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The Pull Requests page repeatedly spends GitHub quota on silent repositories and invalidates global listings after every agent turn (#19363).

This preserves @juliusmarminge's original proposal and branch history, with main merged in. GitHub now batches coverage checks for repositories absent from search, remembers both outcomes for ten minutes, and retains repository reads when coverage is unconfirmed. Other hosts keep their existing fallback. Global agent-turn refreshes share a thirty-second window with a trailing refresh; the turn's own project refreshes immediately. Explicit refresh, user pushes/create-PR, and stack actions remain immediate.

Whole-request failures, including transport/HTTP/rate-limit errors and GraphQL timeouts with null data, remain uncached so the next listing can retry. Confirmed negative and missing answers still cache for ten minutes; repository-scoped refusals stay isolated.

Canceling a listing reader no longer cancels its paid host lookup. The service finishes that work even after its last reader leaves, so reattached readers can share the result; service shutdown still interrupts it.

Verification at 88087307f6:

  • Live github.com: the unchanged generated 25-repository coverage batch, measured at ce7cfc75e5, was accepted and cost 1 GraphQL point, including an isolated missing-repository error. GitHub estimated 4 points for the current generated single-repository 100-row listing with rateLimit(dryRun:true).
  • Before/after behavior: mutation checks prove coverage batching/caching, turn coalescing, own-project freshness, and cancellation. A real push-helper/service regression failed with two host reads before the follow-up and now immediately makes read three and returns the new PR ten seconds into the turn window.
  • 532 focused cases pass across nine existing files. Service/API cases: 361 → 365 (two added on main), retaining five original behaviors and adding a review-discovered push regression and one whole-query timeout case. Scoped server/core/GitHub typechecks, lint, formatting, generated-query consistency, and scoped unused-export checks pass.
  • Four full review rounds: Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex gpt-6-sol ended with no findings after fixing delayed user-push refresh and whole-query probe recovery. Current-head executable CI passed; Macroscope approval remains a human gate. Main was merged normally; a one-line correction to an existing web fixture fixes the missing required editor-shortcut prop exposed by merge-based CI. Web typecheck reproduced that failure before the correction and passed afterward. No additional production behavior changed.

Detailed before/after evidence · Live measurement summary

This verifies the live query and integrated service behavior; it does not measure a full running-client agent workload or secondary search-limit saturation. No visual layout changed. macOS, Windows, Electron, iOS, Android, and a live GHES account were not exercised. Macroscope's human approval gate remains.

Fixes #19363.

Tests: Codex gpt-6-astra. Implementation: Codex gpt-6.1-sol. Reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex gpt-6-sol. Harness: T3 Code.

… budget while agents run

A repository a listing's search returned nothing for was read on its own on almost every
refresh, at four points each, and every finished turn moved the global listings epoch, so an
open page re-read everything after every turn in any project.

The silent repositories are now checked with one aliased search-coverage request (one point
for all of them), and a covered answer is remembered like a returned row. Turns move the
listings at most once per 30-second list cache window; the project's own pull requests still
refresh at once.

Fixes #19363

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR substantially changes Pull Request listing behavior, GitHub GraphQL usage, cache lifetimes, and agent-turn refresh scheduling. It also decides when per-repository reads are skipped, making the downstream-work gate and its resource implications appropriate for human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB −7 B (−0.1%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB −7 B (−0.6%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 20.9 KiB 20.9 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.2 KiB 21.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: a3d73c9 · PR result: 8808730 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

The listing service now checks whether GitHub search covers repositories omitted from results and reads repositories individually when coverage is not confirmed. Listing cache reads survive caller cancellation, and turn-triggered refreshes are coalesced. Explicit and push-triggered refreshes are immediate.

