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patch tool silent failure and stale-view handling

Cluster 59600 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
6items grouped
Known?
Yes. 6 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 4 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

These issues and fixes address the patch tool incorrectly returning success:true when file writes are silently skipped due to stale or partial-view file state. The changes aim to surface these conditions as explicit errors or failures rather than hiding them.

Open issues1

  • Issue#59600patch tool returns success:true even when file write was silently skipped

Open PRs1

  • PR#59610fix(tools): block patch on partial-view files to prevent silent data loss (Issue #59600)

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: partial fix 2 · done elsewhere 1 · stale or abandoned 1

  • #59616 fix(patch): surface stale-view warning as error instead of hidden _warning · stale or abandoned
  • #59671 fix(tools): return success:false when patch write is silently skipped (#59600) · partial fix → #59610, #59616, #59600
  • #59680 fix(tools): return success:false when patch write is silently skipped (#59600) · done elsewhere
  • #59685 fix(file): set success=false when file write blocked by staleness/partial-read guard (#59600) · partial fix → #59600, #59610, #59616, #59680
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  • Pairwise link density 0.33: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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