feat(cursor-review): announce the over-cap skip instead of a silent green run (BE-7646) - #169
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…reen run (BE-7646) A labeled PR whose counted diff exceeds diff_size_cap got no review and no PR-visible signal: every downstream job is gated on within_cap, the shared classifier runs in --mode warn (never non-zero), and nothing at all ran on the over-cap path — so the run went green and the author reasonably concluded the panel had reviewed the PR and found nothing. Three additions, all non-blocking (cursor-review is advisory; failing the job would gate nothing and would break the reusable's contract for its consumers): - diff-size exposes the counted total as a job output, and the degraded raw-count fallback appends counted=RAW so the number always agrees with whichever count actually decided over_cap. - A credential-free ::warning:: annotation + step-summary block on the over-cap path, so the skip is visible on fork and Dependabot PRs and on consumers with no bot app. - A new over-cap-comment job, modelled on pr-size.yml's comment job, that upserts one sticky PR comment naming the counted total and the cap — and flips it to a green note once the PR is back under the cap. Mint and upsert are both continue-on-error, so the comment path can never redden a run.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe workflow now reports diff-size-cap skips with warnings, step summaries, and marker-based pull request comments. It supports comment recovery, GitHub App or ChangesOver-cap review reporting
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PullRequest
participant DiffSize
participant OverCapComment
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PullRequest->>DiffSize: trigger review workflow
DiffSize->>DiffSize: count changed lines
DiffSize->>OverCapComment: pass cap status and counted lines
OverCapComment->>GitHub: authenticate with App token or GITHUB_TOKEN
OverCapComment->>GitHub: create or update marker-based comment
OverCapComment-->>PullRequest: report over-cap or recovery status
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🔍 Cursor Review — Consolidated panel
Triggered by @mattmillerai.
Found 10 finding(s).
| Severity | Count |
|---|---|
| 🟠 High | 2 |
| 🟡 Medium | 3 |
| 🟢 Low | 5 |
Panel: 6/8 reviewers contributed findings.
Reviewers that did not contribute: kimi-k3-max:adversarial (error), kimi-k3-max:edge-case (error)
…-7646) Review-panel follow-ups on the over-cap skip announcement: - The ✅ flip no longer claims "the review panel ran". The job needs only `gate` + `diff-size`, so it runs alongside the panel and cannot know whether the panel finished, failed preflight or was cancelled — asserting it did would re-create the false green this change exists to kill. It now states only what it knows: the PR is under the cap. - The skip notice no longer describes the count as "after generated-file exclusion" on the degraded path, where the classifier never ran and nothing was excluded. `diff-size` exposes a new `degraded` output and the body words the number from it. - "re-runs automatically on the next push" was false for the documented caller (`types: [labeled, unlabeled]` — a push fires no event). It now tells the author to re-apply the trigger label. - `always()` → `!cancelled()`, plus a live-head check in the upsert, so a superseded or manually re-run older run cannot PATCH its obsolete verdict over a newer one. - The sticky comment now falls back to `secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN` when no bot app is configured — the same fallback `consolidate` already uses to post the review — so the notice reaches the default configuration instead of only bot-app callers. The finder matches both logins, so a change of identity updates the existing comment rather than stacking a second one. - Added `timeout-minutes: 5`; the job paginated an attacker-growable comment list under the 6-hour default. - Corrected the fork claim in all three places: `gate` skips a cross-repo head before `diff-size` runs, so neither half of the signal reaches a fork PR. Only the Dependabot half of the claim was true.
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In @.github/workflows/cursor-review.yml:
- Around line 804-808: Update the LIVE_HEAD lookup in the PR-head verification
block to detect a failed gh api call separately from a valid empty result, and
exit the upsert step immediately when the lookup fails. Preserve the existing
mismatch check for successful lookups so only the current PR head can write the
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…646) CodeRabbit, on the guard added in bf779f5: a failed `gh api` call left LIVE_HEAD empty and the run proceeded to write, so a transient API failure could let an obsolete run PATCH its stale verdict over the current one — the exact case the guard exists to prevent. Fails closed now: an errored or empty lookup exits 1, which under continue-on-error routes to "Note degraded mode". Costs almost no availability, since the list and write below hit the same API with the same token a line later.
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If your PR is too big, the Cursor review panel quietly doesn't run — and the check still turns green, so it looks exactly like "eight models reviewed this and found nothing." This PR makes that skip say so out loud: a warning annotation, a step-summary block, and a sticky PR comment that names how many lines you counted and what the cap is. Shrink the PR and the same comment flips to a ✅ on the next run, when the panel actually runs. Nothing becomes blocking — the run is still green either way.
