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feat: add dispatch preflight/init validation step (duplicate-work check + workflow-store smoke test) - #596

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Fixes item #164.

Motivated by two incidents from the same session: item #163 fixed a delete_state() bug that silently broke 100% of dispatch for ~33h with no one noticing, and items #122/#156 were already completed via merged PRs but their tracked state never updated, so a routine redispatch nearly re-did the work — caught only because a human asked "are you sure these weren't already done?" and killed two live duplicate agent sessions mid-run.

1. Duplicate-work detection (pre-claim)

find_duplicate_pr searches GitHub for a PR already carrying the item's for item #N marker (the footer worktree::pr_footer stamps onto every PR agentflare opens):

  • Merged match → self-heal: mark the item completed, clean up its worktree, relabel the PR, release the claim — instead of letting a redispatch re-do already-merged work.
  • Open match → skip dispatch and flag for human review instead of racing a second PR.
  • No match → proceed normally. Fail-open on any resolution error (no remote, no credentials, API error).

2. Workflow-store smoke test

flare_workflow::smoke_test does a real save/delete/load round-trip against the actual on-disk SqliteStore schema (not a mock). Wired in two places:

  • Daemon boot (dashboard::server::run).
  • dev_install::run, via a new hidden daemon workflow-store-smoke-test subcommand run against the freshly built binary right after a binary swap — the exact trigger (item fix(flare-workflow): delete_state deletes workflow_runs by wrong column #576) that let a broken delete_state go undetected for ~33h. This process is still running the old code, so only a subprocess of the new binary can prove the new code's storage layer actually works before anything overwrites the installed binary.

On failure, refuses dispatch and surfaces a loud, operator-visible error instead of letting every claimed item retry-and-fail silently into a stuck state.

LOC gate note

src/cli/work.rs is frozen at the LOC gate's 2100-line limit. The new duplicate-PR logic and its tests live in their own included files (work_duplicate_pr.rs, work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs) so work.rs itself stays at exactly 2100 lines.

Provenance

This item went through ~62 hours and 438 dispatch attempts across multiple agent sessions (opencode and claude-code), repeatedly blocked by this same LOC gate on auto-commit plus several infrastructure failures (daemon restarts, auth expiry, a dispatch-storm bug retrying every ~12s). The implementation itself — both MVP pieces, with tests including a real-broken-schema smoke test — was already complete and correct in the stuck worktree; it just could never get past the commit step. Recovered from .worktrees/task/164, re-applied cleanly onto current master, split to satisfy the LOC gate, and verified here.

Verified: cargo build, cargo test --bin agentflare (1544/1546 passing; the 2 environment-flaky failures under full-suite concurrency — run_headless_pipes_a_prompt_over_the_argv_length_limit_via_stdin, run_captured_times_out_and_kills_the_whole_tree — both pass in isolation and are unrelated to this diff, agent_launch.rs isn't touched by it), cargo test -p flare-workflow (all passing, including the new smoke-test suite), cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy (CI's exact flags), and scripts/loc-gate.sh.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added duplicate pull request detection to work execution.
    • Automatically completes items linked to merged duplicates and flags items with open duplicates for review.
    • Added a workflow-store smoke-test command for installation and operational verification.
    • Improved pull request discovery through paginated search results.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Dashboard startup prevents job dispatch when workflow-store validation fails while remaining available.
    • Development installs abort when the newly built binary fails storage validation.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for duplicate pull requests and workflow-store validation across storage backends.

Duplicate-work detection (pre-claim): before dispatching an item,
find_duplicate_pr searches GitHub for a PR already carrying the item's
'for item #N' marker. A merged match self-heals the item to completed
and cleans up its worktree instead of letting a redispatch re-do
already-merged work (the near-miss from items #122/#156, where tracked
state fell out of sync with a merged PR). An open match skips dispatch
and flags for human review instead of racing a second PR.

