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What was wrong

A pull request from a fork cannot obtain a Ubicloud runner. Three lanes name a
Ubicloud label outright and serve pull requests, so on a fork's pull request
none of them starts. The branch ruleset waits on required checks that will not
report, which presents as a pull request stuck on a pending check rather than
as a placement fault.

What changes

build-test, kani-smoke and netsukefile name their runner through an
expression that sends a fork to ubuntu-latest and everything else to the
label each already had:

runs-on: >-
  ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork
  && 'ubuntu-latest' || 'ubicloud-standard-4-ubuntu-2404' }}

Two of those lanes also serve push, and no second condition is needed: on a
push the pull-request context is null, so the expression takes the Ubicloud
arm.

Every other Ubicloud lane keeps its plain label, and the contract asserts that
too, so the arm does not spread by imitation:

Lane Why no arm
coverage-main.yml coverage-upload push and dispatch only
coverage-pr-submit.yml both jobs workflow_run runs in this repository's context whatever the originating pull request was
release.yml build-linux called rather than triggered

Three rules read runs-on, and each reads the owned arm

The assignment table, the vCPU derivation that sizes every worker bound from
the runner shape, and the property over checked-in assignments all read
runs-on as a literal string. Each now reads the owned arm through
owned_runner. A fork's run is a GitHub-hosted fallback whose shape those
rules deliberately do not govern, and normalising at one named place keeps one
reading of the declaration rather than one per caller.

Without that the lane would either fail the assignment table or fall out of the
vCPU lookup with the message that the suite does not know its shape.

The mutations are in the suite, not in this description

They join the existing property harness in runner_placement_mutations.py, so
all seven are asserted on every gate rather than run by hand:

Mutation Why it must fail
arm dropped the lane is unreachable from a fork
guard swapped for the sibling private field it parses and evaluates, so the declaration still looks right
arms swapped the fork is sent to the runner it cannot obtain
fork arm of the wrong platform the fork reaches a runner it cannot build on
hosted runner on both arms the lane leaves Ubicloud while still looking like a fallback
arm on the push-only coverage lane a branch nothing takes
line break inside the expression GitHub evaluates it anyway, so no run reports it

The fourth exists because the fork-arm check was dead without it. Every other
wrong-arm mutation is caught by the owned-arm check instead, so deleting the
fork-arm clause changed nothing the suite could see. Each clause of the
validator and of the reader was then dropped in turn, and each failed something
of its own.

The trybuild set, which is empty

A per-test terminate-after and a name-based override list are a pair that
rots apart. The list is written once against the names of the day and is never
re-derived, and neither a passing run nor a green gate notices a target that has
fallen out of it, because the cost only appears on a cold cache. Two
repositories in the estate were found this way, each with one test of a pair
named in an override and its sibling left on the base allowance.

This repository has no trybuild target, and the contract pins that. An empty
set is not a reason to omit the rule: it is the state the rule must notice
leaving. A harness added tomorrow inherits the 300 s base allowance, which is
sized for a test that compiles nothing, and would be terminated on the first
cold run rather than reported.

The discovery reads what a file constructs, not what it mentions.
tests/sha2_migration_guard_tests.rs documents at length why a trybuild
harness was removed during the Polonius migration, so a text match would report
it as a target that exists. Parametrised over this repository's own files a
reader could match construction, mention, or nothing at all and agree with the
tree either way, so the discrimination is driven directly by seven cases.

The premise is asserted rather than assumed: if the base allowance ever stops
terminating, nothing is killed and this rule guards a hazard that does not
exist, so it fails and asks to be rewritten instead.

Three mutations, all caught: a real trybuild target added without an override
fails the rule, matching mention instead of construction fails the
discrimination cases and reports the migration guard, and removing
terminate-after from the base profile fails the premise.

The reader's own shape

CodeScene refused the first version on three counts: read_placement at a
cyclomatic complexity of nine against a threshold of nine, a complex
conditional in the literal reader, and a module mean of 4.29 against four.

Each named a real seam, so the operands are split out of read_placement and
the literal reader's four-clause conditional became a pattern. The pattern then
needed testing rather than assuming, because two mutations of it survived:
allowing a quote inside the literal, and matching anywhere in the arm rather
than over the whole of it. Both are real. An arm concatenating two literals
would be read as its first operand, and a doubled quote, which is how GitHub
escapes one inside a literal, would be read as part of a runner label. Two
cases separate them and both mutations now fail.

Verification

make test-workflow-contracts passes at 561, up from 530. make check-fmt,
make lint-python and make typecheck-python are clean, and
cs delta origin/main --error-on-warnings reports nothing.

The developers' guide gains the declaration, why the push lanes need no second
condition, which lanes keep a plain label and why, the indent rule the folded
scalar imposes, where every sizing rule reads the owned arm, and the trybuild
section.

Summary by Sourcery

Make pull-request CI reachable from forked repositories while preserving runner placement, caching, and workflow-contract invariants.

New Features:

  • Add GitHub-hosted fallback runners for fork pull requests while preserving Ubicloud runners for repository-owned runs.
  • Add workflow contracts covering fork runner placement, runner-shape registration, trybuild target allowances, and source-aware target discovery.

Bug Fixes:

  • Allow fork pull requests to start required CI checks instead of remaining blocked while waiting for unavailable Ubicloud runners.
  • Prevent Ubicloud-only sccache credential setup from running on GitHub-hosted fork runners.

