fixing-pr

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Fixing PR

Automates the PR maintenance loop: update the branch when merge conflicts block it, wait for CI, fix failures, address review comments, validate, push, and repeat until CI passes.

Be fully autonomous — Do NOT stop or pause to ask for confirmation. Go from current state to passing CI without human intervention. Make decisions without asking for human input. Note any open questions or ambiguities in a PR conversation comment (under the Conversation tab) rather than blocking on them. Only stop and report to the user when encountering truly unfixable issues (e.g., a merge conflict with no clear resolution, missing PR).

Context

• Repository: streamlit/streamlit
• Main branch: develop
• Head branch: !git branch --show-current

Workflow

- [ ] 1. Detect PR for current branch
- [ ] 2. Update the branch when conflicts block the merge
- [ ] 3. Wait for CI workflows to complete
- [ ] 4. Merge snapshot update PRs targeting this PR
- [ ] 5. Fix CI failures
- [ ] 6. Address PR review comments
- [ ] 7. Validate changes locally
- [ ] 8. Push changes
- [ ] 9. Request a final AI review if this iteration addressed one
- [ ] 10. Repeat until CI passes

1. Detect PR

Use gh pr view to get PR details for the current branch, including baseRefName, mergeable, and mergeStateStatus. If no PR exists, stop and inform the user to create one first.

2. Update the branch when conflicts block the merge

Refetch mergeable and mergeStateStatus while either is UNKNOWN. GitHub has not finished computing mergeability, so do not treat UNKNOWN as clear.

When mergeable is CONFLICTING, or mergeStateStatus is DIRTY, the pull request cannot merge into its base branch. Update the head branch with that base and resolve every conflict before doing anything else:

• Fetch the base branch and merge it into the PR head
• Resolve each conflict so the result keeps this PR's intended change and the incoming changes from the base
• Validate the resolution with the /checking-changes skill (make check), then commit, push, and return to step 3

make check before that push wins over pushing the resolution immediately.

Do this even when checks are also failing. A base-branch conflict wins over an in-flight update-snapshots run: this push cancels that run. If snapshots still mismatch after the next CI wait, step 5 adds the label again.

A conflicting snapshot PR that targets this branch is not this conflict. Leave it for step 4, which skips that snapshot PR and continues.

Stop only when a conflict has no clear resolution. Name the files and what is unclear.

3. Wait for CI to complete

Poll CI status every 3 minutes until all workflows finish:

• Use gh run list --branch <branch> --status in_progress and --status queued to check
• Sleep 180 seconds between checks
• Continue when both return empty results

4. Merge snapshot update PRs

Squash-merge open snapshot-autofix PRs that target this branch (snapshots/<pr-number>-<run-id>-<attempt>), without waiting for their checks. After a merge, pull that commit and return to step 3. If one conflicts, skip it and continue.

5. Fix CI failures

Check for failures with gh pr checks and gh run list --status failure.

If failures exist: Run the /fixing-streamlit-ci skill to diagnose and fix.

Fix strategy:

• Code-fixable issues (lint, types, tests): Apply fixes directly
• Snapshot mismatches: Do NOT fix manually. Apply the label, then return to step 3 and let step 4 merge the snapshot PR once it exists. Do not push again in this iteration, or the snapshot workflow is cancelled before it opens that PR:

  gh pr edit --add-label "update-snapshots"
  

• PR Labels workflow failure: Ignore - this is a policy check, not a code issue

If no failures: Proceed to step 6.

6. Address PR review comments

Run the /addressing-pr-review-comments skill to handle feedback from reviewers and bots.

For each review comment:

1. Evaluate if the feedback is relevant and actionable
2. Implement changes for valid suggestions
3. Post brief replies directly on each review comment thread (not as a combined PR comment) explaining what was done or why feedback was declined
4. Respond to ALL unresolved comments, even those that don't require code changes (e.g., thoughts, observations, questions). Acknowledge these with a brief reply to keep the conversation flowing. Note: This overrides the skill's default exclusion of thought/note comment types.
5. Resolve addressed bot comment threads after replying using gh api. Only auto-resolve comments from bots (github-actions, copilot, cursor, greptile, graphite). Do NOT auto-resolve human contributor comments - let reviewers resolve those themselves. Also do NOT resolve threads deferred to human input (per the Exception below).

Exception: Don't auto-address review comments that require significant product, design, architecture decisions, or significant refactorings. Instead, reply on the comment thread pointing this out and mention that it will need human input.

7. Validate changes locally

Run the /checking-changes skill (uses make check) to validate the changes. Wait for completion, then fix any issues found before proceeding. Don't run other checks besides make check in this step.

8. Push changes

If there are uncommitted changes, commit with a descriptive message and push.

9. Request a final AI review if this iteration addressed one

If this iteration pushed commits that address the previous review, and the PR is blocked by do-not-merge, add ai-final-review after that push. Skip this when the label is already present, or when this iteration did not push review fixes.

gh pr edit --add-label "ai-final-review"

Then return to step 3 so that review runs on the new commits.

10. Repeat until CI passes

Return to step 3 and wait for CI to complete again. After each push, if the merge is blocked by conflicts again, return to step 2 before waiting.

Before a successful exit, refetch mergeability even when this iteration pushed nothing. The base branch can move during the CI wait, and a conflicted PR can stay green because GitHub keeps a stale merge ref. Refetch while mergeable or mergeStateStatus is UNKNOWN. If mergeable is CONFLICTING or mergeStateStatus is DIRTY, return to step 2.

Exit conditions:

• All CI checks pass, and the PR is not CONFLICTING or DIRTY
• No fixable failures remain (only policy/label checks failing), and the PR is not CONFLICTING or DIRTY
• Maximum 5 iterations reached

Rules

• Focus on root cause: Fix the primary error, not cascading failures
• Minimal fixes: Smallest change that resolves the issue
• Don't skip tests: Never disable tests to "fix" CI
• Verify locally: Always run make check before pushing
• Snapshot mismatches: Always use the update-snapshots label, never fix snapshot files manually. Merge the snapshot PR the workflow opens against this branch. Skip a conflicting snapshot PR and continue.
• Conflicts with the base branch: Merge the base into this branch and resolve every conflict. Keep this PR's intended change together with the incoming base changes. Run make check before pushing the resolution. Recheck mergeability before a green-CI exit, including when this iteration pushed nothing. Stop only when a conflict has no clear resolution.
• Blocked PRs: After pushing review fixes, add ai-final-review when do-not-merge is present and ai-final-review is not
• Limit iterations: Stop after 5 fix-push-wait cycles to avoid infinite loops

Error handling