PR summary as agent-edited tmpfile snapshot (#568)

* PR summary as agent-edited tmpfile snapshot

Replaces the comment-based PR summary path (and the in-progress
update_pr_summary tool from #534) with a snapshot file the agent edits in
place during Review / IncrementalReview / pr-summary Task runs.

The server seeds the tmpfile with the previous snapshot (incremental) or a
stable scaffold (first run), exposes the path via select_mode, and reads it
back at end-of-run to persist to WorkflowRun.summarySnapshot and (when the
prSummaryComment toggle is on) splice into the PR description body.

Why a tmpfile rather than a tool call: incremental snapshot edits are
output-token-cheap when the agent uses native file-editing tools, and
range-diff cleanly across runs because section headings are stable. The
agent never has to regurgitate the full snapshot to update it.

Gating: snapshot generation is opt-in via either prSummaryComment="enabled"
(splice into PR body) or prReReview="enabled" (snapshot feeds future
incremental review runs as context). Users who disable both pay nothing
end-to-end — no seeding, DB write, or body splice.

Behavior changes:
- Drop the Summarize mode and the Summary comment type entirely; the
  rolling summary is no longer a separate run shape.
- pull_request_synchronize with re-review off and summary on still
  dispatches a silent pr-summary Task, but it edits the snapshot file
  instead of posting a fresh comment.
- /api/repo/.../pr/.../summary-comment now returns
  { snapshot: string | null } from the DB instead of fetching a comment via
  GraphQL. URL kept stable so deployed older actions degrade gracefully.
- summaryCommentNodeId is retained on WorkflowRun for legacy data and a
  future backfill of pre-snapshot comment-based summaries.

Supersedes #534. The commit-tool/sub-agent direction in that PR is
abandoned in favor of this file-based shape.

* address review pass #1: synchronize fallback, splice idempotency, docs

* address review pass #2: in-flight skip should not race summary fallback

* address review pass #3: signal-handler flush, doc clarifications

* address review pass #4: in-flight persist promise + bounded body-splice timeout

* address review pass #5: defensive catch on persist worker, doc nit

* add summary-stale post-run gate

When generateSummary is set, we capture the bytes of the seeded snapshot
file and pass them to the agent's post-run loop alongside the file path.
After each agent attempt, the loop diffs the current file against the
seed; if they're byte-identical the agent never touched it, and we nudge
once via a resume turn (similar to the dirty-tree gate, but soft and
fire-once so smaller models that legitimately decide no edit is warranted
don't burn the retry budget).

Mostly defends against forgetful smaller models on the Review path —
their mode prompt asks them to edit the snapshot file, but the
multi-step instruction can fall through when the diff is large.

* trigger: retry vercel preview build

* fix(action): drop unused re-export that pulled node:fs/promises into next bundle

action/internal/index.ts was re-exporting DEFAULT_PR_SUMMARY_INSTRUCTIONS
from action/utils/prSummary.ts, but nothing in the next.js app imports
it. prSummary.ts uses node:fs/promises, and pullfrog/internal is aliased
into the next bundle by next.config.ts, which made turbopack try to
resolve node:fs/promises in client chunks and fail with:

  the chunking context (unknown) does not support external modules
  (request: node:fs/promises)

drop the re-export — selectMode.ts (the only real consumer) already
imports it directly from action/utils/prSummary.ts.

* firewall PR summary snapshot from user instructions; resurrect rich format for Review

The agent-internal snapshot (the markdown file the agent edits in place across
runs) is exclusively durable context for future agent runs — user-supplied
summarization instructions warp it and degrade that context. Drop the
prSummaryCommentInstructions read path end-to-end:

- handleWebhook: stop reading prSummaryCommentInstructions, stop passing
  prSummaryInstructions through dispatch options
- action payload + ToolState + selectMode addendum: drop the instructions
  appendix; the snapshot prompt is fixed, not user-shaped
- TriggersSettings: drop the InstructionsEditor for prSummaryCommentInstructions
- prSummary.ts: reframe DEFAULT_PR_SUMMARY_INSTRUCTIONS as agent-targeted
  (durable context, not human-facing prose)

Prisma columns (prSummaryComment, prSummaryCommentInstructions) and the
matching zod schema entry stay for graceful retreat.

