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ci: name the HTTP status and retry rate limits in resolve-dispatch-ref - #25600
scripts/run-e2e.sh --ref <sha> failed in about 30 seconds with unable to resolve requested revision (HTTPError). That message hid the cause. The resolver's commits lookup hit 403 Forbidden: API rate limit exceeded for installation, with x-ratelimit-remaining=0. The job's GITHUB_TOKEN shares the repository's Actions installation rate limit with every other workflow, so a busy hour refuses lookups for commits that exist.
The resolver in resolve-dispatch-ref.yml now uses one small client for both of its lookups:
When GitHub refuses a request, the error names the HTTP status, the API message, the x-ratelimit-* and retry-after headers, and the request id.
It retries up to 4 attempts, waiting 2, 4 and 8 s (or retry-after, capped at 20 s). It retries a 403 or 429 that reports a rate limit, a 5xx, or a network error. A 404 or 422 is retried only when the requested ref is a full 40-character SHA. A typo'd branch name and a 403 that isn't a rate limit (such as Resource not accessible by integration) fail on the first attempt.
trusted_ref keeps its meaning. It's still true only when branches-where-head returns a non-empty list. Any other result, including every attempt failing, still gives false. The check now logs the refusal instead of silently answering false.
Evidence
The failing runs were 40390735963, 40390967082 and 40250717721. The same message appeared on 2026-10-21 in 39573149894 and 39546459916. Each job had Contents: read, and each failed about 0.1 s after the request.
I dispatched test-e2e.yml from this branch on two of the SHAs that had failed. The filter was deliberately malformed, so no macOS job ran. Both runs (40392089700, 40392094631) logged this on the first attempt:
GET repos/manaflow-ai/cmux/commits/6c196643… attempt 1/4: HTTP 403 Forbidden: API rate limit exceeded for installation. … x-ratelimit-remaining=0 x-github-request-id=B232:3EC934:D4554FC:2B3BBE9B:6ADFB1D9
Resolved workflow revision: 6c196643e65616537e33a5c80299f367f0ac1468
The retry 2 s later succeeded. On the final head, 40392583806 logged the rate-limit headers. Attempts 1 and 2 got x-ratelimit-resource=core x-ratelimit-limit=5000 x-ratelimit-used=5000 x-ratelimit-remaining=0 x-ratelimit-reset=1793045607 (20:13:27 UTC). Attempt 3, at about 20:06 UTC, succeeded even though the reset was still about 7 minutes away. So a short retry gets through while the hourly limit is exhausted, though GitHub doesn't promise that.
Tests
python3 tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py takes each step's run: script from the workflow and runs it in bash against a local fake GitHub API. The tests cover:
A 404 for a branch name, which fails on the first attempt with the status and message.
A full SHA that gets 422 then 404 then 200, which resolves.
A 403 rate limit, then a 429, then a 502, then 200, which resolves. The log must show the rate-limit headers.
A 503 that never clears, which stops after 4 attempts.
A 403 that isn't a rate limit, which isn't retried.
A trust check that gets a 500, 404, [] or a non-list, which answers false.
On base (commit 8a8e673, tests only) the test fails: the workflow has no client step (KeyError: 'Write GitHub API client'). On head it passes.
Observed / Not run
Observed: the focused test failed on base and passed on head. scripts/ci/check_reusable_workflow_permissions.py passes. python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed 16 of 17 checks; swift-syntax was skipped. The two branch-dispatched runs above logged the 403 and resolved on retry.
Not run: tests/test_linux_tests_lane.py and tests/test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py. They need PyYAML, which this Mac doesn't have, and they only read the uses: line, which this change keeps. CI runs them.
scripts/run-e2e.sh always dispatches test-e2e.yml from main, so the e2e lane picks this up only after merge. Until then, a run that hits the limit still fails fast, as before. This change doesn't reduce what else spends the installation limit.
Automated workflows now retry commit and branch lookups when they encounter temporary network issues, rate limits, or server errors. This makes ref resolution more resilient to transient API problems.
When a lookup fails, the workflow provides clearer diagnostic information. Branch checks safely return no match if lookup data is unavailable.
Tests
Expanded automated checks cover ref resolution across missing refs, delayed indexing, API errors, and trust-check failures.
…evision
The resolver printed only the exception class (HTTPError), so a refused
commits lookup gave no status, message or request id. It now prints them,
and retries a bounded number of times on rate limits, server errors,
network errors and, for a full SHA, a 404 or 422. The trust check shares
the client and still answers false on any failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dispatch-ref workflow now uses a shared GitHub REST client to resolve refs and check branch-head status. Resolver tests cover API retries and failure cases. The execution registry adds two tests to the linux-guard lane.
