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[Feature]: Warn a workspace when someone else opens a PR for its linked issue #29064
Description
Problem or use case
When I start a workspace from an issue, Orca links them (linkedIssue). It tracks the PR for my own branch, but nothing tells me when someone else opens a PR for the same issue.
This bit me twice this week:
- [Bug]: Clicking host menu items toggles the host accordion instead of executing the action #28343: I had a fix committed in a workspace linked to the issue. Before I pushed it, fix(sidebar): keep host menu actions from collapsing the host section #28395 was opened for the same issue, which I only found by searching by hand.
- [Bug]: Structured Claude/Codex children inherit the parent Orca process's ORCA_PANE_KEY / ORCA_TAB_ID / ORCA_WORKTREE_ID, so their hook status lands on an unrelated pane #26417: I reworked fix(structured-sessions): don't pass an inherited pane identity to structured chat children #26426 on 14 Oct without noticing fix: an Orca started from an Orca terminal no longer leaks that pane's identity into chat agents #28267 had fixed the same issue the day before. Nothing in the workspace showed it.
Agents running in the workspace can't see it either, so they keep building something that's already been done.
Proposed solution
For a workspace with a linked issue, check the issue for open PRs or MRs from other branches, the same way Orca already polls the workspace's own PR.
If one turns up:
- show a small badge on the workspace row, like "fix(sidebar): keep host menu actions from collapsing the host section #28395 by lesbass, opened 2h ago"
- show it in the workspace's PR panel with a link
- optionally pass it to agents in that workspace, so they stop and check before carrying on
GitHub lists these as cross-referenced PRs on the issue timeline, and GitLab has related merge requests on an issue, so it doesn't have to be GitHub only.
Alternatives or additional context
Today I check by hand with the GitHub search for the issue number before pushing. It's easy to forget, and it's too late once the work is done.
I built it in #29080, with screenshots of the row badge and the hover.
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