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Distance routing (#14949) scores each mini's roots from the stamps admissions publish. Every std mini publishes them now: the 17:40Z janitor snapshot has root stamps for all 10. In the admissions from 15:00-17:45Z, though, 191 of 490 picker candidates were still unknown, and 12 decisions were entirely unknown.

The 17:31Z picker for #15013 (run 36337235292) shows why: bases: compared 1 of 14. Its one blobless git fetch --depth=1 of the kept merge bases failed, so every root cost the unknown start and nothing pinned. The earlier 13:44Z case had 5 of 10 compared. I replayed the same fetch in a fresh depth-2 checkout of that merge commit, against the 17:29Z snapshot: all 19 bases arrived in 0.7 s. So the failure is intermittent (the job's own checkout fetch took 11.5 s on that runner), and the picker drops stderr, so its cause was invisible.

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  • fetch_bases() tries a second time for whatever the first attempt left missing, within a budget raised from 15 s to 30 s. Each attempt gets half of what remains, less 2 s kept for the diffs, so a slow first failure still leaves room for the retry.
  • It reports missing, left, attempts, seconds and the last stderr tail.
  • route_record() carries that as route.picker.bases. Each admission line on the minis, and ci-dash, now shows it without reading job logs.

Tests: tests/test_ci_warm_distance.py test_the_base_fetch_is_tried_twice_and_reported. A targeted -k run passes locally.

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Distance routing's picker scores candidates "unknown" when its kept-base fetch fails, and the failure is intermittent (one run compared 1 of 14 bases). This retries that fetch once and records what happened.

  • fetch_bases() retries whatever the first attempt left missing, within a budget raised to 30 s: each attempt gets half of the time left, with 2 s kept for the diffs.
  • It reports missing, left, attempts, seconds, and the last stderr tail.
  • Decision records carry that as route.picker.bases, visible in ci-dash and admission lines without reading job logs.
  • Adds a test asserting the retry and the bounded record.

Written for commit 42e5f60. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Distance-based routing now retries fetching missing commit data up to twice, making decisions more resilient when an initial fetch fails.
    • The time budget for distance-based routing has increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
    • Reports include base-comparison counts and fetch results, including the latest error when commit data is unavailable. Long error details are shortened to keep reports concise.

Every mini publishes root stamps now (snapshot 17:40Z: all 10 std minis), but
the picker still scored most candidates "unknown": its one blobless fetch of
the kept merge bases failed on some runs (17:31Z, #15013: 1 of 14 bases
compared), and then every root costs the unknown start and nothing pins.
The same fetch replayed in a fresh depth-2 checkout takes 0.7 s, so the
failure is intermittent. fetch_bases() now tries a second time for what the
first left missing, and reports missing/left/attempts/seconds/stderr, which
admission's record carries as route.picker.bases.

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The CI distance-routing code retries missing commit fetches up to twice within the remaining deadline. Route decisions include normalized base-comparison and fetch details. Tests cover failed fetch attempts, invalid SHA exclusion, and error truncation.

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Distance routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded base-fetch retries
scripts/ci/warm_distance.py
fetch_bases makes up to two shallow fetch attempts within the remaining deadline. It returns missing and unresolved base counts, attempt count, elapsed time, and the last fetch error. The distance-routing budget increases from 15 to 30 seconds, with 2 seconds reserved for diffs.
Route decision reporting
scripts/ci/warm_distance.py, tests/test_ci_warm_distance.py, tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py
picker_distance_route adds the fetch report to its decision. route_record normalizes base-comparison and fetch details, and limits error text to 160 characters. Tests cover failed attempts, invalid SHA exclusion, error truncation, and an empty mapping from the mocked fetch function.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Picker as picker_distance_route
  participant Fetch as fetch_bases
  participant Git as git fetch subprocess
  participant Record as route_record
  Picker->>Fetch: missing base SHAs
  Fetch->>Git: shallow fetch attempts
  Git-->>Fetch: fetch result or error
  Fetch-->>Picker: fetch outcome report
  Picker->>Record: distance decision with base data
  Record-->>Picker: normalized bases record
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42e5f

