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What Changed

Adds an advisory contribution check that points out missing PR explanations, context, and UI evidence before a maintainer reviews the change. It creates or updates one GitHub Actions comment, without approving, rejecting, or labeling the PR.

The check reads What Changed, Why, and UI Changes; flags missing before/after images for detected visible client changes and missing video for detected motion changes; and highlights external feature proposals without a repository discussion, large changes without context, broad diffs, and incomplete API diffs for human review. Explicit explanations that visuals or interactions are unchanged are accepted.

The PR template adds owning context and clarifies evidence wording. CONTRIBUTING.md explains the advisory check. Tests run in the existing CI Test job using the repository's CommonJS/Node test convention.

Why

The contribution guide already asks for these explanations and evidence, but authors often learn about gaps only when a maintainer reads the PR. This check supplies early, concrete feedback while leaving product direction, scope, and correctness to maintainers.

The change is not superseded by the Cursor hygiene forwarder (#9518, adjusted in #9527): that workflow forwards events to an external service; it does not implement these template and evidence checks.

Owning Context

No prior maintainer alignment. Maintainers must decide whether to adopt this proposed advisory policy and write-capable workflow.

Trust boundary

The pull_request_target job executes only the trusted base revision from github.sha, with sparse checkout, disabled credential persistence, and actions pinned to full commit SHAs. PR files are fetched as API data and never executed. Permissions are limited to contents: read and pull-requests: write. Draft PRs have prior advisory comments removed; bot PRs are skipped. The head is checked before evaluation and again before publication.

Validation

Rebased cleanly onto origin/main at b1e223e2b0; all six commits remain patch-equivalent to the previous head.

  • node --test .github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.test.cjs: 34 passed, 0 failed.
  • node --check on the reviewer and its test: passed.
  • vp fmt --check on all six changed files and vp lint on both CommonJS files: passed.
  • git diff --check origin/main...HEAD: passed. No TypeScript files or application runtime behavior changed.
  • Independent read-only Codex CLI review using GPT-6 Astra, medium reasoning: exit 0, no actionable findings in origin/main...469a878d7d. The reviewer independently reran all 34 tests. This was a same-provider review, as explicitly requested through codex-review.

Live advisory publication remains unverified until the workflow is on a trusted base branch; mocked GitHub API tests cover comment creation, update, unchanged results, draft removal, bot exclusion, and stale-head checks.

UI Changes

No visual or interaction changes to web, desktop, or mobile clients. This is GitHub automation and contributor guidance; client screenshots and videos do not demonstrate its behavior.

Coordination trace: T3 thread 809de8ee-7ea5-4b23-92cb-12730950e082

Model and harness: GPT-6 in Codex/T3 Code; independent review by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in Codex CLI. Existing implementation and previous worker fixes preserved.

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The PR adds template guidance, a reusable guideline evaluator, automated workflow execution, comment publication, trusted-contributor checks, UI evidence checks, and tests for evaluation and lifecycle behavior.

Changes

PR guideline review

Layer / File(s) Summary
PR documentation contract
.github/pull_request_template.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
The template adds owning-context and UI-evidence guidance. Contribution documentation describes the advisory review.
Guideline evaluation engine
.github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.cjs
The script parses PR content, classifies changes, evaluates findings and metrics, renders comments, manages comment state, checks stale heads, and exports helpers.
Evaluation and rendering tests
.github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.test.cjs
Tests cover template checks, trusted contributors, UI evidence, feature context, metrics, Markdown parsing, rendering, and comment lifecycle behavior.
Workflow and CI integration
.github/workflows/pr-guideline-review.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The workflow runs trusted review code with restricted permissions. CI runs the reviewer test suite.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as PR guideline workflow
  participant ReviewPull as reviewPull
  participant GitHub as GitHub API
  participant EvaluatePull as evaluatePull
  participant UpsertComment as upsertComment
  Workflow->>ReviewPull: invoke review
  ReviewPull->>GitHub: fetch pull data and files
  ReviewPull->>EvaluatePull: evaluate pull and files
  EvaluatePull-->>ReviewPull: return status and findings
  ReviewPull->>UpsertComment: render and publish result
  UpsertComment->>GitHub: create, update, or remove comment
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7be55

The incremental changes do not leave a concrete merge-blocking risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding advisory contribution checks for pull requests.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains what changed, why it changed, validation results, trust boundaries, and UI impact. It omits the template's Checklist section, but the required checklist information is covered…
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@t3dotgg This is ready for human review. It adds deterministic, advisory contribution checks for PRs. All current checks are green, and all 14 published automated findings have been addressed. The PR is still honestly labeled size:XL and the body notes that it does not have prior maintainer alignment.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial automatic GitHub workflow and reviewer engine that reads PR data and creates, updates, or deletes comments using a write-capable token. Its new policy logic, broad event activation, and security-sensitive trust boundary make human review appropriate despite no application-runtime or product-default changes.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
.github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.test.cjs (1)

754-807: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for the created publication path.

The suite covers unchanged and updated, but no test exercises the branch where no prior bot comment exists and createComment runs. That branch is the first-run path for every new PR.

🧪 Suggested additional test
test("creates the first bot comment when none exists", async () => {
  const calls = [];
  const body = `${COMMENT_MARKER}\nnew result`;
  const publication = await upsertComment(
    {
      paginate: async () => [{ id: 1, user: { login: "contributor" }, body: "unrelated" }],
      rest: {
        issues: {
          listComments: () => {},
          createComment: async (input) => calls.push(["create", input]),
          updateComment: async (input) => calls.push(["update", input]),
        },
      },
    },
    { repo: { owner: "pingdotgg", repo: "t3code" } },
    7,
    body,
  );

  assert.equal(publication, "created");
  assert.deepEqual(
    calls.map(([kind]) => kind),
    ["create"],
  );
  assert.equal(calls[0][1].body, body);
});
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In @.github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.test.cjs around lines 754 - 807, Add
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@coderabbitai The nitpick about the created publication path is addressed in 5042098: creates a bot comment when none exists covers the case where no bot-owned marker comment exists.

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In @.github/scripts/pr-guideline-review.cjs:
- Line 243: Extend isDefiniteUiFile to recognize matched non-self-closing JSX
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@saphid The described created path covers the case where no bot-owned marker comment exists. This addresses the nitpick.


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saphid and others added 6 commits September 12, 2026 21:22
Run the reviewer tests in the CI Test job like the other .github scripts
instead of a separate download-and-test job. Drop the checks gated on
CONTRIBUTING_VOUCHED.md, which does not exist upstream, along with the
template sections only those checks read. Cover the comment-creation path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed the existing bot findings against the rebased diff. All 17 inline threads already have replies and are resolved; the comment-creation coverage requested in the review body is present and passes.

The remaining CodeRabbit docstring-coverage warning is not adopted: AGENTS.md asks for useful comments rather than documentation that narrates discoverable implementation. Adding docstrings to every helper solely to meet an 80% quota would not improve this focused change.

Macroscope's human-review requirement remains valid: maintainers must decide whether to adopt the proposed policy and write-capable workflow. The updated body makes that decision and the unverified live-publication boundary explicit.

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