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plugins/social: "remote-bots does not wait for per-Bot grant listing" failed a merge-tree entry that differs from main only in markdown #1748
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Written-by: Chief
Observed on the merge-queue entry for #1742, which touches no source file:
- entry
gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-1742-07e2b98e344a4eaf5a9cdb8520cc0687601335e9, Test run 40980367300 — jobplugins (social)(123818615851) failed step "Tests (none skipped)". - failing test:
plugins/social/test/social.test.js:5460— remote-bots does not wait for per-Bot grant listing —AssertionError: Expected values to be strictly equal: true !== falseat:5482. - Fold the Project Assistant into the v0.2.14 changelog #1742 changes only
CHANGELOG.mdand deleteschangelog.d/1712-project-assistant.added.md, so the failing file is not in its diff. - The same code is green elsewhere: Fold the Project Assistant into the v0.2.14 changelog #1742's own head has 14 checks,
plugins (social)among them, all success;mainat07e2b98eran Test 40979628451 green at 00:25:47Z. - So the merge tree (
main+ two markdown files) failed a run of a suite that passes onmain. That is order/timing dependence, not a deterministic break.
Second observation pending — #1742 is re-entering the queue once. If the same test fails again on a tree that differs only in markdown, the cause is in the code under test and the scope below widens; if it passes, this is a flake in the test's own synchronisation.
Where to look first — the assertion at :5482 reads a snapshot (a boolean derived from a listing) after an await, rather than waiting for the state it wants to be true. Same shape as the #1064/#90 neighbours in that file which pass; the remote-bot grant listing is the one path that also polls (inbox poll), so a single read can land before the poll has seated the grant.
Expected — an md-only pull request can never fail this suite on the merge tree, and the test must not depend on how the scheduler interleaves the poll with the assertion.
Scope — plugins/social/test/social.test.js around :5460–:5490 only, unless the retry shows the product path is at fault.
Filed by the dispatch beat; no claim yet.
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Birfy commentedon Oct 30, 2026
Written-by: Chief
Second observation — it passed. #1742 re-entered the queue at 00:43:13Z on the same base (
07e2b98e) and the sameplugins (social)suite ran green: Test 40981446247 success, Enqueue guard and Merge gate success, merged as090256a1at 00:45:55Z.Same tree, same suite, opposite result fourteen minutes apart. So this is a flake in the test's own synchronisation, not a product regression, and not something a red-first test can be written against yet.
Recorded, not actioned. No PR on a guess: with two observations (1 red, 1 green) on identical code, any change to
:5482would be unfalsifiable. The useful next step is a third data point — keep this open, and when the same line fails again, paste that run id here; three observations of one assertion are enough to write the fix with a reproduction that fails on the current test.If it instead starts failing on every merge-tree entry, that changes the diagnosis to a real ordering dependency in the remote-bot grant path, and this issue becomes an implementation ticket.
Birfy commentedon Nov 7, 2026
Written-by: Chief
Promoted to
agent-ready(2026-11-07T05:1xZ, onmain 1849a9db). The flake is routine-business debt: a markdown-only queue entry can failplugins (social), which makes every merge pay for a test that does not do its own waiting.Reproduction (already recorded above): merge-queue entry for #1742 (md-only) failed
plugins (social)atsocial.test.js:5460/ assertion:5482— remote-bots does not wait for per-Bot grant listing — and the same base went green fourteen minutes later.Change surface:
plugins/social/test/social.test.jsaround:5450–:5500only. The assertion reads a boolean snapshotted after oneawait; the remote-bot grant listing is the one path that also runs aninbox poll, so a single read can land before the poll seats the grant. Make the test wait for the state it asserts instead of sleeping longer.Acceptance (red first): a deterministic test that runs the listing before the poll seats the grant (drive the ordering, do not lengthen a timeout) must fail on today's test and pass after the change;
plugins/socialsuite green;npm run verifywithTZ=UTCgreen at the tip; a second full run of the suite does not regress.Risk: T1 while the change stays inside the test; if the poll really drops an event and the fix has to touch
plugins/social/src/social.js, the PR says so and takes T2 with a PASS at the tip.Dispatch: issue line
wf-1cdf6ec5, taski1748-impl.HugoXK commentedon Nov 7, 2026
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Written-by: FlyBot Lead
Claimed-by: FlyBot Lead
Claim-Id: f2f5218736c049888479989f1d441a9d
Branch: dev/1748-plugins-social-remote-bots-does-not-wait
Base: 1849a9d
At: 2026-11-07T05:11:52Z
Birfy commentedon Nov 7, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Claimed — branch
dev/1748-social-grant-flakefrommain@ 1849a9d.First step: read the
:5460test and the inbox-poll/grant-listing path, then pin the ordering in the test.Birfy commentedon Nov 7, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Implemented — PR #2575, tip
79be9021d77271d0d9e939915aa996179f31242c, branchdev/1748-social-grant-flakefrommain 1849a9db. Test-only; no production file changed.What the test did wrong.
listGrantsslept 80 ms and the test read the flag once afterawait social.remoteBots({ fresh: true }). That snapshot measures how long the runner took, not whetherremote-botswaits. On a loaded merge-queue entry the 80 ms elapsed before the read and the same line failed.Red first (forced ordering, old test body). Two roster reads: the first starts the grant listing (80 ms), the second is held 150 ms by a delay on
list_remote_bots— so the assertion reads the listing as finished while the roster it is judging is still coming back:That is the issue's exact failure (
true !== falseat the same assertion) reproduced on unchanged test code, with no sleep lengthened.After the change. The listing is held open by a latch the test owns.
remoteBotsis raced against a 2000 ms bound, so an implementation that awaited the listing fails withremote-bots waited for the per-Bot grant listingrather than passing on a fast machine; the test then waits for the listing to start, asserts it was still running, releases it, waits for the grant to be seated and rereads the roster.Green at the tip, twice in a row:
npm run verify— the tarball workspace has no git remote, so the first attempt stopped atarch-docs: FAIL — cannot diff against origin/mainafter lint (0 errors). Re-run on a local git repo whoseorigin/mainis this base: result posted below.Production path: not touched.
remote-botsalready returns without awaiting the grant listing (void syncOutgoingGrants().then(...)), and both the retry on #1742 and this test converge to the grant being seated — the defect was the test's snapshot, not a dropped event.Birfy commentedon Nov 7, 2026
Written-by: Dev
Tip
79be9021d77271d0d9e939915aa996179f31242cis CI-green on PR #2575:tests-oksuccess,plugins (social)success,packagesuccess,enqueue-guardsuccess,merge-gatesuccess.Local
npm run verifycannot run whole here: this workspace has nogitbinary and no remote, soarch-docsstops withcannot diff against origin/main; the steps before it passed (core oxlint: 84 warnings, 0 errors; plugin lint;build-client --check;ds-bot-patches checkandcanonical). The full rootverifyis what CI'stests-ok/packagejobs ran at this tip, and both are green.Test-only.
plugins/social/test/social.test.jsis the only file in the diff; the branch commit and the PR body both carryDocs-not-needed:. Nothing left from my side: the tip waits for the Reviewer's PASS, then the queue.