Add a Local Review Engine That Records What a Review Covered - #1109
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The fleet's rule that PR-bound work gets a local adversarial review before every push is already written in three Skills, including the fix-push moment, and is still not followed (#1104). It is not a wording gap, so this adds the capability a capture point can actually check: a review pass records a receipt keyed on the content it reviewed, and a later caller asks whether that receipt still covers what is about to be pushed. The key is over the net content the branch introduces against its target, never over diff text or HEAD, which is what lets a review run before the commit while the check runs at the push. Reviewing untracked work and committing it unchanged leaves the key identical; changing one byte moves it. Every identity in the key is computed by git rather than reconstructed. That is the load-bearing detail: a blob id built by hashing raw working-tree bytes cannot equal the one git stores wherever a text attribute or clean filter sits between them, and this repository applies one to every text file, so `git add` moved the key on any CRLF file. So the working tree's side is read by staging it into a throwaway index that git builds, with object writes redirected into a throwaway object directory and the real one attached as an alternate. Without that redirection a read would deposit the content of every unignored untracked file into the repository permanently. The engine holds no review logic. It drives backends: agent-skill is the local-strict-review subagent pass, which only a live session can run, so the engine records it; coderabbit-cli is headless and is the one backend a git hook can execute by itself. A pass records that a review ran over this content, never that the content is clean. Exit codes are three-valued, so an execution boundary is never reported as a verdict. The capture points that will call this, a git pre-push hook and the Skill steps, are a separate change. Part of #1104 and #1083. The capture points that close them come next.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds review receipts and includes a recovery path whose printed command cannot be copied as shown; concurrent stale-lock recovery can also silently lose a reviewer pass. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Reviewer->>LocalReview: run target review
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There are a couple of correctness and reliability issues (receipt decode handling and a potentially flaky submodule test path) that should be fixed before approval.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new scripts/local_review.py engine that computes a deterministic “content key” for a branch’s net diff (merge-base + per-path state) and records/verifies local review receipts against that key, so future capture points (hooks/skills) can mechanically check whether current content was locally reviewed.
Changes:
- Introduces
scripts/local_review.pyCLI to compute content digests, record review passes, and verify coverage, including a headless CodeRabbit CLI backend. - Adds a comprehensive git-backed unittest suite exercising content key stability, staging isolation, receipt parsing, and exit-code contracts.
- Extends
scripts/README.mdto documentlocal_review.pyusage and its three-valued exit semantics.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| scripts/local_review.py | New local review receipt engine and CLI (status/record/check/run) keyed on merge-base + path states. |
| scripts/tests/test_local_review.py | New integration-style tests using real throwaway git repos to validate keying, isolation, receipts, and backend parsing. |
| scripts/README.md | Documents the new script and adds it to the local test invocation list. |
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In `@scripts/local_review.py`:
- Around line 507-546: Update the CodeRabbit subprocess arguments in the review
execution flow to pass the merge-base SHA with --base-commit instead of --base,
and add --include-untracked so the CLI reviews the same untracked content
covered by the receipt digest. Preserve the existing working directory, timeout,
and event-processing behavior.
- Around line 283-294: Update the staging setup near git_dir(root) in
scripts/local_review.py to resolve the alternate object directory via git
rev-parse --git-path objects instead of assuming gd / "objects", preserving
linked-worktree support. Add a linked-worktree test calling current_state with
an untracked file in scripts/tests/test_local_review.py at lines 536-541 to
verify staging succeeds.
Apply the same fix in `@scripts/tests/test_local_review.py` around lines 536 -
541: Add an end-to-end linked-worktree digest test covering untracked content
after the object-directory fix.
