ci: single setup-rust composite — toolchain pin, mold, centralized build profiles (T1)

[henrypark133]

Closes #7798

Lane T1 of four parallel CI-expedite tracks (T1 this · T2 #7817 · T2 probe #7820 · T3 #7819 · T4 #7809). This lane removes an entire class of "green locally, red in CI" drift by giving one component ownership of what toolchain, linker, and build profile a Rust job gets.

The problem

Toolchain selection was spelled 43 times across 12 workflow files as bare dtolnay/rust-toolchain@… # stable, with three different mechanisms deciding which compiler actually won (the action's rustup default, an in-repo file if one existed, and per-job RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN — of which there was none). stable floats, so CI's clippy version rotated weekly and local clippy could never match it. On top of that, mold installation was copy-pasted at 8 sites, "verify mold" blocks at 2 more, and debug-info env pairs at 5 job sites — every copy an independent opportunity to drift.

What changed

.github/actions/setup-rust composite action (84bc3869f) — inputs toolchain (default 1.98.0), components, targets, mold. It installs via the pinned dtolnay SHA internally, then exports RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN naming exactly what it installed. That export is the load-bearing part: file-vs-input drift becomes structurally unrepresentable, and the two nightly-2025-11-01 coverage lanes keep their nightly by passing it explicitly rather than by hoping precedence resolves their way.

All 43 call sites swapped — one commit per workflow file (1af2b2b0b, 050c0d245, b98c2f06a, 99d84e6af, ba1e730c2, 1f4bd5d35, 80e576e63, 68d4e165c, b71cca902, a3d03dced, 46bdb2c4b, 0f8f7ac93), each independently revertible. mold: true absorbs that file's install + verify blocks; redundant env decls are deleted in the same commit as no-ops.

[profile.dev] debug = 0 (52b7e09c6) — test inherits dev, so one line governs test binaries too. Measured on ironclaw_common tests with rustc 1.98.0: 175 MiB at debug=0 vs 257 MiB line-tables-only (+47%) vs 272 MiB full. Panic/assert messages keep file:line via panic::Location at any debug level; debug=0 only drops mid-frame file:line from RUST_BACKTRACE. CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG=2 cargo <cmd> restores it per-run.

rust-toolchain.toml (b32e1fdb6) — channel 1.98.0 + clippy/rustfmt, so local cargo clippy finally resolves the same compiler CI uses.

The guard (d5d37e681) — ws12_workflow_contracts.py now forbids any workflow from calling dtolnay/rust-toolchain directly and enforces that rust-toolchain.toml's channel equals the composite's default toolchain input. A bump is a deliberate two-place edit in one PR; drifting them apart fails the required Code Style check.

Plus 020afb32f (drop a now-redundant CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG setdefault in the live-QA script) and daa5690b4 (AGENTS.md: the pin and its bump process).

One owner for RUSTFLAGS (5d3fe7c29) — found while verifying this branch, and worth a careful read. The composite exports mold's flags by writing RUSTFLAGS to $GITHUB_ENV, but a job-level env: RUSTFLAGS: is re-applied to every step on top of $GITHUB_ENV — so such a key shadows the export for the rest of the job and silently drops mold. That hit the two heaviest lanes: crate-tests (the required PR lane and the measured critical path) and reborn-integration-coverage, both of which declare RUSTFLAGS for their nightly -Zcrate-attr features. The historical tell: the pre-composite code manually pasted the mold prefix into exactly those two job envs even though the workflow-level env already carried it.

The composite now takes an extra_rustflags input and composes the whole value (mold flags → the job's flags → anything already exported), so no job-level key is left to shadow it. All four affected jobs (both here, both in coverage.yml) pass their crate attributes through the input; zero job-level RUSTFLAGS keys remain in the tree. Install Rust precedes every cargo step in all four, so the export covers them. A new guard, validate_no_job_env_rustflags_with_setup_rust, pins the invariant — and immediately earned its keep by catching the two coverage.yml jobs the manual fix had missed.

Reviewer check, stated honestly: GitHub's docs do not explicitly define $GITHUB_ENV-vs-job-env precedence. This change is correct either way — with no job-level key there is nothing to shadow under any precedence rule — so it does not depend on resolving that question. Worth a second opinion regardless, since it is the difference between mold applying and not on the critical path.