Enhancements:

  • Centralize parsing of conditional runner declarations and use the repository-owned runner arm for placement and vCPU validation.
  • Derive self-hosted runner registration from labels selected by workflows rather than workflow text mentions.
  • Improve sccache credential validation by checking active exports, endpoint selection, ordering, and runner-arm conditions.
  • Strengthen Rust source scanning and Cargo integration-test target discovery to distinguish executable code and actual targets from comments, literals, modules, and documentation.

Documentation:

  • Document fork runner fallbacks, owned-runner sizing rules, sccache arm requirements, and trybuild allowance expectations in the developers' guide.

Tests:

  • Expand workflow contract coverage with mutation and property tests for fork fallback declarations, runner parsing, hosted-label registration, source-aware trybuild discovery, and nextest override matching.
  • Split sccache credential checks into a dedicated contract test module while retaining coverage of export ordering and endpoint configuration.

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The PR makes the three pull-request-serving lanes reachable for fork PRs by selecting a GitHub-hosted runner only for fork events, adds centralized parsing and contract enforcement for the owned Ubicloud arm, broadens mutation/property protection against declaration drift, introduces a discovery-based trybuild timeout contract, and documents the resulting policies.

Sequence diagram for fork pull request runner selection

sequenceDiagram
    actor ForkPR as Fork pull request
    participant GitHubActions as GitHub Actions
    participant Runner as Runner
    ForkPR->>GitHubActions: Trigger pull request workflow
    GitHubActions->>GitHubActions: Evaluate github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork
    alt Fork pull request
        GitHubActions->>Runner: Select ubuntu-latest
    else Push or non-fork pull request
        GitHubActions->>Runner: Select owned Ubicloud runner
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Flow diagram for trybuild timeout contract discovery

flowchart TD
    Files[Repository Rust workflow-contract files] --> Discover[Discover constructed trybuild targets]
    Discover --> Compare[Compare targets with timeout overrides]
    Compare --> Contract{Every target overridden?}
    Contract -->|Yes| Pass[Contract passes]
    Contract -->|No| Fail[Contract fails]
    Base[Base terminate-after allowance] --> Premise[Verify base allowance terminates tests]
    Premise --> Contract
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Add fork-aware runner selection for pull-request lanes while preserving Ubicloud placement for repository-owned runs.
  • Replace literal runner labels with folded GitHub expressions for build-test, kani-smoke, and netsukefile.
  • Route fork pull requests to ubuntu-latest and retain each lane’s existing Ubicloud label otherwise.
  • Keep all other Ubicloud lanes on literal labels and enforce that only the designated lanes use the fallback expression.
.github/workflows/ci.yml
.github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml
tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback.py
tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback_test.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_mutations.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py
Normalize runner declarations to the repository-owned arm before applying placement and vCPU contracts.
  • Introduce a shared parser for the prescribed guard-and-two-literal-arm expression.
  • Use owned_runner in runner assignment and runner-shape validation so hosted fallback shape is excluded from Ubicloud sizing rules.
  • Reject malformed, alternate, multiline, or non-literal placement expressions.
tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_test.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_shape_test.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py
Expand mutation/property coverage to ensure fork fallback declarations and their reader remain fail-closed.
  • Add mutations for missing, swapped, incorrectly guarded, incorrectly platformed, hosted-only, misplaced, and multiline fallback arms.
  • Run the new mutations through the existing property harness on every gate.
  • Test parser boundaries including concatenated literals, escaped quotes, line breaks, and non-string declarations.
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_mutations.py
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_properties_test.py
tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback_test.py
Add a contract that discovers trybuild harnesses and requires per-target timeout overrides.
  • Detect actual TestCases::new() construction rather than textual mentions.
  • Require every discovered target to match a nextest override while allowing the repository’s current empty target set.
  • Assert that the default profile still has a terminating timeout.
tests/workflow_contracts/trybuild_override_test.py
Document the fork runner policy, declaration formatting constraints, owned-arm normalization, and trybuild timeout contract.
  • Explain trigger-specific behavior and why other Ubicloud lanes remain literal.
  • Document folded-scalar indentation requirements and the distinction between fallback and owned runner shapes.
  • Describe discovery-based trybuild coverage and the cold-cache timeout hazard.
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Summary

  • Route fork pull requests for build-test and kani-smoke to ubuntu-latest.
  • Route fork pull requests for netsukefile to ubuntu-22.04.
  • Preserve Ubicloud runners for repository-owned runs.
  • Guard sccache credentials on the owned runner arm.
  • Enforce runner placement, label, and vCPU sizing contracts.
  • Add mutation and property tests for runner expressions.
  • Add Rust source scanning and Cargo test-target discovery.
  • Verify trybuild overrides and the terminate-after allowance.
  • Document runner fallbacks, sizing, credentials, and trybuild rules.
  • Align the runner trust boundary with ADR-022.

Verification

  • Pass workflow contract tests.
  • Pass formatting, Python linting, Python type checking, and CodeScene analysis.
  • Report no substantive CodeRabbit findings.

Walkthrough

The workflows now select hosted runners for fork pull requests and Ubicloud runners otherwise. New contracts validate runner placement, sccache credential guards, workflow labels, Cargo test targets, and trybuild nextest overrides.