Separately, resurrect PR_SUMMARY_FORMAT (deleted along with the Summarize mode
in the original PR) and wire it into Review mode only. Initial PR reviews now
include a structured summary section in the review body using the rich format
(TL;DR, key changes, ## sections with before/after, file-link trails).
IncrementalReview keeps its existing terser bullet-list shape since re-review
bodies are deltas, not introductions. The user-facing review summary and the
agent-internal snapshot are deliberately separate artifacts with separate
prompts and zero shared content.

* address review comments: prompt self-consistency + stale-doc cleanup

PR 568 self-review (4232488109) flagged a self-contradiction the firewall
commit introduced and three stale doc references that survived.

- action/modes.ts: Review-mode step 2's trivial-PR shortcut said `submit
  "Reviewed — no issues found." per step 5`, but step 5's rewrite removed
  exactly that preamble. Aligned both: trivial PRs and no-actionable-issues
  PRs now produce a body that opens with "No new issues found." followed by
  the PR summary, so the user gets the headline up front and still sees what
  was reviewed.
- docs/pr-reviews.mdx: dropped the "customize the summary style with Summary
  instructions in the console" sentence (the editor was removed in the
  firewall commit). Replaced with a note that the snapshot uses Pullfrog's
  built-in format and is not user-customizable.
- wiki/prompt.md, wiki/modes.md: rewrote the snapshot-prompt entries to
  reflect the firewall — DEFAULT_PR_SUMMARY_INSTRUCTIONS is the entire
  prompt, prSummaryCommentInstructions is no longer wired in.

* drop orphaned prSummaryCommentInstructions column

Prod audit (455 repos): 5 non-null rows on a single account, all containing the
literal placeholder text from the InstructionsEditor we removed in the firewall
commit. No account has an intentional preference set, so silent-ignore (the
keep-for-retreat option) costs us nothing meaningful while leaving an orphan
column in the schema. Drop it.

- prisma/schema.prisma: remove the column
- prisma/migrations/20260506000000_drop_pr_summary_comment_instructions:
  ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
- utils/schemas/triggers.ts: drop the matching zod entry

* drop body splicing; snapshot is internal-only

User-visible PR summarization continues to ship in Review and IncrementalReview
review bodies (which already render PR_SUMMARY_FORMAT and "Reviewed changes"
respectively). The snapshot tmpfile is now purely durable cross-run agent
context — seed, edit-in-place, save to DB, feed the next run. Massive
simplification: the body splice mechanics, the two-toggle gating matrix, the
summaryHandlingCovered race tracking, and the synchronize summary-only Task
fallback all go away.

Code:
- prSummary.ts: drop splice/strip/marker code (`splicePrSummary`,
  `stripExistingSummaryBlock`, `buildSummaryBlock`, `extractPrSummary`,
  PULLFROG_SUMMARY_START/END). keep scaffold, instructions, seed/read.
- main.ts: rename persistAndPostSummary -> persistSummary; collapse to a
  single DB PATCH. drop pulls.get/pulls.update, drop AbortSignal timeout,
  drop in-flight promise machinery, drop prSummaryToBody plumbing.
- ToolState: add summarySeed (replaces local var in main.ts so persist can
  compare). drop prSummaryToBody and summaryPersistInFlight.
- persistSummary now compares against the seed and skips the DB write
  with a warning when unchanged — saving the seed verbatim is either a
  no-op or persists the placeholder scaffold, neither useful.
- postRun.ts: when summary-stale is the only failing gate and the resume
  turn itself fails, restore the pre-resume successful result and break.
  symmetric with the existing reflection-failure preservation. summary-stale
  can no longer flip a successful run to failed.

Webhook:
- pull_request_opened: generateSummary follows prReReview only (the snapshot
  has no consumer when re-review is off).
- pull_request_synchronize: collapses to "if prReReview enabled, dispatch
  IncrementalReview". the summaryHandlingCovered flag, the same-SHA/in-flight
  coordination it was protecting, and the summary-only Task fallback all
  delete cleanly.

