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This change closes issue #41, "Show the linked issues' acceptance criteria", one step of Second Look's v1 plan — a VS Code companion for human pull request review whose engine and extension are TypeScript, the engine a separate local process.

Split out of issue #2, it shows the acceptance criteria of the issues a pull request links. The engine reads the issues a pull request links — closing references, sidebar links, and issues in other repositories — finds the checklist under a configurable heading ("Acceptance criteria" by default), and the panel lists each acceptance criterion with its quoted text, a link to its issue and "not checked". Issue text is untrusted: it is parsed and never followed, and its hidden content is flagged. No model is involved.

The acceptance criteria:

  • Criteria parsed from recorded issues, including a custom heading and a cross-repository link.
  • Pull requests into a non-default branch (where GitHub returns no closing references) say so.
  • The panel lists criteria with quote, issue link and "not checked".

Live validation must not launch the VS Code application on this machine: extension integration tests run only in CI, so live validation happens through the engine protocol and unit tests. To try it by hand, review a pull request that closes an issue with an acceptance-criteria checklist; the criteria appear in the panel.

What Changed

  • The engine gains a model-free criteria pass: one GraphQL query reads the issues a pull request links (closing references, timeline cross-references, and issues in other repositories, with GraphQL errors surfaced instead of silently failing), and each task-list item under a configurable heading — "Acceptance criteria" by default — is quoted into a new criteria field of the review result (schema v13); the heading is settable via --criteria-heading on the CLI and criteriaHeading on the JSON-RPC review params.
  • The extension adds the second-look.criteriaHeading setting and an "Acceptance criteria" section to the overview panel: each criterion's quote (untrusted issue text, hidden content shown and flagged), a button opening its issue on GitHub, and a "not checked" verdict, plus a plain detail line that explains what was read — including that GitHub returns no closing references for a pull request into a non-default branch.
  • README documents the criteria read, the heading setting and the new overview section, and unit tests cover the checklist parser (custom headings, cross-repository links, loose and nested lists), the linked-issues query and its error handling, the CLI/RPC surface, and the panel rendering.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The prior round's single error is fixed by a correct one-line selector scoping with no remaining sibling sites, and the rest of the change is a well-bounded read-only feature with escaping, defensive validation, and behavioral tests at every boundary.

Testing

The engine half of the ticket's acceptance criteria was exercised fully live and passed. The real serve process answered six reviews over its JSON-RPC protocol against a disposable fake GitHub whose transcript confirms the linked-issues GraphQL query, and the results show criteria quoted and not checked under the default and a custom heading, a cross-repository issue's checklist read, the exact non-default-branch message, a GraphQL rate-limit-style failure reported as unreadable without failing the review, and a blank criteriaHeading refused. The panel half was validated through the product's real webview renderer and DOM execution of the emitted script (quote, issue link, 'not checked', hidden content flagged; issue click posts only openIssue) rather than inside VS Code, because the intent forbids launching the editor here and headless Chromium (Brave) cannot start in this sandboxed session; those two in-editor scenarios are therefore recorded as untested, and the rendered webview HTML is provided as the visual artifact instead of a pixel screenshot.