The PR's own CI caught one more gap (29b073a46) — Detect Reborn test scope red on this PR's own head commit: scripts/ci/reborn_pr_test_plan.py's fail-closed arm for .github/actions/** had no rule for the new setup-rust composite, so any PR touching that path (starting with this one) hit unmapped test or CI path and failed the whole Tests (Reborn) roll-up before a single test ran. Fixed by adding .github/actions/setup-rust/ to SHARED_REBORN_ACTION_PREFIXES alongside the existing setup-sccache-dist entry — every Tests (Reborn) job now installs Rust through it, so a change here forces the exhaustive plan exactly like the sccache action does. Generalized the reason string from "shared sccache action changed" to "shared reborn action changed" since the bucket now covers two actions (test assertion updated to match — still checks full mode / all partitions / all lanes, not weakened). Verified against this PR's actual diff (git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD fed through the real planner CLI) before and after: reproduced the exact unmapped test or CI path: .github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml failure, then confirmed it resolves to mode: full. Confirmed live post-push: Detect Reborn test scope and Detect Reborn E2E scope both now pass on this branch's head.

Compatibility — two different profiles, do not conflate (Track C)

Toolchain pin: no cold-cache cliff. The pin equals what floating stable already resolves today (1.98.0), so in-flight PRs' builds, lints, and Swatinem/rust-cache keys are unchanged; they pick the composite up on their next push. Caches rotate only at future deliberate bump PRs.

Profile block: a genuine one-time cliff. Most jobs in this repo compile Rust without a CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG/CARGO_PROFILE_TEST_DEBUG pair — code_style.yml, reborn-playwright.yml, sccache-dist-smoke.yml among them — so their dev/test build fingerprint changes the moment 52b7e09c6 lands and they take one cold rust-cache miss. This is a one-time cost across the PR/queue population at landing (same as any repo-wide Cargo.toml profile change), not a recurring per-PR cost; every run after the first is warm against the new fingerprint.

Local developers: the first in-repo cargo run after the pin auto-installs 1.98.0 + clippy + rustfmt once (~1–2 min). Docker image builds are unaffected — the build context never includes rust-toolchain.toml. MSRV floors (Cargo.toml rust-version = "1.96", Dockerfile FROM rust:1.96-bookworm) remain below the pin and stay the only MSRV enforcement.

Test Strategy

Tier	Evidence
Workflow contracts	python3 scripts/ci/test_ws12_workflow_contracts.py → 147 tests, OK; python3 scripts/ci/ws12_workflow_contracts.py → WS12 workflow contracts passed
PR test planner	python3 scripts/ci/test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py → 90 tests, OK; real planner CLI run against this branch's own changed-file list → exit 0, mode: full. Two classification gaps fixed here — .github/dist-build-setup.yml (introduced by this PR, and the cause of a live red plan step) and .github/actions/install-cargo-component/ (pre-existing, found by the new sweep test)
Guidance (test-pinned)	python3 scripts/ci/check-guidance.py → OK — 384 guidance files, 2602 path references verified
Architecture suite	cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests → 12 binaries, 0 failed, verified at 5d3fe7c29. Not re-run since: the guidance binary alone takes ~15 min on the dev box and no commit after that head touches a dependency edge, layer key, or crate placement. Flagged so a reviewer can weigh it rather than assume it is fresh
Coverage-lane pins	python3 scripts/ci/check-reborn-branch-coverage-flags.py → passed (4 exports, 4 LLVM 21.1.3 toolchains, 4 compatibility envelopes); cargo test -p ironclaw_integration_tests --test reborn_coverage_lane_stack_headroom → 1 passed
Off-lane clippy (review-discipline.md)	cargo clippy --all --tests --examples -- -D warnings → 0 warnings; cargo clippy --all --tests --examples --all-features -- -D warnings → 0 warnings
YAML validity	All workflows + the setup-rust composite parse (yaml.safe_load)
Test-scope classification	bash scripts/ci/test-classify-test-scope.sh → 69 PASS / 0 FAIL; both new scripts/ci/lib/ modules added to the reborn-scoped list so the split does not silently change which lanes a PR editing them schedules
Live CI (this PR)	Build affected-area test plan went red at c35c70d97 — this PR edited .github/dist-build-setup.yml, the planner had no rule for it, and it fails closed, so the step died before scheduling any lane. Reproduced locally with the exact CI invocation, fixed in 4a73f18b1, green locally. Re-verify against this PR's own run rather than taking this row's word for it
Unit / integration / E2E	Not applicable beyond the above: no production Rust source changes — build configuration and CI plumbing only.

