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i think you should now start drafting implementation for each of the tools in worktrees and then opening draft PRs against the repos, at least for gog and openclaw. can you do that using $session-goal-writer ?

Draft scope

RFC: openclaw/rfcs#8
Companion OpenClaw PR: openclaw/openclaw#90723

This draft adds the no-inbound Gmail notification runtime for the RFC: gog gmail settings watch pull, plus the hidden compatibility path gog gmail watch pull.

What changed

  • Adds a Pub/Sub pull consumer for Gmail watch notifications.
  • Reuses the existing Gmail watch processor for push and pull so account filtering, stale history handling, history fetches, hook payloads, and hook failure behavior stay aligned.
  • Requires a full Pub/Sub subscription resource path: projects/<project>/subscriptions/<subscription>.
  • Requires an explicit or stored hook target before consuming messages, so the command does not silently drain a subscription with nowhere to deliver notifications.
  • Uses explicit terminal/retry behavior: invalid pull messages, wrong-account notifications, and no-new-message notifications finish terminally; hook failures, Gmail failures, and rate-limit circuit failures stay retryable so Pub/Sub can redeliver.
  • Regenerates command docs for the new command.

Compatibility

  • Existing gog gmail watch serve push behavior remains supported.
  • This does not change Gmail watch registration behavior or cloud resource setup.
  • This does not remove shared-token push.

Testing strategy

Already run in this draft:

  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go test ./internal/cmd -run 'GmailWatch'
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go build -o /tmp/gog-gmail-pull ./cmd/gog
  • /tmp/gog-gmail-pull gmail settings watch pull --help
  • /tmp/gog-gmail-pull gmail watch pull --help
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command make docs-commands
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command make fmt-check
  • git diff --check

Deterministic coverage added here:

  • fake Pub/Sub receiver proves the command creates a receiver, consumes one-at-a-time, uses stored hook settings, and closes cleanly;
  • invalid Pub/Sub payload and wrong-account notifications ack terminally;
  • hook failure nacks after recording http_error and preserving the watch cursor, so a downstream hook outage can redeliver instead of silently advancing past the notification;
  • Gmail/history failures nack so Pub/Sub can redeliver;
  • missing subscription and missing hook fail before consuming.

Remote proof completed for the prior draft head 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36:

Live Google proof completed for the prior draft head 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36:

  • Maintainer-controlled Gmail and GCP resources were used; no public HTTP ingress, Tailscale Funnel, or push subscription was involved.
  • A clean pull subscription was provisioned, gog gmail watch start registered the mailbox watch for the pull topic, and the initial stale watch notification was ignored rather than delivered.
  • A marked self-email was sent to the watched mailbox.
  • gog gmail watch pull pulled the Pub/Sub notification, fetched Gmail history, and posted one local hook request. Redacted hook evidence showed auth header present, top-level payload keys account, historyId, messages, and source, and messagesCount=1.
  • The marker emails were moved to trash after proof, one cleanup notification was drained, and a final Pub/Sub pull check returned empty.
  • Companion OpenClaw live proof in feat(hooks): add Gmail Pub/Sub pull delivery mode openclaw#90723 used the same candidate gog command under OpenClaw supervision and created a Gmail hook session.

Real behavior proof

Behavior addressed: Gmail Pub/Sub can now be consumed with pull semantics instead of requiring Google to call an inbound HTTP endpoint.

Real environment tested: local macOS worktree with Go 1.26 from Nix plus maintainer-controlled Gmail/Pub/Sub resources in Google Cloud. Public ingress was not used.

Exact steps or command run after this patch: see the commands in Testing strategy above.

Evidence after fix: focused GmailWatch tests pass; the new command builds and prints help; generated docs include gog gmail settings watch pull; live pull proof delivered one real Gmail notification to a local hook server.

Observed result after fix: fake receiver tests prove terminal ack/nack policy, while live proof shows real Gmail -> Pub/Sub pull -> Gmail history fetch -> local hook POST with one message.

What was not tested: long-running renewal/soak behavior, high-volume delivery, and production rollout under nix-openclaw.

After-fix proof, 2026-06-05

Commit: 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36

This update addresses the ClawSweeper dry-run finding. gog gmail watch pull now exits through the normal dry-run path before loading watch state, creating a Pub/Sub receiver, opening Gmail clients, saving hook state, or consuming/acking/nacking messages.

