ci: run the shell and CLI no-socket lanes in parallel

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The shell and CLI no-socket regression lanes now run eight tests at a time, with timing-sensitive tests run alone first. On the earlier head 70fd1275fba4, all 73 tests passed and the combined test tail took 80 seconds, compared with 418 seconds across the previous two steps. This is a test-tail measurement, not a whole-job speedup.

The runner accepts repeated --lane flags, captures each test's output, kills its process group after a timeout, and reports every failure after all tests finish. Process-start failures also become test results instead of aborting the report. Tests retain the inherited private TMPDIR to preserve wrapper trust checks and Unix socket path limits.

Validation

At 52b716aac51d1ccf04dd5a4ed42f6fb38ffd040c, 28 runner/registry tests and 66 local guard steps passed. A separate regression commit demonstrated process-start failures aborting serial and concurrent runs before the fix. Independent repair review found no remaining issues. Current-head CI is pending; the earlier native dispatch establishes the 73-test timing result above.

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Summary by cubic

Runs the shell and CLI no-socket regression lanes in parallel with --jobs N, cutting the app-host shard's ~7-minute sequential test tail.

• run_python_test_lane.py accepts repeated --lane flags; output is captured to a file, a hung test is killed after a 900-second timeout (--timeout), and failures no longer stop the remaining tests. A test that cannot start is reported as a failure and the run continues.
• Tests keep the inherited per-user TMPDIR; a /tmp-based one put the Codex wrapper's test helper under a world-writable ancestor.
• New serial = true registry field runs an entry alone before the pool; the wall-clock deadline test is the one serial entry.
• The registry parser reads TOML booleans; the validator checks the serial field and multi-lane invocations; ci-macos.yml folds the four lanes into one --jobs 8 step.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Automated macOS regression checks now cover multiple shell and CLI test lanes in a single run, with tests running concurrently where appropriate.
  • Test runs use isolated temporary directories, enforce time limits, and continue after individual failures so results include a fuller picture of issues.
  • Checks also recognize tests that need to run alone, helping avoid interference with time-sensitive tests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Python lane runner now combines multiple lanes, runs tests in isolated processes with optional concurrency and timeouts, and reports all results. Registry validation supports serial entries and repeated lane arguments. The macOS workflow invokes four regression lanes together.

Changes

Python CI lane execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry and lane selection contract scripts/ci/test_execution_registry.py, scripts/ci/validate_test_execution_registry.py, tests/test-execution.toml, tests/test_ci_test_execution_registry.py	Registry parsing handles lowercase TOML booleans. Validation accepts boolean serial entries and discovers all lane arguments. The deadline test is marked serial, and tests cover the updated parsing and discovery.
Isolated concurrent lane execution scripts/ci/run_python_test_lane.py, tests/test_ci_test_execution_registry.py	The runner supports multiple lanes, per-test TMPDIR values, serial execution, bounded concurrency, timeouts, and continued execution after failures. Tests cover isolation, ordering, timeouts, and result reporting.
Combined macOS lane invocation .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml	The workflow runs four regression lanes in one invocation with eight workers. Fish installation and the availability check remain.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as macOS workflow
  participant Runner as Python lane runner
  participant Tests as Test processes
  Workflow->>Runner: Invoke four lanes with eight jobs
  Runner->>Tests: Run serial tests, then pooled tests
  Tests-->>Runner: Return exit codes and captured output
  Runner-->>Workflow: Report results and return status

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 124d8

The combined CI lanes can produce a false test failure or incomplete and misordered failure reports. Resolve these issues before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 124d8