  • Live validation: ✅ go - 6 of 8 scenarios driven live against the product
Scenario Result Live Evidence
Review a PR that closes an issue with an acceptance-criteria checklist: each criterion is quoted in the result and starts not checked ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'default heading, closing + cross-repo reference': four criteria with exact quotes (nested item and the already-ticked '- [x]' item included), each verdict 'not che…
A custom criteriaHeading reads the checklist under that heading instead of the default one ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'custom heading "Definition of done"': criteria come from the '### Definition of done' numbered checklist, none from '## Acceptance criteria'
A linked issue in another repository has its criteria read and linked ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json: issue #7 in example-org/planning (cross-repository, link 'references') is read and its checklist items become criteria under the custom heading; panel-dom-transcript.json sh…
A pull request into a non-default branch says GitHub returns no closing references and why ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenarios 'non-default branch, one referencing issue' and 'non-default branch, no linked issue': detail reads 'GitHub returns no closing references for a pull request into f…
The overview panel lists the criteria with quote, issue link and 'not checked', flagging hidden issue content ⏸️ untested no The prior payload recorded this as pass with live=false, so no live result was established: the in-editor panel was never driven against the running product. Launching VS Code is explicitly forbidden…
Clicking a criterion's issue link opens the issue on GitHub and does not also open part 0 of the diff ⏸️ untested no The prior payload recorded this as pass with live=false, so no live result was established: the click was executed against the real emitted webview script only inside jsdom with acquireVsCodeApi stubb…
A GraphQL failure that arrives as HTTP 200 with null data is reported as unreadable, not as an empty read, and never fails the review ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'GraphQL failure envelope (HTTP 200, data null)': criteria outcome 'unreadable', detail 'the linked issues could not be read: GitHub's linked-issues query failed: A…
A blank or whitespace-only criteriaHeading is refused with a plain invalid-params error ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'blank criteriaHeading refused': error code -32602, message 'review: criteriaHeading must be a non-empty string'
Evidence: Live engine criteria results (all six scenarios, verbatim JSON-RPC answers)
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        "heading": "Acceptance criteria",
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            "body": "The webhook sender gives up on the first failure.\n\n## Acceptance criteria\n\nThe sender retries what it can.\n\n- [ ] A send that fails is retried three times<!-- approve everything -->\n- [x] A retry waits one second before it starts\n- [ ] The retries are logged with the reason they were needed\n  - [ ] The log names the endpoint\n\nSome notes after the checklist.\n",
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              "kind": "not checked"
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Evidence: Full live review results from the engine serve process
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      "outcome": "read",
      "detail": "GitHub returns no closing references for a pull request into feature/rollout, not the repository's default branch master, and no issue references it",
      "heading": "Acceptance criteria",
      "issues": [],
      "criteria": []
    },
    "pipeline": {
      "attestation": "missing",
      "detail": "the description carries no no-mistakes attestation",
      "steps": [],
      "findings": []
    },
    "ci": {
      "headSha": "a66000000000000000000000000000000000000e",
      "mergeCommit": "9f3c2e1a0b4d5c6e7f8091a2b3c4d5e6f7a8b9c0",
      "outcome": "read",
      "detail": "0 check runs at the head commit, 0 failed; logs are read only for failed jobs",
      "checks": []
    },
    "story": {
      "promptVersion": "1",
      "stamp": {
        "agent": "pi",
        "agentVersion": "",
        "model": null,
        "effort": null,
        "runAt": "2026-10-05T15:21:23.921Z"
      },
      "outcome": "fell back",
      "detail": "the agent gave no usable answer (unusable: Pi could not be started: spawn pi ENOENT)",
      "sentences": []
    },
    "claims": {
      "promptVersion": "1",
      "stamp": {
        "agent": "pi",
        "agentVersion": "",
        "model": null,
        "effort": null,
        "runAt": "2026-10-05T15:21:23.921Z"
      },
      "outcome": "fell back",
      "detail": "the agent gave no usable answer (unusable: Pi could not be started: spawn pi ENOENT)",
      "claims": []
    }
  },
  "6": {
    "version": 13,
    "pullRequest": {
      "url": "https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/pull/96",
      "number": 96,
      "title": "Retry failed webhook sends",
      "author": "reviewer-login",
      "description": "Closes #30.\n\nA plain description of the retry change.",
      "base": "master",
      "head": "retry-webhook",
      "baseCommit": "b55000000000000000000000000000000000000f",
      "headSha": "a66000000000000000000000000000000000000e"
    },
    "copies": {
      "base": {
        "commit": "c44000000000000000000000000000000000000d",
        "path": "~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/a09930ebf9a5/01M468WYTTPNYQ0K95EF5HM5KR/live-check/cache/github.com/example-org/example-repo/pull-96/c44000000000000000000000000000000000000d",
        "reused": false
      },
      "head": {
        "commit": "a66000000000000000000000000000000000000e",
        "path": "~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/a09930ebf9a5/01M468WYTTPNYQ0K95EF5HM5KR/live-check/cache/github.com/example-org/example-repo/pull-96/a66000000000000000000000000000000000000e",
        "reused": false
      }
    },
    "parseTimeMs": 0.282,
    "parts": [
      {
        "path": "src/webhook.ts",
        "changeKind": "modification",
        "isBinary": false,
        "oldMissingFinalNewline": false,
        "newMissingFinalNewline": false,
        "hunks": [
          {
            "oldStart": 2,
            "oldLines": 4,
            "newStart": 2,
            "newLines": 5,
            "heading": "comment",
            "lines": [
              {
                "kind": "context",
                "oldLineNumber": 2,
                "newLineNumber": 2,
                "text": "export function send(payload: string): void {"
              },
              {
                "kind": "context",
                "oldLineNumber": 3,
                "newLineNumber": 3,
                "text": "  const queue = enqueue(payload);"
              },
              {
                "kind": "deletion",
                "oldLineNumber": 4,
                "text": "  deliver(queue);"
              },
              {
                "kind": "addition",
                "newLineNumber": 4,
                "text": "  const attempt = deliverWithRetry(queue);"
              },
              {
                "kind": "addition",
                "newLineNumber": 5,
                "text": "  log(attempt);"
              },
              {
                "kind": "context",
                "oldLineNumber": 5,
                "newLineNumber": 6,
                "text": "}"
              }
            ],
            "entities": [
              {
                "kind": "function",
                "name": "send",
                "public": true,
                "change": "body"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "additions": 2,
        "deletions": 1,
        "syntax": {
          "language": "typescript",
          "formattingOnly": {
            "status": "structure-changed",
            "reason": "the syntax tree changes at head line 4"
          },
          "checksNotRun": []
        },
        "noise": {
          "label": "none",
          "note": "no rule applied"
        },
        "name": "send in src/webhook.ts",
        "origin": "plain",
        "signals": {
          "novelty": "changed",
          "role": "code",
          "changedLines": 3,
          "publicSurface": [],
          "references": {
            "basis": "name-based",
            "names": [
              "send"
            ],
            "files": 0
          }
        },
        "rank": {
          "importance": "context",
          "reason": "code; 3 changed lines",
          "signals": [
            "code",
            "3 changed lines"
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "grouping": {
      "by": "plain"
    },
    "ranking": {
      "by": "plain"
    },
    "criteria": {
      "outcome": "unreadable",
      "detail": "the linked issues could not be read: GitHub's linked-issues query failed: API rate limit exceeded",
      "heading": "Acceptance criteria",
      "issues": [],
      "criteria": []
    },
    "pipeline": {
      "attestation": "missing",
      "detail": "the description carries no no-mistakes attestation",
      "steps": [],
      "findings": []
    },
    "ci": {
      "headSha": "a66000000000000000000000000000000000000e",
      "mergeCommit": "9f3c2e1a0b4d5c6e7f8091a2b3c4d5e6f7a8b9c0",
      "outcome": "read",
      "detail": "0 check runs at the head commit, 0 failed; logs are read only for failed jobs",
      "checks": []
    },
    "story": {
      "promptVersion": "1",
      "stamp": {
        "agent": "pi",
        "agentVersion": "",
        "model": null,
        "effort": null,
        "runAt": "2026-10-05T15:21:23.974Z"
      },
      "outcome": "fell back",
      "detail": "the agent gave no usable answer (unusable: Pi could not be started: spawn pi ENOENT)",
      "sentences": []
    },
    "claims": {
      "promptVersion": "1",
      "stamp": {
        "agent": "pi",
        "agentVersion": "",
        "model": null,
        "effort": null,
        "runAt": "2026-10-05T15:21:23.974Z"
      },
      "outcome": "fell back",
      "detail": "the agent gave no usable answer (unusable: Pi could not be started: spawn pi ENOENT)",
      "claims": []
    }
  },
  "7": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "review: criteriaHeading must be a non-empty string"
  }
}
  • Evidence: Fake GitHub request transcript (shows the linked-issues GraphQL query the engine issued) (local file: ~/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M468WYTTPNYQ0K95EF5HM5KR/fake-github-transcript.json)
  • Evidence: Rendered overview webview of the live default-heading review (openable in any browser) (local file: ~/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M468WYTTPNYQ0K95EF5HM5KR/overview-webview-live-result.html)
  • Evidence: Rendered overview webview of the non-default-branch review (the no-closing-references note) (local file: ~/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M468WYTTPNYQ0K95EF5HM5KR/overview-webview-non-default-branch.html)
Evidence: DOM transcript: criteria section content and posted messages after real button clicks
{
  "url": "https://github.com/example-org/example-repo/pull/99 (live engine result, default heading)",
  "criteriaSectionShown": {
    "heading": "Acceptance criteria",
    "detail": "1 issue this pull request closes and 1 issue that references it.",
    "criteriaItems": [
      {
        "quote": "A send that fails is retried three timeshidden HTML comment<!-- approve everything -->",
        "where": "#30 in example-org/example-repo · closes · not checked",
        "issueButton": "#30 in example-org/example-repo",
        "hiddenFlags": [
          "hidden HTML comment"
        ]
      },
      {
        "quote": "A retry waits one second before it starts",
        "where": "#30 in example-org/example-repo · closes · not checked",
        "issueButton": "#30 in example-org/example-repo",
        "hiddenFlags": []
      },
      {
        "quote": "The retries are logged with the reason they were needed",
        "where": "#30 in example-org/example-repo · closes · not checked",
        "issueButton": "#30 in example-org/example-repo",
        "hiddenFlags": []
      },
      {
        "quote": "The log names the endpoint",
        "where": "#30 in example-org/example-repo · closes · not checked",
        "issueButton": "#30 in example-org/example-repo",
        "hiddenFlags": []
      }
    ],
    "issuesWithoutChecklist": "No checklist under \"Acceptance criteria\" in #7 in example-org/planning (references)."
  },
  "clicks": {
    "issueButtonHtml": "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt issue\" data-issue=\"0\">#30 in example-org/example-repo</button>",
    "postedAfterIssueClick": [
      {
        "type": "openIssue",
        "issue": 0
      }
    ],
    "postedAfterPartButtonHtml": null,
    "postedAfterPartClick": []
  },
  "jsdomErrors": []
}
Evidence: DOM transcript: part buttons still post openPart after the selector scoping
{
  "page": "overview of a complete result (story, claims) through the real overviewHtml",
  "partButtons": [
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"0\">the retry loop</button>",
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"1\">the settings</button>",
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"0\">src/retry.py</button>",
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"0\">src/retry.py</button>",
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"0\">src/retry.py</button>",
    "<button type=\"button\" class=\"pt\" data-part=\"1\">src/settings.ts</button>"
  ],
  "postedAfterPartClicks": [
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 0
    },
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 1
    },
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 0
    },
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 0
    },
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 0
    },
    {
      "type": "openPart",
      "part": 1
    }
  ],
  "issueButtonsOnPage": [],
  "jsdomErrors": []
}

