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295 changes: 129 additions & 166 deletions instructions/night-watch-pr-reviewer.md
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You are the Night Watch PR Reviewer agent. Your job is to check open PRs for three things:
You are the Night Watch PR Reviewer agent. Your job is to implement a **review-first, fix-later** workflow:

1. Merge conflicts -- rebase onto the base branch and resolve them.
2. Review comments with a score below 80 -- address the feedback.
3. Failed CI jobs -- diagnose and fix the failures.
1. **No review yet** → Post a review (score the PR), exit without fixing
2. **Review exists, score < threshold** → Fix ALL flagged issues (bugs, code quality, performance, CI, merge conflicts), push, exit
3. **After fixing** → Exit. Next scheduled run (or GH Actions on push) re-scores
4. **Score >= threshold** → Skip (unchanged)

## Context

The repo can have multiple PR checks/workflows (project CI plus Night Watch automation jobs).
Common examples include `typecheck`, `lint`, `test`, `build`, `verify`, `executor`, `qa`, and `audit`.
Treat `gh pr checks <number> --json name,state,conclusion` as the source of truth for which checks failed.

A PR needs attention if **any** of the following: merge conflicts present, review score below 80, or any CI job failed.

## PRD Context

The cron wrapper may append a `## PRD Context` section with linked issue bodies and/or PRD file excerpts.
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## Important: Early Exit

- If there are **no open PRs** on `night-watch/` or `feat/` branches, **stop immediately** and report "No PRs to review."
- If all open PRs have **no merge conflicts**, **passing CI**, and **review score >= 80**, **stop immediately** and report "All PRs are in good shape."
- If a PR has no review score yet, it needs a first review — do NOT skip it.
- If all open PRs have **review score >= threshold** (or no review yet - you'll post one), **stop immediately** after processing.
- Do **NOT** loop or retry. Process each PR **once** per run. After processing all PRs, stop.
- Do **NOT** re-check PRs after pushing fixes -- the CI will re-run automatically on the next push.

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Filter for PRs on `night-watch/` or `feat/` branches.

2. **For each PR**, check three things:
2. **For each PR**, determine the next action based on the **review-first, fix-later** flow:

### Step A: Check Review Status

### A. Check for Merge Conflicts
Fetch the **comments** (the bot posts as a regular issue comment):

```
gh pr view <number> --json mergeStateStatus --jq '.mergeStateStatus'
gh pr view <number> --json comments --jq '.comments[].body'
```

If the result is `DIRTY` or `CONFLICTING`, the PR has merge conflicts that **must** be resolved before anything else.

### B. Check CI Status

Fetch the CI check status for the PR:
If that returns nothing, also try:

```
gh pr checks <number> --json name,state,conclusion
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/<number>/comments --jq '.[].body'
```

If any check has `conclusion` of `failure` (or `state` is not `completed`/`success`), the PR has CI failures that need fixing.
Parse the review score from the comment body. Look for patterns like:

To get details on why a CI job failed, fetch the workflow run logs:
- `**Overall Score:** XX/100`
- `**Score:** XX/100`
- `Overall Score:** XX/100`

```
gh run list --branch <branch-name> --limit 1 --json databaseId,conclusion,status
```
Extract the numeric score. If multiple comments have scores, use the **most recent** one.

Then view the failed job logs:
### Step B: Determine Action Based on Review Status

```
gh run view <run-id> --log-failed
```
**Case 1: No review yet** → **REVIEW MODE** (post a review, don't fix)
- Exit early without fixing anything
- The GitHub Actions workflow will post a review automatically
- Log: `No review yet for PR #<number>, exiting review-first, fix-later flow early`

### C. Check Review Score
**Case 2: Review exists, score >= threshold** → **SKIP** (PR is in good shape)
- Log: `PR #<number> review score <score> >= threshold <threshold>, skipping`
- Continue to next PR

Fetch the **comments** (NOT reviews -- the bot posts as a regular issue comment):
**Case 3: Review exists, score < threshold** → **FIX MODE** (fix all issues)
- Continue to Step C to fix ALL flagged issues

```
gh pr view <number> --json comments --jq '.comments[].body'
```
### Step C: Fix ALL Flagged Issues (when review score < threshold)

If that returns nothing, also try:
When fixing, address issues in **priority order**:

```
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/<number>/comments --jq '.[].body'
```
1. **CI failures** (highest priority) - failing checks block everything
2. **Merge conflicts** - must be resolved before merging
3. **Critical bugs** - crashes, data loss, security vulnerabilities
4. **Code quality issues** - error handling, edge cases, maintainability
5. **Performance issues** - inefficiencies, slow operations
6. **Test coverage** - missing tests, inadequate coverage
7. **Documentation** - unclear comments, missing docs

Parse the review score from the comment body. Look for patterns like:
#### C.1: Check Out the PR Branch

- `**Overall Score:** XX/100`
- `**Score:** XX/100`
- `Overall Score:** XX/100`
Extract the numeric score. If multiple comments have scores, use the **most recent** one.
Use the current runner worktree and check out the PR branch (do **not** create additional worktrees):

3. **Determine if PR needs work**:
- If no merge conflicts **AND** score >= 80 **AND** all CI checks pass --> skip this PR.
- If **no review score exists yet** --> this PR needs its first review (see Mode: Review below).
- If merge conflicts present **OR** score < 80 **OR** any CI check failed --> fix the issues (see Mode: Fix below).
```
git fetch origin
git checkout <branch-name>
git pull origin <branch-name>
```

## Mode: Review (when no review score exists yet)
The reviewer cron wrapper already runs you inside an isolated worktree and performs cleanup.
Stay in the current directory and run package install (npm install, yarn install, or pnpm install as appropriate).

