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7a4767017e fix(issues): base comment-wake decisions on post-insert issue state (#10068)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work; issues get commented on by both humans and agents, and the
assignee is woken to act on new comments.
> - #10050 added human-attributed issue comments for chat gateway
plugins, with the host waking the issue's assignee the same way a board
user's comment does.
> - Greptile's review on #10050 flagged that the wakeup guard in
`plugin-host-services.ts` decides whether to wake the assignee using the
issue snapshot fetched *before* the comment was inserted.
> - If another request closes, cancels, unassigns, or reassigns the
issue in the window between that fetch and the wakeup call, the guard
still acts on the stale snapshot — it can wake an agent for a
now-terminal issue, or wake the old assignee instead of the new one.
> - The PR discussion noted the HTTP add-comment route
(`routes/issues.ts`) has the identical pattern outside its
reopen/auto-approval branches, and deferred a fix to a follow-up
covering both call sites — this PR is that follow-up.
> - The fix re-fetches the issue immediately before the wake decision in
both places, so the decision reflects the latest committed state instead
of a pre-insert snapshot.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #10050

**Problem or motivation**

Both the plugin-comment wakeup guard (`plugin-host-services.ts`) and the
HTTP add-comment route's wakeup guard (`routes/issues.ts`, outside its
reopen/auto-approval branches) decide whether to wake the issue's
assignee using the issue state fetched before the comment was inserted.
A concurrent close/unassign/reassign landing in that window is invisible
to the guard, so it can enqueue a wakeup for a stale assignee or an
issue that is no longer open.

**Proposed solution**

Re-fetch the issue immediately before the wake decision in both call
sites, and base the assignee/status checks on that fresh read instead of
the earlier snapshot. This shrinks the race window to essentially
nothing (the fetch happens right before the fire-and-forget wakeup
call), and any residual window is already covered by the
heartbeat/checkout machinery re-validating issue status and assignee
ownership when a woken run actually starts.

**Alternatives considered**

Wrap the whole comment-insert + wake-decision sequence in a single
serializable transaction with row locking (rejected for this change —
much larger blast radius across two already-complex handlers for a
wakeup that is explicitly best-effort; the woken run's own re-validation
already makes a stale wake degrade to a no-op rather than incorrect
work). Leaving the plugin path fixed but not the HTTP route (rejected —
that was the exact gap the original PR discussion flagged as needing a
follow-up covering both call sites).

**Roadmap alignment**

Bug fix / hardening follow-up to #10050; no change to planned core
roadmap items.

## What Changed

- `server/src/services/plugin-host-services.ts`:
`issues.createComment`'s assignee-wakeup guard now re-fetches the issue
after the comment is inserted and bases the assignee/status checks on
that fresh read, instead of the snapshot fetched before the insert.
- `server/src/routes/issues.ts`: the `POST /issues/:id/comments` route's
wakeup guard (outside the reopen/auto-approval branches, which already
use post-mutation state) now does the same re-fetch before deciding
whether — and whom — to wake.
- Adds regression coverage for both:
- `server/src/__tests__/plugin-orchestration-apis.test.ts`: a new
embedded-Postgres test holds a row lock on the issue to
deterministically force the race (comment-insert's internal update
blocks until a concurrent transaction commits a cancellation), then
asserts no wakeup is enqueued.
- `server/src/__tests__/issue-comment-reopen-routes.test.ts`: two new
mocked-service tests assert the route skips the wakeup when the fresh
re-fetch shows the issue cancelled, and wakes the freshly reassigned
agent (not the pre-insert snapshot's assignee) when the fresh re-fetch
shows a different assignee.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` — clean.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/__tests__/plugin-orchestration-apis.test.ts` — 13/13 (1 new).
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run
src/__tests__/issue-comment-reopen-routes.test.ts` — 74/74 (2 new).
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/plugin-sdk exec vitest run
tests/host-client-factory.test.ts` — 14/14.
- Broader sweep of 38 `routes/issues.ts`-adjacent test files (447 tests)
— all passing, confirming the added re-fetch doesn't change behavior for
any existing
reopen/auto-approval/interrupt/scheduled-retry/dependency-wake scenario.

## Risks

Low risk. Both changes are additive guards around an existing
best-effort, fire-and-forget wakeup (failures already logged, not
thrown) — no change to the comment-write path itself, response shape, or
status codes. The HTTP route's fix only touches the plain (non-reopen,
non-auto-approval) wake-decision path; the reopen and auto-approval
branches already used post-mutation state for the reasons documented
inline and are unchanged. Adds one extra `SELECT` per comment on each
call site, negligible relative to the existing query volume in both
handlers.

## Model Used

Claude Sonnet 5 (`claude-sonnet-5`), extended thinking, tool use
enabled, via Claude Code.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I searched the GitHub PR list (open and recently closed) for
similar PRs; found no duplicate — this is a direct follow-up to the
review discussion on #10050
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
ticket id
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: anicca <annica@Michaels-Mac-Studio.local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:18:15 -07:00
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