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TG-4829's workspace had worktree branch jason-tg-4829, with its original PR (#6176) closed in favor of a stack of three open PRs (jason-tg-4829-limited-tier-read-gate → -notifications → -shift-alert). pr-stage-sync only ever tracked the PR whose head branch exactly matched the task's worktree branch, via a gh pr list --head <branch> lookup. With the original PR closed, crew_stage read closed and the sidebar showed no PRs at all, even though three open PRs were moving through review.

This PR teaches pr-stage-sync to discover a task's whole PR stack and surface it in both the stage-derivation pipeline and the sidebar.

What changed

  • Discovery: a task's PRs are every PR whose head branch equals the task's worktree branch or starts with <branch>-. Discovery issues one gh pr list --state all --limit 100 call per repository per tick (shared across every matched task in that repository), filtering client-side with a pure selectTaskPullRequests function — bounded regardless of how many tasks or stacks exist in a repository.
  • Selection and ordering: shows every open and merged PR for the task, falling back to closed PRs only when none are open or merged. When the shown PRs chain by base branch into a single linear stack, they're ordered bottom to top; any non-linear topology (forks, multiple roots, disconnected components) falls back to ascending PR number.
  • Stage/label derivation: each shown PR's stage is derived via the existing prStageRules.ts rules. crew_stage and crew_labels now describe whichever shown PR is most urgent, using a single PR_STAGE_URGENCY_ORDER ranking that mirrors the sidebar's section order (my_review → ci_failing → changes_requested → needs_testing → ready_to_merge → ci_running → peer_review → merged → closed). crew stage label-add/label-remove and the sidebar's right-click label toggles follow that same stage-driving PR, so toggling a stack's row acts on whichever PR is currently blocking it.
  • New crew_prs status: every shown PR, encoded as <number>,<stage>,<url> entries joined by ; (priority -14, written only when it changes, cleared when the task has no PRs — same applyField pattern as the other status keys).
  • Sidebar: contrib/cmux/groundcrew.swift parses crew_prs once per row (in the existing per-row precompute pass, not per render) and renders one "PR #<n> · <stage>" line per entry, falling back to cmux's native w.prs rendering when crew_prs is absent. The context menu's label toggles resolve the url to act on from the same per-row precompute (the entry matching the row's crew_stage, falling back to w.pr when crew_prs is absent).
  • contrib/cmux/README.md documents the stack-discovery behavior and the crew_prs status key.

Why

An agent splitting a task's work into a stack of smaller PRs is a normal pattern this repo already optimizes for (see feedback_small_prs — small, focused PRs over one large one). Before this change, doing so silently broke PR-stage tracking and hid the task's PRs from the sidebar entirely, since both assumed a task maps to exactly one PR tracked by exact branch name.

How tested

  • node --run verify passes: 100% statement/branch/function/line coverage, 2414 tests across 101 files, all 9 verify steps green.
  • Added test coverage for the new pure functions in prStageRules.ts (urgency ranking, task-branch matching, PR selection/ordering including stack-chain detection and every non-linear-topology fallback, status encoding), the new listPullRequestsForRepositoryOrThrow gh wrapper in pullRequests.ts, and the rewritten prStageSync.ts orchestration (bounded one-call-per-repository discovery, stack ordering end-to-end with TG-4829-style branch/PR-number fixtures, driving-PR selection for crew_stage/crew_labels).
  • Ran the Swift sidebar test suite (contrib/cmux/tests/) against the changed file through cmux's own SwiftViewInterpreter: 54 tests pass, including 3 new tests covering crew_prs rendering (multiple entries) and the fallback to native w.prs when crew_prs is absent, plus a new context-menu test confirming the label toggles act on the stack's driving PR rather than the workspace's native checked-out PR.
  • Ran the render-cost bench comparing this branch's groundcrew.swift against the pre-change file: median render time went from 278ms to 301ms (+8.1%), within the sidebar's ~10% regression budget (a render budget that matters because the sidebar re-evaluates every 1s and a slow render starves the cmux socket).

