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On an owned mini, a changed source in a local package (Packages/, vendor/, Examples/) recompiles every file of the cmux module, no matter how few inputs changed. Across 21 owned compile admissions on 2026-09-25 (00:00 to 09:00Z), every job whose start had a package change behind it compiled 2,300 to 2,700 cmux files (365 to 1,053 s). Starts without one compiled in 156 to 268 s.

owned_build_state.py prefer ranked starts by changed-input count only. Three warm jobs therefore cloned a kept seed 9 to 20 commits behind, because it had fewer changed inputs than the kept build:

job kept seed changed inputs compile
108004619872 (cmux9s) 68d44db, 13 package sources behind 115 958 s
107981633810 (austin-mini-1) a5101c9, behind 245c0ab (moves 209 package sources into CmuxCloud) 846 632 s
107994679262 (cmuxs-3) d15fae7 103 533 s

In the first two, the bucket held a nearer seed with no package change left to build. For 108004619872, compare/640136fe...2d844cb lists 31 files and no package source, and the PR added none. A start like that compiled in 222 s after a 279 s download (job 107986723124).

What

  • prefer ranks a start that recompiles the app (any changed .swift under a package root) below one that does not, then by changed inputs.
  • When the kept build and the kept seed both recompile the app, it asks GitHub's compare API whether the nearest bucket seed's commits up to the checkout change a package source. If they don't, it downloads that seed at any distance: about 250 s on a mini, against 365 to 958 s to recompile the app.
  • If the answer is unknown (API error, or a diff past the 300-file compare limit), today's choice stands. A bumped package submodule (compare lists vendor/bonsplit as a bare path) counts as a package change.
  • With CI_OWNED_PREFER_SEED=local the new ranking applies to the kept seed against the kept build, with no download. Unset, nothing changes.

Unit tests cover the ranking, both download cases, and the compare call.

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  • Build & CI
    • Improved build-cache selection by considering both changed inputs and whether changes require rebuilding the app. This can favor a cache that avoids a full app rebuild, even when it is farther behind or includes more changed inputs.
    • When cache comparisons are unavailable or inconclusive, the existing kept build remains available as a fallback.

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A changed source in a local package (Packages/, vendor/, Examples/)
recompiles every file of the cmux module, however few inputs changed.
prefer compared starts by changed-input count only, so a warm Mac cloned a
kept seed 9 to 20 commits behind (fewer changed inputs than its kept build)
and compiled for 533 to 958 s behind a package change that a nearer bucket
seed had already built (jobs 108004619872, 107981633810).

prefer now ranks a start that recompiles the app below one that does not.
When the kept build and the kept seed both would, it asks GitHub's compare
API whether the nearest bucket seed's commits up to the checkout change a
package source, and downloads that seed at any distance if not. Unknown
answers keep today's choice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

CI seed selection now considers whether a seed triggers a full app rebuild, as well as the number of changed inputs. Bucket seed comparisons use GitHub commit data to identify package-source changes.

Changes

CI seed selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Identify app-rebuild changes
scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py
Changed Swift sources under Packages/, vendor/, and Examples/ are classified as app rebuilds. Bucket seed comparisons use GitHub commit data and return unknown when comparison data is unavailable or exceeds 300 files.
Choose the preferred seed
scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py, .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml
Seed candidates are compared by app rebuild status and changed-input count. A bucket seed can replace a local seed or kept DerivedData when comparison confirms it avoids an app rebuild, including beyond the configured distance limit. The workflow text documents the selection behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bef1d

Some macOS CI jobs could spend time downloading a seed and rebuilding the app instead of using cheaper kept build data. Check the seed’s rebuild cost before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bef1d

