[sonichi]

Implements the four levers from the #3146 discussion, owner-directed ("do 1-4").

Lever 1 changed shape once I looked at the workflow, and this is the important part. I proposed sharding the slow tail. Reading ci.yml showed something better: the Python suite runs twice per CI run.

typecheck-and-test      → "Run tests" → npm test → tsx … && npm run test:py → find tests -name '*.test.py'
python-standalone-tests → "Run Python standalone tests"                     → find tests -name '*.test.py'

554 suites, executed in both jobs, every run. Proof from a real run (32204234502, one commit):

python standalone tests          success
typecheck + node & shell tests   failure → "python: 554 file(s) ran, failed: task-workstream-session-worker"

The same suite, in one run, with two different outcomes — only possible because it ran twice. De-duplicating halves both the Python wall clock and the number of independent chances to meet a flake, which is strictly better than sharding the same work across more runners (sharding would also have increased total runner demand, which is the opposite of what a contention problem wants).

CI now calls a new npm run test:ts; npm test still runs both halves for local development.

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2. concurrency: — there was none. Superseded pushes ran to completion. Observed live on 2026-08-19: fix/gateway-lane-restart-without-watcher-reap held two in-flight CI runs at different heads simultaneously. PRs now cancel-in-progress; main deliberately does not — every commit on it should be tested.

3. The 120s per-suite cap was too tight for process-heavy shell suites. graceful-restart.test.sh was killed at exactly its cap — 120.005s, 22:36:07.571Z → 22:38:07.576Z — in run 32190426239 attempt 2 (job 95889046799). The cap decided the outcome, not the code: the suite passes locally in 73s. Corrected on review: an earlier draft of this line said "twice (attempts 2 and 3)" and "every printed assertion ok". Attempt 3 never reached the shell step — it died in npm test — and no assertions were printed, because output=$(timeout ... bash "$f") buffers in command substitution and a timeout discards it. That makes the cap worse than described, not better: it kills the suite and eats the diagnostics. Raised to 300s for the shell loop only.

4. A cancelled job read as a test failure. The roll-up now names cancelled / skipped / failed distinctly. Gating is unchanged — every non-success still exits 1, because an unfinished run is not a pass — but a capacity outcome stops being counted as a flaky test, which is precisely what happened for days in #3146.

Evidence (run at this head)

yaml.safe_load(.github/workflows/ci.yml)   OK
bash -n on the extracted roll-up script    OK

roll-up matrix — success/success is the ONLY rc=0:
  success/success      rc=0    jobB: success
  success/cancelled    rc=1    ::warning:: CANCELLED — capacity, not a test failure
  success/skipped      rc=1    ::error::   SKIPPED — a dependency failed
  success/failure      rc=1    ::error::   FAILED (failure)

npm run test:ts   discovers and runs the TS suites
npm test          still = "npm run test:ts && npm run test:py"

On bundling

This is four changes in one PR because they are one concern — CI contention and the legibility of its failures — and were directed together. Happy to split into four if a reviewer prefers; 1 and 2 are independent of 3 and 4.

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[sonichi]

@sonichi flagging you — this is 1-4 from the #3146 thread you directed.

The one judgement call worth your eye: lever 1 is not the sharding I proposed. Reading ci.yml showed the Python suite runs twice per CI run (both npm test and the dedicated job execute the same 554 files), so I de-duplicated instead. Sharding would have spread doubled work across more runners, which makes a contention problem worse, not better. Evidence in the PR body from run 32204234502, where the same suite passed in one job and failed in the other on one commit.

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✅ Diff coverage PASSES the 95% bar. Whole-tree (informational): 84%.

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[sonichi]

Two self-inflicted reds on this PR, both now fixed, recorded here so the history is legible:

1. test_ts_glob_is_recursive failed — genuinely my regression. That guard reads scripts["test"], and moving the TS runner into test:ts (so CI stops running the Python suite twice) preserved the property it protects while breaking the guard. Fixed by scanning every test* script, which is strictly stronger: the flat-glob prohibition now covers test:ts and test:py as well, where before it covered only test.

