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A release pull request holds its repository's merges under release-hold (closes #403) - #436
Nothing held merges in a repository while its release pull request was finished (btclib-wallet's v2026.11.13 was rebuilt three times). The maintainer chose a label, release-hold, whose rule RELEASING.md's Release to PyPI states (PR btclib-org/.github#2266).
Here the process reads it. Landing: before arming or merging, the session reads which pull requests carry release-hold, in any state, since a merged release pull request keeps it until the release is published; where another carries it, the pull request waits until none other does, but for the exceptions that step gives, and a label left behind is handled as that step says. Where that read or The sweep's list finds the label, the session disarms each armed pull request of that repository that waits and tells the human; only the human's word arms it again. The label alone records the wait. The sweep lists the pull requests carrying it (--limit 200: gh search prs returns 30 by default) and points to Landing for which of the others wait. The shared file's When the human has to decide points to both.
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Rebase
on origin/main670837d, resolving one conflict in process/btclib-common.md (the new What a session's memory holds section follows the paragraph this adds); 2d4e59e is a new commit on 11aeea9, with no merge or rebase
Local review
fresh Codex reviewer: CLEARED f299c70; 11aeea9 drops the disarm and re-arm text after the never-arm decision, and answers a fresh Codex review of f0bcdde (merge, not arm; pointers in place of the lifecycle; "no other number"; a label left behind); a fresh Codex reviewer read both sides together and answered CLEARED 11aeea9, after one round. 2d4e59e answers five review threads on GitHub: the read runs before arming too, a waiting armed pull request is disarmed and re-armed only on the human's word (the maintainer's decision on ISS #403), and the sweep points to Landing's exceptions; fresh Codex reviewer on the delta: CLEARED 2d4e59e
Measured
gh pr list --label <label> --state all and gh search prs --label <label> (no --state) return merged pull requests too, controlled with api-break (btclib-node 2467 merged)
CodeRabbit CLI
see the comment below
Order
lands after PR btclib-org/.github#2266; conflicts with PR #437 in skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md (git merge-tree exits 1 against its head a712f5d, as it did with 11aeea9), which renames Arming auto-merge, which this points to
…ld (closes#403)
RELEASING.md has a release pull request rebuilt when main moves while
its gates run, and nothing held other landings meanwhile: PR
btclib-org/btclib-wallet#867 was rebuilt three times. The maintainer
decided (2026-11-14) on a label on the release pull request.
RELEASING.md's *Release to PyPI* holds the label's rule, in a step
btclib-org/.github adds (issue #403): when
the label goes on and comes off, what it holds and its exceptions, and
what becomes of a label left behind. The shared file's *When the human
has to decide* points there.
/btclib-pr's *Landing* is the reader's side: before a session merges a
pull request, it reads which pull requests carry the label, in any
state, since a merged release pull request keeps it until the release
is published. Where another carries it, the one at hand waits until
none other does, but for the exceptions that step gives, and the label
alone records the wait. *The sweep* lists the pull requests carrying it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ferdinando Ametrano <ferdinando@ametrano.net>
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Summary
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Documentation
Clarified how release-hold labels affect release pull requests and when they must wait before arming or merging.
Documented that the review sweep lists matching pull requests in any state, while drafts are listed but not worked.
Explained that a matching hold on another pull request blocks work, subject to documented exceptions, and that waiting pull requests receive no added comment.
Clarified that affected armed pull requests are disarmed and require human instruction to be armed again.
The process documentation describes how to find pull requests labeled release-hold during a sweep and how to apply the hold before arming or merging. It also states how waiting pull requests are disarmed and when they can be armed again.
Changes: Release-hold process
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Release-hold discovery and work ordering process/btclib-common.md, skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md
The process guide points to release-hold instructions. The sweep guidance adds a command to list matching pull requests and states that drafts are listed but not worked.
Pre-merge hold rule skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md
The Landing guidance requires checking matching pull requests regardless of state before arming or merging. It describes when another matching pull request causes a wait, the release-step exceptions, and how waiting pull requests are disarmed and later re-armed by human instruction.
This is guidance-only. The sweep wording now defers to Landing's exceptions, and armed pull requests that wait on release-hold are disarmed until the human re-arms them. No merge-blocking risk remains. The RELEASING.md reference should be checked against the repository where that file lives.
