[#488] 🐛 - Dogfooding make Windows verification fixture startup and failure evidence explicit

build/cli/index.js

@@ -80453,9 +80453,27 @@ async function findProjectItem(client, project, itemId, fieldName) {
         if (item)
             return item;
     }
-    const message = `Project item ${itemId} was not found while updating field '${fieldName}'.`;
-    (0, logger_1.logError)(message);
-    throw new Error(message);
+    const result = await client.graphql(`query($itemId: ID!, $fieldName: String!) {
+        node(id: $itemId) {
+            id __typename
+            ... on ProjectV2Item {
+                project { id }
+                fieldValueByName(name: $fieldName) {
+                    ... on ProjectV2ItemFieldSingleSelectValue { optionId }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }`, { itemId, fieldName });
+    const item = result.node;
+    if (item?.id !== itemId || item.__typename !== 'ProjectV2Item' || item.project?.id !== project.id
+        || !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(item, 'fieldValueByName')) {
+        throw new Error(`Project item ${itemId} has no verified field evidence in project ${project.id}.`);
+    }
+    const value = item.fieldValueByName;
+    if (value !== null && (typeof value?.optionId !== 'string' || !value.optionId.trim())) {
+        throw new Error('The direct Project item single-select value is malformed.');
+    }
+    return { id: itemId, fieldValues: { nodes: value === null ? [] : [{ field: { name: fieldName }, optionId: value.optionId }] } };
 }
 
 
@@ -80535,6 +80553,41 @@ async function findProjectItemId(client, project, contentId) {
         if (item)
             return item.id;
     }
+    return findContentSideProjectItemId(client, project, contentId);
+}
+/** Recover a missing board-list entry from the exact content's own memberships. */
+async function findContentSideProjectItemId(client, project, contentId) {
+    for await (const page of (0, github_pagination_adapter_1.paginateCursor)(async (after) => {
+        const result = await client.graphql(`query($contentId: ID!, $after: String) {
+        node(id: $contentId) {
+          id __typename
+          ... on Issue { projectItems(first: 100, after: $after, includeArchived: true) {
+            pageInfo { hasNextPage endCursor }
+            nodes { id project { id } content { ... on Issue { id } ... on PullRequest { id } } }
+          } }
+          ... on PullRequest { projectItems(first: 100, after: $after, includeArchived: true) {
+            pageInfo { hasNextPage endCursor }
+            nodes { id project { id } content { ... on Issue { id } ... on PullRequest { id } } }
+          } }
+        }
+      }`, { contentId, after });
+        const node = result.node;
+        const membership = node?.projectItems;
+        if (node?.id !== contentId || !['Issue', 'PullRequest'].includes(node.__typename ?? '')
+            || !membership || !Array.isArray(membership.nodes)
+            || typeof membership.pageInfo?.hasNextPage !== 'boolean'
+            || !(membership.pageInfo.endCursor === null || typeof membership.pageInfo.endCursor === 'string')) {
+            throw new Error('The content-side Project membership evidence is unavailable or malformed.');
+        }
+        return membership;
+    }, { description: 'content-side project membership', maxPages: 2 })) {
+        const item = page.nodes.find(candidate => candidate.project?.id === project.id && candidate.content?.id === contentId);
+        if (item) {
+            if (typeof item.id !== 'string' || !item.id.trim())
+                throw new Error('The content-side Project item identity is malformed.');
+            return item.id;
+        }
+    }
     return undefined;
 }
 

build/github_action/index.js

@@ -74080,9 +74080,27 @@ async function findProjectItem(client, project, itemId, fieldName) {
         if (item)
             return item;
     }
-    const message = `Project item ${itemId} was not found while updating field '${fieldName}'.`;
-    (0, logger_1.logError)(message);
-    throw new Error(message);
+    const result = await client.graphql(`query($itemId: ID!, $fieldName: String!) {
+        node(id: $itemId) {
+            id __typename
+            ... on ProjectV2Item {
+                project { id }
+                fieldValueByName(name: $fieldName) {
+                    ... on ProjectV2ItemFieldSingleSelectValue { optionId }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }`, { itemId, fieldName });
+    const item = result.node;
+    if (item?.id !== itemId || item.__typename !== 'ProjectV2Item' || item.project?.id !== project.id
+        || !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(item, 'fieldValueByName')) {
+        throw new Error(`Project item ${itemId} has no verified field evidence in project ${project.id}.`);
+    }
+    const value = item.fieldValueByName;
+    if (value !== null && (typeof value?.optionId !== 'string' || !value.optionId.trim())) {
+        throw new Error('The direct Project item single-select value is malformed.');
+    }
+    return { id: itemId, fieldValues: { nodes: value === null ? [] : [{ field: { name: fieldName }, optionId: value.optionId }] } };
 }
 