UI / config:
- drop SummarizePRsTrigger (the toggle gated body splice; with that gone
  it has no behavior). drop sidebar entry, console import, Text icon import.
- drop prSummaryComment from triggers zod schema, prisma schema, preview
  settings script.

Migration: squash the two existing migrations into one timestamped
20260507000000_pr_summary_snapshot covering all three column changes
(add summarySnapshot on workflow_runs, drop prSummaryCommentInstructions
and prSummaryComment on repos). repo convention is one migration per PR.

Action: bump 0.0.203 -> 0.0.205 (payload contract changed: prSummaryToBody
removed; main is at 0.0.204).

Out-of-diff cleanup:
- review.ts:190 + review.test.ts:651 — "Reviewed — no issues found." ->
  "No new issues found." to match the canonical body in modes.ts.

Verified: pnpm typecheck clean, pnpm lint clean, postRun + review tests
pass, dev DB reset against production and the squashed migration applied
cleanly (summarySnapshot present, prSummaryComment / prSummaryCommentInstructions
both gone).

* re-orient snapshot toward functional summary; drop prior-review-feedback section

Empirical audit on preview-568 PR #5 showed the snapshot IS load-bearing
for the orchestrator: lens-dispatch prompts on incremental runs carried
forward context from the snapshot's risk register (e.g. "the JSDoc
explicitly scopes to code points — do not flag grapheme-cluster issues"
on the surrogate-pair fix run, "consistency with native padStart" on the
padStart-added run). The orchestrator was reading the snapshot, reasoning
about it, and using it to anti-prime / focus subagents — exactly the
high-leverage path. My earlier "snapshot is write-only" claim was wrong.

The shape, however, was steering it toward review-history-log instead of
functional summary. This commit re-orients:

- prSummary.ts: replace the four-section scaffold (~580 chars of placeholder
  italics under "What this PR does / Key changes / Risk / Reviewed in prior
  runs") with a minimal seed (~150 chars: just a header + a one-line
  comment about what the file is for). different PRs warrant different
  organization; forcing a refactor and a feature into the same template
  is procrustean. minimal seed also makes the unchanged-from-seed gate
  in persistSummary more sensitive.

- selectMode.ts addendum: rewrite around three principles. (1) the snapshot
  is a FUNCTIONAL summary of what the PR does and the risks it carries,
  not a chronological review log — commit history can already be
  reconstructed from list_pull_request_reviews. (2) the orchestrator should
  USE the snapshot during triage and dispatch — concrete example given of
  carrying snapshot context into subagent lens prompts. (3) structure is
  the agent's call; stable headings make snapshots range-diff cleanly when
  they fit, but riff when they don't.

- modes.ts IncrementalReview: drop the "Prior review feedback" checklist
  from the user-facing review body (step 6b gone, step 7 ELSE IFs cleaned
  up). It duplicated content that's already covered by the Reviewed-changes
  bullets and tracked durably in the snapshot for the next agent run; in
  the user-facing body it was noise. step 3 still fetches prior reviews
  but its role is now just filtering aggregation in step 5, not rendering.

- AGENTS.md: codify "no follow-ups" rule. when an issue is identified
  during code review, fix it in this PR — PR scope does not constrain
  quality. follow-up TODOs are forbidden as a substitute for doing the
  work now.

Empirical evidence supporting the re-orientation:

- Run 25568912293 (PR#5 incr1, surrogate-pair fix): orchestrator's
  correctness lens dispatch said "Do NOT flag grapheme-cluster issues
  — the JSDoc scopes to code points." The grapheme-cluster framing was
  not in the diff; it was downstream of the snapshot's prior risk-section
  framing of truncate's contract. Snapshot influencing dispatch.

