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Two runs of #15160 sat red on the fleet with nobody re-running them.

Lost runner (run 36420353579). cmux14-glaeda took macOS compile admission at 12:20:18 with its listener stopped. GitHub failed the job at 12:30:18 with "The self-hosted runner lost communication with the server", and the job listed no steps. owned_pool_rescue.refused() only counted failures within REFUSAL_SECONDS (360 s), so the sweeper logged "the run finished" and stopped, and someone re-ran it by hand. refused() now also counts a failed owned-pool job whose runner ran no step at all, however long it lasted. Once the run finishes, the rescue re-runs the failed jobs, and attempt 2 goes to retry_runner on Blacksmith. The 10-minute detection delay is GitHub's own; the rescue can't see a stopped listener any sooner. The race itself is being fixed in glaeda's runner gate by another session.

Refused admission that the rescue never re-ran (run 36435812903). Glaeda refused compile admission at 14:30:52, but the run stayed in_progress. Its ui-tests job waits for ci-ui-tests.yml, which runs dispatch-focused-test.py --adopt-only, and wait_for_products() kept waiting for that same run's products until the run finished or 50 minutes passed. Because the run never finished, the rescue could not re-run the refused job (GitHub refuses re-runs of an in-progress run, so it waits). wait_for_products() now stops once the producer's latest-attempt compile admission has completed without a products artifact. Admission uploads its products before it completes, so none can still arrive. After a real compile failure, the UI dispatch now ends immediately instead of holding a hosted runner for 50 minutes. For an infra refusal, the run finishes and the rescue re-runs it.

Red (commit 8b85b4d): python3 tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py -k lost gave 2 failures, and python3 tests/test_run_e2e.py -k compile_admission gave 3 failing subtests. Green: test_ci_owned_pool_rescue 113 OK, test_run_e2e 140 OK.

This is a small change to files that another session is moving into the build controller (ci-owned-pool-rescue / ui_tests_dispatch). The refused() rule should move with them.

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Fixes two CI failure modes that left jobs stuck and unre-run: jobs whose owned runner was lost are now rescued, and CI no longer waits on products a finished compile admission never made.

Bug Fixes

  • owned_pool_rescue.refused() now flags a failed owned-pool job that ran no steps at all, regardless of duration, since GitHub reports a lost runner only after 10 minutes.
  • ui_tests_dispatch.await_verdict() ends the wait once the latest attempt's compile admission failed with no app-host product; it still waits for an admission carried over from an earlier attempt or of unknown attempt, or an artifact listing too short to rule the product out.
  • dispatch-focused-test.py stops waiting for products once compile admission completed without them, so a refused admission no longer keeps the run in progress and blocks its rescue. Its product lookup now pages through up to 5 artifact pages so an older attempt's product isn't missed.

Written for commit bc0c129. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • CI checks now stop waiting when required build jobs have finished without producing the products needed to continue, and report the failure promptly.
    • Failed persistent-pool jobs that never started any steps are now recognized as refused regardless of how long they ran, allowing eligible runs to be retried.
    • Existing products and jobs still in progress continue to follow the usual dispatch and waiting behavior.

teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 11:10
… admission never makes

Red: the rescue ignores a failed owned job with no steps that ran past
REFUSAL_SECONDS (run 36420353579, lost communication after 10 minutes), and
the UI dispatch keeps waiting for a CI run's products after its compile
admission ended without them (run 36435812903).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… wait when admission ends

owned_pool_rescue.refused() now counts a failed owned job that ran no step
at all, whatever its length: GitHub fails a job whose runner went away only
after 10 minutes, so REFUSAL_SECONDS never matched it and nobody re-ran it.

dispatch-focused-test.py's wait_for_products() stops once the producer's
compile admission has completed without products, instead of waiting up to
50 minutes for a run that stays in progress only because its ui-tests job
waits on this same dispatch. That wait also held the refused run open, so the
rescue could not re-run it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CI polling now stops when compile admission ends without producing products. Failed owned-pool jobs with no workflow steps now count as refusals regardless of duration.

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Compile Admission Without Products

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stop product reuse after admission ends
scripts/ci/dispatch-focused-test.py, tests/test_run_e2e.py
wait_for_products returns False when compile admission has ended without app-host products. Tests cover completed admission and contrast it with admission that remains in progress.
Stop dispatch polling after qualifying admission failure
scripts/ci/ui_tests_dispatch.py, tests/test_ci_ui_tests_dispatch.py
await_verdict returns an error when the current attempt's compile admission fails, is cancelled, or times out and no unexpired product exists. Tests cover cases that trigger or bypass this check.