Reviewer decisions

  • crew_prs encoding (<number>,<stage>,<url> entries joined by ;) was chosen because the sidebar interpreter's split(separator:) only accepts a single character and has no ??/compactMap/array +; this is the simplest format that's cheap to parse once per row under those constraints.
  • Stack-order detection falls back to ascending-PR-number ordering for anything other than a single clean linear base→head chain (forks, multiple roots, disconnected components), rather than attempting a best-effort partial ordering, to keep the behavior predictable.

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PR-stage sync now discovers and orders multiple task pull requests, writes the stack to crew_prs, and derives stage and labels from the most urgent shown PR. The cmux sidebar displays stack entries and routes label actions to the PR associated with crew_stage.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Pull request lookup
src/lib/pullRequests.ts, src/lib/pullRequests.test.ts
Adds task PR data with head and base branches, a repository-wide lookup limited to 100 PRs, and an exact-head lookup fallback limited to five. Tests cover query options, parsing, failures, and abort signals.
Task matching and stack rules
src/lib/prStageRules.ts, src/lib/prStageRules.test.ts
Adds task-branch matching, open-or-merged selection with closed-PR fallback, stack ordering, stage urgency selection, and crew_prs encoding. Tests cover matching, ordering fallbacks, and encoding.
PR-stage sync
src/commands/prStageSync.ts, src/commands/prStageSync.test.ts, src/commands/stage.test.ts, src/lib/cmuxStatusFields.ts
Sync shares repository listings across tasks, uses exact-head fallback when needed, and fetches details for each found PR. It writes the full shown stack to crew_prs and derives crew_stage and crew_labels from the most urgent PR. Failure tests check when PR fields are preserved or cleared.
Sidebar rendering and label actions
contrib/cmux/groundcrew.swift, contrib/cmux/tests/GroundcrewSidebarRowLayoutTests.swift, contrib/cmux/tests/GroundcrewSidebarStageTests.swift, contrib/cmux/README.md
The sidebar displays parsed crew_prs entries and uses the PR matching crew_stage for label actions. When crew_prs is absent, native PR rendering remains in use. Tests and documentation describe these cases.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Sync as prStageSync
  participant Listing as Repository PR listing
  participant Rules as Task PR selection
  participant DetailApi as PR detail lookup
  participant Status as cmux status writer
  Sync->>Listing: list PRs for each repository
  Listing-->>Sync: return repository PR candidates
  Sync->>Rules: filter and order task PRs
  Rules-->>Sync: return shown PR stack
  Sync->>DetailApi: fetch details for shown PRs
  DetailApi-->>Sync: return PR stages and labels
  Sync->>Status: write crew_stage, crew_labels, and crew_prs
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After PR-stage sync is disabled or the watch loop stops, sidebar rows can keep showing frozen PR stack lines and hide newly opened PRs. A one-line freshness check fixes this. Otherwise the change looks ready to merge.

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- Line 814: Update the `prEntries` assignment to read `crewPrEntries(w)` only
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let liveAgents = liveAgentsOf(w, now)
let stage = rowStage(w, liveAgents, now, stagesFresh)
["w": w, "color": stageBadgeColor(stage), "stage": stage, "ticket": crewTicket(w), "agents": liveAgents]
let prEntries = crewPrEntries(w)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Show crew_prs entries only while the stage heartbeat is fresh.

rowStage reads crew_stage only when stagesFresh is true. crewPrEntries(w) reads crew_prs with no freshness check.

The tickets-only path (syncTicketsOnly in src/commands/prStageSync.ts) never clears crew_prs. A stopped watch loop does not clear it either. So after cmux.prStages.enabled is turned off, or after crew run --watch stops, the old crew_prs value stays in place. The row then has two problems:

  • It keeps showing frozen "PR #N · " lines under "Stage unknown" or "Open PRs".
  • It hides cmux's native w.prs list, so PRs opened later never appear.

This contradicts contrib/cmux/README.md, which says that rows fall back to native PR data when PR-stage sync is off.

Fix: read crew_prs only when stagesFresh is true. With an empty entry list, menuPrUrl also falls back to w.pr.

