2026-03-16 — Scout sweep and Sentry dedup fix

What shipped today

The autonomous scout pipeline ran end-to-end for the first time today — explore, triage, prep, execute, merge — all unattended. It surfaced 5 issues across the codebase (API inconsistencies, silent error swallowing, missing tests, UX stubs), prepped 4 of them into executable specs, and shipped all 4 through the dev→QA→merge loop. The test suite grew from 1094 to 1149 tests. The pipeline itself worked smoothly: no human intervention needed for any of the scout-discovered issues.

The second major fix was the Sentry→GitHub integration’s broken dedup logic. The triage module was using HTML comment markers (<!-- sentry:{short_id} -->) in issue bodies to detect duplicates, but GitHub’s search API doesn’t index HTML comments. Every triage run created fresh duplicates — 50+ [Sentry] TimeoutError issues in the authexis repo since March 13. The fix switches to title-based search with exact matching, which GitHub actually indexes. Deployed to the server immediately.

A smaller cleanup committed improvements to the orchestrate loop’s CLI detection (inspect the tmux pane before falling back to config, and prioritize Claude’s ❯ prompt over Codex’s › to avoid false positives) and expanded the sweep skill docs with orchestrate agent health check procedures.

Completed

• #445 — Add newsletter stage/test/send CLI stubs (PR #450)
• #446 — Migrate idea command to Authexis v2 API and requests (PR #451)
• #448 — Add logging to silent except blocks in outreach and orchestrate (PR #452)
• #447 — Add tests for webhook/linear_agent.py (PR #453)
• #449 — idea.py uses httpx (merged into #446)
• Sentry dedup fix (direct commit, no issue)

Release progress

• March 2026: 24/24 closed (complete)
• April 2026: 2/2 closed

Carry-over

• The remaining open issues are all backlog — no milestoned work outstanding
• The orchestrate_loop CLI detection change and sweep skill docs were committed but not deployed to server (only the sentry fix was deployed)

Risks

• The Sentry dedup fix relies on exact title matching. If Sentry changes an issue’s title between triage runs (e.g., appending a count or updating the error message), it could create a new GitHub issue. This seems unlikely but worth monitoring.

Flags and watch-outs

• The authexis repo still has 3 open [Sentry] issues (#1207 TimeoutError, #1257 Invalid Server Actions, #1274 RateLimitError). These are legitimate — one per unique error. The duplicates were already closed.
• Both milestones (March and April 2026) show fully closed. New issues will need a new milestone or assignment to an existing one.

Next session

• Deploy the orchestrate_loop CLI detection fix to server (ssh paul@speedy-gonzales... && git pull)
• Create a May 2026 milestone if new work is planned
• Run /scout again to see if the codebase has new findings after today’s changes
• Monitor authexis repo for any new duplicate [Sentry] issues — the fix should prevent them but worth confirming after one triage cycle
• Consider creating a GitHub issue to track the Sentry title-drift edge case (if titles change between runs)