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Moves Linux continuous integration to Ubicloud, returns Windows and macOS to
GitHub-hosted runners, and rebuilds the cache design around the fact that a
Ubicloud runner is destroyed at the end of every job.

Placement

Ubicloud offers Linux runners only, so the estate splits along one line: the
Linux jobs that block a developer run on Ubicloud, and everything else runs on
a GitHub-hosted runner.

Workflow and job Runner Reason
ci.yml build-test ubicloud-standard-4-ubuntu-2404 Linux merge gate, escalated on measured disk
ci.yml kani-smoke ubicloud-standard-2-ubuntu-2404 Linux merge gate
coverage-main.yml coverage-upload ubicloud-standard-4-ubuntu-2404 Same instrumented workload as the gate
netsukefile-test.yml netsukefile ubicloud-standard-2-ubuntu-2204 Deliberate Ubuntu 22.04 compatibility
release.yml build-linux ubicloud-standard-2-ubuntu-2404 Linux packaging and the dry-run gate
ci-windows.yml, both jobs windows-latest No Ubicloud Windows image
release.yml build-windows, windows-native-recipe-smoke windows-latest No Ubicloud Windows image
release.yml build-macos macos-15-intel, macos-15 No Ubicloud macOS image
release.yml metadata, release ubuntu-latest API-bound administrative jobs
delayed-pr-comment.yml ubuntu-latest Not developer-blocking

The image is named rather than left to ubicloud-standard-2's default, so a
change to that default cannot silently move compiled tools onto another glibc.
ubicloud-standard-4 is the ceiling, not the default: kani-smoke and
netsukefile stay on -2, and the two instrumented jobs sit on -4 on the
measured evidence recorded under "Validation" below. Worker counts derive from
one named vCPU constant per lane.

No job was renamed, so the required contexts build-test, kani-smoke,
netsukefile, and release / metadata are unchanged.

Cache ownership

Every mutable path has exactly one cache step and every key exactly one writer.
Saves happen only on a push to main where that key's restore missed, which is
why ci.yml gained a trunk trigger: without a trunk run no generation would
ever be written.

Owner Paths Key inputs Writer
linux-gate-cache ~/.cargo/registry, ~/.cargo/git lockfile, toolchain, OS/arch/env/image build-test on main
linux-gate-cache ~/.cargo/bin, ~/.local/bin, .uv-*, actionlint, typos base tool pins, OS/arch/env/image build-test on main
linux-gate-cache ~/.local/share dylint.toml, installer pin build-test on main
kani-cache .kani-cargo, .kani-home, .kani-rustup tools/kani/VERSION kani-smoke on main
netsukefile-test.yml ~/.cargo/registry, ~/.cargo/git, ~/.cargo/bin as above, on the 22.04 image netsukefile on main
windows-gate-cache ~/.cargo/registry, ~/.cargo/git lockfile, toolchain, runner.os/arch build-test-windows on main
windows-gate-cache ~/.cargo/bin, ~/.local/bin, .chocolatey-cache workflow pins, runner.os/arch build-test-windows on main
windows-gate-cache ~/AppData/Roaming/github dylint.toml, workflow pins build-test-windows on main

Readers publish nothing: coverage-upload and both native Windows smoke jobs
restore only. Every key carries a v1 generation plus runner.os,
runner.arch, runner.environment, and the Ubuntu release.

One cache action at one pin serves every lane:
actions/cache/restore|save@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 (v6.1.0).
Ubicloud's transparent cache intercepts that version, verified from the console
listing on 2026-09-03; v4.3.0 left nothing in the Ubicloud store. The
deprecated ubicloud/cache fork is not used.

No lane archives a target tree, Windows included. sccache owns compiler
output for every build shape, and the shapes coexist in one store because
sccache hashes the flags that separate them. setup-rust and
generate-coverage archive a build tree when their cache-provider is
github, so every caller passes external, and rust-build-release now
forwards the same input to its nested setup-rust.

sccache

The GitHub Actions backend, on every lane. Its objects land in Ubicloud's own
store on a Ubicloud runner, verified on 2026-09-03 from sccache/... keys in
another repository's Ubicloud console listing; an earlier reading that the
backend wrote to GitHub was a misattribution of a Windows lane's objects. The
local-directory backend stays wired behind one repository variable.

Reaching the backend needs ACTIONS_CACHE_URL and ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN,
which every Ubicloud lane exports through sccache-gha-credentials
immediately after checkout. use-sccache: false stops the shared setup action
from starting the server itself: mozilla-actions/sccache-action re-exports
ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2 and GitHub's own results address as its last act,
which would clobber the export and send every write past Ubicloud's proxy to
GitHub. The ordering is the substance: --zero-stats, --start-server, and
the first wrapped rustc each start the server, and a server started without
those variables stays on local disk for the whole job. That combination is
silent, so the credentials action now fails outright when the backend is
enabled and either variable is empty.

The release packaging lanes are the one exception and run with no compiler
cache at all. On Windows sccache re-spawns rustc with the aarch64 target's
whole --extern and -L list and exceeds the operating system's command-line
limit; elsewhere the lane's server would start inside the nested setup action,
which is exactly the clobber above. Release builds are infrequent, so the lane
runs uncached rather than unreliably.

One test execution per commit

The gate used to compile and run the workspace twice per pull request, once
uninstrumented through make test and once instrumented to measure it. The
instrumented run now does both.

That is sound only while the instrumented invocation is as broad as the pass it
replaced. generate-coverage defaults to nextest with default features and
default targets, which would have retired real tests, so both callers pass
all-features and all-targets. Without the first the legacy-digests tests
in src/stdlib/path/hash_utils.rs and tests/std_filter_tests/hash_filters.rs
stop running; without the second the two benches/ targets stop compiling.
-D warnings arrives from setup-rust's rustflags input, which cargo llvm-cov appends its instrumentation to. doctests: 'true' runs the doctests
the instrumented pass cannot execute, under the same feature selection.

Coverage is measured once per commit: build-test on pull requests, where the
changed-line gate consumes the report, and coverage-upload on the trunk,
which is the sole writer of the ratchet baseline. netsukefile, kani-smoke,
and the Windows jobs differ in platform or purpose and are not fold candidates.

Validation

All 23 leynos/shared-actions references share one pin,
e041cb75c35c3524201a32d5e57c87408fbd5874. That revision introduces
cache-provider: external, installs whitaker-installer and cargo-nextest
from checksum-verified releases with no source fallback, adds the
all-features, all-targets, and doctests inputs, forwards
cache-provider and use-sccache through rust-build-release, and hashes
the Whitaker archive from standard input rather than by name.

Two tools cannot be installed from a prebuilt release, and both are recorded
with the issue that retires them. mdtablefix publishes usable tarballs but
its binstall metadata sets bin-dir = "."
(mdtablefix#458), so Linux
takes the tarball against a pinned SHA-256 and Windows, which has no published
binary, compiles once per cache generation into a directory the tool cache
owns. cargo-orthohelp has no binaries anywhere
(ortho-config#479), so the
packaging lane falls back to a source build into a dedicated
CARGO_TARGET_DIR. A contract counts cargo install occurrences, so a third
exception cannot hide behind these two.

build-test and coverage-upload run on ubicloud-standard-4-ubuntu-2404
rather than -2. On the smaller shape the gate lost its runner 16 minutes into
the instrumented build, with every later step null and no log. Memory was the
inferred cause; the samplers now added to both jobs show it was disk, and
the escalation stands on that measurement rather than on the inference.

Metric Run 33853099985 Run 33856256679 Run 33870905158
Memory peak 2393 MiB 2637 MiB 2668 MiB
Volume used peak 82523 MiB 82563 MiB 82431 MiB
Least free 65180 MiB 65141 MiB 65272 MiB

Peak volume usage of about 80.6 GiB exceeds ubicloud-standard-2's entire
72 GB volume, so -2 cannot hold this workload. Memory peaks below 2.6 GiB of
16, so it was never the constraint. Discarding the instrumented tree before any
cache save frees 13 GB, from 81G used to 68G. kani-smoke and netsukefile
stay on -2, at 9m02s and 2m10s.