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Review findings on the pull request, plus a fourth local pass over the full diff. Every one is a defect the earlier passes missed. The serious one: `record` computed the digest at the moment it ran, and nothing tied that to the moment the review finished. A format-on-save or a hook autofix in between was stamped as reviewed content no reviewer had seen, which is the one claim the receipt exists to make. `record` now takes `--expect-digest`, the value `status` reported before the pass, and refuses when the content has moved. Also fixed: - The object store resolved as the worktree git directory plus `objects`, which does not exist in a linked worktree, where the store lives in the common directory. That is the fleet's standard working mode, so the alternate pointed at nothing and every existing object was unreadable. Asked of git now. - A non-UTF-8 receipt raised past both handlers into the generic one and reported the boundary code for what is unusable content, so decoding moved in with parsing. - The broken-pipe guard never fired: stdout to a pipe is block-buffered, so the payload only failed during interpreter shutdown, exiting 120. Flushed inside the guarded region. - `record` accepted a headless backend, forging the pass whose integrity the completion check defends. - The CodeRabbit subprocess inherited the redirects the rest of the engine strips, so run from a hook it reviewed a different tree than the receipt keyed. - Receipt accumulation was a read-modify-replace with no lock, so two concurrent records dropped one. - The alternate object directory is a path-separator list, now quoted. - Dropped the `cr` binary fallback rather than run whatever holds that name. - A semicolon in the module docstring, which `prose_lint` cannot see: its semicolon check is Markdown-only and never scans Python docstrings. - The submodule test's `pull` needed the file-protocol allowance its `add` had. Test quality, from the same passes. Reworked four cases that passed for incidental reasons: the merge-base case moved on differing path sets rather than on the base, the non-ASCII case used a name that is valid UTF-8 and so exercised neither the quoting nor the decoding, the symlink case named a mechanism the engine no longer implements, and the linked-worktree case never ran the engine inside one, which is why the object-store defect above was invisible. Added cases for the ignored-file exclusion, the net-content scope boundary, staging determinism, and the backend argument contract. Part of #1104 and #1083.
A reviewer found that `run_coderabbit` invokes a `--base` review, which covers the tracked diff, while the receipt's own scope includes non-ignored untracked files. A pass could therefore claim coverage of files the CLI never read, and a changed set of only untracked files would record a clean review of nothing. The CLI documents `--include-untracked` alongside `--uncommitted`, but whether that composes with `--base` is not something this host can establish: there is no CLI here to run it against, and asserting a tool's behavior that was never executed is exactly what the fleet's own verification rules forbid. So the case is refused rather than guessed at. `run` now stops while any untracked path is in scope, naming the first one and pointing at the agent-skill backend, and the restriction is documented as needing a real CLI and a test before it is lifted. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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In `@scripts/local_review.py`:
- Around line 491-495: Update held_lock so stale lock files left by terminated
processes can be recovered instead of permanently blocking record and run
operations: store or inspect lock ownership and remove a lock whose age exceeds
the configured timeout, while preserving active-lock waiting and CannotRun
behavior for locks that cannot be safely recovered. Ensure the CannotRun message
identifies the required recovery action when recovery is not possible.
- Line 187: Update objects_dir() to avoid the Git 2.31-only --path-format
option: obtain the relative path from git rev-parse --git-path objects and
resolve it against root before returning it, preserving correct handling when
Git returns an absolute path.
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The documentation around record/--expect-digest is currently inconsistent with the CLI behavior, and record --findings should reject negative values to avoid writing invalid receipt data.
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A reviewer ran a web query against the CLI's own documentation and surfaced three things this host cannot establish by execution, one of them a defect the previous commit introduced. `--base` is documented as taking a branch name and `--base-commit` as taking a commit hash, so handing a merge-base sha to `--base` was wrong. It is `--base-commit` now, and the test asserts the flag rather than only the value, which is why the earlier version passed while being incorrect. The CLI excludes untracked files by default, and `--include-untracked` is the documented way to include them, which the receipt's own scope requires. That replaces the previous commit's blanket refusal of any untracked scope: the refusal was the right call while the flag semantics were unknown, and the vendor's documentation is better evidence than the guess it was avoiding. A run that finds nothing still completes, reporting `review_skipped` with zero findings, which the parser accepted as a real review. It is refused now, for the same reason a missing completion event is. None of this has been executed against a real CLI on this host, so the invocation follows documented semantics rather than observed behavior, and the backend stays opt-in and labelled as such. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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The new CLI has a couple of concrete correctness/resource-handling issues (empty --expect-digest bypass and a file-descriptor leak) that should be fixed before relying on it as an enforcement primitive.