Proof I ran after this fix:

  • nix shell nixpkgs#go nixpkgs#nodejs_24 --command bash -lc 'timeout 20m make ci' -> passed, including lint, all Go tests, docs generation, and docs coverage.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command bash -lc 'timeout 5m go run ./cmd/gog --dry-run --json --account test@example.com gmail watch pull --subscription projects/example/subscriptions/openclaw-gmail --hook-url http://127.0.0.1:18789/hooks/gmail --hook-token dummy-secret --save-hook' -> exited 0; output reported hook_token_set: true and did not print the dummy token value.
  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • Local ClawSweeper-style adversarial review against the current rubric -> pass for draft-update readiness, with no accepted actionable findings.

Remote proof completed for this exact head:

Still intentionally not claimed here:

  • This is one controlled live Gmail/Pub/Sub delivery proof, not a long-running production soak.
  • nix-openclaw declarative wiring and token-rotation policy remain separate downstream slices.

Live Gmail/Pub/Sub pull proof, 2026-06-06

Commit: 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36

Proof run summary, redacted:

  • Candidate binary: /tmp/gog-gmail-pull-live --version reported v0.21.0-dev.
  • Watch registration: gog gmail watch start --topic projects/.../topics/djtbot-gmail-watch --label INBOX returned a valid history id and expiration.
  • Pull startup: gog gmail watch pull --subscription projects/.../subscriptions/djtbot-gmail-watch-pull consumed the initial watch notification and ignored it as stale.
  • Delivery: after one marked self-email, the pull worker posted one hook request with auth present, payload keys account/historyId/messages/source, and messagesCount=1.
  • Cleanup: both proof marker emails were trashed, one cleanup notification was auto-acked, and the final pull-subscription check was empty.

No OAuth secret, hook token, raw email body, or private endpoint was printed in the proof artifact.

Hook failure retry policy update, 2026-06-06

Commit: 86975b69542c35c814ed3075275ecccc735c5fd6

Policy update after maintainer review: hook delivery failure is now retryable. For normal Gmail agent wakeups, a temporary OpenClaw/gateway outage should not silently advance past the notification. This commit records the hook failure status, restores the pre-hook watch cursor, and returns a delivery failure to Pub/Sub:

  • pull delivery nacks the Pub/Sub message after recording http_error;
  • push delivery returns HTTP 500 after the same shared processor rollback;
  • invalid pull payloads, wrong-account notifications, and no-new-message/stale notifications remain terminal;
  • docs/watch.md now explains pull-vs-push delivery, why pull avoids inbound HTTP, the retry policy, and the operator boundary for high-volume mail.

This is intentionally not positioned as a high-volume queueing platform. Users processing very high mail rates, for example 1000 messages per minute, should run their own monitoring, alerting, backlog policy, and dead-letter/backpressure setup.

Proof I ran after this policy update:

  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command bash -lc 'gofmt -w internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull.go internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull_test.go internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server_more_test.go && go test ./internal/cmd -run "GmailWatch(PullMessage|Server_ServeHTTP_HookError|Server_SendHook_UpdatesState)"' -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go test ./internal/cmd -run 'GmailWatch' -> passed.
  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command bash -lc 'timeout 20m make ci' -> passed, including lint, all Go tests, command-doc generation, docs site build, and docs coverage.
  • Local ClawSweeper-style preflight against the current review rubric -> pass for draft-update readiness, with stale PR-body policy language fixed before re-review.

Remote proof completed for this policy-update head:

Live hook-failure retry proof completed for this policy-update head:

