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Summary

Pull CI and the merge queue now skip any check the change cannot affect. Apart from the Kind smoke, both ran every check on every change, so a console or documentation change paid for the Rust format, clippy, isolated-crate, Windows and test jobs. Three of those jobs run on 16-core runners.

Effect. A one-line console change on this head (CI run 41949294373) skipped all 11 code jobs:

	Pull requests without Kind smoke (median, last 29 runs)	Console-only change with this PR
Required space-pull-ci check	6.0 min	2.0 min
Rust tests job (16-core)	5.5 min	8 s, skipped
Rust clippy / isolated crates (16-core)	4.1 / 4.3 min	8 s / 9 s, skipped
Python tests / Shell tests	4.1 / 4.1 min	9 s / 11 s, skipped

Replaying main's 456 first-parent commits from 2026-10-21 through the scopes below, 32 (7%) skip the Rust checks, 22 (5%) the Python tests, 24 (5%) the shell tests, 32 (7%) the migration guards and 318 (70%) the Go shim. Most commits that touch no Rust still change infra/, scripts/, db/, Tiltfile or templates/, which the Rust checks read.

How it works.

• The decision is made inside each check. Right after its checkout, each check job runs ci/scripts/check-needed.sh. If the change touches nothing the check reads, the job's remaining steps are skipped and it passes. The step log, and a notice on the run, say why. The required gates need no change. A separate selection job would have delayed every check's start by about 10 s at the median and 75 s at the 90th percentile, which is how long Select Kind smoke takes to finish today.
• Scopes. ci/check-scopes/ holds one scope per kind of check:
  • A .skip scope lists the paths a check never reads. A path missing from it runs the check, so an omission costs time, never coverage.
  • The Go shim's .run scope lists the only paths it reads.
  • run-all.txt names paths that run every check: .github/, ci/ and the CI image's other inputs (rust-toolchain.toml, docker/build-btrfs-progs.sh). Anything the script cannot decide also runs the check: a missing base, an empty change, an unreadable diff. An empty or missing scope list fails the check instead of skipping it, and the decision step passes on only needed=true or needed=false.
• What counts as the change. For Pull CI, the synthetic merge against its first parent, after checking that its second parent is the pull request's head. That is the base the Kind selector, the migration guards, archcheck and the reuse record use. For the merge queue, the entry's group against its base_sha, which is the group of the entry ahead of it, so a check skips when this entry's own change touches none of its inputs.
• Main CI is unchanged. It passes no base, so it runs every check after the merge, except archcheck, which already ran only for pull requests and merge groups.

Scopes, from what each check reads:

Scope	Checks	Skips when the change touches only
rust	Rust format, clippy, isolated crates, Windows guest, Rust tests, dependency checks, gateway traffic	ui/, docs/, .agents/, space_smoke/, the top-level instruction and README files, and shim/ except shim/testdata/ and shim/env_contract_generated.go
python	Python tests	ui/, except Python files there
shell	Shell tests	ui/, docs/, .agents/
migrations	Migration guards	ui/, docs/, .agents/, space_smoke/, shim/
go (.run)	Go shim	runs only for shim/, proto/, go.work and go.work.sum
always	SPACE Guide, Documentation site	never skip

The evidence behind each list:

• Rust reads several non-Rust trees.

  • crates/libs/common/core/build.rs reads infra/space/identity/, and node-mgr's firewall tests read docker/space/nftables/.
  • Rust format's run_fmt_check compares shim/env_contract_generated.go with the Rust generator, so that file stays in the Rust scope.
  • Templates are compiled in from templates/, and migrations from db/.
  • Crates' tests include shim/testdata/*.json.

  So none of these skip the Rust checks.

• The Python tests read almost everything. pytest discovers every test_*.py in the repository, docs/site/test_build.py included, and the source guards read crates/ and docs/configuration.md. So they skip only for ui/, which nothing but docker/Dockerfile.ui reads.