Moving the Windows lanes to windows-latest exposed a bug in the shared
install-whitaker action, which chose its archive extractor by probing what
tar is. Under Git Bash that is GNU tar, which cannot read the .zip
installer asset, so the gate failed after the archive had been downloaded and
verified. Fixed upstream in leynos/shared-actions#448, which chooses the
extractor by the asset's extension, and pinned here. The same move also put
two tests that spawn isolated Cargo builds near the 300s nextest budget on a
four-vCPU runner, so they take a Windows-scoped override with the rationale
recorded in .config/nextest.toml.

The GitHub-hosted Windows lanes keep sccache in a cached workspace directory
rather than on the GitHub Actions backend, which rate-limited 643 of 643 writes
on the gate. The Ubicloud lanes keep the backend, and the trunk-shaped run
proves it reaches Ubicloud rather than GitHub:

Cache location                  ghac, name: sccache-v0.16.0, prefix: /sccache/
Compile requests                    5310
Cache hits                          3361
Cache hits rate                    85.17 %
Cache read errors                      0
Cache write errors                     0

Gates run sequentially: make check-fmt, make lint, make typecheck,
make test-workflow-contracts, make test, make markdownlint, make nixie,
make doc-coverage. The contract suite grew from 180 to 209 checks covering
runner placement, cache ownership, write policy, the compiler cache, the
credential-export ordering, and the single-execution rule, with the Hypothesis
properties retargeted onto duplicated ownership, oversubscribed worker counts,
and save conditions that do not name a trunk push.

Exit evidence plan

  1. One cold writer run on main with the wiring present.
  2. Two unchanged warm runs with cache-hit: true on every restore, no silent
    rebuild, and no Unable to reserve cache.
  3. For each of the three: queue time, wall time, billed minutes, cache hit,
    restore and save size and duration, and sccache --show-stats showing
    non-zero hits and no read or write errors on the warm runs.
  4. Confirm the generation reached Ubicloud with
    ubi gh leynos/netsuke list-cache-entries.
  5. Escalation from -2 to -4 only on the recorded evidence the recipe
    requires, from at least three warm runs.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY

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This PR makes Namespace cache volumes the single persistent-cache mechanism for direct CI jobs, disables overlapping shared and GitHub cache providers, and wires retained tool/build paths into pinned cache actions. It constrains compilation and test concurrency to the four-vCPU/8-GB profiles, switches CI tools and Kani to trusted prebuilt installations, adds cache-hit and JSON sccache telemetry for cold/warm-run comparison, updates shared-action pins and documentation, and moves delayed PR commenting to GitHub-hosted infrastructure.

Sequence diagram for bounded cached CI execution

sequenceDiagram
    participant Runner as Namespace runner
    participant Cache as nscloud-cache-action
    participant Tools as Pinned tool releases
    participant Build as Rust build and nextest
    participant Summary as GitHub step summary
    participant Sccache as sccache

    Runner->>Cache: cache volume setup
    Cache-->>Runner: cache-hit
    Runner->>Tools: Install prebuilt tools
    Runner->>Sccache: sccache --zero-stats
    Runner->>Build: Run with 4 build and test workers
    Build->>Sccache: Compile through RUSTC_WRAPPER
    Sccache-->>Build: Cached or compiled artifacts
    Runner->>Summary: Write cache-hit
    Runner->>Sccache: sccache --show-stats --stats-format=json
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Flow diagram for trusted CI tool installation

flowchart TD
    Start[Tool required] --> Existing{Pinned version already installed?}
    Existing -->|yes| Verify[Validate version]
    Existing -->|no| Prebuilt[Fetch checksum-verified prebuilt release]
    Prebuilt --> Verify
    Verify -->|matches| Continue[Continue workflow]
    Verify -->|mismatch or unavailable| Fail[Fail CI]
    Continue --> Build[Run checks or build]
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Change Details Files
Make Namespace cache volumes the exclusive cache owner for repository-controlled jobs.
  • Add pinned Namespace cache-action mounts after checkout and before installers across Linux, Windows, coverage, Netsukefile, release, and Kani jobs.
  • Remove GitHub Actions cache usage and configure shared Rust and coverage actions with external cache providers.
  • Cache job-specific Rust, sccache, package-manager, tool, and Kani paths; emit cache-hit summaries.
.github/workflows/ci.yml
.github/workflows/coverage-main.yml
.github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml
.github/workflows/release.yml
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_cache_test.py
tests/workflow_ci.rs
Bound Namespace workloads to the available four-vCPU/8-GB runner profiles.
  • Set Cargo, nextest build, nextest test, and Windows build concurrency limits.
  • Add a distinct Makefile variable for nextest test-process concurrency.
  • Update documented Namespace profile sizes and cache-volume behavior.
.github/workflows/ci.yml
.github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml
.github/workflows/release.yml
Makefile
docs/developers-guide.md
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_cache_test.py
Replace source-built CI tools with pinned, checksum/trust-oriented prebuilt binaries.
  • Install cargo-orthohelp and mdtablefix through cargo-binstall without source-build fallbacks.
  • Install sccache 0.16.0 with fallback disabled.
  • Download and verify the pinned Kani release bundle by SHA-256 before extraction.
.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml
.github/workflows/ci.yml
.github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml
.github/workflows/release.yml
docs/developers-guide.md
tests/workflow_build_and_package.rs
tests/workflow_ci.rs
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_cache_test.py
Add build-cache effectiveness observability and align shared-action revisions.
  • Enable local sccache through RUSTC_WRAPPER, reset statistics before compilation, and emit JSON statistics after jobs even on failure.
  • Advance shared-actions references to the cache-provider-compatible pinned revision while disabling its overlapping sccache/cache behavior where needed.
.github/workflows/ci.yml
.github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml
.github/workflows/release.yml
.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml
.github/workflows/coverage-main.yml
.github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml
.github/workflows/mutation-testing.yml
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_cache_test.py
Return delayed pull-request comments to GitHub-hosted runners.
  • Move the delayed comment job to ubuntu-latest.
  • Update runner ownership invariants to distinguish administrative jobs from repository-owned Namespace workloads.
.github/workflows/delayed-pr-comment.yml
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_runner_invariants.py
tests/workflow_contracts/namespace_runners_test.py

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Summary

  • Move Linux CI and packaging jobs to pinned Ubicloud Ubuntu runners.
  • Keep Windows, macOS, administrative, and delayed-comment jobs on GitHub-hosted runners.
  • Redesign cache ownership with one writer per path and main-only saves.
  • Replace Cargo target archives with sccache and export credentials before setup.
  • Add reusable cache, Kani, credential, Windows CI, and resource-sampling actions.
  • Keep release packaging uncached by sccache.
  • Replace the separate test run with one broad instrumented coverage run.
  • Preserve features, targets, warnings, and doctests.
  • Harden tool and Kani installation with pinned versions and checksum verification.
  • Add workflow contracts for runner placement, cache ownership, worker limits, installation, and coverage.
  • Expand workflow contracts from 180 to 209 checks.
  • Update developer documentation for runner placement, bounded resources, cache ownership, tool installation, Kani setup, and CI validation.
  • Add NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS for independent test-process concurrency control.

Walkthrough

The pull request restructures CI around hosted runners, reusable Windows validation, shared cache ownership, sccache, verified tool installation, broader coverage execution, and workflow contract tests.