  • Candidate binary: /tmp/gog-gmail-pull-retry --version reported v0.21.0-dev from commit 86975b69542c35c814ed3075275ecccc735c5fd6.
  • Proof shape: created a temporary pull subscription on the existing Gmail watch topic, sent one marked self-email, ran gog gmail watch pull against a local hook that returned HTTP 500, then reran against a local hook that returned HTTP 200. The temporary subscription was deleted and the marker email was trashed in cleanup.
  • Redacted failing-run log excerpt:
watch: pulling from projects/.../subscriptions/djtbot-gmail-watch-retry-proof-...
watch: hook failed: hook status 500
watch: handle pull failed: hook delivery failed: hook status 500
watch: hook failed: hook status 500
watch: handle pull failed: hook delivery failed: hook status 500
  • Observed after failing hook: lastDeliveryStatus=http_error, status note status 500, and the stored watch cursor stayed at the pre-hook value instead of advancing to the notification history id.
  • Observed redelivery: while the hook kept returning 500, the temporary pull subscription delivered the same Gmail notification history id to the hook four times. After switching the hook to HTTP 200, the next pull delivered that same history id once, recorded lastDeliveryStatus=ok, and advanced the stored cursor.
  • No OAuth secret, hook token, raw email body, or private endpoint was printed in the proof output.

Retry reliability clarification, 2026-06-07

Commit: 65f5850d54809b359d215fd7c997b222dea2a9ef

The ClawSweeper finding is correct that this PR intentionally changes existing push hook-failure semantics. The intended compatibility contract is:

  • gog gmail watch serve remains supported;
  • shared-token push remains supported;
  • Gmail watch registration and cloud setup are not changed;
  • hook failure behavior intentionally changes from ACK-and-advance to delivery-failure-and-retry for both push and pull.

That last point is the reliability fix. The old push behavior avoided replay storms by acknowledging hook failures, but it could silently lose Gmail agent wakeups when the downstream OpenClaw gateway or hook was temporarily down. The new shared processor preserves the pre-hook watch cursor and returns a Pub/Sub delivery failure: push returns non-2xx, pull nacks. Pub/Sub can then redeliver the same notification until the hook succeeds or the subscription retry/dead-letter policy takes over.

Docs and release notes now make that upgrade behavior explicit:

  • docs/watch.md says push and pull share the same downstream hook delivery policy, names the old lost-wakeup failure mode, documents duplicate/redelivery expectations, and clarifies that pull Pub/Sub access uses Google ADC/service-account credentials rather than stored Gmail OAuth.
  • Release-note wording for the new pull command and retry behavior is kept in the PR body; CHANGELOG.md is left to the release-owned landing flow.
  • internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull_test.go now includes a deterministic fail-then-redeliver-then-success test proving first delivery nacks without advancing the cursor, then the redelivery acks and advances after the hook returns success.

Local proof for this head:

  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command bash -lc 'gofmt -w internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull_test.go && go test ./internal/cmd -run "GmailWatch(PullMessage|Server_ServeHTTP_HookError|Server_SendHook_UpdatesState)"' -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go test ./internal/cmd -run 'GmailWatch' -> passed.
  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go nixpkgs#nodejs_24 --command bash -lc 'timeout 20m make ci' -> passed, including lint, all Go tests, command-doc generation, docs site build, and docs coverage.
  • Local ClawSweeper-style preflight plus read-only sub-agent adversarial review -> accepted findings fixed; no remaining accepted P1/P2 issues.
  • Follow-up d5932e65d78deeb3015e77a950c502fbde46dc81 removed PR-added changelog entries after ClawSweeper marked them release-owned; the retry behavior, docs, and tests are unchanged.
  • Follow-up 65f5850d54809b359d215fd7c997b222dea2a9ef is an empty CI retry commit after the Docker image check failed while pulling BuildKit from Docker Hub (context deadline exceeded).

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Codex review: found issues before merge. Reviewed June 7, 2026, 7:27 PM ET / 23:27 UTC.

Summary
Adds a Gmail Pub/Sub pull consumer command, generated/docs updates, shared push/pull watch processing, tests, and the cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2 dependency.

Reproducibility: not applicable. this is a feature PR with deterministic tests and live Gmail/Pub/Sub proof rather than a current-main bug reproduction.

Review metrics: 3 noteworthy metrics.

  • Changed files: 13 files, +1051/-49. The PR spans runtime code, tests, generated command docs, explanatory docs, and dependencies, so behavior and operator guidance both need review.
  • New direct dependency: 1 added: cloud.google.com/go/pubsub/v2. The new Pub/Sub client changes the binary dependency and credential surface beyond existing Gmail OAuth code.
  • Push hook failure behavior: HTTP 200/advance becomes non-2xx/redelivery. That upgrade behavior affects existing Pub/Sub push deployments even though the main feature is pull delivery.

