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• Reuses commit similarity search logic that was already in place
• Classifies the commits as "relevant" as opposed to merely "similar". Identical/similar phrasing of a commit that isn't related to the topic of the original is not considered "relevant".

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• New Features
  • Related commits are now selected using semantic search and checked for a concrete connection, rather than similarity in reactions or sentiment alone.
  • Up to three related commits may appear. Results respect visibility, blocks, and mutes; authors can see their own pending commits.
  • If no candidates pass the check, no related commits are shown. If the check is unavailable or times out, semantic matches may still appear, subject to the same visibility, block, and mute rules.

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• KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
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• app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php
• app/Services/RelevanceProviders/NullRelevanceProvider.php
• app/Services/RelevanceProviders/OpenAIRelevanceProvider.php
• tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitSearchControllerTest.php
• tests/Feature/Controllers/CommitSearchControllerTest.php
• tests/Unit/Queries/CommitSearchQueryTest.php
• tests/Unit/Queries/RelatedCommitsQueryTest.php
• tests/Unit/Services/RelevanceProviders/OpenAIRelevanceProviderTest.php

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• app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
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Walkthrough

Related-commit suggestions now use source-aware semantic search and relevance classification. The search returns up to three eligible top-level commits from other threads. If classification fails or times out, candidates remain subject to visibility, block, and mute rules.

Changes: Related commit retrieval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Related-commit relevance decisions app/Contracts/Services/RelevanceProvider.php, app/Services/RelevanceProviders/*, tests/Unit/Services/RelevanceProviders/OpenAIRelevanceProviderTest.php	The relevance provider accepts a related-commit mode. OpenAI prompts check for a concrete subject connection. Classification failures retain all candidates, and cURL error 28 connection timeouts are logged.
Source-aware commit search app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php, tests/Unit/Queries/CommitSearchQueryTest.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitSearchControllerTest.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/CommitSearchControllerTest.php	CommitSearchQuery accepts a commit or search string. Commit searches use the source embedding and limit candidates to eligible top-level commits outside the source thread.
Related-commit query integration app/Queries/RelatedCommitsQuery.php, tests/Unit/Queries/RelatedCommitsQueryTest.php, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md, app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php	RelatedCommitsQuery delegates to CommitSearchQuery. Tests cover candidate filtering and relevance requests. The knowledge base and limiter comment describe the revised retrieval behavior.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RelatedCommitsQuery
  participant CommitSearchQuery
  participant Database
  participant OpenAIRelevanceProvider
  RelatedCommitsQuery->>CommitSearchQuery: Search from source commit
  CommitSearchQuery->>Database: Retrieve eligible nearest top-level commits
  CommitSearchQuery->>OpenAIRelevanceProvider: Request relevance decisions
  OpenAIRelevanceProvider-->>CommitSearchQuery: Return relevance decisions
  CommitSearchQuery-->>RelatedCommitsQuery: Return selected commits

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Possibly related PRs

• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1168: Adds viewer channel-visibility filtering to CommitSearchQuery, which this change reuses for related-commit retrieval.
• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1069: Introduced the related-commit feature and embedding-distance query that this change replaces.

Suggested reviewers: nunomaduro, younes-io

Merge Risk: Low · up to 20907

Related-commit suggestions may still be influenced by crafted commit text or show fewer relevant results than are available. These bounded issues merit owner follow-up, but the reported external-service failure no longer blocks the rail.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 20907

Related-commit suggestions now make external classification requests. Existing visibility checks remain in place, and classification failures retain only already-authorized candidates. No access-control bypass was established, but external data handling and production capacity remain partly unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — Existing web and API related endpoints now initiate external classification for eligible sources. The web route has a 60-per-minute user/IP budget; the API route inherits its API throttle. Each related request submits at most three candidate bodies plus its source body using the configured service credential.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Both related-request classes authorize source visibility. Candidate visibility and muted-author checks occur before classification, and verdicts only retain or remove existing candidates. Keeping every candidate on provider failure does not bypass those access controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The inspected related-retrieval flow introduces no durable multi-step write. Its scan setting is transaction-local, candidate retrieval completes before the external call, and classification interruption cannot leave a partially updated commit or persistent authorization state.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Related lookups limit candidates before filtering blocked or muted authors, which can leave the rail empty despite other visible, relevant commits being available.

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• Filter blocked and muted commits before limiting nearest results · New

What changed in this PR

This PR routes related-commit suggestions through the existing semantic search pipeline, adding a relevance check that distinguishes connected subjects from similar wording or reactions.

Changes:

• Reuses stored commit embeddings and shared search logic for related suggestions.
• Adds related-commit classification prompts in place of the fixed distance cutoff.
• Updates tests and documentation for relevance-based results.

File	Description
tests/​Unit/​Queries/​RelatedCommitsQueryTest.php	Tests relevance filtering and related-commit prompt content.
tests/​Unit/​Queries/​CommitSearchQueryTest.php	Strengthens assertions for ordinary search prompts.
tests/​Feature/​Controllers/​RelatedCommitControllerTest.php	Fakes relevance requests in web controller tests.
tests/​Feature/​Controllers/​Api/​RelatedCommitControllerTest.php	Fakes relevance requests in API controller tests.
KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md	Documents subject-based relevance and visibility behavior.
app/​Services/​OpenAI.php	Adds related-commit instructions and prompt selection.
app/​Queries/​RelatedCommitsQuery.php	Delegates related lookups to shared search logic.
app/​Queries/​CommitSearchQuery.php	Supports commit sources, stored embeddings, and related classification.
app/​Providers/​AppServiceProvider.php	Updates the rate-limiter comment to mention relevance checks.

