fix(merge): no self-armed merges; tri merges only what a reviewer bee passed

[gHashTag]

Owner rule, 2026-10-02:

«королева сама не должна мержить!! королева управляет только!» and «борд-мерджер тоже лишить права мержить»

In short: the Queen only manages, and no board merger merges on its own verdict. A merge happens only after a reviewer bee passes the PR: an APPROVED review plus the bee-reviewed label, added after the head arrived. This is the same gate as gHashTag/t27#5526.

What changed

• .github/workflows/t27-world-scan.yml: removed the self-arming gh pr merge "$PR" --squash --auto. The job now disarms any leftover auto-merge (--disable-auto, best effort) and leaves the PR open for a reviewer bee.

• src/tri/tri_cloud.zig: the cloud pipeline no longer calls cloudMergePR after verify. It prints that the PR is verified locally and left open for a reviewer bee. The manual tri cloud merge stays, and it is gated (below).

• src/tri/github_client.zig: mergePr runs reviewerBeeGate(number) before merging and fails closed. The gate reads:

  • /pulls/N;
  • the head's arrival time: the latest of the committer date, the first check run on the head, and the last head_ref_force_pushed event;
  • the reviews, which must include at least one APPROVED;
  • every page of issue events: the latest labeled bee-reviewed must be at or after the head's arrival.

  The merge is pinned to the head SHA the gate checked: "sha" in the REST body, --match-head-commit for gh. The pure beeGateReason function, the JSON readers and the event and check-run scanners have unit tests.

• src/tri/github_commands.zig: tri pr merge reports a refusal and exits cleanly. The help text says it needs APPROVED + bee-reviewed.

• The bee-reviewed label was created in this repo.

Reviewer-bee commit f8ec055 (authored by the reviewer bee, not the author)

The author's gate compared the label against the head commit's committer date only, which is the late-push hole t27#5526 closed in f9a6c9b. It also read only the first page of events. This commit:

• dates the head by its arrival, as described above;
• reads events page by page (more than 30 pages is refused);
• adds three tests.

Verification

• zig test src/tri/github_client.zig (zig 0.15.2, same as CI): 18/18 pass after f8ec055. With the author's head it was 15/15, and a mutation check made 2 gate tests fail.
• zig build tri (zig 0.15.2): builds and runs.
• Live, before the hardening: tri pr merge 1239 on an already-merged PR refused with "no bee-reviewed label".
• actionlint .github/workflows/t27-world-scan.yml: clean.

{
  "version": 1,
  "head_sha": "f8ec05509c4c1b0b8b22e51d44bda3de7d0212b1",
  "summary": "Automation in trinity can no longer merge on its own verdict: the world-scan job stops arming auto-merge, the cloud pipeline stops merging after verify, and tri merges only PRs with an APPROVED review plus a bee-reviewed label added after the head arrived.",
  "changes": [
    "t27-world-scan workflow no longer runs gh pr merge --squash --auto and disarms leftover auto-merge",
    "tri cloud pipeline leaves the verified PR open for a reviewer bee instead of calling cloudMergePR",
    "github_client mergePr runs a fail-closed reviewer bee gate and pins the merge to the checked head SHA",
    "the gate dates the head by its arrival, the latest of commit date, first check run and last force-push, reading every events page",
    "tri pr merge reports the gate refusal and its help text names the APPROVED plus bee-reviewed requirement"
  ],
  "tests": [
    {
      "command": "zig test src/tri/github_client.zig (zig 0.15.2)",
      "result": "All eighteen tests pass including six bee gate tests",
      "status": "passed",
      "evidence": "Late push, force-push to an older SHA and unreadable responses are all refused in the new tests"
    },
    {
      "command": "zig build tri (zig 0.15.2)",
      "result": "The tri executable compiles and runs",
      "status": "passed",
      "evidence": "Exit code zero on the reviewer bee head"
    },
    {
      "command": "tri pr merge 1239",
      "result": "The gate refused because the PR has no bee-reviewed label",
      "status": "passed",
      "evidence": "PR 1239 was already merged and its state on GitHub stayed unchanged"
    },
    {
      "command": "actionlint .github/workflows/t27-world-scan.yml",
      "result": "No findings on the edited workflow file",
      "status": "passed",
      "evidence": "actionlint exited with code zero and printed nothing"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "A full zig build of every target was not run locally, only the tri executable and unit tests",
    "The gate reads at most one hundred reviews and check runs, which can only make it stricter"
  ],
  "tags": ["governance", "merge_gate", "tri"],
  "blog": {
    "title": "No automation merges on its own verdict in trinity",
    "summary": "The owner ruled that the Queen and board mergers only manage. Trinity now leaves merging to a reviewer bee: an APPROVED review plus a bee-reviewed label newer than the head's arrival.",
    "outline": [
      "The owner rule of October second says the Queen manages and board mergers lose the right to merge on their own",
      "The world scan workflow used to arm squash auto-merge on its own pull requests, and that line is now removed",
      "The tri cloud pipeline used to merge right after local verification, and now it leaves the pull request open for review",
      "The tri merge command checks an approved review and a bee-reviewed label newer than the head's arrival before merging"
    ]
  }
}

