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release-build is now reported on pull requests but not required. It still runs under the same conditions as before and shows its own check, but ci-status (and tests) no longer wait for it.

Why

ci-status waits for the whole macos reusable-workflow call, so every lane inside ci-macos.yml gated the verdict, including the Release compile:

  • Heads whose last lane was release-build: n=48, wall p50 12.2 / p90 41.7 min, 65% over 10 min.
  • Its run on pull requests is p50 17.2 / p90 20.6 min (n=108), and it only starts after swift-package-tests, which builds its Ghostty helper.
  • Across the last 100 failed ci.yml runs (95 of them pull request runs, since 09-21) it failed 0 times.

It runs on a pull request only with full-ci and a non-test app change; main's full suite builds it on every run.

How

  • ci-release.yml (new) holds release-build, moved from ci-macos.yml unchanged except that it reads the helper identity from inputs instead of needs.swift-package-tests.outputs.
  • ci.yml gets a release job that calls it. Nothing required needs it. Its condition is the old one: a full suite whose router selected release_build, once linux-preflight passed and the package lane built the helper. It waits for the macOS workflow to finish but keys on the helper output, not on the whole workflow's result, so an unrelated macOS test failure does not skip the Release build.
  • ci-macos.yml exposes swift-package-tests' helper outputs as workflow outputs, which the call passes in. macos-status no longer lists the Release jobs.
  • release-admission is gone: it only waited for linux-preflight, which the caller now needs directly.
  • Routing, release_build, and swift-package-tests' helper build are unchanged. The router treats a ci-release.yml edit as macOS plus Release, and the trusted base router copies the file.
  • The check name is now release / release-build; reuse_release_product.py accepts it.

A Release break shows as a red non-required check on the pull request, and main's full suite (which also runs it) goes red and names the merged pull requests.

What changes in timing: the Release build now starts after the whole macOS workflow instead of right after swift-package-tests. It is off the verdict path, and on main swift-package-tests is usually the last macOS lane anyway.

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Verification

  • Locally: tests/test_ci_change_areas.py (full), the Release lane tests (test_ci_release_sdk_lane.sh, test_ci_release_build_timeout.sh, test_ci_release_helper_archs.py, test_ci_release_product_reuse.py, test_reuse_release_product.py, test_nightly_universal_build.sh, test_ci_release_build_archs.sh), test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh, the required-check, permission, workflow-guard and routing tests, and actionlint over every workflow.
  • This pull request carries full-ci so its own run exercises the moved lane end to end.

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  • CI Improvements
    • Release builds now run separately after the required macOS checks and Linux preflight succeed. They remain non-blocking for overall CI status.
    • Eligible release products can be reused, and release builds are validated before packaging. Each run uploads a receipt with build and reuse details.
    • Required macOS status checks now cover macOS test and build jobs, while release-build results are tracked separately.
    • Release builds now use the macOS helper details produced by the test workflow to verify compatibility before packaging.

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The Release build now runs in a callable workflow separate from the macOS workflow. CI routing invokes it with macOS helper metadata and runner inputs. The workflow restores or builds, validates, and uploads the unsigned Release app.

