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fix(server): PR sync reads share GitHub requests again on busy servers - #28422
The background PR sync is meant to read up to 25 PRs per GitHub GraphQL request, but on a busy server it sends far smaller batches. One server with 256 linked PRs sent 128 summary requests for 201 PRs in under three minutes: 88 carried a single PR.
Change
The resolver only batches reads that reach it within 10 ms, and each read first passes its persisted cache check (17 to 578 ms on that server), so a wave of 25 groups splits up and each freed slot then sends one read alone. On a host that batches summary reads, the sweep now runs up to 100 groups at once instead of 25, so reads that clear their cache checks within the same 10 ms share a request. Providers declare batchesReads on PullRequestProviderApi and only GitHub sets it; other hosts keep 25 in a separate pool that never takes a GitHub slot.
Scope
A bug fix for a real performance problem that came back: the summary-batch collapse reported in #18295 (closed after #16320, #16982, #16270 and #16760) recurs on busy servers. Fixes#35153. On GitHub up to 100 reads can now run at once, stack reads included; the 10 ms window stays, since widening it would delay every read outside a full batch.
Verification
To see it on Linux (server side):
Start a dev server with one project linking about 110 PRs.
Count GitHub GraphQL summary requests during the startup sweep.
main sends about 29; this head sends about 7.
Real dev servers in an isolated home, one project linking 110 PRs from this repo (109 open, one merged), a read-only fetch observer counting every GitHub GraphQL request, 5 interleaved runs per case on a 32-core Linux machine. Summary requests, median (range):
Flow main a11ad74 this head fb6031e
Startup sweep, 109 due PRs 29 (27 to 31), n=5 7 (7 to 8), n=5
Same, loaded server 51 (49 to 56), n=5 10 (8 to 11), n=5
Explicit refresh of all 110 19 (14 to 23), n=5 12 (11 to 15), n=5
PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts (56 pass) holds 30 GitHub and 30 other-host reads at a gate and expects 30 and 25 in flight; with main's code only 25 start and it times out.
Re-checked against main476fc9b on 2026-11-12: the new test fails on that main without the change and passes with it, the branch merges cleanly, and the startup sweep for 110 PRs sent 14, 8 and 22 summary requests on that main against 5, 6 and 5 merged (details).
Not checked: a loaded server with both GitHub and other hosts. The test covers the two pools side by side.
Method, test detail and per-run counts
Why the batches split. The sweep runs 25 groups at a time, to match the batch. The resolver only batches reads that reach it within 10 ms, and each read first passes its persisted cache check, which took 17 to 578 ms on that server. So a wave that starts together splits into several requests, and each freed slot then starts one group whose read goes out alone. This is the collapse reported in #18295.
Other hosts read one PR at a time, some through a CLI process, so they keep 25 in a separate pool that never takes a GitHub slot.
Tests.
vp test run src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts: 56 pass. The new test holds 30 GitHub and 30 other-host reads at a gate and expects 30 and 25 in flight. With main's code only 25 start and it times out; with 100 for every host it fails with expected 30 to equal 25.
vp run check:changed: pass.
Live request counts. Real dev servers in an isolated home with one project linking 110 PRs from this repo (109 open, one merged), and a read-only fetch observer counting every GitHub GraphQL request. 5 interleaved runs per case on a 32-core Linux machine, each from the same state with the PR read cache cleared. "Loaded" pins the server and three CPU-bound processes to one core (main's cache-check p90: 135 to 372 ms). Refresh sends one invalidate per linked PR at once.
Batching is still not perfect: reads whose cache checks finish more than 10 ms apart still go out separately. The refresh gain needs #30293, which this branch now includes. An independent run at the earlier head, before #30293, saw a smaller cold-sweep cut (31 to 22 requests).
