Reconciler F-1 could not tell "stuck by a lost webhook" from "escalated:
max developer retries reached, waiting for a human". With CI green and a
reviewer that kept sending REQUEST_CHANGES up to the cap, every tick
re-unblocked development -> review -> rollback -> re-unblock (incident
ET-013, infinite bounce: wasted agent runs, Telegram spam, parasitic load
on the shared self-hosting instance).
Add two pre-gate guards in Reconciler._reconcile_gate_task (after the
existing analysis/no-gate/active-job/grace guards, before the gate
pre-evaluation), each an early silent return (no advance, no unblocked_total
increment, no notifications):
- Guard 1 (escalated, deterministic, no network, checked first):
developer_retry_count(task_id) >= MAX_DEVELOPER_RETRIES. Promote
stage_engine._developer_retry_count to public developer_retry_count
(single source of truth; private alias kept). Limit from the constant,
not a literal 3.
- Guard 2 (explicit human Plane gate, Variant A, no DB migration): new
never-raise plane_sync.fetch_issue_state + Reconciler._is_blocked_or_needs_input;
any error/None/unresolved project -> conservative skip. New sub-flag
ORCH_RECONCILE_SKIP_BLOCKED_ENABLED mutes only the networked Guard 2.
F-2 unchanged: Blocked/Needs Input are outside {in_progress, approved,
rejected} so they are never replayed (regression test added). DB schema,
STAGE_TRANSITIONS, QG_CHECKS, never-raise, analysis carve-out and
kill-switches untouched.
Refs: ORCH-060
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
