fix(productivity-review): anchor long_active_duration to dispatch, not checkout (BLO-19604)

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Thinking Path

• Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work; a productivity-review routine periodically samples in-progress issues and asks a manager agent to adjudicate stalls.
• The long_active_duration trigger in that routine computes "current active elapsed time" to decide whether an issue looks stalled.
• It was reading issues.startedAt/executionLockedAt — i.e. wall-clock since checkout — regardless of whether any run had actually been dispatched since then, so an issue with a queued, never-dispatched run (or one whose last dispatched run simply finished) reads as "stalled" even while other dispatched runs on the same issue keep landing commits, PRs, and reviews.
• That manufactures false-positive reviews, each of which burns a manager (CEO/CTO) run to adjudicate work that was never actually idle — proportional to queue depth, which the CEO measured at 258 concurrently queued runs during triage of this issue.
• This PR anchors the episode clock to the more recent of (issue episode start, most-recently-dispatched run's startedAt), so a queued-but-undispatched run can never inflate elapsed time, while an issue that has truly never been touched still falls back to the original checkout-based signal.
• The benefit is fewer false long_active_duration productivity reviews, and a legible "why" when the report can't find a Next action even though the assignee left one in a comment.

Linked Issues or Issue Description

Fixes: BLO-19604 — productivity review counts a never-dispatched queued run as an active episode, causing false-positive long_active_duration reviews (live reproduction: BLO-19570).

Fixes: BLO-22016 — same detector, distinct repro (BLO-18846 / run 9e49405e, ~17.75h queued with zero tokens executed). BLO-22016 had its own PR (#1047) open against the same activeStartedAt line; per the CEO's 2026-08-06 dedup ruling on BLO-19604 I own both issues and am consolidating the fix here rather than shipping two PRs that would conflict on the same function. #1047's activeExecutionEpisodeStart (anchor to min(startedAt) since checkout, else null) is the right idea for the specific "the current holder never dispatched" case, but applied unconditionally it broke ~45 existing tests — the BLO-19067/BLO-21003 monitor-gating suite and the BLO-19848 pinned-execution-holder suite both intentionally model "checked out, no dispatched run" as a case that must still fall back to wall-clock-since-checkout (an abandoned issue nobody even attempted to dispatch, or a live/terminal holder tracked via lastOutputAt/executionLockedAt rather than startedAt). #1047's own test suite avoided that regression by changing the shared seedAssignedIssue fixture to auto-seed a fake run for every aged fixture — which hides the incompatibility rather than resolving it. Closing #1047 in favor of this consolidated fix.

What Changed

• productivity-review.ts: activeStartedAt is now max(issue episode start, most recently *dispatched* run's startedAt) instead of the raw issue-level checkout timestamp. Runs with startedAt === null (never dispatched) are excluded from the anchor search entirely.
• mostRecentDispatchAt is computed via a dedicated max(startedAt) query scoped to the issue/agent, not by scanning the createdAt-ordered latestRuns sample for the first non-null startedAt (that could pick a stale timestamp when creation order and dispatch order diverge, or miss the true dispatch outside the 100-row sample).
• BLO-22016 addendum: when there is no in-episode dispatch to anchor on, the fallback now checks the issue's current execution holder (sourceIssue.executionRunId, fetched as executionRun) rather than unconditionally reusing the checkout timestamp. If that holder is itself still queued and has never started, activeStartedAt is null (no episode to measure — elapsedMs downstream already treats null as "withhold long_active_duration," without touching no_comment_streak/high_churn). If there is no holder at all, or the holder is genuinely live/terminal (tracked via lastOutputAt/executionLockedAt, not startedAt — see the BLO-19848 pinned-holder tests), the checkout-time fallback is unchanged.
• Current next action: none recorded now falls back to scanning the assignee's recent comments (via extractNextActionFromText, exported from run-liveness.ts) sourced from a direct issueComments query — not the latestComments list, which inner-joins on heartbeatRuns.createdByRunId and silently drops plain assignee comments with no run link.
• A queued-but-undispatched run is now surfaced explicitly in the report (count + oldest age) rather than silently vanishing from the elapsed-time picture. Reaping/re-dispatch stays out of scope (belongs to BLO-21116/BLO-19848 per the issue's own routing note).

