Agent evolver identified a systematic pattern:
- Pattern: PR stale/conflict cascade
- Evidence: 11+ PRs were approved but closed without merge due to
conflicts. PRs #1248, #1247, #1237, #1236, #1220, #1219, #1238,
#1246, #1269 were all bulk-closed as stale. Reviewer notes on
#1248, #1220, #1219, #1252 explicitly mention 'merge blocked by
conflicts'. With 16 parallel workers, master moves fast and branches
created minutes earlier are already behind by the time PRs are created.
- Fix: Add a rebase-onto-latest-master step (Phase 3, Step 3.0) in
ca-issue-worker before committing and creating the PR. This ensures
the branch is current when the PR is opened, dramatically reducing
the chance of merge conflicts when the reviewer processes it.
This change requires human approval before taking effect.
freemo