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RT-305: shard the unit suite, run only changed tests on PRs - #475

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checks.yml was one macOS job whose serial unit suite took 6 to 9 min of every PR, even ones that touched only docs or Swift. this splits it into an ubuntu scope job, an ubuntu static job, three macOS unit shards and a checks aggregator, and runs only the tests a PR can affect.

what changed

  • scripts/ci/test-scope.ts decides the shards' mode from the PR diff (git diff --no-renames HEAD^1 HEAD on the merge ref): not a PR is full; an empty diff, or only docs and Swift that no unit test names by path or basename, is skip; anything --changed cannot see (a non-TypeScript file, a fixture, the preload or its imports, scripts/ci/) is full; TypeScript the import graph can see is changed. the directory list comes from package.json's test script. 24 tests pin the rules.
  • alwaysRun() resolves lib/__tests__/no-*.test.ts plus the four other source-scanner tests; shard 1 runs them as a second bun test call in changed mode, since --changed never selects a test that reads source as text.
  • test-timings.json at the root balances the shards (677 files, bun's own format); bun run test:timings regenerates it by delegating to the test script.
  • checks.yml: scope and static on ubuntu (lockfile sync, tsc, actionlint 1.7.12, ui:test, docs:check, picker:check), unit as a 3-way matrix on macOS with --shard=i/3 --timings=test-timings.json and --changed=HEAD^1 in changed mode, and checks under if: always() that passes only when scope and static succeeded and unit succeeded or was skipped with mode == skip. the required check keeps its name; branch protection is untouched.
  • AGENTS.md's "bun run test is one of three suites" footgun describes the shards, the scope rules, the always-run guards and the timings refresh rule.

verification

--changed and --shard combine: on a one-file diff the three shards ran 6, 5 and 5 files (63, 106, 86 tests) against 16 files (255 tests) unsharded, all exit 0. full-suite shard balance on the committed timings, run serially on one Mac: 181s, 163s, 165s. serial suite green: 10172 pass, 3 skip, 677 files.

what changed mode cannot see (a test that spawns cli.ts) still runs on every main push, which always runs full.

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  • CI Improvements
    • Unit tests now run across three macOS shards, with test scope selected based on the changes in a pull request.
    • Documentation-only and eligible Swift-only changes can skip unit tests; other changes run relevant tests or the full suite.
    • Static checks run on Ubuntu, and a required final check verifies that the applicable checks pass.
  • Documentation
    • Updated testing guidance to explain test selection, CI checks, and how to refresh test timings.
  • Developer Tools
    • Added a command to refresh unit-test timing data.

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The CI workflow now selects unit-test scope for pull requests, runs unit tests in three macOS shards, and runs static checks on Ubuntu. A required aggregator validates the scope and static results, and accepts skipped unit tests only when the selected scope is skip.

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CI test pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select and validate test scope
.github/workflows/checks.yml, scripts/ci/test-scope.ts, scripts/ci/__tests__/test-scope.test.ts, AGENTS.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
The scope script derives unit-test directories from package.json, scans test and preload imports, and classifies changes as full, changed, or skip. Tests and guidance cover the scope rules and their limits.
Run selected tests in timed shards
.github/workflows/checks.yml, package.json, test-timings.json, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
The unit job runs selected tests in three macOS shards. Changed mode adds --changed=HEAD^1 and runs the always-run guards on shard 1. The timing manifest and test:timings script support shard timing.
Run static checks and aggregate results
.github/workflows/checks.yml, docs/superpowers/plans/*, docs/superpowers/specs/*
Static checks run on Ubuntu. The required checks job validates scope and static results, and accepts a skipped unit job only when scope mode is skip. Workflow lint downloads actionlint version 1.7.12.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Scope as Scope job
  participant Static as Static job
  participant Unit as Unit shards
  participant Checks as Checks aggregator
  Scope->>Unit: mode and test directories
  Scope->>Checks: scope result and mode
  Static->>Checks: static result
  Unit->>Checks: unit result
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A pull request can pass the required checks without a scanner guard that CI is meant to run. Validate guard paths before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 76841

The new gate handles failed jobs conservatively, but its test coverage now depends on files in the pull-request checkout. A change to that configuration could leave tests out while the required check passes. The risk is limited to this CI gate; no production privilege change was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The required gate now takes its unit-test directories from the PR checkout's package test command. A nonempty command that drops a directory can pass full-mode shards without running that directory's tests.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified exposure is loss of unit-test coverage in the required PR gate, potentially including tests in omitted directories. The evidence does not establish a production data-store, tenant, credential, or runtime-service exposure from this change.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A PR author able to change the package test command could retain some valid directories while removing others. The scope job would publish that list, full-mode shards would run it, and the required check could accept their success. Static checks still run; no specific omitted security test or successful exploit was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The scope decision crosses from PR-checkout code and configuration into a required-check verdict. Failure-status checks and conservative classification limit accidental omissions, but do not establish the integrity or completeness of the directory list. The prior workflow was also PR-editable, which limits claims of a wholly new attacker capability.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The aggregator explicitly rejects unsuccessful scope or static jobs and unit results other than success or an authorized skip; a successful but incomplete test run is the distinct coverage risk.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate the published unit directories against a trusted required set, or keep the required set independent of PR-controlled package scripts, so full mode cannot silently narrow the gate.
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ci measurements (Checks workflow only)

run mode wall (scope start to checks end) shards notes
rt#475 first run (this PR) full 3m56s 170s / 91s / 184s test time; 3m12s / 1m51s / 3m31s job wall every static step green on ubuntu (1m44s); no static-macos needed
rt#476 typescript-only probe (lib/worktree/hydrate.ts newline) changed 2m07s 37s / 35s / 39s shard 1 ran the 10 always-run guards in 3.3s; critical path was static (1m59s)
rt#477 swift-only probe (ApplyEvents.swift comment) skip 1m40s unit skipped checks passed through the aggregator

targets: full run about 3 min (3m56s, missed), typescript-only under 2 min (2m07s, missed by 7s), tray-only skips unit (met). both misses sit in job setup, not tests: static is bun install + setup-go + ui:test + tsc on ubuntu (1m44s to 1m59s) and each macOS shard pays brew install + bun install (about 1 min) before its 35s of tests. caching those is out of scope here (spec section "not in scope").

--changed and --shard combine (16 files unsharded = 6 + 5 + 5 sharded, all exit 0). branch protection still requires checks, e2e, purity; the aggregator is the checks job.

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const globbed = readdirSync(dir)
.filter((f) => /^no-.*\.test\.ts$/.test(f))
.map((f) => `lib/__tests__/${f}`);
return [...new Set([...globbed, ...SCANNER_GUARDS])].sort();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail scope selection when a fixed scanner guard is missing.

If a PR deletes or renames a path in SCANNER_GUARDS, alwaysRun() still emits the old path. In changed mode, the separate bun test $ALWAYS call can run the remaining guards and pass without running the missing guard. The existence assertion in scripts/ci/__tests__/test-scope.test.ts does not reliably catch this on that PR because the scope tests are excluded from changed-test selection. Check every emitted guard path before writing the scope outputs.

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In `@scripts/ci/test-scope.ts` at line 45, Validate every path in SCANNER_GUARDS
within always() before returning the combined scope, and fail if any guard path
is missing so stale guards cannot be emitted to CI scope outputs.

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