feat(cursor-review): carry the 422 fallback's findings into the ledger - #263
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The wholesale fallback posts every finding of the round as prose when the inline review POST fails, and carried the body-only prose MARKER with no sentinel — so the next round's ledger disclosed the loss loudly and recovered zero entries, including for the findings that anchored perfectly well and lost their thread only to the failed POST. The fallback body now composes head-first (marker note → sentinel → findings prose, the same load-bearing order render_body_only_findings uses), so the ledger regex sees the marker line immediately above the sentinel and a tail clamp eats the least-urgent prose rather than the JSON. Findings that came from the inline half are tagged `lost_to_fallback: true`; already-unanchorable ones are not, since the POST outcome changed nothing for them. The reader keeps the same disposition for both (anchored false, no discussion_url, answered_count 0, cap-exempt — all factually true of a finding with no thread) and changes only the presentation: `[post-failed]` on the header line, a note saying the finding DID anchor and was lost to an API failure, plus one steering bullet each for the panel and the judge so neither is told to prefer not re-raising a finding that will anchor again. The size guard drops the sentinel entirely when it would not fit ahead of the first finding, which reproduces today's disclosed degradation as the floor. It reserves the clamp's own truncation note rather than testing the raw limit: the clamp cuts at `limit - len(note)`, so a head+sentinel fitting the limit by less than that was cut mid-JSON and drop_unterminated_comment then removed the sentinel AND every finding after it — a ~120-character window in which the review collapsed from 60,000 characters of findings to a 494-character header. No sentinel version bump: `lost_to_fallback` is an optional per-item key an older parser ignores, and it is emitted only for an item that carries it, so a success-path payload stays byte-identical.
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant post-review.py
participant Diff anchors
participant Review POST
participant Body sentinel
post-review.py->>Diff anchors: Check finding anchors
post-review.py->>Review POST: Submit inline findings
Review POST-->>post-review.py: Return failed thread result
post-review.py->>Body sentinel: Encode checked findings with lost_to_fallback
Body sentinel-->>post-review.py: Return bounded urgent prefix
Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this cursor-review fallback change because it is a contained workflow enhancement for preserving failed inline-review findings and ledger metadata. Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Fallback recovery is mergeable, but a re-raised finding lost during posting can later evade the repeat cap because its lineage is not preserved. This has bounded review-quality impact and should be followed up. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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…(BE-10002) Review-panel findings on the BE-10002 PR. - Prose floor (High). The sentinel duplicates every finding as JSON at close to the length of the prose entry below it, and the size guard only asked whether it fit ahead of finding one. Measured: 89 findings of ~700 chars posted 58,720 characters of comment and rendered ZERO findings, while the same round one finding LARGER dropped the sentinel whole and rendered 79 — the cliff ran backwards. The sentinel now gets at most half the body and fit_sentinel_items keeps the most-urgent PREFIX that fits, so a round too big for a whole sentinel recovers part of one instead of none of it. Same round now: 39 findings visible AND 45 recovered, at every size. - Tag only what was checked (Medium). With `anchors is None` partition_by_anchor fails open and calls every finding inline without testing one, so tagging them `lost_to_fallback` asserted a check nobody ran — and on a 422, whose typical cause is an anchor GitHub refused, asserted it backwards. Gated on a real anchor parse; untagged findings stay [unanchorable], the conservative reading. - Steering no longer over-claims (Medium). "It anchored to the diff" / "should anchor normally this round" / "re-raise it freely" became "it passed the diff-anchor check" and "re-raise it if it still holds": the writer tags this from its own parse, and a [post-failed] entry carries no repeat lineage, so waving the panel through amplifies the one bypass the repeat cap cannot see. - Aggregate no longer contradicts the detail (Low, 6/6 reviewers). post-failed entries had folded into unanchorable_count, so the header said "N unanchorable, so never answerable at all" of findings the entry line two rows below reports matched the diff. Split into post_failed_count with its own clause. - Test measured the wrong thing (Medium). `len(body)` counts the sentinel's HTML comment, which renders as nothing, so the assertion held on exactly the body that showed no findings. Measured on the visible body now. - Writer emits `lost_to_fallback` on `is True`, symmetric with the reader. The residual the reviewers asked for is documented where the tag is set: a nonzero `gh` result is not proof the review was not committed server-side. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tests correctly Two defects in the previous commit's own tests, both caught by mutation check. - `FitSentinelItemsTest` was inserted mid-class and had swallowed the four `BodyBudgetTest` methods below it. Moved to its own place in the file; the tests it captured are back on `BodyBudgetTest` where they belong. - The clamp-note reserve was left unpinned: `sentinel_budget` is a `min()`, and the new prose floor now wins every existing fixture, so deleting `- len(CLAMP_TRUNCATION_NOTE)` kept all 401 tests green. Pinned on the input where the other term wins — a panel summary large enough to make the head most of the body — swept across the ~122-char window the reserve protects. The assertion is about the PROSE, which is what the reserve actually saves. Both settings end with no readable sentinel inside that window; only the unreserved one also loses every finding, because the clamp cuts mid-JSON and `drop_unterminated_comment` rewinds to the opener and takes the findings below it. Verified: removing the reserve fails 3 of the 6 swept subtests. `EndToEndPostTest.run_main` gains an optional `panel=` (defaulting to today's fixture) so a test can control the one finding-independent part of the head. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In @.github/cursor-review/build-ledger.py:
- Around line 891-895: Carry repeat lineage through render_body_only_sentinel by
including the finding’s repeat_of URL and originating round in its payload,
while continuing to omit discussion_url. Update the post-failed parsing and
enforce_repeat_cap logic so entries with repeat lineage consume a repeat slot,
including re-raised findings whose original round is outside the active window.
In @.github/cursor-review/tests/test_post_review.py:
- Line 744: Move the two end-to-end fallback tests, including
test_the_sentinel_is_never_posted_where_the_clamp_would_cut_it, from
FitSentinelItemsTest into BodyBudgetTest. Keep their existing assertions and
behavior unchanged, and leave FitSentinelItemsTest containing only budget-search
tests.
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When GitHub rejects a review's inline comments, cursor-review re-posts the whole round as plain prose. Until now that prose carried a "these findings lost their threads" sentence but not the little machine-readable copy the next round reads, so the next review knew findings had been lost and could not see a single one of them — including the findings that anchored perfectly well and only lost their thread to the failed request. This PR puts that machine-readable copy in the fallback body too, marks the findings that were lost to the failed POST (rather than to the diff), and tells the next round's panel and judge that the "prefer not to re-raise" rule for unanchorable findings does not apply to those.
The copy is a guest in that body, not its owner: it may take at most half the size budget, and if the round is too big for that it carries the most urgent findings that fit rather than all or none. The prose a human reads keeps the other half.
What changed
post-review.pyrender_body_only_sentinelemits an optional per-item"lost_to_fallback": true, only for an item that carries it and only on a literalTrue(matchingbuild-ledger.py's reader) — a success-path payload is byte-identical to before, and the key contains no-, so the existing-dash escape still makes the HTML comment unclosable.enriched: items that came from the inline half are taggedlost_to_fallback, items that were already unanchorable are not (the POST outcome told us nothing about them). They are tagged by object identity while iteratingenriched, so the sentinel keeps the same most→least-urgent order as the prose under it.load_anchors(args.diff)is kept inanchorsrather than consumed inline. When it returnsNone— no--diff, an unreadable or empty patch —partition_by_anchorfails open and calls every finding inline without testing one, so nothing is tagged and every finding renders[unanchorable]. The flag claims the finding passed the diff-anchor check, and only a real check can make that claim.review_head→ the existing_(Inline comments could not be anchored…)_note → the sentinel → the findings prose. That is the same orderrender_body_only_findingsuses and for the same