ci: extract reusable guard workflow by teamleaderleo · Pull Request #13378 · manaflow-ai/cmux

teamleaderleo · 2026-09-21T09:48:12Z

Summary

Extract the already-parallel Linux guard jobs from .github/workflows/ci.yml into the reusable .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml workflow.

This is the topology half of RFC #13095 slice 1. The guard latency behavior change already landed separately in #13097; this PR keeps those job bodies, checkout depths, runner labels, permissions, commands, and route meanings unchanged.

keep static-preflight in the caller so web/macOS start behavior stays unchanged in this extraction
replace the four guard jobs in ci.yml with one local reusable-workflow call
keep the four existing route outputs as strings and reject missing/invalid values
aggregate guard results inside the reusable workflow and propagate failure/cancellation through linux-preflight
preserve docs/guard-only routing by teaching the CI area detector to scan both ci.yml and ci-guards.yml
update the existing guard, permission, Ghostty, and app-host workflow-parsing regression tests for the new ownership boundary

Fail-closed behavior

The caller skips the reusable guard workflow only when all four guard routes are exactly false. Any unknown or missing route causes the reusable call to run. Its guard-status gate rejects invalid route values and rejects a skipped/failed/cancelled guard whose route is true.

linux-preflight independently validates the four route values and requires the reusable guards result to succeed whenever any guard route is true. It accepts a skipped reusable call only when every guard route is explicitly false.

Review boundary

This PR is an extraction, not another optimization pass. It deliberately leaves these in ci.yml for later slices:

static-preflight
GhosttyKit release check
web/typecheck/react/db/agent-session jobs
macOS compile/test/package/release jobs
existing CI area inference and rollup layout beyond the compatibility change needed for moved guard-test references

No persistent-Mac routing, R2 artifact work, or app-host flake repair is included.

Guard performance evidence

The accepted #13097 optimization provides the before/after measurement for this slice:

Metric	Before	After #13097
Guard wall-clock critical path	385.5 s	124.3 s
Linux guard runner-minutes	6.43 min	7.49 min

Before: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/35477597285/job/105989493676

After: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/35478932148

The remaining parallel guard groups in that run were:

history: 124.2 s
main guard suite: 116.8 s
CLI/profiling guards: 109.9 s
source lints: 98.4 s

So #13097 cut the measured guard wall-clock by about 68% while adding about 1.06 Linux runner-minutes from parallel setup/checkout overhead. The critical path is roughly 2m04s; the history lane is the longest remaining group.

This extraction is intended to preserve that profile.

Validation

Regression coverage in this branch exercises:

reusable guard route wiring
all-false guard skipping
selected guard failure/skipped/cancelled propagation
malformed/missing route rejection
single full-history checkout ownership
guard-only test routing after the file move
local reusable-workflow permission ceilings
existing app-host and Ghostty workflow-body guards after ownership moves

Hosted CI is the validation path for this repo-side workflow change.

Migration sequence

This PR: reusable guard workflow extraction
reusable web workflow extraction
reusable macOS workflow extraction
replace workflow-text/job-diff inference with the RFC area table, preserving unknown-path macOS fallback
remove obsolete preflight/rollup complexity while retaining one authoritative ci-status
complete routing/result/merge-group regression matrix and refresh performance evidence

Refs #13095.

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Summary by cubic

Extracts the four Linux guard jobs from ci.yml into the reusable ci-guards.yml workflow, replacing them with a single guards call. Job bodies, checkout depths, runner labels, permissions, commands, and route meanings are unchanged.

Fail-closed behavior

The caller skips the reusable workflow only when all four guard routes are exactly false; missing or invalid routes force it to run.
guard-status inside the reusable workflow rejects invalid route values and any skipped/failed/cancelled guard whose route is true.
linux-preflight independently validates the four routes and requires the guards call to succeed whenever any route is true.
The CI area detector now scans both workflow files so guard-only test routing keeps working, and edits to ci-guards.yml force all areas like edits to ci.yml do.

static-preflight stays in the caller; web and macOS jobs are deliberately left in ci.yml for later slices. The guard, permission, Ghostty, app-host, TestFlight, and Swift warning budget regression tests follow their jobs into the reusable workflow.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

CI Improvements
- Consolidated Linux validation checks into a reusable workflow.
- Added centralized routing and status validation for guard checks.
- Improved workflow handling when individual validation routes are skipped or fail.
- Updated change detection and validation coverage to include the reusable guard workflow.
Tests
- Updated CI, distribution, version-sync, permissions, and routing checks for the new workflow structure.
- Added coverage for guard routing, aggregate results, and invalid route states.

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The CI guard jobs now run in a reusable workflow. The main CI workflow passes route outputs to one aggregate guards job. Preflight, change-area detection, isolation checks, and tests now account for both workflow files.

