---
number: 11750
title: 'feat(github-workflow): add manage_discussion tool (#10138)'
author: neo-opus-ada
state: MERGED
createdAt: '2026-05-22T08:20:11Z'
updatedAt: '2026-05-22T08:37:52Z'
closedAt: '2026-05-22T08:31:51Z'
mergedAt: '2026-05-22T08:31:51Z'
head: agent/10138-manage-discussion-tool
base: dev
url: 'https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/11750'
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Resolves #10138

Authored by Opus 4.7 (1M context) (Claude Code). Session ff79d594-1c1e-4181-ad9b-3d9150547699.

FAIR-band: over-target [14/30] — taking this lane despite over-target because: (a) explicit operator authorization ("you can grab the new ticket"); (b) the only under-target peer (Gemini, 0/30) has a documented unstable harness, making an `[author-yield]` handoff non-actionable; (c) among the two active authors I am the lower (GPT 16/30); (d) `[lane-claim]` for #10138 was broadcast to `AGENT:*` at 08:02Z with no peer pickup.

Adds the `manage_discussion` MCP tool to the github-workflow server. It updates a GitHub Discussion **body** in place (`action: 'update_body'`) via the `updateDiscussion` GraphQL mutation — closing the tool-surface gap that previously forced post-publication Ideation Sandbox corrections through correction comments (loss of body-as-source-of-truth) or a raw `gh api graphql` workaround (bypasses the MCP audit/logging substrate).

Evidence: L2 (`manageDiscussion` unit-tested with a mocked `GraphqlService` — 6 tests: success / invalid-action / missing-params / NOT_FOUND / auth-error; the underlying `updateDiscussion` mutation shape was empirically confirmed against the live GitHub API in #10138's 2026-05-16 amendment comment) → L4 required (AC8 — retroactive #11440/#11444 body updates via the deployed MCP tool). Residual: AC8 [#10138].

## Acceptance Criteria status

| AC | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|
| AC1 — `manage_discussion` registered in `openapi.yaml`, `action: 'update_body'` | done | `openapi.yaml` `/discussions/manage` |
| AC2 — `updateDiscussion(input: {discussionId, body})` invoked | done | `mutations.mjs` `UPDATE_DISCUSSION` |
| AC3 — params `action`, `discussion_number`, `body` | done | `DiscussionService.manageDiscussion` |
| AC4 — returns `{discussionId, url, updatedAt}` | done | `DiscussionService.manageDiscussion` |
| AC5 — unit test: success + missing-params + auth-error | done | `DiscussionService.spec.mjs` (see Delta 1) |
| AC6 — tool description <= 1024 chars, concise | done | 342 chars |
| AC7 — documented in `GitHubWorkflow.md` | done | new §4.5 Discussions |
| AC8 — retroactive #11440/#11444 body updates via the tool | post-merge | see Post-Merge Validation |

## Deltas from ticket

1. **Test location** — AC5 names `test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/github-workflow/`. The tests live in `test/playwright/unit/ai/services/github-workflow/DiscussionService.spec.mjs` instead. The Contract Ledger assumed a standalone tool file (`tools/manageDiscussion.mjs`); the substrate reality — anticipated by the ticket's own "to be verified during implementation" — is that `manageDiscussion` is a method on `DiscussionService` (mirroring `manageDiscussionComment`). Tests follow the service file: they extend the existing `DiscussionService.spec.mjs`, exactly where `manageDiscussionComment` is already covered.
2. **Single-method, not dispatcher+delegate** — `manage_discussion` has one action today (`update_body`). `manageDiscussion` validates `action` inline rather than dispatching to a private `updateBody`; a dispatcher for a single action would be premature abstraction. When a second discussion-level action lands (lock/pin — explicitly out-of-scope future ops), that PR refactors to the dispatcher shape. The Contract Ledger's `DiscussionService.updateBody()` was specified "(or equivalent)" — `manageDiscussion` is the equivalent.
3. **Return shape** — `{discussionId, url, updatedAt}` exactly per AC4, with no `message` field (sibling `updateComment` returns `{message, commentId, ...}`); followed the explicit contract.

## Substrate-Mutation slot-rationale (§1.1 — touches `learn/agentos/`)

Adds **§4.5 Discussions** to `learn/agentos/GitHubWorkflow.md` (6 lines).

- **Added section:** §4.5 Discussions — disposition **`keep`**.
- **3-axis rating:** trigger-frequency *moderate* (read when an agent uses the gh-workflow discussion tools) x failure-severity *low-moderate* (absent docs = tool-rediscovery friction — the precise #10138 friction this ticket exists to close) x enforceability *high* (static enumeration; `McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` cross-checks openapi operationIds vs `serviceMapping` keys).
- **Map vs Atlas:** `GitHubWorkflow.md` is conditionally-loaded World Atlas reference documentation, not always-loaded Map substrate. **Net always-loaded bytes added: 0.** The Substrate Accretion Defense net-reduce mandate applies to always-loaded substrate and is not triggered.
- **Sunset condition:** §4.5 retires only when the discussion tool family is removed from the server.
- §4.5 documents all three discussion tools (`create_discussion`, `manage_discussion_comment`, `manage_discussion`) — the prior two were already shipped but undocumented in §4; a §4.5 carrying only the new tool would be a worse doc.

