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Runs the watcher's real step against a fake gh and sleep and counts the requests one watched merge group costs. Fails today: 6 requests a minute (9 with the second jobs page) for the whole run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every workflow shares the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN budget. The merge-group fail-fast watcher read the run and every page of its jobs (30 per page by default, so two pages for a 45-job run) every 20 s, the same pattern as ci-fail-fast.yml, whose per-PR copies exhausted the budget on 2026-09-30. Read one 100-job page every 30 s, finish when ci-status completes, and read the run only every tenth poll as a backstop: about 2.2 requests a minute instead of 6 to 9. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. Note Repository guideline files applied to this review (2)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe merge-group watcher now polls jobs every 30 seconds, checks overall run status every 10 polls, and cancels a run when a completed job fails. New tests check polling request volume and cancellation behavior. ChangesMerge-group watcher
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Watcher as Merge-group watcher
participant GH as gh CLI
participant API as GitHub API
participant Sleep as sleep
loop Every 30 seconds
Watcher->>GH: Query latest jobs page
GH->>API: Read run jobs
API-->>GH: Return job conclusions
GH-->>Watcher: Return job results
alt A completed job failed
Watcher->>GH: Request run cancellation
GH->>API: POST cancellation for run
API-->>GH: Return cancellation response
else No failed job
Watcher->>Watcher: Exit if ci-status is completed
opt Every 10 polls
Watcher->>GH: Query overall run status
GH->>API: Read run status
API-->>GH: Return run status
GH-->>Watcher: Return run status
end
Watcher->>Sleep: Wait 30 seconds
end
end
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to In a narrow race the merge-group watcher can report a red check on a run that was already decided. Reordering the two checks fixes it, and the fix is small. Live behavior is unverified because the merge queue is off. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Cancellation authority and the final CI verdict remain separated. The change reduces normal polling traffic, but partial API failures can leave a watcher consuming shared capacity longer than before. Retained concerns
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- Around line 115-118: Move the `ci-status` completion check ahead of the
failed-job count and cancellation logic in the watcher loop. When `ci-status` is
completed, exit successfully without calling the cancel API, including when its
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Check ci-status completion before counting failed jobs. Otherwise a finished run turns the watcher red.
The failed-job check (Lines 110-114) now runs before the ci-status completion check (Lines 115-118). The old loop checked for a completed run first, so a finished run exited before any cancel.
Trigger: ci-status is the last job. It completes with failure or cancelled when any upstream job failed. The poll that sees it also sees failed > 0. The script then sends POST $RUN/cancel to a run that is already completed or finishing. The Actions API rejects cancelling a completed run, so gh api exits non-zero. set -e then fails the watcher step with a red check on a run that was already decided.
The same path applies when the run was cancelled some other way. Its jobs report cancelled, which the awk filter counts as failed.
Move the ci-status check above the failure count. If ci-status has completed, the run is decided and no cancel is needed.
Proposed fix
- failed="$(awk -F '\t' '$3 != "" && $3 != "success" && $3 != "skipped" { n++ } END { print n + 0 }' <<< "$jobs")"
- if [ "$failed" -gt 0 ]; then
- echo "$failed completed job(s) cannot satisfy ci-status; cancelling the CI run so the queue can move on."
- gh api -X POST "$RUN/cancel"
- exit 0
- fi
if awk -F '\t' '$1 == "ci-status" && $2 == "completed" { found = 1 } END { exit !found }' <<< "$jobs"; then
echo "ci-status finished; the CI run is decided."
exit 0
fi
+ failed="$(awk -F '\t' '$3 != "" && $3 != "success" && $3 != "skipped" { n++ } END { print n + 0 }' <<< "$jobs")"
+ if [ "$failed" -gt 0 ]; then
+ echo "$failed completed job(s) cannot satisfy ci-status; cancelling the CI run so the queue can move on."