Changes

Release Workflow Extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release caller and CI routing
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, scripts/ci/*, tests/test_ci_change_areas.py, tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py, tests/test_ci_release_sdk_lane.sh, tests/test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh, docs/ci-runners.md
The CI workflow calls the separate Release workflow when its route conditions are met and forwards macOS helper metadata and runner-pool inputs. The macOS status check no longer includes the moved Release jobs. Routing, workflow guards, and related tests identify the new workflow.
Release product build and validation
.github/workflows/ci-release.yml, tests/test_ci_release_build_timeout.sh, tests/test_ci_release_helper_archs.py, tests/test_ci_release_product_reuse.py, tests/test_ci_release_sdk_lane.sh, tests/test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh, tests/test_nightly_universal_build.sh
The callable workflow selects a runner and Xcode, resolves the cmux-tui manifest, restores or builds the app, installs helpers, validates the product, and uploads it. Tests now inspect the Release workflow for these behaviors.
Product reuse and receipts
.github/workflows/ci-release.yml, scripts/ci/reuse_release_product.py, tests/test_reuse_release_product.py
The workflow records and uploads a reuse receipt. The reuse validator accepts the new release / release-build producer job name, with a test for restoration under that name.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CIWorkflow
  participant MacOSWorkflow
  participant ReleaseWorkflow
  CIWorkflow->>MacOSWorkflow: Run macOS jobs
  MacOSWorkflow-->>CIWorkflow: Return helper identity, SDK, and architecture outputs
  CIWorkflow->>ReleaseWorkflow: Pass route, helper metadata, cache, and runner inputs
  ReleaseWorkflow->>ReleaseWorkflow: Restore or build and validate the Release app
  ReleaseWorkflow-->>CIWorkflow: Upload product and reuse receipt
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a22b1

The Release build currently receives helper metadata through reusable-workflow inputs, so no current build failure is established. Its test could miss a regression that reads caller-only needs values; the PR is mergeable with this narrow coverage gap noted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a22b1

The Release build remains visible but no longer blocks the required CI verdict. The reviewed workflow retains prerequisite and artifact-validation controls, with no verified security finding. Runner isolation and external branch-protection settings were not independently verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed runner placement exposes an eligible owned Mac to Release build code from same-repository runs, but not to fork pull-request runs through this job. The inspected workflow does not establish the fleet’s operational isolation guarantees.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The caller checks route and producer-output preconditions; the callee has read-only token permissions and validates the helper digest. Product reuse also requires a trusted producer run, matching revision, successful job, and artifact digest.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The helper-architecture test fixture forwards producer outputs as inputs but also leaves a synthetic producer entry in its consumer context. It therefore does not fully enforce the callable workflow’s context boundary.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Remove the synthetic producer dependency from the callable-workflow test context so a future consumer expression cannot accidentally rely on an unavailable caller job.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: report the pull request Release build without gating ci-status.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed, on-topic, and explains the problem, behavior, implementation, timing impact, coordination, and verification. It uses a Verification section instead of Testing and omits th…
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes CI routing and moves the macOS Release build into .github/workflows/ci-release.yml. The changed workflow builds, packages, and validates release artifacts; it does not implement…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes workflows, Python scripts, shell/Python tests, and documentation only. It contains no .swift files or production Swift code, so it cannot introduce …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes no .swift files and introduces no production Swift code. The changed files are CI workflows, scripts, documentation, and tests. Therefore, it does not introduce or exp…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes CI workflows, CI scripts, documentation, and CI tests only. Neither rule-scoped browser source file changed: Sources/TerminalController.swift and `Packages/macOS/CmuxC…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The pull request changes only YAML, Python, shell, Markdown, and tests. The authoritative diff contains zero changed .swift paths and no added or moved expensive-load Swift code. The custom check is…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed diff changes only YAML, Python, shell, and Markdown files. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript changes. The cache-substitution correctness check is therefore …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The repository rule explicitly excludes GitHub Actions workflow YAML from this check. The PR adds no fixed sleep, timer, polling loop, or wall-clock wait in covered TypeScript, JavaScript, shell…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes CI workflows, Python CI helpers, and tests. It does not change production Swift, TypeScript, JavaScript, or runtime code. The new ci-release.yml mostly moves the existing Releas…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only YAML, Python, shell, and Markdown files. It adds no Swift files or Swift code, and added-line scanning found no DispatchQueue, Combine, completion-handler, or fire-…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes no Swift source files. The authoritative diff contains only YAML, Python, shell, and Markdown files, with no introduced @concurrent, nonisolated async, @MainActor, or Swift …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The pull-request diff contains no Swift files or production Swift changes. It only changes CI workflows, CI scripts, documentation, and CI tests, so the Swift package-boundary rule is not applicable.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes only CI workflows, routing scripts, documentation, and tests. The authoritative diff contains no Package.swift, package-local Package.resolved, .gitignore, cmux.xcodeproj, or Xc…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes no Swift source files. The changed paths are CI workflows, Python, shell tests, and documentation. No production Swift logging statement was added or materially changed.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only internal CI workflows/scripts, CI documentation, and tests. The new diagnostics and summaries are emitted by the GitHub Actions Release workflow, such as manifest hashes, res…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR changes only GitHub Actions workflows, CI scripts, tests, and operational CI runner documentation. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, web UI, message, string-catalog, Info.plist, changel…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflows, CI scripts, tests, and documentation. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or SwiftUI view/state code, so it introduces none of the prohibit…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflows, CI scripts, tests, and runner documentation. The review-scoped diff contains no Swift source or SwiftUI/AppKit implementation changes. Therefore, it d…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes CI workflows, Python scripts, shell tests, and documentation only. The authoritative review diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI source changes, so the auxiliary-window cl…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed No source-control artifact violation is present. The PR changes only CI workflow/configuration files, scripts, tests, and one runner documentation file. The sole added path, `.github/workflows/ci-rele…
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release-build ran inside the `macos` reusable-workflow call, and ci-status
and tests wait for that whole call, so a full-ci pull request's verdict
waited for the Release compile (p50 17 min of run time after the package
lane). Across the last 100 failed ci.yml runs it failed 0 times.

