Summary
The dependency-park comment carries a stable dedup marker and posts anyway on every sweep, so a parked issue accumulates identical comments indefinitely.
Observed
AgentWorkforce/cloud#3046, three byte-identical comments from agent-relay-code[bot]:
2026-08-21T04:41:49Z
2026-08-21T06:17:00Z
2026-08-21T08:03:46Z
<!-- factory-dependency-park:v9z64o --> Factory parked this issue because declared
dependencies are unresolved. Blocked by: AgentWorkforce/cloud#3032,
AgentWorkforce/cloud#3043, AgentWorkforce/cloud#3045, AgentWorkforce/relayfile#379
Same marker hash (v9z64o), same blocker list, same text.
Why this is a bug and not just noise
The marker is built as factory-dependency-park:${stableHash(signature)}, which only makes sense as a deduplication key — a stable hash of the park signature exists precisely so a repeat park can recognise its own prior comment and skip. It is being computed and emitted, but evidently not read back before posting.
Consequences:
- A long-parked issue accrues one identical comment per sweep. At the observed cadence that is roughly a comment every 1.5–2 hours, indefinitely, for as long as the dependency stays unresolved.
- It writes to GitHub on every sweep for no state change, which is avoidable API traffic on the App's budget.
- It buries genuine human discussion under repeated bot text, on exactly the issues that are blocked and most need a human to read them.
Expected
Before posting, search the issue's existing comments for the same factory-dependency-park:<hash> marker. If a comment with the identical hash is already present, skip. If a comment with a different park hash is present, the blocker set has changed — update that comment in place, or post once and leave a single current park comment rather than a growing list.
Tests
- must-not-fire: parking the same issue twice with an unchanged blocker set produces exactly one comment. Must fail before the change.
- must-fire: parking with a changed blocker set surfaces the new set — either as an edit or a single replacement comment — so a genuinely different park is never silently swallowed by dedup.
- the marker hash is stable across processes and restarts, so dedup survives a container roll.
Summary
The dependency-park comment carries a stable dedup marker and posts anyway on every sweep, so a parked issue accumulates identical comments indefinitely.
Observed
AgentWorkforce/cloud#3046, three byte-identical comments fromagent-relay-code[bot]:Same marker hash (
v9z64o), same blocker list, same text.Why this is a bug and not just noise
The marker is built as
factory-dependency-park:${stableHash(signature)}, which only makes sense as a deduplication key — a stable hash of the park signature exists precisely so a repeat park can recognise its own prior comment and skip. It is being computed and emitted, but evidently not read back before posting.Consequences:
Expected
Before posting, search the issue's existing comments for the same
factory-dependency-park:<hash>marker. If a comment with the identical hash is already present, skip. If a comment with a different park hash is present, the blocker set has changed — update that comment in place, or post once and leave a single current park comment rather than a growing list.Tests