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| # | Where | Duplicates | On drift | Who it fails | Derivable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | `scripts/ci/required_status_checks.py` `REQUIRED_CHECKS` | the `required_status_checks` rule of the `main` ruleset, which is not in the tree | an admin adds a required check, nobody edits the tuple, the guard passes and every pull request waits on a context nothing produces | **everyone**, with no red check anywhere | Not derivable, but **reconcilable** — implemented, see below |
| 2 | `.github/workflows/merge-group-fail-fast.yml:17,35` | the `name:` of `merge-group-policy-checks.yml` and the filename `ci.yml` | renaming either silently stops fail-fast; the workflow just never triggers | **everyone** (queue latency), detected by nobody | No. GitHub requires the literal display name |
| 2 | `.github/workflows/merge-group-fail-fast.yml:17` | the `name:` of `merge-group-policy-checks.yml` | renaming it silently stops fail-fast; the workflow just never triggers | **everyone** (queue latency), detected by nobody | Partially. `workflow_run` requires the literal display name, but a test can pin it against the producer's `name:`; #13793 proposes identifying the producer by file instead |
| 3 | `tests/test-execution.toml` | every `tests/test_*.py` on disk | an unregistered test fails validation; a duplicated entry is `registered more than once` | everyone, until #13745 lands | Partially. Discovery is derivable; the lane assignment is a judgment |
| 4 | `.github/workflows/ci-artifact-transport.yml:4-40` | its own `pull_request.paths` list, written again under `push.paths` | **already drifted**: 21 paths on pull requests, 12 on push. Nine files are guarded on pull requests and not on main | **everyone**, silently — main can regress with no signal | Yes. One list, or a guard that the two agree |
| 4 | `.github/workflows/ci-artifact-transport.yml:4-40` | its own `pull_request.paths` list, written again under `push.paths` | previously drifted: nine files were guarded on pull requests and not on main | **everyone**, silently — main can regress with no signal | Yes — **implemented** in #13789; parity guard and explicit exemptions |
| 5 | `scripts/ci/detect_linux_guard_changes.py` `WORKFLOW_TEST_INPUTS`, `CLI_INPUTS`, `HISTORY_INPUTS` | what each guard job's steps run in `ci-guards.yml` | a renamed step leaves the path routed to a guard that no longer reads it; also stale the expensive way (31 of 137 paths named) | offending PR, then silent under-coverage | Yes — **implemented**, see below |
| 6 | `.github/workflows/ci.yml:341-345,218` bash `case` lists | `workflow_guard_groups.ROUTING_POLICY_PATHS` (a third and fourth copy) | a routing-policy file missing from one copy takes the wrong fast path | offending PR | Yes. The router already owns the set |
| 7 | `.github/workflows/ci.yml:434-437` hard-coded `linux_guard_test_groups=[...]` JSON | `workflow_guard_groups.GROUPS` | a new group is added to `GROUPS` and a policy-only PR still routes the old eleven | offending PR (a structure test catches the reverse direction) | Yes |
| 8 | `.github/workflows/ci.yml:432` `release_only_jobs` | job names in `ci-macos.yml` | a renamed release job stops matching, so the narrow route never fires | fails open (extra work) | Yes |
| 8 | `.github/workflows/ci.yml:458` `release_only_jobs` | job **ids** in `ci-macos.yml` (not display names — the surrounding code partitions on `\njobs:\n` and splits on the YAML keys) | renaming a release job id stops it matching, so the narrow route never fires | fails open (extra work) | Yes |
| 9 | `vars.CI_CACHE_BACKEND` (18 sites), `CI_CACHE_R2_PUBLIC_URL`, `LINUX_RUNNER` in `runs-on:` | the value the repository sets, and each other | an empty value restores from no cache and rebuilds cold, or leaves `runs-on:` unschedulable | fork PRs and dispatches; cost, not red | Yes — **implemented**, see below |
| 10 | `scripts/ci/cmux_unit_test_shard.py:40-103` `FOCUSED_GATE_SELECTORS` | `-only-testing:` lines in `ci-macos.yml`, plus `cmuxTests/**` declarations and shard env values — one constant in four places | a new `-only-testing:` line without the edit runs the suite twice per PR | offending PR | Yes. The test already parses the selectors out of `ci-macos.yml` |
| 11 | `scripts/ci/workflow_guard_groups.py:94` `DETERMINISM_SUFFIXES` vs `scripts/check-test-determinism.py:74` `SCANNED_SUFFIXES` | each other, verbatim | adding `.mts` to the scanner but not the router means findings in that extension never route `quality-determinism` | fails open | Yes. Import the scanner's tuple |
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nothing produces, and settings and tree still agree with each other. Every
unreadable or unrecognised response is a failure, not a skip.

- **Row 4 (`ci-artifact-transport.yml` push/pull_request drift).** Implemented
in #13789. The cost estimate here was wrong: syncing was measured at 11 of
67 merges sampled on 2026-09-22 (~16%), not "nearly every push", and the expensive Worker
half stays gated behind `steps.worker.outputs.run`. The `pull_request` list
was the correct one — four of the seven test files the job runs appeared only
there, including one that asserts on `ci-macos.yml`'s contents while a push
editing that file triggered nothing. `tests/test_ci_workflow_path_filter_parity.py`
now asserts the two lists agree across every workflow, with exemptions
written down: `web-complexity.yml` diverges deliberately, because syncing it
would let a PR editing that workflow self-queue a job running
contributor-controlled install scripts.

## Not implemented, and what it would take

- **Row 2 (workflow display names).** The source of truth is GitHub, and
unlike row 1 there is no endpoint that reports which display name a merge
queue is waiting on. `merge-group-fail-fast.yml` names two workflows by
string, and a rename just stops it triggering.
- **Row 2 (workflow display names).** The trigger names
`merge-group-policy-checks.yml` by its display name; its later CI lookup
already uses the stable workflow file path. The producer's checked-in
`name:` can guard the trigger against drift. #13793 proposes removing the
display-name dependency by checking the triggering workflow's file identity.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the workflow name and file path.

workflow_run.workflows uses the producer workflow's checked-in name: value. The sentence presents merge-group-policy-checks.yml as if it were that display name. State the display name and .github/workflows/merge-group-policy-checks.yml file path separately.

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In `@docs/ci/derived-not-declared.md` around lines 145 - 149, Update the Row 2
workflow description to distinguish the producer workflow’s checked-in display
name from its file path: state the actual name used by workflow_run.workflows
separately from .github/workflows/merge-group-policy-checks.yml, while retaining
the existing stable-path lookup and drift-protection context.

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- **Row 1's remaining gap.** The reconciliation reads rulesets. Classic branch
protection, if anyone ever configures it on top, contributes required
contexts through an endpoint that answers 404 to a non-admin token whether
or not it is configured, so those contexts would stay invisible. Repository
rulesets are the only mechanism in use today (`repos/:owner/:repo/rulesets`
lists four, and `branches/main/protection` is 404).
- **Row 4 (`ci-artifact-transport.yml` push/pull_request drift).** The nine
missing paths include `ci.yml`, so syncing the lists makes nearly every push
to main run this workflow. That is a real cost increase a maintainer should
choose deliberately; the mechanical part is a guard asserting the two lists
agree, with exemptions written down rather than implied.
- **Rows 6, 7 and 8 (ci.yml's bash path lists and group JSON).** The correct
shape is for the step to call the router instead of re-deciding in bash, but
the step deliberately runs *before* trusting candidate Python — that is the
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