fix-ci

name	fix-ci
description	Check CI status, analyze test failures, auto-fix obvious issues or discuss with user
argument-hint	[PR number or URL]
allowed-tools	Bash, Read, Edit, Grep, Glob, Agent, AskUserQuestion

Analyze CI failures for PR $ARGUMENTS (or the current branch's PR if no argument given).

Step 1: Discover build status

1a. Find the PR

# If $ARGUMENTS is a number or URL, use it directly.
# Otherwise detect from current branch:
gh pr view --json number,title,headRefName --jq '{number, title, headRefName}'

1b. Quick test summary (cheapest check, 1 API call)

Parse the buildId from any check URL first (see Step 1c), then hit the test summary endpoint:

curl -s "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project_guid}/_apis/test/resultsummarybybuild?buildId={buildId}&api-version=7.0-preview"

No auth needed. Returns aggregate counts instantly (~1KB):

{
  "aggregatedResultsAnalysis": {
    "totalTests": 279518,
    "resultsByOutcome": {
      "Passed": {"count": 276837},
      "Failed": {"count": 24},
      "NotExecuted": {"count": 2657}
    },
    "runSummaryByOutcome": {
      "Failed": {"runsCount": 14},
      "Passed": {"runsCount": 23}
    }
  }
}

If Failed.count == 0 and all checks passed — report success, stop.

1c. Fetch all CI checks

Use gh pr checks text format (tab-separated) — it reliably includes Azure URLs unlike the JSON statusCheckRollup where detailsUrl can be null.

gh pr checks $PR 2>&1

Output format (tab-separated):

CheckName\tstatus\tduration\tURL

Parse and classify each check:

• pass — succeeded
• fail — failed
• pending — still running

Group checks by source:

• Azure Pipelines — URL contains dev.azure.com. Extract buildId from first Azure URL. These are the test jobs.
• GitHub Actions — URL contains github.com/actions. These include build (compilation), gitleaks (secret scanning), Danger (PR linting). Failed GitHub Actions checks are relevant — report them.
• Other — CodeRabbit (no URL or review-only) — skip.

Extract buildId from the first Azure URL (all checks in one pipeline run share the same buildId).

1d. Report non-Azure failures

For each failed GitHub Actions check, fetch its details:

# Extract run_id and job_id from URL: https://github.com/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/job/{job_id}
gh run view {run_id} --json jobs --jq '.jobs[] | select(.conclusion == "failure") | {name, conclusion}'

Report these as Category E (non-test failures) in the final output. Common cases:

• Danger — PR convention issues (title format, description, labels). Show the comment: gh pr view $PR --comments --jq '.comments[-1].body'

• build — compilation failure. The job log contains the error.

• gitleaks — the job failed on a credential-shaped string in one of the branch's commits, or on a scan error; tell the two apart before reporting. A leaks found: N line in the job log means the scan ran and found N; a clean scan writes no leaks found, with no colon, so the colon form is the signal. The Actions API exposes no job summary, but this repo's job tees ready-to-paste ignore lines to the log, so fetch them with gh run view {run_id} --log | cut -f3- | cut -d' ' -f2- | grep -E '^[^ ]+:[a-z0-9-]+:[0-9]+$' | sort -u. Anchor on that line shape, not a grep -A N window around the heading: the runner echoes the workflow's own run: body into the log, so a heading match returns script source first, and a fixed window silently truncates a long finding list. Only this repo emits those lines: the enterprise and client repos run the same action with no reporting step, so read their findings from gitleaks' own verbose block, which every repo prints, with gh run view {run_id} --log | cut -f3- | cut -d' ' -f2- | grep -E '^(RuleID|File|Line):'. Nothing back from either, and no leaks found: line, means the job failed before the scan reported anything; read the log before naming why.

  • fatal: Invalid revision range or fatal: ambiguous argument ... unknown revision, alongside ERROR: Unexpected exit code [1], is gitleaks failing on a commit range the checkout cannot resolve. The action pins the workspace to the SHA in the event payload, then asks the API for the pull request's commits seconds later, so anything moving the branch head in between hands it a ref the checkout does not carry — an ordinary push (the range head is merely ahead) or a force-push (the histories diverge). Either way gitleaks adds partial scan completed and no leaks found in partial scan over a scan of nothing, so that pair does not tell the two apart. The push that caused it starts a run of its own, so the next run clears it and there is nothing to fix.
  • FTL unable to load gitleaks config (exit 1), or a Go panic: trace from regexp: Compile (exit 2), means .gitleaks.toml itself is broken — an unbalanced ( in a [[rules.allowlists]] regex is enough. The panic aborts gitleaks before it writes , and the action then dies on the missing file while uploading it as an artifact, so this job produces no findings table, no job summary at all, and no warning — the log is the only record. Name the config error and do not expect a re-run to clear it.

