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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml
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Expand Up @@ -318,6 +318,8 @@ jobs:
# tip-dmg-build, also secret-free, takes `dmg_label`: the same owned pool,
# but only when it has two machines free now, so it never queues behind
# verify on one mini; otherwise it stays on Blacksmith macOS.
# Before any wait, verify takes an owned std label (a pool or its root label)
# with an idle runner no queued job waits for (e2e_runner_pool.py --free-now).
# Only the std class (--owned-classes std): both jobs download the 188 MB
# signed app, which took 736-974 s on the light pool's minis (24 h to
# 2026-10-30), so verify ran 895 s median there against 41 s on std and
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glaeda-*) ;;
*) echo "No owned Mac to wait on (picker said '${label:-nothing}'); Blacksmith macOS 26 takes verify."; label="" ;;
esac
# verify (1.5 min of work) takes an owned label with an idle runner that no queued job
# waits for, when one exists, instead of the label picked above: on 2026-11-04 it waited
# 67 min on glaeda-std-xcode-26.6 (0 runners online, 22 jobs queued; run 41814294095)
# while glaeda-root-std-xcode-26.6 runners with nothing queued sat idle. Same std class
# (the download-bound rule above) and Xcode pin; tip-dmg-build keeps its own pick.
free="$(pick 1 --free-now)" || free=""
case "$free" in
glaeda-*) echo "verify takes $free: an idle owned runner with no job queued on its labels."; label="$free" ;;
esac
echo "label=$label" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "dmg_label=$dmg_label" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "owned=$owned" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
[ -z "$label" ] || echo "Runner: $label for verify${dmg_label:+ and tip-dmg-build} (a re-run takes Blacksmith macOS 26)"
[ -z "$label" ] || echo "Runner: $label for verify${dmg_label:+,$dmg_label for tip-dmg-build} (a re-run takes Blacksmith macOS 26)"

# ci-owned-pool-rescue.yml's sweeper watches a run with these markers and
# re-runs verify (and tip-dmg-build) when an owned Mac leaves it queued or refuses it
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continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
with:
name: macos-pool-persistent-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}-${{ steps.pool.outputs.dmg_label != '' && '2' || '1' }}-${{ steps.pool.outputs.label }}
name: macos-pool-persistent-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}-${{ steps.pool.outputs.dmg_label == steps.pool.outputs.label && '2' || '1' }}-${{ steps.pool.outputs.label }}

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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift

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Script executed:

rg -n 'macos-pool-persistent-|def pool_label|committed|markers' scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml | head -125

Repository: manaflow-ai/cmux

Length of output: 5566

Script executed:

# Workflow: job boundaries and needs for verify and tip-dmg-build, plus the pool and marker steps.
rg -n -e '^  [A-Za-z0-9_-]+:$' -e 'needs:' -e 'runs-on:' -e 'id: pool' -e 'dmg_label' -e 'macos-pool-persistent' -e 'steps.marker' .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml || test "$?" -eq 1
echo ---
sed -n '300,340p' .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml
echo ---
sed -n '470,530p' .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml
echo ---
# Janitor committed accounting and marker read.
sed -n '960,1085p' scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py
echo ---
sed -n '4355,4390p' scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py
echo ---
# Free-now selection and its marker-related context.
sed -n '600,740p' scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py

Repository: manaflow-ai/cmux

Length of output: 28753

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# Marker-to-pool mapping and root/pool label relation.
rg -n -e 'def marker_peaks' -e 'def counted_pools' -e 'def root_label' -e 'def owned_marker' -e 'OWNED_MARKER' -e 'def runner_pool' scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py scripts/ci/e2e_runner_pool.py scripts/ci/simple_pool_picker.py || test "$?" -eq 1
echo ---
ast-grep outline scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py --view expanded | rg -n -e 'marker_peaks' -e 'counted_pools' -e 'owned_marker' -e 'runner_pool' || test "$?" -eq 1
echo ---
# Read the janitor marker_peaks/counted_pools definitions with surrounding lines.
for f in scripts/ci/queue_janitor.py scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py; do
  for fn in marker_peaks counted_pools root_label owned_marker; do
    n=$(rg -n --no-heading -e "^def ${fn}\(" "$f" | head -1 | cut -d: -f1)
    if [ -n "$n" ]; then echo "== $f $fn @ $n"; sed -n "${n},$((n+40))p" "$f"; fi
  done
done
echo ---
# Test covering the marker and root labels.
sed -n '2183,2254p' tests/test_ci_pr_runner_pool.py
echo ---
# DMG pick branch of the runner job.
sed -n '440,476p' .github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml

