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WS-ENG-007-PLAN - Concurrent PR Review Reconciliation Planning

Merge intent: .agent-loop/merge-intents/WS-ENG-007-PLAN.json

Goal

Plan deterministic reconciliation so concurrent PRs always rerun CI on the exact combined tree while preserving only unaffected internal agent-review tracks.

Human-Approved Intent

The user explicitly approved continuing after reviewing the completed plan.

  • Intent: .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/INTENT.md
  • Plan: .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md
  • Chunk map: .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/CHUNK_MAP.md

What Changed

  • Added the WS-ENG-007 planning intake and three bounded chunk contracts.
  • Defined canonical Git-tree reconciliation, closed reviewer boundaries, and structured finding predicates.
  • Kept human approval separate and merge-queue activation behind a later human-admin checkpoint.

Scope Control

Planning artifacts only. No runtime, workflow, tests, dependencies, repository settings, coverage floors, or signed loop-memory implementation changed.

Evidence

Reviewed code SHA: fd153b0ee7c62d3b6fe1ad157f243cc34aadacbe

All nine required internal tracks passed after valid findings were repaired. The exact evidence is in WS-ENG-007-PLAN-internal-review-evidence.md.

Commands passed: merge-intent validation, internal-review evidence, loop-memory state, Markdown links, stale wording, Agent Gates, and git diff --check.

CI And Gate Integrity

  • No workflow weakening.
  • No lint, test, docstring, coverage, or package-script weakening.
  • No test was skipped, removed, or weakened.
  • No GitHub Action or checkout behavior changed.

Remaining Risks

Ambiguous deltas intentionally invalidate review. Real merge-group verification remains a distinct post-merge human-admin checkpoint after chunk 03.

Human Review Focus

Confirm exact combined-tree CI always reruns, only unaffected internal agent tracks may survive, human GitHub approval is never reused, and implementation remains stopped.

Human Merge Ownership

  • Planning publication approved by the user.
  • External checks passed.
  • The user explicitly approved this specific PR for merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added new planning artifacts for concurrent pull request review reconciliation, including initiative intent, status, and roadmap plan.
    • Introduced chunk contracts for reviewed-patch/base-delta, finding-track reconciliation, and merge-group CI parity, with clear acceptance criteria and stop conditions.
    • Published decision rules, risk tracking, and discovery notes describing repository behavior and required verification.
    • Added initiative mapping metadata and merge-intent configuration to control explicit, gated progression.

Why It Changed

Concurrent PRs currently force coarse internal-review invalidation after any base advance. This plan keeps exact combined-tree CI mandatory while allowing only provably unaffected internal reviewer tracks to remain valid.

Design Chosen

Use immutable Git object identities, exact three-tree reconstruction, a closed repository-owned boundary graph, versioned finding identities, deterministic resolution predicates, and conservative all-track invalidation for unknowns. Human approval is never reused or synthesized.

Alternatives Rejected

  • Preserve every review after a rebase: unsafe when effective patches or dependencies change.
  • Always rerun every internal reviewer: safe but retains the avoidable bottleneck.
  • Let PR authors declare boundaries or resolution: violates zero-trust authority.
  • Enable merge queue before parity proof: risks required-check bypass.

Product Behavior

  • No Workstream product behavior changed.
  • Product behavior changed and is explained here.

Acceptance Criteria Proof

  • Exact Git object and patch identity is specified fail closed.
  • Unknown impact and ambiguous resolution stale every internal track.
  • Finding identity, collision, linked-set, and checker-substitution matrices are explicit.
  • Human approval remains separate and mandatory.
  • Merge-group readiness requires an explicit workflow-specific synthetic test.
  • The initiative remains stopped behind a separate signed start.

Test Delta

Tests Added

  • None; this is planning only. Future contracts specify required adversarial tests.

Tests Modified

  • None.

Tests Removed Or Skipped

  • None.

