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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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Projects & Products

Two pages define what the company builds and who builds it. Projects (/projects) are the git repositories RoboCo is allowed to touch. Products (/products) group several repositories into one shipping unit and route each delivery cell to the repo it owns. You only need Products when a single thing you ship spans more than one cell.

Projects

A project is one git repository plus the configuration that tells the company how to build and check it. The Projects page is where you register, search, and edit them.

  • New opens the create dialog — name, slug, git URL, GitHub token, assigned cell, default branch, and optional per-project gate commands.
  • The list supports search, a cell filter, and a show-inactive toggle so retired repos stay out of the way without being deleted.
  • Edit reopens the same form to rotate the token, change the gate commands, or flip the assigned cell. The edit dialog also hosts the per-project Conventions tab — see Architectural conventions — and an Autonomous Maintenance section to opt the project into CI-watch (with an optional workflow file) and the dependency-update bot (its command and optional lockfile paths) — see Autonomous maintenance.

The field-by-field detail — what each field means, the token scopes you need, the encryption guarantee, and the default-branch gotcha — lives in Register your first project. Read that page before you create a repo; this page doesn't repeat it.

!!! tip "Set the gate commands" The single biggest lever on output quality is pointing a project's quality_command and per-step commands at the real checks you'd run locally. The company then gates itself the way you would. Details in Gate commands.

Products

A product maps each delivery cell to the project (repository) it builds for that product. Use it when one deliverable spans multiple cells — a Backend repo and a Frontend repo, say, that ship together.

The page is a straightforward table plus a New button. A product carries a name and a set of cell-to-project assignments: Backend → repo A, Frontend → repo B, UX/UI → repo C. A cell with no assignment simply doesn't participate in that product.

Why the mapping matters

When the Main PM decomposes a product into work and fans it out to the cells, the branch and PR structure follows the mapping. The Main PM cuts one integration branch per distinct repository in the product. A cell's work lands on its repo's integration branch; the cell PM opens the cell→root PR within that repo, and the Main PM opens the root→master PR per repo. Two cells assigned the same repo share one integration branch; two cells on different repos get one each.

flowchart LR
    P[Product] --> B[Backend cell → repo A]
    P --> F[Frontend cell → repo B]
    A1[repo A: integration branch] --> MA[root→master PR · repo A]
    B1[repo B: integration branch] --> MB[root→master PR · repo B]
    B --> A1
    F --> B1

!!! note "Single-repo work needs no product" If everything you're shipping lives in one repo, you don't need a product at all — register the project and hand the Task Assistant or the Create Task dialog that project directly. Products exist purely to coordinate a multi-repo, multi-cell deliverable.

For how branches assemble and merge once the cells are building, see the merge model. For the lifecycle a single task moves through, see the task lifecycle.

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