two reasons —build-ledger.pyonly accepts a sentinel whose marker line sits immediately above it, andclamp_review_bodycuts the tail, so a clamp eats least-urgent prose rather than the JSON.FALLBACK_SENTINEL_MAX_CHARS = MAX_REVIEW_BODY_CHARS // 2caps what the sentinel may take, and the newfit_sentinel_items()binary-searches the longest most-urgent prefix that fits it, so a round too big for a whole sentinel recovers part of one instead of none of it. And a clamp reserve:clamp_review_body's truncation note is subtracted from the budget, not merely the limit tested, so the sentinel is never posted where the clamp would cut into it.render_findings_markdown's separator and that note are now module constants, so the guard measures the real strings.build-ledger.py_body_only_entriescopieslost_to_fallback: Trueonto the entry, matched withis True(the payload is model-adjacent text arriving through a public review body, so a stray"no"must not read as the flag). Everything mechanical is unchanged:anchoredFalse, zeroed thread, emptydiscussion_url, cap-exempt.render_ledger_markdownrenders[post-failed]instead of[unanchorable]for such an entry, with a note saying the finding matched a line in the reviewed diff and lost its thread to a delivery failure, so re-raising it needs norepeat_of.unanchorable_countnow excludes these entries and a newpost_failed_countcarries them, each with its own clause in the block header and inledger_note— so the aggregate a model reads first can no longer say "N unanchorable, so never answerable at all" of a finding whose own entry line two rows below reports that it matched the diff. Both renders read the new key with.get(...) or 0, so a ledger written before this change is unaffected._PANEL_STEERINGand_JUDGE_STEERING:[post-failed]behaves like[unanchorable]for repeat purposes (no thread, never arepeat_oftarget, costs no repeat slot) but, unlike it, passed the diff-anchor check — so the "prefer not to re-raise" preference does not apply to it.No sentinel version bump —
v1gains an optional key an older parser ignores.Two defects this PR's own review found, and fixed
The sentinel displaced the review a human reads. The first size guard only asked whether the sentinel fit ahead of finding one, which let it take the whole budget. Measured on this branch: a round of 89 findings of ~700 chars posted 58,720 characters of sentinel and rendered zero findings, while the same round at 90 findings — one over the all-or-nothing guard, so the sentinel was dropped whole — rendered 79. The cliff ran backwards, and the rounds with the most to report showed the least. With the prose floor and prefix search, every size from 60 to 130 findings now posts 39 findings visible and 45 recovered. Pinned by
test_the_sentinel_never_displaces_the_findings_a_reader_can_seeandtest_the_sentinel_keeps_the_most_urgent_findings_when_it_cannot_keep_all; reverting the cap fails 5 subtests.A ~122-character window in which the clamp cut into the JSON.
clamp_review_bodycuts atlimit - len(note), so a head+sentinel that fitsMAX_REVIEW_BODY_CHARSby less than the note's length was cut mid-payload,drop_unterminated_commentthen removed the sentinel back to its opener, and it took every finding after it. Measured on a 90-finding round: the posted review collapsed from 60,000 characters of findings to a 494-character header. The budget therefore reserves the clamp note. Because the prose floor now wins themin()on ordinary rounds, that reserve is pinned on the input where the other term wins — a panel summary large enough to make the head most of the body — and the assertion is about the prose, which is what the reserve actually saves: both settings end with no readable sentinel inside the window, but only the unreserved one also throws the findings away. Removing the reserve fails 3 of the 6 swept subtests.Tests
test_the_fallback_round_degrades_loudly_in_the_next_round_s_ledger→…carries_its_findings_into_the_next_round_s_ledger: the 422 path now posts a sentinel, and the posted body is round-tripped through the realbuild_ledger, yielding two entries — the anchorable onelost_to_fallbackand rendered[post-failed], the off-diff one plain[unanchorable].path— bodies are capped at 600 chars butpathis length-checked nowhere — so the marker is posted alone and the ledger discloses it); andFitSentinelItemsTest, a unit class for the search itself (prefix-ness, longest-prefix exactness, empty budget, empty input).test_no_finding_is_called_post_failed_when_the_anchors_were_never_checked— with no--diff, nothing is tagged and both entries stay[unanchorable].TestLostToFallbackEntries(round-trip through the real writer, the[post-failed]render and its note, steering present for both audiences, forward-compat, and that only a realtruesets the