Validation

• ci/scripts/test-check-needed.sh has 42 cases against the real scope files and runs with the shell tests. They cover:

  • console and documentation changes, and Python files under ui/;
  • the shim's fixtures and environment contract, and go.work;
  • infra/, db/ and scripts/, which Rust reads;
  • a path no scope lists, a rename out of shim/, file names git would quote or that hold a space;
  • CI changes and the CI image's inputs;
  • a tree-to-tree change of two commits, an empty change, and a missing base;
  • deciding against the synthetic merge's first parent rather than a stale event base, and a merge of another head;
  • an unknown scope, a scope without patterns and a missing run-all.txt, which all fail.

  Removing the environment contract's re-include, .github/** from run-all.txt, or the first-parent base each fails a case.

• A console comment on this head skipped the 11 code jobs in CI run 41949294373, and space-pull-ci passed 2.0 min after the run started.

• This PR changes .github/ and ci/, so its own run executes every check.

• shellcheck and actionlint are clean. actionlint's only findings are the custom 16-core runner label and one concurrency key in main-ci.yml, neither of them touched here.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup.

Risk:

• A wrong .skip entry. If an entry names a path a check really reads, a pull request changing only that path skips the check, and Main CI catches the failure after the merge, except for archcheck, which Main CI does not run. Each entry cites what reads, or does not read, the path, and ci/check-scopes/README.md asks the same of new entries, archcheck included.
• The merge queue's grouping. Each entry decides on its own change, which is safe while the queue requires every entry's group to pass, as it does today. Requiring only the head of a group to pass would let an entry ahead merge on a group whose checks skipped.
• Skipped checks still start a runner. A skipped check spends about 10 s on it, including the 16-core ones.
• Rollback. Revert this PR. Clearing scope_base in pull-ci.yml and merge-queue-ci.yml also runs every check again.

Not covered

• A console change runs no check of the console at all, today or with this PR. A console lint, type check and build belong in their own job, scoped to ui/.
• The Documentation site job (2.6 min, 16-core) is now the slowest check for a console-only change. It always runs here.

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Walkthrough

The change adds path-based check selection to the reusable CI workflows. Scope patterns identify checks that can run or skip for a change, and check-needed.sh compares those patterns with changes from the supplied base commit. Pull CI and merge-queue CI pass their base SHAs to the workflows. The workflows gate check and related steps on the selector result. Main CI continues to run all checks when no scope base is supplied.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1360: Both changes affect when the Rust static workflow runs archcheck.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1313: Both changes affect when the Windows guest validation job runs.

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 2aecb

Pre-merge checks now skip changes outside their configured scopes. An incorrect scope could defer detection of a failure until Main CI, so the scopes warrant review before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2aecb

Conservative selection defaults and unchanged required gates limit the risk. The main remaining dependency is the accuracy of the shared scope rules: an incorrect exclusion could allow a relevant check to pass without running.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The directly affected boundary is repository-wide pre-merge validation. A wrong shared scope decision could propagate to both Pull CI and cumulative merge-group validation; the inspected evidence does not establish a direct production privilege or tenant-data exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Pull CI supplies the event's PR base SHA, and merge queue supplies the merge-group base SHA. These identities enter the selector through environment variables and quoted arguments rather than interpolated shell commands.
• observed — Attacker-controlled changed filenames are matched as data and printed to stderr. Only the selector's fixed boolean answer is appended to GITHUB_OUTPUT, so filenames do not directly supply the needed output value.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Unavailable bases, diff failures and empty change sets select execution. Unknown scopes terminate with an error rather than a skip decision. The normal aggregate gates require successful reusable workflows, preventing a failed selector from becoming a successful validation result.

