- Introduced a vouching mechanism to manage PR authorization via a tracked user list and discussion-based management workflows.
- Added automated PR gatekeeping workflows to close contributions from unvouched users and require specific labels for review.
- Refactored PR event handling to support label-based review deferral and enforce authorization checks for labelers.
- Added comprehensive test coverage for vouch-gate logic, including label activation and unauthorized access scenarios.
- Added event retry settings with parsed delay schedules and jittered delay computation.
- Extended event persistence to persist an `available_at` timestamp, honor it during dequeuing, and clear it when re-queuing.
- Updated worker failure handling to queue bounded retries with backoff and transition to failed only when the retry budget is exhausted.
- Added `review_pr` task that checks out PR head in a detached worktree, classifies rank/type/area, and posts a batched GitHub review as `event=COMMENT`.
- Added four new host tools: `fetch_pr`, `classify_pr`, `pr_review_comment`, and `submit_pr_review`; review tools self-gate on `review_mode`, push/open-PR tools refuse when `review_mode` is set.
- Added sqlite staging table `pr_review_comments` with `stage_review_comment`, `list_staged_review_comments`, and `clear_staged_review_comments` DAOs.
- Routed `pull_request.opened/reopened/ready_for_review` to `review_pr` and extended `pull_request.closed` cleanup to any tracked PR regardless of author.
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