## Test Evidence

```
npm run test-unit -- DiscussionService.spec.mjs McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs
-> 23 passed (12 DiscussionService + 11 cross-server listTools smoke)
```

- 6 new `manageDiscussion` tests: success path (`{discussionId, url, updatedAt}`, 2 GraphQL calls), invalid action, missing `discussion_number`, missing `body`, `NOT_FOUND`, GraphQL auth/API error propagation.
- The smoke spec confirms the new `manage_discussion` openapi operationId aligns with the `serviceMapping` key and the openapi YAML parses.

## Post-Merge Validation

- [ ] AC8 — once the github-workflow MCP server is redeployed with this tool, retroactively update Discussion #11440 and #11444 bodies via `manage_discussion({action: 'update_body', ...})`, validating the tool end-to-end against the live API (the path those discussions originally needed but used workarounds for).

## Commits

- `846813817` — feat(github-workflow): add manage_discussion tool (#10138)

## Evolution

Branch was rebased onto origin/dev after #11746 (`get_conversation` -> issues) merged. #11746 co-edited `toolService.mjs` (`serviceMapping` + `getConversationRouter`) and `openapi.yaml`; the regions are disjoint from this PR's `manage_discussion` additions and git auto-merged both cleanly.

## Related

- Origin: friction surfaced during the Discussion #10137 post-publication correction workflow.
- Pattern mirrored: `manage_discussion_comment` (create/update dispatcher on `DiscussionService`).
- Empirical recurrences folded into #10138: Discussion #11440 + #11444 graduations (2026-05-16) both hit this gap.

## Reviews

### `@neo-gpt` (APPROVED) reviewed on 2026-05-22T08:30:08Z

# PR Review Summary

**Status:** Approve+Follow-Up

### 🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- **Decision**: Approve+Follow-Up
- **Rationale**: Approve+Follow-Up because the PR closes the concrete #10138 MCP surface gap with a small additive tool, green targeted coverage, and a documented post-merge L4 validation step. The only residual concern is skill-consumer discoverability for future Ideation Sandbox body rewrites, which is better handled as follow-up once the tool is deployed rather than blocking this MCP surface.

**Peer-Review Opening:** This is the right shape for #10138: a narrow additive MCP operation, wired through the existing GitHub Workflow service mapping, with unit coverage on the GraphQL lookup/update path and smoke coverage on OpenAPI/tool mapping.

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### 🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
*   **Target Epic / Issue ID:** Resolves #10138
*   **Related Graph Nodes:** Discussion #10137, Discussion #11440, Discussion #11444, GitHub Workflow MCP server, Ideation Sandbox body-as-source-of-truth pattern

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### 🔬 Depth Floor

**Challenge OR documented search (per guide §7.1):**

- **Challenge**: Non-blocking follow-up concern: the Ideation Sandbox workflow already treats the Discussion body as the canonical artifact, but it does not yet tell agents to use `manage_discussion({action: 'update_body', ...})` when reconciling post-publication corrections. That is not a merge blocker because the tool is documented in `learn/agentos/GitHubWorkflow.md` and exposed through the MCP list surface, but it is the next discoverability polish once the deployed tool exists.

**Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):**

- [x] PR description: framing matches what the diff substantiates — an additive Discussion body update MCP operation, not a broad discussion-management subsystem.
- [x] Anchor & Echo summaries: `DiscussionService.manageDiscussion` accurately names the currently-supported scope as discussion-body updates.
- [x] `[RETROSPECTIVE]` tag: N/A — no retrospective tag in the PR body.
- [x] Linked anchors: #10138, #11440, and #11444 are materially connected to the body-update gap.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

*   **`[KB_GAP]`**: None observed. The PR correctly distinguishes Discussion body updates from discussion-comment updates and issue/PR comment updates.
*   **`[TOOLING_GAP]`**: #10138 itself is the tooling gap; this PR adds the missing MCP surface and keeps the raw `gh api graphql` mutation as a fallback only.
*   **`[RETROSPECTIVE]`**: Additive MCP tool surfaces should be reviewed across three contracts together: OpenAPI runtime payload, service mapping, and GraphQL service method. This PR keeps those aligned and adds smoke coverage for the mapping layer.

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### 🛂 Provenance Audit

N/A — this is a standard additive MCP tool and GraphQL mutation wrapper, not a novel architecture or imported algorithm.

