ci: explicit owned E2E runs take root runners; rescue jobs waiting in setup

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Why

PR #15160's compile admission (run 36435812903) was refused by its self-hosted runner: all 2 canonical root tokens are taken. Both of that Mac's canonical roots were held by test-e2e build jobs on its non-root runners. Those runs were dispatched with an explicit glaeda-std-xcode-26.6 runner. e2e_runner_pool.resolve() returns an explicit label unchanged, so it skipped the root-label routing that auto uses (choice.root_runner), even though the hook gives the build a canonical root.

The runner hook is changing to wait for capacity instead of refusing (teamleaderleo/glaeda#1356). A job that waits there sits in "Set up runner" with status in_progress. Before this change, the rescue counted such a job as accepted after REFUSAL_SECONDS, so it could never move a job stuck there.

What

• e2e_runner_pool.resolve: an explicit owned pool label takes its root label (pr_runner_pool.root_label) when CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS gives that label slots. Blacksmith labels and root labels are unchanged.
• owned_pool_rescue: in_setup(job) means an in-progress job with a setup step still in progress. Such a job is not accepted(). It keeps the watch going, and after SETUP_WAIT_SECONDS (15 min) it is rescued like a job that is queued too long.

Tests

• tests/test_run_e2e.py: test_an_explicit_owned_pool_takes_its_root_runners
• tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py: SetupWait.test_a_job_waiting_in_setup_is_watched_then_rescued; the whole file passes locally (112 tests)

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Summary by cubic

Fixes owned E2E runs with explicit pool labels skipping root-runner routing, and lets the rescue move jobs stuck waiting in runner setup for capacity.

• An explicit owned pool label now resolves to its root label when the pool has root slots, matching what auto does.
• The runner hook now waits for capacity instead of refusing, so the rescue treats a job stuck in "Set up runner" for 15 minutes as stuck and re-runs it like a queued job.
• The setup wait is timed from the setup step itself, and its budget is cut so a job that entered setup late is still judged before the watch ends.
• A job held in setup is rescued only once no sibling is still running (or the watch is about to end), so the rescue never cancels running shards.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Explicitly selecting an owned runner pool now routes jobs to its canonical root runner when that runner has available capacity; otherwise, the selected pool remains in use.
  • Owned-pool jobs that remain in runner setup for 15 minutes are now identified as stuck and can be rescued. Jobs remain under monitoring during setup and are not marked accepted until setup is complete.
  • Capacity waits are now described as unbounded rather than limited to four minutes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes update explicit owned-runner routing and owned-pool job rescue. Explicit requests can resolve to a configured root runner. Jobs still in runner setup remain under observation and are rescued after the setup timeout.

Changes

Explicit Owned-Runner Routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve explicit requests to root runners scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py, tests/test_run_e2e.py	An explicit owned-runner request resolves to its canonical root label when that root has positive configured capacity. Tests cover missing or zero-capacity roots and explicit root requests.

Runner Setup Rescue

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify and track runner setup scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py	Adds setup detection and elapsed-time helpers. In-progress jobs are not accepted until they leave setup. Comments and documentation describe capacity waits as unbounded and define the setup timeout.
Assess and test setup timeouts scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py	Assessment rescues owned jobs that remain in setup for at least SETUP_WAIT_SECONDS and continues watching queued or setup-stage jobs. Tests cover setup classification, acceptance, watching, and rescue.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 72b53

Some jobs may be left stuck in runner setup, while others may be rescued prematurely. Correct both timeout boundaries before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 72b53