1e. Triage

• All passed + summary shows 0 failures — report success, stop.
• Some failed — proceed to Step 2 with failed checks. Report summary: "24 test failures across 14 runs out of 279K tests."
• All pending, none failed — report "CI still running, no failures yet. Re-run this command later or use /loop 2m /fix-ci $PR to monitor."
• Mix of pending + failed — proceed with failed checks immediately. Don't wait for the full run.
• Only non-Azure checks failed (e.g., Danger, build) — report those directly, skip Steps 2-3.

Step 2: Get failed test names (no auth, no log download)

Use the Azure Test Results microservice at vstmr.dev.azure.com. This is a different hostname from the build APIs and serves test result data publicly for public projects.

curl -s "https://vstmr.dev.azure.com/questdb/questdb/_apis/testresults/resultsbybuild?buildId={buildId}&publishContext=CI&outcomes=Failed&\$top=200&api-version=5.2-preview.1"

No authentication or special headers needed. Returns all failed test results (~1-5KB):

[
  {
    "automatedTestName": "test[/sql/sample_by_fill.test]",
    "automatedTestStorage": "io.questdb.test.sqllogictest.SqlTest",
    "outcome": "Failed",
    "runId": 795795,
    "durationInMs": 1067.0,
    "id": 100001,
    "testCaseTitle": "test[/sql/sample_by_fill.test]"
  }
]

Key fields:

• automatedTestName / testCaseTitle — the test name
• automatedTestStorage — the test class (e.g., io.questdb.test.sqllogictest.SqlTest)
• runId — which CI job run this failure came from
• outcome — always "Failed" given the filter

Deduplicate by test name — the same test fails across multiple platforms (mac, windows, linux). Group by automatedTestName, collect runIds to know which platforms failed.

If this returns 0 results but Step 1b showed failures, fall back to Step 2b (log tail parsing). This can happen if the pipeline doesn't publish JUnit test results.

2a (optional). Enrich with error messages via PAT

The vstmr endpoint returns test names but NOT errorMessage, stackTrace, or computerName. If AZURE_DEVOPS_PAT is set, enrich each failed test with full details.

Step 2 gives us runId per failed test. Use the authenticated test/runs/{runId}/results endpoint to get error details:

# For each unique runId from Step 2:
curl -s -u ":$AZURE_DEVOPS_PAT" \
  -H "X-TFS-FedAuthRedirect: Suppress" \
  "https://dev.azure.com/questdb/questdb/_apis/test/runs/{runId}/results?outcomes=Failed&api-version=7.0"

This returns full details per failed test:

• errorMessage — the assertion failure or exception message
• stackTrace — full Java stack trace
• automatedTestName, automatedTestStorage — test identity
• failingSince — when this test started failing
• failureType — type of failure

With this data, skip directly to Step 4 (classification).

Note: test/runs?buildId=... (listing runs by build) requires Build: Read scope and returns 403 with Test Management: Read alone. But test/runs/{runId}/results works with just Test Management: Read — and we already have runIds from the unauthenticated Step 2.

If no PAT is set, suggest the user create one for richer failure data:

To get error messages and stack traces without downloading logs, set AZURE_DEVOPS_PAT:

1. Go to https://dev.azure.com/questdb/_usersSettings/tokens
2. Click "New Token"
3. Set scope: Test Management → Read (the only scope needed)
4. Add to ~/.zshenv: export AZURE_DEVOPS_PAT=<token>

Without it, I can still see which tests failed but need to download log tails for error details.

Only suggest this once per session, and only if log tail parsing is actually needed (i.e., the test names alone aren't enough for classification).

2b. Fallback: log tail parsing (no auth)

Use this when Step 2 returns 0 results or when error messages are needed and no PAT is available.

Parse Azure URLs

Extract org, project GUID, buildId, jobId from each failed check's URL:

https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project_guid}/_build/results?buildId={buildId}&view=logs&jobId={jobId}

All failed checks share the same buildId. Deduplicate: fetch the timeline only once per buildId.

2c. Fetch timeline

curl -s "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project_guid}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/timeline?api-version=7.0"

No authentication needed (public project).

