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feat: implement issue #683 — canary #668 increment 4: decision telemetry (Layer 2) — decision-step emission + decide_decision_shift#684

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Closes #683

Implemented by dev-lead agent. Please review.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added decision-outcome telemetry to automated pull request readiness checks.
    • Canary rollouts now compare candidate and baseline decision patterns for configured gates.
    • Added correctness-aware rollout verdicts, including SUSPECT and BLOCKED outcomes when significant decision shifts are detected.
    • Blocker reports now include decision-mix details and candidate information for easier investigation.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved reliability-only rollout behavior for configurations without correctness monitoring.

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  • .github/workflows/pr-auto-review-reusable.yml
  • scripts/canary-rollout.sh
  • scripts/lib/canary-rollout.sh
  • standards/canary-rings.json
  • tests/canary_rollout.bats

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Walkthrough

The PR adds decision outputs and telemetry steps to the reusable review workflow, introduces opt-in decision-mix comparison for canary correctness, and reports decision-mix shifts as BLOCKED/SUSPECT with blocker evidence.

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Decision telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Decision classification and shift detection
scripts/lib/canary-rollout.sh, standards/canary-rings.json, tests/canary_rollout.bats
Adds decision-step extraction, candidate/baseline share comparison, correctness thresholds, and pure-function tests.
Workflow decision emission
.github/workflows/pr-auto-review-reusable.yml, tests/canary_rollout.bats
Records draft, pending, changes-requested, unresolved-thread, and dispatched outcomes through workflow outputs and conditional no-op step names.
Correctness overlay and blocker reporting
scripts/canary-rollout.sh, tests/canary_rollout.bats
Samples decision classes, extends frontier state with mix_shift, converts correctness SHIFT results into SUSPECT blockers, and renders decision-mix evidence in synced issues.

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

Possibly related issues

  • petry-projects/.github issue 677 — Both changes extend _frontier_state, promotion and issue-sync handling, configuration, and correctness-gating tests.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes match the issue: they emit decision steps, add opt-in correctness gating, implement shift detection, and preserve default-off behavior.
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This pull request introduces decision telemetry sampling (Layer 2, increment 4) to detect gross decision-mix shifts between candidate and baseline versions, opting the pr-auto-review agent into correctness gating. It implements helper functions to extract and compare decision classes, updates the orchestrator to handle correctness blocks, and adds extensive unit tests. The feedback recommends optimizing performance by constructing JSON directly in Bash instead of calling jq in a loop, and improving robustness by using shell parameter expansion to provide fallback defaults for jq --argjson inputs.

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Superseded by automated re-review at d45c763e99d1139a4767e7d3171777008f7fc297 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 1/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: e58ca96ca666154803c14147c07cb8bebed50923
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Solid, spec-faithful implementation of issue #683 (decision telemetry Layer 2): decision no-op step emission in pr-auto-review-reusable.yml, pure decision_class/decide_decision_shift cores in lib, engine overlay that only holds an otherwise-PROMOTE verdict, opt-in registry block for pr-auto-review only, plus 237 lines of bats coverage. No security issues found. Escalating on mechanical grounds: the PR has merge conflicts with main (mergeable=CONFLICTING) and 2 unresolved bot review threads.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #683 (canary #668 increment 4). Substantively addressed: Part A emission (one decision: <class> no-op step per outcome branch, mirroring every early-exit + dispatch path), Part B consumption (_sample_decision_counts/_correctness_verdict sampling K=15/25 off the memoized gh run view --json jobs surface; pure decide_decision_shift returning OK|SHIFT|INSUFFICIENT with the specified knobs), SHIFT→hold(SUSPECT)+decision-mix table in the blocker issue, INSUFFICIENT→no-op, default-off (pr-auto-review is the only opted-in agent, verified by a test). Tests cover all acceptance cases. lib/ stays pure (jq-only, no gh/git).

Findings

Blocking (mechanical):

  1. Merge conflictmergeable: CONFLICTING, mergeStateStatus: DIRTY. The branch must be rebased onto main before this can merge; the diff under review may not reflect the post-rebase result.
  2. 2 unresolved review threads (gemini-code-assist, medium priority, both on scripts/canary-rollout.sh): (a) jq spawned in a loop to build the counts JSON in _sample_decision_counts — inefficiency; (b) --argjson robustness if cand_counts/base_counts were empty. Note on (b): _sample_decision_counts always echoes at least {}, so this is largely defensive — but the threads need a reply or resolution either way.

