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fix(office): stop the reject leg from waking the reviewer, not the assignee - #3294

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Today: When a reviewer rejects a task back to Work in a wait_for_quorum workflow step, the reviewer's own session gets prompted to continue into Work — not the assignee who's supposed to pick the rejected task back up. On top of that, if the same task is rejected (or sent back with changes requested, or fully approved) a second time within 24 hours, the assignee's wake is silently dropped by the scheduler's dedup window, so nobody is notified at all.
After this: The reject leg always wakes the assignee's session (never the reviewer's), carrying the rejection reason with it. Each distinct decision now gets its own wake, so a second rejection, a second changes-requested round, or a task that clears final approval more than once all queue a fresh run instead of colliding with the first one's dedup key.
Who hits this: Any workflow using human-in-the-loop review with wait_for_quorum (the shipped office-default.yml is one), on every reject / changes-requested / approve decision — and especially on repeat decisions for the same task within a day.
Scope: standalone — single defect fix, not part of a larger slice.
Not here: making the assignee wake transactional with the transition itself. The wake is still queued via the pre-existing best-effort QueueRunCtx path; a silent-failure mode there is a known limitation, not something this PR changes.

A guarded quorum transition drove the deciding session's own on_enter continuation instead of the assignee's, and the scheduler's default idempotency key collapsed repeat decisions on the same task into a single dropped wake; this fixes both so the assignee is reliably woken on every distinct decision.

Important Changes

  • Guarded decisions now run through an explicit transitionLifecycleMode (WithOnEnter / OnTurnStart / GuardedDecision) instead of an overloaded triggerOnEnter bool. This was tightened during review: the original fix reused the on_turn_start code path for guarded decisions (both had triggerOnEnter=false), which left session-lifecycle side effects (profile switching, setSessionWaitingForInput) still running against the reviewer's session. The explicit mode makes guarded decisions skip all session-shaped work — only the CAS commit and its unconditional step-entry dispatch (clear_decisions, ensure_participant_seat, queue_run_for_each_participant) run. Office's own reactivity (runReactivityForDecision) is the sole wake source for the assignee.
  • buildDecisionRuns now computes a per-decision IdempotencyKey ("decision:" + d.ID) for every reason it emits — changes_requested, rejected, and task_ready_to_close — so a second occurrence of any of them within the dedup window queues its own run instead of colliding with the first.
  • DecisionRejected is wired as a synonym of DecisionChangesRequested in buildDecisionRuns; previously a straight rejection queued no run at all and silently dropped the rejection reason.

Validation

  • go build ./...: clean
  • go test ./internal/office/... ./internal/orchestrator/...: all packages ok
  • Targeted regression tests: TestApplyGuardedTransitionLifecycle_OfficeRejectLeg_DoesNotPromptDeciderSession, TestDashboardApprovalAdapter_AllowsDistinctDecisionWakes, TestDashboardApprovalAdapter_PropagatesDecisionWakeContext, TestApplyEngineTransition_UnknownSourceKeepsCommitUnapplied (a main-side regression test, kept green after rebasing this fix onto current main) — all pass
  • make lint: 0 issues. (backend golangci-lint, web eslint, harness, specs, architecture all clean)
  • make typecheck: clean
  • make lint-format: clean
  • pnpm run i18n:ratchet (apps/web): clean — no UI files touched by this diff
  • make -C apps/backend test (full suite): fails only in internal/worktree and internal/task/service, both unsafe worktree path / git-worktree-in-a-worktree sandbox artifacts reproducible against origin/main at the merge base and unrelated to this diff (which touches zero files in either package)
  • Rebased onto current main; resolved a real conflict against #3225's fromStep-aware maybySwitchSessionForProfile signature, and against the TestApplyEngineTransition_UnknownSourceKeepsCommitUnapplied regression test, which required restoring an early-return-on-load-failure this diff had briefly dropped while reconciling

Possible Improvements

Low risk: the assignee wake remains best-effort (pre-existing QueueRunCtx contract, unchanged by this PR) — a queuer failure silently loses the wake. Making it transactional with the transition is a larger change, tracked separately.

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  • This PR contains one logical change; unrelated work is split into separate PRs.
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  • I checked whether this affects public docs in docs/public/** and updated them or noted why no docs change is needed.

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Claude finished @nova28's task in 4m 58s —— View job


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  1. Misleading comment in !triggerOnEnter branchevent_handlers_workflow.go:5153

    • Issue: The comment "Either way we still need to switch the agent profile if the target step requires a different one — the next prompt should go to the correct agent" is accurate for on_turn_start but misleading for the guarded-transition path added by this PR. In the reject leg the "next prompt" goes to the assignee via office/dashboard.runReactivityForDecision, not through session continuation, so calling maybySwitchSessionForProfile on the reviewer's session is a no-op in the standard office-default.yml shape (Work has no explicit agent_profile_id).
    • Why: A future reader could incorrectly conclude that session continuation drives the assignee wake for the reject leg.
    • Fix: Add a clarifying clause like "For guarded-transition callers the profile switch is a no-op when the target step carries no explicit profile; called for correctness should a future step configuration require it." (See inline comment for full suggestion.)
  2. onEnterDone fires before PromptTask completesevent_handlers_workflow_guarded_transition_test.go:118