Changes: Dispatch ref resolution
Layer / File(s)
Summary
API client and ref resolution .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py
The workflow retries selected API failures and resolves URL-encoded refs through the shared client. Tests cover retry behavior, error diagnostics, and successful resolution.
The branch-head lookup uses the shared client. Tests verify that unusable responses produce trusted_ref: false and that an empty ref uses the default SHA without API calls.
manaflow-ai/cmux#25415: Adds the CLA quota rerun test that this pull request registers in tests/test-execution.toml.
manaflow-ai/cmux#24672: Adds the nightly delivery concurrency test and wires it into CI.
manaflow-ai/cmux#25552: Updates the nightly delivery concurrency test and its CI wiring.
Suggested reviewers:teamleaderleo
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 09e87
Under sustained GitHub rate limiting, the dispatch ref resolver can time out or fail before it writes its trust result. The retry behavior is otherwise an improvement over the previous no-retry flow. Raise the job timeout to cover both retry sequences before merging, and decide how to handle distant rate-limit reset times.
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The title clearly describes the change to report HTTP status and rate-limit information in the resolver. It is concise and related to the primary workflow update.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input
PASS: The rule applies to Cloud terminal creation and persistent transport changes. This diff changes only the dispatch-ref GitHub API workflow, test registration, and resolver tests. It introduces no…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation
The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, TOML configuration, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift production changes, so it introduces no Swift actor-isolation is…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime
The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift code, so the Swift blocking-runtime check does no…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main
The pull request changes only the GitHub workflow and Python/TOML test files. None of the rule-scoped browser automation files changed. The reviewed diff contains no browser commands, WebKit/AppKit ac…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load
Pass: the pull request changes only .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml and two Python/TOML test files. The diff contains no Swift files and no agent-history, transcript, JSONL workspace load…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness
PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, TOML registry, and Python tests. It introduces no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript change, so the cache-substitution correctne…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps
PASS. The only introduced wall-clock delay is time.sleep(delay) inside the Python client embedded in .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml. The rule explicitly excludes GitHub Actions workflo…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity
The changed production workflow does not introduce a prohibited scalable collection algorithm. The only loops are over a fixed seven-header tuple (lines 83-93) and four bounded retry attempts (lines 6…
Cmux Swift Concurrency
The pull request changes only .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, tests/test-execution.toml, and tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py. The reviewed diff contains no Swift files…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent
PASS: The reviewed diff changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. It introduces no Swift files, Swift functions, or Swift call sites, so the @concurrent and `nonisolated asy…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries
PASS: The reviewed diff changes only the GitHub workflow, Python tests, and test execution TOML. It contains no production Swift changes, so the Swift package-boundary rule does not apply.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles
PASS. The PR changes only the resolver workflow and related test files. It changes no .gitignore, Package.swift, Package.resolved, .xcodeproj, or .xcworkspace path. The workflow diff contain…
Cmux Swift Logging
PASS: The PR changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML tests; it adds no production Swift code or Swift logging. The Swift logging rule therefore has no applicable violation. The added `p…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy
The changed diagnostics are confined to .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, a reusable GitHub Actions workflow. They print GitHub HTTP messages, rate-limit headers, and request IDs to CI log…
Cmux Full Internationalization
PASS: The diff changes only a GitHub Actions resolver and tests. New HTTP diagnostics, retry messages, workflow comments, and test strings are operational/debug-only CI output, which the rule allows. …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout
The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, SwiftUI, or AppKit bridge changes, and no SwiftUI state or layout patterns…
Cmux Architecture Rethink
PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions YAML workflow, TOML test registration, and a Python test. It introduces no Swift files or SwiftUI/AppKit lifecycle code. Therefore the Swift archit…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts
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Cmux Source Artifacts
The PR changes only a GitHub workflow, a test execution registry, and a Python test module. These are intentional source, configuration, and test files under the rule's pass conditions. No changed pat…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source
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The description explains the problem, implementation, retry behavior, preserved trust semantics, test coverage, observed results, and unverified checks. It uses an Evidence section instead of Proof and omits the checklist, but it is otherwise complete and proportional.
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PASS: The rule applies to Cloud terminal creation and persistent transport changes. This diff changes only the dispatch-ref GitHub API workflow, test registration, and resolver tests. It introduces no cmux-tui client, terminal transport, PTY readiness gate, manual renderer, input routing, snapshot, lease, or revision-fence behavior.
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The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, TOML configuration, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift production changes, so it introduces no Swift actor-isolation issue.