Changes: Pull-request listings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Search coverage lookup
packages/source-control-core/src/server/PullRequestProvider.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestListings.graphql, packages/source-control-github/src/server/pullRequestListings.graphql.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestApi.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestProvider.ts, packages/source-control-github/src/server/GitHubPullRequestApi.test.ts
The provider API adds optional searchCoverage. GitHub batches coverage queries and returns per-repository results. Tests cover positive and negative coverage results, repository-level errors, and query timeouts.
Listing coverage and fallback reads
apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
The listing service caches coverage results and reads repositories individually when coverage is not confirmed. Tests cover fallback behavior and the ten-minute coverage cache.
Listing cache and refresh behavior
apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts, apps/server/src/git/refreshPushedPullRequests.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadDetailsPrRows.browser.test.tsx
Listing cache keys include project epochs, and shared reads continue after a caller is interrupted. Turn-triggered refreshes are coalesced, while action and push-triggered refreshes are immediate. Tests cover cancellation, project-scoped invalidation, and refresh timing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequestService
  participant GitHubPullRequestProvider
  participant GitHubPullRequestApi
  participant GitHubGraphQL
  PullRequestService->>GitHubPullRequestProvider: request coverage for repositories
  GitHubPullRequestProvider->>GitHubPullRequestApi: forward coverage request
  GitHubPullRequestApi->>GitHubGraphQL: send batched coverage query
  GitHubGraphQL-->>GitHubPullRequestApi: return search and repository counts
  GitHubPullRequestApi-->>GitHubPullRequestProvider: return per-repository coverage
  GitHubPullRequestProvider-->>PullRequestService: return coverage results
  PullRequestService->>GitHubPullRequestProvider: read repositories without confirmed coverage
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The Pull Requests page now batches GitHub search-coverage checks, coalesces agent-turn refreshes, and keeps in-progress listing reads alive when a reader cancels. No outstanding correctness or stability issue was found. The change looks ready to merge after normal checks.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: reducing GitHub GraphQL quota usage on the Pull Requests page while agents run.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#19363] requires lower Pull Requests listing cost and fewer repeated reads after agent turns. The PR batches GitHub search-coverage checks, caches covered and uncovered results for ten minutes,…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue [#19363]. The provider API, GitHub coverage query, generated types, listing cache and refresh logic, push-refresh wiring, cancellation behavior, and focused tests directl…
Description check Passed The description covers the problem, implementation, linked issue, verification results, limitations, and agent details. It does not use the template headings and does not include an explicit maintaine…
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Issue [#19363] requires lower Pull Requests listing cost and fewer repeated reads after agent turns. The PR batches GitHub search-coverage checks, caches covered and uncovered results for ten minutes, and uses repository reads only when coverage is unconfirmed. It coalesces ordinary turn refreshes, refreshes the active project immediately, preserves immediate explicit and push refreshes, and keeps shared host reads available after reader cancellation. The PR also leaves whole-request failures uncached for retry. Focused tests cover batching, caching, refresh timing, cancellation, push refresh, and failure recovery.

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The changes stay within issue [#19363]. The provider API, GitHub coverage query, generated types, listing cache and refresh logic, push-refresh wiring, cancellation behavior, and focused tests directly support quota reduction or refresh reliability. The web fixture change supports the affected test and does not demonstrate an unrelated product change.

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- A listing keeps running in the service's scope when its reader goes away, so a page that
  refreshes mid-read joins it instead of paying GitHub for the same reads again.
- A listing narrowed to projects keys by their project epochs too, so a turn's own project
  reads fresh at once while the turn throttle holds the rest.
- One refused repository (SAML, disabled) in a coverage batch is reported as not covered
  rather than failing the batch and sending every silent repository back to its own read.
- A repository search does not cover is remembered as such, so it is read on its own without
  being asked about again first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Taking over this one as maintainer for batch pull-request-13. I will preserve the branch history, merge current main, reduce the tests to focused quota regressions, and rebuild the listing/cache changes against current conventions with independent reviews. This will remain unmerged.

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- Around line 1293-1305: Update the searchCoverage probe handling in
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than caching covered: false. Cache false for unasked repositories only when the
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