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Flow 3 of the pull-request test-merge design. Webhook deliveries probe GitHub immediately and every 2 seconds for up to 30 seconds. A GitHub merge is accepted only when its second parent matches the delivery head; a first-parent mismatch is logged because GitHub may retain a same-head merge across a base update. Conflicts for the matching head skip pull_request runs.

If GitHub's merge is unavailable after the poll budget, the API fails, or the delivery loses the head race, the engine warns and builds merge(current base, payload head) itself. Runs check out that merge from the engine mirror; there is no bare pull-request-head fallback. Workflow discovery remains pinned to the payload head.

Stacked on #431 at A1 head b1abd823; no new dependency or lockfile change is included.

Validation on the preceding stack passed: just test-ci (857 passed, 3 ignored; conformance passed), github::tests (52), and --test webhooks (44). Revalidating current head 462615e1 after the A1 update. The SmolVM pool failed to become ready during the runner smoke, so the two checkout cases remain unproven and must be rerun.

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  • New Features
    • Local pull-request runs now test a merge of the workspace head with the current base by default. Use --no-merge to test the branch alone; push behavior is unchanged.
    • Webhook pull-request runs use a verified live merge when available, or build one from the current base and pull-request head.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Merge conflicts and unavailable base branches now fail pull-request runs rather than testing the branch alone. Conflicting webhook pull requests do not start runs.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the CLI reference with merge behavior, resulting pull-request metadata, and target-branch selection.

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Walkthrough

Local pull-request runs now merge the current base tip with the workspace head by default. Webhook pull-request and review runs use a verified GitHub merge or build one from the current base and payload head. Conflicts prevent pull-request runs from starting.

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Pull Request Test Merges

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and build test merges
crates/preloop-gha-protocol/src/lib.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/merge_builder.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/lib.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/Cargo.toml
Adds submission fields and prebuilt merge data. The merge builder fetches base and head commits, creates and publishes two-parent commits, and validates prebuilt records before serving them.
Build merges for local pull-request runs
crates/preloop-cli/src/main.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/snapshots.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/runs.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/dispatch.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/scheduler.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/state.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/tests/merge.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/tests/security.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/tests/webhooks.rs, crates/preloop-runner/src/worker/action_preparation.rs, docs/cli_reference.md, CHANGELOG.md
Local pull-request submissions build a merge with the current base by default. --no-merge retains branch-only testing. Snapshot and run context include merge metadata. Tests cover merge success, conflicts, missing origins, prebuilt merges, and push behavior.
Resolve webhook merge placement
crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs, crates/preloop-runner-server/src/state.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Webhook handling polls GitHub for a merge whose second parent matches the payload head. If no suitable merge is available, it builds one from the current base and pinned head. Conflicted pull-request events are removed, and engine-built merges are attached to submissions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebhookProcessing
  participant MergePlacementResolver
  participant GitHubPullRequestAPI
  participant MergeBuilder
  participant WorkflowSubmission
  WebhookProcessing->>MergePlacementResolver: Resolve pull-request event placement
  MergePlacementResolver->>GitHubPullRequestAPI: Probe merge state and verify candidate parents
  MergePlacementResolver->>MergeBuilder: Build merge from current base and payload head when needed
  MergeBuilder-->>MergePlacementResolver: Return merge or conflict
  MergePlacementResolver->>WorkflowSubmission: Attach prebuilt merge to eligible run
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0c6a8

Pull-request runs now test a merge of the pull request with its current base. Two open issues remain, and both are bounded. Local pull-request runs on a non-origin remote may fail to find the base branch unless you pass --base. Webhook deliveries for pull requests closed after a squash or rebase merge can wait about 30 seconds each, which delays other webhook processing. The change can merge with owner awareness of these follow-ups.

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Description check Warning The description clearly explains the webhook merge-resolution behavior and reports validation results, but it does not follow the repository template. It omits the required Protocol surface, Required … Rewrite the description using all template sections. Mark the protocol-surface and required-gate checkboxes, provide current-head validation evidence, document whether protocol or wire shapes changed, complete the checklist, and rerun and r…
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Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 85.59% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 118 functions across 14 files. (1 skipped: …
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.
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: resolving fresh pull-request merge commits in webhooks.

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Explanation

The description clearly explains the webhook merge-resolution behavior and reports validation results, but it does not follow the repository template. It omits the required Protocol surface, Required gates, Verification performed, and Checklist sections. It also states that two checkout cases remain unproven.