Non-blocking notes:

  • All three _frontier_state call sites (evaluate/promote/sync-issues) consistently updated to the new 13-field output; both early-return echoes match. _blocker_body extension is backward-compatible via defaulted args 9–10.
  • Workflow change is security-clean: outputs are static literals written to $GITHUB_OUTPUT, decision steps are run: 'true' no-ops gated on step outputs; no new permissions, no untrusted interpolation.
  • shellcheck clean at warning severity on both changed scripts (verified locally); only pre-existing info/style notes.
  • bats suite could not be executed in this review environment, and no bats/shellcheck CI check appears on the PR — issue acceptance says "bats green; lint + ShellCheck clean", so test execution is unverified here.
  • Lockfile name fix (pr-672 → .github) is benign.
  • Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool unavailable in this environment; manual diff inspection found no secrets.

CI status

All present checks green: CodeQL (Analyze/actions) ✓, CodeQL ✓, add-to-project ✓, CodeRabbit ✓, dependabot-automerge skipped (n/a). No bats/shellcheck check ran on this PR. Merge state: CONFLICTING/DIRTY.


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  1. Resolve all unresolved review thread comments from other reviewers
  2. Ensure all CI checks pass after your changes
  3. Rebase on the target branch if behind
  4. Do NOT modify files unrelated to the findings above

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donpetry-bot and others added 2 commits July 12, 2026 13:57
…try (Layer 2) — decision-step emission + decide_decision_shift
…on guard, drop out-of-scope lockfiles

- _sample_decision_counts: build the counts object in ONE jq pass instead of
  spawning jq per key (gemini @488) — jq handles escaping so class names stay valid.
- _decision_mix_table: guard cand_counts/base_counts before --argjson (gemini @545).
  NOTE the suggested `${var:-{}}` inline default is unusable — the inner `}` closes
  the parameter expansion and appends a stray brace → invalid JSON; use explicit guards.
- Revert accidental package-lock.json / node_modules "name" churn (out of scope for
  the decision-telemetry change; also the source of the DIRTY merge conflict).

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  COMMENTED (not CHANGES_REQUESTED).
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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: d45c763e99d1139a4767e7d3171777008f7fc297
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Re-review after cycle-1 fix-request. Both prior blocking findings are resolved: (1) the merge conflict is gone — the branch is MERGEABLE after the out-of-scope lockfile churn was reverted; (2) both unresolved gemini-code-assist threads on scripts/canary-rollout.sh are now resolved, with the fix commit addressing both substantively (single-pass jq counts build in _sample_decision_counts; explicit empty-string guards before --argjson in _decision_mix_table). No new issues introduced. The implementation is spec-faithful to issue #683 and the full CI suite — previously absent — is now green, including ShellCheck, bats, gitleaks, CodeQL (actions), AgentShield, and SonarCloud.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #683 (canary #668 increment 4, Layer 2 decision telemetry). Substantively addressed: Part A emits one static decision: <class> no-op step per outcome branch in pr-auto-review-reusable.yml (dispatched / skip-draft / skip-checks-pending / skip-changes-requested / skip-unresolved-threads), mirroring every early-exit + the dispatch path. Part B adds the pure decision_class/decide_decision_shift cores (jq-only, no gh/git — lib stays pure) returning OK|SHIFT|INSUFFICIENT with the exact specified knobs (min_candidate_sample=10, min_baseline_sample=20, max_shift_permille=400), sampling K=15 candidate / K=25 baseline off the memoized gh run view --json jobs surface. SHIFT holds an otherwise-PROMOTE verdict as BLOCKED/SUSPECT with a decision-mix table in the blocker issue; INSUFFICIENT is a no-op (degrades to reliability-only); default-off — a test asserts pr-auto-review is the only opted-in agent. 237 lines of bats cover all acceptance cases.

Findings

Prior findings (cycle 1) — all resolved:

  1. Merge conflict — resolved. mergeable: MERGEABLE; the fix commit reverted the accidental package-lock.json/node_modules churn that caused the DIRTY state (also correctly dropped as out-of-scope).
  2. 2 unresolved gemini threads — both resolved. (a) jq-per-key loop replaced with a single-pass jq -Rn build in _sample_decision_counts; (b) explicit [ -n "$var" ] || var='{}' guards added before --argjson in _decision_mix_table (with a correct note that the suggested ${var:-{}} inline default is broken bash — the inner } closes the expansion).
  3. Unverified bats/shellcheck — the "PR Auto-Review Tests / Lint and bats" check now runs on this PR and is green.

