fix(ci): route every invalid_payload verdict through a shared builder

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Canonical issue

Closes #

Outcome

The agent completion gate (scripts/ci/agent_completion_gate.py) now surfaces the collector's own collection_errors on every invalid_payload verdict, not only on the late field-validation path. When a payload is rejected early (non-dict payload, missing/invalid policy, non-bool policy.applicable), the author now sees the collector diagnostics that explain why, instead of an empty details object. The gate stays fail-closed — verdict and reasons are byte-identical for every input; only details is enriched.

Scope

• Included:
  • New _invalid_payload(payload, invalid_fields) helper that builds a single, consistent invalid_payload verdict and folds in surfaced collection_errors.
  • New _collection_errors(payload) helper (extracted from the inline comprehension) so both the happy path and every invalid_payload path share one implementation.
  • All four early invalid_payload return sites route through the shared builder.
  • Regression tests asserting each early-reject path preserves verdict/reasons and surfaces collection errors when present.
• Explicitly excluded: no change to gate policy semantics, thresholds, or the not_applicable / evidence_collection_failed paths.

Risk

• Risk level: low
• Failure mode: a bug here could only widen details; verdict/reasons are covered by tests asserting byte-identical output, so a regression cannot flip the gate open or closed.
• Rollback: revert the two commits; the gate returns to emitting empty details on early rejects.

Verification

Tied to head SHA 5a034b77182e04c227f09b18a481fe364233acec.

• Focused tests — PYTHONPATH=src pytest tests/unit/test_agent_completion_gate.py → 109 passed, 89 subtests passed
• Required CI — pending (draft)
• Review threads resolved — none open

Note: scripts/ is outside the CI ruff scope (ci.yml lints only src/youtube_extension/backend/ and main.py); the new helpers follow the file's existing Dict/List typing convention.

Production evidence

Not applicable — this is a CI-gate script change with no runtime or deployment surface.

Agent handoff

• One canonical issue is linked
• No competing PR implements the same issue
• Acceptance criteria are satisfied
• Required checks pass on the current head
• Human decision is requested only for product, security, irreversible infrastructure, or production approval

Human sign-off is requested at the merge gate: base branch main is protected, so this draft is left for a human to mark ready and merge.

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Agent Completion Truth Gate: BLOCKED

Reasons: invalid_payload

Machine-readable verdict

{
  "details": {
    "collection_errors": [
      "incomplete_linked_issue_contract",
      "missing_linked_issue",
      "missing_closing_issue_reference",
      "missing_agent_run_id",
      "missing_agent_login"
    ],
    "invalid_fields": [
      "issue.number",
      "policy.agent_login",
      "policy.run_id"
    ]
  },
  "reasons": [
    "invalid_payload"
  ],
  "verdict": "blocked"
}

Workflow evidence

[groupthinking]

Closing as a duplicate of the canonical open PR #1331 (Closes #1286, "Lands #1285"), which implements the identical change (+156/−26 across scripts/ci/agent_completion_gate.py and tests/unit/test_agent_completion_gate.py) on a land-pr-* branch already rebased onto current main.

Why this PR is redundant and being withdrawn rather than driven to green:

• Same issue, established PR already open. fix(ci): surface collection errors behind invalid_payload truth-gate verdicts #1331 predates this PR and is the non-draft vehicle for Truth gate reports bare invalid_payload and discards the collector's diagnostics, stranding ~47 open PRs #1286. Opening a second PR for the same issue violates the "no competing PR implements the same issue" rule that fix(ci): surface collection errors behind invalid_payload truth-gate verdicts #1331 itself asserts. This one was opened before I discovered fix(ci): surface collection errors behind invalid_payload truth-gate verdicts #1331.
• The agent-completion/truth-gate red here is the known Truth gate reports bare invalid_payload and discards the collector's diagnostics, stranding ~47 open PRs #1286 false-positive, not a defect. This branch is claude/*, so agentTaskApplicable() classifies it as agent work and demands a provenance contract no linked issue declares — the exact over-triggering documented in Truth gate reports bare invalid_payload and discards the collector's diagnostics, stranding ~47 open PRs #1286 (out of scope for the fix) and agent-completion/truth-gate is permanently unsatisfiable for any PR closing an [aw] issue #1130. fix(ci): surface collection errors behind invalid_payload truth-gate verdicts #1331 lives on a non-claude/* branch and so is not tripped by it. The verdict cited only metadata fields (issue.number, policy.agent_login, policy.run_id), never the collection_errors path this change touches, confirming it is not a regression from the diff.
• No honest way to green it here. Fabricating an Agent Run ID / Agent Login manifest to satisfy the gate would defeat exactly what the gate protects (see agent-completion/truth-gate is permanently unsatisfiable for any PR closing an [aw] issue #1130) — and it would be self-defeating on a PR whose own purpose is to strengthen that gate.

Focused tests pass locally on these commits (pytest tests/unit/test_agent_completion_gate.py → 109 passed, 89 subtests). Issue #1286 is fully implemented; the remaining step is a human merge decision on #1331 into protected main. No further code work is needed.

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[groupthinking]

Re-closing — this PR was reopened by an external actor (not a request I received), but nothing has changed that alters the earlier determination: it's a duplicate of the canonical open PR #1331 (Closes #1286), which carries the identical +156/−26 change on a land-pr-* branch that isn't tripped by the truth-gate false-positive, and which I've now reviewed (LGTM, 114 focused tests passing).

On the agent-completion/truth-gate red here: note it now surfaces collection_errors (missing_linked_issue, missing_agent_run_id, missing_agent_login, …) alongside the bare invalid_payload — that's the #1286 fix itself working, giving the diagnostics that were previously discarded. It still blocks because this is a claude/* branch with no linked AgentTask, the known over-triggering false-positive (out of scope for the fix, tracked in #1286). There is no honest way to green it: fabricating an Agent Run ID / Agent Login manifest would defeat exactly what the gate protects, and doubly so on a change whose purpose is to strengthen that gate.

Deferring to #1331 for the merge. If you intentionally reopened this and want it kept open in preference to #1331, reopen and say so and I'll follow that instead.

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