Resolution

Rewrite the description using all template sections. Mark the protocol-surface and required-gate checkboxes, provide current-head validation evidence, document whether protocol or wire shapes changed, complete the checklist, and rerun and report the two unproven checkout cases.


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The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
@Bnjoroge1
Bnjoroge1 force-pushed the Bnjoroge/pr-fresh-merge-sha branch from 9741b52 to a0f352b Compare October 7, 2026 14:40
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The last run checked out the stale test-merge f340836 (merge of fe98e8a,
the previous head — engine bug F2, #409 still open) and all four shards
died at `git lfs pull` with GitHub HTTP 502 before any test ran. This
synchronize carries the merge for the current tree.
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
The last run checked out the stale test-merge 0349751 (merge of e36c5eb,
the previous head — engine bug F2, #409 still open): shard 1 compiled
that tree, where the guest-hostname format string was still unescaped,
and shard 2 died at `git lfs pull` with GitHub HTTP 502. This
synchronize carries the merge for the current tree.
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Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.
@Bnjoroge1
Bnjoroge1 force-pushed the Bnjoroge/pr-fresh-merge-sha branch from daa1a04 to 41d6351 Compare October 8, 2026 05:45
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MergeBuilder and others added 5 commits October 8, 2026 03:20
…ng runs

GitHub computes a pull request's test merge asynchronously, so a webhook
payload's merge_commit_sha is the previous head's merge (or null) on
synchronize; a run created from it tested a tree the pull request no
longer had. Pull-request deliveries now resolve GitHub's live merge and
only accept a commit whose second parent is the payload's head. A
conflicted pull request creates no pull_request runs, matching GitHub.
…wn when it is unreachable

The probe now runs immediately, then every two seconds up to a bounded
budget, and accepts a merge as soon as its second parent is the payload
head — including when the API has already moved to a newer head, which is
the measured rapid-push race. A first parent older than the API's base is
logged, not rejected: GitHub freezes a head's merge when only the base
moves and its own run for the push used that commit.

When no merge of the payload head can be resolved, the engine builds
merge(current base tip, payload head) with the merge builder and serves
the run from its own mirror, with a warning. The bare
`refs/pull/{n}/head` fallback is gone.
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…nment_url, unknown envs, review audit) (#367)

* feat(server): source environment protection from GitHub

* fix(server): evaluated environment url, GitHub-like environment names, durable review audit

Follow-up fixes on top of the rebased environment branch, plus the schema
and audit work the port onto the DB-backed control plane needs.

environment.url (the deployment status's environment_url)
  The runner message carries `actionsEnvironment.url` as an unevaluated
  TemplateToken, so the old plumbing posted either nothing (`Value::as_str`
  on a token object) or the raw `${{ … }}` template. The official runner
  resolves that token in `JobExtension.FinalizeJob` — after every step ran,
  with the full job context, `steps.<id>.outputs` included — and reports the
  string to the run service as `CompleteJobRequest.environmentUrl`
  (`JobRunner.CompleteJobAsync`, verified against actions/runner v2.336.0,
  commit 98aabcd). preloop now does the same end to end:
    - `preloop-runner` evaluates the token at completion
      (`worker::completion::evaluate_environment_url`), fails the job when the
      expression cannot be evaluated (as the official worker does), skips a
      value that would disclose a secret, and sends `environmentUrl` on the
      broker `completejob` body / `actionsEnvironment` on the AzDO
      `JobCompleted` event.
    - `JobCompletion` (protocol), `BrokerRenewJobRequest`, both AzDO finish
      paths and `SettleJob` carry it; `complete_node` persists it on
      `jobs.environment_url` in one transaction with the completion.
    - the deployment row prefers that persisted value; statuses posted before
      the completion only ever carry a *literal* URL
      (`runtime_scheduling::environment_url_literal`) — never a template.

Unknown environments
  preloop rejected any `environment:` name not pre-registered in TOML with a
  403. GitHub accepts any name, auto-creates it, and applies the repository's
  rules (none = no gate), so the registry check is gone: names are decided by
  GitHub. The only fail-closed path left is "the rules could not be fetched"
  — the resolver answers `Pending` and the gate holds the job. The
  `[environments]` key is refused at config load (non-empty) with a pointer
  to the change instead of being silently ignored; `[env_secrets]` stays
  keyed by name, and rules come from the repository or `[environment_rules]`.