The changes address runner contention, but a job that enters setup near the end of its watch can still lose the intended rescue path. No new access to secrets or confirmed privilege bypass was found.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: A job entering runner setup within the final 15 minutes of its watch may never become eligible for the new setup rescue before the watch stops. This weakens the bounded fallback intended to keep stalled jobs from occupying shared owned-runner capacity.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The directly affected assets are configured root-runner capacity and watched workflow runs on the shared self-hosted fleet. No evidence establishes an expansion to other repositories, tenants, or data stores.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Workflow inputs reach runner-label selection; a configured root count limits the new route. GitHub job metadata reaches rescue only after owned-label and workflow-target checks, while run-attempt and head checks precede cancellation or rerun. These checks do not establish which same-repository actors may dispatch eligible runs.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The deadline gap matters to failure containment: an unrescued setup wait can persist on the owned fleet instead of taking the established retry path. The existing cancel-settlement and rerun checks limit, but do not close, this eligibility gap.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make setup eligibility account for the remaining watch window, and verify the production job timestamp and step-timestamp contract before relying on job start as the setup-wait clock.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (24 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies both primary changes: explicit owned E2E runs using root runners and rescue for jobs waiting in setup.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, resulting behavior, implementation scope, and tests. It does not use the template headings and omits an explicit Changelog entry and checklist status, but it prov…
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 PR changes only E2E runner-pool routing, owned-pool rescue logic, and related tests. It does not change Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui clients or transports, manual renderers, PTY readine…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift changes, so it cannot introduce or worsen the specified Swift…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The review-scoped diff changes only four Python files: two CI scripts and two test files. It contains no Swift source changes, so it does not introduce or expand Swift blocking or timing-based synchro…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests: scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py, scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py, and `tests/test_run_e2…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and no agent-history, workspace, panel, tab, window, SwiftUI, or socket-handler c…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed diff changes only Python CI files and Python tests. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript change, and it does not substitute a cached value for a fresh authorit…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The production changes do not add a sleep, timer, delayed dispatch, or new polling cadence. SETUP_WAIT_SECONDS is a bounded timeout for the existing owned-pool rescue watcher: it classifies a real G…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The changed production files are Python CI scripts. The new assess logic performs a few linear scans over one workflow run's jobs and each job's small GitHub step list. It does not add nested scans,…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only four Python files: two CI scripts and two Python test files. The diff contains no Swift source or Swift concurrency constructs, so the cmux Swift concurrency check is not…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The pull request changes four Python/test files only. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and no Swift concurrency changes such as @concurrent, nonisolated, or MainActor. The Swift-sp…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The review-scoped diff changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests. It contains no Swift source files or Package.swift changes, so the Swift package-boundaries check does not apply.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, Xcode project, workspace, workflow, or dependency chan…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Python and test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift logging additions, so the Swift logging rule is not applicable.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff changes only CI routing/rescue scripts and tests. The new text is emitted to GitHub Actions logs or the persistent-pool rescue step summary, which are internal CI/operator surfaces, not…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CI Python scripts and tests. The added or changed prose is operational documentation, comments, test text, and CI diagnostic/reason strings; it is not Swift UI text, catalog …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff changes only Python CI scripts and Python tests. It adds no SwiftUI views, state, layout measurement, list rows, or render-time state mutation. The SwiftUI state/layout check is ther…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only Python files and Python tests: scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py, scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, and two test files. It changes runner-label routing and …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Python CI code and Python tests. The review-scoped diff contains no Swift files and no standalone cmux-owned window changes, so the auxiliary-window close-shortcut …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff changes only four existing Python source/test files: scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py, scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py, tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py, and tests/test_run_e2e.py. The…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only four Python test/CI files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable.

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Review comments at @scripts/ci/owned_pool_rescue.py:
- Line 496: Update the setup rescue timing in the owned-job watch flow near
setup_seconds so the threshold accounts for the remaining watch time, matching
the queued-job budget behavior. Ensure a job entering setup shortly before the
watch deadline can be rescued before watch() returns "stop", and cover this
deadline case in a test.
- Around line 405-410: Update setup_seconds to measure elapsed time from the
started_at value of the in-progress setup step whose name is in SETUP_STEPS,
rather than from the job timestamp; return 0.0 when no matching step or valid
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