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fix(decision-brief): a 404 on the branch-ref lookup is a fresh branch, not a parent SHA - #2375

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What broke

The first live decision-brief run (run 39498549439, combsmith/incubator Discussion #5) drafted and validated the package, then land failed:

Get "repos/combsmith/incubator/git/commits/%7B%22message%22:%22Not%20Found%22,…%7D": unsupported protocol scheme ""

gh api prints the error body to stdout on a non-2xx (the HTTP line goes to stderr), so in open-pr.sh

parent_sha="$(gh api "repos/${REPO}/git/ref/heads/${branch}" --jq '.object.sha' 2>/dev/null || true)"

captured {"message":"Not Found",…} as the parent SHA on the first run for any slug, branch_exists became 1, and the tree lookup used the JSON as a commit id. Every first-time brief would fail the same way.

Fix

Resolve the branch ref the way the brief read a few lines below already does: capture stderr, treat only a 404 as "no branch yet", fail closed on anything else, and require both resolved SHAs to be 40 hex.

Tests

The mock_gh_live stub now prints a 404 body to stdout as real gh does, so the existing "live, new branch" test exercises the bug (it passed before only because the stub printed nothing). Two new tests pin the fresh-branch and fail-closed cases; both fail against the original script and pass with the fix. bats tests/test_decision_brief.bats: 59/59 (bash 5; macOS bash 3.2 cannot parse the existing heredoc, unrelated). shellcheck clean.

After merge

Cut decision-brief/v1.0.1 and move decision-brief/v1-stable, then re-label incubator Discussion #5 needs-brief (remove and re-add) to land the BlockVault brief.

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Problem

See the linked issue.

Risk

Low — changes automation shell logic under scripts/, covered by shellcheck (--severity=warning) and the bats suite.

Test plan

Tests added/updated: tests/test_decision_brief.bats. Verification: bash scripts/dev-lead-lint.sh (shellcheck --severity=warning) ran pre-commit; the bats suite runs in CI.

Rollback

Revert this PR. No non-revertible side effects (no tags, migrations, or external state).

Monitoring

This PR's Lint (shellcheck) and bats checks show pass/fail; watch subsequent dev-lead / pr-review runs for behavioral regressions.

…, not a parent SHA

The first live run (combsmith/incubator discussion #5, run 39498549439)
drafted and validated the package but failed in `land`: `gh api` prints
the error body to stdout on a non-2xx, so `$(gh api … || true)` captured
`{"message":"Not Found",…}` as parent_sha and the next call became
git/commits/{"message"…}. Resolve the branch ref the way the brief read is
already done: a 404 means "no branch yet", any other failure fails closed,
and both resolved SHAs must be 40 hex.

The gh stub in the tests now prints a body on 404, as real gh does, so
the existing live-path test exercises this; two tests pin the fresh-branch
and fail-closed cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved branch and commit validation to prevent invalid references from being used.
    • Branch creation now correctly starts from the resolved default branch commit when the target branch does not exist.
    • Operations stop safely when branch lookup encounters unexpected errors, preventing unintended repository changes.
    • Improved handling of missing branches so error responses are not mistaken for commit identifiers.
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    • Expanded coverage for valid commit references, new branch creation, and failure scenarios.

The script now validates branch commit SHAs and handles missing-branch responses separately from other API errors. Tests cover existing branches, missing branches, and failures before repository writes.

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Validate branch references and verify outcomes
scripts/decision-brief/open-pr.sh, tests/test_decision_brief.bats
The script requires valid 40-character hexadecimal SHAs for resolved branches. A 404 means the target branch is absent; other lookup errors stop execution. Tests verify branch creation, commit parents, and failure before repository writes.

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Change: Bug fix

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Risk tier: LOW. This is a narrow fail-closed fix, and its regression test failed before the change and passes after it. The old failure was loud (land errored), and nothing was written to the wrong place. The new outage test checks that no blob, ref or PR write happens.

What I'd shore up (highest leverage first):

  • The new "exits 0 but isn't a SHA" branch has no test. Add a stub case where gh exits 0 and prints null or nothing, which is what jq gives when .object.sha is missing. Assert a non-zero exit, the not a commit SHA message, and no git/blobs or git/refs calls. Right now that guard is untested code.
  • The new base_sha guard is also untested. Add one case where the default-branch ref lookup returns something that isn't 40 hex, and assert it stops before any write.
  • The 404 check is loose. grep -qE 'HTTP 404|Not Found' would also accept a stderr line that says "Not Found" without a 404 status. Pin HTTP 404 alone. Also add a 403 rate-limit case next to the 503 one, so "only a 404 means fresh branch" is tested for more than one non-404 error.
  • The stub has to match real gh. The regression only gets caught because mock_gh_live now copies gh's split (error body on stdout, HTTP line on stderr). Put that 404 shape in one shared helper that both the branch-ref and brief-read stubs use, so they can't drift apart. Treat the post-merge re-run of incubator Discussion feat: add Copilot engine support via REVIEW_ENGINE toggle #5 as the real end-to-end check, and confirm it actually lands.

Escalate? no

Advisory only — I comment, I do not change code. Ground: BMAD Test Architecture (bmad-tea v1.19.0). Opt out on this item with the qa-lead:hands-off label.

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- Line 149: Update both branch and brief lookup error matching to recognize
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