Changes

CI infrastructure and workflow controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared cache actions and ownership
.github/actions/*, tests/workflow_contracts/cache_*
Add Linux, Windows, Kani, memory, credential, and tool-cache actions. Enforce restore ordering, path ownership, observations, and trunk-only saves.
Runner and platform workflow wiring
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/ci-windows.yml, .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml, .github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml
Move jobs to Ubicloud or GitHub-hosted runners. Add reusable Windows CI and native smoke jobs. Configure worker limits, timeouts, external caching, and sccache.
Release and tool installation
.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml, .github/actions/install-mdtablefix/action.yml, tests/workflow_build_and_package.rs, tests/workflow_contracts/ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.py
Use pinned binary installation with guarded source-build fallbacks. Verify downloaded archives and installed versions. Cache cargo-orthohelp binaries and build directories.
Kani and coverage validation
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml, Makefile, tests/workflow_ci.rs, tests/workflow_contracts/test_execution_coverage_test.py
Install verified Kani release payloads into versioned workspace homes. Run broad instrumented coverage with all targets, features, and doctests. Separate nextest test concurrency from build concurrency.
Workflow contract coverage
tests/workflow_contracts/*
Add contracts for runner placement, worker bounds, cache ownership, sccache, actionlint, mdtablefix, Kani, Windows delegation, and coverage execution.
Documentation and references
docs/developers-guide.md, docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md, tests/polonius_toolchain_contract.rs
Update CI guidance, runner placement, cache policies, tool installation, Kani setup, Windows workflow references, and property-test references.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI caller
  participant CI workflow
  participant Shared cache action
  participant Tool installer
  participant Test or package job
  CI caller->>CI workflow: start workflow with pinned inputs
  CI workflow->>Shared cache action: restore cache paths
  CI workflow->>Tool installer: install or reuse verified tools
  CI workflow->>Test or package job: run validation or packaging
  Test or package job->>Shared cache action: save eligible cache paths
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Poem

Runners align beneath the file,
Caches restore in ordered style,
Tools arrive with checksums bright,
Windows joins the guarded flight,
Tests and coverage trace the way,
Trunk-bound caches close the day.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d726f

This change restructures CI runners, caching, and test execution, but unresolved cache-policy, tool-pinning, installer, and documentation safeguards could still cause unreliable CI behavior or expose sensitive diagnostic values. These issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.


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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Testing (Overall) ❌ Error Reject the testing guard for the new resource sampler. .github/actions/memory-sampler/action.yml adds the sampling and reporting behaviour, but runner_shape_test.py only checks that workflows call… Add substantive action tests that execute the resource-sampler shell behaviour with controlled free, df, process, environment, and summary fixtures. Verify PID publication, sampling, process termination, maximum memory and disk selectio…
Developer Documentation ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds substantial CI architecture and cache-boundary changes, but the developer guide contains material contradictions with the implementation, and no relevant design document or ADR r… Correct docs/developers-guide.md to name ACTIONS_CACHE_URL and to describe the uncached packaging lanes accurately. Remove or qualify claims that sccache covers every build shape and that macOS packaging uses the GitHub Actions backend.…
✅ Passed checks (13 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately describes the main change: moving Linux CI to Ubicloud and Windows/macOS jobs to GitHub-hosted runners. No roadmap or issue reference is required by the supplied context.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the runner migration, cache redesign, sccache configuration, coverage changes, validation evidence, and exit plan.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 98.17% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 164 functions across 26 files.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
User-Facing Documentation ✅ Passed The pull request changes CI workflows, cache actions, runner placement, and developer test tooling. It does not change product code, CLI behaviour, packaging, the README, or docs/users-guide.md. The…
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request adds or changes Python and Rust modules, and every changed module has module-level documentation. The Python audit found a leading docstring in all 19 existing changed Python mo…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ✅ Passed Pass this check. The pull request adds meaningful tests at the workflow and command boundaries. Rust and Python tests parse the checked-in workflows and composite actions, then verify runner placement…
Testing (Property / Proof) ✅ Passed The pull request introduces workflow invariants over setup order, runner assignments, cache ownership, worker bounds, and cache-save conditions. It adds substantive Hypothesis tests in `tests/workflow…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ✅ Passed Pass this check. The PR introduces no Rust or TypeScript compile-time behaviour: all changed Rust files are workflow-contract tests, and no TypeScript files changed. The Makefile and nextest changes a…
Unit Architecture ✅ Passed Pass the Unit Architecture check. The pull request changes CI workflows, composite actions, tests, configuration, and documentation; it does not change application query or command code. The new cache…
Domain Architecture ✅ Passed The custom check is not applicable to this pull request. The diff against main changes only CI workflows and composite actions, build/test configuration, documentation, and workflow-contract tests. …
Observability ✅ Passed Pass the observability check. The workflow changes add cache-key and hit summaries under if: always(), machine-readable and human-readable sccache statistics after compilation, and peak memory/dis…
Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

Reject the testing guard for the new resource sampler. .github/actions/memory-sampler/action.yml adds the sampling and reporting behaviour, but runner_shape_test.py only checks that workflows call the action with start and report, and that the report step has if: always(). The test suite contains no assertion for RESOURCE_SAMPLER_PID, resource.log, free -m, df -m, peak selection, summary output, or the unknown fallback. Replacing the action steps with a no-op that keeps the same interface would therefore pass the new tests. The cache redesign also lacks tests for the rendered key contents: the ownership and write-policy tests check paths, pins, restore/save ordering, and conditions, but a constant key or a Kani key that ignores runner-image would pass.

Resolution

Add substantive action tests that execute the resource-sampler shell behaviour with controlled free, df, process, environment, and summary fixtures. Verify PID publication, sampling, process termination, maximum memory and disk selection, minimum-free-space selection, failure-safe reporting, and the unknown fallback. Add cache-key renderer tests with varied runner, image, toolchain, source, and pin inputs. Assert that the required inputs change the rendered keys and that restore and save use the same key. Make the tests fail for a no-op sampler, a constant cache key, or an omitted runner-image component, then run make test-workflow-contracts.

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Correct docs/developers-guide.md to name ACTIONS_CACHE_URL and to describe the uncached packaging lanes accurately. Remove or qualify claims that sccache covers every build shape and that macOS packaging uses the GitHub Actions backend. Add or update a relevant CI/cache architecture design document or ADR that records the Ubicloud runner split, single-owner cache policy, sccache backend choices, and the uncached release-packaging decision. Link that record from the developer guide.

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tests/workflow_ci.rs (1)

426-468: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bind the removed uv assertion to the actual step, not to a uses prefix.

step_has compares the whole uses value for equality, so step_has(step, StepField::Uses, "astral-sh/setup-uv@") only matches a step whose uses is literally the trailing-@ string. A real pin such as astral-sh/setup-uv@<sha> never matches, so the assertion at lines 432-437 cannot fail. Match on a prefix instead.

🐛 Proposed fix
     ensure!(
         !steps
             .iter()
-            .any(|step| step_has(step, StepField::Uses, "astral-sh/setup-uv@")),
+            .any(|step| step
+                .as_mapping()
+                .and_then(|mapping| mapping_get(mapping, YamlKey("uses")))
+                .and_then(Value::as_str)
+                .is_some_and(|uses| uses.starts_with("astral-sh/setup-uv@"))),
         "Kani smoke job installs prebuilt archives directly and needs no uv runtime"
     );

As per coding guidelines: "Unit tests must verify meaningful local behaviour, edge cases, error paths, and invariants."

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In `@tests/workflow_ci.rs` around lines 426 - 468, Update the setup-uv assertion
in the Kani smoke job test to inspect the actual Uses value by prefix, rather
than calling step_has with the incomplete "astral-sh/setup-uv@" string. Preserve
the assertion that no step uses astral-sh/setup-uv at any pinned revision, while
leaving ensure_kani_cache_contract and the surrounding checks unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md (4)

30-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the required -ize spelling.

Change practised to practized.

Triage: [type:spelling]

As per path instructions: Markdown prose must use the project's en-GB-oxendict spelling convention.
Based on learnings: Use the verb suffix -ize rather than -ise in Markdown files.

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In `@docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md` at line 30, In the Markdown
prose, update “practised” to the required “practized” spelling while leaving the
surrounding test-path references unchanged.

Sources: Path instructions, Learnings


193-193: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Define declared_env before using it.