Repository: manaflow-ai/cmux

Length of output: 16553

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# Docstring on live marker and committed reads.
sed -n '40,100p' scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py
echo ---
# Demand bound that charges committed.
sed -n '1195,1240p' scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py
echo ---
# The function where committed is not charged.
sed -n '1468,1515p' scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py
echo ---
# Which function owns line 1478, and its callers.
ast-grep outline scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py --view expanded | rg -n -e 'def ' | sed -n '1,400p' | rg -n -e '14[5-9][0-9]|15[0-2][0-9]' || test "$?" -eq 1
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'def pool_label' -e 'pool_label(' scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py || test "$?" -eq 1
echo ---
# pool_label definition.
n=$(rg -n --no-heading -e '^def pool_label\(' scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py | head -1 | cut -d: -f1); [ -n "$n" ] && sed -n "${n},$((n+12))p" scripts/ci/pr_runner_pool.py
echo ---
# Callers of the pick bound function.
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'bound(' -e 'taken_peak' -e 'committed' scripts/ci || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: manaflow-ai/cmux

Length of output: 18439

Count the DMG machine when verify takes a root label.

When verify takes a root label and tip-dmg-build keeps the pool label, this expression records one job. The run still places two owned machines. Until tip-dmg-build is queued, the janitor reserves only one machine on the pool. Another pick can then take the machine that tip-dmg-build needs. The marker format carries one peak for both the root and pool labels, so changing this expression alone would also over-reserve the root label. Pick a marker shape that records the pool demand separately.

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml at line 514:
Update the persistent-machine marker in the workflow so it records demand
separately for the root label and pool label. Preserve a count of one for the
root label and record the additional DMG machine against the pool label,
ensuring the janitor reserves both owned machines without over-reserving the
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Thanks. The gap is real, but it lasts only seconds. verify and tip-dmg-build both have needs: [sign, runner], so both queue as soon as the runner job finishes, a few seconds after this marker is uploaded. From then on the janitor counts tip-dmg-build from its own queued job on the pool label. Before that, a marker of 2 on the root label would over-reserve the root label. So this keeps the 1-job marker. A marker that carries two pools is a format change for the janitor and the rescue, and it isn't worth that for a window of a few seconds.

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@teamleaderleo Understood. Both jobs become eligible when runner finishes. The remaining concern is the pre-queue accounting gap, which you accept. Keeping the 1-job marker avoids over-reserving the root label. I won’t pursue the marker-format change for this PR.

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Expand Up @@ -614,6 +614,48 @@ def owned_from_slots(env: Mapping[str, str], classes: set[str]) -> tuple[simple_
return tuple(pools)


def free_now(runners: Sequence[Mapping[str, Any]] | None, snapshot: Mapping[str, Any] | None, *,
owned_slots: str | None, xcode_app: str | None, classes: set[str]) -> tuple[str, str]:
"""An owned label a one-job run starts on now, and why: (label, reason), the label "" when there is none.

The candidates are the class pools CI_OWNED_POOL_SLOTS configures for the Xcode pin (and `classes`, when
given), each followed by its root label. A label is free now when one of its runners is online and idle and
the janitor snapshot shows no job queued on any label that runner carries, so no queued job takes it first.
simple_pool_picker.state_from() counts every job queued on a pool's family against each runner of that
family, which reads an idle runner that carries none of the queued labels as taken: on 2026-11-04 the DEV
publisher's verify waited 67 min on glaeda-std-xcode-26.6 (0 runners online, 22 jobs queued; run
41814294095) while three glaeda-root-std-xcode-26.6 runners on another Mac sat idle with nothing queued
on their labels. Without a runners read or a readable snapshot nothing is free now."""
if runners is None:
return "", "no runners read"
pools = (snapshot or {}).get("pools") if isinstance(snapshot, Mapping) else None
if not isinstance(pools, Mapping):
return "", "no readable pool snapshot"

