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Summary

Test-source-only pull requests cannot change the universal Release app, but CI spends roughly 34–36 minutes compiling it and also builds a universal Ghostty CLI artifact solely for that Release job.

Route both the Release app build and its helper work through release_build. Changes limited to cmuxTests/, cmuxUITests/, or Packages/*/*/Tests/ skip Release and the helper's SDK-15 setup, Zig installation/cache, compilation, and uploads. App-host compile admission, all six app-host shards, package testing, and runtime regressions retain their existing routing. When Release is required, the helper retains its SDK/architecture checks and upload retry.

The router remains conservative: app inputs, unknown inputs, workflow/router changes, unreadable diffs, and forced events run Release. Any project.pbxproj edit also runs Release, including edits that only wire a new test file. This does not skip the entire package job; affected-package selection is covered separately by #13118.

The required ci-status already accepts a skipped Release job. No app runtime behavior or test assertions change.

Validation

  • CI change-area tests pass: test-only routing, mixed test/app inputs, forced/docs-only cases, and the workflow detector executed for a test-only PR.
  • Web validation, release-build timeout, self-hosted runner/artifact guards, and reusable-workflow permission tests pass.
  • Actionlint and git diff --check pass for the consolidated workflow.
  • Previous hosted validation failed in swift-package-tests; these routing changes do not claim to fix that test failure. Hosted validation of the new head is pending.

Related: #13095, #6134.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • CI Improvements

    • Release builds now run only when changes affect release-buildable macOS sources or workflows.
    • Test-only changes no longer trigger unnecessary release builds.
    • Release-build routing is evaluated independently from other macOS test jobs, improving CI efficiency.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for release-build routing across test-only, app-related, workflow, skipped, and forced-change scenarios.
    • Verified that macOS test jobs and release builds run under the appropriate conditions.

release-build compiles the universal Release app from scratch on a macOS 26
runner, about 35 minutes per run. It builds only the cmux target, so a change
limited to cmuxTests, cmuxUITests or a package's Tests directory cannot alter
what it produces.

The router gains a release_build output. It is true whenever a macOS-relevant
path outside those test directories changed, and whenever every area is
forced. release-build gates on it; the other macOS jobs still gate on macos.
A new test file also edits project.pbxproj, so it still runs the Release build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The CI classifier adds a dedicated release_build area. Test-only macOS changes skip the release build. The workflow exports this area and uses it to gate release-build jobs and helper steps. Tests cover routing and job conditions.

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Release Build Routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release-build classification
scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py
ChangeAreas now tracks and emits release_build. Test-only sources do not set this area, while app-buildable and forced changes do.
Workflow gating
.github/workflows/ci.yml
The workflow publishes release_build, handles all-area and provenance-only paths, gates helper build steps, and gates release-build with this output.
Routing validation
tests/test_ci_change_areas.py
Tests cover classification, workflow outputs, CLI outputs, special routing paths, and separate gates for release-build and other macOS jobs.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChangedPaths
  participant ChangeAreas
  participant changes_job
  participant swift_package_tests
  participant release_build_job
  ChangedPaths->>ChangeAreas: classify changed paths
  ChangeAreas->>changes_job: emit release_build
  changes_job->>swift_package_tests: provide release_build output
  changes_job->>release_build_job: provide release_build output
  swift_package_tests->>swift_package_tests: evaluate helper-step gates
  release_build_job->>release_build_job: evaluate release-build gate
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main CI change: skipping the Release app and helper for test-only pull requests.
Description check ✅ Passed The description gives a detailed summary of the routing changes, rationale, scope, safeguards, related work, and validation results. It does not use the template's exact Testing heading and omits the …
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only CI routing, the CI change-area classifier, and routing tests. It adds a release_build output and gates the Release app and Ghostty CLI helper steps. It does…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. The authoritative diff contains no production Swift files o…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml and Python files. It introduces no production Swift changes and no added synchronization primitives or timing calls. The blocking-runtime policy ap…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflow routing, the CI change-area detector, and its Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no changes to Sources/TerminalController.swift, `ControlCo…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml and two Python files. It contains zero changed .swift paths and no added or moved expensive-load calls. The custom check appli…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. These are CI workflow and Python routing/test file…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes CI YAML, a Python CI routing script, and routing tests. The added Python and test lines introduce no fixed sleep, timer, polling loop, delayed dispatch, or wall-clock wa…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only CI YAML, a Python CI classifier, and tests. It adds routing flags and step conditions; it does not add a scalable collection scan, repeated sort/filter, batch resca…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It adds no cmux-owned Swift files or Swift code. A…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It contains no changed Swift source or S…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative pull-request diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It contains no changed Swift files or pr…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It adds CI routing and test coverage, but changes no `Pa…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request changes only YAML and Python files. It adds no Swift or Objective-C production code and no logging statements. Therefore, the Swift logging failure conditions do not apply.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes CI routing, change classification, and CI tests only. Added text is GitHub Actions output, comments, or test assertions such as release_build=true/false; it is not user-facing p…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It adds CI routing logic, workflow conditions, test a…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The review-scoped diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It contains no Swift, SwiftUI, or view-source changes. Ther…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. No Swift source or SwiftUI/AppKit bridge code chan…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, Xcode project, or…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The PR changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. These are intentional workflow configuration, source, and test files. The d…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py, and tests/test_ci_change_areas.py. It contains no Swift files and no paths …
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because a production file renamed into a test directory can still bypass the Release build.