Per-run counts, unedited (busy is the loaded server, r5head is this head fb6031e, requests is summary requests):
$ cut -f1-5 results.tsv
flow version rep ok requests
busy main 1 True 52
busy main 2 True 49
busy main 3 True 56
busy main 4 True 51
busy main 5 True 49
busy r5head 1 True 10
busy r5head 2 True 8
busy r5head 3 True 11
busy r5head 4 True 8
busy r5head 5 True 11
cold main 1 True 29
cold main 2 True 27
cold main 3 True 31
cold main 4 True 28
cold main 5 True 29
cold r5head 1 True 8
cold r5head 2 True 7
cold r5head 3 True 7
cold r5head 4 True 7
cold r5head 5 True 8
refresh main 1 True 19
refresh main 2 True 23
refresh main 3 True 22
refresh main 4 True 19
refresh main 5 True 14
refresh r5head 1 True 11
refresh r5head 2 True 12
refresh r5head 3 True 12
refresh r5head 4 True 12
refresh r5head 5 True 15
Re-check on main476fc9b, 2026-11-12. The steps of #35153 as one script, run from an empty folder in a Linux sandbox named "Test machine" with a read-only GitHub token: t3 serve, one project whose origin is this repository, 110 open PRs linked to one thread through the server's link_pull_requests tool, then a restart with the PR read cache folder removed. The counts are the server's own trace spans for the first sweep after the restart: PullRequestSyncReactor.syncGroup per PR read and GitHubGraphQlAuth.execute with github.operationgetPullRequestSummary per summary request. Three runs each, interleaved, on main476fc9b and on fb6031e merged locally with it (03c022689c, not pushed). No GitHub request failed in any run.
$ for r in main-1 merge-1 main-2 merge-2 main-3 merge-3; do echo "$r $(sed -n 6p block-$r.txt | cut -c1-10) $(tail -2 block-$r.txt | head -1)"; done
main-1 476fc9be66 {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":14,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
merge-1 03c022689c {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":5,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
main-2 476fc9be66 {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":8,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
merge-2 03c022689c {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":6,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
main-3 476fc9be66 {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":22,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
merge-3 03c022689c {"pullRequestsRead":110,"summaryRequests":5,"summaryRequestsFailed":0}
On 03c022689c, Node 26.12.1: PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts and PullRequestService.test.ts pass (177), GitHubPullRequestProvider.test.ts passes (30), and vp run check:changed against main passes (format, lint, graphql, knip, typecheck of 19 packages, 210 tests in 5 files). With main476fc9b's four production files under this branch's PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts, "reads hosts that batch all at once and other hosts at the old sweep width" fails with Test timed out in 120000ms (1 failed, 58 passed).
The sweep ran 25 groups at a time to match the 25-PR summary batch. Each
read reaches the batch resolver only after its cache check, which a busy
server spreads over hundreds of milliseconds, so batches split. Every slot
then refilled on its own, and later reads went out about one PR per
request. Run 100 groups at once so a sweep's reads still meet in a batch;
the cap keeps hosts that read each PR separately bounded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The wider sweep improves GitHub batching but also permits up to 100 simultaneous reads or CLI processes for non-batching providers. Human judgment is needed on that untested cross-provider resource increase or on limiting the wider concurrency to GitHub.
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The pull-request sync sweep groups reads by project and host. It selects a concurrency pool based on provider batching capability and rechecks due and pause status before each read. The pull-request service exposes that capability, and the GitHub provider reports support for batched reads.
The provider API adds an optional batchesReads flag. The pull-request service resolves the flag for a reference and returns false if resolution fails. The GitHub provider sets the flag to true.
The sweep groups reads by project and host. It skips paused hosts or hosts without due work, then uses a concurrency limit of 100 for batched reads or 25 for unbatched reads. Each read rechecks due and pause status before calling readGroup.
