Automation targeted improvements

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#668 opened on May 19, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: csharp
Domain: cli

Research direction

Start by tracing how internal GitHub exceptions are converted into user messages and how pull request creation handles failures. Define completion as retaining exception details for verbose output and retrying transient failures with backoff before reporting an error, especially in automation scenarios.

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Description

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

Improve error reporting from exceptions: currently the internal GH exceptions are lost so it is difficult to know if they are transient, rate limits, etc. Maybe just a --verbose would be good enough here to log exception stacks when they would otherwise be converted to a user message.

Improve retry logic (with backoff) so that transient errors are less impactful in automation scenarios. For example, when attempting to create the PR, it would be better to try a few times before giving the user an error to have them take over. This is true all of the time, but especially in automation where the only recourse is to run the pipeline again.

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