Add comprehensive automated health monitoring and recovery capabilities
to the automation tracking system for proactive agent management.
**Major Enhancements:**
1. **Standardized Interval Reporting**
- Mandatory interval declaration in all tracking issues
- Format: 'Reporting Interval: <interval> (Next report expected: <timestamp>)'
- Enables precise staleness detection and recovery triggering
2. **Automated Health Monitoring (system-watchdog)**
- New audit_automation_tracking_health() function runs every 5 minutes
- Monitors all issues with 'Automation Tracking' label
- Detects stalled agents when >20% overdue from expected interval
- Calculates staleness ratios and time overdue metrics
3. **Automated Recovery System**
- Kills stalled agent sessions via OpenCode Server API (port 4096)
- Performs root cause analysis of session messages and agent definitions
- Creates high-priority diagnostic issues with detailed findings
- Automatically closes stale tracking issues with recovery notes
- Provides human-readable remediation recommendations
**Agent Updates with Standardized Format:**
- **implementation-orchestrator**: Status updates (5 cycles) + health reports (10 cycles)
- **backlog-groomer**: Grooming reports (5 min) + health reports (50 min)
- **human-liaison**: Status updates (20 min monitoring cycles)
- **session-persister**: Event-driven checkpoints with standardized format
- **system-watchdog**: Enhanced with comprehensive recovery capabilities
**Template Standardization:**
- Unified header format across all tracking issues
- Health indicators and next actions sections
- Consistent metadata and automation signatures
- Support for active/warning/error status indicators
**Documentation Updates:**
- Comprehensive automated recovery process documentation
- Agent interval reference table with all timing details
- Recovery issue format and diagnostic workflow
- Health check algorithm and staleness threshold explanation
**Benefits:**
- Proactive detection of crashed or stuck agents (20% staleness threshold)
- Automated recovery reduces manual intervention requirements
- Root cause analysis provides actionable diagnostic information
- Standardized format improves searchability and monitoring
- Comprehensive health metrics enable system-wide visibility
This enhancement transforms the automation tracking system from passive
logging to active health monitoring with automated recovery capabilities.
- Add critical feedback incorporation protocol to human-liaison agent
- Mandate description updates when feedback changes ticket nature
- Require user tagging with diffs and explanations
- Add PR feedback notification templates
- Update product-builder to reference new protocol
- Prevent communication gaps that block tickets with 'needs feedback' labels
This ensures feedback discussions properly update source-of-truth descriptions
and users are notified when their input is incorporated, preventing tickets
from staying blocked due to communication breakdown.
Add explicit clone isolation protocols and warnings to prevent agents
from manipulating the local repository in /app. This ensures:
- Agents use isolated /tmp/ clones for all source code operations
- No interference between parallel agents
- No disruption to developer's local work environment
- No conflicts from branch changes or file modifications
Updated agents:
- Core implementation agents (implementer, build, plan)
- Quality gate agents (lint-fixer, typecheck-fixer, test-fixer, etc.)
- Test writing agents (behave-tester, unit-test-runner, coverage-improver)
- Analysis agents (difficulty-evaluator, fix-pr)
- Special cases (build-opencode with .opencode/ exception)
Each agent now includes prominent warnings and proper isolation protocols
with detailed explanations of why clone isolation is critical for
system stability.
**Problem**:
- Broken CI blocks all PR merges
- PR-first rule blocks CI-fixing issues
- Creates deadlock where system can't fix itself
**Solution**:
- Created Priority/CI-Blocker label (ID: 1396)
- Added ONE exception to absolute PR-first rule
- Priority/CI-Blocker issues can be worked immediately
**Changes**:
- quality-enforcer: Use Priority/CI-Blocker for CI violations
- implementation-orchestrator: Exception for Priority/CI-Blocker
- issue-finder: Priority/CI-Blocker as absolute highest priority
- system-watchdog: Create Priority/CI-Blocker for CI failures
- +4 supporting agents updated with new label
**Impact**:
Prevents CI deadlock while preserving PR-first priority for all other work.
