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Summary

  • Remove the Keep PR auto-merge enabled workflow so it no longer appears on PRs and never auto-enables anything.
  • Make per-PR auto-merge state user-owned: automation must neither enable nor disable it.
  • Treat an armed PR as mutation-frozen in PR maintenance, branch sync, handoff, and babysitting procedures.
  • Extend the pre-push guard to every pushed PR branch and remove its automation bypass; the branch-sync helper also skips armed PRs.
  • Preserve the existing required-check and ruleset safeguards.

RAG impact: none; this changes repository and PR automation only.

Verification

  • npm run verify:pr-local
    • Partial: 21 selected checks passed through lint; typecheck was initially refused because another worktree acquired the repository coordinator lease.
    • npm run typecheck passed on retry after the lease cleared.
    • node scripts/run-vitest.mjs run tests/guard-push.test.ts tests/sync-open-pr-branches.test.ts tests/ci-cache-safety.test.ts: 69 passed, 11 skipped.
    • npm run test: 6,295 passed, 25 skipped, one unchanged Windows Codex Cloud PATH-shim test failed. The failing test and owner script are byte-identical to origin/main; an untouched-base execution was blocked by concurrent coverage contention.
    • npm run check:rag:fixtures: passed, 36 golden cases and 23 suites.
    • npm run check:medication-interactions: passed, 523 rows current.
  • npm run verify:ui — not run; no UI, routing, styling, or browser behavior changed.
  • npm run verify:release — not run; no release-confidence claim or provider-backed verification was requested.

Risk and rollout

  • Risk: Low to moderate operational change. After a user arms auto-merge, repository automation will report and skip branch-changing mutations instead of disabling auto-merge to continue work.
  • Rollback: Revert this PR. That would restore the removed workflow and the prior disable/re-enable instructions, so rollback should only be used if the policy itself is intentionally reversed.
  • Provider or production effects: GitHub-only. The workflow is already disabled manually; merging this PR removes it from main. No clinical provider, production data, deployment, or secret access.

Clinical Governance Preflight

Not applicable: no ingestion, answer generation, retrieval/ranking, source rendering, document access, privacy, environment, or clinical-output behavior changed.

Notes

  • Repository auto-merge remains allowed globally. This PR does not enable auto-merge on any pull request.
  • The active default-branch ruleset still requires PR required, PR policy, and Gitleaks, requires resolved review threads and up-to-date checks, and blocks non-fast-forward updates and branch deletion.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added safeguards to preserve user-enabled pull request auto-merge settings.
    • Push protection now checks every pushed branch, regardless of naming convention.
    • Pull requests with auto-merge enabled are treated as read-only by automation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented automation from disabling auto-merge or changing protected branches and bases.
    • Ensured the auto-merge safeguard cannot be bypassed by the general push override.
  • Documentation

    • Updated automation, workflow, and push-check guidance to reflect the protected auto-merge behavior.

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Walkthrough

The PR preserves existing per-PR auto-merge state. Push guards now cover every pushed branch, synchronization skips armed pull requests, related automation is removed, and policy and safety tests validate the behavior.

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Auto-merge preservation

Layer / File(s)Summary
Policy and workflow contracts
.claude/skills/*, .cursor/agents/pr-babysit.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/*, tests/guard-push.test.ts
Automation guidance now prohibits disabling or mutating armed auto-merge pull requests. Documentation describes the non-bypassable guard. Policy tests verify these requirements.
Push auto-merge enforcement
.githooks/pre-push, scripts/guard-push.mjs, tests/guard-push.test.ts
The push guard derives all pushed branches, checks each related pull request, and blocks pushes when auto-merge is armed. Non-auto-merge guard overrides remain available.
Synchronization and workflow cleanup
scripts/sync-open-pr-branches.mjs, .github/workflows/keep-pr-auto-merge.yml, tests/sync-open-pr-branches.test.ts, tests/ci-cache-safety.test.ts
Open-PR synchronization skips armed pull requests. The auto-merge maintenance workflow is deleted. Tests verify the skip reason and workflow absence.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score:🟡 Moderate · up to 4d922

This change is intended to freeze branch-changing automation for manually armed pull requests, but synchronization can still mutate a PR after auto-merge is armed and push protection can inspect the wrong repository or fail open. Merge should wait until these safeguards are corrected and covered by focused regressions.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
participant Git
participant PushGuard
participant GitHub
Git->>PushGuard: Provide pushed remote refs
PushGuard->>PushGuard: Derive affected branch names
PushGuard->>GitHub: Query each branch's pull request
GitHub-->>PushGuard: Return autoMergeRequest state
PushGuard-->>Git: Block the push when auto-merge is armed
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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Already looking forward to the next diff.

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BigSimmo enabled auto-merge August 13, 2026 05:28
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Codex final review summary

  • Final reviewed head:ae2908fbe178c48a8b428dc48fda70e307d90214
  • Latest base:main@b189fb57d326d7a05770c0e4be8b0a4b1abfadf6
  • Current branch state: 7 commits ahead and 1 behind. GitHub reports mergeable: true, mergeable_state: behind.
  • Auto-merge: still user-armed with merge method merge; it was not altered.

Sync and merge-tree decision

I did not push a base sync. During this review, the head moved independently from bd806d8e2186fb25580b80e06164e1806f8474b6 to ae2908fbe178c48a8b428dc48fda70e307d90214 through a BigSimmo-authored merge of main into codex/preserve-manual-auto-merge. I paused, re-snapshotted, and re-reviewed the new head. That merge preserved the previously reviewed PR changes. main then advanced once more to b189fb57d326d7a05770c0e4be8b0a4b1abfadf6.

