ci: pick the pool with the least expected wait; reserve nothing for future jobs

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Why

Leo doesn't want owned capacity reserved and sitting idle. The picker charged every in-flight run's future jobs at its full peak against the machines free now. That caused two problems:

• Stale over-count. Run 36099432041 logged "-5 of 15 root runners free... counting 11 machine(s) newer runs took" while minis sat idle. On 2026-09-25, 31 of 36 std runners were idle while 21 jobs queued on Blacksmith for 5 to 12 minutes.
• Reservation steal (the ci: let a run queue a round behind busy pools instead of rolling over #14401 re-review). Run A takes free minis and keeps the 30 s rescue budget. Run B is accepted into machines A was counting on, A's shards wait behind B, and the rescue cancels A.

What

With CI_PR_POOL_QUEUE_ROUNDS > 0 (default 1, at most 3):

• Least expected wait. Expected wait = the queue a job joins, in rounds (queued jobs over machines), times a job's length there (JOB_MINUTES: 5 min on 12vcpu, 10 min elsewhere), plus COLD_ROUNDS on macOS 15.
  • An owned pool (std, then light) takes the run while three things hold: its jobs start no later than this run's jobs would on the best Blacksmith pool (both sides compared at added + jobs), within rounds job lengths, and within the queue bound (owned_room()).
  • Otherwise the Blacksmith pool with the least expected wait for admission takes the run; the shards may still spread to another pool.
• Wait counts what holds a label now. That is jobs queued and running, plus each run since the snapshot at young_charge(): min(peak, 3) while the run is younger than a job length (10 min), and its whole marker peak after that, once its shards exist.
  • A replayed run (its pick not known yet) is compared at REPLAYED_RUN_JOBS, not one job, so a replay while the fleet is busy still charges the minis.
  • An idle mini is never held for a shard that doesn't exist yet. A later run takes it, and the shard joins the label's queue behind that run in GitHub's order.
• Queue bound. Everything the runs holding a label will need at their peak (the janitor's committed, the markers of runs since the snapshot, replayed runs at 3), plus this run's peak, must stay within machines x (1 + rounds). Root runners (ci: route owned-mini root jobs to the root runner label #14357) use the same two limits.
  • Live mode (ci: read the owned pools' free machines live through the org route App #14350): a label with no idle runner is charged the stale queue plus the older runs' peaks. The bound uses the snapshot's committed plus those peaks.
• Main's full-suite dispatch (ci: route main's full-suite dispatch onto the owned Mac minis #14405) is ported into the new pick(). It takes owned pools only and never Blacksmith; with no Blacksmith pool to compare against, its jobs may wait up to the rounds and the bound. With CI_OWNED_MAIN_RESERVE > 0 it keeps that many machines and root runners free, takes the pool only whole, and does not queue.
• Kill switch. CI_PR_POOL_QUEUE_ROUNDS=0 restores the old accounting exactly: owned_free(), meaning max(running + queued, committed), the marker peaks, replayed runs at 3, and Blacksmith's first-free-else-shortest-rounds rule. Retries, E2E and iOS use 0.
• Unchanged: the split (owned_jobs), root routing, the GUI switch, warm affinity (ci: send compile admission to the owned Mac that kept a build of its merge base #14396), and the light retry (ci: let a stuck owned run's re-run take the light tier, behind CI_OWNED_LIGHT_RETRY #14336).
• Rescue.
  • The macos-pool-queued-* marker from ci: let a run queue a round behind busy pools instead of rolling over #14401 is deleted, along with its ci.yml step and used_queue().
  • Any owned job of a CI run (pull request or main's dispatch) may wait behind runs accepted later, within the bounded queue. Its budget is CI_OWNED_POOL_RESCUE_SECONDS plus 900 s per round: 930 s by default, 3300 s at most.
  • Each job's budget is also cut to end END_MARGIN_SECONDS (60 s) before the 3600 s watch does, counted from when the job started waiting, and never below the configured budget. So a shard queued late in a run is still rescued.
  • With rounds 0, and for E2E, iOS and side-lane runs, the budget stays at 30 s.
  • Side lanes (ci: run seven light side-lane jobs on owned minis behind CI_SIDE_LANE_RUNNER #14391) have no picker and keep 30 s. They share the same minis, so they will be rescued to Blacksmith more often.
• Re-running only a split run's stuck owned jobs instead of a full cancel is not cheap, so this PR doesn't do it. GitHub can't re-run a queued job on its own, and "re-run failed jobs" needs the run cancelled first. Attempt 2 of a bot re-run also sends owned-eligible jobs back to the owned label (pr_refused_retry_runner), so a stuck job would queue there again before attempt 3 reaches Blacksmith. Doing it properly needs a ci.yml runs-on change that tells a stuck retry apart from a refused one. Left as a follow-up.
• The reason text clamps oversubscribed counts to 0 free (never "-4 of 14").