Durable review audit
  New `environment_approvals` table (both backends, `docs/control-schema.sql`
  kept byte-identical to `pg/schema.sql`): one row per approval/rejection —
  run, job, repository, environment, decision, actor, admin-override flag,
  comment, timestamp — written in the same transaction that flips the gate.
  The table is deliberately never archived or pruned with the run, so the
  record survives gate completion and run archival
  (`ControlBackend::environment_approvals` reads it). `required_reviewers`
  stays capped at 1 for the TOML fallback only; GitHub-sourced rules keep
  GitHub's reviewer set (users + teams), `prevent_self_review` and the
  single-approval semantics.

GitHub App permissions
  Manifest `default_permissions` gains `deployments: write` (create
  deployments + statuses) and `actions: read` (the environments, branch
  policy and protection-rule GETs are documented under the App's Actions
  permission — `repository environments read` is not an App permission key;
  the fine-grained-PAT "Environments" permission only covers environment
  secrets/variables). The environments token mint requests `actions: read`
  alongside `contents: read`; it is clamped to the installation's grants.

Schema version bumps: SQLite 3 -> 4, Postgres 4 -> 5 (greenfield, recreate
dev databases). `deployment_id` + `environment_url` on `jobs`, the new audit
table in `control/{lite,pg}/schema.sql` and `docs/control-schema.sql`.

Tests: new `evaluate_environment_url` unit tests (step outputs, literal,
null, unevaluable expression, secret masking) pass; the runs.rs submission
tests now assert GitHub semantics (unknown name accepted, registry key
rejected at load).

* fix(server): fork-hold release, fork kill switch, fail-closed environment rules, pg deployment row

- release fork-held jobs again: `release_parked_jobs` (lite) and
  `release_parked_nodes` (pg) skipped parked jobs with no environment name, so
  an approved fork run never admitted its jobs (`fork_hold_parks_until_released`
  failed on both backends). Jobs without an environment now return to the
  ordinary promotion path, exactly as a gate that resolved to "no rules" does.
- restore the `fork_policy.run_fork_workflows` kill switch the port dropped from
  the webhook event loop (security review finding), with a regression test that
  also proves the payload is a fork event.
- fail closed on an ambiguous environment 404: it is only read as "GitHub
  auto-created it unprotected" when the same credential can read the
  repository's Actions surface (security review finding).
- dispatcher fix (pg): `environment_deployment` read the wrong column indexes
  (message template as the resolved URL, environment URL as the spec), so the
  deployment row carried the whole message as `environment_url` and a
  spec-only environment name never resolved; `message_template` is jsonb and
  is now cast to text.
- test env-var hygiene: the new GitHub-stub tests restore
  `PRELOOP_GITHUB_TOKEN`/`PRELOOP_GITHUB_API_URL` via `TestEnvVar`; leaking them
  poisoned five unrelated tests in the same binary.
- clippy: type aliases for the resolver's in-flight/team-member maps, collapse
  a match guard and an `if`.
- docs: `docs/self-hosting.md` §8.3 (GitHub-sourced rules, App permissions, the
  removed `[environments]` table, the evaluated `environment_url` path, the
  fail-closed 404 rule) and a CHANGELOG Unreleased entry with the breaking
  changes.

New coverage (shared suite, lite + pg): unknown environment runs with no gate;
reviewer gate holds until `record_environment_approval` (approve releases,
reject fails the job, both audited); rules-fetch failure holds fail-closed;
the completion-reported `environment_url` lands on the deployment row; the
approval audit row survives job completion and `archive_finished_runs`.
github.rs: deployment status sequence pending → queued → in_progress → success
with `environment_url` on the terminal status, the reject/failure path, and the
fork kill-switch regression test.

* fix(server): cast job_messages.message_template to text in the pg gates

`pending_environment_approvals` read the jsonb `message_template` column as
text, so a held reviewer gate's announce pass failed with "error deserializing
column 7" on Postgres (lite was unaffected). Same cast already applied to
`environment_deployment`.

The fork kill-switch test now proves the payload projects an untrusted fork
pull request (an adapter assertion) and that the switch-off delivery creates no
run — the previous control arm depended on workflow matching for a synthetic
PR ref.

* test(server): add environment_url to JobCompletion fixtures

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.