Changes

Workflow contract updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fork runner integration
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/netsukefile-test.yml, docs/developers-guide.md
Fork pull requests use ubuntu-latest or ubuntu-22.04 by lane. Other runs retain Ubicloud runners. Sccache credentials run only on the owned arm.
Fork fallback contract
tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback.py, tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback_test.py
Parse and validate the supported conditional runner expression. Reject unsupported shapes, missing arms, incorrect guards, and invalid runners.
Runner placement validation
tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_*, tests/workflow_contracts/runner_shape_test.py, tests/workflow_contracts/runner_placement_invariants.py
Generate and mutate runner declarations. Resolve owned runners. Validate hosted labels, matrix runners, worker limits, and exact workflow label usage.
Sccache credential contract
tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_contract_test.py, tests/workflow_contracts/sccache_credentials_test.py
Remove obsolete checks and add checks for credential guards, endpoints, ordering, and sccache startup configuration.
Cargo and trybuild target contracts
tests/workflow_contracts/cargo_test_targets*, tests/workflow_contracts/trybuild_override_test.py, tests/workflow_contracts/rust_source_reading.py, docs/developers-guide.md
Derive Cargo integration-test targets from manifests and source layout. Discover constructed trybuild targets and require matching nextest overrides. Validate source scanning, selector rules, and the default termination setting.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequest
  participant Workflow
  participant Runner
  participant ContractTests
  PullRequest->>Workflow: trigger pull request
  Workflow->>Runner: select hosted or Ubicloud runner
  ContractTests->>Workflow: inspect runner and sccache declarations
  ContractTests->>ContractTests: discover targets and validate overrides
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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f1ea0

The fork-fallback workflow-contract module cannot import, so its dependent contract tests are blocked. Fix the runtime import before merging; documentation corrections remain needed.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Testing (Overall) ❌ Error The pull request adds substantial workflow and contract behaviour, and the fork-runner tests do exercise the checked-in YAML plus multiple realistic mutations. However, the new Cargo/trybuild contract… Add fixture-driven integration tests for target discovery and trybuild coverage. Create a temporary tests/ui/main.rs target with a nested module and a separate tests/plain.rs target, then assert the exact derived target names and source…
Unit Architecture ❌ Error The pull request adds query-shaped APIs that hide fallible filesystem and parsing work. declared_test_targets() and target_sources() in tests/workflow_contracts/cargo_test_targets.py read manife… Refactor the new readers so that filesystem access and parsing occur at one explicit boundary. Inject the repository paths or file contents into pure target-discovery and configuration-query functions. Wrap read, decode, directory, and TOML…
Testing (Property / Proof) ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds a Hypothesis property test for fork-runner placement, but it also adds rust_source_reading.code_only, which has a broad invariant over Rust comments, strings, raw strings, C st… Add a Hypothesis property test for code_only. Generate Rust fragments that include code, nested comments, quoted and raw strings with varied hash counts, C strings, character literals, lifetimes, escapes, and unterminated regions. Assert …
✅ Passed checks (12 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: enabling fork pull requests to reach an available runner. No roadmap or issue reference is required because the description does not identify a related roa…
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the runner fallback changes, sccache guards, workflow contracts, tests, documentation, and verification results.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 68 functions across 12 files. (2 skipped: …
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 Pass this check. The pull request changes GitHub Actions runner placement and workflow-contract tests only; it does not change Netsuke's user-facing CLI, API, manifest, or runtime behaviour. Document …
Developer Documentation ✅ Passed The developer guide documents the changed CI boundary and tooling rules. It explains the fork fallback expression, push behaviour, per-lane hosted runners, the Ubuntu 22.04 compatibility reason for `n…
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed All 13 changed Python modules have a module-level docstring in the pull-request head. The new modules document their purpose, utility, and relationships to the workflow contracts or source components.…
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ✅ Passed Pass the testing check. Additions cover meaningful behaviour and edge cases, including invalid runner expressions, line breaks, wrong guards and arms, hosted-image mismatches, active versus commented …
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes GitHub Actions YAML, documentation, and Python workflow-contract tests only. It changes no Rust or TypeScript source, Cargo manifest, UI fixture, or compile-time b…
Domain Architecture ✅ Passed Pass the Domain Architecture check. The authoritative diff changes only two GitHub workflow files, one developer guide, and workflow-contract test/support modules under tests/workflow_contracts; no …
Observability ✅ Passed The pull request changes GitHub Actions runner placement and CI cache setup. It does not change production application behaviour or add a service, queue, storage boundary, or customer-facing operation…
Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The pull request adds substantial workflow and contract behaviour, and the fork-runner tests do exercise the checked-in YAML plus multiple realistic mutations. However, the new Cargo/trybuild contract tests leave core paths untested. target_sources() contains a directory-target branch for tests/<name>/main.rs, but the repository has no such directory and cargo_test_targets_test.py only derives expectations from the same empty directory set. Removing that branch would still pass. The trybuild repository also has no real TestCases::new() target. The parameterised cases test _constructs_trybuild() in isolation, but replacing the integrated _trybuild_targets() discovery with return [] would still pass the suite. The tests therefore do not fail for plausible no-op or incomplete implementations of the new target discovery behaviour.

Resolution

Add fixture-driven integration tests for target discovery and trybuild coverage. Create a temporary tests/ui/main.rs target with a nested module and a separate tests/plain.rs target, then assert the exact derived target names and source lists. Exercise the integrated trybuild discovery with a synthetic target containing TestCases::new(), a documentation-only mention, and a target without an exact non-negated override. Assert that the first target is discovered, the mention is ignored, and the uncovered target is rejected. Refactor the discovery and validation helpers to accept the fixture root or injected target/config data so these tests do not alter the repository checkout.

