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A review-thread reply mentioning the review actor is silently ignored #509

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Problem

Mentioning the review actor in a top-level PR comment dispatches a review. Mentioning it in a reply inside an inline review thread does nothing, with no feedback.

GitHub sends thread replies as pull_request_review_comment events, not issue_comment. The GitHub webhook has no handler for that event, so it returns 200 and drops it. Replying in the thread the reviewer opened is the natural way to ask for a re-check, so this is the gesture most authors will try first.

Proposal

Add an on_pull_request_review_comment_created handler that publishes the same pr.commented event as on_issue_comment_created. The payload carries the same sender, comment.author_association, and comment.body fields, so the existing writer/mention/repo gates apply unchanged.

Also document that the operator app's webhook needs the "Pull request review comments" event subscription next to "Issue comments".

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