def queued(label: str) -> int:
entry = pools.get(label)
try:
return max(0, int(entry.get("queued", 0))) if isinstance(entry, Mapping) else 0
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return 0

candidates: list[str] = []
for label in sorted(simple_pool_picker._slots(owned_slots), key=simple_pool_picker.owned_order):
if not simple_pool_picker.owned_matches_xcode(label, xcode_app or ""):
continue
if classes and simple_pool_picker.owned_class(label) not in classes:
continue
candidates += [name for name in (label, pr_runner_pool.root_label(label)) if name and name not in candidates]
for label in candidates:
for runner in runners:
names = [str(item.get("name", "")) for item in runner.get("labels", ()) if isinstance(item, Mapping)]
if runner.get("status") != "online" or runner.get("busy") or label not in names:
continue
if not any(queued(name) for name in names):
return label, f"{runner.get('name') or 'a runner'} is idle with no job queued on its labels"
return "", f"no idle runner on {', '.join(candidates) or 'no configured owned label'} without a queue"


def main(argv: Sequence[str] | None = None, env: Mapping[str, str] | None = None) -> int:
env = os.environ if env is None else env
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.splitlines()[0])
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parser.add_argument("--owned-classes", default="",
help="comma-separated owned classes (std, light, xl) an auto pick may name or wait on "
"(default: all); cmux-next-dev-daily.yml keeps its download-bound jobs off light")
parser.add_argument("--free-now", action="store_true",
help="print an owned label (a configured class pool for the Xcode pin and --owned-classes, "
"or its root label) with an idle runner no queued job waits for, or nothing; "
"cmux-next-dev-daily.yml's verify takes it before it waits on the fleet")
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
classes = {name.strip() for name in args.owned_classes.split(",") if name.strip()}
unknown = sorted(classes - set(simple_pool_picker.RUN_CLASSES))
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print(fleet[0].label if fleet else "")
return 0

if args.free_now:
label, reason = "", "owned pools are off"
if (args.owned or "").strip() == "1":
repository = env.get("GH_REPO") or env.get("GITHUB_REPOSITORY") or ""
runners = snapshot = None
# The runners need the routing App (ROUTE_TOKEN); the janitor snapshot is a repository artifact
# the job's own token reads.
if (env.get("ROUTE_TOKEN") or "").strip() and repository:
try:
runners = simple_pool_picker.LiveState(env["ROUTE_TOKEN"].strip(), repository).runners()
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 - nothing is free now
print(f"could not list runners ({error})", file=sys.stderr)
token = (env.get("GH_TOKEN") or env.get("ROUTE_TOKEN") or "").strip()
if runners is not None and token:
try:
snapshot = simple_pool_picker.LiveState(token, repository).snapshot()
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 - nothing is free now
print(f"could not read the pool snapshot ({error})", file=sys.stderr)
label, reason = free_now(runners, snapshot, owned_slots=args.owned_slots,
xcode_app=args.pr_xcode_app, classes=classes)
print(f"free now: {label or 'nothing'} ({reason})", file=sys.stderr)
print(label)
return 0

# Auto choices use the shared live rule. Explicit labels retain the
# workflow's direct-request contract and its validation below.
# The shared simple picker has no test-filter or console-session
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self.assertIn('label="$owned"', step)
self.assertIn('echo "owned=$owned" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"', step)

def test_free_now_finds_an_idle_runner_no_queued_job_waits_for(self):
"""DEV publisher run 41814294095 (2026-11-04): verify waited 67 min on glaeda-std-xcode-26.6 (0 runners
online, 22 jobs queued) while three glaeda-root-std-xcode-26.6 runners on another Mac, which carry no
label with a queue, sat idle. --free-now names that root label; a runner whose labels have a queue, a
busy or offline runner, another class or Xcode pin, or a missing read names nothing."""
std, root = "glaeda-std-xcode-26.6", "glaeda-root-std-xcode-26.6"
slots = json.dumps({std: 42, "glaeda-light-xcode-26.6": 4, root: 19, "glaeda-root-light-xcode-26.6": 2,
"glaeda-ios-sim": 8, "glaeda-gui-std-xcode-26.6": 9, "glaeda-std-xcode-26.3": 5})

