OLS-3974 Default escalation approval step to Automatic - #461
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The escalation step is read-only — it reviews failed Result CRs and produces a markdown summary for a human operator, with no cluster mutations or RBAC grants. It nonetheless followed the same default-Manual approval gate as the mutating steps, so any cluster without an explicit Escalation: Automatic policy entry stranded every verification failure at the Escalating phase until a human approved — defeating the point of automated escalation (OLS-3817). Escalation now defaults to Automatic: it auto-approves unless an admin gates it with an explicit Escalation: Manual policy stage (e.g. to cap LLM token spend). Analysis/Execution/Verification keep default-Manual, and an explicit escalation denial is still honored (deny is checked before the approval gate). - isStageApproved: escalation is approved unless the policy lists it as Manual; add isStagePolicyManual helper. - ApprovalPolicy API docs + regenerated CRD, sample policy, and specs (approval.md, crd-api.md) updated for the new default. - Tests: add TestIsStageApproved_EscalationDefaultsAutomatic; gate escalation Manual in TestEscalation_InProgressIsIdempotent (it relied on the old Manual-by-omission gate). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe change makes Escalation automatic by default because it is read-only. Analysis, Execution, and Verification remain manual by default. Explicitly configuring Escalation as manual still gates the escalation agent. ChangesApproval policy behavior
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The escalation default change is otherwise mergeable, but the state-machine test should assert that reconciliation succeeds; otherwise a reconciliation failure could be hidden and provide false confidence in the approval behavior. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@controller/agenticrun/state_machine_test.go`:
- Line 923: Update the reconcileOnce call in the test to assert that it succeeds
instead of discarding its error, while preserving the existing “fix-crash” input
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| reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // verify fails → escalate immediately | ||
| reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // re-reconcile is idempotent | ||
| reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // still Escalating | ||
| reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // still Escalating (pending escalation approval) |
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Check the reconciliation error.
Line 923 discards the reconcileOnce error. If reconciliation fails, the existing Escalating state can let the phase assertion pass and hide the failure. Assert that the call succeeds.
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- reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // still Escalating (pending escalation approval)
+ if _, err := reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash"); err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("reconcile while escalation approval is pending: %v", err)
+ }As per path instructions, “Never ignore error returns.”
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| reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash") // still Escalating (pending escalation approval) | |
| if _, err := reconcileOnce(r, "fix-crash"); err != nil { | |
| t.Fatalf("reconcile while escalation approval is pending: %v", err) | |
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In `@controller/agenticrun/state_machine_test.go` at line 923, Update the
reconcileOnce call in the test to assert that it succeeds instead of discarding
its error, while preserving the existing “fix-crash” input and subsequent
Escalating-state assertion.
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Summary
Follow-up to OLS-3817 (escalate-on-verification-failure). The escalation step is read-only — it reviews failed Result CRs and produces a markdown summary for a human operator, with no cluster mutations, no RBAC grants, no risk. Yet it followed the same default-Manual approval gate as the mutating steps, so any cluster without an explicit
Escalation: Automaticentry in itsApprovalPolicystranded every verification failure at theEscalatingphase until a human manually approved — defeating the purpose of automated escalation.Change
Escalation now defaults to Automatic. It auto-approves unless an admin explicitly gates it with an
Escalation: Manualpolicy stage (e.g. to cap LLM token spend on the read-only analysis).Analysis/Execution/Verificationkeep their default-Manual behavior, and an explicit escalation denial is still honored (deny is checked before the approval gate).Details
controller/agenticrun/approval.go:isStageApprovedtreats escalation as approved unless the policy lists itManual; newisStagePolicyManualhelper.api/v1alpha1/approvalpolicy_types.godoc comments + regenerated CRD,examples/setup/02-approval-policy.yaml, and specs (approval.mdrules 1/4/9,crd-api.mdrule 24) updated for the new default.TestIsStageApproved_EscalationDefaultsAutomatic;TestEscalation_InProgressIsIdempotentnow gates escalationManualexplicitly (it relied on the old Manual-by-omission gate) — which also covers the admin knob.Testing
make test,make api-lint,make manifests,make vet,make fmtall pass. e2e unchanged (the escalate-on-failure e2e accepts Escalating or Escalated).🤖 Generated with Claude Code