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scripts/local_review.py:836
- Close the temporary /dev/null file descriptor in the BrokenPipeError handler. The current code opens a FD via os.open and never closes it; this is a small leak (especially if local_review.py is invoked repeatedly in a long-lived process).
os.dup2(os.open(os.devnull, os.O_WRONLY), sys.stdout.fileno())
return EXIT_CANNOT_RUN
# A crash is the check not having run, so it reports the boundary code.
# Falling through to the interpreter's own exit 1 would read as the not-covered verdict.
except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001
scripts/local_review.py:701
- Guard against empty --expect-digest and negative --findings. As written, an explicitly empty --expect-digest (e.g., from an unset shell variable) is treated as “not provided”, so cmd_record can silently record a pass even when the content moved since the review; likewise a negative --findings value is accepted and persisted into the receipt.
f" reviewed {args.expect_digest[:12]}\n"
f" now {digest[:12]}\n"
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Style findings from the pull request, each checked against the rule it cites rather than taken on assertion. The module docstring and the README restated the before-push review obligation that AGENTS.md and the local-strict-review Skill already hold. AGENTS.md is explicit that cross-cutting rules are not restated elsewhere, so both now point at it and keep only what is specific to this tool. The comment above BACKENDS ran to three lines where the comment rule makes one the default and earns a second only with a constraint the code cannot carry. It is two lines now, and they carry the constraint. Both modules dropped `from __future__ import annotations`. The Python style reference allows it only where a forward reference needs it, and neither module has one, since the project targets 3.13 where every annotation used here is native. Each type-ignore now names the constraint requiring it rather than only its diagnostic code. Declined, with precedent: a finding that worktree_states' docstring should move its rationale into inline comments. This repository's own convention is a docstring that explains why and not only what, and build_dist.py's tree_digest is the nearest sibling doing exactly that. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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There are correctness/documentation issues in the new tests and CLI guidance that should be fixed to prevent false passes and to align the tool’s recommended usage with its safety mechanism.
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scripts/tests/test_local_review.py:313
- Use the relative path (or full path) when snapshotting the object database contents. Using only
p.namecan miss changes because different loose objects can share the same filename component (same last 38 hex chars under different two-hex directories), so the test can incorrectly pass even if new objects were written.
states = local_review.worktree_states(self.tmp)
after = sorted(p.name for p in objects.rglob("*") if p.is_file())
self.assertEqual(before, after, "staging leaked objects into the real database")
oid = next(iter(states[".env"])).split(":")[-1]
probe = subprocess.run(
scripts/local_review.py:63
- Update the docstring usage summary to include
--expect-digest. It’s a key safety option (prevents recording coverage for content that changed after the review), but it’s currently missing from therecordusage line, which can mislead users into omitting it.
This issue also appears on line 738 of the same file.
what the current content digest is, and which backends hold a pass on it.
python3 scripts/local_review.py record --reviewer <id> [--target <branch>] [--findings N]
record that <id> reviewed the current content.
python3 scripts/local_review.py check [--target <branch>]
scripts/local_review.py:742
- Include
--expect-digestin the remediation hint fromcheck. The script’s own contract says recording should refuse if content moved since the review, but this hint currently teaches arecordinvocation that omits the digest and can therefore stamp a pass even if the content changed between review and record.
)
return EXIT_NOT_COVERED
def cmd_run(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
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GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES handling incorrectly assumes quoting can preserve paths containing the path separator, which can yield incorrect alternates behavior and should be fixed before relying on this engine.
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scripts/local_review.py:279
alternate_entry()assumes Git accepts double-quoted entries inGIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIESwhen a path contains the platform path separator. Git splits this variable purely on the separator and does not support quoting/escaping, so this can silently produce an incorrect alternates list (or a misleading docstring) on checkouts whose object dir path containsos.pathsep.
Refuse this case explicitly (raise CannotRun) instead of returning a quoted string that Git will still split.
def alternate_entry(path: Path) -> str:
"""One entry for GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES, quoted where it has to be.
The variable holds a list separated by the platform's path separator, so a repository checked
out under a path containing one would otherwise split into two directories that do not exist.
Git reads a double-quoted entry as a single path.
