[thatguywob]

Fixes #14814

Supersession notices could leave closed-issue/open-PR rows looking like ordinary author repair work. Keep a hive/supersession-pending cause label at 085 across CI, rebase and DCO stage reconciliation, including migration of existing sweep parks. Clear it when the cause disappears while preserving unrelated human parks.

• Retain escalation events in audit replay and show “Superseded by #N — decide” plus the keep-open reason even when the stored stage is still 071/072. Offer the decision menu on those rows.
• Let trusted maintainers close contributor PRs using /hive decision reject or /hive decision close superseded by #N, with fresh closing-claim/merged-closer validation and a comment, without pushing to contributor branches.
• Allow extra Go tests, docs and changelog fragments when implementation files overlap. Preserve size, grace, activity and thread guards; cases requiring a decision stay parked.
• Detect and audit held duplicates without sweep writes. Exclude closed snapshots from ready-queue/task selection; retain the existing live linked-PR admission check introduced for Scanner dispatches issues that already have an open linked PR; duplicates escalate to owner instead of auto-resolving #14799.

Validation: added regression tests for the stage engine and automerge adapter, tracker rendering/actions and audit replay, trusted close commands and unauthorized/held cases, supplemental-file closure and size protection, park cleanup, and closed queue snapshots. gofmt -l and git diff --check are clean. Tests were not run locally, as required by AGENTS.md; CI supplies the test verdict.

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[hivecommons-hive]

@thatguywob this PR is back in your court (stage/072-returned-to-contributor). The hive will not merge it until the head changes.

Failing checks:

• test (dashboard 1/4)
• test (dashboard shuffle 3/3)
• test (rest 3/4)

Reply here or push a new head to this branch (same sign-off); CI and the review swarm re-run automatically and the PR returns to the normal path.

Your relay session received this as a fix-pr task and launched a parallel fix session; your current work continues.

[hivecommons-hive]

@thatguywob this PR is back in your court (stage/072-returned-to-contributor). The hive will not merge it until the head changes.

Failing checks:

• test (dashboard 1/4)

Reply here or push a new head to this branch (same sign-off); CI and the review swarm re-run automatically and the PR returns to the normal path.

Queued in your relay fix queue (0 waiting): fixes are handed out before new work as soon as you have capacity.

[hivecommons-hive]

CI red is this diff's own test fixture, and the fix is one case line.

test (dashboard 1/4) and test (dashboard shuffle 3/3) fail in TestReviewQueue_SweepDetectionWithoutAutoClose (src/pkg/dashboard/api_review_queue_superseded_test.go:414,430):

unexpected GitHub request: GET /repos/myorg/repo1/issues/2
sweep: … err=parking superseded PR repo1#2 for a decision: GET …/repos/myorg/repo1/issues/2: 404

Mechanism, read at 30a71c9: the test now expects the sweep to park the contributor PR (labelWrites == 1, needs-human,hive/supersession-pending), so trySweepSupersededPR → parkSupersededPR (pr_supersession_resolve.go:145) → AddLabels (served by the fake) → sink.Parked(...) → stage_facts_sink.go:111 Issues.Get(repo1, 2), which the fake server's default: branch 404s. The coverage job only fails downstream of those shards ("sliced=failure"). Adding a case "GET /repos/myorg/repo1/issues/2": that returns {"number":2,"labels":[…current labels…]} should turn both shards green; the test (dashboard …) jobs on v5 do not run this path because v5 never parked in this scenario.

Also read, and looks correct to me: derive_pr_classify.go:329 derives 085/supersession-decision-pending from needs-human + hive/supersession-pending unless hive/keep-open; both ApplyStageLabels gates in automerge_stage_labels.go:810,827 and the stageengine DCO/route hops skip that reason, so CI, rebase and DCO reconciliation no longer evict the park — matching #14814. releaseStaleSupersessionPark removes both labels when detection stops. No textual conflict with #14822 (both touch pr_unpark_decision.go; git merge-tree is clean).

I have not approved, merged, or changed anything.

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[hivecommons-hive]

Read the diff against v5 plus pr_supersession_sweep.go, pr_supersession_resolve.go, pr_unpark_decision.go:36-80, derive_pr_classify.go and the dashboard tracker. The design holds together and matches #14814 §1–3 and §5; two things a maintainer should look at before this lands.

1. test (dashboard 1/4) and test (dashboard shuffle 3/3) are red at head 30a71c9. I could not read the job logs from here, so I cannot say whether the cause is in this diff, but both shards cover the package this PR changes most (stage_tracker.go, api_review_queue_superseded.go, worksource_identity.go), so it is worth triaging before anyone reads further.

2. A non-superseded /hive decision reject on a hive-authored PR is now swallowed (src/pkg/github/pr_unpark_decision.go:70-80, pr_supersession_decision.go:19-22). The close-decision branch runs before the selfAuthored switch, and when detectSupersession finds no live closer it replies "No merged PR currently supersedes this PR's closing claims; the PR stays open" and returns true — the comment is marked answered and never reaches the existing changes-requested path. The doc comment on supersessionCloseDecision says other text "continues to the existing changes-requested path", but a bare reject does not. Before this PR, reject on a hive PR at 085 kicked the author with that word; after it, the owner gets a "stays open" reply and no fix kick. Low severity, but the reply should at least tell the owner what will act (close it themselves, or give an instruction).