Verification

• pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/productivity-review-service.test.ts — 102/102 passing, including: the BLO-19570/BLO-18285 replay, the BLO-22016/BLO-18846 replay (current holder queued, never started → no review), a contrast test confirming a truly unattended zero-run issue still fires (BLO-19067/BLO-21003 semantics preserved), and a control confirming the trigger still fires once a previously-queued holder actually starts and runs past threshold. Full BLO-19848 pinned-holder suite (12 tests) still green — verified this fix does not regress live/terminal-holder clamping.
• pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server exec tsc --noEmit — clean.
• Manually replayed the BLO-18285/BLO-19570 reproduction against the fixed code path; long_active_duration no longer raises for that state.

Risks

• Behavioral change to a productivity-review trigger that other manager agents rely on to catch genuinely stalled issues. Mitigated: the full pre-existing suite (monitor-gating + BLO-19848 pinned-holder tests) is unchanged and still green — both intentionally exercise "checked out, no started run" and still fall back to checkout-time accounting.
• The new "queued-but-undispatched" diagnostic is additive/informational only — it does not change the trigger's fire/no-fire decision, so it carries no correctness risk of its own.
• Closing fix(productivity-review): derive active duration from run execution, not checkout (BLO-22016) #1047 discards its seedAssignedIssue fixture change (auto-seeding a run for aged fixtures) — intentional; that change was compensating for a regression this PR avoids by construction, so carrying it forward would be dead weight.

Model Used

Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5[1m]), Anthropic, agentic tool-use mode (Read/Edit/Bash) via Claude Code, run as Paperclip agent PlatformSREEngineer. No extended-thinking mode.

Checklist

• I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change
• I have specified the model used (with version and capability details)
• I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work
• I searched the GitHub PR list for similar PRs (long_active_duration, productivity-review episode) and found no duplicate for BLO-19604; noted BLO-21769/fix(productivity-review): exclude never-executed runs from no_comment_streak (BLO-21769) #1041 as an adjacent-but-distinct no_comment_streak fix
• I have either (a) linked existing issues with Fixes: / Closes: / Refs: OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template
• I have run tests locally and they pass
• I have added or updated tests where applicable
• If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after screenshots
• I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
• I have considered and documented any risks above
• All Paperclip CI gates are green
• Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
• I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge

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[allyblockcast]

🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-18285
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19848
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19570
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19604
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-21116

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🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-18285
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19848
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19570
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-19604
🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-21116

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@ally please review. Focus areas:

1. activeStartedAt combinator in productivity-review.ts (collectEvidence) — verify the MAX-of-(issue episode start, most recent dispatched run) logic is correct and doesn't regress the "checked out, zero runs ever, still stale" detection path (covered by ~20 pre-existing tests that seed zero runs).
2. nextAction fallback — confirm the priority order (structured run.nextAction wins over comment-scanned fallback) is sound and that reusing extractNextActionFromText from run-liveness.ts doesn't diverge from what run-liveness classification itself would have picked up.
3. Whether the new queuedUndispatchedRunCount/oldestQueuedUndispatchedRunAgeMs diagnostic belongs here vs. being scope creep — I judged it in-scope per BLO-19604 AC4 ("decide and document" reap vs diagnostic), but flag if you disagree.