* fix(server): single failure record on promotion paths; serialize env approvals; configured PAT for env resolution

- The pg promotion paths pushed the settled job into the sweep's failure
  list after settle_node had already recorded it (environment-gate denial
  on the promotion sweep, unsatisfiable runs-on at hydration, failed
  deferred expansion): duplicate JobStatus/check-run reports and an
  inflated PromoteOutcome::failed.
- record_environment_approval now takes the run lock and FOR UPDATE OF j
  before reading the gate, serializing with the promotion sweep and the
  announce stamp so a stale snapshot cannot commit.
- Environment resolution and reviewer-team expansion use
  AppState::static_github_pat() (env or config-file PAT), not only the
  PRELOOP_GITHUB_TOKEN env var.

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

* fix(server): fail closed on protected environment lookups

* style(server): format environment gate fixes

* test(server): avoid formatting App credentials

* test(server): initialize GitHub resolver in App test

* fix(server): let deployment statuses inactivate prior deployments like GitHub

Drop the auto_inactive: false override so GitHub's default applies, and
document custom deployment protection rules as a fail-closed fidelity gap.

* fix(server): close GitHub environment gate edge cases

* test(server): restore axum imports in resolver tests

* fix(server): refuse colliding control schema versions

* fix(server): close GitHub environment side-channel gaps (#367)

- Manifest-created Apps subscribe to check_run so requested_action
  deliveries (environment Approve/Reject) arrive at all.
- Environment side-channel tokens mint with checks:write; the
  action_required review PATCHes were unauthorized without it.
- Deployment/review reporting falls back to the config-file github.pat
  (env still wins) instead of only PRELOOP_GITHUB_TOKEN, ending the
  empty-bearer case.
- announce_environment_gates stamps approval_announced only when every
  expected surface succeeded: a reporting run whose check run id has not
  landed yet, or a failed deployment create, stays unannounced for the
  reaper's retry.
- The asynchronous in_progress deployment status fences on persisted job
  state (at read and again pre-post) so a late wake never shows a
  finished deployment as running.
- Jobs that never reached GitHub's deploy surface (skipped by if:,
  concluded before claim, gate never engaged) no longer mint a phantom
  deployment at conclusion.
- check_run.requested_action deliveries are bound to the held job's
  repository (case-insensitive); a partial approval below the required
  count reports nothing instead of masquerading as a rejection.

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Co-authored-by: Bnjoroge1 <Bnjoroge1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: preloop <dev@preloop.dev>

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crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs (1)

2280-2293: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin X-GitHub-Api-Version on the merge-state probe.

The whole resolver depends on merge_commit_sha in GET /repos/{repo}/pulls/{number}. The request sends no version header. Requests without the X-GitHub-Api-Version header will default to use the 2022-11-28 version. That version has an end-of-support date: 2022-11-28 | March 10, 2028. After that date, requests that do not specify an API version default to the next oldest supported version, not the closing down version. If you rely on unversioned requests, you may observe behavioral changes as older versions are removed from support. Version 2026-03-10 removes merge_commit_sha from pull request responses. The field would then always deserialize as None.

If that happens, no error is raised. Every delivery polls the full budget and falls back to self_merge, and GitHub's merge is never used. Pin the version this code was written against, so that the upgrade becomes an explicit decision.

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             .header("User-Agent", "preloop")
             .header("Authorization", format!("Bearer {token}"))
-            .header("Accept", "application/vnd.github+json"),
+            .header("Accept", "application/vnd.github+json")
+            .header("X-GitHub-Api-Version", "2022-11-28"),
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Review comment at @crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs around lines 2280
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X-GitHub-Api-Version to 2022-11-28, alongside its existing headers, so
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Review comments at @crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs:
- Around line 2784-2803: Update freshen_pull_request_events to skip merge-state
resolution when a pull-request payload is closed, checking its action or
pull-request state before FreshMergeTarget::from_payload; return the untouched
result so the existing adapter projection is preserved.

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Review comments at @crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs:
- Around line 2280-2293: Update the merge-state probe request built in
send_observed to explicitly set X-GitHub-Api-Version to 2022-11-28, alongside
its existing headers, so merge_commit_sha retains the expected response
behavior.