flag), plustest_the_two_thread_less_totals_are_reported_separatelyandtest_a_round_with_no_post_failed_entry_reads_exactly_as_beforefor the split aggregate.test_the_sentinel_is_never_posted_where_the_clamp_would_cut_itmeasuredlen(body), which counts the sentinel's HTML comment and so stayed large on precisely the body that rendered zero findings; it now counts rendered entries on the body with the comment line stripped, via a new module-levelvisible()helper thattest_no_finding_is_rendered_twice_in_the_fallbackalso uses.EndToEndPostTest.run_maingains an optionalpanel=argument (defaulting to today's fixture) so a test can control the one finding-independent part of the review head.test_a_422_still_degrades_wholesale_and_keeps_every_findingand the success-path sentinel tests.test_the_clamp_cuts_the_least_urgent_finding_in_the_fallbackshrinks its four finding bodies from 19,000 to 18,000 characters because the sentinel now shares the budget; the property it pins — the cut landing on the least urgent — is unchanged, and it now also asserts the cut finding is still recoverable from the sentinel.Scope swept
post-review.pyposts four kinds of review body. The two that carry findings — the success path and this wholesale fallback — now both emit a sentinel. The other two carry no findings to encode (the "no high-signal findings" review, and the error review, which deliberately defangs both halves of the contract out of imported text). The three paths that deliver only to the job summary when findings exist (read-only token, no inline half to drop, both POSTs failed) still contribute nothing to the ledger, because no review reaches the PR at all on them.Sentinel cost, for sizing: up to ~660 characters per finding (the 600-character body cap plus the path/line/severity keys). At that size the half-budget floor starts trimming the sentinel to a prefix at ~45 findings.
Residual
ghresult is not proof the review was not committed server-side. If the first POST did land, its findings have real threads and land in this sentinel, so the next ledger carries each twice: once with its thread and the author's reply, once as a cap-exempt[post-failed]entry asserting nobody could have answered it. Documented in-code where the tag is set. Confirming absence needs a read of the PR's reviews this script does not do, and a decision about what to do when that read fails — filed as a follow-up.[post-failed]entry carries no repeat lineage. The sentinel strips the renderedrepeat_ofline and carries the URL in no field, so a re-raise of a finding answered in a round that has since aged pastMAX_ROUNDScosts no repeat slot. This predates the PR — it is true of every[unanchorable]entry since BE-9565 — and the steering that amplified it ("re-raise it freely") has been softened to "re-raise it if it still holds", with a test asserting freely appears in neither audience's steering. The lineage fix is filed as a follow-up.drop_unterminated_commenttakes the demoted prose with it. Not fixed here because it changesrender_body_only_findings' signature and alters the path every review takes;fit_sentinel_itemsis now available for it. Filed as a follow-up.ghharness (post_returncode=1, stderr="HTTP 422") and the realbuild_ledgerparser, which is what the driving ticket names; no PR was 422'd against GitHub to confirm end to end.mainbefore being changed.Provenance
python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/cursor-review/tests -p 'test_*.py': 402 tests, OK (0 failures);python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/groom/tests -p 'test_*.py': 374 tests, OK;python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/agents-md-integrity/tests -p 'test_*.py': 46 tests, OK;shellcheck -x .github/cursor-review/install-cursor-cli.sh .github/cursor-review/slack-notify.shand-x .github/bump-callers/bump-callers.sh .github/bump-callers/tests/test_bump_callers.sh: clean;python3 .github/agents-md-integrity/check_agents_md.py --root .: passed (2 pre-existing warnings, both about a missing CODEOWNERS);python3 .github/workflow-pins/check_workflow_pins.py: OK, 11 workflows, 0 exempt. Mutation checks — replacingFALLBACK_SENTINEL_MAX_CHARSwith an unbounded budget fails 5 subtests across the two prose-floor tests; deleting the- len(CLAMP_TRUNCATION_NOTE)reserve fails 3 of the 6 swept reserve subtests; both go green on restore. The 58,720-vs-zero and 39-visible/45-recovered figures above were measured on this branch through the test harness, before and after the fix.clamp_review_body's truncation note rather than testingMAX_REVIEW_BODY_CHARSraw — both stricter than the plan, for the measured reasons in the defects section. Thelost_to_fallbacktag is additionally gated on a successful anchor parse, which the plan did not specify. Per this repo's public-repo guardrail the title and body carry no tracker reference — the branch name does.