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fix(autorelease): resume lifecycle work with a missing readiness record - #169

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If a new-branch or EOL run fails after its policy edit merges but before its php_bin_ready record lands, the pipeline currently stops at needs_human for a new branch. For an EOL it stops without any notice. With this change the next watcher run resumes that action on its own. The classifier notices that the accepted policy was written by that action and that no record exists. It then emits the same lifecycle action with no allowed paths. Admission re-checks all of that against the checked-out base. The implementation run then seals an explicit empty patch, validates main's exact commit (and, for a new branch, builds it), skips the lifecycle PR and merge, and files the readiness record for exactly that commit.

The recovery record is branched from main at the validated commit, so its phpBinCommit is the PR base. It relies on the readiness-record exemption in #166 to merge without review.

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  • Reliability
    • Lifecycle updates for new branches and branch retirements can resume when the policy change has reached the main branch but its readiness record is missing.
    • Resumed updates are revalidated and recorded against the existing commit, without creating or merging another pull request.
    • Updates can be retried later; retries close an earlier open readiness pull request for the same update.
  • Safety
    • Resumption is blocked if the policy, branch state, recorded actions, or current main branch no longer meet requirements.

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The autorelease system can resume eligible lifecycle actions when their policy edits are already on the admitted base but their readiness records are missing. Admission validates the existing edit. The workflow records readiness without creating or merging a lifecycle pull request.

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Lifecycle edit recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify resumable lifecycle actions
autorelease/_classifier.py, autorelease/control.py, .github/workflows/autorelease-watch.yml, AUTORELEASE.md
Classification uses the accepted policy action key and event records to identify eligible new-branch and retirement resumes. The watcher groups its plan outputs in one append block. Documentation describes the classification rules.
Validate and seal already-applied edits
autorelease/_admission.py, autorelease/_implementation.py, autorelease/control.py, scripts/admit-autorelease-plan, tests/test_classifier.py
Admission checks the base policy, lifecycle state, and event records. Implementation returns no changed paths for a validated resume, and sealing permits an empty patch only for that case. Tests cover classification, admission, and merge verification.
Verify the base and file readiness
.github/workflows/autorelease-implement.yml, tests/test_autorelease.py, AUTORELEASE.md
For already-applied edits, the workflow skips lifecycle PR and merge steps, verifies that main still matches the validated commit, and records readiness against that commit. Documentation and integration tests describe and check this recovery path.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Classifier as classify_evidence
  participant Admission as validate_plan
  participant Workflow as autorelease-implement.yml
  participant Main as main
  participant Readiness as readiness record
  Classifier->>Admission: Provide lifecycle resume plan and event records
  Admission-->>Workflow: Validate the existing edit on the admitted base
  Workflow->>Main: Verify validated commit is still current
  Workflow->>Readiness: Record readiness for the validated commit
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1abd7

Concurrent recovery runs may leave duplicate readiness PRs that require cleanup, although the available evidence does not show readiness completion being blocked or corrupted.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 51.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 45 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: resuming lifecycle work when the readiness record is missing.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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🟠 Major · Serialize recovery runs per readiness key before the… · autorelease-implement.yml:481-496

.github/workflows/autorelease-implement.yml:481-496
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize recovery runs per readiness key before the cleanup-and-create sequence.

The gh pr list and gh pr close commands run before gh pr create, with no concurrency guard or atomic reservation. Two runs for the same key can therefore both find no existing readiness PR and create separate open readiness PRs. This violates the one-open-PR-per-key behavior and leaves duplicate PRs that require manual cleanup.

Add key-scoped workflow serialization at this boundary. A global lock would unnecessarily serialize unrelated readiness keys.

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Add key-scoped workflow concurrency serialization around the readiness
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@coderabbitai thanks for the careful look at the readiness cleanup race (the outside-diff note on autorelease-implement.yml lines 481-496). I'm going to leave the workflow without a key-scoped lock, and here's why.

Two implementation runs for the same key only overlap if someone dispatches the watcher again while an earlier implementation run is still going, since the watcher itself is serialized. Even then nothing bad can land. merge-record-pr merges a record only when main still equals the commit it was cut from, so only one record can ever reach main, and the loser fails before merging. At worst one extra PR stays open until the next attempt closes it. A lock isn't easy to add cleanly either, because the action key only exists after the run downloads its admitted plan, and a workflow-level concurrency group can't see it.

You were right that the docs promised more than that, though. In 0c23717 the sentence now says a retry doesn't leave the earlier attempt's PR behind, and no longer claims there is only ever one open PR per key.

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@loadinglucian, thanks for the clarification. I verified that AUTORELEASE.md now describes cleanup on retry rather than guaranteeing one open readiness PR per key. I withdraw my key-scoped-lock suggestion.

I also verified that merge-record-pr checks main against the PR base before merging. That check is not atomic with gh pr merge, so I would not treat it alone as proof that concurrent merges are impossible. I have no further request for this finding.


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URL: https://github.com/Bigpixelrocket/php-bin/pull/169

Timestamp: 2026-09-29T17:23:07.109Z
Learning: In `Bigpixelrocket/php-bin`, `.github/workflows/autorelease-watch.yml` serializes watcher runs, but it dispatches `.github/workflows/autorelease-implement.yml` separately. Implementation runs can overlap if the watcher is dispatched again. The lifecycle action key becomes available only after the implementation run downloads its admitted plan, so a workflow-level concurrency group cannot use that key directly.

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