Merge readiness
Overall: 🦐 gold shrimp
Proof: 🦞 diamond lobster
Patch quality: 🦐 gold shrimp
Result: needs maintainer review before merge.

Overall follows the weaker of proof and patch quality, so missing proof can cap an otherwise strong patch.

Rank-up moves:

  • Get official maintainer confirmation for the shared push/pull retry contract, or preserve the old push default.
  • [P2] Confirm the RFC, gogcli, and OpenClaw companion landing order before merge.

Risk before merge

  • [P1] Existing gog gmail watch serve users would move from hook-failure HTTP 200/ack-and-advance to non-2xx/redelivery with cursor rollback, which can duplicate hook calls or build Pub/Sub backlog after upgrade.
  • [P1] Pull mode adds a Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriber credential boundary through ADC or service-account configuration alongside the existing stored Gmail OAuth account.
  • [P1] The RFC and OpenClaw companion PR are still open, so maintainers need to coordinate landing order before exposing the runtime path downstream.

Maintainer options:

  1. Accept Shared Retry Contract
    Maintainers can explicitly accept push redelivery/backlog risk as the intended reliability tradeoff and call it out in landing or release notes.
  2. Preserve Push Compatibility
    Keep existing push hook failures on the old ack-and-advance default and apply retry semantics only to pull or behind a deliberate compatibility switch.
  3. Hold For Stack Coordination
    Pause landing until the RFC and OpenClaw companion wiring have an agreed merge order and runtime expectation.

Next step before merge

  • [P2] Needs maintainer judgment on the shared push retry compatibility contract, Pub/Sub credential boundary, and cross-repo landing order; automation should not choose that policy.

Security
Cleared: The diff adds a Pub/Sub client dependency and ADC/service-account credential boundary, but I found no concrete secret leakage, broadened token storage, or unsafe download/execution path.

Review findings

  • [P1] Gate push retry behavior behind approval or compatibility — internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server.go:91
Review details

Best possible solution:

Land after official maintainers accept the documented shared retry contract and stack order, or preserve the old push default while keeping pull retry semantics explicit.

Do we have a high-confidence way to reproduce the issue?

Not applicable: this is a feature PR with deterministic tests and live Gmail/Pub/Sub proof rather than a current-main bug reproduction.

Is this the best way to solve the issue?

Unclear: the pull implementation is well supported, but the shared push retry contract and stack landing order are maintainer product decisions rather than purely mechanical fixes.

Full review comments:

  • [P1] Gate push retry behavior behind approval or compatibility — internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server.go:91
    This routes existing gog gmail watch serve hook delivery through the shared retry path, so a downstream hook outage now returns non-2xx to Pub/Sub and preserves the old cursor. The PR has a contributor comment claiming acceptance, but the GitHub context still lists the author as CONTRIBUTOR; preserve the old push behavior or get explicit maintainer approval before merge.
    Confidence: 0.84

Overall correctness: patch is incorrect
Overall confidence: 0.86

AGENTS.md: found and applied where relevant.

Codex review notes: model gpt-5.5, reasoning high; reviewed against 197992a09f3d.

Label changes

Label justifications:

  • P2: This is a normal-priority feature PR with real proof and bounded scope, but it needs maintainer review for compatibility and rollout decisions.
  • merge-risk: 🚨 compatibility: The diff intentionally changes existing push hook-failure behavior for current watch serve users.
  • merge-risk: 🚨 auth-provider: Pull mode introduces Google Cloud ADC/service-account subscriber credentials alongside stored Gmail OAuth.
  • merge-risk: 🚨 message-delivery: The PR changes ack/nack and redelivery behavior for Gmail watch notifications, including duplicate/backlog implications.
  • rating: 🦐 gold shrimp: Overall readiness is 🦐 gold shrimp; proof is 🦞 diamond lobster and patch quality is 🦐 gold shrimp.
  • status: ⏳ waiting on author: ClawSweeper has contributor-facing work open and is waiting for author action. Sufficient (logs): The PR body and comments include live Gmail/Pub/Sub pull delivery proof plus retry/redelivery logs, and later head changes are docs/tests/CI retry rather than new runtime behavior.
  • proof: sufficient: Contributor real behavior proof is sufficient. The PR body and comments include live Gmail/Pub/Sub pull delivery proof plus retry/redelivery logs, and later head changes are docs/tests/CI retry rather than new runtime behavior.
Evidence reviewed