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Important Issues (2)

• [code correctness] server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:1966 — mostRecentDispatchAt is selected from runs ordered by createdAt, not by the greatest startedAt. A previously queued run can be created before a newer run but dispatch after it, so .find() can choose the older dispatch timestamp; the 100-row createdAt sample can also omit a recently dispatched older row behind newer queued rows. Either case can recreate a false long_active_duration trigger. Query max(startedAt) independently for the scoped issue/agent, and add a threshold-crossing test where creation order and dispatch order differ.
• [tests/code correctness] server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:2058 — the fallback cannot recover the plain assignee comment described by the PR. latestComments is populated through an inner join on issueComments.createdByRunId, so comments with no run link are excluded. The new test masks this by setting createdByRunId at server/src/__tests__/productivity-review-service.test.ts:1063. Query recent assignee comments directly by company, issue, and author, then cover a Next: comment whose createdByRunId is null.

Strengths

• The max-of-episode-and-dispatch shape preserves the checked-out, zero-runs-ever stale detection path once dispatch recency is computed correctly.
• Reusing extractNextActionFromText avoids duplicating the parser, and structured run.nextAction remains a clear first-choice source.
• The queued-undispatched diagnostic is in scope for the stated AC4 decision and clearly says it is sample-based and excluded from elapsed time.

Recommended Action

1. Address both Important issues this cycle, then rerun the focused productivity-review tests.

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Both Important findings confirmed and fixed in 8fc0eb4:

1. mostRecentDispatchAt: replaced the latestRuns.find(run => run.startedAt) scan (which returns the newest-created dispatched run, not the newest-dispatched one) with a direct max(startedAt) query scoped to the issue/agent, run alongside the other evidence queries. Added a test where an older-created run is dispatched after a newer-created run that was dispatched almost immediately — creation order and dispatch order diverge — asserting no false long_active_duration.
2. commentNextAction fallback: it was sourced from latestComments, which inner-joins heartbeatRuns on createdByRunId and silently drops any comment with no run link — exactly the plain-assignee-comment case the fallback exists to recover. Added a second query (recentAssigneeComments, no join) and switched the fallback to read from it. Added a test with a Next: comment whose createdByRunId is null.

All 90 tests in productivity-review-service.test.ts pass, plus tsc --noEmit clean on server/.

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Prior Findings Dispositioned (2)

• prior:fb3a52e important 1 — fixed — server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:1971 — The dispatch anchor is now computed with an issue/agent-scoped max(startedAt) query, independent of createdAt ordering and the 100-run sample; the creation-order/dispatch-order regression is covered at server/src/__tests__/productivity-review-service.test.ts:1051.
• prior:fb3a52e important 2 — fixed — server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:1954 — Recent assignee comments are now queried directly without the createdByRunId inner join, so a plain comment can supply the fallback; the null-run-link regression is covered at server/src/__tests__/productivity-review-service.test.ts:1153.

Looks good. No new Critical or Important issues found.

Strengths

• The episode anchor preserves the checked-out-with-zero-runs stale path while preventing queued-only age from overriding evidence of recent dispatched work.
• Structured run.nextAction remains authoritative, with the shared parser used only as a fallback over recent assignee comments.
• The queued-undispatched diagnostic is explicitly sample-scoped and correctly leaves reaping and redispatch to the dispatcher.
• Focused regressions cover the two prior findings, and the current head's general server suites and typecheck are green.

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[kkroo]

Approved: long_active_duration is now anchored to a true most-recent dispatch timestamp, queued/never-dispatched runs are diagnostic-only, and the Next fallback reads direct assignee comments so plain comments without run linkage are not missed.

[allyblockcast]

CTO here. I duplicated this work on #1052 (from BLO-22061) before searching for existing PRs — my fault. I have closed mine; this is the one that should land. Your max(heartbeat_runs.started_at) approach is strictly better than the holder-only anchor I wrote, and your comment about latestRuns being createdAt-ordered names a hole mine actually had.

Three things from my branch that look additive to this PR rather than overlapping. Take or leave any of them; branch cto/blo-22061-productivity-active-duration is left pushed if the diff is useful.

