whole-second precision by truncating watch.startedAt before comparing
it with removal.removedAt. Keep the existing removal ID checks and wake-up
behavior unchanged.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts:
- Around line 1773-1775: Update the PullRequestService.detail tests with a
focused provider-to-detail case where the provider result includes
mergeQueueRemoval, and assert the returned detail preserves that event.
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GitHub stamps removedAt to the whole second while the watch start keeps
milliseconds, so a removal in the second the watch started was treated as
old news, its id recorded, and the watch never woke for it. Compare against
the start truncated to the second.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tarted
The test for the first-second window only checked the removal stamped at
the truncated start. Add the removal one second earlier, which must still
be ignored, so a widened threshold fails the suite.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
thanks @only21mil. the timeline fingerprint and persisted event id cover the important case: the queue drops a pr while its head checks remain green, and each removal wakes the watch once.
i kept your commits and implementation, merged current main without rebasing, and resolved the watch-schema conflict while preserving main's check tracking. the production change already follows the smallest existing provider-to-watch path, so i added no new machinery. two tests in existing files now cover the provider-to-detail boundary and persisted wakes across a reactor restart, including a second removal without replaying the first.
verification at 52e41a6fad9693b576e6b9fa86a36d55c2578c81:
red proof: six focused regressions fail with main's production evaluator, mapper, and service restored.
all 267 tests in the four focused suites pass through blacksmith-testbox.
vp run check:changed github/main passes: format, lint, both knip checks, graphql generation, typechecks for 30 packages, and 381 tests.
two independent reviews approved this head. supported ghes 3.18 and 3.22 schemas contain the queue event types and fields, though no enterprise server was exercised.
unverified in this takeover: a live merge queue removal reaching a real provider turn and web/desktop/mobile client. the runtime regression uses real orchestration and sqlite with a mocked forge service. no client rendering or controls changed, so no new visual evidence was captured; the original evidence remains in the description.
all 27 hosted checks are green and git.cafe reports this head mergeable. coderabbit's automatic review on this push was rate-limited by the organization's included allowance; it produced no new findings. its earlier timestamp finding is already fixed, and the added service-boundary test addresses its earlier coverage nit. no labels changed, and the pr remains open for maria's review.
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Thanks for the follow-ups since last week. The first-second fix (5984498) and the test that rejects a removal one second before the start (ce0f56b) close the sub-second gap nicely. A few things left from reading the current diff:
Clock skew is still possible. The check is now Date.parse(removal.removedAt) >= floor(startedAt to the second). That handles GitHub's whole-second stamps, but removedAt is still GitHub's clock and startedAt is the T3 server's. If the server runs a couple of seconds fast, a removal right after "add to queue, then watch" would be stored as old news and never wake the agent. Recording the newest removal id when the watch first reads the PR and treating any later, different id as new would sidestep clocks entirely. Is there a reason to prefer the timestamp comparison?
Pre-watch removal id is stored silently.mergeQueueRemovalId = removal?.id ?? watch.mergeQueueRemovalId saves an old removal's id even when it isn't reported, which is what keeps it quiet later. That looks intentional; a one-line comment saying so would help the next reader.
Only the newest removal is read. The detail read takes the latest RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent, so two drops between passes produce one wake with the newest reason. That seems fine, but a test or a sentence in the PR body would make it an explicit choice.
Enterprise Server gate. The merge-queue read is only enabled for github.com. Is that because GHES rejects the event type, or because merge queue isn't available there? If newer GHES supports it, a follow-up issue might be better than a hard gate.
Merge with main (8340738). The merge resolved a conflict in packages/contracts/src/threadPullRequest.ts. Worth a quick check that the new optional mergeQueueRemovalId survives alongside whatever main added there, and that watchesEqual in PullRequestWatchReactor.ts still compares every field. The new persistence test (52e41a6) suggests it does.
Nice that the removal counts as a failure in the wake summary, so the agent treats it as something to act on.
merge-queue removal remains unverified. this pass verified the real watch pipeline and neighboring behavior, but could not reproduce the original bug or prove the new removal wake.
Verified in a real dev environment
installed and ran github/main at 40d335a7ba in ../main, then stopped it before running the exact pr head 52e41a6fad9693b576e6b9fa86a36d55c2578c81. only one dev server ran at a time, both in the background with isolated empty state.
used repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. added the real repository as a project through the app and submitted real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web composer. no runtime mocks, fixtures, or demo data.
on main: codex called watch_pull_request for this pr; the watch survived a reload; a subsequent codex turn called unwatch_pull_request and confirmed the pr stayed linked with watching: false.
on the pr: codex started the watch; it survived a reload. clicking the web stop control removed it, and a reload retained the stopped state. restarting the watch then read github's 8 passing required checks, persisted a #24141: checks passed notice, and automatically resumed a real codex turn. that turn stopped the watch and left the pr linked.
all 267 tests passed in the four existing watch, runtime, service, and github decoding suites through blacksmith-testbox. check output. the first root-level attempt failed loading an excluded mobile dependency; running from the owning packages resolved that setup issue. hosted ci reports 27 successful checks.