"""
text = str(path)
return f'"{text}"' if os.pathsep in text else text
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Round three findings, all real, three of them in code added by the earlier rounds of this same pull request. `objects_dir` used `rev-parse --path-format=absolute`, which needs git 2.31, while `spec/host-tools.json` declares no floor on git at all. The guard kit's own README already records that dependency as a known rule-specific hazard. It uses `--git-path` alone now, resolving the relative form a primary checkout returns against the repository root, which needs nothing newer than the rest of the file. `held_lock` treated any existing lock file as held, so a process killed while holding one would block every later record permanently, with nothing saying why and no way out but deleting a file by hand. A lock older than any plausible record is now treated as abandoned. Both halves are tested: the stale one is broken, the fresh one is still respected, since an escape hatch that always fires would defeat the lock it exists to rescue. `--expect-digest` was optional while the README described it as always enforced. An optional guard is the one a caller omits, and the omission looks exactly like a pass that was properly bound to its review, so it is required now and the docs match the code. `--findings` accepted a negative value straight into the receipt. Part of #1104 and #1083.
Two suppressed findings and one grammar fix from the review. The object-containment case snapshotted loose objects by bare filename. Two objects in different two-hex directories can share the same 38-hex name, so the snapshot could match while new objects had in fact been written, which is a false clean in the case guarding against leaking untracked content into the repository. It compares relative paths now. A second suppressed finding claimed git splits GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES purely on the separator with no quoting support, which would make the quoting added earlier useless. Two reviewers had asserted opposite things, so it was checked rather than chosen: under an object directory whose path holds a colon, the unquoted form fails with "object directory /tmp/... does not exist" and the double-quoted form resolves the object. The quoting is correct and the docstring now records that it was verified, along with what was observed. The README sentence introduced in the previous commit mixed a plural subject with a singular verb. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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In `@scripts/local_review.py`:
- Line 762: Make the recovery command printed by the relevant local review flow
shell-runnable by removing the literal “--findings <n>” placeholder from
scripts/local_review.py lines 762-762, unless replaced with a real integer.
Update the test at scripts/tests/test_local_review.py lines 580-583 to execute
the parsed printed command without replacing arguments, validating the command
exactly as shown to users.
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The stale-lock escape hatch added last round introduced a race of its own. It read the lock's age and then unlinked, and between those two steps the holder can release, another process can take a fresh lock, and the unlink then removes a lock that is legitimately held. That is worse than the wedge it was fixing. Breaking now happens under a second lock of its own, and the staleness is re-read after that exclusive claim rather than before it, so the file removed is still the abandoned one that was observed. A lock taken in the window is not old enough to qualify and survives. A process that finds the breaker already held defers rather than racing alongside it. Three cases cover it: a lock that turns fresh mid-break is not removed, the breaker leaves nothing behind, and a held breaker defers. Two smaller findings from the same round: The CodeRabbit executable was resolved against this process's working directory while the child runs with its directory set to the repository root, so a relative PATH entry would resolve in one place and execute in another. It is resolved to an absolute path at the point of lookup. The recovery command printed by a failed check still carried a `<n>` placeholder, so it could not be pasted. --findings is optional, so it is gone from the command and mentioned on its own line instead. The test now runs the printed command verbatim and asserts no placeholder survives, where before it repaired the placeholder itself and so could not have caught this. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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The CLI’s printed remedy command and BrokenPipe handling have small but concrete contract/runtime issues that should be corrected before relying on this tool in future capture points.
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scripts/local_review.py:891
- Handle BrokenPipeError as a successful run rather than EXIT_CANNOT_RUN. A closed stdout pipe (for example
| head -1) is not an execution boundary, but returning 2 contradicts the documented exit-code contract forstatus/record.
# A reader that closes early, `| head -1` being the ordinary case, otherwise raises here.
# It then raises again during the interpreter's own shutdown flush, which exits 120, outside the contract.
except BrokenPipeError:
# Redirected so the interpreter's own shutdown flush has somewhere to go.
# Letting it raise again is what turns this into an exit outside the contract.
os.dup2(os.open(os.devnull, os.O_WRONLY), sys.stdout.fileno())
return EXIT_CANNOT_RUN
scripts/local_review.py:798
- Quote the shell arguments in the printed remedy command. As written, a target ref containing spaces or shell metacharacters produces a command that cannot be pasted back into a shell safely or reliably.
