Port the review swarm to a RelayFlow v2 flow in Cloud

[AgentRelayBot]

Problem

The review check has been failing on every open PR — #451, #455, #441 all fail identically, in the swarm's own posting step rather than on any code verdict:

Fetching patch for run <uuid>...
No changes to sync — the workflow did not modify any files.
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1

Reproducible across reruns with fresh swarm ids, so it isn't flaky infrastructure. Because it fails on every PR, it carries no signal: it can neither approve nor block, and in practice it gets merged over. .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml is disabled on pull_request until this is fixed — it still runs on workflow_dispatch.

Why it should move to v2

The swarm is built on RelayFlow v1, which is now deprecated in the CLI. review-swarm.yml drives it through:

response=$(agent-relay cloud run \
  ../gate-files/workflows/review-swarm.yaml --sync-code --json)
...
agent-relay cloud status "${{ steps.launch.outputs.run_id }}" --json

agent-relay cloud schedule / schedules now warn as deprecated (relay#1783), and the v1 surface is only kept alive because v2 has no hosted scheduling yet. Repairing the v1 wiring would be work spent on a surface we intend to retire.

The failure itself points the same way: the whole design assumes the swarm's product is a patch to sync back, so a review that correctly proposes no code changes ("the workflow did not modify any files") is treated as a failure. A v2 flow can return a structured verdict instead of a diff, which is what a review gate actually wants.

What v2 gives us

• A flow authored in TypeScript with a typed result, rather than a YAML workflow whose only output channel is a patch
• f.human for the cases where a reviewer genuinely needs a person — with flows answer to resolve the wait (flows#451)
• The v2 kernel's durable suspension, instead of a 75-minute job polling cloud status on a 65-minute budget
• One deployed artifact via flows deploy, instead of the gate-files checkout-from-main dance that exists to keep a PR from editing its own gate

Scope

• Author review-swarm as a v2 flow (.flow.ts), returning a verdict object rather than a patch
• Deploy it to Cloud and invoke it from CI via the v2 surface (agent-relay flows ...), not agent-relay cloud run
• Preserve the wrapper-guard invariant: a candidate PR must not be able to weaken the gate that judges it (review-swarm-wrapper-guard.yml stays on pull_request_target reading from base)
• Re-enable the pull_request trigger once the v2 path is green
• Retire the v1 workflow and its swarm-*.sh scripts after the cutover

Context

Found while shipping the mounted product command groups. agent-relay file, agent-relay flows, and agent-relay sessions are live as of @relayfile/sdk@0.10.64, @relayflows/sdk@2.0.19, ai-hist@0.18.1.

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[AgentRelayBot]

Status: the swarm is now disabled at the platform level, not in the tree.

$ gh workflow disable "Review swarm"
Review swarm    disabled_manually    346111688

No review check runs on new PRs. Re-enable with gh workflow enable "Review swarm".

The first attempt (#471) tried to park it by switching the trigger to workflow_dispatch, and the wrapper guard rejected it — correctly:

candidate changes review-swarm.yml (add, edit, or rename);
wrapper enforcement is base-owned and immutable

swarm-wrapper-guard.sh fails any PR touching .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml, with no bypass. A PR that disables the gate is precisely what that guard exists to stop, so it was closed rather than admin-merged over.

Two consequences for this issue's scope:

1. The disabled state is invisible in the tree. Someone reading review-swarm.yml sees a workflow that looks live. Re-enabling — or deleting the v1 workflow outright once v2 ships — is part of landing this.

2. The v2 cutover has the same constraint. Whatever replaces this gate cannot be introduced by a PR that also edits review-swarm.yml, because the guard will reject it. Sequence the cutover so the v2 workflow lands as a new file first, then retire the v1 one in a separate change (with the guard updated or removed at that point).

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