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Harden PR Description Updater to run from trusted merged-PR context#44666
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[WIP] Fix PR description updater 95% failure rate
Harden PR Description Updater to run from trusted merged-PR context
Jul 10, 2026
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The PR Description Updater was failing almost entirely before the agent even started: recent runs landed in
action_requiredwith zero jobs, so merged PR descriptions were not being rewritten. The failure pattern matched trigger-time approval/gating on merged PR workflow execution rather than a safe-output or sub-agent runtime problem.Trigger and trust model
pull_requesttopull_request_targetforclosedevents so merged-PR processing runs from trusted base-repo workflow context.Checkout hardening
checkout:frontmatter for the trusted base repository/ref:repository: ${{ github.repository }}ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}fetch-depth: 0pull_request_targetwhile still giving the workflow the history it needs to summarize landed changes.Diff source correctness
github.event.pull_request.merge_commit_shainstead of the PR head SHA.merge_commit_shais missing rather than silently falling back to untrusted head context.Generated workflow
pr-description-caveman.lock.ymlso the generated workflow reflects the new trigger, checkout policy, and merge-commit-based diffing.