ci: base full CI on changed paths

[ting-hong-shieh]

What

• make the changes job derive full_ci from changed paths for every pull request
• keep the existing documentation-only path exclusions
• add a regression test that rejects PR-title checks in the path-classification flow

Why

A docs... title could skip every substantive CI job even when the pull request changed Rust or Python code. Titles are descriptive metadata and must not override the changed-path classification.

Closes #402

Validation

• UV_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/switchyard-uv-cache UV_TOOL_DIR=/tmp/switchyard-uv-tools uvx --from pytest --with pyyaml pytest -s tests/test_ci_workflow.py -q -o addopts= — 1 passed (the isolated runner reported two warnings for repository pytest options whose optional plugins were not installed)
• ruff check . — passed
• parsed .github/workflows/ci.yml with PyYAML BaseLoader — passed
• git diff --check — passed

No live provider calls or secrets were used.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Continuous integration now runs consistently for documentation-only pull requests.
  • Pull request titles no longer determine whether full CI runs.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage to verify CI decisions are based on changed paths and event type.

[ting-hong-shieh]

Before / after decision trace

I evaluated the same pull-request inputs against the workflow expressions at the PR base (b256d936) and current head (5764765e).

Input:

event_name: pull_request
title: docs: update server behavior
changed path: crates/switchyard-server/src/lib.rs

Before (b256d936):

title starts with "docs": true
paths-filter step ran: false
changes.full_ci: false
substantive jobs: skipped

After (5764765e):

title starts with "docs": true (no longer used as a gate)
paths-filter step ran: true
paths-filter.full_ci: true
changes.full_ci: true
substantive jobs: run

For a docs-only changed path such as README.md, paths-filter.full_ci remains false after the change, so the existing docs-only optimization is preserved. This is a local workflow-decision trace; no provider call or secret was involved.

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Walkthrough

The CI workflow now determines full CI from changed paths for pull requests. Regression tests verify that pull-request titles do not affect this decision.

Changes

CI path selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Path filter decision and regression coverage .github/workflows/ci.yml, tests/test_ci_workflow.py	The changes job runs path filtering for pull requests and removes pull_request.title checks from full_ci. Tests verify the workflow uses the pull-request event and path-filter result.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to 57647

The PR prevents documentation-only titles from skipping CI when code paths changed; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, though the regression test should be strengthened to verify both path-classification branches.

Poem

I’m a rabbit who checks every path,
No title can hide code from CI’s watch.
Docs may lead the name,
But code runs the same.
Hop, tests keep the workflow on track!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: basing full CI execution on changed paths.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The workflow and regression tests satisfy issue #402 by removing title-based decisions and preserving documentation-only skipping.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are directly related to the CI path-classification fix and its regression coverage.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Inline comments:
In `@tests/test_ci_workflow.py`:
- Around line 12-15: Update test_full_ci_depends_on_changed_paths_not_pr_title
to async def, executing its synchronous workflow file read and YAML loading via
asyncio.to_thread. Extend the assertions to require that full_ci references
steps.filter.outputs.full_ci while retaining the existing check that it does not
depend on pull_request.title.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/test_ci_workflow.py` around lines 18 - 19.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
• tests/test_ci_workflow.py

[ayushag-nv]

@ting-hong-shieh This is a really good catch. Thanks for putting this up.

[ayushag-nv]

lgtm