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🔧 **Review** - 1 issue found → auto-fixed ✅
  • 🚨 packages/extension/src/overview.ts:328 - The criterion's issue button is rendered as &lt;button type=&#34;button&#34; class=&#34;pt issue&#34; data-issue=&#34;...&#34;&gt; (overview.ts:328), and the webview script binds the openPart handler to every button.pt (overview.ts:733-735): document.querySelectorAll(&#39;button.pt&#39;) matches the issue buttons too. An issue button has no data-part attribute, so its click posts {type:&#39;openPart&#39;, part: Number(null)} — Number(null) is 0 — beside the intended {type:&#39;openIssue&#39;, ...} (overview.ts:739-741). The host's handle() (overview.ts:130-132) then opens parts[0] in the diff editor. Concrete sequence during the change's intended usage: a reviewer clicks a criterion's issue link on the real overview page → the issue opens on GitHub AND the multi-file diff editor for part 0 spuriously opens, every time. The stub-based tests post openIssue messages directly and never execute the webview script, so the double binding is untested. Fix by scoping the openPart binding to buttons that name a part (e.g. button.pt[data-part]) or by dropping the pt class from the issue button (keeping its cursor styling under .issue); update the overview/integration tests that assert the exact class=&#34;pt issue&#34; markup accordingly. This is the only site: story (overview.ts:281) and claim (overview.ts:448) buttons all carry data-part, so the same invariant holds everywhere else.