The example declares only name and flags, but Line 193 reads declared_env. Add a declared_env binding or change the expression to use a declared value. The example does not currently define the data needed for its first assertion.

Based on the let block in this example, only name and flags are declared.

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example’s let block to define declared_env before the assertion that references
it, using the intended declared environment values alongside name and flags;
keep the existing assertion logic unchanged.

164-166: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Redact environment values in failure reports.

The RFC exposes result.actions.env and requires quantified failures to print substituted actual values. An assertion over action.env can therefore disclose credentials in CI logs. Define an allow-list or redaction policy before implementation, and add a regression test for sensitive environment values.

As per coding guidelines: “Secrets must not appear in source code, tests, fixtures, snapshots, logs, documentation, comments, generated files, or committed configuration.”

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In `@docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md` around lines 164 - 166,
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environment-value allow-list or redaction policy before printing substituted
values, ensuring sensitive entries from result.actions.env never appear in
reports. Add a regression test covering redaction of sensitive environment
values while preserving safe-value output.

Source: Coding guidelines


274-275: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the default-seed contradiction.

Lines 211-217 define deterministic sampling with a fixed default seed, but these lines state that randomness enters only through explicit --seed. State that the default run uses the fixed seed and that --seed overrides it. Keep the execution and replay contract unambiguous.

Based on the sampling contract in Lines 211-217, default sampling already uses a pseudo-random generator.

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In `@docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md` around lines 274 - 275,
Update the deterministic sampling description in the RFC to state that default
runs use the fixed seed, while an explicit --seed value overrides it; preserve
the contract that reports identify the effective seed and runs are replayable.
.github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml (1)

1-1: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a top-level permissions: {} block.

This workflow declares no top-level permissions, so every job without its own block receives the repository default token scope. The automerge job already narrows itself correctly, but the file grants contents: write and pull-requests: write on a workflow that merges pull requests automatically, so the default-inheritance gap matters here more than elsewhere. A job added later inherits the default instead of nothing.

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 ---
+permissions: {}

Place it above on: so every job must opt in explicitly.

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permissions block before the workflow’s on declaration in
dependabot-automerge.yml, ensuring jobs default to no token permissions while
preserving the automerge job’s explicit permissions.

Source: Linters/SAST tools

Makefile (2)

187-187: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Lint the composite actions as well as the workflows.

yamllint receives only .github/workflows. This pull request adds composite actions under .github/actions/, including sccache-gha-credentials, windows-gate-cache, linux-gate-cache, kani-cache, and install-mdtablefix. Those files carry embedded shell and long folded scalars, and actionlint does not lint composite action.yml files, so nothing checks their YAML at all.

♻️ Proposed fix
 github-actions-lint: ## Validate GitHub Actions workflows
-	$(YAMLLINT) --config-file .yamllint.yml .github/workflows
+	$(YAMLLINT) --config-file .yamllint.yml .github/workflows .github/actions
 	$(ACTIONLINT)
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In `@Makefile` at line 187, Update the yamllint command in the Makefile to include
both .github/workflows and .github/actions, ensuring composite action YAML files
are linted alongside workflow files.

62-62: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pin both local GitHub Actions linters

Route $(YAMLLINT) through YAMLLINT_VERSION, and pin local actionlint to CI’s 1.7.12 release. github-actions-lint currently invokes both tools from PATH; YAMLLINT_VERSION is unused.

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YAMLLINT_VERSION and pin the local actionlint invocation to version 1.7.12,
matching CI; ensure both tools are explicitly versioned rather than resolved
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Inline comments:
In @.github/actions/install-mdtablefix/action.yml:
- Around line 30-33: Declare a required version input alongside build-dir in the
action metadata, bind MDTABLEFIX_VERSION from that input, and keep the
version-specific MDTABLEFIX_SHA256 paired with it. Update the callers in the CI
workflow files to pass the existing version value through the action's version
input.

In @.github/actions/sccache-gha-credentials/action.yml:
- Around line 23-24: Update the credential setup around ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL and
ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN to mask the runtime token with core.setSecret before
exporting it, and validate that both credentials are present only when
SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED is true. Preserve local-directory mode by avoiding
credential failures when SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED is false.

In @.github/actions/windows-gate-cache/action.yml:
- Line 66: Declare NETSUKE_RUST_TOOLCHAIN as an explicit action input and pass
its value into the relevant env block so the keys step can safely use it under
set -u, while preserving the existing cargo_prefix key format.

In @.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml:
- Line 122: Update the cargo-orthohelp cache lane around the Restore
cargo-orthohelp step by adding a Record cache observations step that runs with
if: always(), writes the rendered cache key and
steps.orthohelp_cache.outputs.cache-hit to GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY, and extend
cache_ownership_test.py to enforce this workflow contract.
- Around line 133-135: Update both cache steps at
.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml lines 133-135 and 175-177 to cache only
the platform-specific cargo-orthohelp executable path instead of ~/.cargo/bin,
while retaining ~/.cache/orthohelp-build.

In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 9-11: Add a workflow-level concurrency configuration to serialize
main-branch runs while canceling superseded in-progress pull-request runs. Use
the existing workflow triggers to distinguish pull-request and main-branch
executions, and preserve both trigger paths without changing job behavior.

In @.github/workflows/coverage-main.yml:
- Around line 60-62: Replace the repeated nightly toolchain literals in the
relevant workflow step with a step-scoped variable, use it when generating both
CARGO_CACHE_PREFIX and CARGO_CACHE_KEY, and add an assertion that the variable
matches the toolchain declared in rust-toolchain.toml. Do not declare
NETSUKE_RUST_TOOLCHAIN in the workflow-level environment, and update the later
occurrence so all cache-key generation uses the same bound value.

In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Line 1274: Update the Whitaker installation command near the existing cargo
install invocation to use the same locked binary-only cargo binstall workflow as
the earlier local installation section, keeping the package and lock behavior
unchanged.

In `@Makefile`:
- Line 33: Update the dev-test target to forward NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS alongside
NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS when invoking cargo nextest run, matching the existing
test-nextest behavior and preserving both variable settings.

In `@tests/workflow_build_and_package.rs`:
- Around line 238-244: Strengthen the workflow assertions around the
source_install pattern so it detects every cargo install command naming
cargo-orthohelp, including options that consume separate values and versioned
package names, while still requiring exactly one guarded fallback. Also add an
assertion that the successful cargo binstall branch exits before reaching the
fallback, with substantive test coverage for both behaviors.

