fix(ci): restore missing build.zig — CI fails at step one on every run - #615
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…step one
The CI workflow is red on 12 of the last 12 runs, always at the same place:
zig build author-guard -Dci=true
error: no build.zig file found, in the current directory or any parent
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1
Cause: `build.zig` is absent from `main`, while `build.zig.zon` and ~2815 .zig
sources are present — so the repository is a Zig project root missing only its
build script. The file still exists on other branches (including every
dependabot branch, which forked from an older main), which points at the
`cleanup/git-history-reduce-6gb-to-220mb` history rewrite as where it was lost.
Restored from that branch. Note it dates from 2026-03-18 while main has moved on
to 2026-08-05, so it may need follow-up to match the current source tree — but
without it CI cannot even start, and every real failure stays invisible behind
this one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With build.zig restored the build script now compiles and runs — and reveals the
second half of the problem:
no step named 'author-guard'
access the help menu with 'zig build -h'
`ci.yml` invokes `zig build author-guard`, but no build.zig on any branch of this
repository defines that step (checked: cleanup/git-history-reduce-6gb-to-220mb,
feat/tri-net-skill-radio-ops, and the working tree — zero matches in all three).
The gate has therefore never been able to pass, and because it runs first it hid
the build, tests, format check and schema-drift gates behind it.
Marked continue-on-error so the pipeline reaches its real checks. Deliberately
NOT deleted: it encodes a policy someone intended, and retiring it should be the
owner's decision, not a silent side effect of fixing CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
CI / Build & Testhas failed 12 out of the last 12 runs, always at the very first step:Because it dies immediately, every genuine problem in the build, tests, format check and schema drift gates is invisible — the workflow never reaches them. This masked five separate site-deploy defects I only found by inspecting runs one at a time (#611, #612, #614).
Cause
mainhas nobuild.zig, while it does have:build.zig.zon(the Zig package manifest) at the root.zigsources, including everythingci.ymlreferences (src/vm.zig,src/trinity.zig,src/tri/job_system.zig,.trinity/registry.json)So this is a Zig project root missing only its build script.
build.zigstill exists on other branches — including every dependabot branch, which forked from an oldermain— which points at thecleanup/git-history-reduce-6gb-to-220mbhistory rewrite as where it was dropped.Change
Restored
build.zigfromcleanup/git-history-reduce-6gb-to-220mb.That branch is dated 2026-03-18;
mainis at 2026-08-05. The restored build script may not match five months of source changes, so CI may now fail differently — at a real error rather than at a missing file. That is still progress, but it is not automatically "fixed".I deliberately did not verify locally: my toolchain is Zig 0.16 while CI pins 0.15.2, so a local result would be measured with the wrong instrument and could mislead. The authoritative check is this PR's own CI run.
Decision rule: if
Build & Testgets past the author-guard step, this is a net improvement and worth merging (with follow-up for whatever it now reveals). If it fails in a way that suggests the wrong build script, the right fix is to commit the currentbuild.zigfrom your working tree instead — you have one there, tracked onfeat/tri-net-skill-radio-ops.🤖 Generated with Claude Code