fix(dashboard): window the slop/duplicate trend read by time, not a 2-per-week row cap

src/api/routes.ts

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ import { loadAllKnobStatuses } from "../services/knob-loosening-run";
 import { loadPublicReuseRateTrend } from "../services/public-reuse-rate-trend";
 import { loadPublicReviewVolumeTrend } from "../services/public-review-volume-trend";
 import { buildMaintainerQualityDashboard, isMaintainerQualityDataStale } from "../services/maintainer-quality-dashboard";
-import { buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend, SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT } from "../services/maintainer-slop-duplicate-trend";
+import { buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend, SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT, SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS } from "../services/maintainer-slop-duplicate-trend";
 import { buildFederatedBenchmark } from "../orb/federated-benchmark";
 import { resolveLoopOverSelfRepoFullName } from "../config/loopover-repo-focus-manifest";
 import { buildGateOutcomeBreakdown, GATE_OUTCOME_BREAKDOWN_WINDOW_DAYS } from "../services/gate-outcome-breakdown";
@@ -1347,11 +1347,15 @@ export function createApp() {
     const scopedSyncCompletions = allSyncStates.filter((state) => qualityRepoNames.has(state.repoFullName.toLowerCase())).map((state) => state.lastCompletedAt);
     const generatedAt = nowIso();
     const qualityStale = isMaintainerQualityDataStale({ lastCompletedAts: scopedSyncCompletions, repoCount: qualityRepos.length, nowMs: Date.parse(generatedAt) });
+    // Bound the read to the trend card's own 8-week window (#9699) so the row-count cap is a backstop, not the
+    // primary limit — otherwise the ranking kept only the most recent few days and the card covered ~4 days.
+    const slopTrendSinceIso = new Date(Date.parse(generatedAt) - SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS * 7 * 86_400_000).toISOString();
     const queueHealthHistoriesByRepo = await listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(
       c.env,
       "queue-health",
       qualityRepos.map((repo) => repo.fullName),
       SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT,
+      slopTrendSinceIso,
     );
     const slopDuplicateTrend = buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend({
       repos: qualityRepoInputs.map((input) => {

src/db/repositories.ts

@@ -6060,10 +6060,15 @@ export async function listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(
   signalType: string,
   targetKeys: readonly string[],
   maxPerTarget = 16,
+  sinceIso?: string,
 ): Promise<Map<string, SignalSnapshotRecord[]>> {
   const result = new Map<string, SignalSnapshotRecord[]>();
   if (targetKeys.length === 0) return result;
   const perTargetLimit = Math.max(1, Math.min(maxPerTarget, 100));
+  // The time bound (#9699) is applied INSIDE the windowed subquery so row_number() ranks over the in-window
+  // set, not the whole table — otherwise a repo with many recent snapshots could rank its cap entirely within
+  // the last few days and never surface the older weeks the trend card needs. maxPerTarget stays the backstop.
+  const sinceClause = sinceIso ? " AND generated_at >= ?" : "";
   for (let i = 0; i < targetKeys.length; i += SIGNAL_SNAPSHOT_TARGET_KEY_SQL_BATCH) {
     const batch = targetKeys.slice(i, i + SIGNAL_SNAPSHOT_TARGET_KEY_SQL_BATCH);
     const placeholders = batch.map(() => "?").join(", ");
@@ -6080,13 +6085,13 @@ export async function listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(
             payload_json,
             row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY target_key ORDER BY generated_at DESC, rowid DESC) AS snapshot_rank
           FROM signal_snapshots
-          WHERE signal_type = ? AND target_key IN (${placeholders})
+          WHERE signal_type = ? AND target_key IN (${placeholders})${sinceClause}
         )
         WHERE snapshot_rank <= ?
         ORDER BY target_key, generated_at DESC
       `,
     )
-      .bind(signalType, ...batch, perTargetLimit)
+      .bind(signalType, ...batch, ...(sinceIso ? [sinceIso] : []), perTargetLimit)
       .all<{
         id: string;
         signal_type: string;

src/services/maintainer-slop-duplicate-trend.ts

@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ import { isoWeekStart } from "./public-quality-metrics";
 // Public-safe: band labels and observable rates only — never raw slop-risk or credibility numbers.
 