A full workstation git merge-tree could not be run because this execution environment could not materialise an exact repository checkout. Substitute evidence is GitHub's refreshed exact-head mergeability result (mergeable: true, behind) plus path comparison: the single newer base commit does not overlap any PR-changed path. Strict up-to-date protection nevertheless remains unsatisfied.

Confirmed PR-introduced findings

  1. P2 — pre-push auto-merge lookup is not scoped to the pushed remote repository.scripts/guard-push.mjs invokes gh pr view <branch> without --repo, so fork, secondary-remote, or GHES pushes can inspect the checkout-default repository and fail open against the wrong PR.
  2. P2 — branch sync does not re-read auto-merge at the mutation boundary. A PR can be planned while unarmed, become armed before the later update loop, and still receive PUT update-branch; expected_head_sha does not prevent this because arming auto-merge does not move the head.

Both defects were reproduced. Minimal fixes and focused regressions were prepared and validated offline, but they were not committed or pushed: auto-merge remains armed, and this PR's repository policy makes an armed PR mutation-frozen. The user did not authorise changing auto-merge. No unrelated change, broad refactor, dependency update, or pre-existing debt was modified.

No additional high-confidence PR-introduced P0–P2 defect was found across the complete 15-file PR delta or the independently merged base update.

Independent adversarial review

CodeRabbit's hosted review was rate-limited and no CodeRabbit CLI, Bugbot, or separate review-agent runtime was available. I therefore performed a distinct manual adversarial pass covering correctness, concurrency, remote compatibility, security, false positives, missing tests, and scope creep. It confirmed the two P2 findings above and found no additional high-confidence P0–P2 issue.

Thread status

  • 2 actionable P2 threads remain unresolved and current, one for each confirmed finding.
  • Neither was falsely resolved because the corresponding fix is not present in the GitHub head.
  • Older addressed threads remain resolved.

Decisive offline verification of the proposed fixes

  • node --check on the focused modules and tests: pass.
  • Focused node --test regression harness: 10/10 pass.
  • Remote resolution covered GitHub HTTPS, SCP-style SSH, SSH with port, GHES, malformed/local remotes, and explicit gh --repo scoping: pass.
  • Guard integration with a fake gh: GitHub and GHES queries targeted the pushed remote repository; an armed PR blocked the push; an unresolved local remote failed open without an unscoped PR lookup: pass.
  • Sync integration with a fake gh: late arming produced SKIPPED ... auto-merge-armed-at-update-boundary with no PUT; the unchanged unarmed case issued exactly one expected update-branch PUT: pass.
  • Full repository Vitest/static gates were not run locally because the exact checkout and dependencies could not be materialised. Hosted exact-head CI is reported below.

Exact-head CI for ae2908fbe178c48a8b428dc48fda70e307d90214

Required contexts:

  • Gitleaks: success
  • PR policy: success
  • PR required: success
  • Pending, missing, failed, or unexpectedly skipped required contexts: none

Advisory or scope-selected checks:

Static PR checks, Unit coverage, Safety and config checks, Change scope, Semgrep, Semgrep ingestion gate, PR mergeability, and GitGuardian succeeded. Production UI, Production UI critical, Advisory UI, Build, Migration replay, Container images, Lighthouse advisory, Visual baselines advisory, and the release browser matrix were skipped by the selected non-UI/non-release scope; they are not represented as green required checks.

Ledger, permissions, and residual risk

No matching immutable heavy-review record was found for PR #1901 / codex/preserve-manual-auto-merge at this head. I did not create a prohibited ledger-only tip.

The same-repository branch is technically writable, but repository policy prohibits branch mutation while auto-merge is armed. The remaining blockers are:

  • the one-commit strict-update gap
  • the two unresolved P2 threads
  • publication of the validated fixes, which requires the armed mutation-freeze state to change outside this review

Residual operational risk remains that an armed PR can repeatedly fall behind a fast-moving main, while the policy simultaneously prohibits automation from updating it.

One final active-run monitoring snapshot was completed after exact-head CI settled. Continued hourly monitoring is unavailable because this execution environment cannot remain active between cycles.

The PR was not merged. Final merge is left to the user.

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.claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md (1)

57-60: LGTM!

.claude/skills/newtask/SKILL.md (1)

8-10: LGTM!

AGENTS.md (1)

804-806: LGTM!

docs/codebase-index.md (1)

48-48: LGTM!

.githooks/pre-push (1)

2-22: LGTM!

.claude/skills/run-pr/SKILL.md (1)

24-25: LGTM!

Also applies to: 57-60

.cursor/agents/pr-babysit.md (1)

22-22: LGTM!

scripts/guard-push.mjs (2)

99-115: LGTM!

Also applies to: 175-181, 928-932, 962-965


191-198: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the PR lookup to the receiving remote repository.

The guard currently looks up a PR by branch without identifying the repository. A fork, secondary remote, or GHES push can therefore resolve a different PR or no PR, after which the fail-open path may permit a push to an armed PR. Pass the receiving repository to the lookup and add a regression covering a checked-out repository that differs from the pushed remote.

tests/guard-push.test.ts (1)

1-1: LGTM!

Also applies to: 22-22, 64-67, 89-104, 123-130

scripts/sync-open-pr-branches.mjs (2)

100-100: LGTM!


51-51: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Re-check auto-merge immediately before branch mutation.

The current check occurs while the plan is built, so a user can arm auto-merge before the later branch update. The expected head SHA does not detect that state change. Fetch the current auto-merge state immediately before each update, skip and report armed PRs, and add a regression covering auto-merge being armed after planning.

tests/sync-open-pr-branches.test.ts (1)

10-15: LGTM!

tests/ci-cache-safety.test.ts (1)

2-2: LGTM!

Also applies to: 21-23

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In `@scripts/guard-push.mjs`:
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  • .claude/skills/handoff/SKILL.md
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