Prepare Lille CI for Tier 2: prebuilt installers and single cache owners

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Summary

Wave 0 preparation for Lille's Tier 2 runner work. No job changes its runner
label or shape. The change removes the last source-build path, gives every
cached path exactly one owner, repins every shared action, and adds workflow
contracts so the rules survive the next edit.

• whitaker-installer no longer falls back to cargo install. It is
  installed by leynos/shared-actions/.github/actions/install-whitaker, which
  downloads the pinned prebuilt release and verifies it against a digest
  pinned inside the action.
• Swatinem/rust-cache is gone. It was a second owner of ~/.cargo/registry
  and ~/.cargo/git and it archived a target tree, which the recipe forbids
  because a compiler cache, not an archive, owns compiler output.
• generate-coverage is called with cache-provider: external so it stops
  being a third owner of the same two paths.
• The separate uninstrumented cargo test step is gone. The instrumented
  coverage run now uses all-features, all-targets, and doctests, so one
  compile does the work two used to.
• sccache now actually serves the build. It is installed from a pinned
  prebuilt release and started from a run: step, with the two job-level
  variables and the step order its GitHub Actions backend needs. Without that
  it was a wrapper serving nothing, which is worse than no wrapper at all.
• ci.yml accepts workflow_dispatch, so a warm run can be measured without
  pushing a commit.
• Both jobs sample memory and disk and report the peaks, so the inherited
  ubicloud-standard-8 shape becomes a measured choice rather than an
  assumption.
• Every leynos/shared-actions reference pins
  3a2f2d5f17932657ddf50490a09ea5e7400ae35c.

Job inventory (remote default branch, ef71d57)

Workflow	Job	Runner	Purpose	Tools installed	Cache owner (before)
ci.yml	build-test	ubicloud-standard-8	Pull-request gate: spelling, format, clippy, Whitaker, tests, coverage, CodeScene changed-line check	Rust toolchain, cargo-binstall, uv, sccache, whitaker-installer, cargo-llvm-cov, cs-coverage	four overlapping owners; ~/.cargo/registry claimed by setup-rust, Swatinem/rust-cache, and generate-coverage
coverage-main.yml	coverage-upload	ubicloud-standard-8	Main-branch coverage upload and ratchet baseline	Rust toolchain, cargo-binstall, uv, sccache, cargo-llvm-cov, cs-coverage	three overlapping owners on the same two paths
delayed-pr-comment.yml	delay_and_comment	ubuntu-latest	Manually dispatched delayed pull-request comment	none	none
dependabot-automerge.yml	automerge	reusable workflow (callee-selected)	Auto-merge Dependabot pull requests	none	not applicable
get-codescene-sha.yml	fetch-sha	ubuntu-latest	Manual checksum lookup for the CodeScene installer	none	none

No job needed moving. Every API-bound job was already GitHub-hosted, and a
contract test now keeps it that way.

Cache ownership (after)

Path	Owner	Key inputs
~/.cargo/registry, ~/.cargo/git	setup-rust (cache-provider: github)	runner.os, rust-toolchain.toml and Cargo.lock hash
~/.cargo/bin/whitaker-installer, its version marker, ~/.local/share/whitaker	install-whitaker (cache-provider: github)	runner.os, runner.arch, installer version 0.2.7, dylint.toml hash
.uv-cache, .uv-tools	Cache uv tool layers in ci.yml	runner.os, runner.arch, runner.environment, Makefile and scripts/*.py hash
coverage ratchet baselines	generate-coverage split restore and save	runner.os, run id
compiler output	sccache, through its GitHub Actions backend	compiler flags and toolchain, hashed by sccache itself

Every actions/cache reference written in these workflow files pins
55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 (v6.1.0). There is no
ubicloud/cache reference and no target tree is archived.

