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…ontributor PRs CONTRIBUTING.md now says what maintainers may push to a contributor's branch (merging main, conflicts, the changes/ file, lint, re-running checks, tiny review fixes), what they always do (say what they pushed, never force-push, only with maintainer edits on) and what stays the contributor's (behaviour and design). docs/AGENT_WORKFLOW.md has the same for agents. A "/update" comment on a pull request, by its author or anyone with write access, merges main in with GitHub's update-branch API. On conflicts the bot lists the files (git merge-tree on the objects only, never a checkout) and labels the PR "needs update" for a maintainer; the label comes off once the branch is up to date. A fork without maintainer edits gets pointed at the "Update branch" button. GitHub holds the checks of a commit made with the workflow token and skips pull_request_target, so after its own merge commit the bot approves the held runs (only if the old head ran without approval) and copies the CLA check from the old head. Closes #464
A check run made with the workflow token is filed under one of the commit's workflow runs, and one filed before that run was approved is dropped from the latest checks when it starts. Approve first, wait for the runs to leave the queue, then copy the CLA check and confirm GitHub lists it.
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly identifies both primary changes: the /updatecommand that mergesmaininto pull requests and the maintainer-chores guidance for contributor pull requests.Linked Issues check Issue #464coding requirements are satisfied.CONTRIBUTING.mddocuments maintainer chores, contributor-owned behavior and design changes, push reporting, no force-pushes, and merge-queue behavior. `…Out of Scope Changes check The changes remain within issue #464. The documentation defines the requested maintainer policy. The workflow, script, and tests support branch updates, conflict handling, label handling, fallback beh…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#464coding requirements are satisfied.CONTRIBUTING.mddocuments maintainer chores, contributor-owned behavior and design changes, push reporting, no force-pushes, and merge-queue behavior.docs/AGENT_WORKFLOW.mdadds the requested agent guidance. The workflow and.github/scripts/update.jsimplement a pull-request-only/updatecommand with author or verified writer authorization, merge-only updates, conflict reporting,needs updatehandling, button fallback, and no PR-code execution. The tests cover the command, authorization, update outcomes, conflicts, labels, and check handling.
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- Around line 59-63: Update MESSAGES.useButton to accept the maintainer-edit
permission and whether conflicts were successfully checked, then pass those
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Say GitHub refused the push when maintainer edits are on, and claim no conflicts only when they were checked. The docs say the bot tries the merge and may point at the Update branch button, and what the needs update label means.
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🟡 Minor · Keep needs update until the new head appears. · update.js:324-365
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep
needs updateuntil the new head appears.
waitForNewHeadreturnsnullwhen polling times out, but theupdatedpath still removesneeds update. The branch is not known to be current at that point. The synchronize handler only removes the label whenbehind === 0; it does not restore the label if the branch is still behind.Suggested fix
-if (action === 'upToDate' || action === 'updated') await removeLabel(github, { owner, repo, issue_number }); +if (action === 'upToDate' || (action === 'updated' && newSha)) { + await removeLabel(github, { owner, repo, issue_number }); +}🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Check repository permission instead of author_association. · update.js:80-88
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCheck repository permission instead of
author_association.
MEMBERandCOLLABORATORidentify repository association, not write permission. An organization member or collaborator with read or triage access can therefore passmayUpdate.When that user comments
/updateon an eligible pull request, the workflow grants its tokencontents: write,pull-requests: write,actions: write, andchecks: write. The user can causepulls.updateBranchto mergemaininto the pull request branch and can also reach the subsequent held-run approval and CLA recovery path.Use the collaborator permission endpoint and allow only write-level permissions, while preserving the pull request author exception.
