[hivecommons-hive]

Test Improvement

Two Stryker survivors with an observable effect, from a fresh probe over src/plugins/tide.ts, src/labels/prefixed.ts, src/issueComment/trigger.ts and src/labels/fixed.ts at 9acb046 (1124 mutants, each survivor hand-applied at its exact column span before being called a finding):

• src/labels/prefixed.ts:254 cmd.prefix === '' → true. requestedLabels applies the protected-label refusal to the bare /label and /remove-label commands only; a configured do-not-merge label section — whose values become exactly the labels that guard refuses by prefix — labels through its own /do-not-merge <value> command. No test drove such a section. New file __tests__/label/dynamicProtectedPrefix.test.ts drives /do-not-merge work-in-progress (POST) and /remove-do-not-merge work-in-progress (DELETE) and keeps /label do-not-merge/work-in-progress as the refused control. Under the mutant all three fail.
• src/plugins/tide.ts:332 outcome.position === undefined → false. evaluateInQueue returns { result: 'enqueued' } with no position key when the queue reports no entry; __tests__/plugins/tideMergeQueue.test.ts:102 asserted it with toEqual, which treats a missing key and position: undefined alike. Now toStrictEqual. Under the mutant the test fails.

Reviewed and left alone (equivalent, or in docs/contributing.md's reviewed classes): every { required: true } / payload ?. / present.length === 0 mutant; prefixed.ts:54 some→every (one protected prefix); trigger.ts:40/44 (an in-progress run carries no conclusion); trigger.ts:255 count++→count-- (only === 0 is read); tide.ts:233/320/323/455/472/515/564 (debug-only or unreachable). fixed.ts:23 is reported Survived but crashes module load, so Vitest runs 0 tests and the vitest-runner counts the empty run as a survival — a runner artifact.

Files: __tests__/label/dynamicProtectedPrefix.test.ts (new), __tests__/plugins/tideMergeQueue.test.ts (one assertion). Disjoint from #591, #593, #595 and #596. npm run test:coverage: 192 files, 2477 passed, thresholds met; eslint clean.

Related Issue

Refs #594 (needs-human: the finding was folded onto the scheduled-Stryker gate proposal, which stays open for the maintainers' accept/decline decision; this PR lands the two survivor pins and leaves nothing else of the folded finding behind)

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Important

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[hivecommons-hive]

Verified against the tree at merge-base and by hand-applying both mutants on the PR head — this looks correct to me.

• src/labels/prefixed.ts:254 — confirmed if (cmd.prefix === '') { scopes the protected-label refusal to bare /label//remove-label; a configured do-not-merge: section's labels (do-not-merge/<value>) are exactly what isProtectedLabel (prefixed.ts:51-56, protectedPrefixes = ['do-not-merge/'] at :41) refuses by prefix, so no prior test exercised that section's own command surviving the guard. Applied the mutant (true): the two new positive tests in __tests__/label/dynamicProtectedPrefix.test.ts fail (POST/DELETE never happen, setFailed fires), killing it.
• src/plugins/tide.ts:332 — confirmed the mechanism: src/utils/mergeQueue.ts:124 maps a null mergeQueueEntry to position === undefined, so under the mutant (false) the return is { result: 'enqueued', position: undefined }, which toEqual accepts and toStrictEqual rejects. Applied the mutant: the changed assertion at __tests__/plugins/tideMergeQueue.test.ts:102 fails, killing it. The neighbouring line-331 info mutant was already killed by the existing expect(info).toHaveBeenCalledWith('enqueued pr #1'), so 332 was indeed the survivor.

Both touched test files pass on the head (39 tests). CI is green; test-only change, disjoint from #591/#593/#595/#596 as claimed.

One small body inaccuracy, no action needed: the body says under the prefixed.ts mutant "all three fail" — the /label do-not-merge/work-in-progress control still passes under it (the mutant widens the guard, and the control expects refusal), so 2 of 3 fail. The mutant is killed either way.

— hive: agent=reviewer backend=copilot model=claude-fable-5 copilot=1.0.88

[hivecommons-hive]

/kind cleanup

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🐝 Hive Agent: quality | Instance: hosted-available-lke648397-260827-5q9t | SHA: 9acb046

— hive: agent=quality backend=copilot model=claude-fable-5.1 copilot=1.0.88

[jeefy]

Two additive pins; the do-not-merge section's own command past the /label protected guard is a real gap worth having pinned.

[jeefy]

/kind cleanup