The retry test can fail spuriously if delayed for more than 30 seconds. Use a virtual clock; the remaining identified risk is limited to test reliability.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42e5f

The retry keeps the existing routing safeguards, but it also places fetch error text in shared admission records. No credential disclosure is established; the downstream dashboard's handling of that text remains unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Git fetch stderr can now enter persistent admission records without sensitive-content filtering. Truncation limits its length, not its contents; disclosure depends on what Git emits and who can read the records.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The picker caps candidate bases at 24 and retries at most twice against the existing origin. The new diagnostic field can reach the shared admission log through the route record.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Persisting a raw diagnostic creates a conditional disclosure path if Git emits sensitive text. The inspected source does not establish such an emission, attacker control of its contents, or unauthorized access to the downstream dashboard.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Commit identifiers are format-checked before fetching; the admission parser requires a JSON object within a 16 KiB input limit. Fetch-error normalization limits text to 160 characters but does not redact its content.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Rechecking commits before comparison contains partial-fetch failures without treating an unverified base as warm. A mutable process-wide deadline remains a conditional concurrency weakness, but the reviewed change does not introduce that shared state or establish concurrent callers.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider recording categorized fetch failures in shared admission data instead of raw stderr, while keeping detailed diagnostics in the job's restricted logging path.
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…ts (#15053)

The changes job's delta_since_green.py fetches main's history with
--filter=tree:0, so most kept merge bases were already present as commits
without trees. fetch_bases() skipped them (have_commit), their diffs
failed, and the roots cost the unknown start: after #15040, 77 of 240
picker candidates were still unknown, e.g. #15003 compared 2 of 15 bases
with nothing fetched. It now checks the tree (have_tree) and fetches with
--refetch, which sends the trees of commits the checkout already has.
Replayed on a depth-2 checkout plus the tree:0 history: 1 of 19 bases
diffable before, 19 of 19 after, in 0.8 s.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
a64d59b tools: ui-lab renders view code in seconds; wire-app-sources.py (manaflow-ai#15049)
4e03ed2 fix(events): harden durable replay recovery (manaflow-ai#15054)
ac51546 Settings: native terminal theme gallery (manaflow-ai#14996)
867e7a0 Add native Ghostty option rows to Settings > Terminal (manaflow-ai#15005)
7f97b0d ui-tests: wait for static preflight when a reused compile skips the gate (manaflow-ai#15051)
c708e0c Add a chat view for the terminal's agent session (Claude Code, Codex) (manaflow-ai#14965)
b762a3d ci: the picker fetches kept bases' trees, not just checks their commits (manaflow-ai#15053)
2570eed docs: refresh and trim contributor build guidance (manaflow-ai#15050)
20019d3 ci: re-run by cause: host faults to Blacksmith, code failures back to the minis (manaflow-ai#15045)
36ee3e9 Add Warn Before Closing Workspace setting (manaflow-ai#14979)
4df2317 CI: run changed UI test classes in PRs, keep UI runs off Blacksmith, probe the GUI session (manaflow-ai#14964)
9efe05e Owned-pool sweeper: page the marker listing back to the runs it adopts (manaflow-ai#15033)
6361554 fix(events): restore durable replay across restarts (manaflow-ai#15030)
0bc5145 ci: place side lanes on the light minis one per idle side runner (manaflow-ai#15047)
9d4e92b ci: the E2E rule's queue-round reason names the owned pools the run may take (manaflow-ai#15044)
9e6e216 Dogfood the app from CI with JSON tours (manaflow-ai#14928)
fd3dcf6 ci: retry the picker's kept-base fetch and record how it went (manaflow-ai#15040)
3a64e0e Reload the Ghostty config when its files change, and show config errors (manaflow-ai#14859)
f412b05 test: hit-test the browser portal tab strip with its own click (manaflow-ai#15031)
64d5235 test: route the reopen-last-closed shortcut through the test's own window (manaflow-ai#15036)
7037079 ci: take the gui token in the E2E test job's step, not at job start (manaflow-ai#15037)

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