Full details: Testing (Property / Proof)

Explanation

The pull request adds a Hypothesis property test for fork-runner placement, but it also adds rust_source_reading.code_only, which has a broad invariant over Rust comments, strings, raw strings, C strings, character literals, nesting, and unterminated input. The implementation explicitly requires preserved length and line structure. The only tests for this reader are a finite parameterized table in trybuild_override_test.py; no property test checks arbitrary inputs or the length/newline invariant. A small table cannot confidently cover these interacting lexical states.

Resolution

Add a Hypothesis property test for code_only. Generate Rust fragments that include code, nested comments, quoted and raw strings with varied hash counts, C strings, character literals, lifetimes, escapes, and unterminated regions. Assert preserved length and newline positions, blanking of non-code regions, and retention of code. Keep the existing parameterized examples for named edge cases.

Full details: Unit Architecture

Explanation

The pull request adds query-shaped APIs that hide fallible filesystem and parsing work. declared_test_targets() and target_sources() in tests/workflow_contracts/cargo_test_targets.py read manifests and enumerate the repository directly at lines 35-57, but expose only successful return types and document no read or parse errors. _trybuild_targets(), _base_terminates(), and _override_filters() in tests/workflow_contracts/trybuild_override_test.py also perform read_text() and tomllib.loads() directly at lines 82-113. These calls can raise OSError, UnicodeDecodeError, or TOML parse errors, while directory enumeration can silently omit entries. This change therefore makes fallibility less visible behind apparently pure queries. The existing workflow_loading.read_workflow_document() and windows_cache_action.load_cache_action() show the repository's established explicit boundary pattern.

Resolution

Refactor the new readers so that filesystem access and parsing occur at one explicit boundary. Inject the repository paths or file contents into pure target-discovery and configuration-query functions. Wrap read, decode, directory, and TOML errors in a named contextual error, document that error in each boundary API, and let the test boundary handle it with a clear failure. Add failure-path tests for a missing or unreadable manifest, source, and nextest configuration, and for malformed TOML. Apply the same boundary treatment to the new workflow enumeration in _all_jobs() if it remains a separate filesystem reader.


Fork winds guide the runner’s course
Contracts guard each chosen source
Cache keys wait in ordered line
Rust targets map by clear design
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 46-48: The sccache credential-export action currently runs for
fork and owned-runner jobs, incorrectly overriding GitHub-hosted cache settings.
In both workflow jobs, gate the ./​.github/actions/sccache-gha-credentials steps
on non-fork pull requests using the existing
github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork condition, while preserving the native
cache configuration for the ubuntu-latest fork path.

In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Line 753: Update the documentation sentence listing pull-request-serving tools
to use an Oxford comma after “kani-smoke,” and change the relevant occurrence of
“well formed” to “well-formed.”

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/fork_fallback.py`:
- Around line 32-33: Update the module-level import for collections.abc so cabc
is available at runtime, while preserving any typing-only usage as appropriate;
ensure the fork_fallback_offences definition can evaluate cabc.Mapping without
raising NameError.

In `@tests/workflow_contracts/trybuild_override_test.py`:
- Line 62: Update the detection logic around TRYBUILD_CONSTRUCTION so Rust
source is parsed or sanitized to exclude comments and string literals before
searching for TestCases construction. Ensure inputs such as //
trybuild::TestCases::new() do not match, while genuine TestCases construction
remains detected.
- Around line 112-118: Add a separate assertion near the existing
uncovered-target check that explicitly verifies _trybuild_targets() returns an
empty collection. Keep the current override-filter logic intact, but ensure the
test fails whenever any trybuild target exists, even if it has a matching
override.
- Line 116: Update the override validation around _override_filters() to
evaluate each nextest filter against the discovered target rather than checking
Path(target).stem containment. Account for negation and boolean filter
semantics, including filters such as not test(target), and ensure an override is
considered applicable only when the nextest expression actually selects that
target.
- Around line 45-58: Reduce the _constructs_trybuild docstring to a single-line
summary, removing its Returns and Examples sections; preserve the behavioral
examples through the existing parametrized test or an adjacent comment if
needed.
- Line 40: Update the source prose in the affected test comments to use the
requested spelling consistently: replace “normalises” with “normalizes” and
“parametrised” with “parameterized,” including the additional occurrence.
- Line 78: Update the timeout check around the existing helper to use structural
pattern matching: match a mapping containing the "terminate-after" key and
return True, with the default case returning False. Remove the isinstance-based
condition while preserving behavior for non-mapping values and mappings without
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🟡 Minor · Correct the credential-export statement. · developers-guide.md:961-977

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Correct the credential-export statement.

Replace the claim that every GitHub Actions backend lane exports credentials
through sccache-gha-credentials. Fork pull-request arms now use GitHub-hosted
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In `@docs/developers-guide.md` around lines 961 - 977, Update the documentation
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- Around line 41-48: Update the private helpers _all_jobs, _selected_labels,
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A pull request from a fork cannot obtain a Ubicloud runner, so the three lanes
that serve pull requests never start on one. The branch ruleset waits on
required checks that will not report, which presents as a stuck pull request
rather than as a placement fault.

`build-test`, `kani-smoke` and `netsukefile` now name their runner through an
expression that sends a fork to `ubuntu-latest` and everything else to the
label each already had. Two of them also serve `push`, and no second condition
is needed: on a push the pull-request context is null, so the expression takes
the Ubicloud arm.