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The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or production Swift code, so the Swift blocking-runtime check does not apply.
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The pull request changes only the GitHub workflow and Python/TOML test files. None of the rule-scoped browser automation files changed. The reviewed diff contains no browser commands, WebKit/AppKit access, main-actor routing, socket-worker routing, or policy-test changes. Therefore, it does not introduce or worsen the specified browser automation issue.
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Pass: the pull request changes only .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml and two Python/TOML test files. The diff contains no Swift files and no agent-history, transcript, JSONL workspace load, or main-actor interactive-path changes.
Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness
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PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow, TOML registry, and Python tests. It introduces no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript change, so the cache-substitution correctness condition does not apply.
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PASS. The only introduced wall-clock delay is time.sleep(delay) inside the Python client embedded in .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml. The rule explicitly excludes GitHub Actions workflow YAML and treats its waits as CI orchestration. The PR does not change a covered production runtime script, so the no-hacky-sleeps failure condition does not apply.
Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity
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The changed production workflow does not introduce a prohibited scalable collection algorithm. The only loops are over a fixed seven-header tuple (lines 83-93) and four bounded retry attempts (lines 63, 134-151). The branch response is parsed and checked for list/non-empty status without scanning it (lines 202-210). Tests and registry changes do not affect production complexity.
Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency
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The pull request changes only .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, tests/test-execution.toml, and tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py. The reviewed diff contains no Swift files or Swift code, so it does not introduce or expand the listed Swift concurrency patterns.
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PASS: The reviewed diff changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. It introduces no Swift files, Swift functions, or Swift call sites, so the @concurrent and nonisolated async criteria do not apply.
Full details: Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles
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PASS. The PR changes only the resolver workflow and related test files. It changes no .gitignore, Package.swift, Package.resolved, .xcodeproj, or .xcworkspace path. The workflow diff contains no SwiftPM or Xcode dependency-resolution change, so the lockfile requirements do not apply.
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PASS: The PR changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML tests; it adds no production Swift code or Swift logging. The Swift logging rule therefore has no applicable violation. The added print/stderr output is Python/workflow diagnostics, not production Swift logging.
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The changed diagnostics are confined to .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, a reusable GitHub Actions workflow. They print GitHub HTTP messages, rate-limit headers, and request IDs to CI logs. The repository evidence shows callers are CI workflows and no changed path forwards this output to a cmux app UI, product CLI, or product API. The added tests are also explicitly exempt.
Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization
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PASS: The diff changes only a GitHub Actions resolver and tests. New HTTP diagnostics, retry messages, workflow comments, and test strings are operational/debug-only CI output, which the rule allows. No Swift UI text, app catalog, Info.plist, web UI, API response, metadata, markdown, changelog, or locale files change.
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The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions workflow and Python/TOML test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, SwiftUI, or AppKit bridge changes, and no SwiftUI state or layout patterns. The custom check is not applicable.
Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink
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PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub Actions YAML workflow, TOML test registration, and a Python test. It introduces no Swift files or SwiftUI/AppKit lifecycle code. Therefore the Swift architectural-rethink failure conditions do not apply.
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PASS: The pull request changes only a GitHub workflow and Python/TOML test files. It introduces no Swift, NSWindow, NSPanel, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup code, so the auxiliary-window shortcut rule does not apply.
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The PR changes only a GitHub workflow, a test execution registry, and a Python test module. These are intentional source, configuration, and test files under the rule's pass conditions. No changed path is an artifact directory or artifact file, and the workflow's runtime use of $RUNNER_TEMP does not add a source-controlled artifact.
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PASS: The pull request changes only .github/workflows/resolve-dispatch-ref.yml, tests/test-execution.toml, and tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py. The authoritative diff contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable.
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- Line 112: Increase the workflow job timeout to allow both sequential ref
lookups to complete their retry requests and waits before writing trusted_ref;
set it to four minutes.
- Around line 110-114: Update the rate-limited retry logic around `rate_limited`
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Honor x-ratelimit-reset when the primary limit is exhausted.
When x-ratelimit-remaining is 0, retry_delay does not read x-ratelimit-reset. It uses the 2, 4, and 8 second backoff unless retry-after is present. A primary-limit response can omit retry-after. In that case, all four attempts finish within about 14 seconds, and the job fails before the limit resets.
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<title>Rate limits for the REST API - GitHub Docs</title>
<location>https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: today; Content creation limits include actions taken on the GitHub web interface as well as via the REST API and GraphQL API. ... Because GitHub processes API requests in multiple regions, rate limit values can vary from one response to the next based on the location handling the request. ... If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed.