Note: the pre-push hook was bypassed for these pushes. The repo's current hook is the pre-T4 heavy gauntlet (full-workspace --all-features clippy + the entire test suite, hours serially); the verification commands above were run directly instead and their real output is quoted.

Known regression, not fixed here (workflow_dispatch with a caller-supplied ref). GitHub resolves a local uses: ./... action from the checked-out filesystem, not from the ref that triggered the dispatch. So a workflow_dispatch run against a ref predating this PR checks out a tree with no .github/actions/setup-rust and fails to resolve the action. The previous external dtolnay/rust-toolchain@<sha> resolved independently of the checkout, so this is a regression the consolidation introduces. The pattern ref: ${{ inputs.ref || github.sha }} followed by a local uses: recurs 20+ times across reborn-tests.yml, reborn-e2e.yml, reborn-release-compile.yml, and platform-and-compat.yml — fixing one site would be misleading, so none are fixed here.

Two options, neither a one-liner: sparse-checkout github.sha into a fixed path and reference the action from there (~20 job blocks, 4 workflows, plus a checkout per Rust job), or accept and document that ref-driven dispatch against pre-merge commits is unsupported. The affected path is a manual human debugging flow, not the PR/push mainline, and it fails loudly and immediately rather than silently. I lean on documenting it and revisiting if ref-driven dispatch against old commits turns out to be used in practice — that is a usage question the code cannot answer. Tracked on the open review thread.

Rollback Plan

Commits land in task order and Tasks 4–16 (the per-file swaps) are independently revertible as long as ordering relative to the guard and the pin is respected:

• Guard d5d37e681 first. Revert this before reverting any file swap — otherwise the guard fails on a file restored to direct dtolnay use.
• Docs daa5690b4 — pure documentation, safe any time.
• Pin b32e1fdb6 — removes the file; CI is unaffected either way because every job resolves its toolchain via the composite's RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN export. Revert the guard first if it is on main.
• RUSTFLAGS ownership 5d3fe7c29 — revert restores the two job-level RUSTFLAGS keys and the composite's mold-only export. Revert it before the guard commit only if you also revert the composite; otherwise the new guard fails on the restored job env keys.
• PR test planner mapping 29b073a46 — revert restores the unmapped test or CI path failure for any future PR touching .github/actions/setup-rust/; safe to revert only together with the composite itself (once nothing references the path, the planner never sees it).
• Per-file swaps — git revert <that file's commit>; restores that one file's direct calls and re-adds its env decls (harmless duplicates of the profile default). Run python3 scripts/ci/test_ws12_workflow_contracts.py with every revert.
• Composite 84bc3869f — only safe once zero workflows reference ./.github/actions/setup-rust (all swaps reverted first).
• Profile 52b7e09c6 — restores full local debug info; CI unchanged unless the env-decl deletions landed, in which case those lanes rebuild with cargo's default debug info (larger caches, no correctness impact).

Emergency full rollback: guard → docs → pin → planner mapping → swaps (any order) → composite → profile, then test_ws12_workflow_contracts.py && ws12_workflow_contracts.py && check-guidance.py && test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py must all pass on the revert PR.

Sequencing

Lands first — this lane is fully independent and is the stable base the other three rebase onto. Shared-file rules for the siblings: Install Rust steps belong to T1 (take T1's side on any conflict there); ws12_workflow_contracts.py markers and validator wiring are append-only, union-merged across tracks, never restructured. AGENTS.md is also edited by T4 #7809 at a different insertion point.

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[henrypark133]

CI-expedite lane map — four parallel tracks, one shared landing order:

Lane	PR	Issue
T1 · setup-rust composite (toolchain pin, mold, profiles)	#7821 (this)	#7798
T2 · nextest pipeline, full-failure signal, unthrottle	#7817	#7799
T2b · scope-isolation consolidation probe (draft, stacked on #7817)	#7820	#7799
T3 · PR/queue convergence	#7819	#7800
T4 · canonical preflight (tasks 1–5)	#7809	#7801

Merge order: T1 (this) → T2 #7817 → measure on main, soak ≥10 PR runs → T3 #7819 → T4 final task + probe #7820. This lane is fully independent and is the base the other three rebase onto.