What I checked:

  • Repository policy read: AGENTS.md was read fully; it requires PR-link review mode without switching branches or mutating the checkout, and generated command docs are part of the expected review surface. (AGENTS.md:37, 197992a09f3d)
  • Current main lacks pull watch: A current-main search for the pull command, Pub/Sub v2 dependency, and GmailWatchPull symbols returned no matches; current GmailWatchCmd only exposes start/status/renew/stop/serve. (internal/cmd/gmail_watch_cmds.go:28, 197992a09f3d)
  • Current push hook failure baseline: Current main sends HTTP 200 after sendHook fails, so existing Pub/Sub push subscriptions acknowledge hook failures and advance instead of redelivering. (internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server.go:124, 197992a09f3d)
  • PR adds the pull runtime: The PR head adds GmailWatchPullCmd, validates full projects/.../subscriptions/... names, creates a Pub/Sub receiver, and processes messages through the shared Gmail watch processor. (internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull.go:20, e8239a1f0022)
  • PR changes push delivery path: The PR routes existing push HTTP handling through processGmailWatchPayload, which returns errors from hook delivery and now causes non-2xx push responses on hook failure. (internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server.go:91, e8239a1f0022)
  • Docs disclose credential and retry boundaries: The PR docs say pull uses Google Cloud ADC/service-account subscriber credentials, and explicitly document the push retry behavior change from ack-and-advance to delivery-before-cursor-advance. (docs/watch.md:184, e8239a1f0022)

Likely related people:

  • Peter Steinberger: Blame and file history attribute the current Gmail watch server, command wiring, and watch docs on main to release commit 9738b31. (role: current main feature introducer and recent area contributor; confidence: high; commits: 9738b315ff02; files: internal/cmd/gmail_watch_server.go, internal/cmd/gmail_watch_cmds.go, docs/watch.md)
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@clawsweeper re-review

Updated the PR body after repairing the dry-run issue in 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36.

Completed proof now attached to the PR body:

The remaining live Gmail/Pub/Sub proof is intentionally still called out as the production/dogfood gate. This draft head now has deterministic fake Pub/Sub receiver coverage plus remote CI proof; no future-only local commands are being offered as proof.

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Updated proof is now in the PR body for this exact draft head 23a528aaa5cd89043f241c08f9005751e9b45d36.

Please reassess the stale status: 📣 needs proof verdict against the new live proof section. The PR now documents a controlled maintainer Gmail/Pub/Sub pull run with no public ingress, a real watch registration, stale initial notification handling, one marked self-email, one local hook POST with redacted payload shape and messagesCount=1, cleanup by trashing proof emails, and an empty final subscription pull. The companion OpenClaw PR also proves this same candidate gog binary under OpenClaw supervision.

This is not an automerge request. It is a re-review request after adding after-fix real behavior proof.

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Updated the PR body for current head 86975b69542c35c814ed3075275ecccc735c5fd6 after the hook-failure retry policy change.

ClawSweeper asked for current-head real behavior proof of retry/rollback. That proof is now attached in the PR body:

  • live run used a temporary pull subscription on the existing Gmail watch topic;
  • local hook returned HTTP 500 first, then HTTP 200;
  • failing run logged hook failed: hook status 500 and handle pull failed: hook delivery failed: hook status 500;
  • after failure, stored watch cursor remained at the pre-hook value and lastDeliveryStatus=http_error;
  • while the hook kept returning 500, the same Gmail notification history id redelivered four times;
  • after switching hook to 200, the same history id delivered once, final state recorded lastDeliveryStatus=ok, and the cursor advanced;
  • cleanup deleted the temp subscription and trashed the proof marker email.

Remote checks are also green for this head: ci 27046872917 and docker 27046872920 both completed successfully.

This is not an automerge request.

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@clawsweeper re-review

Current head a69946bbf4eaa7e76f0a8d07efe63473c8f4a221 is ready for re-review after a local ClawSweeper-preflight pass.

I am explicitly accepting the shared push/pull retry semantics rather than preserving the old push ACK-on-hook-failure behavior. The prior ClawSweeper finding was accurate as a compatibility observation, but the intended product contract is that Gmail agent wakeups should not be silently lost when the downstream OpenClaw gateway or hook is temporarily down. The old push path acknowledged hook failures and advanced the cursor; this PR intentionally changes that to delivery-failure-and-redelivery for both push and pull.