# Rate limits for the REST API
Learn about REST API rate limits, how to avoid exceeding them, and what to do if you do exceed them.
## About primary rate limits
GitHub limits the number of REST API requests that you can make within a specific amount of time. This limit helps prevent abuse and denial-of-service attacks, and ensures that the API remains available for all users.
Some endpoints, like the search endpoints, have more restrictive limits. For more information about these endpoints, see REST API endpoints for rate limits. The GraphQL API also has a separate primary rate limit. See Rate limits and query limits for the GraphQL API.
In general, you can calculate your primary rate limit for the REST API based on your method of authentication, as described below.
### Primary rate limit for unauthenticated users
You can make unauthenticated requests if you are only fetching public data. Unauthenticated requests are associated with the originating IP address, not with the user or application that made the request.
The primary rate limit for unauthenticated requests is 60 requests per hour.
### Primary rate limit for authenticated users
You can use a personal access token to make API requests. Additionally, you can authorize a GitHub App or OAuth app, which can then make API requests on your behalf.
All of these requests count towards your personal rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour. Requests made on your behalf by a GitHub App that is owned by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization have a higher rate limit of 15,000 requests per hour. Similarly, requests made on your behalf by a OAuth app that is owned or approved by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization have a higher rate limit of 15,000 requests per hour if you are a member of the GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization. However, requests made by a higher-limit app reduce the remaining budget available for lower-limit authentication methods. For example, if an app with a 15,000 request limit makes 10,000 requests on your behalf, you will have exhausted the 5,000 request budget for your personal access tokens, even though the app has 5,000 requests remaining.
## About secondary rate limits
In addition to primary rate limits, GitHub enforces secondary rate limits in order to prevent abuse and keep the API available for all users.
You may encounter a secondary rate limit if you:
* Make too many concurrent requests. No more than 100 concurrent requests are allowed. This limit is shared across the REST API and GraphQL API.
* Make too many requests to a single endpoint per minute. No more than 900 points per minute are allowed for REST API endpoints, and no more than 2,000 points per minute are allowed for the GraphQL API endpoint. For more information about points, see Calculating points for the secondary rate limit.
* Make too many requests per minute. No more than 90 seconds of CPU time per 60 seconds of real time is allowed. No more than 60 seconds of this CPU time may be for the GraphQL API. You can roughly estimate the CPU time by measuring the total response time for your API requests.
* Make too many requests that consume excessive compute resources in a short period of time.
## Checking the status of your rate limit
You can use the headers that are sent with each response to determine the current status of your primary rate limit.
Header name | Description
--- | ---
`x-ratelimit-limit` | The maximum number of requests that you can make per hour
`x-ratelimit-remaining` | The…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>Rate limits for the REST API - GitHub Docs</title>
<location>https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?ref=armel.soro.io</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; Content creation limits include actions taken on the GitHub web interface as well as via the REST API and GraphQL API. ... Because GitHub processes API requests in multiple regions, rate limit values can vary from one response to the next based on the location handling the request. ... If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed.
## Exceeding the rate limit
If you exceed your primary rate limit, you will receive a `403` or `429` response, and the `x-ratelimit-remaining` header will be `0`. You should not retry your request until after the time specified by the `x-ratelimit-reset` header.
If you exceed a secondary rate limit, you will receive a `403` or `429` response and an error message that indicates that you exceeded a secondary rate limit. If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed. If the `x-ratelimit-remaining` header is `0`, you should not retry your request until after the time, in UTC epoch seconds, specified by the `x-ratelimit-reset` header. Otherwise, wait for at least one minute before retrying. If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries.
Continuing to make requests while you are rate limited may result in the banning of your integration.
## Staying under the rate limit
You should follow best practices to help you stay under the rate limits. See Best practices for using the REST API.
## Getting a higher rate limit
If you want a higher primary rate limit, consider making authenticated requests instead of unauthenticated requests. Authenticated requests have a significantly higher rate limit than unauthenticated requests.
If you are using a personal access token for automation in your organization, consider whether a GitHub App will work instead. The rate limit for GitHub Apps using an installation access token scales with the number of repositories and number of organization users. See About creating GitHub Apps.
If you are using GitHub Apps or OAuth apps, consider upgrading to GitHub Enterprise Cloud. GitHub Apps or OAuth apps have higher rate limits for organizations that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud.</excerpt>
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<title>Best practices for using the REST API - GitHub Docs</title>
<location>https://docs.github.com/rest/guides/best-practices-for-integrators</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last year; * If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed. ... If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries. ... The GitHub REST API uses HTTP redirection where appropriate. ... `curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN" https://api.github.com/repos/github/docs --include --header 'if-modified-since: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:17:59 GMT'
To avoid exceeding secondary rate limits, you should make requests serially instead of concurrently. To achieve this, you can implement a queue system for requests.
