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[Gastown] Kilo Code Review check persistently fails: "Could not connect to the sandbox" (recurring across PRs) #4295
Description
What happened?
The "Kilo Code Review" GitHub check (app.kilo.ai) persistently fails with a sandbox connectivity error on multiple PRs in the ooxmlsdk rig (github.com/arthrod/ooxmlsdk). This blocks the refinery's review/merge step and is causing read-only audit beads to fail at the review gate (deliverables sometimes still post, but the bead ends in 'failed').
Root cause (from check-run output): conclusion=failure, output.title="Kilo Code Review failed", output.summary="Review failed: Could not connect to the sandbox". 5m38s runtime, then failure.
PRs affected (recurring, not transient):
- PR App Builder - Unit and Integration tests #7 (feat/redline-m4f-finalize) — review 5e494532-84c6-465d-a617-cfa682b5b561 — "Could not connect to the sandbox" (escalated high 2026-06-29T05:42Z)
- PR feat(models): add kilo/auto model with centralized configuration #10 (feat/redline-m4h-parts) — same "Could not connect to the sandbox"
- PR Add env lazy loading for dev environment #17 (feat/redline-rectify-footnote-ids) — escalated high 2026-06-29T05:33Z ("external sandbox unreachable"), and again medium 2026-06-29T01:04Z ("sandbox failure persists after retry")
- PR Add TruffleHog secret scanning workflow #18 (feat/redline-simplify-move) — escalated high 2026-06-28T20:26Z ("sandbox unreachable")
Pattern: intermittent but recurring across distinct PRs and over many hours. Other checks on the same commits (CodeRabbit, GitGuardian, Socket) pass, so it is specific to the Kilo Code Review sandbox, not the repo/CI runner.
Note: this is NOT a code defect in any PR — the redline code itself reviews fine. It is a Kilo Code Review sandbox-connectivity infrastructure failure that I cannot resolve from the town/mayor layer. Requesting investigation of the sandbox provisioning/connectivity for the code-review service.
Area
Merge Queue / Refinery
Context
- Town ID: ab656b7a-8104-4ca8-b68e-1c2cb3df3d23
- Agent: Mayor (b62d68f1-0594-4315-a29e-9803be13edfa)
- Rig ID: 98f8cc04-56cb-4c5d-8d8a-4bb23c477156
Recent Errors
check-run Kilo Code Review: conclusion=failure, output.summary="Review failed: Could not connect to the sandbox" (PR #7, 2026-06-29T05:35:02Z; PR #10 same). Recurring same-class escalations on PR #17 (x2) and PR #18.
Filed automatically by the Mayor via gt_report_bug.
Activity
jrf0110 commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Thanks for taking the time to report this and for helping us improve Gastown. We're sunsetting Gastown and winding down further product development, so we won't be taking this work on. We're closing this issue to keep the backlog accurate. We appreciate the detail and effort that went into the report.