Owned-Pool Refusal Classification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify failed jobs with no steps as refusals
scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py
Failed owned-pool jobs with no workflow steps count as refusals regardless of duration. Tests cover jobs with steps, Blacksmith-labeled jobs, and rerunning a run with a lost-runner refusal.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fc6df

CI may stop product reuse despite an existing artifact or report an earlier admission failure as current. These are bounded cases, but both should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fc6df

The changes appear to preserve the existing CI authorization boundaries and unblock stalled runs. There is a limited risk that overlapping rescue jobs could compete to rerun a newly eligible failure; the outcome of that race is not established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The existing unclaimed rerun window extends to long-duration, no-step failures newly classified as refusals. A sweeper and per-run watcher can read the same completed attempt before either issues its rerun; whether GitHub rejects or deduplicates competing requests is unproven.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed rescue classification can affect automatic reruns of eligible failed runs, but the examined path still targets the source run’s ID and attempt rather than an independently selected repository or run.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The UI check binds admission to the supplied attempt and requires a complete artifact listing before treating product absence as terminal. Rescue retains a run-attempt check before its privileged rerun request.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Process-local sweep deduplication and a read-before-write attempt check limit repetitions within their respective paths but do not prove exactly-once recovery across overlapping rescue jobs.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish whether the rerun API safely resolves competing requests; if it does not, serialize recovery by source run across sweeper and per-run entrypoints or add a shared claim before writing.
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teamleaderleo and others added 3 commits September 28, 2026 11:30
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…ut a product

Red: await_verdict keeps polling after the CI attempt's compile admission
failed with no product (run 36435812903, 14:30 to past 15:27).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… a product

await_verdict now reads the attempt's compile admission each poll. Once it
completed failure, cancelled or timed_out with no app-host product artifact
on the run, the ui-tests job fails at once naming admission as the cause,
instead of holding the run open for the whole dispatch wait. The run then
finishes, the owned-pool rescue can re-run a refused admission, and
ci-ui-tests.yml cancels the run it dispatched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo changed the title ci: rescue re-runs lost-runner jobs; UI dispatch stops awaiting a finished admission ci: re-run lost-runner jobs; end the UI wait when compile admission fails Sep 28, 2026
…e UI wait

A re-run of only ui-tests lists attempt 1's failed admission; the dispatcher
compiles for itself there, so the wait goes on. A listing past 100 artifacts
cannot rule the product out. The error no longer claims the dispatched run
stopped: ci-ui-tests.yml cancels it once the CI attempt completes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 692-696: Update rerun.products_artifact to paginate through the
run’s artifact listings, checking each page for a non-expired artifact whose
name starts with PRODUCTS_PREFIX. Return the matching artifact when found and
return None only after reaching the final page.

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- Around line 584-587: Update the attempt guard that compares
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the current attempt. Resolve the job’s original attempt before applying the
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if admission_ended(producer["id"]) and not rerun.products_artifact(REPO, str(producer["id"]),
rerun.gh_api):
print(f"note: {producer['url']} finished compile admission without app-host products",
file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
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GitHub REST API list workflow run artifacts pagination per_page page official documentation

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**Endpoint:** `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/artifacts`

Pagination query parameters:
- `per_page`: results per page; maximum **100** (default **30**).
- `page`: page number (default **1**).

Example:
```http
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Paginate artifact lookup before declaring admission unsuccessful.

rerun.products_artifact requests only the first 100 artifacts. If the matching product is on a later page, both calls in wait_for_products can miss it and return False.

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-    listing = api(f"repos/{repository}/actions/runs/{run_id}/artifacts?per_page=100")
-    for artifact in listing.get("artifacts", []):
-        if artifact.get("name", "").startswith(PRODUCTS_PREFIX) and not artifact.get("expired"):
-            return artifact
+    page = 1
+    while True:
+        listing = api(
+            f"repos/{repository}/actions/runs/{run_id}/artifacts?per_page=100&page={page}"
+        )
+        artifacts = listing.get("artifacts", [])
+        for artifact in artifacts:
+            if artifact.get("name", "").startswith(PRODUCTS_PREFIX) and not artifact.get("expired"):
+                return artifact
+        if len(artifacts) < 100:
+            break
+        page += 1
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