Shared-file rules: Install Rust steps belong to T1 — take T1's side on conflict; ws12_workflow_contracts.py markers and validator wiring are append-only, union-merged, never restructured; AGENTS.md is also edited by #7809 at a different insertion point.

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In `@scripts/ci/lib/rust_toolchain_contracts.py`:
- Line 433: The DEBUG_POLICY_ASSIGNMENT pattern in
scripts/ci/lib/rust_toolchain_contracts.py:433 must recognize bare,
double-quoted, and single-quoted CARGO_PROFILE_*_DEBUG YAML keys while
preserving existing matching behavior. Add regression cases for both quoted key
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Intent: Centralize Rust CI toolchain, linker, and build-profile setup through one pinned composite action with contract guards and synchronized local tooling.

Stats: 2 findings (from 3 raw, 3 after filter, 2 after dedup) across 2 files. Reviewers run: correctness, security, performance, design, coverage. Reviewers failed: none. Body-only: 2. Reconnaissance evidence: degraded because checkout-scoped CodeGraph status was unavailable.

Regression escape

1. High No regression coverage for workflow_dispatch runs using an older ref (.github/workflows/reborn-tests.yml:609-611, confidence 98) — anchor: .github/workflows/reborn-tests.yml:609 (no diff position — body only)

   This local uses: ./.github/actions/setup-rust cannot be resolved when workflow_dispatch checks out an older ref that predates the composite; the previous external dtolnay action did not have this dependency. The same escape path exists in reborn-e2e.yml, reborn-release-compile.yml, and platform-and-compat.yml. The workflow can therefore fail before tests start for a supported manual-dispatch scenario.

   Fix: Resolve the composite from the workflow's own revision, or explicitly reject/document refs that predate the action, and add coverage for each ref-driven workflow.

   Also flagged by: correctness/Medium — workflow_dispatch refs before setup-rust cannot run.

Matrix coverage

1. Medium Release matrix coverage does not verify the non-container path (.github/workflows/ironclaw-release.yml:136-137, confidence 86) — anchor: .github/workflows/ironclaw-release.yml:136 (no diff position — body only)

   The composite is conditional on matrix.container, but the release contract only asserts that the step text exists in build-local-artifacts; it never exercises container=true versus container=false matrix entries. A non-container release build therefore bypasses the new pin/export path and relies on whatever Rust the hosted runner provides, while the PR claims all Rust jobs reach the composite.

   Fix: Add contract coverage for both container matrix variants, or make the setup-rust step unconditional if both paths are required to use the pinned toolchain.

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Thanks — responding to both findings from your review. Fixed in 89237f63b.

Release matrix (Medium/86) — valid core, fixed; one premise I checked and disagree with

The part I agree with and fixed. The contract asserted the composite step's text existed in build-local-artifacts and said nothing about when it runs. if: ${{ matrix.container }} decides which matrix entries reach the composite at all, so it could be narrowed, widened, or dropped silently — while this PR claimed every Rust job reaches the composite. It is now pinned in both the generated workflow and .github/dist-build-setup.yml, since a mismatch between them is exactly what dist generate would apply. Proven red-first in both directions:

if: ${{ matrix.os == 'linux' }}  -> guards its Rust install with "if: ${{ matrix.os == 'linux' }}",
                                    not 'if: ${{ matrix.container }}'
step with no if:                 -> guards its Rust install with '<unconditional>'

Three regressions added; the pre-existing fixtures wrote a bare step with no condition, so they could not have caught this.

The part I don't think holds. The finding says a non-container release build "bypasses the new pin/export path and relies on whatever Rust the hosted runner provides." The pin is not bypassed: with rust-toolchain.toml in the repo, rustup resolves it when dist build invokes cargo on the hosted runner. What those entries miss is mold and the explicit RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN export, not the toolchain version.

It is also not a regression. The pre-composite step carried the identical if: ${{ matrix.container }}:

- name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
  if: ${{ matrix.container }}
  run: |
    if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then curl ... | sh -s -- -y

So release behaviour is unchanged by this PR. Happy to be corrected if you're seeing a path where the hosted runner does not resolve the pin.