Every other Ubicloud lane keeps its plain label and the contract asserts that
too, so the arm does not spread by imitation. `coverage-upload` is push and
dispatch only; both `coverage-pr-submit` jobs trigger on `workflow_run`, which
runs in this repository's context whatever the originating pull request was;
`release.build-linux` is called rather than triggered.

Three rules read `runs-on` as a literal: the assignment table, the vCPU
derivation that sizes every worker bound from the runner shape, and the
property over checked-in assignments. Each now reads the owned arm through
`owned_runner`. A fork's run is a GitHub-hosted fallback whose shape those
rules deliberately do not govern, and normalising at one named place keeps one
reading of the declaration rather than one per caller.

The mutations join the existing property harness rather than being run by hand,
so all seven are asserted by the suite on every gate:

| Mutation | Why it must fail |
| --- | --- |
| arm dropped | the lane is unreachable from a fork |
| guard swapped for the sibling `private` field | it parses and evaluates, so the declaration still looks right |
| arms swapped | the fork is sent to the runner it cannot obtain |
| fork arm of the wrong platform | the fork reaches a runner it cannot build on |
| hosted runner on both arms | the lane leaves Ubicloud while still looking like a fallback |
| arm on the push-only coverage lane | a branch nothing takes |
| line break inside the expression | GitHub evaluates it anyway, so no run reports it |

The fourth exists because the fork-arm check was dead without it. Every other
wrong-arm mutation is caught by the owned-arm check instead, so deleting the
fork-arm clause changed nothing the suite could see. Each clause of the
validator and of the reader was then dropped in turn and each failed something
of its own.

The trybuild allowance contract is a separate policy and now arrives in a
separate commit, so either can be shipped or reverted without the other.
The lane table gave a runner per lane, which is now the runner this
repository's own branches get on three of them. The guide gains the
declaration, why the push lanes need no second condition, which lanes keep a
plain label and why, the indent rule the folded scalar imposes, and where every
sizing rule reads the owned arm.
A per-test `terminate-after` and a name-based override list are a pair that
rots apart. The list is written once against the names of the day and is never
re-derived, and neither a passing run nor a green gate notices a target that
has fallen out of it, because the cost only appears on a cold cache. A trybuild
target builds a scratch crate against this workspace's dependency graph, so it
is the cost that overruns first. Two repositories in the estate were found this
way, each with one test of a pair named in an override and its sibling left on
the base allowance.

This repository has no trybuild target, and the contract pins that. An empty
set is not a reason to omit the rule: it is the state the rule must notice
leaving. A harness added tomorrow inherits the 300 s base allowance, which is
sized for a test that compiles nothing, and would be terminated on the first
cold run rather than reported.

The set is discovered from the tree rather than listed here. Listing it would
be the same defect one level up.

The discovery reads what a file constructs, not what it mentions.
`tests/sha2_migration_guard_tests.rs` documents at length why a trybuild
harness was removed during the Polonius migration, so a text match would report
it as a target that exists. Parametrised over this repository's own files a
reader could match construction, mention, or nothing at all and agree with the
tree either way, so the discrimination is driven directly by seven cases.

The premise is asserted rather than assumed: if the base allowance ever stops
terminating, nothing is killed and this rule guards a hazard that does not
exist, so it fails and asks to be rewritten instead.

Three mutations, all caught: a real trybuild target added without an override
fails the rule, matching mention instead of construction fails the
discrimination cases and reports the migration guard, and removing
`terminate-after` from the base profile fails the premise.

The contract arrives whole here rather than in two halves across the fork-arm
commit and this one, so this policy can be shipped or reverted on its own. Its
first form also failed its own generously-spaced case, because the pattern
allowed spacing around the second `::` and not the first.
Why a name-based override list rots apart, why the empty set is pinned rather
than omitted, and why the discovery reads construction rather than mention.
CodeScene refused the change on three counts: `read_placement` at a
cyclomatic complexity of nine against a threshold of nine, a complex
conditional in the literal reader, and a module mean of 4.29 against
four.

Each named a real seam. Splitting the operands out of `read_placement`
separates finding the three parts of the expression from deciding
whether each is what it must be. The literal reader's four-clause
conditional becomes a pattern, which says the same thing in the notation
the question belongs to.

The pattern then needed testing rather than assuming, because two
mutations of it survived: allowing a quote inside the literal, and
matching anywhere in the arm instead of over the whole of it. Both are
real differences. An arm that concatenates two literals would be read as
its first operand, and a doubled quote, which is how GitHub escapes one
inside a literal, would be read as part of a runner label. Two cases now
separate them, and both mutations fail.

The suite goes from 559 to 561.
The registry assertion compared the configuration with a hand-maintained
constant, then asked whether each registered label appeared anywhere in
the concatenated text of the workflow files.

Neither half asks the question. The constant and the registry can agree
while a lane has quietly stopped using a shape, because nothing derives
the set from the workflows. And a text search is satisfied by a mention:
a label named in a comment explaining why a lane no longer uses it would
keep that label registered for ever.

"In use" is now derived from every job's `runs-on`, both arms of a
conditional and every matrix `runner` entry, minus the labels GitHub
hosts. Registry and derived set must be equal, and the reviewed constant
and the derived set must be equal, as two assertions rather than one, so
a failure says which of the two things drifted.

The hosted labels are a named set rather than a prefix test. A prefix
absorbs any new label that looks hosted, so a lane moved onto an unknown
image would drop out of "in use" and its registration would go
unnoticed. Over this repository's own workflows the two readings agree
exactly, so the derivation cannot tell them apart; `ubuntu-20.04` is the
case that can, and it is written out.