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Review comments at @app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php:
- Around line 79-84: Update the candidate query and `onlyRelevant` flow so the
limit is applied after relevance filtering: fetch the available candidate pool,
pass it through `onlyRelevant`, then retain at most `$limit` results. Preserve
the existing relatedness check based on `$source instanceof Commit`.

Review comments at @app/Queries/RelatedCommitsQuery.php:
- Line 25: Update RelatedCommitsQuery::get to catch failures from
CommitSearchQuery::get, report the exception, and return an empty Collection so
model or transport errors do not fail the related-commits path.

Review comments at @app/Services/OpenAI.php:
- Line 243: Update relevancePrompt to wrap the query and each candidate body in
distinct named tags, escaping closing-tag sequences within their content; update
RELEVANCE_INSTRUCTIONS and RELATED_COMMIT_INSTRUCTIONS to identify tagged text
as data, not instructions, and adjust the str_ends_with assertions in
CommitSearchQueryTest and RelatedCommitsQueryTest for the new format.

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• KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
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• tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/RelatedCommitControllerTest.php
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Apply the limit after relevance filtering.

The query calls ->limit($limit) before onlyRelevant runs. For the related rail, $limit is 3. The model then removes the candidates it rejects. The rail can show fewer than three commits, or none, while relevant commits sit at rank 4–6. nearest already fetches $limit * 2 ids, so those commits are available.

The new prompt is deliberately strict about relatedness, which makes this more likely. Fetch the full pool, filter it, then slice to $limit.

♻️ Proposed fix

--- "a/app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php"
+++ "b/app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php"
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@
                 ->withContinuationId($viewer)
                 ->withCardDataFor($viewer)
                 ->orderByVectorDistance('embedding', $vector)
-                ->limit($limit)
+                ->limit($limit * 2)
                 ->get()
                 ->toBase();
         });
 
-        return $this->onlyRelevant($term, $candidates, related: $source instanceof Commit);
+        return $this->onlyRelevant($term, $candidates, related: $source instanceof Commit)
+            ->take($limit)
+            ->values();
     }
 
     /**

The pool sent to decideRelevance doubles from 3 to 6 candidates per request. Check that cost against the related-commits rate limit.

Based on learnings: when a query pipeline both filters results and applies a limit, apply the limit after filtering.

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	->limit($limit)
	->get()
	->toBase();
	});
	return $this->onlyRelevant($term, $candidates, related: $source instanceof Commit);
	->limit($limit * 2)
	->get()
	->toBase();
	});
	return $this->onlyRelevant($term, $candidates, related: $source instanceof Commit)
	->take($limit)
	->values();

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Review comment at @app/Queries/CommitSearchQuery.php around lines 79 - 84:
Update the candidate query and `onlyRelevant` flow so the limit is applied after
relevance filtering: fetch the available candidate pool, pass it through
`onlyRelevant`, then retain at most `$limit` results. Preserve the existing
relatedness check based on `$source instanceof Commit`.

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sed -n '125,175p' app/Services/OpenAI.php
cat app/Queries/RelatedCommitsQuery.php
cat app/Http/Controllers/RelatedCommitController.php
cat app/Http/Controllers/Api/RelatedCommitController.php
rg -n 'related-commits|RelatedCommitController|decideRelevance' routes app/Exceptions app/Http

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echo '--- exception handling / decision callers ---'
rg -n -F -e 'decideRelevance' -e 'withExceptions' -e 'RequestException' -e 'ConnectionException' -e 'report(' -- app bootstrap config routes || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '--- base revision RelatedCommitsQuery ---'
git show 0b3cbaed4d2e1c637ba3dace302b343221a5968e:app/Queries/RelatedCommitsQuery.php || echo 'base revision unavailable'

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Handle decision-model failures in the related-commits path.

RelatedCommitsQuery::get calls CommitSearchQuery::get. For a commit with candidates, that calls OpenAI::decideRelevance. It sends a decisions request with a 60-second timeout and ->throw(). Before this change, the related rail made no external call.

If that request times out or returns a 4xx/5xx response, the exception is not caught in RelatedCommitsQuery or in either RelatedCommitController::index. The endpoint then fails with an unhandled exception. During a slow OpenAI outage, each request can hold a worker for up to the timeout.

The "flaky model never hides a post" guarantee in decideRelevance covers unreadable answers only. It does not cover transport errors.

The related rail is optional. Catch the failure in RelatedCommitsQuery::get, report it, and return an empty collection.

🛡️ Proposed fix

 use App\Models\User;
 use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
+use Throwable;

-        return $this->search->get($commit, $viewer, self::LIMIT);
+        try {
+            return $this->search->get($commit, $viewer, self::LIMIT);
+        } catch (Throwable $exception) {
+            report($exception);
+
+            return new Collection();
+        }

Add a test with Http::fake that returns a 500 for /decisions. A shorter timeout for this caller can also limit how long each request waits.

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Review comment at @app/Queries/RelatedCommitsQuery.php at line 25:
Update RelatedCommitsQuery::get to catch failures from CommitSearchQuery::get,
report the exception, and return an empty Collection so model or transport
errors do not fail the related-commits path.

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