runtime transcript. one startup event-loop stall of 9201 ms recovered; no provider turn stalled for 10 minutes. both dev servers are stopped. no source changes or pushes.
main baseline, ordinary watch active. this is not a reproduction of a queue drop:
pr head, live required-check notification and automatically resumed codex turn:
pr head, clicking stop removes the watch. the startup stall warning is visible at the beginning. this clip shows the neighboring stop interaction, not a merge-queue removal:
Not verified
the changed merge-queue behavior, its reason text, and once-per-removal deduplication through a live provider turn. github's active main-branch rules are deletion, required_status_checks, and pull_request, with no merge-queue rule. this pr has no queue entry and its removal-event query returns an empty node list. generating the event would require changing repository rules or using another pr. neither was done. consequently the original main bug was not reproduced, and this pass does not certify the fix end to end.
native desktop, ios/android, macos/windows, ghes, other forge providers, comment/conflict/close/merge transitions, and server-restart deduplication. only the web client, codex, and live github reads were exercised here. the focused tests cover additional logic, but do not replace live merge-queue proof.
inline clip playback in the forge comment. reopening it confirmed that github renders the screenshots, but its image renderer does not play the mp4; git.cafe renders the external media as links. the uploaded mp4 itself was opened in chrome, played, and sought successfully.
@aravhawk Fair question. The timestamp is there because the watch is created with a start time but no baseline removal ID, so the first read needs some way to tell a removal after the watch started from an older one. An ID-only check against the current empty field would report any historical removal.
Your clock-skew concern is valid, though: a server clock ahead of GitHub's can reject a real post-start removal and still save its ID, which suppresses it for good. An explicit ID baseline set when the watch starts, with a distinct "initialized, no removal" state, would avoid comparing clocks. Maria owns the branch now, so I'll leave that change to her.
On the other points: the pre-watch ID assignment is intentional and deserves an inline comment; only the newest removal is reported (last: 1), which should be documented or tested; and the GHES gate is a hostname check rather than a capability check, so the description should state the actual limit.
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Problem
An agent watching a pull request with
watch_pull_requestis never told when GitHub's merge queue drops it. The queue runs its checks on a merge commit of its own, not on the pull request's head. A failed or timed-out queue check can leave the head green, the branch clean and no new comment. The watch only reacts to head checks, comments and conflicts, so the thread stays on "Watching pull request" until someone looks. #20523 has the full analysis.To reproduce: on a repository that requires the merge queue, watch a pull request, add it to the queue, and let a merge-group check fail, or remove it from the queue by hand. The thread never wakes.
Change
RemovedFromMergeQueueEvent(id, time, reason) and carries it on the detail asmergeQueueRemoval.mergeQueueRemovalId, so saved watches still decode. A removal after the watch started wakes the agent once, with GitHub's reason when there is one. The notice counts it as a failure, like a failed check or a conflict. A read without queue data keeps the stored id, so it never repeats a removal.@includecontrols execution; the host still validates the event type and enum value.The agent's wake gets one new line:
Merged and closed pull requests keep their current handling: the reactor ends the watch before it looks for changes. Nothing requeues automatically, as the issue asks.
Scope and approval
Fixes #20523, a bug report with a source-level reproduction that proposes this approach. No maintainer has replied or labeled it yet. The fix adds no setting and no UI: it fills in a missing wake in an existing tool, and watches without queue data behave as before.
Verification
Run on a clean install, on this branch merged with current main.
cd apps/server && vp test run src/orchestration-v2/pullRequestWatch.test.ts. The new test "reports each merge queue removal once while the head checks stay green" fails on main, which reports no change, and passes here. It covers the first wake and its notice, no repeat on the next pass or after a read without queue data, a second removal, and an older removal staying quiet.cd packages/source-control-github && vp test run src/server/gitHubPullRequestJson.test.ts. Two tests pin GitHub's shapes: the read maps the newest removal, and the fingerprint's status moves with the removal count. Both fail on main and pass here.pnpm --filter @t3tools/source-control-github generateregenerated the two.graphql.tsfiles; no other generated file changed.vp run check:changedpasses: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, typecheck of the 29 affected packages, and the tests beside the changes.The three new tests fail against main's production code:
The same suites and
check:changedon this branch:End to end: main and this branch side by side, isolated state, the mock ACP agent in place of a provider. Each thread watched a pull request in a public test repository whose required check fails on
merge_group, so the queue dropped it (failed_checks). On main the thread stayed on "Watching pull request #1" for two or more sweeps. On this branch the next sweep posted "#1: removed from merge queue" and started a turn, once per drop. Web and desktop ran production builds on Linux. iOS and Android ran in a simulator and an emulator with production JavaScript, against a server on the same commit.Web on main, still watching:
Web on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Desktop on main, still watching:
Desktop on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
iOS on main, still watching:
iOS on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Android on main, still watching:
Android on this branch, the notice and a new turn:
Not checked:
Prior PRs: none attempted this fix. #12916 by @yuriharrison and #15800 by @AryaBuddha showed a Queued badge for #12499, a different change. They closed over their UI evidence, and this PR shares no code with them. Thanks to @ntindle for the analysis and proposed fix in #20523.
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