In `@tests/workflow_ci.rs`:
- Around line 189-215: Centralize the Kani archive-verification and
version-qualified directory fragments in one committed data file, then make
ensure_kani_archives_are_verified_before_use in tests/workflow_ci.rs (189-215)
and the corresponding Python contract in
tests/workflow_contracts/kani_cache_test.py (149-170) load and use that shared
definition instead of duplicating literals; update the repeated directory
fragments in tests/workflow_contracts/kani_cache_test.py (132-133) and
tests/workflow_ci.rs (463-464) to use the same owner.
- Around line 155-170: Update the loop to use a single mode/label value per
tuple instead of duplicating identical strings, and reuse the indices returned
by the existing named-step lookups rather than calling step_index again for
“Restore Kani payloads” and “Install prebuilt Kani”.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_contract_data.py`:
- Around line 154-155: Expand the public helper docstrings for lane_steps,
cache_steps, and declared_paths to follow NumPy style, documenting parameters,
return values, and failure behavior; explicitly document that lane_steps with
job_name=None reads a composite action and reports malformed documents through
test failure rather than raising.
- Line 53: Update FORBIDDEN_CACHE_PATHS and the associated archive-path
validation to recognize any path targeting a Cargo build tree, including
./target, target/release, target/debug, and **/target, rather than only exact
literals. Preserve the explicit Kani exemption, and have the ownership suite use
archives_a_build_tree instead of direct membership testing.
- Around line 166-173: Update cache_steps to strip the action reference after
the @ separator before matching, so combined actions such as actions/cache@v4
are included alongside the existing cache path forms. Preserve detection of
/cache/ and /cache references, and do not broaden the change beyond this
helper’s matching behavior.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py`:
- Around line 225-233: Move the inline jobs tuple and the four workflow/job/step
triples from the affected tests into named tables in cache_contract_data.py,
reusing the existing TARGET_ARCHIVE_OWNERS and SCCACHE_CREDENTIAL_JOBS data
where applicable. Update the tests, including the jobs check and
test_coverage_and_whitaker_actions_delegate_their_archives, to parametrize over
those centralized tables like the other tests in the file.
- Around line 85-88: In tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py at
lines 85-88, add a non-empty assertion for the lane’s cache steps before
iterating; apply the same requirement to the loops at lines 64, 121, and 141. At
lines 146-147, replace the pytest.skip path with an assertion failure when an
expected cache source has no restore step, so missing cache configuration fails
the contract.
- Around line 182-184: Update the assertion in the cache ownership test to
verify each script references the step’s actual rendered cache-key expression
and cache-hit result expression, rather than merely containing the words “key”
or “prefix”. Ensure the test enforces that the cache observations are written to
the summary on every run, including cold-cache misses.
- Around line 279-285: Update
test_workflows_do_not_reintroduce_source_tool_builds_or_stale_providers to
explicitly allowlist the guarded cargo-orthohelp build and documented mdtablefix
fallback, then validate that every matched cargo install command is one of those
two approved exceptions; reject any other command rather than relying only on
aggregate counts.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_write_policy_test.py`:
- Around line 29-31: Update the writer parametrization in the inline cache save
test to derive its cases from the inline-cache writer inventory in KEY_WRITERS,
including all declared writers such as coverage-main.yml. Keep the literal
writer list centralized in cache_contract_data.py and preserve the existing
workflow_name/job_name case shape.
- Around line 84-87: Update the cache write-policy assertions for both workflow
save steps and the inline-save assertion to derive the expected hit-input name
from each save step’s own published cache key, then require that exact hit input
in the condition rather than accepting any “-hit” input. Preserve the existing
skip-on-true behavior while validating registry, tools, and whitaker saves
independently.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/ci_mdtablefix_installer_test.py`:
- Around line 60-62: Strengthen the build-dir assertion in the workflow contract
test around inputs.get("build-dir") to require a non-empty string, reject "."
and product target directory paths such as "target", and retain the existing
dedicated-directory requirement. Add substantive tests covering valid dedicated
directories and each rejected value.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/kani_cache_test.py`:
- Around line 24-36: Move the KANI_CACHE_ACTION constant declaration above the
_action_steps helper so the referenced path is defined before the helper’s
implementation, without changing the helper logic or call sites.
- Around line 55-66: Update _cache_action_paths and the related cache-action
filtering logic to reuse the shared cache_steps helper from
cache_contract_data.py instead of checking the uses string locally. Preserve
collection of non-empty path lines while ensuring both /cache/ and values ending
in /cache are matched consistently.
- Around line 106-146: Refactor the required fragment inventory in
test_kani_uses_cached_prebuilt_frontend_and_release_bundle into labeled groups
or parameterized entries covering downloads, checksums, layout, and executable
probes. Update the missing-fragment assertion to report each fragment’s property
label alongside its value, preserving all existing required fragments and
verification behavior.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_invariants.py`:
- Around line 88-89: Update the public helper docstrings in
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_invariants.py at lines 88-89, 93-96,
113-116, and 134-136 to use NumPy-style structured documentation: document
runner and the boolean result for is_ubicloud_label, both parameters and the
sequence invariant for the helper at 93-96, steps and its ordering invariant for
the helper at 113-116, and the assignment mapping plus equality contract for the
helper at 134-136; no direct code changes are needed.
- Around line 204-208: Update is_trunk_only_save in
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_invariants.py (lines 204-208) to
require an explicit conjunctive condition connecting the push and main-branch
predicates, rejecting disjunctive expressions that independently authorize
saves. Add the disjunctive expression as an invalid mutation and explicit
example in tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py (lines
346-356).

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py`:
- Around line 163-168: Refactor the multi-branch mutation dispatch in
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py at lines 163-168
and 200-208: extract runner-assignment mutations and worker-flag mutations from
their respective match statements into dedicated predicate/mutation helpers or
dispatch mappings, preserving each mutation’s existing behavior.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_test.py`:
- Line 344: Update _all_workflow_text() in
test_actionlint_registers_exactly_the_ubicloud_labels_in_use to include workflow
files with both .yml and .yaml suffixes, matching
test_every_workflow_starts_a_yaml_document’s workflow discovery behavior while
preserving the existing sorted text aggregation.
- Around line 82-91: Update the parameter source for the workflow placement test
to derive job-to-runner cases from the shared DIRECT_RUNNER_SOURCES and
REQUIRED_RUNNER_ASSIGNMENTS tables, removing the duplicated hard-coded list
while preserving test_checked_in_workflows_satisfy_runner_assignment_contract
coverage.
- Around line 157-159: Update the lane and worker-variable lookups in the
relevant test flow to use the module’s existing contract-validation helpers,
such as require_mapping, so missing entries raise a descriptive contract failure
instead of KeyError. Apply the same guard to the repeated Windows-lane lookup
near the second occurrence, while preserving the existing validation behavior
for present values.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/test_execution_coverage_test.py`:
- Around line 182-208: Update test_no_other_linux_job_executes_the_rust_suite to
scan relevant step with values, such as action inputs, with
FORBIDDEN_TEST_COMMANDS in addition to run scripts; retain the existing offender
reporting and assertion. If the contract intentionally remains limited to run
commands instead, revise the test docstring to explicitly state that boundary.
- Around line 74-79: Update the target lookup around MAKEFILE_PATH and the next
call to handle an absent Makefile target explicitly: provide a missing-result
path that invokes pytest.fail with a clear target-specific message, while
preserving the existing index selection when the target is found.
- Around line 112-127: Parametrize
test_warnings_are_denied_through_the_toolchain_setup over COVERAGE_PRODUCERS,
matching the neighboring tests, and replace the internal loop with a single
workflow_name/job_name case. Preserve the existing Setup Rust, rustflags, and
assertion behavior for each producer.

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Outside diff comments:
In @.github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml:
- Line 1: Add a top-level empty permissions block before the workflow’s on
declaration in dependabot-automerge.yml, ensuring jobs default to no token
permissions while preserving the automerge job’s explicit permissions.

In `@docs/rfcs/0012-netsukefile-property-testing.md`:
- Line 30: In the Markdown prose, update “practised” to the required “practized”
spelling while leaving the surrounding test-path references unchanged.
- Line 193: Update the example’s let block to define declared_env before the
assertion that references it, using the intended declared environment values
alongside name and flags; keep the existing assertion logic unchanged.
- Around line 164-166: Update the RFC’s quantified failure-reporting design to
define an explicit environment-value allow-list or redaction policy before
printing substituted values, ensuring sensitive entries from result.actions.env
never appear in reports. Add a regression test covering redaction of sensitive
environment values while preserving safe-value output.
- Around line 274-275: Update the deterministic sampling description in the RFC
to state that default runs use the fixed seed, while an explicit --seed value
overrides it; preserve the contract that reports identify the effective seed and
runs are replayable.

In `@Makefile`:
- Line 187: Update the yamllint command in the Makefile to include both
.github/workflows and .github/actions, ensuring composite action YAML files are
linted alongside workflow files.
- Line 62: Update github-actions-lint to invoke YAMLLINT using YAMLLINT_VERSION
and pin the local actionlint invocation to version 1.7.12, matching CI; ensure
both tools are explicitly versioned rather than resolved from PATH.

In `@tests/workflow_ci.rs`:
- Around line 426-468: Update the setup-uv assertion in the Kani smoke job test
to inspect the actual Uses value by prefix, rather than calling step_has with
the incomplete "astral-sh/setup-uv@" string. Preserve the assertion that no step
uses astral-sh/setup-uv at any pinned revision, while leaving
ensure_kani_cache_contract and the surrounding checks unchanged.

