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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml
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Expand Up @@ -384,6 +384,10 @@ jobs:
if: ${{ matrix.group == 'ci' }}
run: python3 tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py

- name: Validate late placement onto idle root runners
if: ${{ matrix.group == 'ci' }}
run: python3 tests/test_ci_late_placement.py

- name: Validate owned Mac build state
if: ${{ matrix.group == 'ci' }}
run: python3 tests/test_ci_owned_build_state.py
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96 changes: 90 additions & 6 deletions .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml
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Expand Up @@ -139,6 +139,12 @@ on:
required: false
default: ""
type: string
secrets:
# The org's manaflow-glaeda-route App key (read-only on runners), for
# late-placement's live read of idle root runners. Optional: without it
# the jobs keep their run-start placement.
GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_KEY:
required: false

permissions:
contents: read
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1361,13 +1367,89 @@ jobs:
;;
esac

late-placement:
# The picker (pr_runner_pool.py) places every job when the run starts, but
# the shards, tests-build-and-lag and cli-product-tests start only after
# compile admission, often ten minutes later. When the owned pool was full
# at the start they are committed to Blacksmith and queue there even after
# root runners drain. This re-reads the idle root runners live once
# admission succeeds and moves the jobs that are not already owned onto
# them, one per idle runner (scripts/ci/late_placement.py). They reuse
# admission's uploaded products there, as after an owned admission. Any
# failure outputs {} and leaves every job where the picker put it.
# Pull requests only: main's full-suite dispatch already runs on the owned
# pools and keeps CI_OWNED_MAIN_RESERVE's machines for pull requests.
needs:
- macos-compile-admission
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.macos-compile-admission.result == 'success' && github.run_attempt == 1 && github.repository_owner == 'manaflow-ai' && github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository && vars.CI_PR_POOL_OWNED == '1' && vars.GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_ID != '' && (!startsWith(needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner, 'glaeda-') || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ')) }}
runs-on: ${{ github.repository_owner != 'manaflow-ai' && 'ubuntu-24.04' || vars.LINUX_RUNNER || 'blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404' }}
timeout-minutes: 3
permissions:
contents: read
outputs:
runners: ${{ steps.place.outputs.runners || '{}' }}
steps:
# The picker's code from the base branch, as ci.yml's changes job uses it.
- name: Check out the trusted picker
continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
sparse-checkout: scripts/ci
persist-credentials: false
- name: Mint the owned-pool routing token
id: route-token
continue-on-error: true
timeout-minutes: 1
uses: actions/create-github-app-token@bcd2ba49218906704ab6c1aa796996da409d3eb1 # v3.2.0
with:
app-id: ${{ vars.GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_ID }}
private-key: ${{ secrets.GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_KEY }}
permission-administration: read
- name: Place the jobs after admission
id: place
continue-on-error: true
timeout-minutes: 1
env:
ROUTE_TOKEN: ${{ steps.route-token.outputs.token }}
MACOS: ${{ inputs.macos }}
CLI: ${{ inputs.cli }}
FULL_SUITE: ${{ inputs.full_suite }}
UNIT_SUITE: ${{ inputs.unit_suite }}
UNIT_IN_ADMISSION: ${{ inputs.unit_in_admission }}
UNIT_SELECTORS: ${{ inputs.unit_selectors }}
OWNED_JOBS: ${{ inputs.pr_owned_jobs }}
POOL_OWNED_GUI: ${{ vars.CI_PR_POOL_OWNED_GUI }}
ADMISSION_RUNNER: ${{ needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
ADMISSION_XCODE_APP: ${{ needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.xcode_app }}
run: python3 scripts/ci/late_placement.py
# A moved job waits for a root runner, which another run may take first.
# ci.yml's owned-pool-watch starts the rescue for a run that might get
# here, and this marker tells it jobs moved (owned_pool_rescue.py,
# LATE_MARKER_PREFIX), so it watches them like any owned job.
- name: Record the moved jobs
if: steps.place.outputs.runners != '' && steps.place.outputs.runners != '{}'
continue-on-error: true
env:
RUNNERS: ${{ steps.place.outputs.runners }}
run: mkdir -p "$RUNNER_TEMP/late-placement" && printf '%s\n' "$RUNNERS" > "$RUNNER_TEMP/late-placement/runners.json"
- name: Upload the late placement marker
if: steps.place.outputs.runners != '' && steps.place.outputs.runners != '{}'
continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make placement conditional on successful marker publication.