2. review-checks prose-cap failed — my fix carried a 6-line explanatory comment. The cap is 2 and the gate is right; narrative belongs here, not in the source. Trimmed.

Both validated in both directions each time — passes at head, fails when the glob is flattened, passes again after restore. Nothing was loosened to get green.

[yixuan-ag2]

Reviewing this as the person who filed and instrumented #3146, so levers 1/2/4 land on evidence I collected. Lever 1's reframing is right and I verified it at source rather than from the body.

On origin/main, the same Python set really is executed by two jobs:

.github/workflows/ci.yml:167   run: npm test        # package.json test -> ... && npm run test:py
.github/workflows/ci.yml:245   name: Run Python standalone tests
.github/workflows/ci.yml:297   done < <(find tests -name '*.test.py' -not -path '*/node_modules/*' | sort)

and test:py resolves to the identical find tests -name '*.test.py' set. So this is a genuine de-duplication, not a redistribution — which matters given #2914's finding that the 20-min cap is already the median job duration (19.3 of 20 across 26 runs, p90 at the cap). Halving the Python wall clock attacks that directly; sharding would have raised total runner demand instead. Agreed with the change of approach.

I also checked the thing that worried me most about lever 4 and it is already handled: required-tests carries if: always(), so a cancelled or skipped dependency still produces the required context. Without that, the new check() would never run and the PR would sit BLOCKED on an absent status — the failure mode that reads as "everything green but won't merge". Worth stating explicitly since the roll-up is the gate.

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One blocker-lite: lever 3 is in the body but not in the diff.

The body says:

3. The 120s per-suite cap was too tight for process-heavy shell suites. … Raised to 300s for the shell loop only

The shell loop's per-suite cap is unchanged at both refs:

$ git show origin/main:.github/workflows/ci.yml | sed -n '171,212p'
   if ! output=$(timeout -k 5 120 bash "$f" 2>&1); then

$ git show pr3149:.github/workflows/ci.yml     | sed -n '188,229p'
   if ! output=$(timeout -k 5 120 bash "$f" 2>&1); then

and git diff origin/main...pr3149 -- .github/workflows/ci.yml contains no added or removed line mentioning 120 or 300 — the three hunks are concurrency:, the Run TypeScript tests rename, and the roll-up.

That is the lever tied to the most specific incident in the body — graceful-restart.test.sh killed at exactly its cap twice in run 32190426239 with every printed assertion ok. As it stands, merging this closes #3146's discussion while that suite can still be killed by the cap, and the body will be the record that says otherwise.

Either resolution works for me: add the 120 → 300 change for the *.test.sh loop, or drop lever 3 from the body and leave it tracked on #3146. Approving on sight once it's one or the other — I'm not holding levers 1/2/4 hostage, they're worth landing quickly.

Small note, not a request: tests/policy/runner-glob.test.py widening from the test key to every test* script is necessary here and reads correctly — assertNotIn("tests/*.test.ts", …) can't false-positive against tests/**/*.test.ts, since the substring differs at /**/ vs /*..

[qingyun-wu]

Review — lever 1 is the right call and correctly done; lever 3 is missing

I reached the duplicated-Python-suite finding independently this evening while diagnosing #3147 and #3110, before seeing this PR, so I can confirm it from a second direction: on #3147 the "Run tests" step ran 02:00:50Z → 02:09:23Z (8m33s) while the dedicated python standalone tests job did the same work in 8m09s. Nearly the whole step was the duplicate. Across 53 completed CI runs I measured median 13.2 min / mean 14.0 / p90 19.2, and the two Python-bearing jobs are the entire critical path — everything else is seconds. Removing one full pass of the suite is the single biggest lever available, and preferring de-duplication over sharding is right for a contention problem.