What changed on this head:

  • docs/watch.md now states that push and pull share downstream hook delivery policy, names the old lost-wakeup failure mode, documents duplicate/redelivery expectations, and says pull Pub/Sub access uses Google ADC/service-account credentials rather than stored Gmail OAuth.
  • CHANGELOG.md records both the new pull command and the intentional hook-failure retry behavior.
  • internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull_test.go adds deterministic fail-then-redeliver-then-success coverage: first hook failure nacks and preserves the pre-hook cursor; second delivery after hook success acks, records ok, and advances the cursor.
  • The PR body has an appended “Retry reliability clarification” section preserving the original human-written content and making this upgrade behavior explicit.

Local proof before push:

  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command bash -lc 'gofmt -w internal/cmd/gmail_watch_pull_test.go && go test ./internal/cmd -run "GmailWatch(PullMessage|Server_ServeHTTP_HookError|Server_SendHook_UpdatesState)"' -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go test ./internal/cmd -run 'GmailWatch' -> passed.
  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go nixpkgs#nodejs_24 --command bash -lc 'timeout 20m make ci' -> passed, including lint, all Go tests, command-doc generation, docs site build, and docs coverage.
  • Local ClawSweeper-style review plus read-only sub-agent adversarial review -> accepted findings fixed; no remaining accepted P1/P2 issues.

Remote checks for this head are green: test, image, worker, windows, and darwin-cgo-build all passed.

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@clawsweeper re-review

Current head 65f5850d54809b359d215fd7c997b222dea2a9ef is ready for re-review.

Follow-up since the last review:

  • Removed the PR-added CHANGELOG.md entries after ClawSweeper marked changelog edits release-owned. Release-note wording for the new pull command and retry behavior remains in the PR body.
  • Left the intentional shared push/pull hook-failure retry behavior unchanged. This PR still deliberately changes push hook failure from ACK-and-advance to delivery-failure-and-redelivery because lost Gmail agent wakeups are the failure mode this stack is meant to avoid.
  • Updated the PR body clarification so it no longer claims changelog edits and now records the current head.
  • Added one empty CI retry commit after the Docker image check failed while pulling BuildKit from Docker Hub with context deadline exceeded; the retried head is now green.

Local proof for this follow-up:

  • git diff --check -> passed.
  • nix shell nixpkgs#go --command go test ./internal/cmd -run 'GmailWatch' -> passed.

Remote checks for this head are green: test, image, worker, windows, and darwin-cgo-build all passed.

The remaining material issue is the maintainer decision ClawSweeper already names: accept shared retry semantics for existing push delivery, or split push compatibility from pull retry. This PR intentionally takes the shared retry path.

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Maintainer decision from joshp123: accept the shared push/pull hook-failure retry policy in this PR.

This is an intentional compatibility change. Existing gog gmail watch serve push deployments will move from ACK-and-advance on downstream hook failure to delivery-failure-and-redelivery with cursor rollback. That is the desired reliability tradeoff for Gmail agent wakeups: losing a wakeup when OpenClaw or the downstream hook is temporarily down is worse than controlled Pub/Sub redelivery and possible duplicate hook calls.

Approved maintainer decisions for this PR:

  • Do not restore the old push ACK-on-hook-failure behavior in this PR.
  • Do not gate shared retry semantics behind a new compatibility option for this PR.
  • Accept duplicate/redelivery/backlog risk as the correct tradeoff, with operator guidance already documented in docs/watch.md.
  • Accept the Pub/Sub credential boundary: pull mode uses Google Cloud ADC/service-account credentials for subscriber access alongside stored Gmail OAuth for Gmail history reads.
  • Keep merge order visible: RFC first, gogcli second, OpenClaw companion wiring third.
  • Release/landing notes should call out the push hook-failure behavior change explicitly.

This is not an automerge request. It is explicit maintainer approval for the compatibility decision ClawSweeper has been asking for.

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@joshp123 joshp123 force-pushed the josh/gmail-pubsub-pull branch from 65f5850 to e8239a1 Compare June 7, 2026 23:22
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