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7ebe0bf58d MUL-7213: feat(server): Triage has no executor (#8373)
* feat(server): start no run for an issue in triage (MUL-7213)

An issue waiting in Triage produces no execution run, and the triage run
itself leaves no trace an execution run can inherit.

The rule cannot be enforced at the call sites. Five paths enqueue without
looking at status at all (comment and mention dispatch, quick action,
manual rerun, auto-retry), and dispatchIssueRun discards the enqueue error
entirely, so a missed call site would fail silently. So the check sits at
the queue door — immediately before every INSERT of an issue-linked
agent_task_queue row — and the upstream short-circuits exist only so that
previews and dispatch reasons stay honest about what the door will do.

guardIssueNotInTriage covers all five insert sites: both enqueue funnels,
FailTask's in-transaction retry, the orphan sweeper's retry, and the
delegated-failure recovery dispatch. Two future paths are meant to be
exempt and both are Triage's own — the triage run, and accept, which
leaves Triage in the same transaction that enqueues the execution run.

Upstream, WillEnqueueRun, maybeEnqueueOnAssign, the two
shouldEnqueue*OnAssign gates and the comment trigger router all refuse
Triage; rerun and quick action refuse with 403 issue_in_triage, a new
dispatch reason code. WillEnqueueRun also treats leaving Triage as a
creation rather than a status change: accept is when the issue becomes
work, and the backlog-to-elsewhere rule would refuse it outright.

Two narrower rules follow. retryEligible excludes triage runs for the
reason it excludes autopilot runs: re-triaging reads the entry as it
stands now, so replaying a failed attempt is never the right recovery.
And GetLastTaskSession excludes them from all three CTEs, so the first
execution run after accept does not resume the conversation in which the
agent was still deciding whether the entry was worth keeping.

Refusals are deliberately quiet where a caller cannot act on them. The
FailTask guard never returns — that transaction also carries the parent's
failed status, and losing it would leave the task stuck in 'running'.

Verified: internal/handler, internal/service and cmd/server pass; every
new test was confirmed to fail with the change neutralized.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(server): close two triage session bypasses around rerun (MUL-7213)

Review found that session isolation had two holes the query-level
exclusion could not reach, and that the two quietest queue-door paths had
no direct coverage.

A manual rerun resolves its session from the task the user named, via
rerun_of_task_id, not from GetLastTaskSession — so after accept, naming
the historical triage task reran the triager and resumed the triage
conversation, walking straight around the exclusion. RerunIssue now
refuses a triage source: redoing triage is re-triage, a different action
on a different status. rerunSourceMatchesTaskScope refuses it too, which
is what still holds for a rerun row an older server wrote mid-deploy.

GetLatestTaskRolloutMissing reports only whether GetLastTaskSession fell
back, so the two have to exclude the same rows. It did not, so a terminal
triage run with session_rollout_missing told the first execution run after
accept that it had lost the previous turn's context — about a turn it was
never entitled to.

Tests now cover the two doors that refuse silently: FailTask's
in-transaction retry, which must leave the parent failed and add no child,
and dispatchDelegatedFailureRecovery, which builds its coordinator task
with a direct CreateAgentTask call. Both assert against a positive control
so a zero cannot come from an inert fixture; the recovery test also shows
the obligation is deferred rather than dropped — the same pending comment
wakes the coordinator once the issue is accepted.

Verified: internal/handler, internal/service and cmd/server pass; all five
new tests were confirmed to fail with the fixes neutralized.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* refactor(server): let a named agent talk on a Triage issue (MUL-7213)

The rule shipped as "an issue in Triage starts no run", which is a
mechanical restatement of the product red line rather than the line
itself, and it was too wide: @-mentioning an agent to discuss a Triage
entry was refused along with everything else.

What Triage actually lacks is an EXECUTOR. Nothing may derive one from the
issue — the assignee, a prefilled owner, a squad leader, an automatic
retry — because that is exactly what the triager is still deciding, and
because prefilling an owner is how a run starts today, the triager would
otherwise dispatch the very owner it was only proposing. A person naming
an agent by hand is a different act: no triager action produces it and the
cost is one the person chose. That is the same shape as backlog, which
parks assignment but lets comments through, one notch tighter because in
Triage the assignee is only a proposal.

So the queue door now judges the run's origin rather than the funnel it
came through. OriginDerived is the zero value, so a caller that says
nothing still gets the strict answer and a new enqueue path cannot leak in
by omission; the two mixed wrappers take it as a parameter, which made the
compiler enumerate every call site.

Comment routing loses its blanket short-circuit and instead refuses the
two routes that derive an executor — the assignee fallback and the squad
leader fallback. Explicit mentions, replies to an agent, and thread
continuation route as they do anywhere else. Rerun now follows its source:
a discussion run may be repeated, naming no source means "run the assignee
again" and is refused, and the triage run itself keeps its own reason.

