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CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS was two things at once: the owned capacity when the runners API cannot be read, and the switch that turned on a pool's root, gui and side routing even when the API gave the live answer. The picker already takes capacity from online runners (live_pools()), so the variable's counts were only the fallback, yet its keys still gated routing. That coupling meant a stale or hand-edited value could route jobs to a label no runner online carries, or keep them off one every mini carries.

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  • pr_runner_pool.routing_slots(): with the runners read, a pool/root/gui label routes while an online runner carries it, counted from the runners; without them, slots() of the variable as before. main() uses it for gui runners, light side lanes, choose(), gui_runner() and side_runner().
  • late_placement.py: GUI jobs take the gui label while any runner carries it (online or offline, so a drained mini's gui jobs never fall back to the root label), instead of while the variable has a gui count.
  • slot_problems() still validates the variable on every run, and it stays the fallback when the route App cannot list runners.
  • Docs: docs/ci-runners.md rows that said the variable turns root routing and light side lanes on/off.

Live label layout (ci-dash probe 2026-09-29 10:10Z): every std root runner carries glaeda-std + glaeda-root-std, side runners glaeda-std + glaeda-side-std, the gui runner only glaeda-gui-std (glaeda docs/CMUX_MINI_RUNNER.md). So the live counts reproduce what the variable encoded ({"std": 42, "root-std": 19, "gui-std": 10, ...}) when all minis are up, and follow the lend drain when minis go offline. The variable was already 19 root-std vs 10 online at 10:10Z.

Routing order is unchanged (minis first, Blacksmith overflow); this only changes where the picker reads which owned labels exist.

Tests

  • tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py 233 OK (new routing_slots case; two cases now assert the live runners decide).
  • tests/test_ci_late_placement.py 38 OK (gui gate from runners, offline gui runner case).
  • tests/test_ci_owned_pool_rescue.py, test_ci_admission_placement.py, test_ci_repo_variable_defaults.py, test_ci_change_areas.py pass.

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Makes live runners the source of truth for which owned labels route (root, gui and side) instead of CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS, which is now only the fallback when the runners API cannot be read. Routing order and capacity counting are unchanged; this only changes where the picker learns which owned labels exist.

  • routing_slots() returns one online runner per owned label (pool, root, gui) when the runners were read; the variable only otherwise.
  • late_placement.py routes GUI jobs to the gui label while any runner carries it, online or offline, so a drained mini's GUI jobs never fall back to the root label.
  • live_pools() and the light side lanes now gate root routing on the online runner count too.
  • Docs updated to reflect the variable no longer controls routing decisions.

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  • CI Routing
    • Jobs are routed to specialized GUI, side, and root runner labels based on online runners’ labels, rather than relying solely on configured pool-slot counts.
    • Light side-lane jobs can use an available idle light runner even when pool-slot configuration would otherwise exclude that route.
    • When runner listings are unavailable, routing falls back to configured pool slots and snapshot data.
  • Documentation
    • Updated runner-routing guidance to reflect live runner listings and fallback behavior.

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Owned-pool routing uses online runner labels when runner data is available and configured slots when it is unavailable. Pool selection and late GUI-job placement use runner-label availability. Documentation and tests describe these rules.

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Owned-pool runner routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Derive and apply effective routing slots
scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py, tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py, docs/ci-runners.md
routing_slots counts online owned-pool, root, and GUI labels when runner data is available. It returns configured slots when runner data is unavailable. Pool selection uses effective slots for root, GUI, and light-side-lane decisions. Tests and documentation cover these routing rules.
Place GUI jobs using runner labels
scripts/ci/late_placement.py, tests/test_ci_late_placement.py
decide checks for GUI-labeled runners instead of using the configured GUI slot count. Tests cover idle, busy, offline, and absent GUI-labeled runners.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RunnerListing
  participant routing_slots
  participant PoolSelection as pr_runner_pool.choose
  participant JobLabel
  RunnerListing->>routing_slots: Provide runner data
  routing_slots->>PoolSelection: Return effective routing slots
  PoolSelection->>JobLabel: Select routing label
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 73f13

Some side-lane CI checks can remain queued until a matching runner is online, and root jobs may be sent to Blacksmith unnecessarily when another pool has GUI capacity. Resolve the side-label routing before merging to avoid delayed checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 73f13