Three mutations, all caught: a stale registration added, the named set
replaced by a prefix test, and only one arm of a conditional read.

This is the shape chutoro wrote and the estate is converging on.
The discovery searched raw source, so a paragraph explaining a removed harness
was indistinguishable from the harness. This repository has exactly such a
paragraph, which is the reason the rule was written to read construction rather
than mention, and the reading did not go far enough:
`// let t = trybuild::TestCases::new();` matched. The negative case meant to
cover this omitted the parentheses, so it passed either way.

`rust_source_reading.code_only` blanks comments, strings, raw and byte strings,
and character literals in one scan, preserving length so an offset still names
the source. One scan rather than four passes, because the contexts are not
independent: a `//` inside a string is not a comment, a quote inside a comment
opens nothing, and a `"` inside a raw string closes nothing until the matching
hash count arrives. A lone `'` is a lifetime and the text after it is code.

`_region_end` holds the grammar and `code_only` is the walk over it, so neither
carries both. Block comments nest, and the depth is counted from a table of the
two delimiters: the opening one is consumed before the loop, so the loop's own
condition is the whole answer and there is no compound guard.

Ten cases separate the readings, including a commented-out construction, one
inside a raw string containing a quote, code after a nested block comment,
a `'"'` character literal that must not open a string, and a lifetime that must
not open a character literal.

The private helper's docstring is reduced to its summary and the prose in this
file takes the Oxford spelling.
Coverage was `Path(target).stem in filter_text`, which is containment rather
than selection and is wrong in three ways at once. A `tests/ui.rs` harness read
as covered by `test(=harness_compiles_under_a_split_build_dir)`, because `ui`
occurs inside `build`, while that filter selects a different test entirely.
`not binary(=ui)` names the binary and excludes it, which containment reads as
coverage with the sign inverted. And `binary(ui)` matches by substring in
nextest, so it is not evidence that this binary is the one the override was
written for.

An override now covers a target only when its filter names the binary exactly,
through `binary(=name)` or `binary_id(=pkg::name)`, and carries no negation. A
filter with a negation covers nothing here rather than being evaluated:
evaluating a filterset is nextest's work, and a reader that guessed would be
the same defect one layer down. Eight cases drive it, including the two
containment traps above.

The empty set is pinned in its own assertion. Every member of an empty set is
covered, so the coverage assertion alone passes whether this repository has no
trybuild target or the reader has stopped finding them, which is exactly the
distinction the rule exists to keep.

`_base_terminates` reads its table by pattern rather than by `isinstance`.
The fork arm was one shared label. `netsukefile` is the deliberate Ubuntu 22.04
compatibility lane: its comment says so, `NETSUKE_RUNNER_IMAGE` stays
`ubuntu2204`, and every cache key it writes carries that image. Falling back to
`ubuntu-latest` ran a fork's pull request against a newer glibc, so the one
regression the lane exists to catch would have passed the required check and
appeared only after merge.

`FORK_FALLBACK_RUNNERS` pins the hosted label per lane and `FORK_FALLBACK_KEYS`
is derived from it, so the set of lanes and their expected labels cannot drift
apart. `build-test` and `kani-smoke` keep `ubuntu-latest`; `netsukefile` takes
`ubuntu-22.04`, which is already in the named hosted set.

The mapping is proved by a mutation that sends `netsukefile` to
`ubuntu-latest`: hosted, Linux, and the right answer for every other lane, so
the platform check and the owned-arm check both pass and nothing but a per-lane
expectation separates it. Without that case one shared constant reads
identically over every lane this repository declares, and the mapping would be
dead.
The credential action clears sccache's v2 switch and publishes Ubicloud's proxy
address, which is correct only on a Ubicloud runner. Both lanes that use it now
also serve forks on a GitHub-hosted runner, where that address is GitHub's own
or empty. The action's own verification step fails the job when it is empty,
because `SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED` is `true`, so a fork's pull request would have
failed at that step rather than merely missing its cache. The hosted arm keeps
GitHub's native cache configuration, which sccache reads for itself.

`coverage-upload` carries the export and no fork arm, so its export stays
unconditional, and the contract asserts that direction too: a guard there would
switch the export off on the only runs the lane has, and the job would pass with
the server on local disk.

The contract asserts the guard by name, because `private` and `archived` sit in
the same position and evaluate, and asserts it is satisfiable: `== true` in
place of `!= true` disables the export on this repository's own branches while
every other assertion about the export goes on passing. Three mutations, each
caught by that contract alone.

The four contracts about the export move to `sccache_credentials_test.py`.
Where the export sits, which runs it belongs to and which endpoint it names is a
different question from whether a job has a wrapper, one backend and statistics
around its compile steps, and the new contract took the original past the
400-line cap.
An Oxford comma before `and netsukefile`, and `well-formed` hyphenated where it
modifies `declaration`.
Rust 2024 writes a raw C string as `cr#"..."#`, and the scanner recognized
only `r` and `br`. It refused the `r` because `c` preceded it, then read the
opening quote as an ordinary string delimiter, so the inner `"` closed the
literal and everything after it was scanned as code. A `TestCases::new()`
inside such a literal was therefore discovered as a trybuild target.

The prefixes are now a named set. `_identifier_before` is unchanged and is
still what keeps a prefix inside a longer name from opening a literal: `let cr
= 1;` does not, and that case is written out beside the two literal ones.