Move it to ci-release.yml, called by a new `release` job in ci.yml that
nothing required needs. It keeps its old conditions: a full suite whose
router selected release_build, after the macOS workflow (compile admission
and the swift-package-tests lane that builds its Ghostty helper) and
linux-preflight pass. ci-macos.yml exposes the helper's identity as
workflow outputs, which the call passes in. release-admission only waited
for linux-preflight; the caller now needs it directly, so it is gone.
Routing, the package lane's helper build and main's full suite are
unchanged; a Release break shows as a red non-required check on the pull
request and on main.

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teamleaderleo force-pushed the ci/pr-path-judging-lanes-only branch from cc652cc to 3c3ccef Compare September 28, 2026 07:34
@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo changed the title ci: build Release on pull requests only when the change can differ in Release ci: report the PR Release build without gating ci-status Sep 28, 2026
@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo added the full-ci EXPENSIVE: full macOS tests/builds; overrides selective PR routing. Not needed for normal checks. label Sep 28, 2026
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Dogfood build of 391a059445031272d30f278ee1371aab82f10fb8

cmux DEV pr-15174-391a0594.app

The link opens this exact commit in the cmux dev menu bar app. The build starts on each push and the page waits until it is ready; a newer push replaces it. It signs in against production, so Cloud or backend changes still need a tagged build with a development backend.

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CI failure attribution

CI failed on a22b1ed166 (run 36476139315 attempt 2): 1 code.

Job Verdict Why
macos / app-host unit tests (7/7) code a test failed
Matched log lines
macos / app-host unit tests (7/7): ✘ Test configuredShortcutAndRepeatMoveDivider(direction:) recorded an issue with 1 argument direction → "left" at PaneResizeShortcutTests.swift:39:30: Expectation failed: (workspace → cmux_DEV.Workspace).newTerminalSplit(from: (first → 564B201A-34EF-4E23-9E2B-19E127B11D62), orientation: (horizontal

Not re-run automatically: macos / app-host unit tests (7/7) is not a machine failure.

Written by scripts/ci/classify_failures.py (ci-failure-attribution.yml); signatures are its SIGNATURES table. A machine verdict is the runner's fault, not this PR's.

A red app-host shard fails the macos call, which skipped the Release build;
inside ci-macos.yml it waited only for compile admission and the package
lane. Gate the call on the helper output instead, so main's full suite keeps
building Release while a shard is red.