The change preserves the existing separation between fork jobs and owned runners, and falls back to configured routing when runner data cannot be read. One conditional label mismatch could leave same-repository CI jobs queued rather than completing; no privilege expansion or security-check bypass was established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Live pool-minus-root counts can enable a side label without confirming that an online runner carries that label. Where configured counts previously suppressed side routing, this can strand owned side jobs in the queue until a matching runner appears.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The conditional side-label mismatch affects owned side jobs selected for a same-repository run; it can delay CI completion but does not establish execution on a more privileged runner or a bypass of queued checks.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Fork pull requests retain separate Blacksmith routing. Same-repository conditions govern access to the runner-read token and downstream owned-runner selection; the changed source does not directly accept arbitrary runner labels as destinations.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A missing side label fails by leaving selected jobs waiting for a matching runner, rather than by routing fork code onto owned hardware. The production fleet's label-topology guarantees were not independently established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before emitting a live side route, check that an online runner carries the derived side label; retain the existing configured-count behavior when the listing is unavailable.
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Review comments at @scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py:
- Line 2343: Update root-job demand handling in main(), choose(), and pick() so
the demand used for each candidate is calculated from that candidate’s GUI
label, rather than applying one global root_jobs value across pools. Ensure
final placement and pool selection use the same pool-specific demand.
- Line 2397: Update routing_slots() to count side labels when building live
routing capacity, and update side_runner() to require an available side label
only when live runner data is present. Preserve the existing pool-minus-root
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routing_raw = env.get("OWNED_SLOTS") if live_runners is None else json.dumps(routing)
# Gui runners route (gui_runner()): the GUI jobs then hold no root runner. The pool is not
# picked yet, so any gui label counts here; place() below checks the picked pool's own.
gui_runners = any(label.startswith(GUI_PREFIX) for label in routing)

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Calculate root demand per candidate pool.

main() computes one global root_jobs value before choose() selects a pool. choose() and pick() pass and apply that scalar value to every owned candidate. Final placement uses the selected pool's own GUI label. A GUI runner in one pool can therefore reduce root demand for another pool and cause avoidable Blacksmith fallback.

Calculate root demand per candidate, or recalculate it from the selected pool before accepting the choice. This is a localized change with meaningful routing benefit.

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Review comment at @scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py at line 2343:
Update root-job demand handling in main(), choose(), and pick() so the demand
used for each candidate is calculated from that candidate’s GUI label, rather
than applying one global root_jobs value across pools. Ensure final placement
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# A persistent pick names the jobs that take it; every other job of the
# run takes retry_runner. The marker's jobs are the owned machines held.
owned_slots = slots(env.get("OWNED_SLOTS"), pr_xcode_app)
owned_slots = routing

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Gate side routing on a live side label without changing fallback behavior.

When live_runners is available, routing_slots() counts pool, root, and GUI labels, but not side labels. A pool with one root runner and one GUI runner can therefore make side_runner() emit a side label that no runner carries.

Apply the side-label check only to live routing. Keep the pool-minus-root calculation when the runner list is unavailable because CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS represents side capacity that way.

Suggested fix
-def side_runner(choice: "Choice", owned_slots: Mapping[str, int]) -> str:
+def side_runner(choice: "Choice", owned_slots: Mapping[str, int], live: bool = False) -> str:
...
+    label = side_label(choice.runner)
+    if live:
+        return label if owned_slots.get(label, 0) > 0 else ""
     if owned_slots.get(choice.runner, 0) <= owned_slots.get(choice.root_runner, 0):
         return ""
-    return side_label(choice.runner)
+    return label
...
-              for label in (pool_name, root_label(pool_name), gui_label(pool_name))]
+              for label in (pool_name, root_label(pool_name), side_label(pool_name), gui_label(pool_name))]
...
-    side = side_runner(choice, owned_slots)
+    side = side_runner(choice, owned_slots, live_runners is not None)
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Update routing_slots() to count side labels when building live routing capacity,
and update side_runner() to require an available side label only when live
runner data is present. Preserve the existing pool-minus-root calculation when
live runner data is unavailable, and pass live-runner availability from the
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…TS is the fallback only

With the runners API read, the picker already took each owned label's
capacity from its online runners, but CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS still decided
whether a pool routed its root jobs to the root label, its GUI jobs to the
gui label and its side lanes to the side/light side labels. A hand-set count
could keep jobs off labels every mini carries or send them to a label no
runner online carries.

routing_slots() returns the online runners per owned label (pool, root,
gui) when the runners were read, and the variable only when they could not
be. late_placement.py routes GUI jobs to the gui label while any runner
carries it (offline included, so a drained mini never sends them to the
root label).

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
6093e59 test(cloud-vm): cover missing attach address
b639b65 fix(iroh-v2): omit bearer device attribution
c9a74d6 ci: E2E picker routes owned labels by the online runners, not CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS (manaflow-ai#15582)
194ae87 fix(tests): compile cmuxTests again after manaflow-ai#15116 and manaflow-ai#15550 (manaflow-ai#15561)
8bfc872 ci: live runners decide root, gui and side routing; CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS is the fallback only (manaflow-ai#15572)
1516426 ci: route hardcoded Blacksmith labels through the runner variables (manaflow-ai#15592)

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