Mutation: removing `c` from the set fails the raw C string case and nothing
else.

Two private helpers in the same module drop their `Returns` sections for a
one-line summary, with what they said moved to a comment beside the code.
Two defects in the same contract, both of which made an override look like it
covered a target it did not name.

The set of targets was every `.rs` file below `tests/`, reduced to its file
stem. A module file was therefore reported as a target of its own, and
`tests/<name>/main.rs` read as `main`, which would have demanded an override
called `main` that names nothing nextest runs. Cargo's auto-discovery is
modelled instead: `tests/<name>.rs` and `tests/<name>/main.rs` are targets
called `<name>`, and everything else beneath is a module of one of them. An
explicit `[[test]]` section can name a target unrelated to its path, so the
absence of that key is asserted rather than assumed, with the failure message
saying to extend the derivation rather than relax it.

A `binary_id` is `package::binary` and was accepted by its last segment alone,
so a same-named target in another package of the workspace stood in for this
one. It is compared whole now, against `netsuke::<target>`. `binary(=name)`
keeps its by-name form, which is what that selector means.

The derivation is its own module, `cargo_test_targets`, with the two
assertions about it beside it. It answers a question about file layout rather
than about trybuild, the trybuild contract is one of several things that will
want it, and the combined module crossed the four-hundred-line limit.

Mutations: globbing every source again fails the module case alone; accepting
the last segment again fails the other-package case alone.
The contract asked whether each variable's name appeared anywhere in the
action's script. A commented-out export, a log line naming the variable, or a
branch that never runs keeps every name while exporting nothing, and sccache
would then sit in local-disk mode with this contract green. That is the
failure the whole action exists to prevent.

Each active `core.exportVariable('NAME', <value>)` call is read instead, with
its value. Only whitespace may precede the call, which is what rejects a
commented-out one, and a trailing comment is allowed after it. Comments are
not stripped from the script first: a value may contain `//`, an address being
the obvious case, and stripping would cut the call in half and read an active
export as absent.

The values are checked too. The v2 switch must be cleared rather than set,
because sccache treats any value as "use v2", and the two published values
must come from the runner's own environment rather than a literal.

The action carries three calls of one shape, so the reader is driven directly
by seven cases covering the shapes it must separate.

Mutations: commenting out the cache URL export while keeping its name in a log
line fails the contract, where the substring form passed; setting the v2
switch to `false` rather than clearing it fails it.
The property asserted that an invalid mutation produced some offence. A
reading that reported a different lane satisfied that while saying nothing
true about the lane the mutation touched, and a fix aimed at the reported lane
would have left the real one wrong.

The exact offence set is compared. Two mutations rewrite a lane of their own
rather than the selected one, and those are mapped out: the coverage lane is
the only one no fork reaches, and `netsukefile` is the only one whose fork arm
is pinned to an image rather than to `ubuntu-latest`. Every other mutation,
including `line-break`, offends the selected key.

Mutation: making `fork_fallback_offences` report the first key rather than the
offending one fails this property and the module's doctest, and passed the
previous assertion.
Four helpers in the runner-shape contract carried NumPy-style `Returns`
sections. The repository's style asks a private function for a one-line
summary, and what the sections said is a comment beside the code it explains
rather than a heading over it.
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Closes #727.

## What this is

Every tier comparison in the timeout contract is a sum, and a sum is
exact only if every term is. One `float` among them converts the whole
of it back, and the conversion is silent. `seconds` now returns a
`fractions.Fraction`, and so does everything the comparisons add to it.

## Why

humantime's range reaches 2**64 seconds and a double holds 53 bits of
significand:

```python
>>> float(18446744073709551614) == float(18446744073709551615)
True
```

Both are inputs in the estate differential. An ordering assertion
between two budgets that far out compares equal and passes whichever way
round it is written. At the other end a tenth of a second has no exact
double, so a budget assembled from tenths and one written as a decimal
would differ by a rounding error rather than by anything anyone
configured.

No budget this repository configures is near either end, and none ever
will be. That is exactly why the loss cannot be exposed by the real
files: a contract resting on them would pass with every term a `float`.

## Scope: eight terms, not four

The issue lists four call sites for `seconds`. They are not the whole of
it. The three compositions the ordering contract evaluates each mix a
duration with a value read from a workflow and with a constant:

| Composition | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| `required_ceiling` | the watchdog budgets, the outside-work allowance, the ceiling margin |
| `termination_allowance` | the grace period (or nextest's default), the safety margin |
| `watchdog_required_for` | the whole-run budget, the allowance above, the cold-build allowance |

Making only the duration exact would have left every sum a `float` and
the new contract vacuous. So the watchdog budget read from a workflow,
the job ceiling converted from `timeout-minutes`, and the five
allowances in `timeout_budgets` are exact too.

`display_seconds` returns a `float` beside `seconds`, whitaker's shape.
A float is what a reader wants to see in a message and not what a
comparison should rest on; different names make each caller choose
rather than handing everybody the lossy one.

Stated plainly rather than left to be found: **nothing in this
repository calls `display_seconds` today.** Every assertion message that
prints a duration formats a value it already holds, with `:.0f`, which
`Fraction` has supported since 3.12. The function exists so that a
caller wanting a number for a message has somewhere to go other than
making `seconds` lossy for everybody, which is the change this pull
request is undoing. It is exercised by its own doctests, which run under
`--doctest-modules`. If the reviewer would rather not carry an
uncalled helper, the alternative is to drop it and let callers write
`float(...)` at the point of use; I have kept it because #727 and
whitaker's port both name it, and because the name is the part that does
the work.