Workflow-store smoke test: flare_workflow::smoke_test does a real
save/delete/load round-trip against the actual on-disk SqliteStore
schema. Wired into daemon boot (dashboard::server::run) and into
dev_install::run via a new hidden 'daemon workflow-store-smoke-test'
subcommand, run against the freshly built binary right after a binary
swap -- the exact trigger (item #576) that let a broken delete_state
go undetected for ~33h. On failure, refuses dispatch instead of letting
every claimed item retry-and-fail silently into a stuck state.

src/cli/work.rs is frozen at the LOC gate's 2100-line limit, so the new
duplicate-PR logic and its tests live in their own included files
(work_duplicate_pr.rs, work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs) rather than growing
work.rs itself.

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Agentflare-Branch: task/164-dispatch-preflight-validation
Agentflare-Item: 164
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The pull request adds a reusable workflow-store smoke test and integrates it into CLI, dashboard, and installation flows. It also adds GitHub duplicate-PR detection and short-circuit handling to agentflare work.

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Workflow store validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Store smoke-test contract
crates/flare-workflow/src/store.rs, crates/flare-workflow/src/lib.rs, crates/flare-workflow/src/sqlite_store.rs
The public smoke_test saves, deletes, and reloads a temporary workflow. Tests cover in-memory storage, failed deletion, the real SQLite schema, and an invalid journal key schema.
Smoke-test CLI and installation entrypoints
src/cli/daemon.rs, src/dev_install/mod.rs
The hidden daemon command runs the smoke test. Development installation verifies the built binary before replacement and handles failures and timeouts.
Dashboard dispatch startup guard
src/dashboard/server.rs
Dashboard startup registers and recovers workflows and starts dispatch tasks only after the smoke test succeeds. The dashboard and cleanup tasks remain available after failure.

Duplicate PR handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Duplicate PR lookup and selection
src/github/pulls.rs, src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs, src/cli/work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs
GitHub searches for exact item markers and fetches matching pull requests. Selection ignores closed-unmerged pull requests and prefers merged pull requests over open pull requests.
Duplicate PR resolution
src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs, src/cli/work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs
Merged duplicates complete the item and release the claim. Open duplicates request human review without changing the post-claim item state. Claim cleanup remains retryable when release or completion fails.
Work execution integration and diagnostics
src/cli/work.rs
Work execution invokes duplicate handling after claim and worktree setup. Documentation and tests cover outcomes, diagnostics, and execution behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 39524

This change can start dispatch without successful registration or recovery, and it can report success after a failed claim release, leaving work stuck and preventing retry. The PR should not merge until these bounded correctness and availability risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkCommand
  participant DuplicatePR
  participant GitHub
  participant WorkItem
  participant Claim
  WorkCommand->>DuplicatePR: check for duplicate PR after claim and worktree setup
  DuplicatePR->>GitHub: search item marker and fetch PRs
  GitHub-->>DuplicatePR: return merged or open PR
  DuplicatePR->>WorkItem: complete merged item or request human review
  DuplicatePR->>Claim: release claim after successful handling
  DuplicatePR-->>WorkCommand: return WorkOutcome
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/flare-workflow/src/sqlite_store.rs`:
- Around line 890-927: The regression test schema must let save succeed while
making delete_state fail: retain workflow_runs.id to match write_state, and move
the intentional identifier mismatch to a child table such as journal. Update the
CREATE TABLE statements in the smoke test so deletion reaches the child-table
SQL failure and verifies delete_state reports it.

In `@src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs`:
- Around line 63-66: Update the completion flow around mark_completed so a
database error or false result produces a failed outcome instead of continuing
as success. Only post the auto-complete comment, release the claim, disarm the
guard, and return exit code 0 after completion is confirmed; otherwise propagate
the failure and preserve retry behavior.
- Around line 99-107: Update the release handling in the work-duplicate flow
around ClaimGuard and item_release to inspect the release result, disarm
ClaimGuard only after successful release, and return the failure while leaving
the guard armed when item_release fails. Preserve notification behavior only for
the successful-release path.
- Around line 31-35: Update pick_duplicate_pr in src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs at
lines 31-35 to prioritize merged PRs, then select only an open PR by requiring
state == "open"; closed, unmerged PRs must not be returned. Update
src/cli/work_duplicate_pr_tests.rs at lines 1-10 to use an open PR for the
non-merged case and add coverage confirming a closed-unmerged PR returns None.