One download stays uncached on purpose. The cs-coverage CLI is fetched every
run because upload-codescene-coverage enables its cache only when
cli-version is pinned, and that cache step uses an unpinned
actions/cache@v4 in another repository. Pinning the version here would
switch on a cache reference this repository cannot pin, so the download is
recorded as a gap rather than papered over.

Baseline

Medians over the last 20 successful runs of each developer-blocking job, with
queue time (started_at minus created_at) separated from execution.

Job	Runner	Samples	Queue median	Execution median	Window
build-test	ubicloud-standard-8	20	22 s	1656 s	2026-08-01 to 2026-08-30
build-test	ubuntu-latest	20	2 s	400 s	2025-11-27 to 2025-12-21
coverage-upload	ubicloud-standard-8	17	21 s	561 s	2026-07-10 to 2026-08-15
coverage-upload	ubuntu-latest	0	n/a	n/a	workflow was created already on Ubicloud

The GitHub-hosted build-test sample predates the Ubicloud move of
2025-12-23 and predates the Whitaker, coverage, and CodeScene steps, so its
400 s is not workload-comparable with the current 1656 s. It is recorded as
the only GitHub-hosted evidence still inside the API's retention window.

Walkthrough

ci.yml gains a timeout-minutes, a uv tool-layer cache before the spelling
step, and the install-whitaker action in place of the bespoke cache step and
the shell function that fell back to cargo install. It loses the
Swatinem/rust-cache step and the cargo test step. coverage-main.yml
gets the same treatment minus the Whitaker and uv steps, which it never ran.
dependabot-automerge.yml is repinned.

tests/workflow_contracts.rs parses the workflow files through two support
modules and asserts the rules: pinned cache and shared-action references, no
ubicloud/cache, no source-built tool, fallback: none on any
taiki-e/install-action, one owner per cached path, GitHub-hosted placement
for non-build jobs, an Ubicloud label and a bounded timeout on the two build
jobs, actionlint registration for every self-hosted label,
installer-before-first-use for both the Rust toolchain and Whitaker, and a
single test execution per job. It also pins the inputs that make those rules
true, so a workflow cannot keep the shape of the policy while dropping its
substance. tests/workflow_model_properties.rs samples the wider domain with
proptest: arbitrary step orderings, repeated display names, interleaved
unrelated steps, and split caches whose halves agree or disagree on a key.

The compiler cache

sccache owns compiler output and nothing archives a target tree, so a
compiler cache that quietly does nothing is a regression rather than a saving.
Two things were missing, and both fail silently.

SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED selects the GitHub Actions backend. Without it sccache
reports Local disk: ~/.cache/sccache, which nothing persists between runs, so
every request misses while the wrapper still costs its overhead. Chutoro
measured 3,836 requests at a 0.18 % hit rate in exactly that state.

The server binds its backend once, when it starts, and the obvious explanation
for why it must not be setup-rust that starts it is wrong. Measured on
ubicloud-standard-2, run: steps do see what the credentials export wrote, so
the export is not being hidden from them. What actually happens is that
use-sccache: 'true' runs the mozilla sccache-action, and that action's last
act writes ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2=on, GitHub's results URL and GitHub's
token back to GITHUB_ENV. Every step after it then sees GitHub's v2 cache
service rather than Ubicloud's proxy, and a server started under those values
writes where nothing reads.

Both jobs are now wired in the one order that works, and a contract asserts it:

Step	Kind	Why here
Route the compiler cache into Ubicloud's store	actions/github-script pinned to v8	Re-exports ACTIONS_CACHE_URL and ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN, clears ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2, and warns when either is missing. Never prints the token.
Install sccache	taiki-e/install-action, tool: sccache@0.16.0, fallback: none	Installing in an action step is safe; the fallback keeps it from compiling from source.
Reset compiler-cache counters	run:	Starts the server. A run: step sees only GITHUB_ENV, so it binds the proxy.
Setup Rust	setup-rust with use-sccache: 'false'	Puts the toolchain in place. Nothing before it runs cargo.
Generate coverage	generate-coverage	The build.
Record compiler-cache effectiveness	run:	Prints the statistics to the log as well as the summary.