When a PR has no review score, post an initial review instead of fixing issues:
#### C.2: Resolve Merge Conflicts

1. Fetch the PR diff: `gh pr diff <number>`
2. Review the code using these criteria:
- **Correctness**: logic errors, edge cases, off-by-one errors
- **Code quality**: readability, naming, dead code, complexity
- **Tests**: missing tests, inadequate coverage
- **Performance**: obvious bottlenecks, unnecessary work
- **Security**: injection, XSS, secrets in code, unsafe patterns
- **Conventions**: follows project CLAUDE.md / coding standards
3. Post a review comment in this exact format (so the score can be parsed):
Check if merge conflicts exist:

```
gh pr comment <number> --body "## PR Review

### Summary
<1-2 sentence summary of what the PR does>
gh pr view <number> --json mergeStateStatus --jq '.mergeStateStatus'
```

### Issues Found
If the result is `DIRTY` or `CONFLICTING`:
- Get the base branch: `gh pr view <number> --json baseRefName --jq '.baseRefName'`
- Rebase the PR branch onto the latest base branch:
```
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/<base-branch>
```
- For each conflicted file, examine the conflict markers carefully. Preserve the PR's intended changes while incorporating upstream updates. Resolve each conflict, then stage it:
```
git add <resolved-file>
```
- Continue the rebase: `git rebase --continue`
- Repeat until the rebase completes without conflicts.
- Push the clean branch: `git push --force-with-lease origin <branch-name>`
- **Do NOT leave any conflict markers (`<<<<<<<`, `=======`, `>>>>>>>`) in any file.**

#### C.3: Fix CI Failures

Check CI status and identify failing checks:

| Category | Confidence | Issue |
|----------|-----------|-------|
| <category> | High/Medium/Low | <description> |
```
gh pr checks <number> --json name,state,conclusion
```

### Strengths
- <strength 1>
Filter for checks with `conclusion` of `failure`.

**Overall Score:** <XX>/100
To get details on why a CI job failed:

> 🔍 Reviewed by <provider>"
```
RUN_ID=$(gh run list --branch <branch-name> --limit 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[0].databaseId')
gh run view "${RUN_ID}" --log-failed
```

4. **Do NOT fix anything** — just post the review and stop. The next reviewer run will address the issues.
Fix checks based on their actual names and errors (for example: `typecheck`, `lint`, `test`, `build`, `verify`, `executor`, `qa`, `audit`).

## Mode: Fix (when review score < threshold)
#### C.4: Address Review Feedback

When the cron script injects `- action: fix` in the ## Target Scope section, follow the fix steps in section 4 below. Read the injected review body from `## Latest Review Feedback` to know what to address.
Read the review comments carefully. Extract actionable fix items:

4. **Fix the PR**:
Look for categories like:
- **Bugs**: "bug found", "error", "crash", "incorrect"
- **Code quality**: "unclear", "hard to read", "should be", "missing"
- **Performance**: "slow", "inefficient", "N+1", "memory"
- **Security**: "vulnerability", "injection", "sanitize"
- **Testing**: "missing test", "no coverage", "untested"

a. **Use the current runner worktree** and check out the PR branch (do **not** create additional worktrees):
For each issue:
- If you agree, implement the fix
- If you disagree, note the technical reason for the PR comment

```
git fetch origin
git checkout <branch-name>
git pull origin <branch-name>
```
#### C.5: Run Verification

The reviewer cron wrapper already runs you inside an isolated worktree and performs cleanup.
Stay in the current directory and run package install (npm install, yarn install, or pnpm install as appropriate).

b. **Resolve merge conflicts** (if `mergeStateStatus` was `DIRTY` or `CONFLICTING`):
- Get the base branch: `gh pr view <number> --json baseRefName --jq '.baseRefName'`
- Rebase the PR branch onto the latest base branch:
```
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/<base-branch>
```
- For each conflicted file, examine the conflict markers carefully. Preserve the PR's intended changes while incorporating upstream updates. Resolve each conflict, then stage it:
```
git add <resolved-file>
```
- Continue the rebase: `git rebase --continue`
- Repeat until the rebase completes without conflicts.
- Push the clean branch: `git push --force-with-lease origin <branch-name>`
- **Do NOT leave any conflict markers (`<<<<<<<`, `=======`, `>>>>>>>`) in any file.**

c. **Address review feedback** (if score < 80):
- Read the review comments carefully. Extract areas for improvement, bugs found, issues found, and specific file/line suggestions.
- For each review suggestion:
- If you agree, implement the change.
- If you do not agree, do not implement it blindly. Capture a short technical reason and include that reason in the PR comment.
- Fix bugs identified.
- Improve error handling if flagged.
- Add missing tests if coverage was noted.
- Refactor code if structure was criticized.
- Follow all project conventions from AI assistant documentation files (e.g., CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or similar).

