post-run gate: fail review-mode runs that don't submit a review or progress (#638)

* post-run gate: fail the run when review mode finishes without a review or progress

review-mode runs that ended in a text-only assistant turn ("now I have enough
to draft the review...") were silently swallowed: the progress comment was
deleted by stranded-comment cleanup and no review appeared on the PR. user-
visible result was identical to "the agent never ran." caught in
https://github.com/pullfrog/app/actions/runs/25583698781.

new post-run gate alongside stopHook / dirtyTree / summaryStale: derived
inline from toolState (selectedMode in {Review, IncrementalReview} && !review
&& !finalSummaryWritten && hadProgressComment) — no parallel toolState flag.
when it fires, the resume prompt nudges the agent to call either
create_pull_request_review or report_progress; persistent failure after
MAX_POST_RUN_RETRIES surfaces as AgentResult.error.

also: when the post-run loop returns success=false, write the error to the
progress comment before the stranded-comment cleanup runs, and skip the
delete in that case. previously a !success run from the loop would lose the
error message into the void.

IncrementalReview's trivial-skip branch now calls report_progress with a
brief "no review warranted" note instead of exiting silently — keeps the
contract symmetric with the gate and gives the user a visible signal even
on no-op review runs.

documents the literal-record design rule on the ToolState interface so
future fields don't drift back into derived/absence-encoding state.

* review feedback: mode-aware nudge, gate-error preservation, prompt order

addresses three findings from the auto-review on this PR:

1. Review mode nudge no longer offers `report_progress` as an exit. Review
   mode's contract (modes.ts step 5) forbids it; the gate previously sent
   contradictory copy. IncrementalReview's nudge still offers both since
   its trivial-skip path legitimately allows `report_progress`.

2. `writeJobSummary` is now wrapped in try/catch on the success-path
   cleanup. without this, a throw there jumped to the outer catch and
   overwrote the gate's failure message in the progress comment with the
   (less actionable) writeJobSummary error — restoring exactly the
   invisible-failure UX this PR fixes. step-summary writes are
   informational; let them fail silently.

3. `buildPostRunPrompt` reorders gates to match the terminal hard-fail
   order: `stopHook` → `unsubmittedReview` → `dirtyTree` → `summaryStale`.
   when both hard-fail gates co-fire (rare in review modes), the prompt's
   emphasis now matches the user-visible failure message.

new test asserts the IncrementalReview nudge offers both exits while the
Review nudge offers only `create_pull_request_review`. e2e validation
already passed against pullfrog/preview-638-review-stop-hook PR #1
(gate fired once; agent recovered on second turn).

* mode-aware terminal error copy

second auto-review caught a residual contradiction: the terminal hard-fail
error string reported "create_pull_request_review or report_progress" for
both modes, even though the new mode-aware nudge tells Review-mode agents
"Review mode does not have a no-submit exit". the error message now mirrors
the nudge — Review names only `create_pull_request_review`,
IncrementalReview lists both. additional Review-mode hard-fail test asserts
the absence of `report_progress` in the error.
This commit is contained in:
Colin McDonnell
2026-05-09 00:14:31 +00:00
committed by pullfrog[bot]
parent 653fae47a5
commit 85d25a6fe6
8 changed files with 301 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -54,13 +54,24 @@ export interface PostRunIssues {
* seed, i.e. the agent never touched it. soft gate — nudges once via a
* resume turn but never fails the run, parallel to dirtyTree semantics. */
summaryStale?: SummaryStale;
/**
* populated when the agent selected a review mode but the post-run check
* over toolState shows neither a `create_pull_request_review` submission
* nor a final `report_progress` write happened. derived inline from
* `toolState.selectedMode` + `toolState.review` + `toolState.finalSummaryWritten`
* — no parallel toolState flag is stored. carries the mode name so the
* resume prompt can reference it. handled like `stopHook`: nudge via
* resume, hard-fail if still unsatisfied after `MAX_POST_RUN_RETRIES`.
*/
unsubmittedReview?: "Review" | "IncrementalReview";
}
export function hasPostRunIssues(issues: PostRunIssues): boolean {
return (
issues.stopHook !== undefined ||
issues.dirtyTree !== undefined ||
issues.summaryStale !== undefined
issues.summaryStale !== undefined ||
issues.unsubmittedReview !== undefined
);
}
@@ -147,6 +158,15 @@ export interface AgentRunContext {
*/
onActivityTimeout?: (() => void) | undefined;
onToolUse?: ((event: AgentToolUseEvent) => void) | undefined;
/**
* post-run check derived from toolState: returns the selected mode when
* the agent picked Review / IncrementalReview but neither submitted a
* review nor wrote a final progress comment, otherwise `null`. main.ts
* supplies the closure so the agent harness has no direct toolState
* dependency; the closure fires synchronously after each agent attempt
* so it sees the latest mutations from any MCP tool calls.
*/
getUnsubmittedReview?: (() => "Review" | "IncrementalReview" | null) | undefined;
}
export interface Agent {