PR autopilot with a trust dial: CI green, address feedback, merge when conditions met #255

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2. currentbits commented on Aug 17, 2026

   

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   Research notes (Mergify State of Merge Queues 2026, Trunk): (1) batch-and-bisect merging: batch compatible agent PRs through one CI run, auto-bisect failed batches to isolate the culprit. (2) Trunk-style flaky-test quarantine so agents stop chasing false CI failures (mute-and-track, with auto-filed tickets). (3) Their data: AI-assisted PRs broke main HALF as often as human ones (1.9% vs 4.4%); good ammunition for the trust dial's defaults.
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   Deep-dive detail (Conductor): user TODOs that gate merge — checklist items in a merge-readiness panel that block merging until checked off. Human-verified gates complementing the agent verification side.
4. currentbits commented on Aug 19, 2026

   

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   Claude Code Desktop's shipped version of the trust dial is two toggles in a CI status bar (docs):

   • After a PR is opened, a CI status bar appears in the session; gh polls check results and surfaces failures.
   • Auto-fix toggle: Claude reads the failure output and iterates until checks pass.
   • Auto-merge toggle: merges once all checks pass, squash only — and it requires GitHub's own auto-merge to be enabled on the repo first, so the ultimate gate is a repo setting the agent cannot flip.
   • Desktop notification when CI finishes; optional auto-archive of the session when the PR merges or closes.

   Three things Solenta should copy directly:

   1. The dial lives on the PR, in the thread, after the PR exists — not in global settings. The user opts into autonomy for this change with the diff still on screen.
   2. Leaning on GitHub's native auto-merge instead of merging itself. The agent enables a GitHub feature; branch protection and required reviews stay authoritative. That is much less machinery than Local merge queue: serialized lanes with a check gate and human-only promote #346's local merge queue and it cannot bypass repo policy.
   3. Squash only. One knob fewer.

   Together with #161 (route CI failures back to the thread) this is the whole loop; #363's PR-status sidebar icon is the glanceable half of the same status bar.
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   Core shipped in 0.24.0: PR watch-and-wake (electron/prWatch.js) fixes failing CI and answers reviews and conflicts, and auto-merge when green uses gh pr merge --auto. A single "trust dial" setting was not built; open a fresh issue if it's still wanted. Closing in the 2026-10-09 board cleanup (#1532).
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