Not in this PR

• JOB_MINUTES is a static estimate: owned admission had a median of 638 s on 09-25. Measuring it per pool from CI history would sharpen it.

Tests

• tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py: 152 OK.
  • KillSwitchMatchesUpstream: a 576-case pull request grid and a 144-case grid for main's dispatch (busy machines and root runners, committed, CI_OWNED_MAIN_RESERVE, split, a newer run) both decide exactly as upstream main (2d844cb, which includes ci: route main's full-suite dispatch onto the owned Mac minis #14405) did with rounds 0.
  • test_back_to_back_runs_keep_the_owned_queue_bounded: 12 full suites back to back on 12 minis place exactly 12 x (1 + rounds) jobs and never more, for rounds 1, 2 and 3, with young and old runs.
  • test_a_marker_run_holds_its_admission_while_young_and_its_peak_after and test_a_replayed_run_is_compared_at_the_jobs_it_has.
  • MainFullSuite (from ci: route main's full-suite dispatch onto the owned Mac minis #14405): main queues within the rounds, the reserve keeps it off the queue, and main keeps its route past the bound.
  • Earlier cases: 12vcpu vs 6vcpu by expected wait, a seeded queue before a cold free machine, a busy fleet queueing within Blacksmith's wait, the reservation-steal case, the root runners from run 36101290548 (0 at rounds 0, as main; 4 with queueing), a live busy fleet, forks, and main.
• tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py: 74 OK. A shard queued 5 min behind a later run is not rescued; still rescued past 930 s; a late shard is judged before the watch ends; a job's budget never drops below the configured one; rounds 0 at 30 s; E2E 30 s; the 3300 s cap; main's dispatch gets the expected owned wait.
• tests/test_run_e2e.py: 101 OK, unchanged from main.
• Also passing: test_ci_queue_janitor, test_ci_fork_runner_routing, test_runner_label_policy, test_ci_health_report, test_ci_owned_warm_labels, test_ci_owned_build_state, test_seed_derived_data, test_ci_workflow_run_sources.py, test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh.

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• CI Improvements
  • Pull-request jobs are routed based on estimated queue wait, job duration, and pool capacity to select a suitable runner pool.
  • Owned-pool selection is bounded by the configured queue-round limit and the expected wait in the best alternative pool. Setting queue rounds to zero limits routing to immediate capacity.
  • CI jobs waiting behind other runs receive a queue allowance based on expected wait, including E2E, iOS, side-lane, and rerun jobs. Late-starting jobs’ budgets are adjusted to fit within the watch period, subject to a configured minimum.
• Documentation
  • Updated CI runner guidance to explain queue limits, wait estimates, and capacity accounting.

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The pull request replaces first-fit runner routing with expected-wait selection using current and peak load estimates. Owned-pool admission is bounded by wait and queue-round limits. CI rescue budgets include configured queue-round time, and queued-marker upload and checks are removed.

Changes

CI Runner Pool Routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Current and peak load accounting scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py, docs/ci-runners.md, tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py	Owned-pool accounting separates current load from peak load for newer runs. Queue bounds use future peak load when available.
Expected-wait selection and placement scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py, docs/ci-runners.md, tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py	The picker compares expected waits across Blacksmith pools and evaluates owned and root-pool room against wait and queue-round limits. Tests cover split placement, zero-round routing, and expected-wait outcomes.
Rescue budgets and queued-marker removal scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, docs/ci-runners.md, tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py	CI rescue budgets include queue-round time without checking a queued marker. The workflow no longer uploads the marker. Tests cover CI and non-CI budget behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Decide as decide
  participant Picker as pick
  participant Wait as expected_wait
  participant Room as owned_room
  Decide->>Picker: Pass pool loads and queue rounds
  Picker->>Wait: Compare Blacksmith expected waits
  Picker->>Room: Calculate owned-pool room within wait and queue bounds
  Picker-->>Decide: Return pool choice and placement room

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 94154

Owned-pool rescue now waits up to the full queue-round allowance for every CI run, but the watcher still stops after one hour. When queue rounds are high, shards that start late can stay stuck in an owned-pool queue without being moved elsewhere, which delays CI. Two smaller issues also remain: the documented queue allowance is inaccurate, and routing messages can show negative free-machine counts. Fix the rescue deadline before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 94154