Concurrency and member-read tests apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts
The test harness can configure batching behavior. Tests check the two concurrency limits and verify that a stack member’s read starts while the unbatched pool is occupied.
sequenceDiagram
participant PullRequestSyncReactor
participant PullRequestService
participant Provider
PullRequestSyncReactor->>PullRequestService: Query batchesReads
PullRequestService->>Provider: Resolve provider capability
Provider-->>PullRequestService: Return batching flag
PullRequestService-->>PullRequestSyncReactor: Return batching flag
PullRequestSyncReactor->>PullRequestSyncReactor: Select pool and schedule due reads
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Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#19795: Changes how concurrent pull-request sync reads enter GitHub request admission and summary batching.
pingdotgg/t3code#17800: Changes due-check logic and group membership assumptions in the same pull-request sweep.
Suggested labels:bugfix
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, maria-rcks
Merge Risk: Low · up to 6b45f
With this change, a merged stacked PR can keep a stale stack in the UI until the next full sync. The effect is bounded and self-recovering. The change otherwise reduces GitHub summary requests as intended. Consider a recheck of newly flagged siblings plus a batched test case.
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Title check
The title names the main change: PR sync reads share GitHub summary requests again on busy servers. It uses a conventional commit prefix and matches the batching and concurrency changes in the diff, t…
Description check
The description follows the template well. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections with substantive content. The Problem section explains the 10 ms batching window and cache-check del…
Linked Issues check
Active direct issue #35153 requires fewer GitHub summary requests in the startup sweep for about 110 linked open PRs, with an expected count of about 5. The reviewed head implements the requested chan…
Out of Scope Changes check
All changed areas support the batching objective. PullRequestSyncReactor.ts adds a per-host pause key and a referenceOf helper, groups sweep groups by host, and chooses the 100-wide or 25-wide pool fr…
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The title names the main change: PR sync reads share GitHub summary requests again on busy servers. It uses a conventional commit prefix and matches the batching and concurrency changes in the diff, the PR objectives, and the linked issue #35153. It is specific and not vague.
Full details: Description check
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The description follows the template well. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections with substantive content. The Problem section explains the 10 ms batching window and cache-check delay. The Change section explains the 100-read pool for batch-capable hosts and the separate 25-read pool for others. Scope links issue #35153 and explains why the change is a bug fix. Verification gives focused test results, live request counts, a main-branch re-check, and states what was not checked. The description also names the model used, as the template asks for agent-driven work. Minor gaps: the Problem section gives no explicit expected-behavior statement, and the Verification section is long, with much of the detail moved into a collapsed block. These are non-critical.
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Active direct issue #35153 requires fewer GitHub summary requests in the startup sweep for about 110 linked open PRs, with an expected count of about 5. The reviewed head implements the requested change. In PullRequestSyncReactor.ts, the sweep groups due reads by project and host. Hosts whose provider declares batchesReads use a 100-permit pool, so reads that clear their cache checks within the existing 10 ms window can share one summary request. Other hosts keep a 25-permit pool. The author's five-run live measurements at this head report cold-sweep medians of 7 (range 7 to 8) summary requests, against 29 (range 27 to 31) on main a11ad74. A re-check on main 476fc9b reported 14, 8 and 22 requests on main against 5, 6 and 5 with the merged change. The issue expects about 5, and the measured results are 5 to 8. Reads whose cache checks finish more than 10 ms apart can still split, so the sweep may not always reach 5. An independent run at an earlier head, before #30293, reported 31 to 22. That run predates the current head. #18295 is closed and is historical context only. It adds no active requirement.