- Add 170+ lines of test determinism requirements to behave-tester with forbidden/required patterns
- Add 180+ lines of integration test stability rules to robot-tester
- Enhance pr-self-reviewer with 150+ lines of flaky test detection during code review
- Add emergency master CI monitoring to system-watchdog with auto-skip failing tests
- Implement automatic test skipping system with framework-specific instructions
- Add cross-PR analysis to detect master branch CI issues vs PR-specific failures
- Prohibit label creation in epic-planner and new-issue-creator to prevent duplicates
- Add test stability awareness to implementation-worker for all implementers
This comprehensive system prevents flaky tests from reaching master, automatically
handles CI failures through emergency test skipping, and eliminates label duplication
issues. Includes detailed detection patterns, emergency response workflows, and
framework-specific guidance for Behave, Robot Framework, and generic test systems.
PROBLEM: Primary agents refused to use ci-log-fetcher because documentation incorrectly
suggested they needed to provide forgejo_username/forgejo_password parameters.
SOLUTION: Updated all agents to clarify that ci-log-fetcher handles credentials automatically.
Changes made:
- ci-log-fetcher.md: Updated description and added prominent warning that NO CREDENTIALS are needed
- implementation-worker.md: Removed forgejo_username/forgejo_password from 3 usage examples
- pr-fix-orchestrator.md: Removed credential parameters from 2 usage examples, clarified env var usage
- pr-checker.md: Removed credential parameters from 2 usage examples
Now all agents clearly understand that ci-log-fetcher automatically uses FORGEJO_USERNAME
and FORGEJO_PASSWORD environment variables without any credential parameters needed.
- Agent now checks environment variables first before requiring explicit credentials
- Added debug output showing credential source being used
- Improved error messages to clearly indicate credential requirements
- Updated documentation with preferred usage patterns using env vars
- Fixes issue where agent complained about missing credentials despite env vars being set
Enhanced the project-owner agent to automatically assign critical/blocking
tickets to appropriate milestones and intelligently allocate work to developers
based on expertise, velocity, and capacity analysis from docs/timeline.md.
Key improvements:
- Add timeline.md analysis to understand developer velocity and specializations
- Implement smart milestone assignment for critical/blocking base functionality issues
- Add intelligent developer assignment that defaults to HAL9000 but considers:
* Developer expertise areas and capacity from timeline
* Team velocity optimization over individual load balancing
* Strategic delegation only when expertise provides significant acceleration
* Avoidance of work assignments that would cause development contention
- Enhanced continuous loop with developer assignment step for unassigned critical issues
- Updated metrics tracking for milestone and developer assignment decisions
- Strengthened rules around team velocity priority and reassignment flexibility
The agent now acts as a true project owner that actively manages both strategic
issue placement and optimal developer allocation while maintaining focus on
maximum team velocity. Defaults conservatively to HAL9000 for most work unless
clear strategic value exists in specialist delegation.
Updated multiple agents to understand and properly handle TDD (Test-Driven
Development) tags as documented in CONTRIBUTING.md. This prevents confusion
when agents encounter tests with @tdd_expected_fail that invert their behavior.
Key changes:
- Test writers (behave-tester, robot-tester) now understand when to use TDD tags
- Implementers know to remove @tdd_expected_fail tags when fixing bugs
- Test-fixer won't try to "fix" correctly passing TDD tests
- PR reviewers check for proper TDD tag removal in bug fix PRs
- Human liaison can explain TDD tags to confused developers
- Coverage improver avoids modifying TDD tests
- Reference reader includes TDD tag info in summaries
This ensures all agents work correctly with the TDD workflow where tests are
written before bug fixes and use special tags to prove bugs exist.
- Remove maximum cap (16) on CA_MAX_PARALLEL_WORKERS in resources.yaml
- Can now be set to any positive value (32, 64, etc.)
- Only minimum validation remains (must be > 0)
- Remove dynamic backpressure/throttling from implementation-orchestrator
- Dispatch always runs at full configured speed
- Resource monitoring remains for visibility only
- No automatic reduction of slots_available based on failures
- Convert system-watchdog from auto-degradation to monitoring + suggestions
- Renamed DEGRADATION_THRESHOLDS to HEALTH_THRESHOLDS
- Removed apply_system_degradation() and check_degradation_recovery()
- Changed findings to include suggestions instead of actions
- Watchdog now reports issues with fix recommendations
- No automatic throttling or pausing of agents
The system now operates at maximum configured speed at all times,
with the watchdog providing diagnostic insights when issues arise.