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  1. P1 Renames Can Skip Release ▶

Summary

Adds a dedicated release_build change-area output so test-source-only pull requests can skip the universal Release application and Ghostty CLI helper work while retaining the existing macOS test routing.

  • Classifies cmuxTests/, cmuxUITests/, and package Tests/ sources as Release-neutral.
  • Gates the Release job and helper setup, compilation, caching, and upload steps on the new output.
  • Adds routing and workflow tests for test-only, mixed, forced, skipped, and fail-open cases.

The previous rename-routing finding remains outstanding: the PR-level detector still obtains changed paths with git diff --name-only, which can expose only a test-directory destination for a detected rename and omit the Release-relevant source path.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  Diff[Pull request changed paths] --> Router[Change-area router]
  Router --> TestOnly{All macOS changes are test sources?}
  TestOnly -->|Yes| MacTests[Run macOS test routing]
  TestOnly -->|Yes| SkipRelease[Skip Release build and helper]
  TestOnly -->|No| Release[Run Release build]
  Release --> Helper[Build and upload universal Ghostty CLI helper]
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@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo changed the title ci: skip the Release build when a pull request only changes tests ci: skip Release and its helper for test-only pull requests Sep 20, 2026
teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 20, 2026 02:07
release-build now needs both routes: the change must reach the Release
build, and the run must be a full-suite run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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def is_test_only_source(path: str) -> bool:
# The Release app builds only the cmux target, so test sources cannot reach
# it. A new test file also edits project.pbxproj, which is not matched here.
return path.startswith(("cmuxTests/", "cmuxUITests/")) or bool(_PACKAGE_TESTS_RE.match(path))

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P1 Renames Can Skip Release

When a Release-relevant file is renamed into one of these test directories, git diff --name-only reports only the destination path. This classifier therefore treats the entire rename as test-only, even though removing or relocating the production source can break the Release configuration. The Release build is then skipped, allowing Release-only failures to reach main. Collect both sides of renames, such as with --no-renames, or otherwise classify the source path too.