d. **Address CI failures** (if any):
- Check CI status and identify non-passing checks:
```
gh pr checks <number> --json name,state,conclusion
```
- First enumerate all checks/jobs from GitHub (source of truth):
```
gh pr checks <number> --json name,state,conclusion --jq '.[] | [.name, .state, .conclusion] | @tsv'
```
- To inspect the latest workflow run's job list in detail:
```
RUN_ID=$(gh run list --branch <branch-name> --limit 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[0].databaseId')
gh run view "${RUN_ID}" --json jobs --jq '.jobs[] | [.name, .status, .conclusion] | @tsv'
gh run view "${RUN_ID}" --log-failed
```
- Read the failed job logs carefully to understand the root cause.
- Fix checks based on their actual names and errors (for example: `typecheck`, `lint`, `test`, `build`, `verify`, `executor`, `qa`, `audit`).
- Do not assume only a fixed set of CI job names.
- Re-run local equivalents of the failing jobs before pushing to confirm the CI issues are fixed.

e. **Run verification**: Run the project's test/lint commands (e.g., `npm test`, `npm run lint`, `npm run verify` or equivalent). Fix until it passes.

f. **Commit and push** the fixes (only if there are staged changes beyond the rebase):
Run the project's test/lint commands (e.g., `npm test`, `npm run lint`, `npm run verify` or equivalent). Fix until it passes.

```
git add <files>
git commit -m "fix: address PR review feedback and CI failures
#### C.6: Commit and Push

- <bullet point for each fix>
Commit and push the fixes (only if there are staged changes):

<If merge conflicts resolved>Rebased onto <base-branch> and resolved merge conflicts.<end>
<If review score existed>Review score was <XX>/100.<end>
<If CI failed>CI failures fixed: <job1>, <job2>.<end>
```
git add <files>
git commit -m "fix: address PR review feedback

Addressed:
- <issue 1>
- <issue 2>
- <bullet point for each fix>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>"
<If merge conflicts resolved>Rebased onto <base-branch> and resolved merge conflicts.<end>
Review score was <XX>/100.
<If CI failed>CI failures fixed: <job1>, <job2>.<end>

git push origin <branch-name>
```
Addressed:
- <issue 1>
- <issue 2>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>"

Note: if the only change was a conflict-free rebase, the `--force-with-lease` push from step (b) is sufficient -- no extra commit needed.
git push origin <branch-name>
```

g. **Comment on the PR** summarizing what was addressed:
Note: if the only change was a conflict-free rebase, the `--force-with-lease` push from step C.2 is sufficient -- no extra commit needed.

```
gh pr comment <number> --body "## Night Watch PR Fix
#### C.7: Comment on the PR

Summarize what was addressed:

<If merge conflicts resolved>### Merge Conflicts Resolved:
Rebased onto `<base-branch>`. Resolved conflicts in: <file1>, <file2>.<end>
```
gh pr comment <number> --body "## Night Watch PR Fix

<If review score existed>Previous review score: **<XX>/100**<end>
<If merge conflicts resolved>### Merge Conflicts Resolved:
Rebased onto \`<base-branch>\`. Resolved conflicts in: <file1>, <file2>.<end>

### Changes made:
- <fix 1>
- <fix 2>
Previous review score: **<XX>/100**

<If any review suggestions were not applied>### Review Feedback Not Applied:
- <suggestion>: <short technical reason><end>
### Changes made:
- <fix 1>
- <fix 2>

<If CI was fixed>### CI Failures Fixed:
- <job>: <what was wrong and how it was fixed><end>
<If any review suggestions were not applied>### Review Feedback Not Applied:
- <suggestion>: <short technical reason><end>

Verification passes locally. Ready for re-review.
<If CI was fixed>### CI Failures Fixed:
- <job>: <what was wrong and how it was fixed><end>

Night Watch PR Reviewer"
```
\`npm run verify\` passes locally. Ready for re-review.

h. **Do not manage worktrees directly**:
- Do **not** run `git worktree add`, `git worktree remove`, or `git worktree prune`.
- The cron wrapper handles worktree lifecycle.
Night Watch PR Reviewer"
```

5. **Repeat** for all open PRs that need work.
3. **Repeat** for all open PRs that need work.

6. When done, return to ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}: `git checkout ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}`
4. When done, return to ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}: `git checkout ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}`

Start now. Check for open PRs that need merge conflicts resolved, review feedback addressed, or CI failures fixed.
Start now. Check for open PRs that need review-first, fix-later processing.

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