[Fix] Review labels disappear after base updates

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What changed

• Preserve the current PR review-state label while GitHub reports mergeability as unknown.
• Keep the review gate pending and update the review guide until mergeability is known.
• Preserve state labels if any pending metadata update fails, while still reporting the workflow failure.
• Cover both the normal transient state and metadata-failure path with focused regression tests.

Why this change was made

The all-open-PR reconciliation triggered by the merge of #1577 ran while GitHub was recalculating mergeability. Although CodeRabbit approvals remained attached to the exact PR head commits, the unknown-mergeability branch removed otherwise-valid awaiting-maintainer labels, making the queue appear to collapse. The failure path could repeat that removal if an activation-label or guidance update failed.

Impact

Base-branch pushes no longer temporarily erase review-state labels while GitHub recalculates mergeability, including when pending metadata cannot be fully updated. Confirmed conflicts still transition to has-conflicts, and the hourly/event-driven reconciliation still replaces preserved labels once GitHub returns a definitive state.

Follow-up to #1577 and #1509.

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📝 Summary

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• Bug Fixes
  • Preserved the current pull request review state while GitHub calculates mergeability.
  • Continued removing the active review indicator during this pending period.
  • Updated review guidance to indicate that mergeability is being calculated.
  • Preserved existing state labels even when updating pending mergeability information fails, preventing unintended state changes.

Walkthrough

The workflow treats unknown pull request mergeability as an early-exit state. It preserves the current state label, removes the active-review label, updates the gate and guide, and preserves labels if an update fails. Tests verify these behaviors.

Changes

Mergeability state handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pending mergeability flow .github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml, src/services/__tests__/pr-review-state-workflow.test.ts	Unknown mergeability now updates the pending gate and review guide, removes coderabbit-review-active, preserves the current state label, and skips normal label reconciliation. Tests verify successful updates and label preservation when removal fails.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6dd69

Mergeability-pending PRs retain their review state while GitHub calculates metadata, including when pending metadata updates fail.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 7 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the change, motivation, impact, and regression-test coverage. However, it omits the required template sections for the related approved issue, test procedure, pre-submission c…	Add the required template sections. Include an approved issue number, detailed test steps and environment, completed checklist items, documentation-impact status, and Discord contact information. Preserve the existing explanation of the imp…

✅ Passed checks (7 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Regression Evidence	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed mergeability-pending path has focused workflow-level coverage. preserves the current state while mergeability is unknown seeds awaiting-maintainer and coderabbit-review-active,…
Security Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS — The changed path in .github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml:723-733 only handles GitHub API mergeability metadata. It writes fixed review-gate and guide phases, removes the fixed `coderab…
Persistence Integrity	✅ Passed	No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. The new mergeability-pending path awaits updateReviewGate, setCodeRabbitReviewActive, and updateReviewGuide in sequence. Its catch mark…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed path only logs, awaits updateReviewGate, setCodeRabbitReviewActive, and updateReviewGuide, then continues the existing sequential PR loop. It creates no listener, watcher, prov…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary fix: review labels disappearing after base-branch updates. It is concise and directly related to the changes.

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Explanation

The description explains the change, motivation, impact, and regression-test coverage. However, it omits the required template sections for the related approved issue, test procedure, pre-submission checklist, documentation impact, and reviewer contact information.

Resolution

Add the required template sections. Include an approved issue number, detailed test steps and environment, completed checklist items, documentation-impact status, and Discord contact information. Preserve the existing explanation of the implementation and impact.

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In @.github/workflows/label-pr-review-state.yml:
- Line 726: Update the pending mergeability metadata handling around
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Verify extension/webview contracts, cancellation and error propagation, VS Code lifecycle correctness, and behavior under retries and partial failure.

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Handled the one current CodeRabbit finding in commit 6dd6960d0: pending metadata failures now preserve the existing review-state label, with focused non-404 failure coverage. Focused tests passed 105/105; full validation passed 8,200 tests, lint, type checks, formatting, and diff checks.

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