find_pull_request read only the newest 50 per state, so once a repo passed that many pull requests a "not found" would mean "not in the newest page" — and the A3 reconciler would read that as "the PR was never opened" and open a duplicate. Exactly the side effect the intent log exists to prevent. It now pages until a short page proves the end, and raises rather than answering "absent" from an incomplete search; the reconciler turns that into unverifiable and gates to the human. Found while wiring CI: every CI run opens a PR in the sandbox, so the threshold would have been crossed in weeks rather than never. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>