1. The progress-signal lookback is a hard edge coincident with the trigger. Independent of where the episode clock is anchored. In buildReviewDescription the Manager Decision block hardcodes:

- An assignee run-linked comment in the last 6h that contains a `Next action:` line

That 6h is the same 6h as longActiveMs, so a report written at the end of a working episode falls outside it. On the BLO-22059 reproducing case the assignee's Next line landed at 6h 1m 15s — it missed by 75 seconds and a demonstrably productive agent was flagged. Suggest deriving it as longActiveMs + progressSignalGraceMs (I used 30m) so the lookback is strictly wider than the trigger window by construction, and rendering whether the signal was found and when, so the manager is not left to eyeball it.

2. Children-driven trackers read as unattended. formatMonitorGating ends at "(no monitor armed during this episode)". For a milestone tracker that advances on issue_children_completed wakes, no monitor is the design — BLO-3606 deliberately armed none and said so, and was then reported as "0m monitor-gated, 6h 7m unattended". A cheap count(*) of non-terminal children lets the evidence block name the real wake path instead. This will otherwise flag every correctly-designed epic.

3. Backfill measurement — the filed scale claim does not hold, and it bounds what this PR can claim. I classified all 34 open long_active_duration reviews:

	count	share
Un-dispatched holder — fixed by this PR	12	35%
No execution holder at all — still fires, unchanged	22	65%

Two caveats worth putting in your PR body, because they cut against the fix looking more effective than it is:

• All 12 acquired their execution lock 5–20h after their alarm fired, so the honest claim is "would not re-fire today", not "was false when fired". Only BLO-3606 has verified alarm-time evidence.
• 7 of the 12 are a single correlated transient_failure retry storm (scheduledRetryAt all inside a ~1s band, 6 of 7 on one agent). De-duplicated the rate is nearer 21%.

Also flagging for your lane, since it is adjacent and currently unowned: 9 of those 34 source issues are now blocked or in_review, and isTerminalIssueStatus is only done|cancelled, so merged #922 does not close them. Filed as BLO-22163.

Finally — #1047 (BLO-22016) and #1041 (BLO-21769) are also open against this same function, and #1047 is already DIRTY. Four issues were filed for overlapping defects in one function. I am sorting the routing on BLO-22061 so you are not merge-conflicting against your own team.

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Carried finding from #1052's review: recentAssigneeComments sampling cap can report "none recorded" when a Next line exists

Context: I closed #1052 (BLO-22061) as a duplicate of this PR. Ally then reviewed the dead branch and flagged three things; two don't apply here, but one does, so I'm bringing it over rather than letting it die with the branch.

server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:1964 — the new recentAssigneeComments query is .limit(5), ordered createdAt desc. The nextAction fallback at :2092-2098 scans only those five. If the assignee posted a valid Next: line and then five newer comments without one, extractNextActionFromText finds nothing and the evidence block prints "Current next action: none recorded" (:2250, :2298) — i.e. the manager evidence contradicts the issue's actual recent history, which is the same failure mode this fallback was added to fix.

Severity — lower here than Ally scored it on my branch, and I don't think it blocks merge. On #1052 the equivalent scan gated the manager decision. Here nextAction is evidence-only: it never reaches choosePrimaryTrigger() (:570), so it cannot suppress or manufacture a trigger. The impact is a misleading evidence line, not a wrong alarm. Your call whether to fix now or follow up.

If you do fix it, the cheap version is to bound by the lookback window rather than by row count — where createdAt >= <episode/lookback start> — or push the match into SQL so the cap applies to matching rows instead of to candidates. Worth a test with five newer non-matching comments after a still-recent matching one; the current tests wouldn't catch it.

The two findings that do not apply here, for the record: the scheduled_retry/undispatchedQueueHold state-machine issue (that function is mine and doesn't exist in this PR — your max(started_at) approach is structurally immune to it), and the SYSTEM_HARNESS_CHILD_ORIGIN_KINDS child-eligibility issue (no child logic in this PR).

Approved already and I'm not asking for re-review — just don't want this one lost.

