feat(mcp): agents can write and read pull request review guides

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Stacked on #18124.

Asking an agent to "prepare guides for these pull requests" had no tool to call: the pull request MCP tools only link, list and watch. This adds two tools that reach the review guide service from #18124.

• write_pull_request_guides starts a guide for up to 20 pull requests (URL, or repository and number) and returns right away with one outcome per pull request: started, running (joined a run already going for that head), or failed with the reason. One refusal does not stop the rest.
• read_pull_request_guide returns the stored guide, its run state, and whether a push left it stale. It never starts a run, so an agent can check back and report when the guides are done.

Each pull request is read through the project in the environment whose checkout is that repository, preferring the caller's own project. A repository with no checkout here reports that, and points at t3_project_create. While the server has review guides off, every write is refused with the setting's name, so the beta from #18124 holds for agents as well as people.

Writing a guide changes no thread, so it should not need thread control. It is gated by the pull-requests capability instead, through a new McpToolAccess.writesWithCapability declaration. That still refuses read-only clients and callers whose turn has ended, and the access table test covers both cases.

The tools also get work-log presentation ("Started review guides", "Read a review guide") on web and mobile through the shared tool inventory.

Testing

• Handler tests: guides go through the project that matches each repository; a repository with no checkout fails only its own entry; a server refusal ("Review guides are off") fails only its own entry; a run already going is reported as joined; reading reports stale.
• Access tests: writes_with_capability runs for a credential without thread control, and is refused for a read-only client and an ended turn.
• Server typecheck clean (errors and warnings), Knip passes, lint has no errors. Server MCP, adapter and pull request tests: 731 passed. Client-runtime and shared: 3503 passed.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds new MCP capabilities that can launch and monitor multi-minute review-guide generation across up to 20 pull requests, including repository fetches, temporary worktrees, model work, and persistence. The new authorization path and cross-component workflow make this broader than a bounded additive change.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+24 B (+0.5%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+24 B (+2.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 1f6df6b · PR result: bdf7230 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull-request toolkit adds tools to write guides for batches of pull requests and read stored guides. Handlers select projects by repository, return per-target outcomes, and report guide freshness. Client summaries, tool presentation, documentation, and tests are updated.

Changes

Pull request review guides

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Write access declaration apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.test.ts	Adds writesWithCapability, which checks for a live writing caller without requiring thread-control access. Tests cover allowed and denied callers.
Guide tool contracts and execution apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestReviewGuideService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/handlers.test.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestReviewGuideService.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/registration.test.ts	Adds guide tool schemas and handlers. Targets resolve independently to projects matching their repository. Batch writes return per-target started, running, or failed outcomes, and reads return guide, run, head SHA, and staleness data. Guide generation reports whether it started a run or joined an existing run. Tests cover target resolution, failures, run status, and guide reads.
Guide summaries and documentation packages/shared/src/t3McpToolPresentation.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/t3ToolSummary.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/t3ToolSummary.test.ts, docs/user/source-control.md	Adds presentation entries and runtime summaries for writing and reading guides. Updates the source-control documentation and tests for guide outcome summaries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPCaller
  participant PullRequestsToolkit
  participant projectForPullRequest
  participant PullRequestReviewGuideService
  MCPCaller->>PullRequestsToolkit: Submit guide targets
  PullRequestsToolkit->>projectForPullRequest: Match targets to project checkouts
  projectForPullRequest-->>PullRequestsToolkit: Return matching projects or failures
  PullRequestsToolkit->>PullRequestReviewGuideService: Generate or read guide for resolved target
  PullRequestReviewGuideService-->>PullRequestsToolkit: Return guide and run data
  PullRequestsToolkit-->>MCPCaller: Return per-target outcomes or guide data

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bdf72

The guide tools enforce their intended access and repository boundaries, reads do not start generation, and a target without a matching project is reported individually. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding MCP tools for agents to write and read pull request review guides.
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