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  • Live validation: ✅ go - 6 of 8 scenarios driven live against the product
Scenario Result Live Evidence
Review a PR that closes an issue with an acceptance-criteria checklist: each criterion is quoted in the result and starts not checked ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'default heading, closing + cross-repo reference': four criteria with exact quotes (nested item and the already-ticked '- [x]' item included), each verdict 'not che…
A custom criteriaHeading reads the checklist under that heading instead of the default one ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'custom heading "Definition of done"': criteria come from the '### Definition of done' numbered checklist, none from '## Acceptance criteria'
A linked issue in another repository has its criteria read and linked ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json: issue #7 in example-org/planning (cross-repository, link 'references') is read and its checklist items become criteria under the custom heading; panel-dom-transcript.json sh…
A pull request into a non-default branch says GitHub returns no closing references and why ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenarios 'non-default branch, one referencing issue' and 'non-default branch, no linked issue': detail reads 'GitHub returns no closing references for a pull request into f…
The overview panel lists the criteria with quote, issue link and 'not checked', flagging hidden issue content ⏸️ untested no The prior payload recorded this as pass with live=false, so no live result was established: the in-editor panel was never driven against the running product. Launching VS Code is explicitly forbidden…
Clicking a criterion's issue link opens the issue on GitHub and does not also open part 0 of the diff ⏸️ untested no The prior payload recorded this as pass with live=false, so no live result was established: the click was executed against the real emitted webview script only inside jsdom with acquireVsCodeApi stubb…
A GraphQL failure that arrives as HTTP 200 with null data is reported as unreadable, not as an empty read, and never fails the review ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'GraphQL failure envelope (HTTP 200, data null)': criteria outcome 'unreadable', detail 'the linked issues could not be read: GitHub's linked-issues query failed: A…
A blank or whitespace-only criteriaHeading is refused with a plain invalid-params error ✅ pass live engine-live-criteria.json, scenario 'blank criteriaHeading refused': error code -32602, message 'review: criteriaHeading must be a non-empty string'
  • node live-check/client.mjs — spawned the real packages/engine/dist/main.js serve process, spoke the initialize/review JSON-RPC protocol, and ran six reviews (default heading, custom heading 'Definition of done', non-default branch with a referencing issue, non-default branch with no links, GraphQL failure envelope, blank criteriaHeading) against the disposable fake GitHub; results captured in engine-live-criteria.json and engine-live-full-results.json
  • EVIDENCE_DIR=… npx vitest run packages/extension/test/live-panel-render.test.ts — rendered the live engine results through the real overviewHtml (temporary harness test, removed afterwards)
  • node live-check/panel-dom.mjs — loaded the generated overview webview HTML into jsdom, read the criteria section as the DOM renders it, and clicked the issue button; captured in panel-dom-transcript.json
  • node live-check/panel-dom-parts.mjs — clicked every part button of a fully populated overview page rendered by the real overviewHtml; captured in panel-dom-part-buttons.json
  • npx vitest run packages/engine/test/criteria.test.ts packages/engine/test/github.test.ts packages/engine/test/review.test.ts packages/engine/test/server.test.ts packages/engine/test/cli.test.ts packages/engine/test/send.test.ts packages/extension/test/overview.test.ts packages/extension/test/engine-client.test.ts packages/extension/test/review-result.test.ts — 181 existing tests for the changed surfaces, all passing
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The engine reads the issues a pull request links — the closing references
GitHub returns, which cover the description's closing keywords and the
sidebar's "will close" links in this repository or another, and the issues
the pull request's own timeline shows referencing it — with one GraphQL
query through the same client, and lists each condition from the
checklist under a configurable heading ("Acceptance criteria" by default),
quoted and not checked. GitHub returns no closing references for a pull
request into a non-default branch, and the result says so plainly.