The change affects CI build-cache selection, not an application entry point. It introduces a remote comparison into that decision, but errors retain the existing choice and a missed seed falls back to the Mac’s kept build. No introduced security vulnerability was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed decision can affect which cached build state an eligible owned CI runner adopts. The test-only public-entrypoint ranges do not establish a new attacker-facing endpoint or production dependency on tests.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Checkout and cached-seed information feed the preference decision, while GitHub’s comparison supplies the evidence for the new distant-seed choice. Failed or oversized comparisons do not authorize that choice.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Download tickets include job and seed identity; adoption rejects stale or mismatched tickets, and the workflow can use the kept build after a seed miss. An end-to-end recovery test specific to the newly eligible distant seed was not supplied.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Pass the compared exact bucket key through distant-seed start and adoption, and exercise interruption and retry of that path, so the downloaded candidate cannot differ from the one used for the distance exception.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: package source changes now affect how an owned Mac selects its starting build.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes owned-Mac build-state seed selection, package-source comparison, CI comments, and related tests. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, ma…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. The authoritative diff contains no production Swift file or…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, Python CI logic, and Python tests. It changes no Swift file and introduces no blocking or timing-based synchronization in production Swif…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. It does not modify the browser automation files or route an…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and adds no …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and its Python tests. It introduces no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript changes, so …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The non-Swift script adds bounded subprocess.run timeouts for git, gh api, and .gitmodules reads. It adds no sleep, timer, polling, backoff, delayed dispatch, or wall-clock wait used t…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The changed production path uses linear scans. changed_paths builds dictionaries and a union over recorded inputs, and cost performs one linear package-prefix check. prefer evaluates the kept an…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py; it contains no changed Swift files. The Swif…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swi…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. The authoritative diff contains no Swift changes, so …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS — The reviewed diff changes only CI comments, owned-build selection logic, and tests. It does not change any Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, or Xcode project package-reference …
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, Python CI logic, and Python tests. It adds no production Swift files or Swift logging statements. The workflow echo commands are CI output, w…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and its tests. The new text and JSON reason values are internal owned-Mac CI/build diagnostics and work…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. These are CI logic, operational comments, and tests. It adds no…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. The diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI changes, so the Swift…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only one YAML workflow and two Python files. It adds no Swift, SwiftUI, AppKit, or lifecycle-owner code. The added code selects CI build seeds and tests that selection; …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml and two Python files. It adds no Swift files or Swift window code, so the auxiliary-window close-shortcut rule is not appl…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. These are intentional workflow, source, and test files. The dif…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The pull request changes only .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py, and tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py. It changes no Swift file under a production Sources/ path…
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GitHub's compare lists a submodule bump (vendor/bonsplit) as the bare
submodule path, so the bucket-seed check missed it while the local
records saw the .swift files under it. Read the submodule paths from
.gitmodules, include renamed files' previous names, and bring the
workflow comment and the timing comment in line with the new ranking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py`:
- Around line 472-473: Update the within-max-distance download branch in the
seed-selection logic to compare rebuild behavior before replacing kept
DerivedData: when kept_cost indicates it does not rebuild the app, download the
bucket seed only if bucket_seed_rebuilds_app(exact, workspace) is False.
Preserve the existing download behavior when kept_cost is missing or indicates a
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result.update(downloaded, reason=f"seed {distance} commits behind, within {max_distance}"
+ ("" if kept_cost is not None else "; kept DerivedData has no input record"))

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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git rev-parse cbebee8fc9e7e92563383820db97b193623e390a bef1de725cb4066c4878d18911618de6e6262351
sed -n '330,485p' scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py
sed -n '375,490p' tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py
sed -n '500,516p' .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml

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printf '%s\n' '--- changed hunk against requested base ---'
git diff --unified=12 cbebee8fc9e7e92563383820db97b193623e390a bef1de725cb4066c4878d18911618de6e6262351 -- scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml

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Compare bucket rebuild cost before replacing non-rebuilding DerivedData.

When kept_cost == (False, n) and the bucket seed is within max_distance, the current branch downloads it without calling bucket_seed_rebuilds_app. A package-source change can then force a full app rebuild, while the kept DerivedData only recompiles the n changed inputs.

Suggested fix
-    elif distance <= max_distance:
+    elif distance <= max_distance and (
+            kept_cost is None or kept_cost[0] or bucket_seed_rebuilds_app(exact, workspace) is False):

Update test_a_seed_to_download_wins_only_within_max_distance to return False from bucket_seed_rebuilds_app.

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In `@scripts/ci/owned_build_state.py` around lines 472 - 473, Update the
within-max-distance download branch in the seed-selection logic to compare
rebuild behavior before replacing kept DerivedData: when kept_cost indicates it
does not rebuild the app, download the bucket seed only if
bucket_seed_rebuilds_app(exact, workspace) is False. Preserve the existing
download behavior when kept_cost is missing or indicates a rebuild, and update
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Possible regression after this merged (09:51 UTC): every failed macOS compile admission since ~10:09 on owned glaeda minis fails with error: Unable to resolve module dependency: '_SwiftSyntaxCShims' (in target 'cmux'), ** TEST BUILD FAILED **. Runs: 36122437688 (cmux10s-mac-mini-glaeda), 36122561105 + 36122789941 (cmuxs-mac-mini-3-glaeda), 36122610745 (cmuxs-mac-mini-5-glaeda), 36122728732 (cmux10s-mac-mini-glaeda-1), across unrelated PRs. Looks like a starting build/seed whose SwiftPM module graph does not match the checkout. Not proven to be this PR; flagging because the timing lines up.

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Correction to my earlier note: main was also broken until #14461 (10:23 UTC) because AgentChatProseStreamWakeDriver.swift was not in the app target, and a Blacksmith rerun failed on that, not on _SwiftSyntaxCShims. The glaeda runs above do report error: Unable to resolve module dependency: '_SwiftSyntaxCShims' as their own error, so that may still be separate, but please weigh it against the main break before acting on it.

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