- Run 25569054779 (PR#5 incr2, padStart added): orchestrator's correctness
  lens dispatch enumerated edge cases including "consistency with native
  String.prototype.padStart contract" and "fill = multi-code-point string
  (e.g. emoji)". Both threads carried over from the snapshot's prior
  truncate code-point-vs-code-unit discussion. Snapshot informing the
  shape of what was looked for.

The cost of maintaining the snapshot (~800 tokens, ~$0.005/run) is
trivially affordable when it materially improves orchestrator triage
on the 1-5 lenses dispatched per review.
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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ export interface Mode {
prompt?: string | undefined;
}
// Default user-facing summary format embedded in Review mode review bodies.
// Deliberately scoped to Review (initial PR review). IncrementalReview keeps
// its own terser bullet-list "Reviewed changes" shape since re-review bodies
// are deltas, not introductions. Distinct from the agent-internal snapshot
// (action/utils/prSummary.ts) which has its own stable scaffold and is never
// shaped by user instructions — see selectMode.ts for the firewall.
export const PR_SUMMARY_FORMAT = `### Default format
Follow this structure exactly:
@@ -175,7 +181,7 @@ ${learningsStep(t, 6)}`,
2. **triage**: orient yourself on the PR — identify *what kind of thing this is* (domain it touches, seams it crosses, external contracts it depends on, user-facing surfaces it changes). orientation only — defer specific defect-hunting to the subagents; pre-reviewing biases the lenses you pick. use \`${t("get_pull_request")}\` and other read-only GitHub tools for additional context if needed.
if the PR is **genuinely trivial**, skip steps 34 entirely and submit \`Reviewed — no issues found.\` per step 5. there's no value in dispatching even one lens for a typo.
if the PR is **genuinely trivial**, skip steps 34 entirely and submit a \`No new issues found.\` review per step 5. there's no value in dispatching even one lens for a typo.
"Genuinely trivial" (skip):
- single-word doc typo, whitespace/format-only, comment-only across any number of files
@@ -243,26 +249,28 @@ ${learningsStep(t, 6)}`,
note: the first create_pull_request_review submission may error with a one-time diff-coverage nudge listing unread TOC regions. retry the same call to proceed — optionally after reading the listed ranges. the pre-flight will not block again this session.
The review body is structured as: \`[optional alert blockquote]\`\`[PR summary using the default format below]\`. Inline comments are passed via the \`comments\` parameter, not in the body.
- **critical issues** (blocks merge — bugs, security, data loss):
\`approved: false\`. Body begins with a GitHub alert blockquote, e.g.:
\`> [!CAUTION]\\n> This PR introduces a race condition in ...\`
Follow with a brief summary if needed. Include all inline comments.
\`approved: false\`. Body opens with \`> [!CAUTION]\\n> This PR introduces ...\`, followed by the PR summary. Include all inline comments via \`comments\`.
- **recommended changes** (non-critical):
\`approved: false\`. Body begins with a GitHub alert blockquote, e.g.:
\`> [!IMPORTANT]\\n> Consider adding input validation for ...\`
Follow with a brief summary if needed. Include all inline comments.
\`approved: false\`. Body opens with \`> [!IMPORTANT]\\n> Consider ...\`, followed by the PR summary. Include all inline comments via \`comments\`.
- **no actionable issues**:
\`approved: true\`, body: "Reviewed — no issues found."`,
\`approved: true\`. Body opens with \`No new issues found.\` followed by the PR summary.
${PR_SUMMARY_FORMAT}`,
},
// IncrementalReview shares Review's multi-lens orchestrator pattern but
// scopes the target to the incremental diff and adds prior-review-feedback
// tracking. The "issues must be NEW since the last Pullfrog review" filter
// lives at aggregation time (step 5), NOT in the subagent prompt — pushing
// the filter into subagents matches the canonical anneal anti-pattern of
// "list known pre-existing failures — don't flag these" and suppresses
// signal on regressions the new commits amplified. The body-format rules
// (Reviewed changes / Prior review feedback) are unchanged from the prior
// version. Same severity-table omission as Review.
// scopes the target to the incremental diff. The "issues must be NEW
// since the last Pullfrog review" filter lives at aggregation time
// (step 5), NOT in the subagent prompt — pushing the filter into