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-// author_association values for people with write access (the PR author may always use the command too). -const WRITERS = ['OWNER', 'MEMBER', 'COLLABORATOR']; +// Permission values for people with write access. +const WRITERS = ['ADMIN', 'MAINTAIN', 'WRITE']; @@ -function mayUpdate({ association, commenter, author }) { - if (WRITERS.includes(String(association || '').toUpperCase())) return true; +function mayUpdate({ permission, commenter, author }) { + if (WRITERS.includes(String(permission || '').toUpperCase())) return true; return !!commenter && String(commenter).toLowerCase() === String(author || '').toLowerCase(); } + +async function collaboratorPermission(github, { owner, repo, username }) { + try { + const { data } = await github.rest.repos.getCollaboratorPermissionLevel({ owner, repo, username }); + return data.permission; + } catch { + return 'none'; + } +} @@ - if (!mayUpdate({ association: comment.author_association, commenter, author: issue.user && issue.user.login })) { + const author = issue.user && issue.user.login; + const permission = + String(commenter).toLowerCase() === String(author || '').toLowerCase() + ? '' + : await collaboratorPermission(github, { owner, repo, username: commenter }); + if (!mayUpdate({ permission, commenter, author })) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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OWNER, MEMBER and COLLABORATOR don't prove write access: an organisation member or a read-only collaborator has one too. For anyone but the PR author the bot now looks up the repository permission and needs admin, maintain or write. Tried for real: the workflow token reads it (admin for the owners, read for an outsider, none for an app).
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🟡 Minor · Only remove the label after verifying GitHub’s merge commit. · update.js:350-370
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winOnly remove the label after verifying GitHub’s merge commit.
updateBranchreturns202before the update completes. A concurrent push can change the head beforewaitForNewHeadpolls it. The poll accepts any changed SHA, and line 367 removesneeds updatewithout usingisOurMerge. The branch can remain behind while the label is removed.Suggested fix
let newSha = null; + let ourMerge = false; let checks = 'held'; ... if (action === 'updated') { newSha = await waitForNewHead(github, { owner, repo, pull_number: issue_number, oldSha, sleep, poll }); - if (newSha && (await isOurMerge(github, { owner, repo, oldSha, newSha }))) { + if (newSha) { + ourMerge = await isOurMerge(github, { owner, repo, oldSha, newSha }); + } + if (ourMerge) { ... - if (action === 'upToDate' || (action === 'updated' && newSha)) await removeLabel(github, { owner, repo, issue_number }); + if (action === 'upToDate' || (action === 'updated' && ourMerge)) await removeLabel(github, { owner, repo, issue_number });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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What and why
Maintainers now do the mechanical chores on contributor pull requests, and the substance stays with the contributor. This PR does two things.
main, resolving conflicts, thechanges/file, lint and formatting fixes, re-running checks, tiny fixes a review asked for). It says what we always do: comment with exactly what we pushed, never force-push, and push only when "Allow edits by maintainers" is on. Anything that changes behaviour or design stays yours and comes back as a review. It also explains that the merge queue doesn't need an up-to-date branch, and that you can comment/updateif you wantmainmerged in anyway. docs/AGENT_WORKFLOW.md gets a short "Someone else's pull request" section for agents./updatecomment command (.github/workflows/update.yaml, logic in.github/scripts/update.js, tests inupdate.test.js, run by the existing "Bot scripts" check).author_associationof OWNER, MEMBER or COLLABORATOR, andadmin,maintainorwritepermission on the repository. The association alone doesn't prove write access (CodeRabbit's finding), and I checked that the workflow token can read the permission (run). Anyone else gets a polite "only the author or a maintainer". Comments on issues, comments from bots, and anything other than an exact/updateare ignored, both in the job'sifand again in the script.needs update.needs update(and creates the label if it's missing), and says a maintainer will resolve them. To find the files it runsgit merge-tree --write-treeon a blobless fetch ofmainandrefs/pull/N/headin an empty bare repo. That means no working tree and nothing from the branch is run.PUT /pulls/{n}/update-branch(a merge, never a rebase), waits for the merge commit, and replies with its sha. It then removesneeds update.needs updatefor maintainers.pull_request_targetsynchronizejob, which only runs when the label is present, removesneeds updateonce the branch has everything frommain. That covers the author clicking the button or a maintainer merging by hand..github/scriptsfrom the default branch, withpersist-credentials: false. It never checks out or runs PR code. The workflow starts withpermissions: {}and gives each job only what it needs.What the real test found (the critical unknown)
The built-in
GITHUB_TOKENcan update a branch in a fork when "Allow edits by maintainers" is on. It needs bothcontents: writeandpull-requests: write. With onlypull-requests: writeit gets 403 "user doesn't have permission to update head repository". With onlycontents: writeit gets 403 "Resource not accessible by integration". That is true for same-repo and fork PRs alike. So no personal token or secret is needed, and the button fallback is only for forks without maintainer edits.The catch: GitHub treats the token's merge commit differently from a person's push.