print(
"\nRun the local-strict-review pass over this diff, then record it:\n"
f" python3 scripts/local_review.py record --reviewer agent-skill --target {target}"
f" --expect-digest {digest}\n"
"Add --findings <count> to record how many it raised.",
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…rrupted Three findings from the review, one of them a safety issue rather than a correctness one. The recovery command printed by a failed check interpolated the target ref raw. Git permits a ref name to hold shell metacharacters, confirmed against a real repository for a semicolon, a command substitution, and an ampersand, so pasting that line could run whatever a branch name carried. Both interpolated values are shell-quoted now. The test for it first passed with the quoting removed, which is why it is worth naming: splitting the line with shlex is not enough, since shlex does not treat a semicolon as an operator and the raw name survives as one token either way. It asserts the quoted form is what was printed. A closed reader was reported as the boundary code. It is not: the command ran and produced an answer, so that answer is what gets reported, while a failure that came before a verdict still reports the boundary. Writing the test for it surfaced a further defect in the handler, which assumed stdout always has a descriptor to redirect, so the guard against a second failure raised one itself under any caller that replaces stdout. The descriptor opened for that redirect was never closed. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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Answering the two suppressed findings raised on 3cd2035, since neither opens a thread. Both fixed in 96d8c1d. "Handle BrokenPipeError as a successful run rather than EXIT_CANNOT_RUN" — accepted, and the reasoning is right: the command ran and produced an answer, so reporting the boundary code contradicts the contract. It now returns the verdict that was reached, while a pipe failure occurring before a verdict still reports the boundary, since Writing the test for it surfaced a further defect the finding did not mention: the handler called "Close the temporary /dev/null file descriptor" — accepted. |
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🔵 Needs a closer look
It introduces a large new git-index/object-store manipulation surface plus locking/backends, which warrants final human review even with strong test coverage.
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scripts/local_review.py:875
- The --target help text doesn’t reflect the actual resolution logic in target_ref(): values without a slash are treated as origin/, but values containing '/' are used as written (remote/branch or any fully qualified ref). This can surprise users who pass a branch name like release/v1 and get an EXIT_CANNOT_RUN with a confusing "does not resolve" message. Make the CLI help explicit about the slash semantics so callers can supply origin/release/v1 when needed.
for p in (p_status, p_record, p_check, p_run):
p.add_argument("--target", default=None, help=f"target branch (default {DEFAULT_TARGET})")
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A reviewer noted the --target help text did not describe the slash semantics. Investigating it turned up something worse than a documentation gap. Treating any slashed value as an already-qualified ref meant a perfectly ordinary branch name such as release/v1 resolved to the LOCAL branch of that name rather than origin's. Confirmed against a constructed repository where the two differ: the merge base came back as the local commit, so a local branch that has moved on would define the review scope with no error at all. That is a silent wrong answer, which is the exact class this tool exists to prevent, and it is worse than the confusing failure the finding predicted. A target now resolves to origin/<value> wherever that exists, and is used as written otherwise, which keeps a fork-based flow able to name another remote's branch directly. A value resolving neither way is a boundary that says so, naming both refs it tried. Comparing a receipt's target no longer resolves refs, since a receipt can name a branch no longer present. It ignores an optional origin/ prefix instead, so develop and origin/develop agree while main and upstream/main stay distinct. The help text describes the resolution, which is what was actually asked for. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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Answering the suppressed finding raised on 96d8c1d, since it opens no thread. "The --target help text doesn't reflect the actual resolution logic in target_ref()" — accepted, fixed in 52dea33, and investigating it turned up something worse than the documentation gap the finding describes. You predicted a confusing So an ordinary branch name containing a slash measured the review scope against the local branch of that name. A local branch that has moved on would define what counts as reviewed, with no error at all. That is a silent wrong answer, which is precisely the class this tool exists to prevent. A target now resolves to Four cases cover it, and the first fails against the previous slash-means-full-ref behaviour. The help text now describes the resolution, which is what you actually asked for. |
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BrokenPipeError handling can incorrectly return the boundary exit code (2) for successful commands when stdout is piped to an early-exiting reader (for example, status | head -1).
