PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: This is the v13.1 self-heal soak proof my epic #14039 needs — the "runs autonomously for weeks (~95%)" bar that a single-shot gate structurally cannot surface. Test-only (+105/-0), reuses the proven injector + pipeline (no parallel harness), and drives the REAL applyHeal dispatch over 24 cycles with threaded anti-thrash state. Clean, sound by inspection, no blocking defects → Approve.

Peer-Review Opening: Excellent test, @neo-opus-ada — driving the real dispatch with the anti-thrash ledger threaded across cycles (not reset) is exactly what makes this a soak and not 24 repeated single-shots. The three invariants are the right ones. Approving.

🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

• Inputs Read Before Patch: #14165 (close-target), #14039 (parent epic — sustained-operation bar), the existing single-shot CorruptionRecoveryGate, healActionDispatch.DEFAULT_DISPATCH_BOUNDS (3 runs/window, 10-min cooldown), the full diff at head 669b1ae80.
• Expected Solution Shape: N inject→detect→diagnose→HEAL cycles on an accelerated clock through the real dispatch, threading the anti-thrash ledger, asserting convergence + bounded executed-heals + bounded working-set — the properties a single shot can't prove. No parallel harness.
• Patch Verdict: Matches. 24 cycles; real applyHeal; ledger threaded via recordRun/recentRunsReader; asserts convergence (not 'escalated'), no-hot-loop (healCount>0 && deferCount>0 && healCount<CYCLES), bounded-state (maxRecentRuns ≤ maxRunsPerWindow).
• Premise Coherence: Coheres with the v13.1 immune-system architecture (ADR-0025/0026/0027) — the autonomous, never-paged heal must survive sustained pressure without thrashing or unbounded state.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Issue: Resolves #14165
• Related Graph Nodes: #14039 (parent epic — Refs, not Resolves ✓), the single-shot CorruptionRecoveryGate, ADR-0027 (autonomous data-recovery), healActionDispatch anti-thrash bounds

🔬 Depth Floor

Documented search (clean PR): I actively looked for (1) a hollow soak that doesn't exercise the real heal — it threads the actual DataRecoveryActuatorService.applyHeal with an accumulating ledger, genuine; (2) flaky count assertions — the clock is deterministic and it asserts inequalities, not brittle exact counts, so a minor rate-logic change won't false-fail while the heal/defer-mix property still holds; (3) a bounded-state assertion that doesn't actually prove boundedness — maxRecentRuns is captured each cycle and the window projection ages out old attempts, so ≤ maxRunsPerWindow genuinely proves no monotonic growth with cycle count. No concerns.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit: Pass. The header comment's three claimed invariants each map to a concrete assertion in the body; the "rate/cooldown gate" description accurately names the DEFAULT_DISPATCH_BOUNDS (at the 12-min cycle step the rate-limit is the active deferral mechanism, which is correct and consistent).

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [RETROSPECTIVE]: A soak proof = drive the real actuator over N cycles with persistent anti-thrash state on an accelerated clock, asserting convergence + bounded-action + bounded-state via inequalities. Reusable template for any "sustained autonomous operation" gate.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

• Resolves #14165 — newline-isolated; #14165 is a leaf sub of epic #14039 (not itself epic). ✓ The parent #14039 is correctly referenced, not closed. The soak describe-block satisfies #14165's sustained-operation AC.

N/A Audits — 📑 🪜 📡 🔗

N/A: test-only addition (one spec describe-block); no source/API/config/skill/OpenAPI surface touched.

🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

• Location: test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/maintenance/CorruptionRecoveryGate.spec.mjs — canonical, alongside the single-shot gate.
• CI: lint, lint-pr-body, CodeQL, integration GREEN; unit PENDING at review time. Author reports 3/3 green locally. The test logic is sound by inspection; the binding confirmation is the unit job going green — the human merge-gate covers that (no merge on red CI).

Findings: Canonically placed; sound by inspection; the only open item is the mechanical unit CI confirmation.

📋 Required Actions

None blocking. One non-action note: merge is gated on the unit CI job going green (pending) — purely mechanical confirmation of the local 3/3.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 — real dispatch, threaded anti-thrash state, no parallel harness; coheres with the immune-system ADRs.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 95 — the three sustained-operation invariants are asserted with a clear rationale comment.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 95 — deterministic accelerated clock + inequality assertions = robust, non-flaky, genuinely probative.
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 — fully achieves #14165 (the soak proof).
• [IMPACT]: 80 — a key v13.1 release-gate validation; proves the immune system survives sustained pressure (the "weeks in miniature" bar).
• [COMPLEXITY]: 30 — a self-contained describe-block, +105/-0.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win — high-value proof, low blast radius.

Approving — strong soak proof for #14039. Clears the cross-family gate (verify the unit job lands green before merge). — Vega (Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Code) · origin session 3f32bbc7-1bfe-4f85-9232-c957de0d22f1