In `@src/dashboard/server.rs`:
- Around line 771-807: Move the flare_workflow::smoke_test gate to before
workflow registration and engine().recover(), ensuring no recovered workflows
can execute when the store is invalid. On smoke-test failure, skip recovery,
worker-pool startup, and supervisor ticks while continuing dashboard-only
startup; preserve normal registration, recovery, and dispatch when the test
succeeds.

In `@src/dev_install/mod.rs`:
- Around line 197-208: Update verify_workflow_store to use the same spawn,
try_wait, and kill timeout loop as verify_runs, applying VERIFY_TIMEOUT so a
hung workflow-store-smoke-test process is terminated and reported instead of
blocking indefinitely.

In `@src/github/pulls.rs`:
- Around line 73-81: Update the marker-search flow to use get_paginated with an
extractor for the items array, ensuring all search-result pages are processed
before mapping numbers through get. Add a test covering 100 first-page results
and a matching pull request on page two.
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Comment thread crates/flare-workflow/src/sqlite_store.rs
Comment thread src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs
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Comment on lines +99 to +107
let _ = mcp.item_release(ItemRequest {
action: "release".into(),
id: Some(item_id.into()),
..Default::default()
});
if let Some(recipient) = notify_recipient {
notify(recipient, &body, item_id);
}
claim_guard.disarm();

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep ClaimGuard armed when claim release fails.

Line 99 discards an item_release error, but Line 107 always disarms the guard. If release fails, ClaimGuard::drop cannot perform its release backstop and the item can remain claimed.

Check the release result. Disarm only after a successful release. Otherwise return failure with the guard armed.

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In `@src/cli/work_duplicate_pr.rs` around lines 99 - 107, Update the release
handling in the work-duplicate flow around ClaimGuard and item_release to
inspect the release result, disarm ClaimGuard only after successful release, and
return the failure while leaving the guard armed when item_release fails.
Preserve notification behavior only for the successful-release path.

Comment thread src/dashboard/server.rs
Comment thread src/dev_install/mod.rs
Comment thread src/github/pulls.rs
…andling, smoke-test ordering

Addresses 6 CodeRabbit findings on PR #596, all independently verified
against the actual code before fixing:

- pick_duplicate_pr: a closed-but-unmerged PR was treated the same as a
  genuinely open one, permanently blocking a legitimate redispatch.
  Now filters to merged-or-open only.
- handle_duplicate_pr: a failed/unconfirmed mark_completed was silently
  reported as success (comment posted, claim released, exit 0). Now
  returns a retryable failure and leaves the claim armed instead.
- handle_duplicate_pr: item_release's result was discarded and
  claim_guard was disarmed unconditionally, so a failed release left
  nothing to retry it. Now only disarms on confirmed release success.
- dashboard::server::run: engine().recover() ran before the workflow-store
  smoke test, so a broken store could still be touched by recovery before
  validation. Reordered so recovery is gated behind the smoke test too.
- dev_install::verify_workflow_store: used a blocking Command::status()
  with no timeout, unlike its sibling verify_runs. Now uses the same
  spawn/try_wait/kill-with-deadline pattern.
- github::pulls::find_by_item_marker: the search API call was
  unpaginated (GitHub's default page size is 30), so a matching PR
  beyond the first page would silently not be found. Now uses the
  existing get_paginated helper.

Also fixes the schema-mismatch regression test in sqlite_store.rs: it
put the intentional id/run_id mismatch on workflow_runs itself, so
write_state failed on save and delete_state's own failure path was
never actually exercised. Moved the mismatch to journal (write_state
never touches it for an empty smoke-test state) and strengthened the
assertion to confirm the failure comes from there.