RUSTC_WRAPPER: sccache, SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED: 'true' and
CARGO_INCREMENTAL: '0' are set at job level in both jobs.

The statistics go to the log because the job summary cannot be read through the
REST API, so a run whose counters went only there cannot be audited afterwards.
Cache location is the line that matters: it must name the Actions backend,
never Local disk.

Each job also deletes target/llvm-cov-target once coverage exists, printing
df -h either side. The instrumented tree has no later consumer, and a full
disk has killed jobs elsewhere in this rollout silently, with no error text.

Measuring the runner shape

ubicloud-standard-8 predates this rollout and has never been measured on this
repository, so nothing here argues for keeping it or for shrinking it. Both
jobs now start a background sampler after checkout that records used memory and
used and free disk every 15 seconds, and report peak memory, peak disk and
least free disk at the end, to the log as well as the summary.

Disk is sampled alongside memory because disk is what has actually exhausted
runners elsewhere in this rollout, and it did so with no error text at all: a
step simply stopped. A contract asserts that both jobs sample and report, and
that the report names disk rather than memory alone.

The shape is unchanged in this pull request, and the first samples say why that
is the right call for now rather than an omission. Peak memory of 8,812 MiB
rules out ubicloud-standard-2 at 8 GB and fits inside ubicloud-standard-4
at 16 GB, and free disk never fell below 99 GiB, so memory is what binds. But
halving the vCPU count trades wall time against the lower rate, and a Bevy
workspace is where that trade bites, so it should be decided on a warm cache
rather than this cold one. The guide records the rule: after this lands, the
merge push is the cold writer on main, then two sequential runs of ci.yml
against main; if the second warm build-test is under 25 minutes, open a
follow-up moving both jobs to ubicloud-standard-4 with the samplers kept.

Review findings answered

The workflow support code carried five findings from the previous round.

• runs-on now parses every shape GitHub Actions accepts, not the scalar
  alone. A RunnerSelection type covers a label, a label list, and a runner
  group with optional labels, so a valid workflow is no longer a parse error.
  is_github_hosted is true only when every label is a GitHub Ubuntu image.
• A step setting both uses and run is rejected. The runner accepts one
  reading or the other, never both.
• Action lookups compare the whole coordinate before the @, publisher
  included. A suffix match let untrusted/setup-rust satisfy rules written
  about the shared action, which defeats the point of a pinning rule.
• A split cache is one owner only when exactly one restore and one save share
  its key. Two restores, or a matching pair plus a third step, are separate
  owners. Two new properties cover both.
• The model is split. tests/support/workflow_estate.rs holds the loading
  types and estate constants the contracts need; workflow_model.rs keeps the
  job and step types the properties share, so the properties binary no longer
  includes items it never names.

Second review round

Five findings, all actioned. Three of them share a shape worth naming: a match
wider or narrower than the rule it served, so the rule reported success without
checking anything.

• Cache ownership matched actions/cache by prefix, so actions/cache-audit
  read as a cache step and contributed an invented claim. Ownership now
  compares the three cache coordinates exactly, and the pinning contract, which
  had the mirror-image bug, uses the same predicate.
• Runner labels were checked by searching the raw text of
  .github/actionlint.yaml, which a substring satisfies: standard-8 passed
  because ubicloud-standard-8 contains it. Labels are now parsed and compared
  by equality.
• parse_job read uses, runs-on and steps independently, so a job that
  called a reusable workflow and also named a runner parsed cleanly. That is
  now an error, on the presence of steps rather than its emptiness.
• The compiler-cache report is guarded. if: always() is right, because a
  failed build is when the counters matter most, but under set -euo pipefail
  a run that died before sccache was installed turned a missing binary into a
  second, misleading failure.
• The contract file had reached 569 lines against a 400-line cap. It is now a
  harness over four modules named for the question each asks. They stay in one
  test binary, which keeps every support item used and avoids the dead-code
  suppressions separate binaries would need. The loader had reached 397 lines
  in the process, which is not headroom, so its repository-file readers moved
  to workflow_config.rs. The largest file in this change is now 350 lines.