Parse the JSON response. Records form a tree: Stage -> Job -> Task. For each failed check's jobId:

1. Find all records where type == "Task" AND parentId == jobId AND result == "failed"
2. Extract name and log.id from each failed task

2d. Classify failed steps

• "Run tests" or "Run tests with Coverage" — test failure, proceed to log analysis
• "Compile with Maven" — compilation error, report to user directly
• Other steps — infrastructure failure (checkout, install, upload), report as-is

2e. Get log line counts

curl -s "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project_guid}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/logs?api-version=7.0"

Response: {"value": [{"id": N, "lineCount": M, ...}, ...]}. Extract lineCount for each failed step's logId.

Step 3: Fetch and parse error summaries

3a. Download tail of each failed test log

Maven Surefire writes the error summary at the END of its output. Use the line-range API to fetch only the last ~500 lines:

curl -s "https://dev.azure.com/{org}/{project_guid}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/logs/{logId}?api-version=7.0&startLine={lineCount - 500}&endLine={lineCount}"

This fetches ~50KB instead of ~200MB. Save to a temp file for parsing.

3b. Parse the Surefire summary

Look for these patterns in the downloaded tail:

Test error summary (exceptions during test execution):

[ERROR] Errors:
[ERROR]   ClassName.testMethod:lineNum->...chain... >> ExceptionType message

Test failure summary (assertion mismatches):

[ERROR] Failures:
[ERROR]   ClassName.testMethod:lineNum expected:<X> but was:<Y>

Totals line:

[ERROR] Tests run: N, Failures: M, Errors: K, Skipped: L

Compilation error (different pattern entirely):

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR
[ERROR] /path/to/File.java:[line,col] error: ...

For each failed test, extract:

• Fully-qualified class name (e.g., SqlParserTest, WindowFunctionTest)
• Test method name
• Error type: assertion mismatch vs exception
• Error message / exception chain
• Line number in test source (from the :lineNum in the chain)

3c. Deduplicate across jobs

The same test might fail on multiple platforms (mac-griffin, windows-griffin, linux-griffin). Group failures by ClassName.testMethod — if the error message is the same across platforms, it's one logical failure. Note which platforms are affected.

Step 4: Classify failures

4a. Get PR diff

gh pr diff $PR

Parse to understand:

• Which source files changed (production code vs test code)
• What functions/methods were modified
• What behavior changes the PR introduces

4b. Cross-reference each failure group with the PR diff

For each failed test group, determine the category:

Category A — Auto-fixable (ALL must hold):

1. The failure is an assertion mismatch (Failures: section, not Errors: section)
2. The PR modifies production code in the area the test covers (same package, same class, related function)
3. The PR already updated similar test assertions in the same or other test files (pattern exists in the diff)
4. The fix is mechanical: swap the expected value to match actual output
5. Guard-removal gate: if a test changed from "expected to fail" to "now succeeds" (e.g., error test that no longer errors), check the PR diff for removed guards (methods like guardAgainst..., throw SqlException blocks, early-return checks). If the PR removed a guard WITHOUT replacing the underlying functionality, the test likely exposes an unhandled code path — escalate to Category B/D. Only auto-fix if the PR replaced the guarded code with a new implementation that handles the case.

The heuristic: "Did the PR replace the functionality, or just remove the gate?" Replacing → auto-fix. Removing gate without replacement → discuss.

Category B — Behavior precision:

• The failure connects to PR changes (related classes/packages)
• But the PR did NOT already update similar tests, so intent is unclear
• Or the failure is an exception (not just a different value) that might indicate the test expected the old behavior to continue
• Or a guard was removed and the test now succeeds where it previously failed — need to verify the old code path is actually handled

Category C — Potential regression:

• The failing test is in a package/class NOT touched by the PR
• No clear connection between the test's subject and the PR's changes

Category D — Potential incompleteness:

• The test covers an edge case (NULL input, empty table, boundary value, special characters)
• The PR introduced new logic but the test suggests it doesn't handle this case
• Often: test expected a query to succeed, but new code throws an exception for this input

Category E — Non-test failure:

• Compilation error
• Infrastructure issue (timeout, OOM, disk full, network error)
• Flaky test (known flaky pattern, random ordering issue)

Step 5: Act

For Category A (auto-fix):

1. Find the test source file:

   • Convert class name to path: io.questdb.test.griffin.FooTest -> search in core/src/test/java/
   • Use Glob: **/FooTest.java

2. Get the expected vs actual values:

   • If the Surefire summary contains the full assertion diff (common with assertEquals): use directly
   • If the summary only has an exception message (common with assertQueryNoLeakCheck): need to search the full log
   • To search: use line-range chunks. First, find the <<< FAILURE! line for this test method:

     # Search in chunks of 50K lines from the end, looking for the test method name + FAILURE
     curl -s "...logs/{logId}?startLine={lineCount-50000}&endLine={lineCount}" -o /tmp/ci-chunk.txt
     grep -n "testMethodName" /tmp/ci-chunk.txt | grep -i "FAILURE\|ERROR\|expected\|but had"
     

   • Read +-100 lines around the match to get the full assertion diff

3. Read the test method in the source file. Find the assertion call and its expected value.

4. Update the expected value to match the actual output. Use the Edit tool.

5. Report what was changed:

   Auto-fixed: FooTest#testBar
   - Updated expected output: [brief description of what changed]
   - Reason: PR changed [behavior X], test expected old output
   - Platforms affected: mac-griffin, windows-griffin, linux-griffin
   

For Categories B-E (discuss with user):

Present a structured report. Group by category, within each category group by similarity.

## CI Failures: PR #NNN — [PR title]

Analyzed N failed jobs across M platforms.

### Auto-fixed (if any)
- `FooTest#testBar`: updated expected output — [description]

### Needs Discussion

#### Potential Regression (Category C)
Tests in areas NOT touched by this PR:
- `BarTest#testQux`: NullPointerException at SomeClass.java:42
  Platforms: linux-griffin, mac-griffin
  [Stack trace summary]

#### Potential Incompleteness (Category D)
New logic may not handle these cases:
- `WindowFunctionTest#testWindowAsArg`: SqlException "Window function is not allowed in context of aggregation"
  The PR added [feature X] but these tests show queries that combine window functions with aggregation.
  Platforms: all

#### Behavior Precision (Category B)
Connected to PR changes but need review:
- `SqlParserTest#testWindowFuncOrder`: expected query model differs from actual
  The PR changed [parser behavior X]; this test may need updating or may reveal unintended side effect.

#### Non-test Failures (Category E)
- Job `windows-cairo-2`: "Compile with Maven" step failed — compilation error in FooBar.java:123

After presenting, ask the user how to proceed with each group.

Azure API Reference

Test Results (vstmr.dev.azure.com) — no auth, no special headers

The test results microservice lives on a separate hostname. No authentication or special headers needed.

Endpoint	Returns
.../resultsbybuild?buildId={id}&publishContext=CI&outcomes=Failed&$top=200&api-version=5.2-preview.1	Array of failed test results: automatedTestName, automatedTestStorage, outcome, runId, durationInMs
.../resultdetailsbybuild?buildId={id}&publishContext=CI&groupBy=TestRun&$filter=Outcome eq Failed&shouldIncludeResults=true&queryRunSummaryForInProgress=false&api-version=5.2-preview.1	Failed results grouped by test run, with counts per outcome

Base: https://vstmr.dev.azure.com/questdb/questdb/_apis/testresults

Test Result Details (dev.azure.com) — PAT with Test Management: Read

Endpoint	Returns
https://dev.azure.com/questdb/questdb/_apis/test/runs/{runId}/results?outcomes=Failed&api-version=7.0	Full details: automatedTestName, errorMessage, stackTrace, failingSince, failureType

Auth: curl -u ":$AZURE_DEVOPS_PAT". Note: test/runs?buildId=... (listing runs) needs Build: Read scope, but test/runs/{runId}/results works with just Test Management: Read since we get runIds from the unauthenticated vstmr call.

Test Summary (dev.azure.com) — no auth

Endpoint	Returns
https://dev.azure.com/questdb/{project_guid}/_apis/test/resultsummarybybuild?buildId={id}&api-version=7.0-preview	Aggregate counts: total, passed, failed, not executed

Build APIs (dev.azure.com) — no auth

Base: https://dev.azure.com/questdb/{project_guid}/_apis/build

The project GUID is embedded in check URLs. Parse it from there rather than hardcoding.

Endpoint	Returns
/builds/{buildId}/timeline?api-version=7.0	{records: [{id, parentId, type, name, result, state, log: {id}, order}]}
/builds/{buildId}/logs?api-version=7.0	{value: [{id, lineCount, createdOn}]}
/builds/{buildId}/logs/{logId}?api-version=7.0&startLine=N&endLine=M	Plain text, lines N through M

Timeline record types

• Stage — pipeline stage (parent of Jobs)
• Job — a CI job (parent of Tasks), maps to a GitHub check
• Task — a step within a job, has log.id for log download

Status mapping

• result="succeeded" → success
• result="failed" → failure
• result="skipped" → skipped
• result="canceled" or "cancelled" → cancelled
• state="completed" with no result → success
• Otherwise → pending