What I verified and have no concern about:

• The close path is gated by opts.TrustedMerger (pr_unpark_decision.go:50-52) and by a fresh detectSupersession with candidate.Closing (pr_supersession_decision.go:38-47); it deliberately skips the file-overlap and size guards, which is right for an explicit human decision.
• releaseStaleSupersessionPark is only reached from the !detected branch and under hive/keep-open (pr_supersession_sweep.go:235-237), so it cannot flap against escalateSupersededPR's park on alternating passes.
• The held path only adds reads: detectSupersession runs, then returns before any comment/label/close (pr_supersession_sweep.go:185-192).
• ReasonSupersessionPending short-circuits both the human-route and DCO/fixing downgrades in derive_pr.go:249,262 and automerge_stage_labels.go:810,827, which is the sticky-085 behaviour §2 asked for.

Scope note: the worksource_identity.go closed-snapshot skip is not something #14814 asks for. It is small and plausible, but it rides on a Fixes #14814 PR with no issue of its own; fine if the maintainer is happy with that.

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[github-actions]

Open PR overlap check

Base branch: v5

Conflicts are checked with every PR merged onto the current tip of v5, so a PR that only needs a rebase is not reported as conflicting with its siblings.

PR	Title	Relation	Files
#14807	✨ dashboard: stream Job pod logs in the terminal pane for sandbox.runtime: job agents	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/static/index.html
#14822	🐛 fix: preserve owner intent through PR decision paths	same files	src/docs/maintainer-commands.md src/pkg/github/pr_unpark_decision.go
#14524	✨ feat(hub,agent): Hub-coordinated live CLI session pool for multi-tenant runner capacity	same files	src/cmd/hive/main.go
#14995	✨ Activity Monitor: needs-human popover says what to decide and offers the actions	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/stage_tracker.go src/pkg/dashboard/static/index.html
#14921	✨ feature: inline the linked Linear issue into review kicks	same files	src/cmd/hive/main.go
#14987	✨ review: gate PR reviews on an approval label (review.require_labels)	same files	src/cmd/hive/main.go src/pkg/dashboard/static/index.html
#14992	✨ Activity monitor: decision badge shows what you chose and what hive did next	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/stage_tracker.go src/pkg/dashboard/static/index.html

[hivecommons-hive]

Supersession sweep found that this PR's claimed issue is already closed by another merged PR.

• Claimed issue: hive#14814
• Closing PR: #14823

Decision needed (@hivecommons): #14823 already merged and closed the claimed issue, but this PR touches files the merged PR did not. Recommended: keep open until the extra changes are reviewed, or close as superseded if they are not wanted. Another option: merge anyway.

Files the merged PR did not touch: changelog.d/fixed-14814-supersession-stage.md, src/cmd/hive/main.go, src/docs/maintainer-commands.md, src/pkg/dashboard/api_review_queue_superseded.go, src/pkg/dashboard/api_review_queue_superseded_test.go and 20 more.

This comment is edited in place by the supersession sweep; it is not duplicated.

[thatguywob]

PR coverage cross-reference: this PR already resolves #14868 through the closed-snapshot skip in src/pkg/dashboard/worksource_identity.go and TestClosedSnapshotIsNeverActionable (verified at head beb4233d8f4beddf313aa72671d4957368e6a58a). Both ready-queue projection and task selection use the helper.

A maintainer should add Fixes #14868 to this PR's body so merging it also closes the backlog item. This comment alone does not create a GitHub closing reference; only a maintainer editing the body makes that merge close the issue. I have not edited the existing PR body or opened a duplicate PR.

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[hivecommons-hive]

Two review-backlog findings filed against the hive's adopted copy (#14862, closed unmerged) apply to this branch's diff and not to v5, so they were closed and are recorded here for the author:

• Review backlog (security): Bare /hive decision reject on a non-superseded hive-authored PR no longer records a changes_requested #14863 (security, P3): pr_unpark_decision.go intercepts every /hive decision reject before the selfAuthored switch; when no live supersession exists it replies 'the PR stays open' and returns true, so a bare reject on a non-superseded hive-authored PR no longer records a changes_requested HumanChangeRequest. Fall through to the existing decision path when closeSupersededPRDecision finds nothing to close.
• Review backlog (security): Refs-only contributor PRs are again surfaced with an operator close action #14869 (security, P3): dropping the candidate.Closing gate on the detected-contributor audit (pr_supersession_sweep.go) records Refs #N-only PRs as detected, and the tracker then offers an operator close for them. Keep the gate, or caption/skip the close action for non-closing candidates.

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[hivecommons-hive]

/hive decision supersede now: adopt #14821 in supersede mode, preserving the author's commits and sign-off; do not wait for the grace deadline

Rationale: the contributor is offline; adoption in supersede mode keeps the work moving (#13975).

Decided by the hive at @clubanderson's request as the owner's delegate under the owner-delegate policy (rule contributor-offline).

[hivecommons-hive]

@thatguywob the hive has adopted this PR (stage/074-adopted-by-hive): your hive has been offline since the nudge. It is being finished as #14979, which carries your commits (and sign-off) unchanged; the hive will rebase and fix CI there. This PR is closed automatically once #14979 merges. If you would rather finish it yourself, push a new head here and say so on #14979.

[hivecommons-hive]

Closing: #14979 (the hive's adoption of this PR, with @thatguywob's commits) has merged. Thank you!