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Give every Namespace job exactly one cache owner and make its effect
observable, following the estate adoption recipe's Phase 8 guidance.

- Mount one `nscloud-cache-action` volume per job and record its
  `cache-hit` output in the step summary, so a warm run is distinguishable
  from a cold one.
- Prefer explicit durable paths over command-dependent cache modes. The
  `rust` mode mounts Cargo's `target` directory, which duplicates sccache's
  role and breaks `cargo clean`; the `uv` and `bun` modes probe tools that
  are not always present.
- Hand the shared setup, Whitaker, and coverage actions `cache-provider:
  external` so they stop mounting a second owner for the same paths, and
  drop the `actions/cache` steps the volume now covers.
- Run sccache as the compiler-cache measurement layer, zeroing its counters
  before the build and emitting JSON statistics afterwards.
- Bound compilation and nextest workers to the profile's four vCPUs.
- Install Kani's Cargo front-end and verifier bundle from pinned, checksum
  verified prebuilt archives, and keep their Cargo, verifier, and Rustup
  homes on the volume so warm jobs skip the downloads entirely.
- Document the cache lanes and their owners in the developers' guide, and
  add workflow-contract tests that fail if a job loses its cache owner,
  gains a duplicate, or reintroduces a source build.

This squashes the branch's four incremental commits so the change rebases
onto main as one coherent unit.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
Split the merge gate, harden the prebuilt-tool installs, and tighten the
contracts that guard them.

- Move `build-test-windows` and the pull-request Windows recipe smoke job
  into `.github/workflows/ci-windows.yml`, invoked as a reusable workflow.
  `ci.yml` had grown to 574 lines, well past the 400-line file limit
  AGENTS.md sets. GitHub does not expose the `env` context to a reusable
  workflow's inputs, so the caller repeats its version pins as literals and
  a contract test holds the two copies equal.
- Install `cargo-orthohelp` after `rust-build-release` in the packaging
  workflow. That action provides the checksum-verified `cargo binstall`, so
  the earlier placement failed on any runner without a preinstalled
  `cargo-binstall`. Nothing before the help-generation step needs the tool.
- Pass `--disable-strategies compile` to every `cargo binstall` call, so a
  missing prebuilt release fails the job instead of silently compiling.
- Restrict the packaging build job and its three callers to `contents:
  read`. The pinned action chain builds and uploads artefacts; it neither
  publishes packages nor exchanges an OIDC token.
- Give Kani's front-end and verifier bundle version-qualified directories on
  the cache volume, so raising the pin in `tools/kani/VERSION` cannot be
  satisfied by a stale binary an earlier run left behind.
- Fold the yamllint and actionlint `actions/cache` steps that arrived with
  main into the Namespace volume, and reuse the cached actionlint only when
  it reports the pinned version.
- Contract tests: reject any `cargo install` form that would compile
  `cargo-orthohelp`, whatever flags precede the crate name; require the Kani
  cache to be mounted before Kani is installed; bind each archive's
  `sha256sum --check` to that archive's own extraction; and require every
  cache summary to carry `if: always()` and report the volume's `cache-hit`.
- Correct the developers' guide punctuation and document the split, the
  version-qualified Kani layout, and the caller-owned Whitaker cache.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
The Linux merge gate failed with `git pull failed: fatal: not a git
repository` while installing Whitaker. Mounting the cache volume creates
`~/.local/share/whitaker` even on a cold run, and `whitaker-installer`
0.2.7 chooses between cloning and pulling on directory existence alone, so
it pulled against a directory that held no repository.

Add a `Prepare Whitaker cache directory` step to both Whitaker jobs that
deletes the data directory when it is not a Git repository, and record the
removal condition in the developers' guide. Correct the Windows cache path
at the same time: the installer clones into
`~/AppData/Roaming/github/whitaker` there, so the previous
`~/.local/share/whitaker` entry cached nothing.

Split the two workflow-contract modules that crossed the 400-line limit,
extracting the actionlint installer constants and the Kani cache contract
into their own modules, and factor the long helpers the Clippy and Pylint
gates flagged.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
The pinned revision is the head of shared-actions pull request 422, which
is still open. Say so in the developers' guide and state the removal
condition, so the pin is not mistaken for a merged commit.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
`cargo-binstall`'s default strategy list ends in `compile`, so a missing
prebuilt artefact would be compiled in CI without anyone noticing. Both
formatter jobs already pass `--disable-strategies compile`; require it in
the workflow contract, and reject `cargo install` in the same step.

Start the CI workflow from an empty token and let each job opt in, rather
than inheriting the repository default.

Move the formatter installer contract into its own module: adding the
assertion pushed `ci_lint_test.py` past the 400-line limit. `SETUP_RUST_JOBS`
moves to `workflow_loading.py` so both suites read it from one place.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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Three gaps the review round found, none of them in the workflows themselves.

The Makefile forwards two separate worker bounds to `cargo nextest run`, and
nothing held either in place. `NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS` limits the compile that
precedes the run and `NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS` limits the test processes, so a lane
on a small runner can bound each without oversubscribing the other. Dropping
either silently returns that half to nextest's default of one worker per core,
which is what exhausted a two-vCPU runner in the first place. The Makefile
contract now requires both, and requires the test bound to appear after
`nextest run` rather than merely somewhere in the recipe, where it would read
as configured while bounding nothing.

The developers guide still described one two-vCPU merge gate deriving every
worker bound from a single count. That has not been true since the instrumented
lanes were escalated. It now carries a table of the six lanes with their
runners and actual variables, and separates the two four-vCPU instrumented
lanes from the two-vCPU Kani, Netsukefile and packaging lanes. The escalation's
justification is recorded with the evidence rather than asserted: peak volume
usage of about 80.6 GiB across three runs, against `ubicloud-standard-2`'s
whole 72 GB volume, with memory never above 2,668 MiB of 16 GB.

Two of the guide's universal claims had acquired an exception. The release
packaging lane records no cache observations, because its entry is
content-addressed and reached only by tag pushes and the dry run, so there is
no warm-versus-cold trend to report; and it uses no compiler cache at all, so
it must stay free of `RUSTC_WRAPPER`, `SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED` and `SCCACHE_DIR`
rather than merely setting them empty. Both exceptions are now stated where
the rule is.

Also rename the dispatch contract's first helper to say what it returns, and
give both helpers the docstrings their new status as a module interface earns.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY
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Testing (Overall), Error: NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS added without tests

Actioned. The forwarding is still in this pull request, so it now has a contract rather than a rebuttal. behavioural_make_test_composes_the_nextest_and_doctest_passes in tests/makefile_test_target.rs reads the recipe through the existing target_recipe helper and requires three things: that $(NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS) is still there, that $(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS) is still there, and that the test bound appears after nextest run rather than merely somewhere in the recipe, where it would read as configured while bounding nothing.

Two variables rather than one is the point worth protecting. NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS limits the compile that precedes the run and NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS limits the test processes, so a lane on a small runner can bound each without oversubscribing the other. Dropping either silently returns that half to nextest's default of one worker per core, which is what exhausted a two-vCPU runner in the first place.

No process execution, per the same reasoning you would apply: a runtime test would need a recording cargo executable and platform-specific shell behaviour without improving the regression signal. I verified the assertion is real by deleting $(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS) from the recipe and watching the test fail with the recipe quoted in the message.

Separately, forwarding the same variable to dev-test is tracked as #671, which is the local-workflow half you and I agreed to split out.

Developer Documentation, Warning: the guide does not match the workflows

Actioned. You were right that it described a resource model the workflows had left behind. It claimed one two-vCPU merge gate deriving every worker bound from a single count, which stopped being true when the instrumented lanes were escalated.

docs/developers-guide.md now carries a table of all six lanes with their runners and their actual variables, and separates the two four-vCPU instrumented lanes, build-test and coverage-upload, from the two-vCPU kani-smoke, netsukefile and Linux packaging lanes. The Windows variables are described accurately for the first time: NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS=--build-jobs 4 bounds compilation and NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS=-j 4 bounds nextest's test processes.

