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* feat(ci-watch): config flags

Default-off CI-watch config (mirrors self_heal_*): ci_watch_enabled,
ci_watch_default_workflow (ci.yml), ci_watch_interval_seconds (1800),
ci_watch_max_open_tasks (3), ci_watch_max_per_cycle (1). Registers
ci_watch_enabled in the panel FEATURE_FLAGS. 4 tests.

* feat(ci-watch): per-project ci_watch_enabled/workflow (migration 048)

Adds projects.ci_watch_enabled (bool NOT NULL default false) +
projects.ci_watch_workflow (varchar null) — the per-project opt-in for
multi-repo CI-watch. ProjectTable + Pydantic Project fields + migration 048
(off 047_ws_single_active). Real upgrade->downgrade->upgrade chain verified
against a throwaway Postgres; 2 ORM round-trip tests.

* feat(runtime): prune dangling agent images in the background sweeper

Every agent-image rebuild orphans the prior build's layers as an untagged
<none> image; across deploys these pile up (the operator hit ~80). The sweeper
now runs 'docker image prune -f --filter dangling=true' (dangling only — a
tagged image or one backing a running container is never dangling), throttled
to settings.image_prune_interval_seconds (default 6h) and gated by
image_prune_enabled (default on). Best-effort: any failure is logged, never
raised into the sweeper. Mirrors the transcript-retention prune. 4 tests.

* feat(ci-watch): source tag + open-task dedupe query

CI_WATCH_SOURCE='ci_watch' + TaskService.list_open_ci_watch_tasks(git_url=None):
non-terminal ci_watch tasks (the dedupe + open-cap basis), optionally scoped to
one repo by git_url — a monorepo registers several cell-projects on one git_url,
so dedupe keys on the repo, not the slug. 2 real-PG tests.

* feat(ci-watch): multi-project CI telemetry fan-out

MultiProjectCITelemetrySource.fetch(projects) reuses the hardened per-project
get_latest_ci_conclusion for each opted-in project (passing its ci_watch_workflow
or the configured default). Per-project isolation: a GitHub error or absent
signal yields NO sample (unknown, never read as green) and never aborts the
sweep; only a real conclusion yields a sample (fail→breach, pass→non-breach).
self-heal source untouched. 3 tests + self-heal regression green.

* feat(ci-watch): engine — fan-out, originate, dedupe, cap

CiWatchEngine.run_cycle(projects) mirrors SelfHealEngine: assess via
MultiProjectCITelemetrySource, open one PENDING ci_watch fix task per red repo
(team=main_pm, assigned_to=main-pm, confirmed_by_human=True so it dispatches
without an Approve-&-Start — the fe029fe3 lesson), never starts/approves/merges.
Dedupe per git_url (monorepo → one fix task per repo) + per-cycle/rolling caps.
Default-off; disabled → no-op. 5 real-PG tests (red→one task, dedupe, cap,
green/none→nothing, disabled).

* feat(ci-watch): orchestrator loop tick + watch-set loader

_ci_watch_loop (registered in start(), cancelled in stop(), separate from the
untouched self-heal loop): dormant unless ci_watch_enabled; each interval loads
the watch set (ci_watch_enabled projects, collapsed one-per-repo via the
existing _projects_one_per_repo) and runs CiWatchEngine.run_cycle, committing
opened tasks. _run_ci_watch_cycle extracted for testing; loud warning when
enabled-but-empty. confirmed_by_human=True on the originated task means it
dispatches without an Approve-&-Start (no stranding, the fe029fe3 lesson).
5 tests (disabled no-op, watch-set filter+one-per-repo, empty warn, engine run).

* docs(ci-watch): CHANGELOG + CLAUDE.md for multi-repo CI-watch

Document CI-watch (Added) in the CHANGELOG and the Self-Healing & Feature Flags
section of CLAUDE.md — it generalizes self-heal to opted-in projects, reuses the
hardened per-project CI lookup, never auto-merges, default-off. Adds the
ci_watch_enabled flag to the feature-flags enumeration.

* feat(dep-update): config flags

Default-off dep-update config (mirrors self_heal_*/ci_watch_*): dep_update_enabled,
dep_update_interval_seconds (604800 = weekly), dep_update_max_open_tasks (3),
dep_update_max_per_cycle (1). Registers dep_update_enabled in FEATURE_FLAGS. 4 tests.

