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What changed

  • Route pull-request review events through a zero-permission bridge workflow, then reconcile labels in the trusted metadata-only workflow through workflow_run.
  • Resolve unassociated workflow runs by exact head branch, head SHA, and base repository only when that lookup has one unambiguous match, covering fork payloads whose pull_requests list is empty and whose head_repository points at the base repository without risking cross-PR mutation.
  • Add focused tests for the bridge security boundary, fork maintainer change requests, associated and fallback resolution, ambiguous/mismatched candidate rejection, missing metadata, and the exact unfiltered fallback API request.

Why this change was made

On fork PR #1119, GitHub correctly downgraded the direct pull_request_review run token to read-only. The reconciler computed awaiting-author but intentionally skipped label mutation, delaying correction until a later trusted sweep. Enabling write tokens for fork-triggered code would be unsafe, so review notification and privileged metadata reconciliation are separated.

Impact

Maintainer review submissions and dismissals on fork PRs can update review-state labels promptly without checking out or executing fork code and without exposing write credentials to the fork-triggered workflow. The privileged follow-up runs only trusted default-branch workflow code and retains the existing restricted label, comment, check-read, and status permissions. Ambiguous fallback matches fail closed without mutating any candidate PR.

The accompanying read-only audit covered all 157 open PRs: 129 human, 22 zoomote[bot], and 6 other-bot PRs; 108 forks and 49 same-repository PRs. It found 104 exact state-model matches and 53 transient conflict-label timing mismatches, with no persistent modeling mismatch. PR #1119 had already converged to awaiting-author. The full point-in-time dataset is available in the open-PR audit artifact.

No in-flight labels were mutated during the audit. Merging this PR triggers the existing all-open-PR reconciliation, and the hourly schedule remains the fallback for mergeability states still being recalculated. The first post-merge fork review event should be monitored to confirm GitHub's live workflow_run payload behavior; the exact-match fallback covers the empty-association payload observed in existing runs.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for tracking pull request review submissions and dismissals through automated workflow processing.
    • Improved review-state updates for pull requests from forks and across workflow runs.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved matching of workflow results to the correct pull request.
    • Added safeguards for branch, repository, and commit mismatches.
    • Added warnings when workflow activity could correspond to multiple pull requests.

Walkthrough

The change adds a permissionless review-event workflow, routes review events through workflow_run, and resolves matching open pull requests by exact head branch, SHA, and base repository. Tests cover fork metadata, ambiguous matches, branch mismatches, and review-state updates.

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Review state reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Review event workflow bridge
.github/workflows/pr-review-event.yml, .github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml, src/services/__tests__/pr-review-state-workflow.test.ts
Adds the permissionless PR Review Event workflow. The main workflow consumes its workflow_run events and no longer consumes pull_request_review directly. Tests validate the workflow configuration and review-state reconciliation.
Exact pull request resolution
.github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml, src/services/__tests__/pr-review-state-workflow.test.ts
Matches open pull requests by head SHA, branch, and base repository. Tests cover fork owners, ambiguous and branch-mismatched candidates, closed pull requests, missing metadata, and unassociated runs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub
  participant PRReviewEvent
  participant LabelPRReviewState
  participant PullRequestAPI
  GitHub->>PRReviewEvent: submit or dismiss review
  PRReviewEvent->>LabelPRReviewState: emit workflow_run
  LabelPRReviewState->>PullRequestAPI: list open pull requests
  PullRequestAPI-->>LabelPRReviewState: return candidate pull requests
  LabelPRReviewState->>PullRequestAPI: match branch, SHA, and base repository
  LabelPRReviewState->>PullRequestAPI: update labels and pending gate
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6c2c0

Some fork review events can leave labels and the review gate stale when identical head commits target different base branches.

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Regression Evidence ✅ Passed PASS. The changed workflow behavior has focused coverage at the workflow-script/configuration test layer. Tests verify the permissionless PR Review Event bridge, its submitted/dismissed trigger,…
Security Boundaries ✅ Passed No changed path meets the security failure conditions. .github/workflows/pr-review-event.yml grants no permissions and runs only true; it does not access secrets, check out code, or execute event …
Persistence Integrity ✅ Passed No changed persistence path meets the failure conditions. The PR Review Event workflow only runs true and performs no write. The changed workflow_run fallback only lists and filters open PR metada…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup ✅ Passed PASS. The changed paths add a short-lived PR Review Event job with run: "true" and route its completion to the existing reconciliation job. The diff introduces no listener, watcher, timer, provide…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: fixing delayed labels after maintainer reviews on fork pull requests.
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Current step: Resolve the merge conflicts. The review sequence resumes after the branch is mergeable.

Review-state labels are managed by this workflow; do not edit them manually.

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In @.github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml:
- Around line 114-131: The fallback reconciliation around github.paginate and
eventPrNumbers must not process ambiguous matches. Require exactly one candidate
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Addressed all current valid CodeRabbit findings. The earlier ambiguous-match issue remains fixed in 339248514; commit 6c2c0d2db now pins the complete unfiltered pulls.list request in its regression test so a restored head filter cannot pass unnoticed. No production workflow or permission behavior changed in this follow-up.

Validation: focused workflow tests 105/105 passed; full suite 8,277 passed and 39 skipped; lint and type checks passed 11/11 tasks each; Prettier and git diff --check passed. The remaining review thread was replied to and resolved.

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In `@src/services/__tests__/pr-review-state-workflow.test.ts`:
- Line 1688: Update the assertion around the listPullRequests call to require
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114-137: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the PR association for unassociated workflow runs. When workflow_run.pull_requests is empty, matches compares pr.head.sha, pr.head.ref, and the base repository, but not pr.base.ref. If two open PRs share those values and target different base branches, matches.length > 1, so the workflow skips the label and Zoo Code / PR review gate updates. Pass the review event’s PR number or base branch into this workflow, then include it in the match.

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In @.github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml around lines 114 - 137, Update
the workflow_run fallback association around the candidates filter and event PR
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