If Upload the late placement marker fails, continue-on-error lets the job expose the nonempty runners output. Consumers then request owned runners, but owned_pool_rescue.watch() finds no marker and stops watching them. Gate the published runner mapping on a successful marker upload. Treat a missing marker file as an upload failure, so both cases use the existing route.

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In @.github/workflows/ci-macos.yml around lines 1438 - 1439, Gate the published
runners mapping on successful completion of “Upload the late placement marker”;
treat a missing marker file as an upload failure so both upload failures and
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with:
name: macos-pool-late-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
path: ${{ runner.temp }}/late-placement/runners.json
retention-days: 1

app-host-unit-tests:
permissions:
contents: read
actions: read
id-token: write
needs:
- macos-compile-admission
- late-placement
# !cancelled() disables the implicit success() gate, which GitHub evaluates
# over the transitive needs chain: linux-preflight runs behind routed linux
# jobs that legitimately skip (web/go/agent-session paths), and that
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# Xcode with more room, and admission's own pool when it is empty. A
# placed shard takes the admission's runner, which is pr_root_runner
# when the pool has one.
runs-on: ${{ github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard)) && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard))) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_shard_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
runs-on: ${{ github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')[format('shard-{0}', matrix.shard)] || github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard)) && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard))) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_shard_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
timeout-minutes: 75
strategy:
# A pull request wants every shard's failures in one run. A merge group
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1479,7 +1561,7 @@ jobs:
- name: Verify GitHub-hosted route
env:
RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ runner.environment }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard)) && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard))) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_shard_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')[format('shard-{0}', matrix.shard)] || github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard)) && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, format(' shard-{0} ', matrix.shard))) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_shard_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
RUNNER_CONTEXT_NAME: ${{ runner.name }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
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id-token: write
needs:
- macos-compile-admission
- late-placement
# Targeted CLI routing consumes the shared compiled product even when prior
# compile admission exists; it does not enable the app-host/full-suite lanes.
# Same !cancelled() reasoning as app-host-unit-tests: the implicit success()
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# on the pool and Xcode that built it: the test bundle only loads under
# the Xcode that linked it. On an owned-pool run it may take
# pr_retry_runner instead, as the shards do.
runs-on: ${{ github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
runs-on: ${{ github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')['cli-product'] || github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
timeout-minutes: 40
env:
CMUX_NODE_PRODUCT_CACHE_ROOT: ${{ vars.CMUX_NODE_PRODUCT_CACHE_ROOT }}
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- name: Verify GitHub-hosted route
env:
RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ runner.environment }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')['cli-product'] || github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' cli-product ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || needs.macos-compile-admission.outputs.runner }}
RUNNER_CONTEXT_NAME: ${{ runner.name }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
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id-token: write
needs:
- macos-compile-admission
- late-placement
# !cancelled() disables the implicit success() gate, which GitHub evaluates
# over the transitive needs chain: linux-preflight runs behind routed linux
# jobs that legitimately skip (web/go/agent-session paths), and that
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# full-suite dispatch follows admission onto the pull-request pool and
# Xcode. The product consumer guard in the CI change-area tests fails when
# the two drift.
runs-on: ${{ github.repository_owner != 'manaflow-ai' && 'macos-26' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && (startsWith(inputs.pr_runner, 'blacksmith-') && inputs.pr_runner || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && (github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_runner || vars.MACOS_RUNNER_PR || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || vars.CI_PAID_MACOS_OVERFLOW == '1' && vars.MACOS_RUNNER_DISPLAY || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') }}
runs-on: ${{ github.repository_owner != 'manaflow-ai' && 'macos-26' || github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')['lag'] || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && (startsWith(inputs.pr_runner, 'blacksmith-') && inputs.pr_runner || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && (github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_runner || vars.MACOS_RUNNER_PR || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || vars.CI_PAID_MACOS_OVERFLOW == '1' && vars.MACOS_RUNNER_DISPLAY || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') }}
timeout-minutes: 75
env:
CMUX_NODE_PRODUCT_CACHE_ROOT: ${{ vars.CMUX_NODE_PRODUCT_CACHE_ROOT }}
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steps:
- name: Validate display runner identity
env:
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.repository_owner != 'manaflow-ai' && 'macos-26' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && (startsWith(inputs.pr_runner, 'blacksmith-') && inputs.pr_runner || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && (github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_runner || vars.MACOS_RUNNER_PR || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || vars.CI_PAID_MACOS_OVERFLOW == '1' && vars.MACOS_RUNNER_DISPLAY || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') }}
REQUESTED_RUNNER: ${{ github.repository_owner != 'manaflow-ai' && 'macos-26' || github.run_attempt == 1 && fromJSON(needs.late-placement.outputs.runners || '{}')['lag'] || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name != github.repository && (startsWith(inputs.pr_runner, 'blacksmith-') && inputs.pr_runner || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && (github.run_attempt == 2 && github.triggering_actor == 'github-actions[bot]' && contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ') && (inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_refused_retry_runner) || (github.run_attempt > 1 || !contains(inputs.pr_owned_jobs, ' lag ')) && inputs.pr_retry_runner || inputs.pr_root_runner || inputs.pr_runner || vars.MACOS_RUNNER_PR || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') || vars.CI_PAID_MACOS_OVERFLOW == '1' && vars.MACOS_RUNNER_DISPLAY || 'blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-15') }}
RUNNER_CONTEXT_NAME: ${{ runner.name }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/ci-owned-pool-rescue.yml
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Expand Up @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ on:
required: false
default: "1"
type: string
late:
description: 1 when the picker placed nothing owned, so the watch waits for ci-macos.yml's late placement
required: false
default: "0"
type: string