Validation

Repository gates on the rebased branch, run sequentially:

Gate	Result
make check-fmt	pass
make typecheck	pass
make lint	pass
make test	pass
make markdownlint	pass
make nixie	pass

actionlint reports no findings. The workflow suite is 42 contract cases and
8 sampled properties, all passing.

The earlier tinyvec 1.13.0 blocker is gone: #341 merged as 0920127 and this
branch is rebased onto it, so make lint and the --all-features build pass
here for the first time.

Runs on this branch

Two build-test runs on ubicloud-standard-8, identical except the
shared-actions pin. The pin is the whole difference.

Measure	33870514063, pin c6125f19	33874280987, pin 3a2f2d5f	33881493493, warm
Cache location	ghac	ghac	ghac
Compile requests	9342	9342	9342
Hits	0	2733	8153
Hit rate	0.00 %	33.45 %	99.79 %
Rust hit rate	0.00 %	0.19 %	99.60 %
Read errors	0	0	0
Write errors	8170	5	0
Queue	17 s	18 s	17 s
Wall	25m44s	39m14s	16m31s

The first run proved the backend was right and the store was still receiving
nothing: Cache location read ghac, the endpoint and token were both
present, and every single write failed. Shared-actions #445, which restores the
cache service the sccache steps overwrite, is what fixed it. Write failures
fell to 5 in 5,442. By language the hit rate is 75.23 % assembler, 66.64 % C
and C++, and 0.19 % Rust, which is what a first run that can finally write
looks like: the Rust objects had never landed before.

The middle run's wall time rose rather than fell, and the third run explains
why: it was the first run that could actually upload, because the first run's
writes all failed immediately. The third run reads what it wrote and finishes
in 16m31s, against 39m14s to populate the store and 25m44s for the run that
cached nothing at all. Zero read errors and zero write errors, with 99.60 % of
Rust compilations served from cache.

The compiler cache is worth about nine minutes a run on this workspace,
16m31s warm against 25m44s uncached. That is the number this change buys, and
it is why an sccache install that serves nothing was worse than none: it paid
the wrapper's overhead for none of the saving.

The samplers give the shape its first evidence:

Measure	Cold writer (33874280987)	Warm (33881493493)
Peak used memory	8,812 MiB	6,815 MiB
Peak used disk	95,609 MiB	94,521 MiB
Least free disk	101,691 MiB	102,779 MiB
Samples	156	65

Memory is the binding constraint, not disk: the cold writer's peak rules out
ubicloud-standard-2 at 8 GB but sits inside ubicloud-standard-4 at 16 GB,
and free disk never fell below 99 GiB on either run. Note the warm peak would
fit standard-2; the cold writer's would not, and the cold writer is the run
that has to succeed. The
shape is unchanged here; that is a separate, costed decision, and it now has
evidence behind it.

Summary by Sourcery

Prepare the CI workflows for Tier 2 runner operation by enforcing prebuilt tool installation, single-owner caching, reliable compiler caching, and executable workflow contracts.

New Features:

• Add on-demand CI dispatches and compiler-cache effectiveness reporting for the build workflows.
• Add workflow contract and property-based tests that enforce runner, installation, caching, pinning, ordering, and test-execution policies.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent tool installations from compiling from source by using pinned prebuilt releases with fail-closed fallbacks.
• Prevent compiler-cache misconfiguration by explicitly routing sccache through the Ubicloud cache backend.