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All changed areas support the batching objective. PullRequestSyncReactor.ts adds a per-host pause key and a referenceOf helper, groups sweep groups by host, and chooses the 100-wide or 25-wide pool from PullRequestService.batchesReads. PullRequestService.ts adds that query. PullRequestProvider.ts adds the optional batchesReads flag, and GitHubPullRequestProvider.ts sets it to true. PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts covers both pool widths and the stack-read case under a full sweep. The refresh gain depends on #30293. The PR text says this branch includes #30293, but the five-file whole-PR summary does not list cache-invalidation changes. Those changes may already exist at the merge base. This does not demonstrate an unrelated change. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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- Line 1121: Replace the Effect.sleep wait in the PullRequestSyncReactor test
with a Deferred or Queue synchronization gate that holds the reads until the
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The wider sweep let hosts that read each pull request on its own run up to
100 reads at once. Only GitHub batches summary reads, so providers now say
whether they batch, and the sweep reads the rest in a 25-wide pool beside
the 100-wide batched one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Folds the batched and unbatched width checks into one test that holds reads at
a Deferred gate and asserts the in-flight counts there, and resolves batching
once per project host per sweep.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A slow or unresolvable project no longer holds back every other host's reads:
each host resolves concurrently and feeds its due groups into the 100-wide or
25-wide permit pool. A host with nothing due skips the lookup. The service
operation gets a named span.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…start
Each host's groups now run in a loop bounded by that host's width, with the
shared permit taken inside the read, so a group a sibling flags for a stack
retry mid-sweep is still read in the same sweep. Hosts paused at sweep start
skip the batching lookup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A host's own loop can have room while the shared pool is full, so the due
check now runs inside the permit. A stack retry a sibling flags while another
host holds the slots still counts this sweep.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
verified on linux at a79ca6246e1eeeb0f0225028e439f896ee521297, against github/main at 5732bbee397f0a2b0e61d0c2e432f01dca6df3dc. used separate checkouts, vp i, one background dev server at a time, and the web client through playwright with system chrome. the project, threads, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns were created through the app. real github links were added through the running server's websocket command path.
the matched cold background sweep used identical copies of app-created state containing 110 real github prs and a gitcafe link. main sent 31 summary requests with at most 25 summary reads in flight. this head sent 22 requests with at most 100 reads in flight. all 110 github summaries succeeded on both versions. the request count fell 29% in this comparison. a read-only fetch observer forwarded requests unchanged; native server traces confirmed concurrency and completion.
a separate explicit-refresh burst used 14 requests on main and 15 on this head, spread over several queued sweeps. that path did not show an improvement here.
nearby behavior worked: codex linked this pr through its real MCP tool, the client displayed the live title and status, and mixed github/gitcafe summary reads succeeded. a startup codex status-probe timeout cleared after restart; real codex turns completed.
blacksmith: 182 focused tests passed. vp run check:changed passed format, lint, knip, graphql generation, 18 package typechecks, and 184 tests. hosted CI reports 28 successful checks, zero failing or pending. no source changes were needed.
native desktop, ios, android, macos, and windows clients were not exercised on this linux vm. a saturated live non-batching provider pool was not exercised; the deterministic 25-read mixed-provider test passed. the author's busier-server severity and 3.5x to 5x request reduction were not reproduced. batching remains fragmented, and the explicit-refresh burst above showed no request-count gain.
@maria-rcks you were right that the 3.5x to 5x came from a harness, so we re-measured on real dev servers (isolated home, 110 linked open PRs, every GitHub GraphQL request counted at the wire, 5 runs per case): the cold background sweep took a median of 30 summary requests on main (d313b2a) and 5 at a79ca62, and 44 against 7 on a loaded server. Your refresh result holds at this head: on its base each PR cache invalidation waits for every in-flight read, so a refresh of all 110 sends 111 requests either way, and only with current main merged (#30293) does it drop from 21 to 13. Reads whose cache checks finish more than 10 ms apart still go out separately, and we don't know why your VM's sweep split into more requests than ours; the description now uses these numbers (raw counts and method).
@maria-rcks the head now includes #30293 (merge fb6031e), so your 11-01 run predates it; re-measured here the same way against main a11ad74 (110 linked PRs, 5 interleaved runs each, median summary requests): startup sweep 29 to 7, loaded server 51 to 10, explicit refresh of all 110 PRs 19 to 12.
Consider a batched pool width below GitHub's 100-request concurrency limit.
