DAP reviewer assignment: align the trigger goal with what the Recommend Reviewers flow expects
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Phase A. Blocks the removal of the project setting.
## Problem — investigation now complete, mismatch confirmed
The two paths send different goals, and the flow config proves the goal **must** be the iid:
- Bespoke path (`ee/app/services/ai/duo_workflows/recommend_reviewers/execute_service.rb`): `goal: merge_request.iid.to_s`.
- Trigger path (`Ai::FlowTriggers::RunService#catalog_item_user_prompt`, `run_service.rb:382-402`): `recommend_reviewers/v1` declares no `goal_templates` and the event is not `mention`, so it falls to the generic foundational-flow branch — `Gitlab::UrlBuilder.build(@resource)`, the MR **URL**.
- The flow config (`duo_workflow_service/agent_platform/v1/flows/configs/recommend_reviewers/1.0.0.yml` in `gitlab-org/gitlab-ai-gateway`) binds `from: "context:goal", as: "merge_request_iid"` in both the `post_recommendation` and `assign_reviewers` components. The flow reads **only** `context:goal`, `context:project_id`, and `context:inputs.reviewer_data`.
- The `merge_request_id: resource.iid` that `RunService#start_catalog_workflow` passes separately (`run_service.rb:241`) is **not** consumed by the flow config — it never reaches a component input.
So a trigger-driven run feeds a URL into a prompt variable named `merge_request_iid`. The model may salvage the iid from the URL string, but the `create_merge_request_note` / `update_merge_request` tool calls are then relying on LLM parsing where the bespoke path passed exact data. This needs fixing, not documenting.
## Implementation
Add a goal template class — the same shape as the two existing single-goal templates (`ee/app/models/ai/catalog/goal_templates/security_review.rb`, `resolve_dependency_bump.rb`):
```ruby
# ee/app/models/ai/catalog/goal_templates/recommend_reviewers.rb
module Ai
module Catalog
module GoalTemplates
class RecommendReviewers < Base
def self.resolve(event_type:, resource:, user_input: nil, params: {})
raise ArgumentError, 'resource must not be nil' unless resource
# The recommend_reviewers flow binds context:goal as merge_request_iid
# in every component, so the goal must be the bare iid for all
# trigger event types.
resource.iid.to_s
end
end
end
end
end
```
Declare it on the item next to the existing `additional_context_resolver` (`ee/app/models/ai/catalog/foundational_flow/items.rb:187-205`):
```ruby
goal_templates: ::Ai::Catalog::GoalTemplates::RecommendReviewers,
```
Notes validated against the code:
- `goal_templates` is a plain attribute with no validator (`attributes.rb:85-86`) — no registration needed anywhere else.
- With `goal_templates` present, `catalog_item_user_prompt` takes the template branch for **all** event types including `mention` (`run_service.rb:385-391`). Returning the iid for `mention` too is correct for this flow — it has no conversational path; every component only wants the iid. Do **not** return `user_input` (for mention events that carries conversation context, not the iid).
- For `merge_request_ready`, `params` is only `{ input: resource.iid.to_s, event: :merge_request_ready }` (`ee/app/workers/concerns/ai/cloud_events_flow_trigger_worker.rb:75`) — the template must derive everything from `resource`, which the sketch above does.
- Precedent for the dispatcher pattern exists if per-event goals are ever needed (`goal_templates/developer.rb:7-38`), but is not needed here.
Specs:
- `ee/spec/models/ai/catalog/goal_templates/recommend_reviewers_spec.rb` — pattern: `resolve_dependency_bump_spec.rb` (nil resource raises, iid returned for MR, event-type-agnostic).
- `ee/spec/models/ai/catalog/foundational_flow_spec.rb` — item declaration assertion (pattern at line 419: `expect(flow.goal_templates).to eq(...)`).
- `ee/spec/services/ai/flow_triggers/run_service_spec.rb` — `describe '#catalog_item_user_prompt'` contexts at lines 1584-1730 already cover both the no-template fallback and the `goal_templates` branch; add a recommend_reviewers context.
## Acceptance criteria
- [x] Documented which input the flow actually reads — `context:goal` bound as `merge_request_iid`; the separate `merge_request_id` param is not consumed
- [ ] `recommend_reviewers/v1` declares `goal_templates: ::Ai::Catalog::GoalTemplates::RecommendReviewers` and trigger-driven runs send the bare iid as the goal
- [ ] Trigger-driven runs reach the same code path in the flow as bespoke runs
- [ ] No change required in the flow config (`gitlab-org/gitlab-ai-gateway`) — confirmed by reading `recommend_reviewers/1.0.0.yml`
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