* feat(dep-update): per-project dep_update_command/paths (migration 049)

Adds projects.dep_update_command (varchar null) + dep_update_paths (varchar[]
null) — the per-project opt-in for the dependency-update bot. ProjectTable +
Pydantic Project fields + migration 049 (off 048_ci_watch_project_cols). Real
upgrade->downgrade->upgrade chain verified on a throwaway Postgres; 2 ORM tests.

* feat(dep-update): source tag + open-task dedupe query

DEP_UPDATE_SOURCE='dep_update' + TaskService.list_open_dep_update_tasks(git_url=None):
non-terminal dep_update tasks (dedupe + open-cap basis), optionally scoped to one
repo by git_url (monorepo → one open dependency-update task per repo). 2 real-PG
tests.

* feat(dep-update): read-only lockfile-diff probe

WorkspaceService.dry_upgrade_changes_lockfile(project): clones the project's
read clone into a throwaway dir (--no-hardlinks, so the read clone is never
mutated), runs project.dep_update_command (no shell, shlex.split), and reports
whether any lockfile path (dep_update_paths or inferred uv.lock/pnpm-lock.yaml)
is dirty. Fail-safe: null/failing command → False (don't originate on a broken
probe), logged; throwaway always removed; never commits/pushes. 5 real-git tests.

* feat(dep-update): engine — detect, originate, dedupe, cap

DepUpdateEngine.run_cycle(projects) mirrors SelfHealEngine/CiWatchEngine: for
each opted-in project (dep_update_command set) with updates available (the
read-only probe), open one PENDING dep_update task (team=main_pm, assigned-to
main-pm, confirmed_by_human=True), never starts/approves/merges. Cheap checks
(command, per-git_url dedupe) before the expensive probe; per-cycle + rolling
caps. Default-off; disabled → no-op. 6 real-PG tests.

* feat(dep-update): weekly orchestrator loop tick

_dep_update_loop (registered in start(), cancelled in stop(), separate from the
self-heal + CI-watch loops): dormant unless dep_update_enabled; each interval
(default weekly) loads projects with a dep_update_command (one-per-repo) and runs
DepUpdateEngine.run_cycle, committing opened tasks. _run_dep_update_cycle
extracted for testing; loud warning when enabled-but-no-commands. Refactored
stop() to cancel background tasks via a shared _cancel_background_task loop
(keeps it under xenon B as the loop count grows). 4 loop tests.

Task 7 (anti-stranding dispatch guard) is satisfied by construction: no
dispatcher skip targets source='dep_update', and the engine sets
confirmed_by_human=True (the fe029fe3 lesson), asserted in the engine tests —
so the originated task dispatches via the assigned-PM path, never stranded.

* docs(dep-update): CHANGELOG + CLAUDE.md for the dependency-update bot

Document the dep-update bot (Added) in the CHANGELOG and the Self-Healing &
Feature Flags section of CLAUDE.md — read-only lockfile-diff probe, never
auto-merges, per-project opt-in via dep_update_command, default-off. Adds the
dep_update_enabled flag to the feature-flags enumeration.

* feat(ci-watch): route fix-task notification to the project's cell PM

On opening a fix task, CiWatchEngine notifies the red project's own cell PM
(resolved from project.assigned_cell via foundation AGENTS — e.g. BACKEND →
be-pm), not the CEO, once per project per cycle. Best-effort: a notification
failure never rolls back the origination. Adds _cell_pm_slug_for +
_notify_cell_pm. 1 real-PG test (asserts to_agent='be-pm', not 'ceo').

* feat(ci-watch,dep-update): expose per-project opt-ins in the project API

Add ci_watch_enabled/ci_watch_workflow + dep_update_command/dep_update_paths to
ProjectUpdate, ProjectUpdateRequest, the PATCH route mapping, ProjectResponse,
and project_to_response — so the panel edit-project dialog can read + set the
per-project autonomy opt-ins (the columns were unreachable through the API
before). Also threads the previously-dropped quality_command through the update
route. 1 real-PG update round-trip test.

* feat(ci-watch,dep-update): panel project-edit fields for the per-project opt-ins

Adds an 'Autonomous Maintenance' section to the edit-project dialog: a CI-watch
enable switch + workflow input, and a dependency-update command + lockfile-paths
input (comma-separated → list). Threads the four fields through the Project /
ProjectUpdate TS types and the mock-mode create fixture. The global on/off
toggles already live in Settings → Feature Flags; these are the per-project
opt-ins. panel tsc --noEmit + eslint green.