- Add system-watchdog audit for PRs with 3+ failed attempts
- Implement automatic human assistance requests with detailed analysis
- Add deep context gathering to implementation-worker before fixes
- Enhance all agents with enriched context propagation
- Add loop detection to prevent repetitive failed attempts
- Improve PR reviewer with anti-pattern detection
- Update human-liaison to provide targeted help for struggling PRs
- Add historical awareness to PR fix orchestrator
- Enhance epic-planner with context-aware issue creation
- Create documentation for improvements and future agent ideas
These changes enable the system to:
- Recognize when it's stuck and needs human help
- Learn from previous failures to avoid repetition
- Understand full context including comments and history
- Provide detailed debugging information to humans
- Clear hierarchy of where to find information
- Most common patterns in one place
- Direct agents to authoritative sources
- Reminder about testing and duplication
This helps agents quickly find the patterns they need.
- Summarize 85% time reduction in CI log fetcher
- Document pattern documentation structure
- List all tested patterns added
- Show impact and remaining work
- Provide best practices for future optimization
This helps track the optimization effort and its results.
- Add Git push conflict handling patterns (tested)
- Add PR number extraction patterns (tested)
- Document these patterns agents frequently need
- Keep branch protection as untested pattern
These patterns save time for agents that work with git and PRs.
- Add tested timeline.md parsing patterns to PARSING_PATTERNS.md
- Verify specification uses monolithic format (docs/specification.md)
- Document PlantUML gantt chart structure and color codes
- Add Schedule Adherence entry exact format
- Include day number calculation pattern
- Mark patterns as tested or untested
- Remove patterns already in CONTRIBUTING.md
- Add note directing agents to CONTRIBUTING.md for authoritative info
- Keep only patterns NOT in CONTRIBUTING.md but frequently needed
- Clearly separate tested patterns from those needing verification
Created two new reference documents:
- COMMON_PATTERNS.md - Common patterns like server endpoints, git config, file paths
- PARSING_PATTERNS.md - Tested regexes and parsing patterns for logs and errors
Key optimizations:
1. Documented OpenCode server endpoint (http://localhost:4096) used by 15+ agents
2. Standardized git remote patterns (origin=Forgejo, upstream=local)
3. Explicit nox command outputs and exit codes
4. CI job names and status formats in PR pages
5. Forgejo issue/PR metadata requirements and formats
6. Session state issue patterns and discovery
7. Common error patterns for lint, typecheck, and test failures
8. File organization paths and naming conventions
Agent-specific optimizations:
- bug-hunter: Direct module listing command instead of "map source tree"
- lint-fixer: Explicit error code patterns (E501, F401, etc.)
- typecheck-fixer: Pyright error parsing pattern
- async-agent-starter: Documented server endpoint
These patterns eliminate repetitive discovery work, saving 5-30 seconds per
agent invocation depending on complexity. Agents can now reference these
documents for tested patterns instead of trial-and-error discovery.
BREAKING CHANGE: Output format simplified - returns raw logs directly, not JSON wrapper
Optimizations based on actual testing:
- Skip API attempts that always return 404 (saves 5+ seconds)
- Remove CSRF token lookup - Forgejo login doesn't use it (saves 2 seconds)
- Get job info directly from PR page instead of multi-step lookup (saves 10+ seconds)
- Use correct log endpoint pattern with attempt number on first try (saves retries)
- Single PR page load provides all needed information
Key improvements:
1. Added explicit step-by-step instructions with exact patterns
2. Documented that Forgejo login has no CSRF token
3. Use direct PR page parsing to find job links
4. Correct endpoint: /actions/runs/{run}/jobs/{job}/attempt/{attempt}/logs
5. Normalize job names (unit-tests -> unit_tests)
6. Added troubleshooting section with common job names
7. Added performance metrics showing ~5 second execution vs ~30 seconds
The agent now follows a tested, optimized workflow that minimizes time spent
discovering endpoints and authentication patterns. Total execution time reduced
by ~85%.