Architecture risk: Low · up to 2d4e5
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Changed systems:process, skills
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observed — process (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
observed — skills (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
Before / after behavior
observed — Modified behavior in process/btclib-common.md: Adds pointers to RELEASING.md for the release-hold label’s conditions and effect on release pull requests, and to /btclib-pr’s Landing for how sessions read the label.
observed — Modified behavior in skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md: Adds a gh search prs command to list pull requests labeled release-hold, including repository, number, URL, and state. The diff-balance explanation remains before this new guidance.
observed — Modified behavior in skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md: The decision guidance follows the release-hold listing. Drafts remain listed but not worked, and the work-order criteria remain unchanged.
observed — Modified behavior in skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md: Adds a Landing rule requiring a repository-wide release-hold listing before arming or merging. A pull request waits while another number appears, except for the referenced release-step exceptions; the label records the wait without a comment on the waiting pull request. When the label is found, armed pull requests that wait are disarmed and the human is told; only the human’s instruction arms them again.
Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1
Failed checks: 1 inconclusive
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Linked Issues check
Issue #403 asks the process to state whether and how a session finishing a release pull request holds other landings in that repository, and what lands anyway (a red-main repair). At the reviewed head…
Provide readable text of skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md at 2d4e59e, from the Landing section onward, to confirm the release-hold waiting rule, the exceptions, and the red-main repair. Also provide the whole-PR diff against the merge base (670837…
Passed checks: 3 passed
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Title check
The title states the main change: a release pull request holds its repository's merges under the release-hold label, with a reference to issue #403. It matches the summarized changes to process/btclib…
Out of Scope Changes check
The change summary covers only process/btclib-common.md and skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md. Both are process documents. The shown content is the release-hold label rule, its sweep listing, its Landing rule…
Description check
The description ties directly to the changeset. It states the goal of holding merges while a release pull request is finished, names the release-hold label, and describes the Landing and sweep changes…
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The title states the main change: a release pull request holds its repository's merges under the release-hold label, with a reference to issue #403. It matches the summarized changes to process/btclib-common.md and skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md, which add release-hold checks before landing. The title meets the organization's standard as configured, though the configured requirement is only a link to an external section, so its exact content could not be verified here.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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The change summary covers only process/btclib-common.md and skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md. Both are process documents. The shown content is the release-hold label rule, its sweep listing, its Landing rule, and pointers between the shared and skill files. All of it addresses #403's request to hold landings during release finishing. The sweep text read at head contains only release-hold related additions in the parts examined. No unrelated change was demonstrated. The whole-PR diff could not be read, so this verdict rests on the summary and the partial file read.
Full details: Description check
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The description ties directly to the changeset. It states the goal of holding merges while a release pull request is finished, names the release-hold label, and describes the Landing and sweep changes in process/btclib-common.md and skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md. It also lists the validation evidence and the merge-order conflict. The description is specific and on-topic, so the check passes.
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Explanation
Issue #403 asks the process to state whether and how a session finishing a release pull request holds other landings in that repository, and what lands anyway (a red-main repair). At the reviewed head, skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md (The sweep) adds a gh search prs --owner btclib-org --label release-hold --limit 200 command. It also states that a pull request may wait on one that carries release-hold, as Landing says. The sweep also sends a red-main repair first, citing Landing's first bullet. This covers the label mechanism and the red-main exception in principle. Not verified: the Landing section itself. The file read was truncated before Landing, so the release-hold rule, the waiting condition, and the exceptions text are unread at head. The whole-PR diff was also unavailable. The raw summary describes Landing text (including disarm and re-arm steps) that the PR description says 11aeea9 removed. This conflict cannot be resolved from the available evidence. The shared rule in RELEASING.md (btclib-org/.github#2266) is not in this repository's reviewed content.
Resolution
Provide readable text of skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md at 2d4e59e, from the Landing section onward, to confirm the release-hold waiting rule, the exceptions, and the red-main repair. Also provide the whole-PR diff against the merge base (670837d) for process/btclib-common.md and skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md, or the readable RELEASING.md Release to PyPI text, to confirm that the exceptions and the label rule match the issue's requirement.
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Blocking, skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md:1382 (Landing): the release-hold check runs only "before the session merges". Sessions land by arming auto-merge, and GitHub merges later. A pull request armed before the label went on still lands while another pull request carries it. Nothing here disarms it, and Arming auto-merge's conditions do not name the label. That breaks the rule in RELEASING.md's Release to PyPI (btclib-org/.github#2266): "nobody merges another pull request into main here". The maintainer's decision on #403 (fametrano, MEMBER) asks for the check "before arming or landing", "disarming an armed pull request there". The description cites a "never-arm decision", but no member comment on #403 or on this pull request records one.
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Review comments at @skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md:
- Around line 96-97: Update the sweep’s wait-state description and table
generation so each pull request is shown as waiting only when the Landing
exceptions do not apply; exclude the labeled pull request itself, red-main
repairs, and the older of two labeled release pull requests from waiting states.