The escalation is now justified by evidence rather than asserted. Peak volume usage across three runs was 82,523, 82,563 and 82,431 MiB, about 80.6 GiB, which exceeds ubicloud-standard-2's entire 72 GB volume, while memory never passed 2,668 MiB of 16 GB. The memory hypothesis that first prompted the escalation was wrong, and the guide now says so.

I also corrected two universal claims that had quietly acquired an exception. The release packaging lane records no cache observations, because its entry is content-addressed and reached only by tag pushes and the dry run, so there is no warm-versus-cold trend for such a step to report. And it uses no compiler cache at all, so it must stay free of RUSTC_WRAPPER, SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED and SCCACHE_DIR rather than merely setting them empty.

Testing (Unit And Behavioural), Warning: no integration test for the workflow changes

This change does exercise the changed workflow boundary end to end. The
pull-request and main workflows run the Linux merge gate, Windows gate,
Kani smoke path, Netsukefile compatibility path, coverage path, and
release packaging path on their selected real runners. Those runs verify
the executable artefacts and the operational runner boundary directly.

A second integration workflow would only duplicate these costly external
jobs. The repository instead uses deterministic workflow-contract tests
for cache ownership, save gating, credential order, checksum
verification, runner placement, and sccache configuration. The existing
workflow runs provide the system-level evidence, while the contracts
provide focused regression failures.

For the record, the run that carries that evidence is 33870905158: build-test 13m00s, kani-smoke 6m48s, build-test-windows 29m04s, windows-native-recipe-smoke, netsukefile 2m23s and all five release lanes, every one passing. It reports Cache location ghac with 5,310 requests, 85.20% hits and zero read or write errors, which is the credential-export ordering proving itself rather than being asserted.

Observability, Warning: no sccache diagnostics around Build release binary

The release packaging workflow intentionally disables sccache on every
platform. It sets use-sccache: 'false', and workflow contracts require
the lane to contain no RUSTC_WRAPPER, SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED, or
SCCACHE_DIR. Therefore, sccache statistics in this workflow would
report no useful compiler-cache activity.

This is a platform-safety boundary. Windows packaging can exceed the
command-line limit when sccache re-spawns cross-target rustc commands. On
other packaging platforms, the nested shared setup action can overwrite
the required cache credential configuration. The CI, coverage,
Netsukefile, and Windows gate lanes use and report sccache statistics;
release packaging remains deliberately uncached.

The commit that established that boundary is 83abd59, and test_the_packaging_lane_compiles_without_a_wrapper enforces it by requiring the three variables to be absent rather than empty, so adding diagnostics here would fail the contract that documents the decision.

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ast-grep outline tests/makefile_test_target.rs --items all --type function --match 'behavioural_make_test_composes_the_nextest_and_doctest_passes|target_recipe'

printf '%s\n' '== Makefile recipe and contract assertions =='
rg -n -A35 -B10 \
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printf '%s\n' '== Developer-guide lane and exception statements =='
rg -n -A15 -B8 \
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printf '%s\n' '== Current workflow runner, concurrency, and packaging boundary =='
rg -n -A10 -B6 \
  'runs-on:|LINUX_LANE_VCPUS|BUILD_JOBS|CARGO_BUILD_JOBS|NEXTEST_TEST_THREADS|NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS|NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS|use-sccache|RUSTC_WRAPPER|SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED|SCCACHE_DIR|Record cache observations' \
  .github/workflows/ci.yml .github/workflows/coverage-main.yml .github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml \
  .github/workflows/release.yml .github/workflows/ci-windows.yml .github/workflows/build-and-package.yml

printf '%s\n' '== Packaging boundary contract and workflow-system coverage contracts =='
ast-grep outline tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_contract_test.py tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_test.py \
  tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py --items all --type function \
  --match 'test_the_packaging_lane_compiles_without_a_wrapper|test_.*runner|test_.*cache|test_.*credential'
rg -n -A20 -B8 \
  'def test_the_packaging_lane_compiles_without_a_wrapper|RUSTC_WRAPPER|SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED|SCCACHE_DIR|use-sccache|credential|checksum|runner placement|runner' \
  tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_contract_test.py tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py \
  tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_test.py

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tests/makefile_test_target.rsbehavioural_make_test_composes_the_nextest_and_doctest_passes
docs/developers-guide.mdCache ownership and bounded CI resources

Mark the testing error as addressed. The current codegraph at f7b9df4 confirms that the Makefile recipe forwards both worker controls. The contract verifies both controls and verifies that $(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS) occurs after nextest run. This protects the compile and test-process limits without platform-dependent process substitution.

Keep #671 separate. The existing dev-test recipe still omits $(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS), as intended for that scoped follow-up.

Withdraw the workflow integration-test warning. The documented real-run evidence covers the changed runner boundary. The checked-in contracts also cover runner placement, cache ownership, cache writes, credential ordering, checksums, and sccache configuration. A second workflow would duplicate expensive execution and reduce failure isolation.

Withdraw the packaging sccache observability warning. .github/workflows/build-and-package.yml keeps use-sccache: 'false'. tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_contract_test.py::test_the_packaging_lane_compiles_without_a_wrapper requires RUSTC_WRAPPER, SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED, and SCCACHE_DIR to be absent. Do not add sccache diagnostics to that lane.

Complete one remaining documentation correction. docs/developers-guide.md Lines 760-763 still say that sccache is installed “including on the packaging lane.” This contradicts Lines 798-813 and the workflow contract. Replace that statement with text that limits the installation claim to compiler-cache-enabled lanes.

Use this replacement:

The compiler-cache-enabled lanes use sccache 0.16.0. They install it as a checksum-verified prebuilt binary through the pinned `taiki-e/install-action` with `fallback: none`. The release packaging lane is excluded: it sets `use-sccache: 'false'` and must not declare `RUSTC_WRAPPER`, `SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED`, or `SCCACHE_DIR`.

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Repo: leynos/netsuke

Timestamp: 2026-09-04T09:42:36.144Z
Learning: In `leynos/netsuke` `.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml`, the reusable release packaging lane must disable sccache on every platform. The nested `setup-rust` path in `leynos/shared-actions` starts `mozilla-actions/sccache-action`, which overwrites the Ubicloud cache-proxy configuration with GitHub’s v2 results service. A credential export after checkout cannot correct that ordering. `tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_contract_test.py:test_the_packaging_lane_compiles_without_a_wrapper` enforces the absence of `RUSTC_WRAPPER`, `SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED`, and `SCCACHE_DIR`, rejects an sccache installer and archive, and requires `use-sccache: 'false'`.

Learnt from: leynos
Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 664
File: .github/workflows/build-and-package.yml:133-133
Timestamp: 2026-09-04T01:45:05.669Z
Learning: In `leynos/netsuke` `.github/workflows/build-and-package.yml`, the release packaging lane is an exception to the cache-summary requirement. Its `cargo-orthohelp` cache restore output must gate `Save cargo-orthohelp`, but the lane does not require a `Record cache observations` step because it has no other job-summary evidence and a single-key summary would be noise. On Windows, this lane must not use `sccache`: sccache re-spawns `rustc` with the aarch64 target’s full `--extern` and `-L` argument list, which exceeds the Windows command-line limit.

Learnt from: leynos
Repo: leynos/netsuke PR: 664
File: Makefile:33-33
Timestamp: 2026-09-04T01:45:02.144Z
Learning: In `Makefile`, the `dev-test` target is a local accelerated workflow, not a CI lane. Changes to its `cargo nextest run` arguments should be handled separately from CI runner-placement and caching migrations unless the pull request explicitly includes local workflow validation.