Forked pull requests remain restricted to ephemeral runners, but rescue timing can diverge from the policy used when a run was routed if the queue-round setting changes while it is waiting. That can delay recovery of stuck CI checks. The rescue still has a bounded watch period, and no credential-boundary regression was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Rescue derives its allowance from the current queue-round setting, not the setting under which the run was admitted. After a configuration change, an owned CI job can be rescued earlier than its admitted wait allowance or a stuck job can wait longer for recovery.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed scheduling and recovery behavior affects CI runs sharing owned and Blacksmith runner capacity; the inspected eligibility checks do not extend fork-originated code to persistent owned runners.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Fork routing uses snapshot-copied settings and removes persistent labels before selection; rescue rejects fork heads and validates the run it watches.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Rescue has a bounded watch and follows eligible retries with a fresh deadline; the changed allowance affects when recovery starts, not an unlimited retry loop.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Persist the admission-time queue-round policy with the run’s route, or otherwise make rescue use an immutable policy for that run, so configuration changes do not alter its recovery budget.

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Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only .yml, .md, and Python files. It adds no production Swift changes and no synchronous Swift agent-history load on a main-actor or interactive path. The expensive synchr…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only YAML, Markdown, and Python files (scripts/ci/*.py and tests/*.py). It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript change, so this cache-substi…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	No hacky sleep was introduced. The production rescue script has the same four sleep(...) call sites in base and head; the PR only removes the queued-marker lookup and passes the bounded queue allowa…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	No algorithmic-complexity violation is introduced. The new picker work scans the configured pool list, which is explicitly bounded to three Blacksmith pools and two owned classes. The replay loop is l…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow, documentation, Python scripts, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift code, so it does not introduce or expand any legacy …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The authoritative pull-request diff changes only CI YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python tests. It contains no Swift files or Swift concurrency constructs, so `.github/review-bot-rules/swift-concurrent-…
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Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR changes only CI workflow logic, documentation, Python routing/rescue code, and tests. The workflow diff removes an artifact upload for macos-pool-queued; it does not change SwiftPM dependenci…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python test files. It adds or materially changes no Swift logging, so the Swift logging rule does not apply.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff changes only GitHub Actions CI routing, rescue diagnostics, CI documentation, and tests. The changed rescue log is emitted by scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py in the `ci-owned-pool-res…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CI workflow/configuration, operational Python pool-selection and rescue scripts, operational CI documentation, and tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files, web …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflow, documentation, Python scripts, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI files, so it introduces none of the prohibited Swi…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The PR changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and Python test files. The review-scoped inventory contains no Swift files or Swift UI/platform code. Therefore the Swift architectural rethink criteria do …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow, documentation, Python scripts, and Python tests. It contains no Swift or standalone cmux-owned window changes, so the auxiliary-window close-shortcut rule do…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All six changed paths are intentional repository files: one workflow config, one durable CI document, two hand-written Python scripts, and two test modules. The diff adds no artifact directories, gene…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and test files. It contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so the no-test-debug-seam rule is not appli…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: selecting the pool with the least expected wait and removing reservation of capacity for future jobs.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the documented queue allowance.

queue_seconds(None) returns 900 seconds by default, not 930. The 930-second figure applies only to a total budget with RESCUE_SECONDS=30. State the queue allowance separately from the total budget so operators can calculate the rescue threshold.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The routing reason reports negative free machines and too many queue places.

owned_room(..., 0) returns a negative number when jobs already queue on the pool. For example, fleet(busy=11, queued=5) with split gives free_now = -5 and chosen.room = 2. The reason then reads "-5 of 11 owned machines free and 7 queue places". The correct values are 0 free and 2 places. The module docstring names this kind of negative count ("-5 of 15 root runners free") as the original symptom. Clamp the free count to 0 and compute the places from the clamped value. Apply the same change to root_now on lines 1010-1013.

🐛 Proposed fix

-        free_now = owned_room(label, load[label], added[label] * REPLAYED_RUN_JOBS, 0)
+        free_now = max(0, owned_room(label, load[label], added[label] * REPLAYED_RUN_JOBS, 0))
         places = chosen.room - free_now

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	free_now = owned_room(label, load[label], added[label] * REPLAYED_RUN_JOBS, 0)
	places = chosen.room - free_now
	machines = f"{free_now} of {load[label]['capacity']} owned machines free"
	if places > 0:
	machines += f" and {places} queue places within {chosen.limit:g} min"
	free_now = max(0, owned_room(label, load[label], added[label] * REPLAYED_RUN_JOBS, 0))
	places = chosen.room - free_now
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Keep the rescue watch open long enough for late CI shards.

If queue rounds are capped at three and RESCUE_SECONDS is 600, this call gives a queued job a 3,300-second budget. A shard created more than 300 seconds after the watch starts cannot reach that budget before the 3,600-second watch deadline. watch then stops without rescuing a shard that remains queued. Account for late job creation when setting the deadline, while preserving enough job time to cancel and re-run safely.

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