* docs(0.12): CI-watch + dep-update bot + image-prune across user docs + RAG

New docs/optional/autonomous-maintenance.md (mirrors self-heal.md) covering both
engines; optional/index rows; panel settings + projects-and-products notes for
the Feature Flags toggles + the edit-project Autonomous Maintenance fields;
resilience note for the dangling-image prune; env-reference + RAG config-reference
tables for all ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_* / ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_* / ROBOCO_IMAGE_PRUNE_*
vars; mkdocs nav entry. reflow-check green; prompts unchanged (operator-facing,
not agent-facing).

* chore(release): 0.12.0

Cut [Unreleased] -> [0.12.0] (CI-watch + dep-update bot + image-prune housekeeping
+ the post-0.11.1 run-hardening fixes). Bumps all 8 canonical version refs to
0.12.0 (pyproject / uv.lock roboco pkg / panel package.json / __init__ /
config.app_version + the README / deployment / agent-image-tag examples).

* fix(pr-review): repo-scope external-PR dedupe (no duplicate review on a monorepo)

external_review_task_exists keyed on (project_id, pr, head_sha), but a monorepo
registers several cell-projects on one git_url and the poll already collapses to
one canonical project per repo — so once a review task was re-pointed to a
sibling project, the next poll (checking the canonical project) no longer saw it
and opened a second review of the same PR (observed: PR #131 reviewed once on
guard-core-saas-frontend, once on -backend). Dedupe now spans every project
sharing the PR's repo (git_url); re-review on a new head SHA still works; a
genuinely different repo with the same PR number is independent. 3 real-PG tests.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-25 21:11:36 +02:00

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Optional subsystems

Beyond the core delivery loop, RoboCo ships a set of optional engines — most off by default — that you turn on when you want them. They're the "company-in-a-box" capabilities and the stricter quality gates. This page is the reference for all of them; each has its own page below.

The Feature Flags card

You toggle these from Settings → Feature Flags in the panel rather than hand-editing environment variables. A toggle persists in the settings store and takes effect on the next backend restart. The matching ROBOCO_* environment variable is the same switch at the source — an unset flag falls back to its environment/config default, and some flags carry extra configuration (an API key, a project slug) that only lives in the environment.

!!! info "The restart contract" Flipping a flag in the panel saves it immediately, but the subsystem it controls is wired up at startup — so the change lands on the next backend restart, not instantly.

What you can turn on

Subsystem Flag Default What it does
Architectural Conventions ROBOCO_CONVENTIONS_ENABLED off Per-project rules for where code lives; hard-gates agents from misplaced code and lint suppressions.
Toolchain matching ROBOCO_TOOLCHAIN_MATCH_ENABLED off (on in the personal compose) Builds each project under its own declared Python and blocks gates when the suite can't run.
Web research ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED off Gives Board/PM agents gated web search & fetch through a provider you supply.
Strategy engine ROBOCO_STRATEGY_ENGINE_ENABLED off Notify-only nudges when the company drifts, goes idle, or stalls.
Pitch provisioning ROBOCO_PROVISIONING_TOKEN (+ org) inert until set On pitch approval, auto-creates repos and seeds a build task.
External / internal PR review ROBOCO_EXTERNAL_PR_ENABLED / ROBOCO_INTERNAL_PR_ENABLED off Reviews inbound external/fork PRs and untied org-repo PRs.
Self-healing CI ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_ENABLED (+ originate) off Watches RoboCo's own CI and, optionally, queues a CEO-gated fix task.
Multi-repo CI-watch ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_ENABLED (+ per-project) off Watches each opted-in project's CI and opens one fix task when it goes red; never auto-merges.
Dependency-update bot ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_ENABLED (+ per-project) off Read-only checks whether an upgrade changes a project's lockfiles and opens an update task; never auto-merges.

!!! note "Always-on resilience" Provider overload parking (ROBOCO_OVERLOAD_BREAK_ENABLED) and the dangling-image prune (ROBOCO_IMAGE_PRUNE_ENABLED) are on by default — they're not things you enable, they're safety nets you can disable. See Resilience.