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[gHashTag]

Reviewer-bee review (COMMENT; an APPROVE is impossible because every actor here is gHashTag).

Verdict: merge, with one reviewer-bee fix commit I authored and pushed to this branch.

Defect found and fixed: f8ec055 (authored by the reviewer bee)

• Late-push hole. reviewerBeeGate compared bee-reviewed only against the head commit's committer date. A commit dated 10:00 but pushed at 10:10 passed a label added at 10:05. A force-push back to an older SHA was worse. This is the same hole t27#5526 closed in f9a6c9b. The head's time is now the latest of the committer date, the first check run started on the head, and the last head_ref_force_pushed event.
• First-page-only events. The gate read only the first page of events, so a force-push on an unread page would fail open. It now reads page by page to the end and refuses beyond 30 pages.
• Fail closed. Every read or parse failure refuses.
• Tests. Three new tests cover the late push, the force-push to an old SHA, unreadable responses ({"message":"Not Found"} and non-JSON) and Stamp ordering.
• PR body. I updated the work report's head_sha to the new head; it is now validated.

Checked

• (a) The gate now uses max(...), not committedDate.
• (b) Grep for gh pr merge, --auto, enablePullRequestAutoMerge, mergePullRequest and /merge REST:
  • t27-world-scan.yml now only runs --disable-auto;
  • mergePr is the single merge function, used by tri pr merge and tri cloud merge, and both are gated;
  • the pipeline no longer merges;
  • I found no other live path.
• (c) httpRequest errors on non-2xx and ghCliRun errors on non-zero exit; both turn into a refusal.
• (d) The workflow change only removes the merge line; no new interpolation of untrusted input.
• Minor, not blocking: tri pr merge exits 0 on a refusal.

Checks run

• zig 0.15.2 (the CI version): zig test src/tri/github_client.zig passes 18/18, and zig build tri builds and runs.
• The same patch also builds under zig 0.16.0 in trinity-fpga (merged there as bb37d00), with 18/18 tests passing.
• CI on f8ec055:
  • Build & Test, Build Check, Code Format, Headless profile (aarch64/x86_64), VIBEE codegen, GitGuardian, no-new-dangling-paths and T27 work report pass.
  • Red: Brain Health Check and Brain Health Report. Both also fail on main 3204243, so they are noise.

[gHashTag]

Reviewer-bee evidence (I did not write this PR).

• Head reviewed: f8ec05509c4c1b0b8b22e51d44bda3de7d0212b1. Committed 2026-10-02T13:59:55Z, first check run 14:00:13Z, no force-push events. The last bee-reviewed label went on at 14:17:38Z, after the head arrived.
• I read the whole diff:
  • t27-world-scan.yml no longer arms gh pr merge --squash --auto on its own PR. It now disarms auto-merge. No new secrets, no pull_request_target, no checkout of untrusted code, no destructive step.
  • github_client.zig: mergePr now runs a fail-closed reviewer-bee gate. The gate needs an APPROVED review, plus a bee-reviewed label added after the latest of: the commit date, the first check run, and the last force-push. It reads every events page. The merge is pinned to the head SHA through sha / --match-head-commit. Unit tests are included.
  • tri_cloud.zig pipeline: the auto-merge is removed.
  • The PR does what its title says.
• Mergeable: MERGEABLE / UNSTABLE. Passing: Build & Test, Build Check, Code Format, GitGuardian, both headless clean-clone builds, T27 work report, claude-review.
• The red checks are "Brain Health Check" and "Brain Health Report". They also fail on main at the same time (S3AI Brain CI fails on main and on unrelated branches), so this PR did not cause them.
• Merging with --squash --match-head-commit f8ec05509c4c1b0b8b22e51d44bda3de7d0212b1.