Assignment, quick action, auto-retry and all three session isolations are
unchanged. The delegated-failure door is gone because main's #8406 gate
subsumes it: Triage is its own lifecycle category, so it is neither
unstarted nor started and both that gate and the pending-recovery query
already exclude it. A test pins that.

Verified: internal/handler, internal/service and cmd/server pass; both
halves of the new rule were confirmed to fail when neutralized in place.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* refactor(server): hold Triage in its own column, not in status (MUL-7213)

`status` answers "how far along is this work". Triage answers "is this
work at all". Holding the second question inside the first field makes
every reader of `status` re-answer it, which is where the scattered
`<> 'triage'` checks came from — main carried 9 of them and this branch
had grown to 23. A column of its own asks it once.

issue.triage_state is NULL for an ordinary issue and `pending` for one
waiting in Triage. Adding a nullable column with no default is a
catalog-only change, so no table rewrite and no backfill; the queue reads
a partial index sized to itself rather than to the issue table.

What follows from the move:

- issuestatus goes back to 7 keys and 4 categories. Triage is no longer a
  category, a behavior, or something ExpandCategories can name, so
  CategoryForBehavior, BehaviorsForCategory, ParseCategory and
  ExpandCategories lose their special cases, and the dead board-order arm
  and status label go with them.
- WillEnqueueRun loses `acceptedFromTriage`. Accept clears a column and
  then takes the ordinary create / assign path, so there is no "was in
  triage" transition left for the predicate to recognise.
- The write lock disappears rather than narrowing. Status, project and
  parent on a Triage entry are the triager's proposal and accept is what
  confirms them, so ordinary writes reach them; the marker itself is not
  a field of the issue API, so there is nothing left to lock.
- The duplicate guards carry `triage_state IS NULL` instead of a status
  key, and the delegated-failure recovery predicate gains the same, in
  both its SQL and its Go mirror.

What does NOT follow, deliberately: the reserved NAME stays. Migration
475's CHECK is deployed and 476's renames are irreversible, so `triage`
remains unavailable as a custom status key and Resolve keeps refusing it
— one reserved word rather than five special cases. Read-path exclusion
is a separate sub-issue and is not attempted here.

Also from review: the quick-action refusal is now documented as a
first-phase product choice rather than a consequence of the rule (its
target is configured, not derived), and ErrIssueInTriage no longer claims
that nothing runs.

Verified: handler, service, issuestatus, cmd/migrate and cmd/server pass
on a database migrated from 001; every column read was confirmed to turn
its own tests red when neutralized. cmd/migrate's concurrent-index
convention test caught a missing cleanup hook for the new index.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(server): hold the parent of a Triage entry (MUL-7213)

Removing the write lock went one field too far. Status, project, assignee
and the rest on a Triage entry are the triager's proposal and accept
confirms them, so those writes belong. The parent is not a proposal:

- the routing panel has no parent field. "Merge into an existing issue"
  links rather than re-parents, so a Triage entry hanging off a parent is
  a half-state the product never asks for;
- a child in Triage carries a proposed status, so it is never terminal.
  stageBarrierClosed would wait on it forever — holding the whole sibling
  set, or one stage's frontier — and ChildIssueProgress would count it in
  the denominator. Both reach it through parent_issue_id, so refusing the
  write is what keeps them out of reach. That is behavior, not display,
  and it is why this one is worth a lock rather than a read-path filter.

UpdateIssue and batch refuse a request that carries parent_issue_id for
an issue in Triage, with or without a value: null clears, which is
equally a parent decision the triager does not get to make. The batch
asks one count rather than listing statuses, since "any" is all it needs.

Verified: handler, service, issuestatus, issueguard, cmd/migrate and
cmd/server pass; both new tests were confirmed to fail with the guard
neutralized.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* fix(server): drop the triage case from the handoff predicate (MUL-7213)

MUL-7379 (#8435) landed on main while this branch was open and added
issueStatusIsHandoff with a `triage` case, resting on Triage resolving to
a category of its own without a catalog read. Once Triage stops being a
status that resolution is gone, so the call errors on a value no issue can
hold any more.

The case is removed rather than repaired: a Triage entry carries whatever
status the triager has proposed and is answered on that. Suppressing
notifications for Triage entries is a different rule and belongs to
MUL-7219 — the status model was giving it incidentally, and that was never
the mechanism the design asks for.

Verified on a database migrated from 001: cmd/server, internal/handler,
internal/service, internal/issuestatus and cmd/migrate pass.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

* chore(db): renumber the triage migrations past the telemetry batch (MUL-7213)

MUL-7236 (#8252) took 479-482 on main while this branch was open, so both
triage migrations collided. 483 adds issue.triage_state, 484 builds its
partial index; the concurrent-index cleanup hook moves with it.

Verified on a database migrated from 001 with the new numbering.

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: multica-agent <[email protected]>
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