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- MIT
When main moves faster than the slowest CI leg, every open branch goes stale before it can merge and the whole queue jams with nothing red. Use when: (1) several PRs sit at mergeStateStatus BEHIND with auto-merge armed and none of them lands; (2) branches are being updated, re-running CI and going stale again before that run finishes; (3) you are landing work continuously and wondering why the queue is not draining — you are the cause, not a victim; (4) you are deciding how a fleet of agents…
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What the file says
# Queue thrash: main moves faster than CI, so nothing can land
## Problem
Six pull requests, all green when they were pushed, all with auto-merge armed. None of
them merges.
Nothing is wrong with any of them. `mergeStateStatus` reads `BEHIND` on every one —
not `DIRTY`, so there are no conflicts and nothing needs resolving. Each is simply
behind a `main` that moved after its last run finished.
The loop:
```
branch is BEHIND → update it from main → CI re-runs (16 min)
↑ ↓
someone lands on main ← branch is BEHIND again
```
If the interval between merges into `main` is shorter than the slowest required CI
leg, **the queue cannot drain**. Every branch is stale before its own run finishes.
Auto-merge does not help: it is waiting for a state — up to date and green — that no
branch is ever in for long enough.
**The cause is almost always you.** In the observed run, the inflow was a single
session landing work continuously, all night. Each individual merge was correct and
wanted. Together they made every other branch unlandable. This is worth stating plainly
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How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/merge-queue-thrash-stop-inflow-and-open-prs-as-drafts@sha256:110c3489e2125293The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
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