Enhancements:

• Consolidate Cargo dependency and compiler-output caching under single owners, remove overlapping Rust caches, and avoid archiving coverage build output.
• Replace the duplicate uninstrumented test run with a comprehensive coverage execution.
• Add bounded timeouts, disk cleanup, and pinned action references to the build and coverage workflows.

CI:

• Repin shared actions and cache-related workflow dependencies, and preserve GitHub-hosted placement for non-build jobs.

Documentation:

• Document CI runner placement, tool installation, cache ownership, compiler-cache wiring, coverage execution, and workflow contract policies.

Tests:

• Add strict workflow parsing, deterministic CI contract coverage, cache-ownership validation, and property-based model tests.

Chores:

• Add workflow parsing and capability-scoped filesystem test dependencies.

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Summary

• Replace the Whitaker source build with a pinned, digest-verified installer.
• Configure pinned sccache binaries with the GitHub Actions backend.
• Assign each cache path one owner and add dedicated UV and coverage caching.
• Pin shared actions and cache actions.
• Expand coverage to all features, targets, and doctests.
• Remove the duplicate uninstrumented test run.
• Add workflow contracts and property tests for CI configuration, parsing, cache ownership, action pinning, runner placement, ordering, timeouts, and test execution.
• Document CI policies and the testing approach in docs/developers-guide.md.
• Report the pre-existing tinyvec 1.13.0 compilation failure reproduced on origin/main.

Walkthrough

Standardize CI and coverage workflows around pinned actions, explicit cache ownership, and complete coverage settings. Add workflow parsing models, capability-rooted loading, cache ownership helpers, contract tests, property tests, and CI documentation.

Changes

CI workflow contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse workflow structure Cargo.toml, tests/support/workflow_estate.rs, tests/support/workflow_model.rs, tests/support/workflow_loader.rs	Parse workflow YAML into ordered workflows, jobs, and steps. Return structured errors for invalid shapes and file access failures.
Update workflow execution and cache ownership .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml, .github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml, tests/support/workflow_cache_owners.rs	Use pinned actions, job timeouts, complete coverage settings, resource reporting, GitHub cache ownership, and the pinned Dependabot workflow. Track direct and shared-action cache claims.
Enforce and document workflow contracts tests/workflow_contracts.rs, tests/workflow_model_properties.rs, tests/workflow_model_properties.proptest-regressions, tests/support/workflow_assertions.rs, docs/developers-guide.md	Enforce action pinning, cache ownership, runner placement, installer ordering, coverage configuration, and exclusive instrumented testing. Document workflow rules and validation commands. Verify cache ownership and step ordering with property tests.

Poem

Pinned actions march in line
Caches claim each path in time
Rust tests gather every feat
Coverage makes the circle complete
Workflow rules now guard the gate

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 29e9b

The new workflow contracts can approve configurations that GitHub Actions rejects or that do not satisfy the intended cache and runner policies. These should be corrected before merge.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing (Overall)	❌ Error	The workflow contracts cover many new inputs, but they do not substantively guard all changed behaviour. Both workflow diffs add an if: always() cleanup step that runs `rm -rf -- target/llvm-cov-tar…	Add workflow contract assertions for both jobs that require the cleanup command, if: always(), and placement after coverage. Strengthen the resource contract to verify the sampler records samples, exports the sample-file path, and that th…
Unit Architecture	❌ Error	Expose the workflow fixture's fallibility. tests/support/workflow_assertions.rs:22-28 defines workflows() -> Vec<Workflow>, but it calls load_workflows(), which opens directories, reads files, a…	Change workflows to return Result<Vec<Workflow>, WorkflowError> or accept a preloaded workflow estate through the test boundary. Handle the error explicitly in the contract tests. If a panic-based adapter is required for rstest, give …
Testing (Unit And Behavioural)	⚠️ Warning	The added tests provide useful parser error cases, runner-shape cases, cache-ownership properties, and structural checks over the real workflow files. However, they stop at the custom YAML/model bound…	Add a repeatable CI-level end-to-end test for the changed workflows. Execute the build and coverage workflows, or an equivalent supported runner harness, and assert the observable contract: dispatch succeeds, prebuilt installers run, sccach…

