fix(discovery): attach a PR to an item by branch name only with local evidence of the branch (#347 phase 1)

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Phase 1 of the cross-instance PR identity design (item #347, design doc attached to it).

Bug. item_owns_branch matched task/<N>[-slug] on the sequence number alone, and sequence numbers are per instance (each workstation has its own unsynced item DB). So PR discovery attached a PR whose branch another workstation pushed to this instance's unrelated item #N, writing metadata.pr onto it.

Fix. Discovery now attaches by branch name only when the branch is backed by local evidence: the item recorded it in metadata.pr.branch, or the sequence matches and this clone has a local refs/heads/<branch>. A branch that exists only on the remote falls through to the normal claim-and-track path, as for any other foreign PR. discover_untracked_prs takes a local_branch predicate; the supervisor passes a git rev-parse --verify refs/heads/<b> check. item_owns_branch is unchanged for is_own_pr (the item's own push path).

Limits. git pull/fetch only create refs/remotes/origin/*, so they cannot fake the evidence (checked in a scratch repo); an explicit git checkout <foreign-branch> would create a local branch and make this clone look like the owner. It does not change the PR claim protocol (#632 claim marker, #694 stamp check), which already guarantees a single tracker per PR across instances; what it leaves open is that the winning instance is not necessarily the one that created an unstamped PR. That is phase 2 (origin stamp, grace window, ownership-gated actions).

Tests: a_foreign_branch_matching_a_local_sequence_number_is_not_attached, a_recorded_pr_branch_attaches_without_a_local_branch; existing discovery/worktree tests pass (20 + 90). Clippy clean. Both instances need this change to close the race, so deploy together.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Pull request discovery now distinguishes task branches available locally from branches that may exist only on another workstation.
  • Matching local task branches are linked to their items, while previously recorded pull request branches remain identifiable even when the branch is not local.
  • Branches without a matching local item follow the standard claim-and-create process.

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PR discovery now checks whether a task branch exists locally before using its sequence number to associate it with an item. A branch recorded in an item’s PR metadata remains associated without local branch evidence.

Changes

Branch Ownership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define branch ownership rules src/worktree/mod.rs	Private helpers parse task branch sequence numbers and match recorded PR branch metadata. The local-aware predicate requires a task branch to exist locally before sequence-based ownership applies.
Apply ownership rules during discovery src/worktree/discovery.rs	PR discovery accepts and passes a local-branch predicate when checking item ownership. Tests cover discovery cases, absent local task branches, and recorded PR branches without local evidence.
Supply local branch checks src/supervisor.rs	The supervisor gets the repository root from MCP and supplies a callback that checks for refs/heads/{branch} with git rev-parse --verify --quiet.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fbfa9

Local branch matching follows the intended checkout and ref contract, and recorded PR branches still match without local refs. A test of the supervisor’s Git probe would improve confidence, but no demonstrated production regression prevents merging.

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src/supervisor.rs (1)

1506-1515: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the production project-root branch probe.

The discovery tests inject the branch predicate. The run_review_sweep tests use repositories without a remote, so they do not reach this callback. The generic run_in_ok test does not check the callback’s root or ref. A false probe can prevent a sequence-matched PR from attaching and can make discovery create another item or skip the PR. Add a test for the production root/ref binding that asserts the PR attaches to the existing item.

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Review comment at @src/supervisor.rs around lines 1506 - 1515:
Add a test for the production branch probe used by run_review_sweep, exercising
its repo_root and refs/heads/{branch} binding rather than injecting a predicate
or testing run_in_ok generically. Verify that a sequence-matched PR attaches to
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Review comments at @src/supervisor.rs:
- Around line 1506-1515: Add a test for the production branch probe used by
run_review_sweep, exercising its repo_root and refs/heads/{branch} binding
rather than injecting a predicate or testing run_in_ok generically. Verify that
a sequence-matched PR attaches to the existing item.

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