What changed
.github/workflows/cursor-review.yml:diff-sizeexposescountedas a job output alongsidewithin_cap. The sharedcheck-pr-sizetool already writescounted=<n>toGITHUB_OUTPUT(scripts/check-pr-size/main.go:733); the degraded raw-count fallback now appendscounted=${RAW}too, with the same last-value-wins mechanism it already uses forover_cap, so the number quoted to the author always agrees with whichever count actually decided the gate.Announce over-cap skip— a new step indiff-sizeon theover_cap == 'true'path: a::warning::annotation plus a step-summary block. This half needs no credentials, so it reaches fork and Dependabot PRs and consumers that never configured a bot app.over-cap-commentjob, modelled line-for-line onpr-size.yml'scommentjob (same action SHA pin, samecontinue-on-errormint + upsert, same author-gatedstartswithsticky-comment lookup). It upserts one comment behind the marker<!-- cursor-review-over-cap -->, POSTing only on the over-cap path and PATCHing an existing one either way — so a stale "skipped" comment flips to ✅ once the PR is trimmed, and a PR that was always under the cap never gets a comment at all.Docs: the
diff_size_capinput description,docs/callers/cursor-review.md(a new gotcha + the inputs-table note), and.github/cursor-review/README.md(a new "Over the diff-size cap" section + a pointer under the flow diagram).Deliberately not touched: the
notify-*jobs (Slack-on-skip would change notification traffic fleet-wide and wants its own opt-in input), and no job was changed to fail on over-cap.Why non-blocking
cursor-reviewis advisory — it posts a review, it does not gate. Verified live rather than assumed:repos/Comfy-Org/cloud/rules/branches/mainlists eleven required status checks and no cursor-review job is among them, so failing the job would block nothing while breaking the reusable's contract for every caller. The fix is visibility, not enforcement — hencecontinue-on-erroron both the mint and the upsert, and thediff-sizeannotation as the credential-free fallback signal.Judgment calls
needs.diff-size.result == 'success', not onwithin_cap != 'true'. A git-leveldiff-sizecrash leaves the job's outputs empty, and an emptywithin_capsatisfies!= 'true'— which would post a confident "over cap" comment about a job that never counted anything. Gating on the result also lets the job run on within-cap runs, which is the only way a stale over-cap comment ever gets flipped.<!-- cursor-review-over-cap -->is distinct fromgate-unresolved.py'sCONSOLIDATED_MARKER, and the two live in different spaces entirely:build-ledger.pyreadspulls/{n}/reviewsandpulls/{n}/comments, and nothing incursor-reviewreadsissues/{n}/commentsat all.unknown/an unknown number ofwhen the output is empty, rather than printing an empty string as if it were a fact.Verification
actionlint .github/workflows/cursor-review.yml— one finding, and it is the pre-existinggithub.job_workflow_shaschema complaint that is identical onorigin/main(confirmed by linting the base version). Zero new findings, including shellcheck over the newrun:blocks.python3 -m unittest discover -s .github/cursor-review/tests(187 tests) — OK..github/workflow-pinscheck + tests, and.github/groomtests — OK.run:script out of the YAML and exercised it against a stubbedghacross eight scenarios: over-cap with no existing comment (POST), over-cap with an existing one (PATCH), within-cap with an existing one (PATCH to ✅), within-cap with none (no write at all), emptycounted(falls back to the "unknown" wording), two duplicate stickies (both PATCHed), every write 403 (step exits 1, socontinue-on-errorkeeps the job green and the degraded note fires), and a POST 403. The author-gating held: a comment carrying the marker but posted by a User, and a bot comment merely quoting the marker mid-body, were both correctly ignored. TheAnnounce over-cap skipstep was run the same way for both the populated and emptycountedcases.preflight,review,consolidate,notify-startandnotify-completeare each gated onwithin_cap == 'true', and the only other conditions referencingover_capare!= 'true'guards. There is no cap-bypass path onmain— thecursor-review-xllabel lives in an unmerged draft, and is deliberately not referenced in the comment text.Unexercised artifacts
cursor-review-labeled PR with a >5000-line counted diff on a consumer that has the bot app configured, which is only possible after this merges andbump-cursor-review-callers.ymlfans the SHA bump out. Everything above is static analysis plus a stubbed-API simulation of the shell, not a real Actions run.**/.claude/**from the extra_generated_globs default (BE-7633) #167 (extra_generated_globsdefault) and feat(cursor-review): fence the reviewed diff with a per-run nonce + UNTRUSTED-DATA label (BE-7645) #168 (diff fencing) both touch.github/workflows/cursor-review.ymland.github/cursor-review/README.md. My hunks are in different regions, but whichever lands second should rebase.Refs BE-7646 —
Refs, notCloses: nothing has yet observed the annotation, the summary or the sticky comment on a real over-cap run, so the ticket stays open to carry that post-bump behavioural check.