No new issues. The workflow delta is security-clean: static step names, run: 'true' no-ops gated on step outputs, static literals to $GITHUB_OUTPUT, no new permissions, no untrusted interpolation. The engine overlay only fires from an otherwise-PROMOTE verdict and never masks a reliability BLOCK. One accepted deviation from the issue text: the baseline samples the source tier pre-cut (prior version on identical traffic) rather than the stable tier — a sound, documented adaptation since the stable ring is the unenumerable *.

Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool unavailable in this environment; gitleaks CI check is green and manual diff inspection found no secrets.

CI status

All checks green: CI (Lint, ShellCheck, Agent Security Scan, gitleaks) ✓, PR Auto-Review Tests (Lint and bats) ✓, CodeQL (actions) ✓, AgentShield ✓, SonarCloud (quality gate passed) ✓, Dependency audit ✓ (language audits skipped, n/a), dependabot-automerge skipped (n/a). Merge state: MERGEABLE/BLOCKED (blocked only on the required review this verdict supplies). CodeRabbit: APPROVED.


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Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: d45c763e99d1139a4767e7d3171777008f7fc297
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Implements #668 increment 4 (Layer 2 decision telemetry): pr-auto-review-reusable.yml emits one no-op 'decision: ' step per readiness-gate outcome branch, and the canary-rollout engine gains an opt-in gate.correctness overlay that tallies the candidate's decision mix vs a prior-version baseline and holds an otherwise-PROMOTE frontier as BLOCKED/SUSPECT on a gross shift. Pure cores (decision_class, decide_decision_shift) live in lib/ with no I/O; sampling/verdict/mix-table live in the orchestrator; registry opt-in is pr-auto-review only. 23 new bats tests cover the pure cores, engine overlay, structural workflow guard, and sync-issues rendering. Triage's low-risk assessment is confirmed: the change is additive and default-off — agents without gate.correctness are byte-identical.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #683 (canary #668 increment 4). All acceptance criteria are met: (1) lib/ additions are pure jq transforms, schema addition is default-off, and a test asserts pr-auto-review is the only agent carrying gate.correctness; (2) the reusable emits decision steps on every outcome branch (structural bats guard checks all 5 classes + outputs) and the engine gates SHIFT→hold(SUSPECT) with a decision-mix table in the blocker, INSUFFICIENT→no-op; (3) bats, Lint, and ShellCheck are green. The stated out-of-scope items (other agents' telemetry, statistical rigor, increments 5/6) are correctly untouched.

Findings

No blocking findings.

Non-blocking observations:

  • _RUN_DECISION_CACHE memoization does not survive the subshell boundaries at the call sites (read ... < <(_frontier_state ...) and mix_table="$(_decision_mix_table ...)"), so the 'cache-warm second pass' comment in _decision_mix_table overstates — a SHIFT recomputes up to ~40 gh run view calls. Performance nit only; correctness is unaffected.
  • If gate.correctness were configured without max_shift_permille it defaults to 0, making every comparison SHIFT (fail-closed). The registry sets 400 and a test pins it, so this is theoretical.
  • The decision no-op steps run after 'Dispatch review agent', so a failed dispatch emits no decision step — consistent with the documented fail-open design (the run contributes nothing to the tally).
  • Workflow changes are additive no-op steps (run: 'true') and GITHUB_OUTPUT writes of fixed literals; no untrusted-input interpolation, no new permissions, no new injection surface.
  • Secret-scanning MCP tool unavailable in this environment; the gitleaks CI check is green. Both prior gemini-code-assist review threads (jq-in-a-loop; empty --argjson guard) were addressed in the code and are resolved.

CI status

All checks green: Lint, Lint and bats, ShellCheck, CodeQL, Analyze (actions), Agent Security Scan, agent-shield, Secret scan (gitleaks), npm audit, SonarCloud, CodeRabbit — all SUCCESS; ecosystem-specific audits (pip/cargo/govulncheck/pnpm) SKIPPED as not applicable. Reviews: coderabbitai APPROVED, donpetry-bot APPROVED; no unresolved review threads, no unanswered human questions.


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…I gap from #613/#624) (#685)

* ci: add canary-rollout-tests.yml — run the engine's bats suite (closes CI gap from #613/#624 relocation)

The canary-rollout engine + tests/canary_rollout.bats were relocated into .github
by #613/#624 but no CI runner came with them, so the 149+ test suite has been
unenforced ever since — every #668 increment (#672/#676/#678/#684) merged without
its tests actually running in CI. This workflow runs shellcheck + the full bats
suite on any PR touching the engine, its pure core, the suite, or this workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J4z5uYVjwdyQjh2wFZxkut

* chore: dev-lead update (review-changes) [skip ci-relay]

* chore: dev-lead update (review-changes) [skip ci-relay]

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