The batched pool allows 100 reads in flight. This matches GitHub's documented secondary rate limit. No more than 100 concurrent requests are allowed, and the limit is shared across the REST API and GraphQL API.
The width counts reads, not requests. Reads that share a batch use fewer requests. The PR description says that reads whose cache checks finish more than 10 ms apart can still be sent separately. In that case, a sweep can approach 100 concurrent requests. Interactive reads, detail reads, and writes from the same server also share the limit. If the limit trips, GitHub returns a 403 or 429 response. The rate-limit wrapper then pauses the host.
Choose a width with headroom, such as 50–80. Alternatively, track this risk with a metric. The in-flight request count at the host level would show whether the pause ever fires after this change.
This depends on how often batching fails to coalesce, so treat it as a tuning decision for the author.
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Reduce the `batched` pool width in `PullRequestSyncReactor` below 100 to leave
headroom for other concurrent requests sharing the host’s GitHub limit; choose a
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On CodeRabbit's nitpick about the batched pool width (PullRequestSyncReactor.ts 609): it can't reach GitHub's 100-concurrent-request limit, because every GitHub REST and GraphQL send already takes one of the 8 shared slots in GitHubRequestPolicy (CONCURRENCY = 8). The width of 100 only lets more reads wait inside the resolver's 10 ms window to share a request, and a secondary-limit 403 or 429 still pauses the host through rateLimitRetryAt, so the width stays as is.
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- Around line 641-644: Update the host sweep around isDue and readGroup to
re-check groups whose keys were added to retryStacks during the first pass, and
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Recheck sibling groups that a read flags after their due check.
A group can pass isDue before a sibling read adds it to retryStacks (line 584). The sweep makes one pass over each host's groups and does not revisit a group after its readIfDue returns. The flagged group keeps its stale stack until a later sweep processes it.
The check after the permit (lines 641-644) covers only flags set while a group waits for a slot. The pre-change flat sweep already had this gap for its first 25 groups. The 100-wide batched pool extends it to up to 100 groups per host.
The sibling test at lines 1274-1331 sets batchesReads: () => false (line 1305). Its other-host reads hold the shared slots, so #50 cannot run until after #1 has flagged it. A batched variant can expose the gap. With the harness default of true (line 232), #50 can be checked first and skipped, so assert.include(read, 50) (line 1327) can fail.
Re-check the host's groups after its first pass, for keys that retryStacks gained during that pass, and run them through the same pool. Add a batched case for the flag-after-check path.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.ts around lines 641 - 644:
Update the host sweep around isDue and readGroup to re-check groups whose keys were added to retryStacks during the first pass, and process those groups through the same pool so existing concurrency limits remain in effect. Add a batched sibling-group test that covers a read flagging a group after its due check, and verify that the flagged group is read in the sweep.
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Create a project and idle thread on each isolated real server, link the same 110 open GitHub PRs, stop, clear only the isolated PR cache, and restart. Measure summary requests in the first completed startup sweep; repeat twice under identical single-core CPU contention.
All six sweeps completed 110 summary reads and 110 sync groups, with zero failures; every measured GitHub request returned HTTP 200. The normal run used 56% fewer requests on head. Charts visualize captured server traces; they are not application UI screenshots.
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Problem
The background PR sync is meant to read up to 25 PRs per GitHub GraphQL request, but on a busy server it sends far smaller batches. One server with 256 linked PRs sent 128 summary requests for 201 PRs in under three minutes: 88 carried a single PR.
Change
The resolver only batches reads that reach it within 10 ms, and each read first passes its persisted cache check (17 to 578 ms on that server), so a wave of 25 groups splits up and each freed slot then sends one read alone. On a host that batches summary reads, the sweep now runs up to 100 groups at once instead of 25, so reads that clear their cache checks within the same 10 ms share a request. Providers declare
batchesReadsonPullRequestProviderApiand only GitHub sets it; other hosts keep 25 in a separate pool that never takes a GitHub slot.Scope
A bug fix for a real performance problem that came back: the summary-batch collapse reported in #18295 (closed after #16320, #16982, #16270 and #16760) recurs on busy servers. Fixes #35153. On GitHub up to 100 reads can now run at once, stack reads included; the 10 ms window stays, since widening it would delay every read outside a full batch.
