Triage has only ever entered on a failure. Static analysis is the opposite
shape - a standing backlog that never fails a build and so never asks anyone
for attention. On this instance that backlog is 139 open findings on Ariadne
alone, each already naming its file, its line, its rule and what is wrong.
That is better-located evidence than the console text the code-repair flow
normally mines, and it was being thrown away.
This is a second way into the same flow, not a second flow. A scheduled sweep
picks one finding and hands it to the existing proposal path, which is
unchanged: Hermes returns a patch as data, Ariadne validates it against the
file it names, pushes a branch, opens a pull request nobody merges. A finding
arriving from outside the build is not a reason to relax the gates that make a
proposal worth reading, so it does not.
Three deliberate limits. Security hotspots are never fetched: SonarQube models
them as needing human review, the quality gate here fails on exactly that
condition, and an automation that resolved them would be marking them
reviewed without review - defeating the control rather than satisfying it.
Findings already marked won't-fix carry a judgement someone made, and
reopening it produces pull requests that argue with a person. And the sweep
proposes one fix per run by default, because 139 pull requests nobody reads
would make the review gate theatre.
Selection is by SonarQube's own effort estimate rather than severity: effort
is the closest available proxy for the one-anchor change the patch validator
can actually check, so a trivial CRITICAL beats an involved MINOR. An
unparseable estimate is treated as ineligible, not as free.
Off by default. Triage reacts to a failure someone already cares about; this
opens pull requests nobody asked for, and that is a decision an operator makes
deliberately rather than inherits on upgrade.
Branch naming now sanitizes its token, since it arrives from a finding key as
well as a build number and a ref is one of the few places where an unexpected
character stops being cosmetic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