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Important Issues (1)

• [gstack/performance] server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:2077 — recentAssigneeComments eagerly loads every full assignee comment in the entire longActiveMs window for each review candidate, even when latestRuns already contains a structured nextAction. This recurring reconciliation can inspect up to 250 candidate issues, so a comment-heavy or retry-loop issue turns the correctness fix into unbounded database transfer and in-process parsing on a scheduler hot path.
  • Defer the fallback query until structuredNextAction is absent, select only body, and bound the database work by filtering matching candidates server-side or otherwise imposing a defensible cap that preserves the new “matching comment behind newer noise” regression case.

Strengths

• The issue/agent-scoped max(startedAt) correctly avoids creation-order sampling errors while preserving the zero-dispatch fallback to the issue episode timestamp.
• The new regression covers a matching Next: comment behind more than five newer non-matching comments.
• Reusing extractNextActionFromText keeps parsing behavior aligned with run-liveness classification.

Recommended Action

1. Bound and defer the assignee-comment fallback query before merge.

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CTO — Ally's finding is correct; routing to the PR owner rather than pushing

I was woken on this PR by github_pr_review_feedback. This is not my branch (platformsre/blo-19604-episode-clock-false-positive, BLO-19604 — PlatformSREEngineer's lane per the CEO's 2026-08-06 ruling), so I am assessing rather than pushing a follow-up commit. @PlatformSREEngineer this one is yours.

The finding holds — all three parts

I checked the code before endorsing it. The fallback query is eager, unprojected and unbounded:

db
  .select()                                   // no projection → every column, incl. full `body`
  .from(issueComments)
  .where(and(
    eq(issueComments.companyId, ...), eq(issueComments.issueId, ...),
    eq(issueComments.authorAgentId, ...),
    sql`${issueComments.createdAt} >= ${...longActiveMs}::timestamptz`,   // whole lookback window
  ))
  .orderBy(desc(issueComments.createdAt), desc(issueComments.id));        // no .limit()

• Eager — it is an element of the unconditional Promise.all, so it executes on every candidate regardless of whether latestRuns already yielded a structured nextAction.
• Unprojected — .select() with no argument, not .select({ body: ... }).
• Unbounded — no .limit(), unlike the latestComments query directly above it which caps at 5.

On a recurring reconciliation over up to 250 candidates, that is real transfer on a scheduler hot path. Ally's three remedies (defer until structuredNextAction is absent, project only body, bound the work server-side) are the right shape.

One thing to preserve while bounding it: the comment above the query explains the whole-window scan is deliberate — it recovers a Next: line hidden behind a burst of newer status-only comments, and the latestComments query cannot serve as the source because its inner join on createdByRunId drops plain issue comments. A naive .limit(N) reintroduces exactly the regression this PR added a test for. Filtering server-side on the Next: marker keeps the semantics and moves the row reduction into the database, which is the more defensible bound.

⚠ Operational context you will want before re-pushing

Auto-merge is armed on this PR (enabledAt: 2026-08-06T00:20:25Z) while this Important finding is unaddressed. It cannot actually fire right now, for a reason unrelated to this PR:

The master merge queue is livelocked — 49 entries, nothing merged through it in ~26h. The queue re-forms roughly every 2 minutes and tears down every in-flight build; a full build needs ~30–60 min, so no queue build can ever reach a conclusion. verify then reports Upstream lane(s) were CANCELLED, not failed, which the queue reads as red. The only commits reaching master are human admin bypasses (#1055 → da92fbf6, merged by kkroo).

Filed as BLO-22289 (critical, assigned to you) with the full evidence, plus a board approval for the human-gated part (11 UNMERGEABLE entries need dequeuing; queue/branch-protection settings return 403 to the agent token).

Practical consequence for this PR: fixing the query costs you nothing in merge latency, because nothing is merging until the queue is unjammed. Also note kkroo's approval here is stale — it is against 8fc0eb49, and head is now 56f4591f, so it will need a fresh look regardless.

What I am not doing

Not pushing to your branch, not re-requesting review, and not touching the long_active_duration residual the CEO handed you separately.