// subagents matches the canonical anneal anti-pattern of "list known
// pre-existing failures — don't flag these" and suppresses signal on
// regressions the new commits amplified. The review body is just
// "Reviewed changes" — a separate "Prior review feedback" checklist
// would duplicate the rolling PR summary snapshot's record of what
// earlier runs already addressed and add noise to the user-facing
// body. Same severity-table omission as Review.
{
name: "IncrementalReview",
description:
@@ -273,7 +281,7 @@ ${learningsStep(t, 6)}`,
2. **incremental scope**: if \`incrementalDiffPath\` is present, read it to see what changed since the last review. this is a range-diff that isolates the net changes, filtering out base branch noise. if not present, fall back to reviewing the full PR diff and determine what changed since Pullfrog's most recent review.
3. **prior feedback**: fetch previous reviews via \`${t("list_pull_request_reviews")}\`. for the most recent Pullfrog review, call \`${t("get_review_comments")}\` with the review ID to retrieve specific prior line-level feedback. you'll need this in step 6 to track which prior comments were addressed.
3. **prior feedback**: fetch previous reviews via \`${t("list_pull_request_reviews")}\`. for the most recent Pullfrog review, call \`${t("get_review_comments")}\` with the review ID to retrieve specific prior line-level feedback. you'll use this to filter your aggregation in step 5 — anything already flagged in a prior review and not changed by the new commits should not be re-raised. you do NOT need to render this in the review body; the rolling PR summary snapshot is the durable record of what's been addressed.
4. **triage & fan out**: orient on the *incremental* changes — domain, seams, external contracts, user-facing surfaces.
@@ -302,20 +310,14 @@ ${learningsStep(t, 6)}`,
5. **aggregate, draft, self-critique**: merge findings; de-dup overlaps; trace each finding yourself. drop praise, style preferences, speculative/unverified claims, findings about pre-existing code unrelated to the new commits, anything not actionable, and anything that re-states prior review feedback (heuristic: if the finding's root cause lives in lines the *new commits* added or modified, it's in scope; otherwise drop). also drop **bloat-shaped findings** — proposed fixes that would add defensive checks for cases that can't happen, abstractions used once, comments restating obvious code, tests asserting tautologies, or "just-in-case" guards. subagents are fallible and bias toward recommending changes; the bar for an actionable inline comment is sound + correct + elegant. recommending a change that improves only one of the three (or degrades elegance to nominally improve correctness) makes the codebase worse, not better. To compute "lines the new commits added or modified": if \`incrementalDiffPath\` from step 1 is present, use it directly. Otherwise, take the prior Pullfrog review's \`commit_id\` (returned alongside each entry from \`${t("list_pull_request_reviews")}\` in step 3) and run \`git diff <prior-review-sha>..HEAD\` to isolate the lines added since that review. draft inline comments with NEW line numbers from the full PR diff — every comment must be actionable, 2-3 sentences max.
then check: which prior review comments were addressed by the new commits? track the addressed ones for step 6b.
6. **build the review body** — a single "Reviewed changes" section: summarize at the logical-change level, not per-file. each bullet starts with a past-tense verb (e.g. \`- Extracted shared CLI runtime into a single module\`, \`- Renamed package to pullfrog\`). avoid file paths unless they add clarity. if the changes can be described in one sentence, use one sentence — no bullets needed. do NOT include a separate "Prior review feedback" checklist; that's tracked in the rolling PR summary snapshot for the next agent run, and surfacing it in the user-facing body is noise (changes that addressed prior feedback are already covered by the Reviewed-changes bullets). in some cases you may receive a complete diff for the whole pull request instead of an incremental one — when this happens, you will need to determine what changes have happened since Pullfrog's most recent review.
6. **build the review body** — two distinct sections:
a. **Reviewed changes**: summarize at the logical-change level, not per-file. each bullet starts with a past-tense verb (e.g. \`- Extracted shared CLI runtime into a single module\`, \`- Renamed package to pullfrog\`). avoid file paths unless they add clarity. if the changes can be described in one sentence, use one sentence — no bullets needed.