pull_requestruns (CI, Changelog) are created but held asaction_requiredfor approval.pull_request_targetworkflows don't run at all: no CLAAssistant and no labeler./updatewould leave the PR unable to enter the merge queue until a person pushed again.So after its own merge commit the bot:
actions: write, which the probe confirmed works with the workflow token). It does this only when GitHub had already run the checks on the head before the merge. A first-time contributor whose runs still wait for approval keeps that gate, and the reply then says a maintainer will start the checks.checks: write). The CLA action would decide the same again: main's commits aren't part of the PR, and the merge commit's authorgithub-actions[bot]is on the CLA allowlist. The copied check is app 15368 (GitHub Actions), the source the ruleset requires.Both steps run only for a commit GitHub itself made: verified, committed by
web-flow, with the old head as first parent.The order matters. A check made with the workflow token is filed under one of that commit's workflow runs. One filed before the run was approved got dropped from the latest checks when the run started; this happened on the first test: /update probe (same, do not merge) #465 run. So the bot approves first, waits for the runs to leave the queue, copies the check, and confirms GitHub lists it. If GitHub doesn't, the reply says the CLA check runs again with the next push.
For the owner to decide: the two follow-ups widen the job to
actions: writeandchecks: write. The alternative is to drop them and have the reply say "a maintainer will start the checks", which leaves CLAAssistant missing until the author's next push.Closes #464
How I tested it
node --test ".github/scripts/*.test.js": 49 tests pass (assign, stale, and 26 new ones for update). They cover the exact-command parsing, who may use it, every reply, label create/add/remove, button fallback, conflict listing, head-moved, approval only when the old head ran unapproved checks, no approval or copy for a commit that isn't GitHub's own merge, CLA copy conditions and order, andclearLabel.gitConflictsruns for real against a local throwaway repository (no network): it reports exactly the file both sides changed, and[]for a clean merge.no changelog: contributor tooling only.Real test
issue_commentworkflows only run from the default branch, so before merge I ran the same script with the same permissions from a temporary workflow on a scratch branch (test/update-probe,workflow_dispatch). It feedsupdate.jsthe payloadissue_commentwould deliver for/update. I ran it against three draft PRs: #465 (same repo, 3 behind), #466 (same repo, conflicts with #461 inchanges/456.fixed.mdanddocs/API.md), and #467 (from the forkitsskofficial/Sentient, 3 behind).pull-requests: writeonly, same repocontents: writeonly, same reponeeds updatecreated and addedchanges/456.fixed.mdanddocs/API.md(comment), label added. These are the same two filesgit mergeshowed when I resolved it by hand (AA and UU)Removed "needs update"/updateon the now up-to-date #466main. Nothing to do." (comment)Approved CI,Approved Changelog,Copied the CLA check (success) from d2abe6e, reply "Merged the latestmaininto this branch (80f1190)... The checks are running again." (comment)aeb27b6onitsskofficial:test/update-probe-fork(authorgithub-actions[bot], committerweb-flow, verified, parents = old head + main), both runs approved, CLA copied (comment)Required checks on the two bot-made merge commits, after the runs finished: all seven required checks pass on both #465
80f1190and #467aeb27b6: CLAAssistant, Changelog entry, Desktop typecheck and build, Engine tests (ubuntu and windows), Lint and Secret scan. On each, the copied CLAAssistant is the latest check run of that name, from app 15368. So a PR updated by/updatecan still go into the merge queue without anyone pushing again.Earlier runs showed the problem the follow-ups fix. After the first bare update of #465 (merge commit
5469a92), CI and Changelog sat ataction_requiredwith actorgithub-actions[bot], and no CLA or labeler run appeared at all. Arecheckcomment didn't help, because the CLA action ran onmain's sha. A CLA check copied before approving landed in the CI run's check suite and fell out of the latest checks when that run started. A check copied after approval stayed listed through the run's completion (suite count 6 including CLAAssistant).Not tested for real: the
issue_commenttrigger and thepull_request_targetlabel-clear trigger themselves. They only run frommain, so they can't run before merge; theirifconditions copy the/assignbot's pattern. The "not allowed" reply for a stranger is unit-tested only. After merge: comment/updateon a PR that is behind, to see the real trigger end to end.The probe branches and PRs (#465, #466, #467,
test/update-probe*, and the fork branch) are closed and deleted.Summary by CodeRabbit
/updateas the author or someone with write access.needs updatelabel reflects update outcomes and is cleared when the branch is confirmed current.