ci: add workflow_call triggers to build workflows

[simonrosenberg]

Summary

• Add workflow_call triggers to the 5 build workflows used by the evaluation pipeline (swebench, gaia, swtbench, commit0, swebenchmultimodal)
• Update checkout steps to work when called cross-repo from OpenHands/evaluation
• Update concurrency groups to key on sdk-commit when available

This enables the evaluation repo to call these build workflows as reusable workflows via uses:, eliminating the need for cross-repo workflow_dispatch polling and the temporary branch hack in orchestrate_eval.py.

Changes per workflow

Each build workflow gets:

1. A workflow_call: trigger with inputs for sdk-commit, n-limit, instance-ids, benchmarks-ref (and agent-type where applicable)
2. Explicit repository: OpenHands/benchmarks + token on the checkout step (required because github.repository resolves to the caller's repo for workflow_call)
3. benchmarks-ref as the first priority in checkout ref determination
4. Simplified SDK submodule update condition (removed event_name guard since inputs.sdk-commit is sufficient)
5. Updated concurrency group: ${{ inputs.sdk-commit || github.ref }} to avoid serializing builds for different SDK commits

Backward compatibility

All existing triggers (workflow_dispatch, pull_request_target) work exactly as before. The workflow_call inputs use the same names as the existing workflow_dispatch inputs where applicable, so the inputs.* references in steps resolve correctly for both trigger types.

Validation

End-to-end runs completed successfully using these reusable workflows called from OpenHands/evaluation (all with eval_limit=1 or 5, claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929):

Benchmark	Result	SDK trigger	Eval workflow run
swebench	5/5 completed, 5/5 resolved, 0 errors	#24406322597	#24406353727
gaia	5/5 completed, 3/5 resolved, 0 errors	#24406322541	#24406354480
commit0	5/5 completed, 2/5 resolved, 0 errors	#24406322608	#24406355165
swebenchmultimodal	1/1 completed, 0/1 resolved, 0 errors	#24414072255	#24414097101
swtbench	5/5 inferred, 0 errors (eval harness blocked by unrelated swtbench-highcore node pool capacity)	#24406322601	#24406353744

The swebenchmultimodal run exercised fresh GHCR pushes for eval-builder, eval-base, and eval-agent-server, confirming package permissions are correctly scoped for cross-repo writes.

GHCR package permissions

For the evaluation repo's GITHUB_TOKEN to push images, the following GHCR packages must grant OpenHands/evaluation write access via Package settings → Manage Actions access:

• ghcr.io/openhands/eval-builder
• ghcr.io/openhands/eval-base
• ghcr.io/openhands/eval-agent-server

Related

• Companion PR in evaluation repo: OpenHands/evaluation#471 (moves orchestration from K8s to GH Actions)
• Resolves part of OpenHands/evaluation#371

Test plan

• Test cross-repo workflow_call from evaluation repo (validated above for all 5 benchmarks)
• Verify GHCR package permissions allow push from evaluation repo context
• Verify direct workflow_dispatch triggers still work for each build workflow
• Verify pull_request_target label triggers still work

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[all-hands-bot]

🟢 Good taste - Clean, focused changes that solve a real problem without adding unnecessary complexity.

Verdict: ✅ Worth merging after testing

Key insight: The fallback patterns (inputs.sdk-commit || github.ref, secrets.PAT_TOKEN || github.token) elegantly handle both workflow_call and existing triggers without conditional spaghetti.

One trade-off to note: hardcoding repository: OpenHands/benchmarks breaks fork support for workflow_dispatch, but this is pragmatic since the primary use case is cross-repo calls from evaluation.

Test plan checkboxes are unchecked - verify all scenarios work before merge.

[all-hands-bot]

🟡 Acceptable - Clean workflow_call integration with good fallback patterns.

Two items in the test plan remain unchecked (workflow_dispatch and pull_request_target backward compatibility). Verify these before merging to ensure existing triggers still work.

Verdict: ✅ Worth merging after completing test plan validation

[all-hands-bot]

🟡 Suggestion: Inconsistent default for n-limit across workflows.

• build-swtbench: default: '0'
• build-commit0, build-swebench, build-swebenchmultimodal: default: ''

Is there a reason swtbench uses '0' while others use empty string? Consider standardizing unless the difference is intentional.

[all-hands-bot]

🟡 Suggestion: GAIA workflow doesn't include n-limit or instance-ids inputs.

The other 4 build workflows have these inputs for limiting builds. Is this intentional because GAIA doesn't support limiting, or should these be added for consistency?