✅ Passed checks (12 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 98.77% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 81 functions across 7 files. (5 skipped: 5 …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
User-Facing Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass this check. The PR changes only CI workflows, development dependencies, workflow-contract tests, and docs/developers-guide.md; it does not change src, README.md, docs/users-guide.md, or m…
Developer Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass. The pull request adds a substantial Continuous integration section to docs/developers-guide.md. It documents runner placement and timeouts, prebuilt tool installation, cache ownership, sccache…
Module-Level Documentation	✅ Passed	Pass module-level documentation. All seven Rust modules introduced or changed by the pull request start with //! documentation. Each module description states its purpose and utility. The support mo…
Testing (Property / Proof)	✅ Passed	Pass this check. The pull request introduces workflow invariants over cache ownership, step order, split-cache pairing, cache-provider transitions, and first-match indexing. It adds `tests/workflow_mo…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui)	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes no production Rust or TypeScript files. All new Rust code is test-only workflow parsing, modelling, and contract support, with runtime assertions and property tests. It …
Domain Architecture	✅ Passed	Keep the change as-is for this check. The PR changes no src/ production code. The new cap_std/YAML filesystem access is confined to tests/support/workflow_loader.rs, which translates workflow fi…
Observability	✅ Passed	Accept this change. The pull request adds diagnostics at the changed CI boundaries. The cache-routing step logs endpoint and token presence without printing the token, and warns when configuration is …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main CI changes: prebuilt installers and single-owner caching. No roadmap or issue number is required because the description does not reference one.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the CI preparation, workflow changes, cache ownership, sccache configuration, tests, documentation, validation, and known baseline failure.

Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The workflow contracts cover many new inputs, but they do not substantively guard all changed behaviour. Both workflow diffs add an if: always() cleanup step that runs rm -rf -- target/llvm-cov-target; no test asserts this cleanup or its ordering. A future removal of the cleanup would still pass the current suite. The resource test only searches for sample-resources.sh, free -m, df -m, and the text peak used disk; a no-op sampler and hard-coded report could satisfy it. The single-test check rejects known command strings but does not assert exactly one generate-coverage step. The cache contract also permits a single archived target path, although the change requires compiler output not to be archived.

Resolution

Add workflow contract assertions for both jobs that require the cleanup command, if: always(), and placement after coverage. Strengthen the resource contract to verify the sampler records samples, exports the sample-file path, and that the report derives peak and minimum values from that file. Assert that each build job has exactly one coverage action and no other test execution. Reject any cache claim for target or the coverage target tree. Keep these assertions tied to parsed workflow structure so plausible regressions fail.

Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)

Explanation

The added tests provide useful parser error cases, runner-shape cases, cache-ownership properties, and structural checks over the real workflow files. However, they stop at the custom YAML/model boundary. tests/workflow_contracts.rs explicitly describes itself as structural and checks strings, inputs, and step order; tests/workflow_model_properties.rs tests only the ownership model. No test harness executes the changed GitHub Actions workflows or verifies the external cache, sccache, coverage, dispatch, or installer behaviour. The repository has no act, GitHub API, or equivalent workflow end-to-end harness. This pull request changes externally observable workflows and integration contracts, so the explicit end-to-end testing requirement is not met.

Resolution

Add a repeatable CI-level end-to-end test for the changed workflows. Execute the build and coverage workflows, or an equivalent supported runner harness, and assert the observable contract: dispatch succeeds, prebuilt installers run, sccache reports the Actions backend with cache hits or writes, coverage completes with the required targets and doctests, and the expected cache and coverage outputs are produced. Keep the current structural and property tests for fast failure and edge-case coverage.