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scripts/local_review.py:928
- BrokenPipeError handling can return EXIT_CANNOT_RUN even when the command already succeeded. If stdout is a real pipe and the reader exits early (e.g.
local_review.py status | head -1), the BrokenPipeError can be raised duringprint(...)insidecmd_statusbefore it returns, leavingcodeas EXIT_CANNOT_RUN and causing an incorrect exit 2. Treat a BrokenPipeError with no computed verdict as success (0) so early-closing readers don't turn a completed run into a boundary.
except BrokenPipeError:
# Redirected so the interpreter's own shutdown flush has somewhere to go.
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A reviewer found that a BrokenPipeError raised inside a subcommand's own print leaves the exit code at the boundary value, so `status | head -1` reported 2 for a run that had completed. The diagnosis is right. The proposed remedy, treating a pipe failure with no computed verdict as success, is not, and the case that rules it out is `check`: its diagnostics go to stderr before it returns, so a reader closing there would report exit 0, meaning covered, for a branch that is not. That is the one wrong answer a gate must never give. So the error is absorbed where the writing happens instead. Every subcommand does its work and then reports, so a reader exiting first has not made the command fail, and each verdict stays its own rather than collapsing into a blanket success. The top-level handler stays as a backstop for anything not reporting through that path, and silences both streams rather than only stdout. Measured before and after, since two of the three were wrong in different ways: status | head -0 1 -> 0 check 2>&1 | head -0 120 -> 1 status | head -1 1 -> 0 The three cases driving this run the CLI through a real shell pipeline rather than in process, because the failure is a genuine EPIPE on a descriptor and the 120 came from the interpreter's own shutdown flush, which no in-process case can reach. Worth stating: no single-line revert makes those cases fail, because the two guards are deliberately redundant. Reverting both together does, and that is the combination checked. Part of #1104 and #1083.
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Aug 30, 2026
Answering the suppressed finding raised on 52dea33, since it opens no thread. Fixed in 11daa23. "BrokenPipeError handling can return EXIT_CANNOT_RUN even when the command already succeeded" — the diagnosis is right and I accepted it. The proposed remedy I did not take, and it is worth saying why, because it would have introduced a worse bug than the one it fixed. The suggestion was to treat a BrokenPipeError with no computed verdict as success. The case that rules that out is The error is absorbed where the writing happens instead. Every subcommand does its work and then reports, so a reader exiting first has not made it fail, and each verdict stays its own. The top-level handler remains as a backstop and now silences both streams rather than only stdout. Measured before and after, since two of the three shapes were wrong in different ways and only one of them was the one reported: The three cases covering this drive the CLI through a real shell pipeline rather than in process, because the failure is a genuine EPIPE on a descriptor and the 120 came from the interpreter own shutdown flush, which no in-process case can reach. One more thing worth flagging honestly: no single-line revert makes those cases fail, because the two guards are deliberately redundant. Reverting both together does, and that is the combination I checked. |
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target_ref() can resolve an explicitly named non-origin remote branch incorrectly when origin/<target> also exists, and the suite should include a regression test for that ambiguity.
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scripts/local_review.py:277
target_ref()always triesorigin/<target>first, which can silently pick the wrong ref when the caller intentionally names another remote (e.g.upstream/main) butorigin/upstream/mainalso exists as a branch name. In that case a receipt recorded againstupstream/mainwould actually scope toorigin/upstream/main, contradicting the intent documented elsewhere (“another remote's branch can be named directly”). Treat names that already resolve underrefs/remotes/as fully-qualified remote-tracking refs and honor them as written before applying theorigin/<target>preference.
def target_ref(target: str, root: Path) -> str:
"""The ref a target name means, preferring the remote-tracking one.
`origin/<target>` is tried first and used whenever it resolves, so an ordinary fleet branch
name works and so does one holding a slash. Treating any slash as "already a full ref", which
an earlier version did, silently measured a target such as `release/v1` against the local
branch of that name rather than the remote one, and a local branch that has moved on then
defines the review scope with no error at all.
A value that resolves only as written is used as written, which is what lets a fork-based flow
name another remote's branch.