+ gh api -X POST "$RUN/cancel"
+ exit 0
+ fiAdd a case to tests/test_ci_merge_group_fail_fast_budget.py where the final jobs page has ci-status completed with failure. Assert that no -X POST call occurs. Also consider making the cancel call non-fatal, for example gh api -X POST "$RUN/cancel" || echo "::warning::...". A race between the last poll and run completion would then not fail the step.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/merge-group-fail-fast.yml around lines 115
- 118:
Move the `ci-status` completion check ahead of the failed-job count and
cancellation logic in the watcher loop. When `ci-status` is completed, exit
successfully without calling the cancel API, including when its conclusion is
failure or cancelled; otherwise preserve the existing failed-job cancellation
behavior.
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Summary
On 2026-09-30 the repository's shared GITHUB_TOKEN budget ran out repeatedly from about 12:18 PDT ("API rate limit exceeded for installation"). CLA Assistant and CLA policy guard then failed on every pull request, and CI steps that call
gh apifailed.The main cause was
ci-fail-fast.ymlfrom #16096 (merged 11:01 PDT). It started one watcher per in-progress CI run, and each watcher read the run and its jobs every 20 s: 6 requests a minute for the life of the run. Between 12:00 and 13:00 PDT, 1,616 watcher runs held about 4,800 watcher-minutes, or roughly 29,000 requests in that hour. The org is on the Enterprise plan, which allows 15,000 an hour per repository. #16160 deleted the workflow at 13:26 PDT, but its 34 in-flight watchers kept polling until they were cancelled at 13:46 PDT.merge-group-fail-fast.ymluses the same pattern for every queued merge group. It also paginated jobs at the default 30 per page, so a 45-job run costs two pages each tick, or up to 9 requests a minute. That cost comes back as soon as the merge queue is turned on again. This PR changes it to read one 100-job page every 30 s and to stop whenci-statuscompletes. It reads the run itself only on every tenth poll, as a backstop for a run that was cancelled or finished another way. Fail-fast latency goes from 20 s to 30 s.The watcher keeps GITHUB_TOKEN and does not use the glaeda App token. It runs with
actions: writeand deliberately uses no third-party action (tests/test_ci_change_areas.pyassertsuses:is absent), so addingcreate-github-app-tokenwould add supply-chain surface to a privileged workflow. Cutting the calls is the root fix.A companion PR (#16225) takes the next largest consumer, CLA policy guard, from 14 REST requests a run to 2.
Testing
python3 tests/test_ci_merge_group_fail_fast_budget.pyruns the real step script against a fakeghand a fakesleep, and counts requests. The first commit is red: a 60-minute green merge group costs 363 requests, 6.0 a minute, and the real two-page listing makes that 9 a minute. The second commit is green: 133 requests, 2.2 a minute. It also checks that a failed job cancels exactly once.pytest tests/test_ci_change_areas.py -k merge_groups,tests/test_ci_workflow_run_sources.py,tests/test_ci_guard_workflow_structure.py,scripts/ci/validate_test_execution_registry.py,scripts/verify-local.py --affected origin/main(15/15), and actionlint all pass.Changelog
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@codesmith-botwith what you need. Autofix is disabled.Summary by cubic
Cuts the merge-group fail-fast watcher's
GITHUB_TOKENusage to fit the shared hourly budget.The watcher previously read the run and every page of its jobs every 20 seconds (6–9 requests a minute), the same pattern that exhausted the repository token budget on 2026-09-30. It now reads one 100-job page every 30 seconds, exits when
ci-statuscompletes, and reads the run itself only every tenth poll as a backstop. This drops the cost to about 2.2 requests a minute while trading fail-fast latency from 20 to 30 seconds.tests/test_ci_merge_group_fail_fast_budget.py, which runs the watcher's real step script against a fakeghandsleepand asserts the request budget; it also verifies a failed job cancels exactly once.ciguard lane inci-guards.ymlandtest-execution.toml.Written for commit b2fac4c. Summary will update on new commits.
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