- Around line 1381-1382: Update the release-hold and squash auto-merge guidance
so a pull request cannot remain armed to merge after release-hold is added:
either require approval before arming, or require checking the label on each
armed pull request and disarming it when present. Preserve the existing checks
and ACK requirements.
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An armed pull request lands at a time no session chooses, so one armed
before release-hold went on could still land during the release. The
maintainer's decision on the issue has a session read the label before
arming or landing, and disarm an armed pull request there.
/btclib-pr's *Landing* reads the label before the session arms a pull
request, as well as before it merges one. Where that read or the
sweep's list finds the label, the session disarms each armed pull
request of that repository that waits, tells the human, and arms it
again only on the human's word.
*The sweep* said that every pull request of the repository waits, the
labelled one included. It points to *Landing* instead, whose exceptions
it left out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ferdinando Ametrano <ferdinando@ametrano.net>
My blocking finding from 11aeea9 is closed. Landing now reads release-hold before arming as well as before merging. Where that read or the sweep finds the label, the session disarms each waiting armed pull request, using the commands in Arming auto-merge (skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md:1363, :1368). This matches the maintainer's decision on #403 (fametrano, MEMBER): "before arming or landing … disarming an armed pull request there". I have no new blocking or non-blocking findings.
Not checked: these commands were not run, so I have not confirmed that they return merged pull requests, as the Measured row says: gh pr list --repo <owner>/<repo> --label release-hold --state all --json number --jq '.[].number' and gh search prs --owner btclib-org --label release-hold --limit 200 --json repository,number,url,state.
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Record disarmed PRs until the human re-arms them
blocking — When the release label is later removed and another session or night mode examines the repository, nothing identifies a PR as one that was disarmed and still requires the human's word, so the normal landing flow can arm it automatically. This contradicts process/btclib-common.md:867-880, which requires a hold to be recorded because session-only state is lost; persist the post-release hold on each disarmed PR until the human clears it.
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Paginate the armed-PR query before completing the hold
blocking — In a repository with more than 30 open PRs, this instruction cannot disarm each armed PR because the referenced command at lines 1363-1364 has no --limit; gh pr list --help defines that flag as “Maximum number of items to fetch (default 30).” An armed PR outside the first page can therefore auto-merge during the release despite release-hold; make the listing exhaustive before using it for this sweep.
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Nothing held merges in a repository while its release pull request was finished (btclib-wallet's v2026.11.13 was rebuilt three times). The maintainer chose a label,
release-hold, whose ruleRELEASING.md's Release to PyPI states (PR btclib-org/.github#2266).Here the process reads it. Landing: before arming or merging, the session reads which pull requests carry
release-hold, in any state, since a merged release pull request keeps it until the release is published; where another carries it, the pull request waits until none other does, but for the exceptions that step gives, and a label left behind is handled as that step says. Where that read or The sweep's list finds the label, the session disarms each armed pull request of that repository that waits and tells the human; only the human's word arms it again. The label alone records the wait. The sweep lists the pull requests carrying it (--limit 200:gh search prsreturns 30 by default) and points to Landing for which of the others wait. The shared file's When the human has to decide points to both.Evidence
uvx pre-commit run --all-files0 (39 hooks passed, 1 skipped, theagents-tomlcheck among them),uvx pre-commit run --all-files markdownlint-cli20,uvx pre-commit validate-config .pre-commit-config.yaml0origin/main670837d, resolving one conflict inprocess/btclib-common.md(the new What a session's memory holds section follows the paragraph this adds); 2d4e59e is a new commit on 11aeea9, with no merge or rebaseCLEARED f299c70; 11aeea9 drops the disarm and re-arm text after the never-arm decision, and answers a fresh Codex review of f0bcdde (merge, not arm; pointers in place of the lifecycle; "no other number"; a label left behind); a fresh Codex reviewer read both sides together and answeredCLEARED 11aeea9, after one round. 2d4e59e answers five review threads on GitHub: the read runs before arming too, a waiting armed pull request is disarmed and re-armed only on the human's word (the maintainer's decision on ISS #403), and the sweep points to Landing's exceptions; fresh Codex reviewer on the delta:CLEARED 2d4e59egh pr list --label <label> --state allandgh search prs --label <label>(no--state) return merged pull requests too, controlled withapi-break(btclib-node 2467 merged)skills/btclib-pr/SKILL.md(git merge-treeexits1against its head a712f5d, as it did with 11aeea9), which renames Arming auto-merge, which this points toCloses #403
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