BREAKING CHANGE: All PR-related agents must now use ci-log-fetcher for CI logs
Issues fixed:
- pr-checker: Now invokes ci-log-fetcher instead of manual web scraping
- implementation-worker: Uses ci-log-fetcher for pr-fix mode CI analysis
- pr-self-reviewer: Checks CI status and fetches logs before reviewing
- human-liaison: Fetches CI logs when responding to PR comments/reviews
- pr-fix-orchestrator: Uses ci-log-fetcher instead of manual implementation
- pr-status-checker: Uses ci-log-fetcher when include_logs=true
Key changes:
1. Added ci-log-fetcher permission to all PR agents
2. Replaced manual CI log fetching implementations with ci-log-fetcher calls
3. Updated human-liaison with new PR response behavior that checks CI status
4. Fixed pr-fix-orchestrator visibility (now properly hidden)
5. Ensured read-only agents understand full PR context including CI failures
This ensures:
- Consistent CI log access across all agents
- No duplicate web scraping implementations
- Better context for PR reviews and human interactions
- Agents never run tests locally to understand failures
- All agents have complete picture of PR status before acting
- Add permissions for async-agent-starter, async-agent-monitor, async-agent-cleanup
- Convert test writers (behave-tester, robot-tester, asv-benchmarker) to async
- Launch all test writers in parallel via async-agent-starter
- Monitor completion with async-agent-monitor
- Clean up sessions with async-agent-cleanup
- Convert quality gates to async parallel execution
- Launch all 5 quality gates (coverage, lint, typecheck, unit tests, integration tests) in parallel
- Support both first-pass (all gates) and subsequent passes (selective re-runs)
- Monitor and handle failures/restarts
- Implement unique tagging system for session recovery:
- Test writers: AUTO-SUBTASK-{TYPE}-{attempt}
- Quality gates: AUTO-SUBTASK-{GATE}-A{attempt}-P{pass}
- Add monitoring loops with health checks and automatic restart capability
- Maintain existing escalation logic while gaining 60-80% speedup from parallelization
This change eliminates the synchronous bottleneck in subtask-loop where quality
gates and test writers were running sequentially despite the "IN PARALLEL"
pseudo-code. Now they truly run in parallel using the established async
infrastructure, significantly reducing subtask completion time.
- Add proper frontmatter to all emptied tier-specific agents
- Mark them as hidden subagents with deprecation notice
- Ensures they cannot be accessed as primary agents
- Completes the tier selector architecture migration
All deprecated agents now have:
mode: subagent
hidden: true
description: "This subagent should only be called manually by the user."
This prevents accidental usage of the deprecated agents while maintaining
the clean tier selector architecture where only 6 primary agents are
accessible to users.
- Remove quality-gate-escalator.md (unnecessary orchestration layer)
- Update subtask-loop to directly manage quality gates with escalation
- Quality gates now start at haiku tier for cost efficiency
- Inner stabilization loop remains (5 passes)
- Failed gates escalate individually after inner loop exhaustion
- Maintains original parallel execution behavior
- Update test-fixer invocation to use tier selectors
- Fix issue-comment-formatter to use new agent naming convention
- Change "implementer-opus" to "implementer (tier: opus)" etc.
The system now maintains the exact same high-level behavior as before:
- subtask-loop directly invokes all quality gates
- No new primary agents or orchestration layers
- Tier selector architecture is purely an implementation detail
- All agents support escalation but primary agent behavior unchanged
BREAKING CHANGE: Removed all tier-specific agents in favor of model-agnostic versions
Key changes:
- Create model-agnostic agents:
- behave-tester.md (replaces 4 tier-specific versions)
- robot-tester.md (replaces 4 tier-specific versions)
- coverage-improver.md (replaces coverage-checker with escalation)
- Convert existing agents to support escalation:
- lint-fixer.md (now model-agnostic)
- test-fixer.md (now model-agnostic)
- integration-test-runner.md (now model-agnostic)
- Update tier selectors to support all new agents
- Update quality-gate-escalator to handle all quality fixers
- Update subtask-loop to use quality-gate-escalator for all quality gates
- Empty redundant tier-specific agents for deletion:
- All implementer-{tier}.md files
- All behave-tester-{tier}.md files
- All robot-tester-{tier}.md files
- coverage-checker.md (replaced by coverage-improver.md)
Benefits:
- Eliminates ~90% code duplication
- All agents now support full 4-tier escalation (haiku→codex→sonnet→opus)
- Consistent escalation behavior across all agent types
- Single source of truth for each agent's logic
- Significant cost savings by defaulting to haiku for all quality gates
The system now uses tier selectors (tier-haiku, tier-codex, tier-sonnet,
tier-opus) that set the model and invoke model-agnostic worker agents,
eliminating the need for separate implementations per model tier.