    • Issue: onProcessOnEnterComplete is invoked at the end of processOnEnter, before any PromptTask call resolves. So capturedPromptCalls == 0 could theoretically be true even if the goroutine fired but the prompt failed mid-call.
    • Why: Doesn't affect correctness (the goroutine itself must not fire), but could mislead future test authors who read "0 prompt calls" as full proof of silence.
    • Fix: Add a note in the test comment clarifying that the assertion proves the goroutine never started, not that the prompt was attempted and failed.
  3. Both DecisionRejected and DecisionChangesRequested map to runTaskChangesRequesteddecisions.go:462

    • Issue: Rejected-decision runs appear as reason task_changes_requested in the runs table and logs. This is consistent with the engine treating them as synonyms, but can obscure whether a run was triggered by a rejection versus changes requested when querying runs.
    • Why: Low-impact today, but worth noting before more analytics are built on top of run reasons.
    • Fix: Consider adding runTaskRejected = "task_rejected" and using it for the DecisionRejected case if per-verdict observability becomes important. Not urgent.

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Verdict: Ready to merge

The core fix is correct and well-targeted. triggerOnEnter=false in applyGuardedTransitionLifecycle correctly stops the reviewer's session from being auto-continued into Work via processOnEnter. The DecisionRejected addition to buildDecisionRuns is necessary and consistent with the engine's synonym treatment. Both new unit tests prove the intended behavior (the orchestrator test is timing-based for good reasons given the detached goroutine). The DecisionRejected constant in office/models/models.go follows the same intentional-duplication pattern already used for run reason constants. No architectural concerns, no missing test coverage for the changed logic.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for rejected decisions, including forwarding the rejection reason to the assigned user.
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    • Rejected decisions now notify the task assignee consistently.
    • Prevented workflow rejection transitions from automatically prompting the reviewer’s session.
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The change adds a rejected office decision verdict that queues an assignee run with its comment. Guarded quorum transitions now commit without triggering on_enter actions for the decider session.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Rejected decision reactivity
apps/backend/internal/office/models/models.go, apps/backend/internal/office/dashboard/decisions.go, apps/backend/internal/office/dashboard/agent_decisions_test.go
Adds DecisionRejected and maps it to the assignee’s task_changes_requested run. The rejection comment is preserved and tested.
Guarded transition prompt suppression
apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/event_handlers_workflow.go, apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/event_handlers_workflow_guarded_transition_test.go
Guarded transitions pass triggerOnEnter=false. The regression test verifies that the reviewer session receives no prompt.

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This PR correctly wakes the assignee after rejection, but it may also skip required target-step entry actions and can suppress a later rejection wake for the same task and assignee. Merge should wait until those bounded workflow and retry behaviors are addressed or explicitly accepted.

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A rabbit reviews the verdict trail,
Rejected notes now hop by mail.
The assignee gets the queued run,
While decider prompts are kept undone.
Guarded steps commit with care,
And comments travel cleanly there.

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In `@apps/backend/internal/orchestrator/event_handlers_workflow.go`:
- Line 4975: Preserve engine-owned target-step entry actions for guarded
transitions in the workflow event handler: do not disable processOnEnter
handling when the transition targets a step with actions such as
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nova28 added a commit to nova28/kandev that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
Address review feedback on PR kdlbs#3294: distinguish the guarded-transition
profile-switch no-op from the on_turn_start rationale, note the
onEnterDone/PromptTask signal-timing wrinkle in the regression test, and
stop overstating the test's setup as two live TaskSession rows.
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Thanks for the focused contribution, @nova28. We pushed a maintainer fix-up that keeps the rejection flow aligned with the PR: the assignee now receives the rejection reason in the wake prompt, each decision round gets its own wake-up idempotency key, and guarded transitions leave the reviewer session untouched while repository-owned entry actions still run.

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…the assignee

Work carries no agent_profile_id, so applyGuardedTransitionLifecycle's
on_enter dispatch continued whichever session drove the quorum
re-evaluation (the reviewer/approver) directly into Work's
auto_start_agent — the wrong agent. Office's own reactivity already
resolves and wakes the assignee correctly; on_enter dispatch is now
skipped for this guarded-transition path so reactivity is the sole
wake source. The agent decision path's "rejected" verdict is also
wired as a synonym of "changes_requested" in buildDecisionRuns, since
it previously queued no run at all and dropped the rejection reason.
Address review feedback on PR kdlbs#3294: distinguish the guarded-transition
profile-switch no-op from the on_turn_start rationale, note the
onEnterDone/PromptTask signal-timing wrinkle in the regression test, and
stop overstating the test's setup as two live TaskSession rows.
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@nova28 nova28 changed the title fix(office): wake the assignee, not the reviewer, on task rejection fix(office): stop the reject leg from waking the reviewer, not the assignee Sep 3, 2026
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Two edits made while resolving the rebase conflict against the contributor
fix were left uncommitted after `git rebase --continue`:

- applyEngineTransitionWithCommit is a compat wrapper the "reconcile PR 3294
  with current main" merge commit added (to satisfy a main-side test calling
  the old name) that a linear rebase of its constituent commits does not
  replay, since it existed only in the merge commit's own tree.
- applyEngineTransitionWithCommitMode's from-step-load-failure path must
  still return false unconditionally (not just skip on_exit for guarded
  decisions) to satisfy TestApplyEngineTransition_UnknownSourceKeepsCommitUnapplied.
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