Internal Reviewer Results

Reviewed code SHA: da29dea

Reviewed at: 2026-07-23T04:40:46Z

Reviewer Result Blocking Findings Notes
Senior engineering PASS AFTER FIXES None Deterministic identity and conservative invalidation confirmed.
QA/test PASS AFTER FIXES None Canonical-ID and linked-outcome matrices confirmed.
Security/auth PASS AFTER FIXES None Checker substitution and authority boundaries confirmed.
Product/ops PASS None Human checkpoints remain explicit.
Architecture PASS AFTER FIXES None Shared Git evidence and loop-memory parity confirmed.
CI integrity PASS AFTER FIXES None Required contexts and coverage invariants preserved.
Docs PASS AFTER FIXES None All-track unknown semantics are consistent.
Reuse/dedup PASS AFTER FIXES None No duplicate Git parser is planned.
Test delta PASS None No tests weakened or removed.

External Review

Source Status Notes
CodeRabbit Addressed; rerun pending All six actionable comments repaired and answered in their threads.
GitHub checks Rerun pending Prior head passed; exact repaired head is running.

The first-planning-intake grammar permits exactly the two canonical PLAN review files, so external response is recorded in the CodeRabbit threads and the checked-in PR trust bundle rather than adding a forbidden third review file.

Follow-Up Work

After this planning PR merges, stop. WS-ENG-007-01 requires a separate explicit signed start on exact current main.

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The PR adds planning documentation for WS-ENG-007, covering deterministic Git evidence, concurrent review-track reconciliation, merge-group parity, staged chunk contracts, initiative status, risks, and recorded planning review evidence.

Concurrent PR review reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Initiative scope and execution governance
.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/{INTENT,DISCOVERY,DECISIONS,RISKS,STATUS,CHUNK_MAP}.md, .agent-loop/merge-intents/WS-ENG-007-PLAN.json
Defines the initiative, repository findings, nine decisions, risks, stopped status, sequential chunks, and explicit-start metadata.
Git evidence and patch reconciliation plan
.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md, chunks/WS-ENG-007-01-reviewed-patch-base-delta.md
Specifies canonical Git identity, three-tree reconstruction, boundary impact, conservative invalidation, verification, and the first chunk contract.
Finding and reviewer-track reconciliation
chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md
Defines finding IDs, resolution predicates, reconciliation outcomes, stale-track handling, reruns, verification, and stop conditions.
Merge-group CI parity contract
chunks/WS-ENG-007-03-merge-group-parity.md
Defines merge-group SHA/tree binding, required workflow contexts, evidence uniqueness, parity verification, and rollback conditions.
Planning review and trust evidence
reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-*.md
Records reviewer metadata and outcomes, verification commands, trust-bundle scope, remaining risks, and the stopped-state handoff.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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 is concise and accurately summarizes the main change: planning concurrent PR review reconciliation.
Description check ✅ Passed It mirrors the template closely and includes the required sections, with only minor omissions like explicit chunk-contract/file lists.
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Actionable comments posted: 6

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md:
- Around line 47-49: Define the canonical finding-ID payload by specifying the
immutable identity fields, field ordering, serialization format, UTF-8 encoding,
and a version marker; explicitly exclude mutable fields such as disposition and
changing evidence. Document that IDs are SHA-256 hashes of this representation
and require deterministic collision rejection rather than silently accepting
conflicting findings.
- Around line 62-72: The reconciliation contract must define the
contradictory/cross-track predicate used by resolved_upstream: specify how
findings are linked to the same target and track, what constitutes a
contradictory finding, and how each case maps to resolved_upstream, still_valid,
unknown, or track_stale. Update the resolution rules and tests around the
resolved_upstream criteria so unrelated findings cannot block resolution, while
linked contradictory or cross-track findings produce the required deterministic
non-closure outcome.