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Comment on lines +2912 to +2933
fn local_default_branch() -> Option<String> {
for remote in git_remotes() {
let output = std::process::Command::new("git")
.args([
"symbolic-ref",
"--quiet",
"--short",
&format!("refs/remotes/{remote}/HEAD"),
])
.output();
let Ok(output) = output else {
continue;
};
if output.status.success() {
let branch = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim().to_owned();
if !branch.is_empty() {
return Some(branch);
}
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

local_default_branch can return a remote-qualified name that is never stripped.

git remote lists remotes in alphabetical order. The function returns the first remote whose HEAD resolves. symbolic-ref --short then returns <remote>/<branch>, for example fork/main. strip_branch_prefix strips only origin/, upstream/, and the full refs/remotes/<remote>/ form. A remote named fork or mine sorts before origin, so its name stays in the result.

Trigger: a local --event pull_request run with no --base and no pull_request.base.ref in the payload, in a workspace that has a remote sorting before origin.

Consequence:

  • filter_branch becomes fork/main, so on.pull_request.branches filters evaluate against the wrong name.
  • On the server, pull_request_base_branch falls back to filter_branch. normalize_branch_name does not strip fork/ either. The merge builder then fetches refs/heads/fork/main from origin. That ref does not exist, so the submission fails with BaseBranchMissing.

Fix: check origin first, and drop --short. The full refs/remotes/<remote>/<branch> value goes through the refs/remotes/ branch of strip_branch_prefix, which removes any remote name.

Proposed fix
 fn local_default_branch() -> Option<String> {
-    for remote in git_remotes() {
+    let mut remotes = git_remotes();
+    // Prefer `origin`: it is the remote the engine fetches the merge base from.
+    remotes.sort_by_key(|remote| remote != "origin");
+    for remote in remotes {
         let output = std::process::Command::new("git")
             .args([
                 "symbolic-ref",
                 "--quiet",
-                "--short",
                 &format!("refs/remotes/{remote}/HEAD"),
             ])
             .output();
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fn local_default_branch() -> Option<String> {
for remote in git_remotes() {
let output = std::process::Command::new("git")
.args([
"symbolic-ref",
"--quiet",
"--short",
&format!("refs/remotes/{remote}/HEAD"),
])
.output();
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continue;
};
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if !branch.is_empty() {
return Some(branch);
}
}
}
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fn local_default_branch() -> Option<String> {
let mut remotes = git_remotes();
// Prefer `origin`: it is the remote the engine fetches the merge base from.
remotes.sort_by_key(|remote| remote != "origin");
for remote in remotes {
let output = std::process::Command::new("git")
.args([
"symbolic-ref",
"--quiet",
&format!("refs/remotes/{remote}/HEAD"),
])
.output();
let Ok(output) = output else {
continue;
};
if output.status.success() {
let branch = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim().to_owned();
if !branch.is_empty() {
return Some(branch);
}
}
}
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}
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Review comment at @crates/preloop-cli/src/main.rs around lines 2912 - 2933:
Update local_default_branch to check the origin remote before other remotes, and
remove --short from the symbolic-ref arguments so the returned full refs/remotes
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Comment on lines +2784 to +2803
if !events
.iter()
.any(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
{
return Ok(untouched());
}
// The fork-policy kill switch drops fork-pull-request events further down,
// after this probe. A delivery whose every pull-request event will be
// dropped must not spend GitHub API calls on a merge nothing will run.
if events
.iter()
.filter(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
.all(|event| fork_policy_skips(&shared.state.fork_policy, event))
{
info!("fork workflows are disabled; skipping merge-state resolution for this delivery");
return Ok(untouched());
}
let Some(target) = FreshMergeTarget::from_payload(payload) else {
return Ok(untouched());
};

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Closed pull requests that GitHub merged by squash or rebase take the full 30-second poll.

freshen_pull_request_events resolves every runnable pull_request delivery, and that includes action: closed. Once a pull request is merged, the meaning of merge_commit_sha changes. If merged as a merge commit, merge_commit_sha represents the SHA of the merge commit. If merged via a squash, merge_commit_sha represents the SHA of the squashed commit on the base branch. If rebased, merge_commit_sha represents the commit that the base branch was updated to.

Here is what happens for a squash or rebase merge:

  • merge_parentage returns OtherHead, because the commit has one parent or an unrelated second parent.
  • api_head equals target.head, so the head-race branch does not apply.
  • The function returns Waiting on every probe until FreshMergePoll::budget expires.
  • self_merge then merges the head into a base that already contains it.

Every merge or close of a squash- or rebase-merged pull request therefore holds a webhook worker for about 30 seconds. The same delivery's pull_request_target runs, for example cleanup jobs on closed, also start about 30 seconds late. On a repository that squash-merges a lot, these waits stack up across the shared webhook_workers() pool.