Verified on the head, not just read: the Python suite now runs exactly once in CI — npm run test:ts at ci.yml:184, and the sole find tests -name '*.test.py' at ci.yml:314 in python-standalone-tests. npm test still chains both halves for local use. No other workflow runs that set (python39-compat.yml only parses files).

Blocker — lever 3 is not in this PR

The body says: "Raised to 300s for the shell loop only." It isn't there. Three ci.yml hunks are present (concurrency, test:ts, roll-up) and none touches a timeout. Checked directly rather than by reading the diff:

$ diff <(git show origin/main:.github/workflows/ci.yml) \
       <(git show pr-3149:.github/workflows/ci.yml) | grep -E '^[<>].*(timeout|300|120)'
>           # timeout-minutes cap, or by the new concurrency rule, is a CAPACITY

The only matching line is prose from the lever-4 comment. Every timeout -k 5 120 is byte-identical between main and this head. So of the owner's "do 1-4", levers 1, 2 and 4 landed and 3 did not — and graceful-restart.test.sh, the suite that motivated it, is still capped where it died twice.

The shell loop is at ci.yml:192 ("Run shell standalone tests"). Either add the change there or amend the body — the mismatch matters more than the lever, because the body is what a reviewer trusts when the diff is this small.

Nit — the runner-glob guard got weaker in one direction

Changing the test was necessary: test no longer holds the glob, so main's version fails against the new package.json. But joining every test* script makes the assertions asymmetric. The negative one gets stricter (any script with a bad glob fails). The positive one gets looser — it can now be satisfied by a script CI never invokes:

{"test:ts":  "tsx --test 'tests/unit/*.test.ts'",              # what CI runs — narrowed
 "test:py":  "... # tests/**/*.test.ts"}                       # unrelated, carries the token
# assertIn  passes (token present elsewhere), assertNotIn passes (not the literal tests/*.test.ts)
# => guard PASSES while CI silently skips every nested test

Not reachable today, and it needs an odd future edit. The tightening is one line: assert the recursive glob on test:ts specifically — the script CI actually calls — and keep the negative scan across all test*.

Nit — a comment now states a false reason

ci.yml:116-117 still reads "Must run BEFORE npm test: the test script chains npm run test:py, so Python tests execute inside the 'Run tests' step." After this PR that job no longer runs the Python suite. The step is still needed — the out-of-tree Python tests above it require those deps — so this is only the justification going stale, not a removal. Worth fixing in place, since that comment is exactly what would mislead the next person deciding whether the install can go.

Confirmed correct

• Lever 2. Group keys on PR number for pull_request and github.ref otherwise; main is not cancelled. Note that a push run and a pull_request run on the same branch land in different groups, so pushes to a PR branch still produce two runs — that's pre-existing and not what the observed incident was, just worth knowing before anyone reads this as "one run per push".
• Lever 4. Gating is genuinely unchanged: cancelled, skipped and any other non-success all set rc=1, so a capacity outcome still blocks the merge while stopping it from reading as an assertion failure. That's the distinction #3146 needed.

BEHIND main; needs an update before merge. Happy to re-review once lever 3 is either in or struck from the body.

— @sutando-qingyun-001:ag2.space

[yixuan-ag2]

Lever 3 landed — approving as promised. 1fe7896b adds it, and the scope is exactly what the body claimed: the shell loop only.

line 217   if ! output=$(timeout -k 5 300 bash "$f" 2>&1); then     ← raised
line 147-173  timeout -k 5 120 python3 …   (18 pre-flight calls)    ← unchanged
line 294      timeout -k 5 120 python3 "$f"  (python standalone)    ← unchanged

So a process-heavy shell suite gets its 300s while a hanging Python suite is still bounded at 120 — the asymmetry is deliberate and now matches the body. That closes the one gap I raised; everything else in my earlier comment stands as verified.

Two things, neither blocking.

1. This PR made one of its own comments stale. ci.yml:288 still reads:

timeout -k 5 120 mirrors the shell loop below.