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Count only actual cargo install commands. workflow_text.count("cargo install ") counts text, and + 1 allows a third occurrence beyond the two documented exceptions. An unapproved command can therefore pass the <= 3 assertion. The current mdtablefix comment does not contain the counted text. Classify command lines separately and compare them with the documented allowlist, while ignoring comments.

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In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_ownership_test.py` at line 370, Update the
assertion around source_builds in the cache ownership contract test to count
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In `@tests/makefile_test_target.rs`:
- Around line 83-92: Update the nextest recipe assertions around target_recipe
to isolate the command containing “nextest run” before validating variables.
Assert that this command includes both $(NEXTEST_BUILD_JOBS) and
$(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS), rather than relying on their relative offsets across the
joined recipe.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/cache_write_policy_test.py`:
- Line 223: Update both policy scans to use recursive action discovery: replace
the immediate-child action glob with ACTION_DIR.rglob("action.yml") in the scans
associated with _composite_save_conditions() and the source-build policy,
including the corresponding scan in cache_ownership_test.py. Preserve the
existing sorting and validation behavior so nested composite actions are
covered.
- Line 201: Update _accepts_a_dispatch to use structural pattern matching when
checking triggers, while preserving False for scalar and list trigger values and
True only for mappings containing workflow_dispatch.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/test_execution_coverage_test.py`:
- Line 234: Update _is_scannable_job to use structural pattern matching with
match declaration instead of isinstance(), while preserving the current behavior
of returning true only for dictionary declarations containing "steps".

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Four review findings, one of which weakened a contract I had just added.

`target_recipe` returns the recipe's lines joined together, so checking that
`$(NEXTEST_TEST_JOBS)` appears after `nextest run` in that string would accept a
bound sitting in an unrelated later command, reading as configured while
bounding nothing. Both bounds are now asserted against the line that invokes
`nextest run`, which is the thing they have to be arguments to.

Composite actions were discovered with a single-level glob, so one nested a
directory deeper would have bypassed both the save-gating policy and the
source-build scan without any test noticing. Both now recurse.

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Python guidance. `_accepts_a_dispatch` keeps returning False for the scalar and
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Adding the two bounds took
`behavioural_make_test_composes_the_nextest_and_doctest_passes` to exactly the
70-line threshold CodeScene enforces.

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variables rather than one, and why the assertion is made against the invoking
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The doubled Windows override added in #664 was explicitly a bound rather
than an explanation: nobody had measured what these tests cost on
`windows-latest`, so 600s was generous rather than justified.

Measured across the 58 Windows gate runs between run 33890685806, the
merge of #664, and run 34064668331:

  harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir        198.8s / 274.7s / 312.9s
  packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources  172.6s / 244.0s / 267.9s

(min / median / max; both maxima are run 33891104448, whose sccache key
missed). One run in 58 exceeded the 300s default.

So the override now covers one test rather than two, at seven warning
periods (420s) rather than ten, which clears the measured worst case by
34%. `packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources` returns to the
default budget because it no longer runs the verification build on
Windows.

The rationale comment records what the measurement ruled out as well as
what it justified: the lane's compiler cache already reaches the spawned
build, because `ci-windows.yml` sets `RUSTC_WRAPPER` at job scope and the
tests add to the child environment rather than clearing it, and warming
it is worth about 3%. No target-directory reuse is available either.

The developers' guide gains a section holding the same numbers, and the
existing split-build-dir and test-execution passages point at it.

Closes #673.

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* Relocate the packaging verification build off the Windows gate

`packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources` spawns `cargo publish
--dry-run`, whose verification build compiles the packaged crate and its
whole dependency graph from scratch. On the four-vCPU GitHub-hosted
`windows-latest` gate that measured a median of 240.8s and a maximum of
265.6s across the 58 runs between run 33890685806 and run 34064668331,
against about 25s on the cached Linux lane.

What Cargo puts in a package does not vary by operating system, so pass
`--no-verify` on Windows and keep the full verification on the Linux
coverage lane. The contract moves rather than disappearing: every
platform still reads `cargo package --list`, which is the
manifest-inclusion assertion the test is named for.

`publish_dry_run_skips_verification_only_on_windows` holds the split by
asserting the command itself, not an identifier: the subcommand, the
unconditional `--dry-run`, the package selection, and `--no-verify`
appearing exactly when `cfg!(windows)` does.

Towards #673.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY

* Replace the guessed Windows test budget with a measured one

The doubled Windows override added in #664 was explicitly a bound rather
than an explanation: nobody had measured what these tests cost on
`windows-latest`, so 600s was generous rather than justified.

Measured across the 58 Windows gate runs between run 33890685806, the
merge of #664, and run 34064668331:

  harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir        198.8s / 274.7s / 312.9s
  packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources  172.6s / 244.0s / 267.9s

(min / median / max; both maxima are run 33891104448, whose sccache key
missed). One run in 58 exceeded the 300s default.

So the override now covers one test rather than two, at seven warning
periods (420s) rather than ten, which clears the measured worst case by
34%. `packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources` returns to the
default budget because it no longer runs the verification build on
Windows.

The rationale comment records what the measurement ruled out as well as
what it justified: the lane's compiler cache already reaches the spawned
build, because `ci-windows.yml` sets `RUSTC_WRAPPER` at job scope and the
tests add to the child environment rather than clearing it, and warming
it is worth about 3%. No target-directory reuse is available either.

The developers' guide gains a section holding the same numbers, and the
existing split-build-dir and test-execution passages point at it.

Closes #673.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrjNTnTwM7FmWXe5KFPMPY

* Record what moving the verification build actually bought

Run 34075197897 is the first Windows gate run under the new shape, and it
is a much larger improvement than the tail arithmetic predicted:

  harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir        274.7s -> 125.3s
  packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources  244.0s -> 4.2s
  nextest run phase                                 365s -> 185.5s
  Test step                                         471s -> 260s

(before figures are medians over the 58 measured runs)

The reason is contention rather than the tail. The two tests ran
concurrently, each spawning a Cargo build with four compile jobs on a
four-vCPU runner, so each roughly halved the other. Removing one build
did not merely free a worker; it gave the remaining build the runner.

That leaves the 420s budget sized against the older, contended
distribution, so the rationale now says so outright rather than implying
it was sized against the current shape, and names the follow-up: revisit
for tightening or deletion once ten runs have accumulated.

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* Assert the packaged sources instead of trusting a Linux build

Codex raised a real gap on #687: `--no-verify` means "don't verify the
contents by building them", and a Linux verification build never
instantiates a `#[cfg(windows)]` module, so an `include` edit that
dropped one would pass CI and fail on publication.

The file list is the right place to close that, not a 245s Windows
build. `assert_required_paths_present` now takes the set of Rust sources
found under `src/` and `build_l10n_audit/` and requires every one of them
in the packaged manifest. Derived from the tree rather than listed, so a
new module is required to be packaged without anyone remembering to
update this test, and a narrowed `include` cannot hide behind a platform
that never compiles the file.

This is strictly stronger than the verification build for the failure
mode described, which is a missing file, and it costs 0.4s rather than
245s. Compilation of the `#[cfg(windows)]` arms themselves is still
gated: the Windows job builds, lints and tests the working tree under
`-D warnings` on every run.

Also replaces three inline links to the budget section with one
reference-style link, so the prose stays inside 80 columns
(CodeRabbit, docs/developers-guide.md).

* Reflow the budget-section reference link

The Markdown formatter joins the shortened link with the sentence that
follows it. Committed as the formatter emits it so check-fmt is stable.

* Cite both post-change Windows runs, not just the first

Run 34079222917 gives a second sample under the new shape:

  harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir        170.6s (was 125.3s)
  packaged_manifest_retains_build_script_sources    7.6s (was 4.2s)
  nextest run phase                               258.0s (was 185.5s)

Both remain far inside the 420s budget and far below the 274.7s and
244.0s medians they replace, but one run is not a distribution and the
guide should not read as though it were.
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