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[WIP] Add GitHub action workflow to test features periodically
Add weekly scheduled workflow to test all features with retry and issue creation
Mar 22, 2026
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Features can silently break due to upstream changes. A periodic test workflow is needed to catch these regressions automatically, retry transient failures, and surface persistent ones as tracked issues.
New workflow:
.github/workflows/scheduled-test.yml0 0 * * 0) +workflow_dispatchget-all-featuresjob dynamically lists all dirs undersrc/— no hardcodingtest.yaml):test-autogenerated— matrix offeature × baseImage(debian, ubuntu, mcr devcontainers base); runsdevcontainer features test --skip-scenariostest-scenarios— matrix offeature; runs--skip-autogenerated --skip-duplicatedfail-fast: false, only failing features are retried — passing ones are never re-runfailure-*artifactcreate-issuejob runsif: always(), downloads allfailure-*artifacts, and opens one GitHub issue with a collapsible per-feature log section:=== Attempt 1 of 3 ===
...
=== Attempt 3 of 3 ===
All 3 attempts failed
issues: writepermission scoped tocreate-issueonly; all other jobs run withcontents: readmax-parallel: 10to avoid saturating runners across 150+ potential concurrent matrix jobs${{ runner.temp }}for log/artifact paths and${{ github.run_started_at }}for issue titlesOriginal prompt
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