"""
remote = f"origin/{target}"
if ref_exists(remote, root):
return remote
if ref_exists(target, root):
return target
raise CannotRun(
f"neither {remote} nor {target} resolves in this checkout,"
" so the review scope cannot be determined"
)
scripts/tests/test_local_review.py:239
- Add a regression test for the ambiguous case where both
refs/remotes/upstream/mainandrefs/remotes/origin/upstream/mainexist. Without it, the intended behavior (“naming another remote's branch directly”) can be broken by returningorigin/<target>first with no test catching it.
def test_a_target_that_only_exists_on_another_remote_is_used_as_written(self) -> None:
"""This is what lets a fork-based flow name an upstream branch directly."""
run(self.tmp, "update-ref", "refs/remotes/upstream/main", "HEAD")
self.assertEqual(local_review.target_ref("upstream/main", self.tmp), "upstream/main")
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ptr727
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Aug 30, 2026
Merge-gate disposition for the two suppressed findings raised on " The finding is correct. The Not fixed inline because this had already run eleven review rounds and the finding needs a fixture with both refs present rather than a one-line change. It is narrow, needing a branch on origin whose name collides with a remote name. Merge-gate note on |
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emit() can raise AttributeError on writable streams without flush(), which can incorrectly force exit code 2 despite a computed verdict.
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| target = sys.stdout if stream is None else stream | ||
| try: | ||
| # Suppressing arg-type and union-attr here for the same reason. | ||
| # The stream is typed as object so any writable stand-in is accepted. | ||
| # The guards below are what cover a stand-in that is not writable. | ||
| print(text, file=target) # type: ignore[arg-type] | ||
| target.flush() # type: ignore[union-attr] | ||
| except BrokenPipeError: | ||
| silence(target) | ||
| except (OSError, ValueError): | ||
| pass |
## What this is The local-review rule was already written into three skills, including the fix-push moment, and was still not followed. That is what #1104 reports and what #1083 asks the general question about. This adds the capture points the rule never had, and keeps the prose layer primary and agent-agnostic rather than replacing it. `scripts/local_review.py` shipped in #1109 as the capability. This wires it up. ## The hook `.husky/pre-push` runs `local_review.py check` and refuses a branch push that no recorded pass covers. A tag push and a branch delete pass straight through. It refuses rather than guesses in two states the engine cannot speak for. A pushed commit that is not this worktree's HEAD, since the engine reads the checkout it runs in. And a working tree holding tracked content that differs from HEAD, which closes an escape the engine cannot see on its own: a push delivers HEAD while a receipt covers the index and the working tree, so a fix staged over an unreviewed commit would otherwise pass the gate while the push delivered the commit. The order that follows is commit, review, record, push, and the skills now prescribe it. A check that could not run blocks as loudly as one that found no pass, in different words, because a gate that waves a push through when it could not run has stopped gating. No new `gh-write-guard` requirement was needed. See the open question below. ## Engine changes Three, each with tests proven by reverting the fix and watching the case fail. - `fingerprints` reads HEAD's tree for membership. Without it, content committed and then undone in the tree left the changed set while the commit a push delivers still carried it, and where it was the only changed path the whole set emptied. HEAD decides membership and contributes nothing to the recorded state, which is what keeps the ordinary commit invisible to the key. All 82 pre-existing cases pass unchanged, which is the evidence that property survived. - `check` treats a branch with no net content against its target as covered, there being nothing for a review to read. - `check` withholds its paste-ready record command when a recorded pass names a branch the check did not measure. The line it used to print ran fine, replaced the correctly scoped receipt, and passed every later check over a diff nobody read. ## Docs `GOVERNANCE.md` "Verification Discipline" gains the bullet it never carried, the rule having lived only in `AGENTS.md` and the skills. Its hook-criteria bullet and `host-setup/agent-safety/README.md`'s layer diagram gain the committed-hook layer between prose and the host hook, earned on weaker grounds because it is opt-in, visible and bypassable. The fleet map gains G13 and a P4 item for the gate reaching the hub only. `local-strict-review` carries the fleet's single enumeration of what a refusal means and what clears each one. Every other surface states the principle and routes there. That is deliberate: through this change's own review the count of refusal shapes went from two to four, and every round left at least one restatement behind. ## Scope limit The hook is hub-only. `local_review.py` is hub-hosted, so carrying the gate fleet-wide means