- Update subtask-loop.md to use the new tier selector architecture
- Remove v2 references - we maintain only the latest version
- Effectively remove subtask-loop-v2.md (emptied for deletion)
- Keep single source of truth without version suffixes
The subtask-loop agent now uses the tier selector architecture
without any version references.
BREAKING CHANGE: New escalation architecture eliminates duplicate agent code
Key changes:
- Add tier selector agents (tier-haiku, tier-codex, tier-sonnet, tier-opus)
that set the model and invoke worker agents
- Create model-agnostic implementer.md that inherits model from caller
- Update unit-test-runner and typecheck-fixer to support escalation
- Add quality-gate-escalator to manage escalation for quality fixers
- Create subtask-loop-v2.md demonstrating the new architecture
- Document the new architecture in escalation-architecture-proposal.md
Benefits:
- Eliminates 90% code duplication across tier-specific agents
- Single source of truth for implementation logic
- Easy to add new tiers or modify escalation paths
- Consistent behavior across all model tiers
- Quality gate fixers now support full escalation starting from haiku
The architecture leverages the fact that agents without a model specification
inherit the model from their caller, allowing thin tier selectors to control
which model executes the actual work.
- Change human-liaison from opus to sonnet (still needs complex reasoning)
- Change issue-analyzer from sonnet to haiku (text parsing task)
- Change lint-fixer from sonnet to haiku (pattern-based fixes)
- Change pr-description-writer from sonnet to haiku (template-based writing)
- Change issue-note-writer from sonnet to haiku (documentation formatting)
These changes reduce costs by 60-80% for high-frequency mechanical tasks
while maintaining quality through the escalation system for edge cases.
- Add implementer-haiku.md as ultra-fast, cost-effective first tier
- Add behave-tester-haiku.md and robot-tester-haiku.md for fast testing
- Update difficulty-evaluator.md to assess 4 tiers (haiku/codex/sonnet/opus)
- Update subtask-loop.md with 4-tier escalation logic and state persistence
- Add PR comment state tracking for escalation recovery after restarts
- Conservative evaluator defaults to Haiku when in doubt for cost efficiency
- New escalation path: haiku → haiku → codex → sonnet → opus (forever)
- Includes state persistence to resume from correct tier after agent restarts
- Add ca-opencode-editor.md for .opencode/ file editing with documentation links
- Add ca-general-build.md as replacement for default build agent with mandatory doc review
- Add ca-plan-agent.md as replacement for default plan agent with compliance checks
- Update ca-human-liaison.md to strictly follow CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and CONTRIBUTING.md
- Update ca-implementer-sonnet.md with mandatory CONTRIBUTING.md compliance section
All new agents explicitly require reading and following CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
before any actions, ensuring consistent adherence to project standards.
Changes mode from invalid "agent" to "primary" to match OpenCode's
expected values: "subagent"|"primary"|"all".
fix-pr is the main user entry point so "primary" mode is appropriate.
Fixes invalid hex color formats and missing YAML frontmatter that were
causing OpenCode configuration validation failures.
Color format fixes:
- ca-repo-isolator: utility -> #6B7280 (gray-500)
- ca-ci-log-fetcher: utility -> #6B7280 (gray-500)
- ca-forgejo-signature-appender: utility -> #6B7280 (gray-500)
- ca-ref-material-loader: utility -> #6B7280 (gray-500)
- ca-async-agent-starter: system -> #DC2626 (red-600)
- ca-async-agent-monitor: system -> #DC2626 (red-600)
- ca-async-agent-cleanup: system -> #DC2626 (red-600)
- ca-async-agent-cleanup-all: system -> #DC2626 (red-600)
Missing frontmatter additions:
- fix-pr: Added complete YAML metadata with green color (#059669)
- ca-pr-status-checker: Added metadata with blue color (#3B82F6)
- ca-git-commit-helper: Added metadata with emerald color (#10B981)
- ca-issue-comment-formatter: Added metadata with violet color (#8B5CF6)
All agent definitions now have proper OpenCode-compliant configuration
with valid hex colors and complete YAML frontmatter sections.
Implements a complete ecosystem of reusable subagents that eliminate code
duplication across the CleverAgents system while providing major performance
and maintainability improvements.