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### 🎯 Close-Target Audit

- [x] Close-targets identified: `Resolves #10138` in the PR body. Commit body has no magic-close target beyond prose without an issue number.
- [x] For `#10138`: live label check shows `enhancement`, `ai`, `architecture`; no `epic` label.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 📑 Contract Completeness Audit

- [x] Originating ticket contains a Contract Ledger matrix in the 2026-05-16 amendment.
- [x] Implemented PR diff matches the ledger's shipped reality: `manage_discussion`, `action: 'update_body'`, `discussion_number`, `body`, `updateDiscussion(input: {discussionId, body})`, and `{discussionId, url, updatedAt}` return shape.
- [x] The service-method location is acceptable under the ticket's `(or equivalent)` wording; it mirrors the existing `DiscussionService.manageDiscussionComment` pattern.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🪜 Evidence Audit

- [x] PR body contains a greppable `Evidence:` line.
- [x] Achieved evidence is L2: mocked service tests + smoke mapping + GitHub CI.
- [x] Residual L4 validation is explicitly declared as AC8/post-merge validation for deployed MCP use against #11440/#11444.
- [x] Review language does not promote L2 evidence to L4; live deployed tool use remains post-merge.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 📜 Source-of-Authority Audit

N/A — this review does not make a required demand based on private operator or peer authority.

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### 📡 MCP-Tool-Description Budget Audit

- [x] New OpenAPI operation description audited: `/discussions/manage` is 341 chars, below the 1024-char hard cap.
- [x] No ticket numbers, session IDs, phase sequencing, or internal memory anchors appear in the runtime description.
- [x] The block-literal form is not ideal for future runtime-payload thrift, but the content is usage-focused and mirrors nearby discussion-tool descriptions.

**Findings:** Pass, with non-blocking thrift note only.

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### 🔌 Wire-Format Compatibility Audit

- [x] The change is additive: a new `manage_discussion` operation and a new GraphQL mutation constant.
- [x] Existing `create_discussion` and `manage_discussion_comment` contracts are not changed.
- [x] `McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` confirms OpenAPI operationId and `serviceMapping` alignment.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit

- [x] Relevant MCP surface documentation is updated in `learn/agentos/GitHubWorkflow.md` §4.5.
- [x] No existing always-loaded instruction substrate needs to change for the tool to be callable.
- [x] Non-blocking follow-up concern remains: `.agents/skills/ideation-sandbox/references/ideation-sandbox-workflow.md` may eventually benefit from a short pointer to `manage_discussion` for body-canonical correction passes.

**Findings:** Pass with follow-up concern; no Required Action.

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### 🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

- [x] Branch checked out locally via `checkout_pull_request`.
- [x] Canonical placement is acceptable: the new tests extend `test/playwright/unit/ai/services/github-workflow/DiscussionService.spec.mjs`, matching the existing service-method coverage pattern for `manageDiscussionComment`.
- [x] Ran related tests locally: `npm run test-unit -- DiscussionService.spec.mjs McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` → 23 passed.
- [x] Ran `git diff --check origin/dev...HEAD` → passed.
- [x] Measurement methodology surface captured: `wc -c` for review guide/template/MCP budget audit = 77951 total chars loaded.

**Findings:** Tests pass.

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### 🛡️ CI / Security Checks Audit

- [x] Ran `gh pr checks 11750 --json name,state,completedAt,link`.
- [x] Confirmed no checks pending.
- [x] Confirmed all checks green: CodeQL, lint-pr-body, Analyze (javascript), retired-primitives check, integration-unified, and unit.

**Findings:** Pass - all checks green.

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### 📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

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### 📊 Evaluation Metrics
*   **`[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]`**: 96 - 4 points deducted only for the single-action inline dispatcher being a small future-refactor point if more discussion-level actions are added; current implementation otherwise follows the existing `DiscussionService` + `toolService` + OpenAPI pattern cleanly.
*   **`[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]`**: 94 - 6 points deducted for the non-blocking missing Ideation Sandbox skill pointer; JSDoc, PR body, Contract Ledger explanation, and GitHubWorkflow docs are otherwise complete.
*   **`[EXECUTION_QUALITY]`**: 96 - 4 points deducted because live deployed MCP validation remains post-merge AC8; local tests and CI are green, and the GraphQL schema confirms `UpdateDiscussionInput` accepts `discussionId` and `body`.
*   **`[PRODUCTIVITY]`**: 95 - 5 points deducted for AC8 intentionally remaining post-merge; all implementation-time ACs are satisfied.
*   **`[IMPACT]`**: 72 - Significant agent-workflow impact because it removes a recurring raw-GraphQL workaround, but the implementation is localized to one MCP server surface rather than a foundational framework shift.
*   **`[COMPLEXITY]`**: 52 - Moderate: one public MCP operation, one service method, one GraphQL mutation, docs, and tests; no broad migration or consumer breakage.
*   **`[EFFORT_PROFILE]`**: Quick Win - High workflow value with a compact additive implementation and focused test surface.

Approved. The remaining validation is correctly post-merge/deployment-bound, not a reason to hold this PR open.

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