Full details: Unit Architecture

Explanation

Expose the workflow fixture's fallibility. tests/support/workflow_assertions.rs:22-28 defines workflows() -> Vec<Workflow>, but it calls load_workflows(), which opens directories, reads files, and parses YAML. The fixture converts every environmental or parsing error into panic!. This makes a read API look like a pure in-memory query and hides its Result from callers. The pull request introduced this path, although the lower-level loader correctly returns Result.

Resolution

Change workflows to return Result<Vec<Workflow>, WorkflowError> or accept a preloaded workflow estate through the test boundary. Handle the error explicitly in the contract tests. If a panic-based adapter is required for rstest, give it an explicit name such as expect_workflows and keep the fallible workflows API available.

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Reviewer's Guide

This Wave 0 change prepares Lille for a future Tier 2 runner move without changing the pull-request runner shape: tools are installed from pinned prebuilt archives, cache paths have one accountable owner and explainable runner-aware keys, scheduled/API-bound work is placed on GitHub-hosted runners, build jobs gain billing safeguards, and Rust-based workflow contracts prevent these policies from drifting.

Sequence diagram for pinned prebuilt tool installation

sequenceDiagram
    participant Workflow
    participant Installer as Pinned installer script or action
    participant Archive as Verified release archive
    participant Toolchain

    Workflow->>Installer: install-nextest.sh or install-kani.sh
    Installer->>Archive: download pinned archive
    Installer->>Installer: verify SHA-256 digest
    Installer->>Toolchain: install prebuilt executable
    Workflow->>Toolchain: invoke tool

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Flow diagram for single-owner CI caches

flowchart LR
    SetupRust[setup-rust] --> Cargo[Cargo registry and Git index]
    SetupRust --> UV[uv cache and tools]
    Whitaker[install-whitaker] --> WhitakerCache[Whitaker installer and suite]
    Verus[Verus cache step] --> VerusCache[.verus]
    Kani[Kani cache step] --> KaniCache[Kani executables and rustup home]
    Coverage[generate-coverage external cache] -.-> Cargo
    Coverage --> Ratchet[Coverage ratchet baseline]
    Cargo --> Key[Runner-aware explainable cache keys]
    UV --> Key
    WhitakerCache --> Key
    VerusCache --> Key
    KaniCache --> Key

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Replace workflow-time source builds with pinned, checksum-verified prebuilt tool installers.	Add pinned archive installers for cargo-nextest and both Kani components, with executable probes and local-bundle setup. Switch Whitaker to the pinned shared installer action and retain checksum-verified Verus installation. Add contracts preventing source-build fallbacks and requiring installers before first tool use.	.github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/nightly-kani.yml .github/workflows/benchmark-regressions.yml .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml .github/workflows/property-tests.yml scripts/install-nextest.sh scripts/install-kani.sh tools/kani/SHA256SUMS tests/workflow_contracts.rs
Establish single-owner, explainable caching across workflow jobs.	Move Cargo cache ownership to setup-rust and disable overlapping coverage and setup-uv caches. Add explicit caches for Whitaker, uv layers, Verus, and Kani with runner environment-aware keys. Pin all actions/cache references, remove target-tree and nextest caching, and reject duplicate or unpinned cache ownership through structural tests.	.github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml .github/workflows/benchmark-regressions.yml .github/workflows/nightly-kani.yml .github/workflows/property-tests.yml tests/support/workflow_cache_owners.rs tests/support/workflow_model.rs tests/workflow_contracts.rs
Normalize runner placement and protect paid build jobs from hung executions.	Move weekly property tests and portable-SIMD nightly work to ubuntu-latest while retaining the pull-request property runner. Add timeouts to the two Ubicloud build/coverage jobs and register only the supported Ubicloud label with actionlint. Encode runner placement, timeout, and label-registration rules as workflow contracts.	.github/workflows/property-tests.yml .github/workflows/nightly-portable-simd.yml .github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml .github/actionlint.yaml tests/workflow_contracts.rs
Consolidate Linux testing into the instrumented coverage run and broaden its coverage configuration.	Remove the duplicate uninstrumented cargo test execution from build-test. Run coverage with all features, targets, and doctests while preserving ratchet and CodeScene reporting. Document the one-test-execution policy and enforce it structurally.	.github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml docs/developers-guide.md tests/workflow_contracts.rs
Introduce YAML workflow modeling and repository-level CI policy documentation.	Add serde_norway-based parsing of workflow jobs and steps for semantic contract checks. Document runner placement, installation, cache ownership, action pinning, and the transparent-proxy exception. Update shared-actions references to the pinned revision across workflows.	Cargo.toml tests/support/workflow_model.rs tests/workflow_contracts.rs docs/developers-guide.md .github/workflows/*.yml