## Pause between mutative requests
If you are making a large number of `POST`, `PATCH`, `PUT`, or `DELETE` requests, wait at least one second between each request. This will help you avoid secondary rate limits.
## Handle rate limit errors appropriately
If you receive a rate limit error, you should stop making requests temporarily according to these guidelines:
* If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed.
* If the `x-ratelimit-remaining` header is `0`, you should not make another request until after the time specified by the `x-ratelimit-reset` header. The `x-ratelimit-reset` header is in UTC epoch seconds.
* Otherwise, wait for at least one minute before retrying. If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries.
</excerpt>
</source>
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<title>Best practices for using the REST API - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs</title>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 days ago; * If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed. ... If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries. ... The GitHub REST API uses HTTP redirection where appropriate. ... If you need to know the number of the issue, use the `number` field instead of parsing the `html_url` field.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search4 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last month; GitHub enforces rate limits to ensure that the API stays available for all users. ... * If the `retry-after` response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed. ... If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries. ... For more information about how to avoid exceeding the rate limits, see Best practices for using the REST API.
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- 1: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?utm_source=openai
Allow enough job time for both retry sequences.
When a requested ref triggers both lookups, each can use four 10-second requests and three 20-second waits. Two sequential lookups can therefore require up to 200 seconds.
A retryable GitHub 403 or 429 with Retry-After: 20 is realistic and produces the capped 20-second wait. The two-minute job can stop before trusted_ref is written.
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- timeout-minutes: 2+ timeout-minutes: 4
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Increase the workflow job timeout to allow both sequential ref lookups to
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scripts/run-e2e.sh --ref <sha>failed in about 30 seconds withunable to resolve requested revision (HTTPError). That message hid the cause. The resolver's commits lookup hit403 Forbidden: API rate limit exceeded for installation, withx-ratelimit-remaining=0. The job'sGITHUB_TOKENshares the repository's Actions installation rate limit with every other workflow, so a busy hour refuses lookups for commits that exist.The resolver in
resolve-dispatch-ref.ymlnow uses one small client for both of its lookups:x-ratelimit-*andretry-afterheaders, and the request id.retry-after, capped at 20 s). It retries a 403 or 429 that reports a rate limit, a 5xx, or a network error. A 404 or 422 is retried only when the requested ref is a full 40-character SHA. A typo'd branch name and a 403 that isn't a rate limit (such asResource not accessible by integration) fail on the first attempt.trusted_refkeeps its meaning. It's still true only whenbranches-where-headreturns a non-empty list. Any other result, including every attempt failing, still gives false. The check now logs the refusal instead of silently answering false.Evidence
The failing runs were 40390735963, 40390967082 and 40250717721. The same message appeared on 2026-10-21 in 39573149894 and 39546459916. Each job had
Contents: read, and each failed about 0.1 s after the request.I dispatched
test-e2e.ymlfrom this branch on two of the SHAs that had failed. The filter was deliberately malformed, so no macOS job ran. Both runs (40392089700, 40392094631) logged this on the first attempt:The retry 2 s later succeeded. On the final head, 40392583806 logged the rate-limit headers. Attempts 1 and 2 got
x-ratelimit-resource=core x-ratelimit-limit=5000 x-ratelimit-used=5000 x-ratelimit-remaining=0 x-ratelimit-reset=1793045607(20:13:27 UTC). Attempt 3, at about 20:06 UTC, succeeded even though the reset was still about 7 minutes away. So a short retry gets through while the hourly limit is exhausted, though GitHub doesn't promise that.Tests
python3 tests/test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.pytakes each step'srun:script from the workflow and runs it in bash against a local fake GitHub API. The tests cover:[]or a non-list, which answers false.On base (commit 8a8e673, tests only) the test fails: the workflow has no client step (
KeyError: 'Write GitHub API client'). On head it passes.Observed / Not run
scripts/ci/check_reusable_workflow_permissions.pypasses.python3 scripts/verify-local.pypassed 16 of 17 checks; swift-syntax was skipped. The two branch-dispatched runs above logged the 403 and resolved on retry.tests/test_linux_tests_lane.pyandtests/test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py. They need PyYAML, which this Mac doesn't have, and they only read theuses:line, which this change keeps. CI runs them.scripts/run-e2e.shalways dispatchestest-e2e.ymlfrommain, so the e2e lane picks this up only after merge. Until then, a run that hits the limit still fails fast, as before. This change doesn't reduce what else spends the installation limit.Changelog
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