Skip the merge-state resolution for closed pull requests and keep the adapter projection. The payload already carries the final merge SHA for that case.

Proposed fix
     if !matches!(
         delivery.event.as_str(),
         "pull_request" | "pull_request_review"
     ) {
         return Ok(untouched());
     }
+    // A closed pull request has no live test merge: GitHub repurposes
+    // `merge_commit_sha` for the landed commit, so polling cannot succeed.
+    let closed = payload.get("action").and_then(Value::as_str) == Some("closed")
+        || payload
+            .get("pull_request")
+            .and_then(|pr| pr.get("state"))
+            .and_then(Value::as_str)
+            == Some("closed");
+    if closed {
+        return Ok(untouched());
+    }
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if !events
.iter()
.any(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
{
return Ok(untouched());
}
// The fork-policy kill switch drops fork-pull-request events further down,
// after this probe. A delivery whose every pull-request event will be
// dropped must not spend GitHub API calls on a merge nothing will run.
if events
.iter()
.filter(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
.all(|event| fork_policy_skips(&shared.state.fork_policy, event))
{
info!("fork workflows are disabled; skipping merge-state resolution for this delivery");
return Ok(untouched());
}
let Some(target) = FreshMergeTarget::from_payload(payload) else {
return Ok(untouched());
};
// A closed pull request has no live test merge: GitHub repurposes
// `merge_commit_sha` for the landed commit, so polling cannot succeed.
let closed = payload.get("action").and_then(Value::as_str) == Some("closed")
|| payload
.get("pull_request")
.and_then(|pr| pr.get("state"))
.and_then(Value::as_str)
== Some("closed");
if closed {
return Ok(untouched());
}
if !events
.iter()
.any(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
{
return Ok(untouched());
}
// The fork-policy kill switch drops fork-pull-request events further down,
// after this probe. A delivery whose every pull-request event will be
// dropped must not spend GitHub API calls on a merge nothing will run.
if events
.iter()
.filter(|event| !event.skip && is_pull_request_run_event(event))
.all(|event| fork_policy_skips(&shared.state.fork_policy, event))
{
info!("fork workflows are disabled; skipping merge-state resolution for this delivery");
return Ok(untouched());
}
let Some(target) = FreshMergeTarget::from_payload(payload) else {
return Ok(untouched());
};
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Review comment at @crates/preloop-runner-server/src/github.rs around lines 2784
- 2803:
Update freshen_pull_request_events to skip merge-state resolution when a
pull-request payload is closed, checking its action or pull-request state before
FreshMergeTarget::from_payload; return the untouched result so the existing
adapter projection is preserved.

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Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
* fix(parser): render matrix job names like GitHub's JobNameBuilder

A `strategy.matrix` cell whose value is an object named the job with the
raw JSON, so the published job/check name disagreed with GitHub's for the
same workflow (valkey's `test-ubuntu-latest-compatibility` showed
`({"version":"8.1.4",...})` instead of `(8.1.4, valkey-…tar.gz)`).

The display name now walks the cell's scalar leaves in declaration order
(object keys omitted, matching JobNameBuilder's `Traverse(omitKeys: true)`)
and caps the result at 100 characters with a trailing ellipsis. Job ids —
the run's keys for needs/`--job` lookups — are unchanged.

* fix(parser): cap matrix display names with no scalar leaves

`JobNameBuilder.Build` picks the bare job name when no segment was appended
and runs the 100-character check after that, so a name without segments is
still truncated: a job with no matrix, or one whose cells hold only `null`/
empty values, must cap the same way as one with segments. The empty-segments
branch returned the base unchanged, publishing an over-length check name.

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

The last run checked out the stale test-merge f340836 (merge of fe98e8a,
the previous head — engine bug F2, #409 still open) and all four shards
died at `git lfs pull` with GitHub HTTP 502 before any test ran. This
synchronize carries the merge for the current tree.
@Bnjoroge1 Bnjoroge1 closed this Oct 9, 2026
@Bnjoroge1 Bnjoroge1 reopened this Oct 9, 2026
A loaded runner can spend the whole 1s budget on the first probe, leaving the
delivery a single poll and failing the polls>1 assertion.
@Bnjoroge1 Bnjoroge1 closed this Oct 9, 2026
@Bnjoroge1 Bnjoroge1 reopened this Oct 9, 2026
Bnjoroge1 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 11, 2026
* fix(github): report the real ref_protected; drop CI apt installs

`github.ref_protected` was hardcoded `false` in the job context and the OIDC
claims, so a push to a protected branch looked unprotected to everything that
keys on it. kache is the concrete casualty: it publishes remote cache entries
only from protected-branch pushes, so every push silently stayed read-only,
its remote cache was never written, and each build looked up entries that did
not exist (0% hits, 678 crates compiled every run).