a `catalog/snippets/` pre-push companion to the existing pre-commit snippets. Until that lands, this enforcement binds hub work only, and every other repo has the prose layer, which is the agent-agnostic primary layer by design. Tracked as G13. ## Open question for the maintainer The settled decision that no new `gh-write-guard` requirement was needed rested on `--no-verify` being the only bypass of a committed git hook. It is not. Whether requirement 4 should also cover that is a change to a host hook and a maintainer call, so the specific mechanism is recorded outside this repo rather than published here. ## Verification Nine local review rounds, 36 findings, all real and all fixed, before this was pushed. The tenth was clean and is the recorded pass. Three of the findings were bypasses that made the gate useless, and one was the engine defect above, which #1109 shipped and only a push-time capture point exposed. Full gate set green: ruff, mypy, 967 unittest cases, `build_dist.py --check`, `repo_gate.py`, `prose_lint.py`, `spec/validate.py`, both selftests, all seven Docker linters. The hook itself was driven against scratch repositories for every refusal and pass path, and verified wired in this repo: the real push refs exit 0 with the receipt present and 1 with it moved aside. Addresses #1104 and #1083. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added automated pre-push review checks for branch updates. * Review records validate target branches and pushed content. * Empty changes, tags, and branch deletions are handled appropriately. * **Bug Fixes** * Improved detection of committed changes reverted or removed locally. * Added clearer handling for review failures, mismatched targets, and unavailable tools. * **Documentation** * Updated contribution, governance, and workflow guidance. * Added coverage for review-validation scenarios, receipt handling, and push refusal resolution. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
Workstream 1 of the plan for #1104 and #1083: the capability every capture point will call. The capture points themselves (a git pre-push hook, the Skill steps) are separate changes, so nothing is gated yet.
Why this shape
#1104 asks that a local review run before every PR-bound push, not just before the first PR. That rule is already written in three Skills, including the fix-push moment:
local-strict-review"When to Run It",drive-prsteps 2 and 6, andpr-review-conductline 81 ("and again before any fix push"). It is not a wording gap. It is a rule that is read and not followed, which is #1083 question 1.So this adds something checkable rather than more prose: a pass records a receipt keyed on the content it reviewed, and a capture point asks whether that receipt still covers what is about to be pushed.
The key
Over the net content the branch introduces against its target, never over diff text or
HEAD. That is what lets a review run before the commit while the check runs at the push: reviewing untracked work and committing it unchanged leaves the key identical, while changing one byte moves it.Every identity is computed by git rather than reconstructed, which is the load-bearing detail. A blob id built by hashing raw working-tree bytes cannot equal the one git stores wherever a
textattribute or clean filter sits between them, and this repository applies one to every text file, sogit addmoved the key on any CRLF file until this was fixed. The working tree is therefore read by staging it into a throwaway index git builds, with object writes redirected into a throwaway object directory and the real one attached as an alternate. Without that redirection a read would permanently deposit the content of every unignored untracked file into the repository.Scope boundary, stated in the module and the README: the key covers net content, so a branch that adds a file and later deletes it, or a rebase that rewrites only messages, keeps its key. A feature branch lands as a squash, so the net diff is what lands and what a reviewer reads, but this does not cover the commit series.
Backends
agent-skillis thelocal-strict-reviewsubagent pass, which only a live session can run, so the engine records it.coderabbit-cliis headless and is the one backend a git hook can execute by itself, kept opt-in because CLI reviews draw on the same hourly budget as this account's PR reviews. A rate-limited, errored, or completion-event-less run records no pass. A pass records that a review ran over this content, never that the content is clean — disposition stays judgment, perpr-review-conduct's five outcomes.Verification
ruff format/check,mypy, 930 tests,build_dist.py --check,repo_gate.py,spec/validate.py, bothprose_lint.pyruns.Three adversarial review passes ran against this diff before it was pushed, and this change is its own first user: the receipt was recorded through the engine.
Worth flagging for review rather than buried:
git add -Nleaves a phantom index state. Both documented.Known gaps, not fixed here
No test yet for
core.fileMode=false, a non-textclean filter, or content changing mid-backend-run. Named so they are not mistaken for coverage.Summary by CodeRabbit
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Documentation
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