Running up to eight tests together improves throughput, but a cancelled run may not stop its tests promptly. The risk is bounded to the CI execution environment; there is no established new path to privileged execution.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Runner cancellation does not explicitly terminate the newly detached test process groups. An interrupted concurrent run may leave tests active until their own timeout or external cleanup, weakening containment on a reused runner.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new cancellation-containment issue affects active test processes in the macOS CI job, up to the configured eight workers, and potentially resources those tests can access on their runner. Cross-run persistence depends on runner cleanup and was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Repository test code can run in detached child sessions with the inherited job environment. If the runner is stopped without terminating those sessions, tests may continue after the job’s intended execution window. No credential theft or privilege gain is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The named caller runs on pull requests and grants the macOS workflow read-scoped repository permissions alongside an OIDC-token permission. The inspected lane step supplies a built CLI path, not a secret; which credentials remain usable by a surviving child is unknown.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Timeout handling protects against a hung individual test, but executor shutdown can wait for workers during interruption, while default termination has no explicit path to kill their detached process groups.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give the runner ownership of active process groups on cancellation and termination, then verify that children and temporary state are cleaned up in interrupt-specific tests.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (24 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only macOS CI workflow orchestration, the Python test-lane runner, registry parsing/validation, registry data, and runner tests. The diff contains no Cloud terminal crea…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python CI runner/validator code, a TOML registry, and Python tests. It contains no Swift production changes, so it introduces no Swift…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The pull request changes no Swift, Objective-C, or Objective-C++ files. The changes are limited to CI workflow, Python runner/validator code, registry data, and Python tests. Therefore, the Swift bloc…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only macOS CI workflow, Python lane-runner/registry code, and related tests. The authoritative diff contains no browser socket command, WebKit/AppKit access, main-actor routing, w…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python CI runner/validator code, TOML registry data, and Python tests. The review-scoped diff contains no Swift files and no production Swift changes…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only GitHub Actions YAML, Python CI scripts, TOML registry data, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript production changes…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed runtime runner adds a bounded child-process timeout and kills the process group after expiry. This is dedicated timeout handling with direct tests, not a readiness or lifecycle delay…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only macOS CI YAML, Python CI tooling, registry data, and Python tests. It does not change Swift, TypeScript, JavaScript, shell application code, or a production runtime…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI YAML, Python CI scripts, TOML registry data, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or cmux-owned Swift code, so it introduces no legacy Swif…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow, Python runner/registry code, TOML, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift declarations/call sites, so the Swift @concurren…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow, Python runner/registry/validator code, TOML configuration, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift changes, so t…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR changes one workflow and CI Python/TOML test files. The workflow diff only combines test-lane invocations and installs fish; it does not change SwiftPM dependencies, Xcode package references, o…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only macOS CI YAML, Python CI/registry code, and tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift logging changes, so the Swift logging failure …
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff changes only macOS CI workflow code, CI lane runner/registry code, and tests. The new output and errors are internal CI diagnostics, and no changed text has a concrete path to a cmux en…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow code, CI runner/validator Python scripts, registry configuration, and tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, web UI, metadata, API response, rendere…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow, Python runner/registry code, TOML configuration, and Python tests. It introduces no SwiftUI or Swift source changes, so the SwiftUI state/layout failure cond…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflow, Python runner/validator code, TOML registry data, and Python tests. The review-scoped diff contains no Swift files, so the Swift architectural-rethink …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff changes only CI workflow, Python scripts, and test registry files. It contains no Swift changes and does not add or modify any cmux-owned auxiliary window. The close-shortc…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All six changed paths are intentional CI workflow, runner, registry, configuration, or test files. The diff adds no artifact files or artifact directories. Temporary directories and per-test log files…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI YAML, Python runner/validator code, and test registry files. It adds no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so it cannot introduce a production test or debu…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: running the shell and CLI no-socket CI lanes in parallel.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the runner changes, performance result, validation status, and changelog entry. It does not use the template's exact Summary and Testing headings, and it omits the checklist, …

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Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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In @scripts/ci/run_python_test_lane.py:
- Around line 82-90: Update run_one to catch OSError from subprocess.Popen and
return a failed Result identifying the affected test file, allowing the runner
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- Around line 138-142: Select tests from entries in manifest order rather than
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📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml
• scripts/ci/run_python_test_lane.py
• scripts/ci/test_execution_registry.py
• scripts/ci/validate_test_execution_registry.py
• tests/test-execution.toml
• tests/test_ci_test_execution_registry.py

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Merge receipt for 52b716aac5, merged 2026-09-27 14:30:10 UTC

• Not verified at merge: CI timing (in progress)
• Verified: ci-status, Web complexity, web-validation, agent-session-web-resources, CI fast guards, Claude wrapper regressions, Fast static checks, guards (16), linux-preflight, receipt-contract, Testbox broker trust boundary, tests, and 3 more
• Skipped by policy: browser, Claude request, diff-sidecar-check, GhosttyKit release check, macos, macOS admission gate, react-apps-check, remote-daemon, suite-coverage, Web tests (${{ matrix.shard }}), web-build, web-database-tests, and 5 more
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