def runner(name, *labels, busy=False, status="online"):
return {"name": name, "status": status, "busy": busy, "labels": [{"name": label} for label in labels]}

mini = runner("cmux14-glaeda", std, root, "glaeda-ios-sim")
ultra = runner("ultra2-glaeda", root, "glaeda-root-xl-xcode-26.6", "glaeda-xl-xcode-26.6")
light = runner("cmux-austin-mini-0-glaeda-1", "glaeda-light-xcode-26.6")
incident = {"pools": {std: {"queued": 22}, "glaeda-side-std-xcode-26.6": {"queued": 61}}}

def free(runners, snapshot=incident, classes=frozenset({"std"}), xcode=PR_XCODE):
return e2e_pool.free_now(runners, snapshot, owned_slots=slots, xcode_app=xcode, classes=set(classes))[0]

self.assertEqual(free([mini, ultra, light]), root)
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# The idle mini carries the queued std label: the queue takes it first.
self.assertEqual(free([mini, light]), "")
# With no queue anywhere the pool's own label comes first.
self.assertEqual(free([mini, ultra], snapshot={"pools": {}}), std)
# A queue on any label the idle runner carries (here its xl label) means it is not free.
self.assertEqual(free([ultra], snapshot={"pools": {"glaeda-xl-xcode-26.6": {"queued": 1}}}), "")
self.assertEqual(free([dict(ultra, busy=True)]), "")
self.assertEqual(free([dict(ultra, status="offline")]), "")
# Light is not a class verify takes; another Xcode pin matches nothing.
self.assertEqual(free([light], snapshot={"pools": {}}), "")
self.assertEqual(free([ultra], xcode="/Applications/Xcode_26.3.app"), "")
# No runners read or no snapshot: nothing is free now.
self.assertEqual(free(None), "")
self.assertEqual(free([ultra], snapshot=None), "")

def main(*argv, env):
with unittest.mock.patch("sys.stdout", io.StringIO()) as output, \
unittest.mock.patch("sys.stderr", io.StringIO()):
e2e_pool.main(["--free-now", "--owned-slots", slots, "--pr-xcode-app", PR_XCODE,
"--owned-classes", "std", *argv], env=env)
return output.getvalue().strip()

live = unittest.mock.Mock()
live.runners.return_value = [mini, ultra]
live.snapshot.return_value = incident
env = {"GITHUB_REPOSITORY": "manaflow-ai/cmux", "ROUTE_TOKEN": "route", "GH_TOKEN": "job"}
with unittest.mock.patch.object(e2e_pool.simple_pool_picker, "LiveState", return_value=live) as state:
self.assertEqual(main("--owned", "1", env=env), root)
self.assertEqual([call.args[0] for call in state.call_args_list], ["route", "job"])
# Owned pools off, or no routing token to list runners with: nothing, and no read.
state.reset_mock()
self.assertEqual(main("--owned", "0", env=env), "")
self.assertEqual(main("--owned", "1", env={**env, "ROUTE_TOKEN": ""}), "")
state.assert_not_called()
live.runners.side_effect = urllib.error.URLError("403")
with unittest.mock.patch.object(e2e_pool.simple_pool_picker, "LiveState", return_value=live):
self.assertEqual(main("--owned", "1", env=env), "")

dev = (ROOT / ".github/workflows/cmux-next-dev-daily.yml").read_text()
step = dev[dev.index("Pick the macOS pool"):dev.index("Mark a run on a persistent")]
self.assertIn('free="$(pick 1 --free-now)"', step)
self.assertLess(step.index('free="$(pick 1 --free-now)"'), step.index('echo "label=$label"'))
self.assertIn('label="$free"', step)
self.assertNotIn('dmg_label="$free"', step)

def test_ui_auto_route_skips_simple_picker_and_uses_gui_label(self):
"""A media tour's auto pick must reach the UI-aware E2E picker."""
with unittest.mock.patch.object(
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