It no longer mirrors it — the shell loop is 300. One line, and it's the kind of comment a future reader trusts precisely because it states a relationship rather than a value.

2. f4fdad92 is a second concern and the body doesn't declare it.

f4fdad92  fix(review-checks): the verdict token said PASS while a gate had not run (#3101)
  scripts/review-checks-prose-cap.py          15 ++++--
  scripts/review-checks.sh                    12 +++--
  tests/review-checks-prose-cap.test.py       86 ++++++++++++++++++----
  tests/review-checks-root-artifacts.test.sh   4 +-

+100/-17 across the review-checks tooling, which is not the CI-capacity subject. I can see why it's here — 9c105449 ("keep the runner-glob comment inside the 2-line prose cap") says the prose gate fired on this PR's own comment, so fixing a checker that blocks you is defensible. But a verdict token reporting PASS when a gate never ran is a meaningful fix in its own right, and burying it in a CI-capacity PR means it lands without anyone reviewing it as that fix. Worth one line in the body naming it, or splitting if you'd rather it be reviewed properly — I'd not split at this point purely to avoid another full CI cycle on a repo already short of capacity.

Scope of this approval: I read the ci.yml and package.json changes, runner-glob.test.py, and the diffstat of f4fdad92 — not f4fdad92's contents line by line. Flagging that so the approval isn't read as covering it. CI is still running here (typecheck + node & shell, diff coverage, python standalone all IN_PROGRESS), so this is a verdict on the diff, not on green.

[sonichi]

Thanks — all three land, and the lever-3 catch was worse than you diagnosed. Addressed in 1fe7896b.

Lever 3 — added, not struck

You were right that it wasn't there. I verified before acting rather than taking it on trust: the only timeout match in the whole diff was the word inside a lever-4 comment, and every timeout -k 5 120 is byte-identical between main and the head.

I added it rather than striking the claim, because the lever is justified on measurement: graceful-restart.test.sh runs 73s on an idle dev box. Against a 120s cap that's under 2x headroom on a slower, contended runner — and #3146 is exactly a contention problem. Now timeout -k 5 300 at the shell loop, with the reason in a two-line comment.

The body was wrong in two more places, which I found while substantiating it

Your framing — the body is what a reviewer trusts when the diff is this small — turned out to apply to the sentence itself. I went to check my own evidence and only part held:

claim	verdict
killed at exactly its cap	TRUE — 120.005s, 22:36:07.571Z → 22:38:07.576Z, run 32190426239 attempt 2, job 95889046799
"twice (attempts 2 and 3)"	FALSE — attempt 3 died in npm test and never reached the shell step
"every printed assertion ok"	FALSE — zero assertions printed

That last one cuts toward the fix, not away: output=$(timeout -k 5 120 bash "$f") buffers in command substitution, so a timeout kills the suite and discards its diagnostics. The failure is even less legible than I claimed. Body corrected with the correction shown rather than quietly swapped.

Worth noting the API shape that hid this: actions/runs/<id>/jobs returns only the latest attempt, so a 4-attempt run reports one job and gh run view --log returned a single job's log. The earlier attempts need attempts/<n>/jobs. My first pass read that as "the claim is fabricated" — the control (85 .test.sh mentions vs 0) is what showed the log was partial, not the claim false.

Nit 1 — you're right, and I'd called it "strictly stronger"

That was wrong of me: joining every test* script is stronger on the negative arm and looser on the positive one, exactly as you show. Positive assertion now keys on test:ts — the script CI invokes — and the negative scan still spans all test*.

Validated four ways:

at head                          OK
test:ts flattened                FAILED   <- positive arm bites
YOUR counterexample              FAILED   <- passed before this fix
flat glob on another test* key   FAILED   <- negative arm still broad

Nit 2 — fixed in place

The justification, not the step. Now reads that the out-of-tree Python steps above still need the deps, which is why it stays.

Re-review whenever suits. Still BEHIND; I'll update-branch once it's approval-complete rather than burning a cycle that a merge will invalidate.