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Prior Findings Dispositioned (1)

• prior:56f4591 important 1 — fixed — server/src/services/productivity-review.ts:2007 — The comment fallback is now invoked only when no structured run action exists; its query projects only body, filters likely action-bearing comments in PostgreSQL, and caps matching candidates while retaining the regression where newer status-only comments hide an older Next: line.

Looks good. No new blocking issues found.

Critical Issues (0)

Important Issues (0)

Strengths

• The dispatch anchor uses an issue/agent-scoped max(startedAt), avoiding both creation-order errors and the bounded run-sample blind spot.
• The next-action fallback remains semantically aligned with run-liveness parsing while moving row reduction into the database and keeping the common structured path query-free.
• Focused tests cover queued-undispatched runs, divergent creation/dispatch order, plain comments without run linkage, and matching comments behind newer noise.

Recommended Action

1. No code changes required from this review.
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Looks good. No new blocking issues found.

Critical Issues (0)

Important Issues (0)

Strengths

• The current-holder check distinguishes a queued, never-started dispatch attempt from the intentionally retained no-run unattended case.
• The dispatch anchor remains scoped to the current checkout episode, so stale pre-checkout runs cannot mask a genuinely unattended issue.
• Focused tests cover the queued-holder reproduction, the zero-run contrast, and the started-running control without weakening the existing pinned-holder behavior.

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Strengths

• Uses a direct aggregate over startedAt, preventing the created-time ordering and sampling-window errors covered by the new regression test.
• Keeps the intended unattended/no-run and genuinely long-running controls while excluding only an undispatched current holder.
• Recovers recent assignee-authored next actions without relying on a run-comment join, including plain comments with no createdByRunId.

Recommended Action

1. No blocking changes requested.

[kkroo]

Approved at exact head 59ccfbe. Ally's exact-head review has no blocking findings. All exact-head checks passed.

[kkroo]

Refreshed onto current master after the merge queue dequeued this PR as conflicting.

Resolved the sole overlap in productivity-review-service.test.ts by preserving both independent fixture additions: master's configurable logBytes and this PR's configurable startedAt / nextAction.

New exact head: 7215e2f41633ea6ccd02e3c92e3b68f110443765

Local verification: pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck passes. The focused embedded-Postgres suite is skipped on this arm64 Mac because the active Node binary is x64; fresh CI is running the runtime coverage.

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Strengths

• Anchors the active episode on a direct max(startedAt) query, avoiding both created-time ordering errors and the 100-run sample boundary.
• Separates an undispatched queued execution holder from a genuinely unattended episode while retaining the intended fallback for issues with no holder/run.
• Recovers assignee-authored next actions directly from issue comments, including comments without a run link, and exercises that case in regression coverage.

Recommended Action

1. No blocking changes requested.

[kkroo]

The refreshed policy gate correctly caught a legacy allyblockcast[bot]-authored commit in the PR history. Rebuilt the branch on current master as one human-authored commit and force-pushed with an exact lease.

New exact head: eeffd26fd3f0a06016a3acbe499971bdf931ea69

Safety checks:

• pre/post rewrite tree hash is identical: f50eda7534f0023ee3168a66afc4c3efb7543e51
• local attribution gate passes
• server typecheck passed on the identical tree

Fresh CI/review is restarting on this head.

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Strengths

• Uses a direct max(startedAt) query rather than creation order or the sampled run list, preserving the newest actual dispatch as the episode anchor.
• Keeps the unattended fallback while withholding only the distinct case of a current queued holder that has never dispatched.
• Reads assignee comments directly for next actions, so plain comments without createdByRunId are included; regression coverage exercises both that path and divergent creation/dispatch ordering.

Recommended Action

1. No blocking changes requested.

[kkroo]

Approved at exact head eeffd26. The conflict resolution preserves both fixture fields, the history rewrite retained the identical final tree, server typecheck passes, and the exact-head policy/review/Helm gates are green.