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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions .github/workflows/test-e2e.yml
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name: E2E test with video recording
run-name: ${{ inputs.test_filter }} on ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }} @ ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref_name }}${{ inputs.dispatch_id != '' && format(' [{0}]', inputs.dispatch_id) || '' }}
run-name: ${{ inputs.test_filter }} on ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }} @ ${{ inputs.ref || github.ref_name }}${{ inputs.dispatch_id != '' && format(' [{0}]', inputs.dispatch_id) || '' }}

on:
workflow_dispatch:
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- tart-small

concurrency:
group: e2e-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }}-${{ inputs.ref || github.ref_name }}-${{ inputs.test_filter }}
group: e2e-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }}-${{ inputs.ref || github.ref_name }}-${{ inputs.test_filter }}
cancel-in-progress: true

# This lane checks out and compiles a dispatcher-chosen ref, so it should hold
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e2e:
needs: resolve-ref
runs-on: ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }}
runs-on: ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }}
timeout-minutes: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.job_timeout || '20') }}
env:
TEST_REF: ${{ needs.resolve-ref.outputs.sha }}
CMUX_CI_MAX_MACOS_SDK_MAJOR: "26"
steps:
- name: Validate Tart canary identity
if: ${{ startsWith((!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner, 'tart-') }}
if: ${{ startsWith((!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner, 'tart-') }}
env:
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }}
RUNNER_CONTEXT_NAME: ${{ runner.name }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
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uses: actions/cache@27d5ce7f107fe9357f9df03efb73ab90386fccae # v5.0.5
with:
path: .ci-source-packages
key: spm-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }}-${{ hashFiles('cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved') }}
restore-keys: spm-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || inputs.runner }}-
key: spm-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }}-${{ hashFiles('cmux.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved') }}
restore-keys: spm-${{ (!inputs.runner || inputs.runner == 'auto') && (vars.MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26') || inputs.runner }}-

- name: Sanitize Swift package cache
run: python3 scripts/ci/sanitize-xcode-source-packages-cache.py .ci-source-packages
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions docs/ci-runners.md
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Expand Up @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ gh variable list --repo manaflow-ai/cmux
| `LINUX_ARM64_RUNNER` | native ARM64 package entrypoint verification | `ubuntu-24.04-arm` | `ubuntu-24.04-arm` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_15` | the macOS 15 default: `macos-compile-admission`, `app-host-unit-tests`, nightly helper and test-cache jobs | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_PR` | **pull-request** macOS jobs only, in `ci-macos.yml`, `cli-pipe-regressions.yml` and `terminal-hang-diagnostics.yml` | unset (see "Lanes" below) | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS` | the manual test-debugging lanes: `test-e2e.yml` and `test-depot.yml` | unset (see "Lanes" below) | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS` | the manual test-debugging lanes: `test-e2e.yml` and `test-depot.yml` | unset (see "Lanes" below) | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26` for `test-e2e.yml`, `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` for `test-depot.yml` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_DUAL_XCODE` | `swift-package-tests` (SDK 15 release helper, then SDK 26 package tests) on non-pull-request events; pull requests take `MACOS_RUNNER_PR` | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_26` | macOS 26 compatibility jobs and nightly sign/notarize | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26` | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26` |
| `MACOS_RUNNER_26_NIGHTLY_BUILD` | changed-revision universal Nightly app builds | `blacksmith-12vcpu-macos-26` | `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26` |
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- **Manual test debugging** (`test-e2e.yml`, `test-depot.yml`) resolves through
`MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS`, and deliberately does **not** follow `MACOS_RUNNER_15`.
Re-running one test to chase a flake should never reach for paid capacity.
Both fallbacks stay on Blacksmith for that reason; `test-e2e.yml` falls back
to macOS 26 because the macOS 15 pool's queue-to-start p90 was 83 min against
1.0 min on 26, measured over 60 dispatches on 2026-09-22/23.

`MACOS_RUNNER_PR` and `MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS` are escape hatches: leaving them
unset is the intended state, and setting one overrides just that lane without
Expand All @@ -73,7 +76,9 @@ also asserts that no workflow names a Warp label as a literal anywhere.

Because forks cannot see repository variables, a fork pull request resolves
`MACOS_RUNNER_PR` and `MACOS_RUNNER_TESTS` to empty and lands on the Blacksmith
fallback. That is the same runner it used before those variables existed.
fallback, never on paid capacity. `test-e2e.yml` is `workflow_dispatch`-only,
so a fork never reaches its fallback at all; for the lanes a fork does reach,
the fallback is still the runner they used before these variables existed.

## Background lane

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**Compile the test target locally before dispatching.** One focused run costs 10-20 macOS runner-minutes, and it compiles the whole tree before it runs anything, so the most common red result on a feature branch is a Swift compile error rather than a test failure. The `cmux-unit` command above catches those in a fraction of the time and without a runner.

**The default runner is `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26`.** `--runner` overrides it. Over 60 consecutive dispatches (2026-09-22/23) the macOS 15 pool queued for a median 2.4 min but a p90 of 83 min and a worst case of 178 min, while macOS 26 queued 0.3 min median / 1.0 min p90; execution time on 26 ran about 4 min longer. Pick `blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15` explicitly only when the question is specifically about macOS 15 behavior, and expect to wait for it.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the execution-time comparison.

The roughly four-minute difference is observational because the groups ran different tests. State this caveat so readers do not treat the result as evidence that macOS 26 executes the same tests more slowly.

The PR objectives note that the groups ran different tests.

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In `@skills/cmux-testing/references/local-vs-ci-validation.md` at line 34, Update
the execution-time comparison in the default runner guidance to state that the
roughly four-minute difference is observational because the macOS 26 and macOS
15 groups ran different tests; do not imply that macOS 26 runs the same tests
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**Do not re-dispatch the same selector at the same commit.** A focused run's result is a property of the commit; repeating it reprints the same failure at full cost. The wrapper now refuses a selector that already failed at that commit and points at the earlier run; read that run, fix the branch, push, and dispatch the new commit. `--force` exists for the rare case where you know the failure was infrastructure.

If a run fails with `selected test filter matched zero tests`, the selector is wrong or the test file is not wired into `project.pbxproj` (see the test wiring section of SKILL.md). Fix the selector; retrying an unmatched filter costs another full build and matches nothing again.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion tests/test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh
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if ! awk '
/^[[:space:]]*- name: Validate Tart canary identity$/ { in_tart_step=1; next }
in_tart_step && /^ - / { in_tart_step=0; in_runner_reject=0; in_marker_reject=0 }
in_tart_step && /startsWith\(\(!inputs\.runner \|\| inputs\.runner == '\''auto'\''\) && \(vars\.MACOS_RUNNER_[A-Z0-9_]+ \|\| '\''blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15'\''\) \|\| inputs\.runner, '\''tart-'\''\)/ { saw_effective_runner=1 }
in_tart_step && /startsWith\(\(!inputs\.runner \|\| inputs\.runner == '\''auto'\''\) && \(vars\.MACOS_RUNNER_[A-Z0-9_]+ \|\| '\''blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-[0-9]+'\''\) \|\| inputs\.runner, '\''tart-'\''\)/ { saw_effective_runner=1 }
in_tart_step && /REQUESTED_RUNNER:.*inputs\.runner/ { saw_requested_runner=1 }
in_tart_step && /RUNNER_CONTEXT_NAME: \$\{\{ runner\.name \}\}/ { saw_runner_context=1 }
in_tart_step && /tart-cmux-\*/ { saw_runner_pattern=1 }
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