In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-03-merge-group-parity.md:
- Around line 86-95: Extend the Verification commands section to add and invoke
a workflow-specific static/synthetic merge-group test, such as the repository’s
established test symbol, covering merge_group topology, exact github.sha
binding, context names, PR-payload guards, cancellation isolation, and required
negative fixtures. Keep the existing YAML parsing and other checks, but do not
treat them as sufficient for queue readiness.

In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md:
- Around line 47-51: Unify the unknown-impact rule across all three contracts:
in PLAN.md lines 47-51, explicitly state that any unknown path, class, or edge
impact stales all tracks; in chunks/WS-ENG-007-01-reviewed-patch-base-delta.md
lines 70-73, replace the scoped “all potentially affected tracks” wording with
the universal rule; and in chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md
lines 50-52, allow targeted reruns only when impact is deterministic, while
unknown impact stales every track.
- Around line 75-89: Update the Finding predicate grammar and bound evidence
model for diagnostic_absent to record an immutable repository-owned checker
identity or digest, its version, and the input/output schema. During evaluation,
compare the recorded identity and schema with the checker actually used; any
mismatch must produce unknown and mandate track_stale, while preserving the
existing diagnostic-absence semantics for matching checkers.

In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-internal-review-evidence.md:
- Line 17: Replace the ENG-006-based reviewer run IDs in the evidence for
WS-ENG-007-PLAN with durable, initiative-specific WS-ENG-007 provenance,
assigning distinct authoritative IDs to each reviewer track. If the existing
paths must remain, explicitly document their authority and mapping to every
WS-ENG-007 track.
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Configuration used: defaults

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro Plus

Run ID: 2c1149d0-88a4-4a28-801f-183dc815461a

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  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/CHUNK_MAP.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/DECISIONS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/DISCOVERY.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/INTENT.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/RISKS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/STATUS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-01-reviewed-patch-base-delta.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-03-merge-group-parity.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-internal-review-evidence.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-pr-trust-bundle.md
  • .agent-loop/merge-intents/WS-ENG-007-PLAN.json

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)
.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md (1)

154-156: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require fresh human approval; do not “retain” approval.

Lines 138-140 correctly state that stale approval may be dismissed and must not be preserved or synthesized, but this algorithm says to “retain explicit human merge approval.” That wording could be implemented as carrying approval from the reviewed tree to the candidate tree. Replace it with an explicit requirement for fresh human approval on the candidate/merge-group SHA.

Suggested wording
 always:
     run required CI on the candidate combined tree
-    retain explicit human merge approval
+    require explicit human merge approval for the candidate/merge-group SHA
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md
around lines 154 - 156, Update the “always” requirements in the plan to require
fresh explicit human merge approval for the candidate or merge-group SHA,
replacing “retain explicit human merge approval.” Ensure the wording prohibits
carrying over, preserving, or synthesizing approval from the previously reviewed
tree.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Outside diff comments:
In
@.agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md:
- Around line 154-156: Update the “always” requirements in the plan to require
fresh explicit human merge approval for the candidate or merge-group SHA,
replacing “retain explicit human merge approval.” Ensure the wording prohibits
carrying over, preserving, or synthesizing approval from the previously reviewed
tree.

ℹ️ Review info
⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: defaults

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro Plus

Run ID: 9d9fe1eb-da71-4d7b-9143-bec04fc2f062

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 53b5596 and da29dea.

📒 Files selected for processing (9)
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/DECISIONS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/INTENT.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/PLAN.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/RISKS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-01-reviewed-patch-base-delta.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-03-merge-group-parity.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-internal-review-evidence.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-pr-trust-bundle.md
🚧 Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes (7)
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/DECISIONS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/RISKS.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-03-merge-group-parity.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-02-finding-track-reconciliation.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-pr-trust-bundle.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/reviews/WS-ENG-007-PLAN-internal-review-evidence.md
  • .agent-loop/initiatives/WS-ENG-007-concurrent-pr-review-reconciliation/chunks/WS-ENG-007-01-reviewed-patch-base-delta.md

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