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4b18fc9 ci: track package test helper inputs (manaflow-ai#13188)
b210493 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13181 from manaflow-ai/ci-focused-app-host-tests
ced163c Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13180 from manaflow-ai/ci/remote-tmux-crash-diagnostics
9faf726 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13178 from manaflow-ai/ci-reject-incomplete-test-runs
14c3ca1 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13166 from manaflow-ai/ci-reuse-build-for-runtime-regressions
7c3574a ci: let the pre-merge Release check compile arm64 only (manaflow-ai#13195)
887839a ci: drop a stalled GhosttyKit download and resume it (manaflow-ai#13197)
70a244d Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13177 from manaflow-ai/ci-fast-static-preflight
fcad43f build: read Xcode projects with Foundation and drop XcodeProj and PathKit (manaflow-ai#13111)
76d80b1 ci: skip Release and its helper for test-only pull requests (manaflow-ai#13122)
fdc63e9 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13176 from manaflow-ai/ci-reuse-queue-build-products
3162fee test: split an expression Xcode 27 cannot type-check (manaflow-ai#13126)
d10aa64 test: use consistent XCTest imports to stop compiler diagnostic flood (manaflow-ai#13163)
1b69bf9 test: stop real-Git reftable tests depending on a 2s wall clock (manaflow-ai#13186)
cad333b Merge origin/main into ci-fast-static-preflight
7522486 Merge origin/main into ci-reuse-build-for-runtime-regressions
43210e1 Bound automatic terminal titles before session persistence (manaflow-ai#13009)
674a0db ci: retire Depot macOS runners (manaflow-ai#13162)
f48ef36 Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13183 from manaflow-ai/ci-early-cli-smoke
ebbb17f ci: skip app-host teardown when setup never started (manaflow-ai#13179)
5fb6d8c Merge pull request manaflow-ai#13168 from manaflow-ai/ci-cache-r2-store
a348064 ci: skip compile admission when an earlier run compiled the same build inputs (manaflow-ai#13139)
88e102c reload: let a reused checkout keep one warm DerivedData across tags (manaflow-ai#13131)
7a049e9 Merge origin/main into ci-reuse-build-for-runtime-regressions
cd05c6e Merge origin/main into ci-fast-static-preflight
5cf41fa Merge origin/main into ci-reuse-queue-build-products
5a6322e test: guard early CLI smoke ordering
0438552 fix: pass R2 public URL through workflow environment
0716c59 test: bound app-host replay subprocesses
2e0b9b5 ci: terminate cancelled focused discovery
14bbad4 ci: keep R2 public URL configuration inside the cache actions
e342c67 ci: make focused run discovery cancellable
cf3984b test: avoid hard timeout in app-host classifier replay
251b050 ci: allow privileged crash report collection
7d9a7f2 Merge main after landing cache backend and suite policy
b6853ee ci: allow manual cache-only seeding for R2 rollout
81d3026 test: require manual cache seeding to skip app publication
6980f8e ci: harden remote tmux diagnostics collection
c24d77f ci: publish R2 cache pointers conditionally and repair failed writes
2432805 test: cover R2 pointer repair and out-of-order saves
4779d01 ci: continue past unusable build artifact candidates
9dd1579 test: reproduce corrupt candidate blocking product reuse
bfb43f5 ci: check CLI version and help before app-host fan-out
f2b0fae docs: use an existing suite in focused launcher example
2c04b6a ci: drain tar streams portably with BSD tar
c5e1d59 ci: pin focused tests to a commit and track the requested run
1a44bde ci: consume tar padding when restoring zstd caches
31d4fd9 test: cover padded R2 archives on macOS
a46567a ci: isolate R2 cache writes from release credentials
ce26a8e test: require early CLI smoke gate to propagate probe failures
18a67fb test: reproduce focused launcher revision and run attribution bugs
4dd543e test: require cache-only R2 credentials for cache saves
2c8412c ci: make product reuse attempt-safe and bound archive expansion
59fb526 ci: preserve remote tmux mirror crash diagnostics
d8107e4 test: cover artifact reruns, expansion limits and producer source checks
28a03e3 ci: reject interrupted app-host runs despite later passing summaries
302551d test: reproduce false-green app-host timeout and restart runs
bc3a63a ci: reject invalid static inputs before expensive validation
baf65d9 test: require successful static preflight before macOS admission
6cea5f0 ci: fall back when build identity cannot be established
7632c7e ci: reuse compatible compiled products in merge groups
8be0c54 ci: add an R2 bucket as a cache store every runner can read
25f50c3 test: behaviour of an R2-backed cache store script
17c2498 ci: reuse compiled app and UI products for runtime regressions
6ed96f4 test: require UI products in the shared CI build artifact
230ad52 ci: drop a timeout note about a DerivedData cache that no longer exists
b5ec5cc ci: stop restoring DerivedData in pull request jobs
a42ad38 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into ci-cache-backend-switch
477fb0f ci: choose the cache store per dispatched run, and cover the nightly app build
03363d7 ci: let a repository variable move the seeded caches to the Warp store
f791f87 ci: pull request jobs restore caches and never save them
5b65bb1 test: pull request jobs must restore caches read-only
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