Preserve the active branch when delegating to the cloud agent#4841
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Preserve the active branch when delegating to the cloud agent#4841
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[WIP] Fix cloud agent to honor current branch during remote jobs
Preserve the active branch when delegating to the cloud agent
Mar 30, 2026
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Delegation to the cloud agent could silently switch the PR base from the user's current branch back to the repository default branch. This broke continuation from branch-specific work unless the branch had already been explicitly reselected through repository resolution.
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base_refwhen delegating within the current repository.base_refis available, orResolution guardrails
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base_refThis keeps cloud delegation aligned with the branch the user is actually working on, while preserving the previous fallback behavior for cross-repo delegation and missing branch state.