 export const SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS = 8;
-/** Max queue-health snapshots read per repo when shaping the maintainer trend card — two per week of history. */
-export const SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT = SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS * 2;
+/** Row-count backstop for the maintainer trend card's per-repo snapshot read. queue-health snapshots are
+ *  written up to ~once per repo per generate-signal-snapshots run (several per day), so an 8-week window can
+ *  hold far more than two rows/week — a `* 2` cap silently truncated the history to its most recent few days.
+ *  The `sinceIso` time bound is the primary constraint now; this cap is a safety limit, budgeted generously
+ *  (up to daily-plus rows across the window) and clamped to the query's own 100 ceiling (#9699). */
+export const SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT = SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS * 28;
 const MS_PER_WEEK = 7 * 86_400_000;
 const MIN_OPEN_PRS_FOR_RATE = 1;
 const SLOP_BAND_LOW_MAX_PCT = 25;

test/unit/data-spine.test.ts

@@ -700,4 +700,33 @@ describe("listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets (#2202 — bulk recent-per-target
     expect(result.get("owner/b")?.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual(["qh-b"]);
     expect(result.has("owner/c")).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it("applies sinceIso inside the windowed subquery so only in-window rows are ranked and returned (#9699)", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv();
+    for (const [id, generatedAt] of [
+      ["old-1", "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"], // before the boundary
+      ["old-2", "2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z"], // before the boundary
+      ["new-1", "2026-03-01T00:00:00.000Z"], // in window
+      ["new-2", "2026-03-10T00:00:00.000Z"], // in window
+    ] as const) {
+      await persistSignalSnapshot(env, { id, signalType: "queue-health", targetKey: "owner/a", payload: {}, generatedAt });
+    }
+    // A generous per-target cap: without the time bound all four rows would return; the sinceIso must drop the two old ones.
+    const result = await listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(env, "queue-health", ["owner/a"], 100, "2026-02-01T00:00:00.000Z");
+    expect(result.get("owner/a")?.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual(["new-2", "new-1"]);
+  });
+
+  it("is byte-identical to today when sinceIso is omitted (#9699)", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv();
+    for (const [id, generatedAt] of [
+      ["a", "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"],
+      ["b", "2026-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"],
+    ] as const) {
+      await persistSignalSnapshot(env, { id, signalType: "queue-health", targetKey: "owner/a", payload: {}, generatedAt });
+    }
+    const withUndefined = await listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(env, "queue-health", ["owner/a"], 16);
+    const withExplicitUndefined = await listRecentSignalSnapshotsForTargets(env, "queue-health", ["owner/a"], 16, undefined);
+    expect(withUndefined.get("owner/a")?.map((r) => r.id)).toEqual(["b", "a"]);
+    expect(withExplicitUndefined.get("owner/a")?.map((r) => r.id)).toEqual(["b", "a"]);
+  });
 });

test/unit/maintainer-slop-duplicate-trend.test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { buildQueueHealth, buildCollisionReport } from "../../src/signals/engine
 import {
   buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend,
   slopBandLabelFromRate,
+  SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT,
   SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS,
   trendPointFromQueueHealth,
 } from "../../src/services/maintainer-slop-duplicate-trend";
@@ -113,6 +114,35 @@ describe("buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend", () => {
     expect(JSON.stringify(trend)).not.toMatch(FORBIDDEN_PUBLIC_TERMS);
   });
 
+  it("budgets the read cap for at least daily-plus snapshots across the window, not two per week (#9699)", () => {
+    // The cap must cover far more than the old "two per week" premise, so the sinceIso time bound (not the row
+    // cap) is what limits the read. At least WEEKS * 28 (or clamped to the query's 100 ceiling).
+    expect(SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_SNAPSHOT_LIMIT).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Math.min(SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS * 28, 100));
+  });
+
+  it("populates at least 6 weekly buckets from 40 daily snapshots spanning 8 weeks (#9699)", () => {
+    // Before #9699 the read cap (SLOP_DUPLICATE_TREND_WEEKS * 2 = 16) kept only the most recent ~2 weeks of
+    // these daily snapshots, so at most 1-2 buckets ever populated. With the full 8-week set fed through, the
+    // builder must spread them across the window.
+    const generatedAt = "2026-06-29T12:00:00.000Z";
+    const nowMs = Date.parse(generatedAt);
+    const snapshots = Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, i) =>
+      queueHealthSnapshot(new Date(nowMs - i * 86_400_000).toISOString(), {
+        openPullRequests: 10,
+        slopFlaggedPullRequests: 2,
+        duplicateFlaggedPullRequests: 1,
+      }),
+    );
+    const trend = buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend({
+      generatedAt,
+      stale: false,
+      nowMs,
+      repos: [{ repoFullName: "octo/demo", queueHealthSnapshots: snapshots }],
+    });
+    const withRate = trend.weeks.filter((week) => week.slopFlagRatePct !== null);
+    expect(withRate.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(6);
+  });
+
   it("returns null slop series when snapshots lack slop counts but still shapes duplicate series", () => {
     const trend = buildMaintainerSlopDuplicateTrend({
       generatedAt: "2026-06-14T12:00:00.000Z",