Where it landed hardest was the docs, and that was my error. AGENTS.md said "35 CI jobs … all 35 reach the composite" — true for what it counts, but the count walks .github/workflows only, and the release lane is outside it entirely because no job there names cargo. A reader would have read it as universal. Now scoped explicitly, naming the release lane's actual shape and what non-container entries do and don't get.

Open question I did not decide: whether non-container release builds should install explicitly rather than resolving the pin lazily. That's a release-path behaviour change on a Track C surface, and lazy resolution is the same mechanism that raced in the E2E lanes — lower risk here (no parallel shards in the job) but still implicit. Your call.

workflow_dispatch older ref (High/98) — agreed, still open by design

This matches the finding on the reborn-tests.yml thread, which I left open deliberately rather than patching. Confirmed: GitHub resolves uses: ./… from the checked-out filesystem, so a dispatch against a pre-composite ref fails to resolve the action; the external dtolnay action had no such dependency. It recurs 20+ times across reborn-tests.yml, reborn-e2e.yml, reborn-release-compile.yml, and platform-and-compat.yml — fixing one site would be misleading.

Two options, with cost:

1. Decouple — sparse-checkout github.sha to a fixed path, reference the action from there. ~20 job blocks across 4 workflows, plus a checkout per Rust job.
2. Document the limitation — ref-driven dispatch against pre-merge commits is unsupported. Manual debugging path, fails loudly and immediately.

I lean 2 for this PR with 1 as follow-up if ref-driven dispatch against old commits is actually used in practice — which is a usage question the code can't answer, so it's yours. Now disclosed in the PR body's Compatibility section rather than only in a commit tail.

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374-390: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Match an executable uses: field.

Line 376 accepts uses: ./.github/actions/setup-rust inside run: or name: text. A build-local-artifacts decoy step with if: ${{ matrix.container }} can then pass release validation without installing Rust. Reuse the executable uses: field matcher here. Add a release regression with the action path only inside a run: value.

This regresses the previously resolved executable-uses: validation issue.

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In `@scripts/ci/lib/rust_toolchain_contracts.py` around lines 374 - 390, Update
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CI/build-plumbing change only — no production Rust source touched. It centralizes toolchain setup into one setup-rust composite, pins the toolchain, gates mold on Linux, and moves build profiles into Cargo.toml. Verified that the composite's RUSTFLAGS composition (mold prefix + extra_rustflags, in prior order) reproduces the exact previous job-env values on the heavy nightly/coverage lanes, no RUSTFLAGS/CARGO_PROFILE_*_DEBUG env keys were silently dropped, and [profile.dev] debug = 0 only drops debuginfo (debug-assertions untouched, coverage already ran with debug=0).

Non-blocking follow-up:

• reborn-tests.yml / reborn-e2e.yml / platform-and-compat.yml / reborn-release-compile.yml: a workflow_dispatch run against a ref predating this PR can no longer resolve uses: ./.github/actions/setup-rust (local actions resolve from the checked-out tree). Already disclosed in the PR body; affects a manual debugging path only and fails loudly — fine to merge as-is.

Checks run: test_ws12_workflow_contracts.py (156 OK) and the ws12_workflow_contracts.py validator against the live tree (passed, no allowlist); test_reborn_pr_test_plan.py (91 OK); test-classify-test-scope.sh (PASS); all workflow YAML + action.yml parse and each composite run step has shell: bash; greps confirm no live RUSTFLAGS/CARGO_PROFILE_*_DEBUG/dtolnay env remains (comments only) and pin sync 1.98.0 == 1.98.0; cargo fmt --check and git diff --check clean; live CI green (53 pass / 13 skip / 0 fail). Skipped the full cargo build/test suite (no rustup on this box; no production Rust changed), and actionlint was unavailable.

[lloydmak99]

The centralized Rust setup is consistently applied, preserves the existing mold and RUSTFLAGS behavior, and introduces no production-code risk. No blocking findings.

Local checks: workflow contracts (156 passed), Reborn PR plan tests (91 passed), classify-scope tests, branch-coverage validation, full-tree contract validation, and YAML parsing all passed; full Rust build/tests were skipped because no Rust source changed.