New tests: pick_duplicate_pr_ignores_a_closed_unmerged_pr,
pick_duplicate_pr_selects_a_genuinely_open_pr_when_no_merged_match_exists.

Verified: cargo build, cargo test --bin agentflare (1548/1548 passing),
cargo test -p flare-workflow (all passing), cargo fmt --check, cargo
clippy (CI's exact flags), scripts/loc-gate.sh.

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Addressed all 6 actionable findings from the automated review, each independently verified against the code before fixing (not taken on faith):

  1. pick_duplicate_pr — now filters to merged-or-open only, so a closed-but-unmerged PR no longer permanently blocks a legitimate redispatch. Added pick_duplicate_pr_ignores_a_closed_unmerged_pr and pick_duplicate_pr_selects_a_genuinely_open_pr_when_no_merged_match_exists.
  2. handle_duplicate_pr's mark_completed handling — an unconfirmed/failed completion now returns a retryable failure (claim stays armed) instead of silently reporting success.
  3. handle_duplicate_pr's claim release — claim_guard is now only disarmed on confirmed item_release success; a failed release leaves it armed so ClaimGuard::drop retries.
  4. Smoke-test gate ordering in dashboard::server::run — engine().recover() now runs inside the smoke-test's Ok branch, so a broken store can no longer be touched by workflow recovery before validation.
  5. verify_workflow_store — switched from a blocking Command::status() with no timeout to the same spawn/try_wait/kill-with-deadline pattern its sibling verify_runs already uses.
  6. find_by_item_marker pagination — now uses the existing get_paginated helper instead of one unpaginated request (GitHub's search API default page size is 30).

Also fixed the schema-mismatch regression test itself: it previously broke workflow_runs (so write_state failed at save, and delete_state's own failure path was never actually exercised). Moved the intentional mismatch to journal and strengthened the assertion to confirm the failure comes from there specifically.

Full suite re-verified: 1548/1548 tests passing, cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy (CI's exact flags), scripts/loc-gate.sh.

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778-804: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not start dispatch after registration or recovery fails.

Lines 778-786 only log the failure. Execution then starts the worker pool and both supervisor tasks at Lines 788-803. If registration or recovery fails, keep dispatch disabled while the dashboard remains available.

Gate worker_pool.start, spawn_supervisor_discovery, and spawn_supervisor_review_sweep on successful registration and successful recovery.

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In `@src/dashboard/server.rs` around lines 778 - 804, Gate dispatch startup after
work-item pipeline registration and recovery both succeed: only execute
worker_pool.start, spawn_supervisor_discovery, and spawn_supervisor_review_sweep
when neither operation returns an error. Preserve the existing error logging and
keep the dashboard initialization available when either step fails.
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In `@src/dashboard/server.rs`:
- Around line 778-804: Gate dispatch startup after work-item pipeline
registration and recovery both succeed: only execute worker_pool.start,
spawn_supervisor_discovery, and spawn_supervisor_review_sweep when neither
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engine().register_workflow()/recover() failures were only logged --
the worker pool and both supervisor ticks still started regardless,
undermining the smoke-test gate's own fail-closed contract one level
up: dispatch could start against pipeline state that's already known
to be broken.

Also fixes a compile error from the prior commit: recover() returns
Result<Vec<WorkflowRunId>, WorkflowError>, not Result<(), _>.

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Addressed the last finding: registration/recovery failures were only logged — the worker pool and supervisor ticks still started regardless. Now gated behind a pipeline_ready flag so dispatch stays disabled if either step fails, matching the smoke-test gate's own fail-closed contract.

(Caught a compile error introduced by that fix before pushing — recover() returns Result<Vec<WorkflowRunId>, _>, not Result<(), _> — fixed in the same commit.)

Re-verified: full suite (1548/1548 passing), cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy (CI's exact flags), scripts/loc-gate.sh.

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