- Resolve branch protection (rulesets included) once per effective event in
  the webhook adapter, and in the workflow/repository dispatch and scheduler
  paths, through the same credential ladder `resolve_ref_sha` uses. Tags,
  pull-request refs and unresolvable lookups stay `false` — the unprivileged
  answer, since consumers grant more to a protected ref.
- Carry it into the runner's `GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED` (the runner now
  stringifies the boolean context field the way the official runner's
  `BooleanContextData` does) and into the OIDC `ref_protected` claim.

CI, now that the runner image supplies what the jobs were installing:

- control-plane: link the image's preinstalled `ld.lld-18` instead of
  `apt install lld`, and run PostgreSQL from
  `mirror.gcr.io/library/postgres:<major>` containers with trust auth on
  loopback and `max_connections=400`. Both `apt-get update` passes and the
  pgdg repository are gone; the container is ready in seconds where the
  install plus cluster start took about a minute.
- ci.yml: kache's `save-cache` follows `github.event_name == 'push'`, so
  read-only PR jobs skip the post step that listed the whole bucket to
  upload nothing (~25s per job).

* fix(ci): remove the control-plane PostgreSQL container after every job

The self-hosted runner host is reused across jobs and the container is
detached, so a job that failed its tests (or its schema check) left
`postgres` behind and the next job's `docker run --name postgres` died on
"name is already in use". Clean up with `if: always()`.

* fix(github): encode the branch name in the protection lookup

`git check-ref-format` permits `#`, `%` and `/` in a branch name, and
`#`/`%` are URL-significant: the raw `release#test` reached GitHub as
`release`, so an unprotected branch inherited the protection of a
different, protected one — in `GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED` and the signed OIDC
`ref_protected` claim. Send the whole name as one percent-encoded path
segment, the way the action-tarball URLs already do, and require the
response to name the branch that was asked for: an answer about any other
branch is unresolvable, and unresolvable is unprivileged.

Covered by `ref_protected_reads_branch_protection_from_the_forge`, which
now looks up `release#test` and `release/test` against a stub that
protects only `release`, and checks that a stub answering with a
different branch name stays `false`.

* fix(api): ignore caller-supplied ref_protected on native submissions

The native `POST /api/v1/runs` handler cleared `trust_tier` but left
`ref_protected` as sent, so a request body could assert branch protection
for a ref that has none: the value flows into the runner's
`GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED` and the signed OIDC `ref_protected` claim, both of
which consumers treat as forge-verified. Reset it alongside `trust_tier`;
only the webhook, dispatch and scheduler adapters — which resolve
protection against GitHub — may set it.

Covered by `native_submission_cannot_assert_ref_protected`, which posts
`"ref_protected": true` and asserts the recorded run and its `github`
context report `false`.

* docs(changelog): name the unversioned ld.lld the control jobs need

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

The previous runs checked out the webhook's stale merge_commit_sha, i.e.
the merge of an older head (engine bug F2, fixed by #409). This empty
commit's synchronize carries GitHub's merge for the current tree.

* ci(conformance): gate the kache remote push to push events

server-conformance had the same read-only post step the ci.yml jobs
already skip: kache's remote-write policy allows a publish only from a
protected-branch push, so a pull-request job listed all 27,090 remote
keys and uploaded nothing (17-19 s in the post step). save-cache is now
tied to github.event_name == 'push' there too.

Also corrects two claims the engine runs contradict or leave ambiguous:
the control-plane setup timing (13-26 s now, 33-38 s with the apt
install plus cluster start) and "tags can't be protected" - a tag
ruleset can protect a tag (this repo has one, `release tags`), and the
resolver deliberately resolves only refs/heads/*, so a protected tag
reports the unprivileged false.

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

* ci: re-run checks on the current tree

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Co-authored-by: Bnjoroge1 <Bnjoroge1@users.noreply.github.com>
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