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CI guard workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reusable guard workflow `.github/workflows/ci-guards.yml`	Defines four conditional guard jobs, shared runner and permission settings, and a `guard-status` job that validates route inputs and job results.
Aggregate CI integration `.github/workflows/ci.yml`	Replaces four inline guard jobs with a reusable `guards` job. Updates `linux-preflight` and `ci-status` to consume the aggregate result.
Workflow reference updates `scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py`, `tests/test_ci_app_host_home_isolation.py`	Loads job and test references from both CI workflow files and requires unique job mappings across them.
Routing and guard test updates `tests/test_ci_change_areas.py`, `tests/test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py`, `tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py`, `tests/test_ci_swift_warning_budget.sh`, `tests/test_ghostty_zig_version_sync.sh`, `tests/test_ios_testflight_pro_distribution.py`	Updates workflow assertions and tests for aggregate routing, route validation, permissions, and guard commands in `ci-guards.yml`.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Changes as changes
  participant CI as ci.yml
  participant Guards as ci-guards.yml
  participant Preflight as linux-preflight
  participant Status as ci-status
  Changes->>CI: Produce linux_guard_* route outputs
  CI->>Guards: Pass routes to guards
  Guards-->>CI: Return aggregate guard result
  CI->>Preflight: Provide guards result and routes
  Preflight-->>Status: Provide validated CI result

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cd69e

Guard-workflow edits can incorrectly suppress macOS tests for changed test files. Include ci-guards.yml in the force-all handling before merging.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: extracting the Linux guard workflow into a reusable workflow.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains what changed, why it changed, fail-closed behavior, validation coverage, scope boundaries, and migration context. It does not reproduce the template's explicit Testing…
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS. The scoped diff changes only GitHub Actions workflows, CI routing logic, and regression tests. It adds a reusable guard workflow and an aggregate status gate; it does not change Cloud terminal c…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only CI YAML, Python, and shell test/tooling files. It changes no production `.swift` files and introduces no Swift actor-isolation code. Swift-relate…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python, and shell test files. The authoritative diff contains no changed Swift, Objective-C, or Package.swift paths, and no added Swift runtime…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only GitHub Actions workflows, CI routing code, and CI tests. It does not modify either rule-scoped source file: `Sources/TerminalController.swift` or `Packages/macOS/CmuxControlS…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request range changes only two YAML workflows, six Python files, and two shell scripts. It contains no production Swift files and adds or moves none of the expensive synchronous load si…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python CI tooling/tests, and shell tests. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript file changes. The cache and history …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request introduces no hacky sleep or fixed-delay synchronization. The only non-YAML production-script change is `scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py`, which adds workflow-reference par…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	No algorithmic-complexity failure was introduced. The only changed production helper, `scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py`, adds a scan over the fixed two-workflow tuple and unions bounded workflow-…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python, and shell test files. It contains no changed `.swift` files and no added Swift source. The only concurrency-related match is a workflow …
Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes no Swift source files and introduces no Swift concurrency annotations or async Swift functions. The only Swift-related change is a shell test that updates CI workflow te…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff changes only GitHub Actions workflows, Python tests/helpers, and shell tests. It contains no `.swift` files or production Swift code. Therefore the Swift package-boundary rule do…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The pull request changes workflows, CI scripts, and tests only. The reviewed diff contains no `Package.swift`, `Package.resolved`, `.gitignore`, Xcode project, or workspace changes, so it introduces n…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only workflow YAML, Python, and shell test files. It changes no Swift source files and adds no production Swift logging. The added `print` calls are in the reusable workflow's…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed range changes only GitHub Actions workflows, a CI change-area detector, and CI regression tests. The new diagnostics print guard routes and job results in `ci-guards.yml` and `ci.ym…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only GitHub Actions workflows plus CI routing and regression-test files. The review-scoped inventory contains no Swift source, app string catalog, Info.plist, web UI, locale regis…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two YAML files, six Python files, and two shell scripts. No Swift, Objective-C, storyboard, or XIB files changed, and the patch adds no SwiftUI state or layout patt…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The check is inapplicable. The authoritative PR diff changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python scripts, and shell test files. It adds no `.swift` files and introduces no SwiftUI/AppKit lifecycle …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The authoritative PR diff changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python, and shell test files. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI source changes and therefore does not add or materially change any cmux-owned …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	No changed path matches the artifact failure conditions. The diff contains one deliberate GitHub Actions config (`.github/workflows/ci-guards.yml`), an edited CI workflow, one CI routing script, and C…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes 10 files, all workflows, Python, or shell tests. It changes no Swift files, and no changed path matches a production `/Sources/` path outside `Tes…

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Summary

Extracts four Linux guard jobs into a reusable workflow while preserving routing and consolidating their result into a fail-closed guard status.

Calls the reusable guard workflow only when at least one route is not explicitly false.
Validates route values and propagates selected guard failures through linux-preflight.
Extends CI area detection across both the caller and reusable workflow.
Updates workflow-parsing and routing regression tests for the new ownership boundary.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    C[changes] --> R{Any guard route not false?}
    S[static-preflight] --> R
    R -->|Yes| G[Reusable ci-guards workflow]
    R -->|No| K[guards skipped]
    G --> T[Guard tests]
    G --> H[Guard history]
    G --> L[CLI and profiling guards]
    G --> N[Source lints]
    T --> A[guard-status]
    H --> A
    L --> A
    N --> A
    A --> P[linux-preflight]
    K --> P

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teamleaderleo added 8 commits September 21, 2026 02:45

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[RFC] CI structure: thin router, reusable platform workflows, merge queue, failure ratchet #13095

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test: follow TestFlight guard into reusable workflow

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ci: extract reusable web workflow #13382

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ci: extract reusable macOS workflow #13405

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ci: replace inferred routing with declarative area table #13410

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ci: remove redundant caller rollups #13412

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fix(ci): route guard workflow edits through all areas

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