Verification
To see it on Linux (server side):
mainsends about 29; this head sends about 7.Real dev servers in an isolated home, one project linking 110 PRs from this repo (109 open, one merged), a read-only
fetchobserver counting every GitHub GraphQL request, 5 interleaved runs per case on a 32-core Linux machine. Summary requests, median (range):PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts(56 pass) holds 30 GitHub and 30 other-host reads at a gate and expects 30 and 25 in flight; with main's code only 25 start and it times out.Re-checked against
main476fc9b on 2026-11-12: the new test fails on thatmainwithout the change and passes with it, the branch merges cleanly, and the startup sweep for 110 PRs sent 14, 8 and 22 summary requests on thatmainagainst 5, 6 and 5 merged (details).Not checked: a loaded server with both GitHub and other hosts. The test covers the two pools side by side.
Method, test detail and per-run counts
Why the batches split. The sweep runs 25 groups at a time, to match the batch. The resolver only batches reads that reach it within 10 ms, and each read first passes its persisted cache check, which took 17 to 578 ms on that server. So a wave that starts together splits into several requests, and each freed slot then starts one group whose read goes out alone. This is the collapse reported in #18295.
Other hosts read one PR at a time, some through a CLI process, so they keep 25 in a separate pool that never takes a GitHub slot.
Tests.
vp test run src/orchestration-v2/PullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts: 56 pass. The new test holds 30 GitHub and 30 other-host reads at a gate and expects 30 and 25 in flight. With main's code only 25 start and it times out; with 100 for every host it fails withexpected 30 to equal 25.vp run check:changed: pass.Live request counts. Real dev servers in an isolated home with one project linking 110 PRs from this repo (109 open, one merged), and a read-only
fetchobserver counting every GitHub GraphQL request. 5 interleaved runs per case on a 32-core Linux machine, each from the same state with the PR read cache cleared. "Loaded" pins the server and three CPU-bound processes to one core (main's cache-check p90: 135 to 372 ms). Refresh sends one invalidate per linked PR at once.Batching is still not perfect: reads whose cache checks finish more than 10 ms apart still go out separately. The refresh gain needs #30293, which this branch now includes. An independent run at the earlier head, before #30293, saw a smaller cold-sweep cut (31 to 22 requests).
Per-run counts, unedited (
busyis the loaded server,r5headis this head fb6031e,requestsis summary requests):Re-check on
main476fc9b, 2026-11-12. The steps of #35153 as one script, run from an empty folder in a Linux sandbox named "Test machine" with a read-only GitHub token:t3 serve, one project whose origin is this repository, 110 open PRs linked to one thread through the server'slink_pull_requeststool, then a restart with the PR read cache folder removed. The counts are the server's own trace spans for the first sweep after the restart:PullRequestSyncReactor.syncGroupper PR read andGitHubGraphQlAuth.executewithgithub.operationgetPullRequestSummaryper summary request. Three runs each, interleaved, onmain476fc9b and on fb6031e merged locally with it (03c022689c, not pushed). No GitHub request failed in any run.On 03c022689c, Node 26.12.1:
PullRequestSyncReactor.test.tsandPullRequestService.test.tspass (177),GitHubPullRequestProvider.test.tspasses (30), andvp run check:changedagainstmainpasses (format, lint, graphql, knip, typecheck of 19 packages, 210 tests in 5 files). Withmain476fc9b's four production files under this branch'sPullRequestSyncReactor.test.ts, "reads hosts that batch all at once and other hosts at the old sweep width" fails withTest timed out in 120000ms(1 failed, 58 passed).Prior PRs
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