 
@@ -74162,6 +74180,41 @@ async function findProjectItemId(client, project, contentId) {
         if (item)
             return item.id;
     }
+    return findContentSideProjectItemId(client, project, contentId);
+}
+/** Recover a missing board-list entry from the exact content's own memberships. */
+async function findContentSideProjectItemId(client, project, contentId) {
+    for await (const page of (0, github_pagination_adapter_1.paginateCursor)(async (after) => {
+        const result = await client.graphql(`query($contentId: ID!, $after: String) {
+        node(id: $contentId) {
+          id __typename
+          ... on Issue { projectItems(first: 100, after: $after, includeArchived: true) {
+            pageInfo { hasNextPage endCursor }
+            nodes { id project { id } content { ... on Issue { id } ... on PullRequest { id } } }
+          } }
+          ... on PullRequest { projectItems(first: 100, after: $after, includeArchived: true) {
+            pageInfo { hasNextPage endCursor }
+            nodes { id project { id } content { ... on Issue { id } ... on PullRequest { id } } }
+          } }
+        }
+      }`, { contentId, after });
+        const node = result.node;
+        const membership = node?.projectItems;
+        if (node?.id !== contentId || !['Issue', 'PullRequest'].includes(node.__typename ?? '')
+            || !membership || !Array.isArray(membership.nodes)
+            || typeof membership.pageInfo?.hasNextPage !== 'boolean'
+            || !(membership.pageInfo.endCursor === null || typeof membership.pageInfo.endCursor === 'string')) {
+            throw new Error('The content-side Project membership evidence is unavailable or malformed.');
+        }
+        return membership;
+    }, { description: 'content-side project membership', maxPages: 2 })) {
+        const item = page.nodes.find(candidate => candidate.project?.id === project.id && candidate.content?.id === contentId);
+        if (item) {
+            if (typeof item.id !== 'string' || !item.id.trim())
+                throw new Error('The content-side Project item identity is malformed.');
+            return item.id;
+        }
+    }
     return undefined;
 }
 

docs/issues/assignees-and-projects.mdx

@@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ the normal lifecycle transition selects the configured in-progress Status.
 If initialization fails, retrying reads the same item and can fill its unset
 Status without adding another item.
 
+If a subsequent priority or size update cannot find a newly linked item in the
+board listing, Copilot checks the exact issue or PR's own Project memberships
+before reporting a failure. This recovery reads at most 200 memberships. If a
+known item's field is absent from the listing, one direct item read verifies its
+Project and current field value. Matching values stay unchanged on replay.
+Permission errors, incomplete evidence and persistent absence remain visible
+failures; rerun after checking access and membership. Successful linking and
+other completed updates are retained.
+
 ### How many boards?
 
 You can link each issue to **multiple** boards by listing several IDs:

docs/security-operations/operations/troubleshooting.mdx

@@ -328,6 +328,17 @@ directory. The lock contains no PAT or other credential.
     - Failed workflow runs
 
     **Solutions:**
+    The hosted Windows verification-environment fixture reports a fixed
+    `verification-powershell` stage with the child status and error code when
+    its real PowerShell command fails. Use that evidence to distinguish command
+    failure from a timeout; `exit 2` alone does not identify a cause. This
+    literal-argv fixture also retries only the removal of its own temporary
+    root up to five times when the filesystem reports a retryable error; an
+    exhausted cleanup still fails the test. The PowerShell
+    fixture imports the trusted system hash/path modules explicitly and keeps
+    the existing execution deadlines. Its success certifies the fixture only,
+    and does not certify real Codex tools in Windows services.
+
     1. **Timeouts:** Identify the phase before changing a job timeout. A pending
        promotion, environment approval, merge queue, or reconciliation PR is an
        external GitHub wait and has no release runner to extend. npm visibility