permissions: {}

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RESCUE_SECONDS: ${{ vars.CI_OWNED_POOL_RESCUE_SECONDS }}
POOL_OWNED: ${{ vars.CI_PR_POOL_OWNED }}
WATCH_RUN_ID: ${{ inputs.run_id }}
# 1: wait for ci-macos.yml's late-placement before calling the run ephemeral.
LATE_PLACEMENT: ${{ inputs.late }}
# 1: a stuck run's full re-run may take the light pool; watch it.
OWNED_LIGHT_RETRY: ${{ vars.CI_OWNED_LIGHT_RETRY }}
run: python3 scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py
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# same-repository pull request, so it is watched too.
name: Watch owned pool jobs
needs: changes
if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_owned_jobs != '' && (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && github.run_attempt == 1 && vars.CI_PR_POOL_OWNED == '1' && (vars.CI_OWNED_POOL_RESCUE || '1') != '0' }}
# A same-repository pull request whose picker placed nothing owned is
# watched too when ci-macos.yml's late-placement may still move its jobs
# after compile admission (a full or unit suite, or the CLI lane): the
# watch waits for that job and follows the run only if it moved some.
if: ${{ (needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_owned_jobs != '' || github.event_name == 'pull_request' && vars.GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_ID != '' && (needs.changes.outputs.macos == 'true' && (needs.changes.outputs.full_suite == 'true' || needs.changes.outputs.unit_suite == 'true') || needs.changes.outputs.cli == 'true')) && (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') && github.run_attempt == 1 && vars.CI_PR_POOL_OWNED == '1' && (vars.CI_OWNED_POOL_RESCUE || '1') != '0' }}
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04 # github-hosted-required: one API call; keeps CI's Linux pool free
timeout-minutes: 5
# Job level, like reverse-test-impact, so macos-admission-gate never
Expand All @@ -1021,7 +1025,9 @@ jobs:
GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
RUN_ID: ${{ github.run_id }}
RUN_ATTEMPT: ${{ github.run_attempt }}
run: gh workflow run ci-owned-pool-rescue.yml --ref main -f run_id="$RUN_ID" -f run_attempt="$RUN_ATTEMPT"
# 1 when the picker placed nothing owned: wait for late placement.
LATE: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_owned_jobs == '' && '1' || '0' }}
run: gh workflow run ci-owned-pool-rescue.yml --ref main -f run_id="$RUN_ID" -f run_attempt="$RUN_ATTEMPT" -f late="$LATE"

static-preflight:
name: Fast static checks
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pr_root_runner: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_root_runner }}
pr_admission_runner: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_admission_runner }}
pr_xcode_app: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.macos_pr_xcode_app }}
# ci-macos.yml's late-placement reads idle root runners with it.
secrets:
GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_KEY: ${{ secrets.GLAEDA_ROUTE_APP_KEY }}

tests:
name: tests
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