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Automatic catch-up couldn't merge main (8e6357b88926): .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml (both sides changed it), docs/ci-runners.md (both sides changed it), tests/test_ci_change_areas.py (both sides changed it). Nothing was pushed; merge it by hand. A new push or /catch-up tries again.

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teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 09:35
Carries #14797's owned-mini placement of release-build into ci-release.yml:
the job keeps the picker's runs-on, CMUX_CI_XCODE_APP and
CMUX_PRODUCT_RUNNER expressions, ci-release.yml takes pr_runner,
pr_side_runner, pr_owned_jobs and pr_xcode_app as inputs, and ci.yml's
release call passes the picker's placement with the std side label (the
picker never gives release-build the light pool). The self-hosted guard
and runner-pool wiring tests follow.

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Merged current main into the branch and revalidated the workflow refactor at a22b1ed166e3cd887de870cf085e73a9579ab4bb.

Passing local/static evidence:

  • actionlint
  • change-area routing
  • PR runner placement: 232/232
  • release helper/product reuse, permissions, self-hosted runner, timeout, SDK, and nightly guards

The previously observed shard 2/7 no-space failures are covered by #15422; the shard 6 focus guard passed on retry and under #15422. The release failure was an external swift-cmark download timeout. The legacy IRX NAT barrier and CloudRestore/workspace-visibility flakes remain separate full-suite issues and are not caused by this PR.

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outputs = {k: render(v, self.context) for k, v in WORKFLOW['jobs']['swift-package-tests'].get('outputs', {}).items()}
self.context['needs']['swift-package-tests'] = {'outputs': outputs}
# ci.yml hands them to ci-release.yml as inputs of the same names.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

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In a **reusable workflow**, `github` refers to the **caller’s workflow run**. But `needs` does **not** automatically expose every caller job’s outputs inside the called workflow: it contains only jobs that are direct dependencies of the current workflow job. ([docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/reusing-workflow-configurations?utm_source=openai))

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printf '%s\n' '--- test helper definitions ---'
sed -n '1,180p' tests/test_ci_release_helper_archs.py
printf '%s\n' '--- release-build workflow references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'needs|inputs|release_archs|ghostty_helper' .github/workflows/ci-release.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- release-build step body ---'
sed -n '80,190p' .github/workflows/ci-release.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff summary ---'
git diff --stat fc799b625d91cce60a88e909abc94f82437895ff a22b1ed166e3cd887de870cf085e73a9579ab4bb -- tests/test_ci_release_helper_archs.py .github/workflows/ci-release.yml

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Isolate the called workflow’s needs context.

produce() leaves self.context['needs']['swift-package-tests'] available while consume() evaluates the release steps. A future release step that incorrectly reads needs.swift-package-tests.outputs.* can therefore pass this test.

Clear needs after copying the producer outputs into inputs. Remove the missing-policy test’s direct mutation of that caller-only entry.

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         self.context['inputs'].update(outputs)
+        self.context['needs'] = {}
         # Model a distinct consumer: producer step outputs are not in scope.
         self.context['steps'] = {}
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-        self.context['needs']['swift-package-tests']['outputs'] = {}
         for name in ('release_archs', 'ghostty_helper_sha256', 'ghostty_helper_toolchain_sha256', 'ghostty_helper_sdk'):
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Review comment at @tests/test_ci_release_helper_archs.py at line 167:
After `produce()` copies producer outputs into `self.context['inputs']`, clear
`self.context['needs']` before `consume()` evaluates release steps. Remove the
missing-policy test’s direct mutation of the `swift-package-tests` entry in
`needs` so the consumer cannot rely on caller-only context.

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Automatic catch-up couldn't merge main (0e44675036c4): .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml (both sides changed it). Nothing was pushed; merge it by hand. A new push or /catch-up tries again.

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Superseded by the release pipeline now on main (8dd69c0) and owned-minis routing (1755ea8). This branch is stale and its app-host lane is red, so I am closing it.

auto-merge was automatically disabled September 30, 2026 16:22

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