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- Around line 335-340: Add a descriptive caption immediately before the cache
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Testing (Overall). The contracts now assert the substance of the policy, not only its shape. setup-rust must set cache-provider: github and use-sccache: 'false' in both build jobs; install-whitaker must set installer-version: '0.2.7' and cache-provider: github; generate-coverage must set all-features, all-targets, and doctests to true and cache-provider: external in both jobs; the uv cache step must own exactly .uv-cache and .uv-tools and carry runner.os, runner.arch, runner.environment, and a hashFiles( fragment in its key. Timeouts are bounded rather than merely present: build-test between 45 and 120 minutes and coverage-upload between 30 and 90, the lower bound set above the observed medians of 1656 s and 561 s. The single-execution rule now also rejects make test and make all, not only cargo test and cargo nextest. Inputs are compared after rendering booleans and numbers the way GitHub passes them, so doctests: true and doctests: 'true' cannot diverge.

Unit Architecture. The actionlint read no longer uses unwrap_or_default(); it goes through a capability-scoped reader that returns Result and the test fails with the path and source error. Without that, an unreadable configuration made the label contract vacuously pass. Workflow parsing is strict throughout: parse_step, parse_job, and every scalar field return Result<_, WorkflowError> and name the workflow, job, and field. Defaults survive only where a field is genuinely optional, such as an absent name or an absent with. Six malformed documents and an unreadable workflow directory are now tested.

Docstring Coverage. Every function in the three modules now carries a /// docstring, including the private helpers, with # Errors sections on the fallible ones.

Testing (Property / Proof). Added tests/workflow_model_properties.rs, a proptest suite over the model. It generates jobs with arbitrary step orderings, repeated display names, interleaved unrelated steps, whole and split cache steps, and shared-action steps with either cache provider, then checks four invariants against oracles written independently of the implementation: two whole-cache claims on one path are always two owners; the set of duplicated paths is invariant under reordering; a restore and a save are one owner exactly when their keys agree; and a shared action is an owner exactly when the caller has not taken its paths. A fifth property pins first_step_containing to the least matching index, which is what the installer-ordering contract relies on. The bounded rstest contracts stay as deterministic regression tests. docs/adr-003-bounded-rstest-over-property-testing.md admits proptest alongside the matrices for exactly this kind of broader domain, and the developers guide now records which method covers what.

One note on scope. build-test is still red, and not for anything in this pull request: tinyvec 1.13.0 was published on 2026-09-03 at 21:13 UTC and does not compile on the nightly this repository pins. The same failure reproduces on a clean checkout of untouched origin/main.

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- Around line 223-241: Update every_runner_label_is_registered_with_actionlint
to parse .github/actionlint.yaml with serde_norway and compare each runner label
by exact equality against the parsed self-hosted-runner.labels list, rather than
using raw-text contains checks; ensure commented entries and partial label
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- Around line 1-21: Decompose the oversized workflow contract tests into modules
under the 400-line limit: move the parser-behavior tests covering malformed
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