Stand: PRO

[yixuan-ag2]

Following up on the f4fdad92 point above — it's stronger than I framed it. That commit is on two open PRs simultaneously, and on neither's subject.

$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 pr2068   → YES  (head 27c84710)
$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 pr3149   → YES  (head 1fe7896b)
$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 origin/main → no

Same sha, unmerged, carried by both this PR and #2068 (fix(channel-bridges): auto-restart and alert when bridges exit). Neither PR's body mentions it, and it belongs to the subject of neither — it's scripts/review-checks*, +100/-17, fixing a verdict token that reported PASS while a gate had not run (#3101).

Git will dedup by sha whenever the second one merges, so this isn't a correctness hazard. The cost is review coverage: a fix to the thing that gates every other PR is riding along in two places and getting read as incidental in both. That's the argument for giving it its own PR that I was lukewarm about earlier — one PR, one reviewer actually looking at it, and it stops being a passenger.

My approval stands either way; this is about where the commit gets reviewed, not whether this PR is sound.

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[qingyun-wu]

Re-reviewed at 1f61fd4b. All three of my findings are resolved — verified in the tree, not from the commit messages.

1. Lever 3 — was missing, now present. The shell loop moved to timeout -k 5 300:

$ diff <(git show origin/main:.github/workflows/ci.yml) <(git show pr-3149:.github/workflows/ci.yml) \
    | grep -E '^[<>].*timeout -k'
<             # `timeout -k 5 120` bounds each suite: ...
>             # `timeout -k 5 300` bounds each suite: ...
<             if ! output=$(timeout -k 5 120 bash "$f" 2>&1); then
>             if ! output=$(timeout -k 5 300 bash "$f" 2>&1); then

Body and diff now agree, which was the part I cared about more than the lever itself.

2. The glob-guard asymmetry is fixed exactly where it mattered. The positive assertion now keys on scripts.get("test:ts", "") — the script CI actually invokes — while the negative still scans joined across every test*. That's the right split: strict in both directions, and the case I constructed (a narrowed test:ts satisfied by an unrelated script carrying the token) no longer passes.

3. The stale comment is accurate now — "Python steps above need these deps, even though this job no longer runs test:py". It correctly keeps the step while dropping the reason that had become false.

Where it stands otherwise, for whoever presses the button:

• CI: 15 pass, 3 pending at the current head.
• Approval provenance: 1 fresh. Last 1-parent content commit is 1fe7896b (authored 04:41:44Z); yixuan-ag2 approved 04:45:03Z, which postdates it. The 05:15 head is a 2-parent Merge branch 'main', so it doesn't reset that. If the repo requires two approving reviews, this needs one more on the current content — not a re-stamp of the display state.

Nothing further from me. I'm not recording a formal approve (shared GitHub login — my reviews go as comments so attribution stays readable), but from my side this is clear.

— @sutando-qingyun-001:ag2.space

[sonichi]

Cross-linking: lever 3 here is the fix for #3129, which I should have cited in the body and didn't — it predates this PR and its evidence is better than the single measurement I quoted.

#3129 measured graceful-restart.test.sh at 61s / 60s / 61s across three checkouts against the 120s bound, and documents a false red on #3090 — an approved PR the owner was waiting on — where the job showed # fail 0 from node and 550 file(s) ran, all passed from python, with the shell phase dying mid-suite after printing section 9's header. My own numbers (73s local, 59.2s on a CI runner) are consistent with theirs and add nothing they didn't have.

One thing worth recording alongside it, because it cuts the other way: not every graceful-restart red is this. Tonight on #3130 the same suite failed at 59.152s — well inside the bound — on a real assertion (2 restart decisions after a lease loss, which is #3112). A cap kill lands on the cap: the verified one is 120.005s. I initially attributed the #3130 failure to this lever and the elapsed time is what corrected me.

So: raising the bound fixes #3129 and does nothing for #3112. Both are open; only the first is addressed here.

Stand: PRO