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--- "a/contrib/cmux/groundcrew.swift"
+++ "b/contrib/cmux/groundcrew.swift"
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@
   let rows = tasks.map { w in
     let liveAgents = liveAgentsOf(w, now)
     let stage = rowStage(w, liveAgents, now, stagesFresh)
-    let prEntries = crewPrEntries(w)
+    let prEntries = stagesFresh ? crewPrEntries(w) : []
     [
       "w": w, "color": stageBadgeColor(stage), "stage": stage, "ticket": crewTicket(w),
       "agents": liveAgents, "prEntries": prEntries, "menuPrUrl": menuPrUrl(w, prEntries),
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let prEntries = crewPrEntries(w)
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Review comment at @contrib/cmux/groundcrew.swift at line 814:
Update the `prEntries` assignment to read `crewPrEntries(w)` only when
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ClipboardJason force-pushed the jason-sidebar-stack-prs branch from 38b3c5b to 5c18766 Compare October 8, 2026 14:32
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pr-stage-sync tracked only the PR whose head branch exactly matched a
task's worktree branch. When an agent splits a task into a stack of
PRs (branch, branch-a, branch-b, ...), the original PR closes and the
newer stack PRs go untracked: crew_stage reports "closed" and the
sidebar shows no PRs, even though the task has three open PRs moving
through review.

pr-stage-sync now lists every open/merged/closed PR per repository
(one `gh pr list --state all` call per repository per tick, shared
across every matched task in it) and filters client-side for PRs whose
head branch equals the task branch or starts with "<branch>-". It
shows every open and merged PR, falling back to closed PRs only when
the task has none open or merged, ordered bottom-to-top when the shown
PRs chain by base branch into a single stack and by PR number
otherwise.

Each shown PR's stage is derived and encoded into a new crew_prs
status (field-and-entry-separated, parsed once per sidebar row rather
than per render). crew_stage and crew_labels now describe whichever
shown PR is most urgent, using the same ranking the sidebar's section
order already encodes. crew stage label-add/label-remove and the
sidebar's context-menu label toggles follow that same stage-driving
PR, so right-clicking a stack's row acts on the PR currently blocking
it rather than always the task's original PR.

The sidebar renders one "PR #<n> · <stage>" line per crew_prs entry in
place of cmux's native PR list when present, falling back to the
native w.prs rendering otherwise (PR-stage sync off, or no crew_prs
entries).

Tested: `node --run verify` passes (100% statement/branch/function/line
coverage, 2414 tests). Swift sidebar suite (54 tests, including 3 new
crew_prs tests) passes against the file via cmux's SwiftViewInterpreter.
Render-cost bench: 278ms -> 301ms median (+8.1%), within the ~10% budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QDPWP8wH2WJjTPgZzibVG2
listPullRequestsForRepositoryOrThrow lists the 100 most recent PRs per
repository with no author filter. ClipboardHealth/clipboard-health gets
far more than 100 PRs in a few days across all authors, so any tracked
task's PR older than that window silently fell out of discovery —
crew_stage, crew_labels, and crew_prs would all read as "no PR" and
get cleared, even though the task still has an open PR.

Scope the repository-wide list to `--author @me`: groundcrew runs
under the operator's own gh identity, which is who every agent-created
PR is authored by, so the 100-PR window is spent on PRs that can
plausibly belong to a tracked task instead of the rest of the
repository's traffic.

That narrows, but doesn't eliminate, the window problem, so add a
per-task fallback: when a matched task's branch (and its stack) are
absent from the repository-wide list, pr-stage-sync now falls back to
one exact-branch `gh pr list --head <branch>` call for that task alone
— the same lookup it used before stack discovery existed
(findTaskPullRequestsForBranchOrThrow in pullRequests.ts). A fallback
failure is treated exactly like a repository-list failure: the
workspace is marked failed so its fields are left untouched rather
than cleared, never silently read as "no PR".

Tested: node --run verify passes (100% coverage, 2421 tests). Added
targeted tests for --author @me, the fallback finding a PR missing
from the repository list, and fallback-failure leaving fields
untouched — each manually mutation-checked by reverting its production
behavior and confirming only the intended test(s) fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QDPWP8wH2WJjTPgZzibVG2
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ClipboardJason force-pushed the jason-sidebar-stack-prs branch from 5c18766 to 49cc072 Compare October 8, 2026 15:39
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