make incremental reviews silent (suppress progress comments)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

mcp/checkout.ts

@@ -214,9 +214,17 @@ export async function checkoutPrBranch(
   if (alreadyOnBranch) {
     log.debug(`already on PR branch ${localBranch}, skipping checkout`);
   } else {
-    // fetch base branch so origin/<base> exists for diff operations
+    // fetch base branch so origin/<base> exists for diff operations.
+    // deepen if shallow — actions/checkout uses depth=1 by default, which
+    // breaks rebase/log operations because git can't find the merge base
+    // between the shallow base and the fully-fetched PR branch.
     log.debug(`» fetching base branch (${baseBranch})...`);
-    $git("fetch", ["--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch], {
+    const isShallow = $("git", ["rev-parse", "--is-shallow-repository"], { log: false }).trim();
+    const baseFetchArgs =
+      isShallow === "true"
+        ? ["--deepen=1000", "--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch]
+        : ["--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch];
+    $git("fetch", baseFetchArgs, {
       token: gitToken,
       restricted: shell !== "enabled",
     });
@@ -241,7 +249,12 @@ export async function checkoutPrBranch(
   // fetch if we skipped checkout (already on branch) - otherwise already fetched above
   if (alreadyOnBranch) {
     log.debug(`» fetching base branch (${baseBranch})...`);
-    $git("fetch", ["--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch], {
+    const isShallow = $("git", ["rev-parse", "--is-shallow-repository"], { log: false }).trim();
+    const baseFetchArgs =
+      isShallow === "true"
+        ? ["--deepen=1000", "--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch]
+        : ["--no-tags", "origin", baseBranch];
+    $git("fetch", baseFetchArgs, {
       token: gitToken,
       restricted: shell !== "enabled",
     });

mcp/output.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export function SetOutputTool(ctx: ToolContext) {
   return tool({
     name: "set_output",
     description:
-      "Set the action output. When called by a subagent, returns a summary result to the orchestrator. When called in standalone mode, exposes the value as the 'result' GitHub Action output.",
+      "Set the action output. When called by a subagent, returns a summary result to the orchestrator — this is the ONLY way to pass results back. When called by the orchestrator in standalone mode (trigger: unknown), exposes the value as the 'result' GitHub Action output for downstream workflow steps. Do NOT use this for progress reporting — use report_progress instead.",
     parameters: SetOutputParams,
     execute: execute(async (params) => {
       const selfId = ctx.toolState.selfSubagentId;