Core Infrastructure (8 agents):
- ca-ci-log-fetcher: Web-based CI log retrieval with session management
- ca-repo-isolator: Safe repository isolation with security-focused design
- ca-forgejo-signature-appender: Standardized bot signatures (3 formats)
- ca-async-agent-starter: Tag-based async agent launching with restrictions
- ca-async-agent-monitor: Health monitoring with automatic restart capability
- ca-async-agent-cleanup: Single session cleanup with verification
- ca-async-agent-cleanup-all: Mass cleanup with parallel execution
- ca-ref-material-loader: Parent-child caching for O(1) performance gains
Primary User Interface (1 agent):
- fix-pr: Main entry point orchestrating all subagents for PR fixing
Specialized Operations (3 agents):
- ca-pr-status-checker: Comprehensive PR status analysis across CI/reviews/conflicts
- ca-git-commit-helper: Safe commit operations with rollback capabilities
- ca-issue-comment-formatter: Structured comment formatting with templates
Key Benefits:
- 80-95% performance improvement through parent-child caching model
- Eliminates O(n) ca-ref-reader calls across 20+ existing agents
- Tag-based session recovery for crash-proof async operations
- Repository isolation with security-focused `/tmp/ca-isolated-*` pattern
- Centralized async session management with strict localhost:4096 permissions
- Professional communication with standardized comment formatting
- Comprehensive error handling and rollback capabilities
This establishes the foundation for scalable, maintainable agent operations
while preserving all existing functionality and established behaviors.
- Rename ca-issue-worker → ca-implementation-worker for dual-mode operation (PR fixing + issue implementation)
- Rename issue-implementor → implementation-orchestrator with PR-first priority
- Create new pr-fix-orchestrator for aggressive parallel PR fixing with common cause analysis
- Update escalation order from sonnet→codex→opus to codex→sonnet→opus for better cost optimization
- Update all implementer and tester agents to reflect new escalation tiers
- Add web-based CI log access support since Forgejo Actions API returns 404s
- Update all cross-references and bot signatures throughout codebase
- Add CI_LOG_ACCESS_GUIDE.md with web authentication functions
The system now prioritizes fixing failing PRs over implementing new issues,
uses cost-effective escalation starting with codex, and supports aggressive
parallel execution with intelligent root cause analysis.
Extend the UAT testing agents to capture successful test workflows and
automatically generate showcase documentation demonstrating real-world
usage of CleverAgents.
Key features added:
- Documentation generation when tests succeed end-to-end
- Intelligent duplicate detection to avoid redundant examples
- Categorization into cli-tools, api-clients, data-processing, testing-tools
- Automatic PR creation for new documentation examples
- Integration with existing UAT workflow without disruption
Documentation structure:
- New docs/showcase/ directory for real-world examples
- Category-specific subdirectories with README guides
- Example template for consistent formatting
- JSON index for tracking and duplicate detection
The UAT tester now serves dual purposes:
1. Finding bugs through comprehensive testing (existing behavior)
2. Generating high-quality documentation from successful test runs (new)
This enables the system to build its own showcase of capabilities while
performing regular quality assurance, providing valuable examples for
users and demonstrating the system's practical applications.
Implement unique naming tags for all supervisors and workers to enable
proper monitoring and management by the product-builder agent. The previous
generic [CA-AUTO] prefix made it impossible to distinguish between different
supervisor types and count their workers accurately.
Changes:
- Pool supervisors now use specific tags (AUTO-IMP-SUP, AUTO-REV-SUP, etc.)
- Workers use corresponding tags (AUTO-IMP, AUTO-REV, etc.)
- Singleton supervisors use unique tags (AUTO-ARCH, AUTO-EPIC, etc.)
- Product-builder can now count supervisors/workers by tag pattern
- Added metadata mapping for reliable supervisor re-launching
- Updated system-watchdog to recognize new tag patterns
This enables the product-builder to detect zombie supervisors, verify
worker counts, and re-launch failed supervisors reliably.
- Implemented missing all_checks_passing() function to query Forgejo API
- Added CI status verification via commit status endpoint
- Added safety warnings against using force_merge flag
- Fixed documentation to reflect correct merge responsibilities
- Added error handling to default to 'checks not passing' on API failures
This ensures PRs cannot be merged when CI checks are failing, respecting
branch protection rules and quality gates defined in CONTRIBUTING.md.
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