## The contract, and the eight mutations

`timeout_exactness_test.py` drives the three compositions at two to the
sixtieth, where neighbouring doubles are 256 seconds apart and a
one-second difference is lost outright rather than only on one side of a
tie. Each case asserts the float collapse alongside the exact ordering,
so a case that stopped exercising the loss fails rather than passing
quietly.

Each of the eight terms was reverted to a `float` in turn:

| Term reverted | Cases that fail |
| --- | --- |
| `Total.as_seconds` | 5 |
| the watchdog reading | 2 |
| the job ceiling conversion | 2 |
| `OUTSIDE_WATCHDOG_ALLOWANCE_SECONDS` | 3 |
| `CEILING_MARGIN_SECONDS` | 3 |
| `COLD_BUILD_ALLOWANCE_SECONDS` | 3 |
| `TERMINATION_SAFETY_MARGIN_SECONDS` | 4 |
| `NEXTEST_DEFAULT_GRACE_PERIOD_SECONDS` | 2 |

Two of these are worth stating rather than leaving to be found. The two
allowances `required_ceiling` sums fail the same ordering case, because
the public function offers no way to vary them independently; they are
discriminated by a case naming each constant separately, so the report
says which of the two moved. And nextest's default grace period cannot
be driven by an ordering at all, since nothing about it varies, so it is
a term of the watchdog floor and fails only the `nextests-own-default`
leg. That parametrised pair discriminates rather than duplicates.

A further case asserts that the values actually in force arrive exact,
so a `float` reintroduced on the live path is caught without waiting for
a budget nobody will set.

## One float stays, deliberately

`Fraction` has no notion of `nan` or `inf` and raises on both. Converting
the watchdog text directly would turn a workflow interpolating an
expression to `inf` into unreadable text rather than the named refusal
that case deserves. So the text is parsed as a `float`, checked for
finiteness and sign, and then converted **from the text** rather than
from the float, which keeps a tenth exactly a tenth. Nothing is compared
against the float on the way through.

## Two things moved

`required_ceiling` moves to `timeout_budgets`, beside the constants it
sums: its signature change took `timeout_ordering_test` to 403 lines,
past the 400-line limit, and the function belongs with its terms rather
than with the contract that reads it.

The Hypothesis properties and the two local unit tables move to the exact
type and drop `pytest.approx`. A tolerance can now only hide a
disagreement: a millisecond is a thousandth, which no float holds, and
`approx` would accept a reader that had rounded it.

## Overlap with #728

`lane_environment._budget_from` and the `timeout-minutes` conversion in
`coverage_lanes` change type here, and #728 ("Let a fork's pull request
reach a runner it can have") works on the placement contracts, so the
two were checked against each other rather than assumed apart.

They share no Python file. #728 touches `fork_fallback`,
`runner_placement_*`, `runner_shape_test`, `rust_source_reading`,
`sccache_*` and `trybuild_override_test`; none of those is in this
diff, and none of this diff's fifteen files is in #728. The one shared
file is `docs/developers-guide.md`, and the hunks do not meet: #728
writes at roughly lines 747 and 6862, this branch at 6972.

Whichever lands second rebases, with the usual audit on the guide.

The placement and lane contracts were run against this branch in their
own right, not merely as part of the suite, because the type change is
underneath them:

```
pytest runner_placement_test.py runner_placement_properties_test.py \
       runner_shape_test.py coverage_lane_reading_test.py \
       coverage_lane_multi_step_test.py coverage_lanes.py \
       lane_environment.py -q --doctest-modules
85 passed
```

## Gates

`make check-fmt`, `make lint-python`, `make typecheck-python`,
`make markdownlint` and `make test-workflow-contracts` all pass;
`cs delta origin/main --error-on-warnings` exits clean. The contract
suite goes from 567 to 576 collected. The estate humantime differential
re-measures at **0 of 72** after the change, with the saved harness and
the pinned 2.3.0 probe. No Rust, Cargo manifest or workflow file
changes, so the Rust gates are untouched by this branch and were not
run.

One ruff finding is suppressed rather than fixed, with the reason beside
it: RUF069 on `float(larger) == float(smaller)`, where comparing two
floats for equality is the assertion rather than an oversight.

## Summary by Sourcery

Make timeout tier comparisons exact end to end so distinct configured budgets cannot be treated as equal through floating-point rounding.

New Features:
- Provide exact timeout-budget arithmetic using Fraction values across duration parsing, workflow budgets, job ceilings, and timeout allowances.
- Add an explicit float-based display_seconds helper for lossy, human-readable duration output.

Bug Fixes:
- Prevent timeout tier comparisons from silently losing ordering information through floating-point rounding at large or fractional durations.

Enhancements:
- Centralize required ceiling calculation with the exact timeout budget definitions.
- Replace approximate timeout assertions and floating-point property-test fixtures with exact comparisons.
- Document the exactness contract, its rationale, and the intentionally limited use of floats.

Documentation:
- Document exact timeout-tier comparisons, their numeric boundaries, and the handling of finite workflow inputs.

Tests:
- Add regression coverage that exercises all timeout compositions and each exactness-critical term at magnitudes where floats collapse distinct budgets.
- Verify configured workflow values arrive as exact fractions and remove pytest.approx from timeout-related tests.
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