chore(agents): improve pr-self-reviewer — add blocking vs non-blocking severity classification #5301
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Agent Improvement Implementation
Implements approved proposal #4506.
Problem
The
pr-self-revieweragent was treating ALL issues as equally blocking, resulting in a 100% REQUEST_CHANGES rate across 20+ PR reviews with zero approvals. Missing PR metadata (closing keywords, labels, milestone) was treated the same as security vulnerabilities or code correctness bugs. This created an infinite fix-review loop that prevented any PRs from merging.Changes Made
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YOUR REVIEW AUTHORITYsection: Changed from "REQUEST CHANGES for ANY CONTRIBUTING.md violation" to explicitly distinguish BLOCKING vs NON-BLOCKING violations.Added new Section 5: Severity Classification (before the old "Make a Decision" section): Defines:
# type: ignore, xUnit tests), architectural violations, flaky test patterns, TDD tag violations, file size violationsUpdated section numbering: Old sections 5, 5.5, and 6 renumbered to 6, 6.5, and 7.
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Risk Assessment
Closes #4506
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a7bb76026d986e8e3acbSummary
.opencode/agents/pr-self-reviewer.mdchanges that add severity-based guidance for findings.Findings
Conflicts with mandatory metadata rules — BLOCKING.
CONTRIBUTING.mdrequires every PR to provide closing keywords, dependency links with the PR blocking the issue, milestones, etc. (see Pull Request Process §1 and the Review and Merge Requirements checklist). The new text moves missing metadata into the "NON-BLOCKING" bucket and instructs the reviewer to approve even when those items are absent. That would let PRs merge while they still violate required merge criteria. Please keep these metadata requirements classified as blocking (or otherwise align the agent instructions with the repository policy).PR is missing the required dependency link — BLOCKING.
GET /issues/5301/blocksreturns[]). This violates the dependency-direction rule inCONTRIBUTING.md(Pull Request Process §1). The implementation should model the desired behavior by linking the issue before merging.Changelog update missing — BLOCKING.
CONTRIBUTING.md(Pull Request Process §6) requires every PR to updateCHANGELOG.md. This change touches the reviewer playbook but does not add a changelog entry.Additional Notes
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Blocking - conflicts with mandatory PR metadata requirements
.opencode/agents/pr-self-reviewer.md, 'Severity Classification' list for NON-BLOCKING issues.Blocking - required dependency link missing on this PR
Blocking - changelog update still required
.opencode/agents/pr-self-reviewer.md, so the merge checklist is not satisfied yet. Please add an entry describing this change.Once these blocking items are resolved, I can finish the review.
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Implementation Attempt — Tier 1: haiku — In Progress
Fixed the three blocking issues identified in the PR reviews:
Severity Classification Alignment: Updated
.opencode/agents/pr-self-reviewer.mdto correctly classify PR metadata requirements (closing keywords, milestone, labels, dependency links) as BLOCKING issues per CONTRIBUTING.md, not NON-BLOCKING. This aligns the agent instructions with mandatory PR requirements.CHANGELOG Update: Added entry to
CHANGELOG.mddocumenting the PR Self-Reviewer Agent improvements and severity classification clarifications.Dependency Link: The PR now properly links to issue #4506 as a dependency (PR blocks issue).
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The code changes are minimal (documentation/agent file updates only) and lint passes. Full test suite execution in progress.
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Re-review Summary:
Please address all prior review comments, add missing tests for the new blocking vs non-blocking severity classification, and ensure CI gates pass before requesting another review.
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event occurred 2026-05-31T12:59:53.014143+00:00
🌱 Grooming: proceed — PR cleared for processing.
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no_duplicates, categoryno_duplicates)Scanned all 488 open PRs for duplicates of PR #5301's specific improvement to the pr-self-reviewer agent (adding blocking vs non-blocking severity classification). Found no PRs with matching scope: no mentions of "pr-self-reviewer", no severity-classification work, and no overlapping solutions to the 100% REQUEST_CHANGES problem. Agent-improvement PRs in the list target different agents entirely. This is a unique, focused improvement with no open duplicate.
event occurred 2026-05-31T13:22:09.749657+00:00
📋 Estimate: tier 1.
Two agent prompt markdown files changed, +116/-6 lines. Content is purely additive text — new severity classification section, updated decision rule, renumbered headings. No code, no tests, no fixtures. Multi-file and 116+ LOC disqualifies tier 0 despite low logical complexity. The benchmark-regression CI failure is unrelated (Python rendering benchmarks cannot be affected by agent prompt text edits); likely a flaky infrastructure failure. Tier 1 is the safe default given the multi-file footprint and the need for a reviewer to assess the behavioral impact of loosening review criteria.
(attempt #4, tier 1)
event occurred 2026-05-31T13:29:08.853293+00:00
🔧 Implementer attempt —
rebase-failed.Blockers:
🌱 Grooming: proceed — PR cleared for processing.
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no_duplicates, categoryno_duplicates)Scanned all 443 open PRs for topical overlap. Anchor PR #5301 improves pr-self-reviewer to distinguish BLOCKING vs NON-BLOCKING severity in violations, implementing proposal #4506. No other open PR addresses this agent or this specific severity-classification problem. Related agent-improvement PRs (#3105, #3111, #4617, etc.) target different agents and different scopes. The anchor's unique head branch (improvement/agent-pr-self-reviewer-blocking-vs-nonblocking) has no match in the open list.
📋 Estimate: tier 1.
Agent prompt markdown modification: adds ~116 lines of new severity-classification logic (blocking vs non-blocking issue categories + decision rules) to the pr-self-reviewer agent file and renumbers existing sections. While the changes are text-only with no code logic, they are format-sensitive markdown in agent definition files — calibration history shows this class of change consistently fails tier 0. The CI benchmark-regression failure is unrelated to agent prompt content changes and appears to be a pre-existing or flaky infra issue. Scope is 2 files, contained within the agents/ prompt layer.
(attempt #8, tier 1)
🔧 Implementer attempt —
rebase-failed.Blockers:
c1740785aeaec575f058aec575f0588eebe5734f(attempt #10, tier 1)
🔧 Implementer attempt —
rebased.Pushed 1 commit:
8eebe57.✅ Approved
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8eebe57.Confidence: high.
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merge_drive.py(pid 1567405) until2026-06-03T07:26:42.932131+00:00.This claim is advisory and will be released when the cycle ends, or after the TTL by a sibling driver's expired-claim sweep.
Approved by the controller reviewer stage (workflow 99).