b. **Prior review feedback** (only if any were addressed): list only the prior review comments that WERE addressed by the new commits (\`- [x] safeParse instead of parse — addressed\`). omit unaddressed comments. omit this entire section if nothing was addressed. a change can appear in both sections.
- no headings, no tables, no prose paragraphs in either section — just bullets
- in some cases you may receive a complete diff for the whole pull request instead of an incremental one. when this happens, you will need to determine what changes have happened since Pullfrog's most recent review.
7. Submit — Do NOT call \`report_progress\` or \`create_issue_comment\` — the review is the final record and the progress comment will be cleaned up automatically. the review body always includes the reviewed changes from step 6a. append \`Prior review feedback:\\n\` with the checklist from step 6b only if any prior comments were addressed. Follow these rules:
7. Submit — Do NOT call \`report_progress\` or \`create_issue_comment\` — the review is the final record and the progress comment will be cleaned up automatically. Follow these rules:
- note: the first create_pull_request_review submission may error with a one-time diff-coverage nudge listing unread TOC regions. retry the same call to proceed — optionally after reading the listed ranges. the pre-flight will not block again this session.
- IF NO NEW ISSUES, NON-SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES ONLY (trivial formatting, import reordering, comment tweaks): do NOT submit a review. Do NOT call \`report_progress\`. Exit — the progress comment will be cleaned up automatically.
- ELSE IF NEW CRITICAL ISSUES (blocks merge): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` with \`approved: false\`, all comments, and the review body. body opens with a GitHub alert blockquote (e.g. \`> [!CAUTION]\\n> This PR introduces ...\`), then the reviewed changes summary and prior feedback (if any).
- ELSE IF NEW RECOMMENDED CHANGES (non-critical): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` with \`approved: false\`, all comments, and the review body. body opens with \`> [!IMPORTANT]\\n> ...\` alert, then the reviewed changes summary and prior feedback (if any).
- ELSE IF NO NEW ISSUES, SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES (new functionality, behavior changes, or fixes to prior review feedback): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` to create a PR review. If all previous reviews have been properly addressed and no new issues were discovered, you can set \`approved: true\`. body opens with \`No new issues. Reviewed the following changes:\\n\`, then the reviewed changes summary and prior feedback (if any).`,
- ELSE IF NEW CRITICAL ISSUES (blocks merge): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` with \`approved: false\`, all comments, and the review body. body opens with a GitHub alert blockquote (e.g. \`> [!CAUTION]\\n> This PR introduces ...\`), then the Reviewed-changes summary.
- ELSE IF NEW RECOMMENDED CHANGES (non-critical): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` with \`approved: false\`, all comments, and the review body. body opens with \`> [!IMPORTANT]\\n> ...\` alert, then the Reviewed-changes summary.
- ELSE IF NO NEW ISSUES, SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES (new functionality, behavior changes, or fixes to prior review feedback): call \`${t("create_pull_request_review")}\` to create a PR review. If all previous reviews have been properly addressed and no new issues were discovered, you can set \`approved: true\`. body opens with \`No new issues. Reviewed the following changes:\\n\`, then the Reviewed-changes summary.`,
},
{
name: "Plan",
@@ -405,19 +407,6 @@ ${learningsStep(t, 6)}`,
${learningsStep(t, 4)}`,
},
{
name: "Summarize",
description:
"Summarize a PR with a structured comment that is updated in place on subsequent pushes",
prompt: `### Checklist
1. Checkout the PR via \`${t("checkout_pr")}\` — this returns PR metadata and a \`diffPath\`.
2. Read the diff using the TOC to selectively read relevant sections (not the entire file). Produce a structured summary. If EVENT INSTRUCTIONS specify a custom format, follow that instead of the default format below.
3. Call \`${t("create_issue_comment")}\` with \`type: "Summary"\` and the summary body.
4. Call \`${t("report_progress")}\` with a brief note (e.g., "Posted PR summary.").
${PR_SUMMARY_FORMAT}`,
},
];
}