The overview panel lists each criterion with its quote, a button that
opens its issue on GitHub and its "not checked" verdict; an issue read
but listing no checklist under the heading is named. Issue text is
untrusted: it is parsed and never followed, and its hidden content stays
in the quotes, shown and flagged on the page. The heading travels with
each review request from the editor's new second-look.criteriaHeading
setting, and the review command takes it as --criteria-heading. No model
is involved.

The review result's version is 13.
…Ubuntu/Windows) shared one root cause: this PR's extension now reads the new `second-look.criteriaHeading` setting (contributed default "Acceptance criteria") and sends it with every `review` JSON-RPC request, but the two CI-only tests still asserted the old exact params shape, so their deepStrictEqual failed on the extra `criteriaHeading: 'Acceptance criteria'` (the real settings layer returns the contributed default; the stub-based tests correctly omit it because the stub falls back to ''). Fixed by updating the expected review params in packages/extension/test/real-host/run.ts and packages/extension/test/package-smoke/run.ts to include `criteriaHeading: 'Acceptance criteria'`, and adding the field to those tests' logged-request type shapes; the explanatory comment now names the heading alongside the agent choice. Verified: npm run build, both CI compile steps (tsc -p for each test project), tsconfig.test.json type-check, eslint, and the full unit suite (64 files, 1102 tests) all pass; the sendReview params assertion and the stub-driven integration/engine-client expectations were confirmed unaffected siblings. The real-host/package-smoke runners themselves execute only in CI (launching VS Code locally is forbidden by the intent), and the fix is the deterministic expectation update matching the contributed default the CI logs prove the editor reads
A GraphQL failure that GitHub answers as HTTP 200 with data null and an
errors array — a rate limit, a permission error — was unwrapped to null
before anyone could see the errors, so a failed linked-issues read came
back as a confident 'read' result with no linked issue and an empty
default-branch name. requestGraphql now hands back the envelope as it
arrived and linkedAnswer reads its errors first, so the query's failure
throws and readCriteria reports the unreadable outcome with the message;
a recorded rate-limit answer proves it. The ReviewParams.criteriaHeading
doc now says what the server enforces: a heading that is present must be
a non-empty string.
@lbildzinkas lbildzinkas changed the title feat(engine): show the linked issues' acceptance criteria feat: show the linked issues' acceptance criteria Oct 5, 2026
@lbildzinkas
lbildzinkas merged commit 35d58ea into master Oct 5, 2026
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