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Description Follows The Pr Template		The available PR description is explicitly truncated after the Validation section. The visible text contains real Summary and Validation content, but the omitted text may contain the required “## Seve…	Provide the complete PR description, including all text after the truncated Validation section, so the required Severity and risk and AI assistance items can be checked.
Public-Safe Content		The changed diff and title show no credentials, private links, internal hostnames, personal workstation paths, or production data. The PR description is explicitly truncated, and this check must asses…	Provide the complete PR description or confirm its omitted portion contains none of the prohibited content, then rerun this check.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title uses the prefix "ci:" followed by a lowercase summary that starts with "skip", so it matches the required area-prefix format. It describes the main change: per-check scopes let pull-request …
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		PASS: This pull request changes only CI workflows, scope files, documentation, and CI scripts. It does not fix application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/, so the regression-test requirement doe…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff does not remove test, lint, guard, or CI steps. It adds conditional scope gates while preserving the existing workflow step names. The description and adjacent comments give a specific reason…

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Explanation

The title uses the prefix "ci:" followed by a lowercase summary that starts with "skip", so it matches the required area-prefix format. It describes the main change: per-check scopes let pull-request CI skip checks that a change cannot affect. No trailing period, ticket ID, or internal link appears.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

PASS: This pull request changes only CI workflows, scope files, documentation, and CI scripts. It does not fix application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/, so the regression-test requirement does not apply.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

The diff does not remove test, lint, guard, or CI steps. It adds conditional scope gates while preserving the existing workflow step names. The description and adjacent comments give a specific reason: skip checks when changed paths cannot affect their inputs. Main CI passes no base and runs every check. ci/scripts/check-needed.sh also runs checks for missing bases, empty changes, unreadable diffs, and CI-path changes.

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- Line 57: Update the changed-path selection in check-needed so the git diff
invocation disables rename detection and reports both the deleted source path
and added destination path for cross-scope renames. Add a cross-scope rename
case to the selector regression test and verify the check associated with the
source path remains selected.
- Line 57: Update the changed-path collection and selector in the check-needed
script to use NUL-delimited output from `git diff --name-only` and match decoded
paths, so filenames containing non-ASCII characters are selected correctly. Add
a selector regression test for a quoted filename such as `shim/café.go` and
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Minor · Keep Python files under ui/ in the Python scope. · python.skip:1-6

ci/check-scopes/python.skip:1-6
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep Python files under ui/ in the Python scope.

ui/* skips every path under ui/. pytest collects *_test.py files as well as test_*.py files. It also loads ui/conftest.py when it collects ui/. A change to ui/src/widget_test.py or ui/conftest.py therefore skips the Python check. Those tests run only after merge, on main.

The earlier !ui/test_*.py exception does not fix this. It misses ui/src/... paths, *_test.py files, and conftest.py.

Add !ui/*.py after ui/*. The matcher uses the last matching pattern, so the exception must come later in the file:

Suggested fix

 # The Next.js console, built only by docker/Dockerfile.ui.
 ui/*
+!ui/*.py

Console files such as .tsx and .css still match ui/*, so the Python check stays skipped for them.

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Review comment at @ci/check-scopes/python.skip around lines 1 - 6:
The `ui/*` exclusion also skips Python files from the Python check. In the scope
patterns, add a later exception for top-level Python files under `ui/`, so they
remain in scope while console assets such as `.tsx` and `.css` stay excluded.

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- Around line 1-6: The `ui/*` exclusion also skips Python files from the Python
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding for ci/check-scopes/python.skip: valid. pytest would collect a *_test.py or conftest.py under ui/. Fixed in 2aecbcd as suggested: !ui/*.py follows ui/*, so any Python file under ui/ runs the Python tests, and the selector test covers ui/src/widget_test.py and ui/conftest.py. There is no Python under ui/ today.

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@zibi-pplx Confirmed by inspection: !ui/*.py follows ui/*, and the selector tests cover both ui/src/widget_test.py and ui/conftest.py. This addresses the finding. I did not run the tests.

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URL: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE/pull/1434

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Pull CI and the merge queue ran every required check on every change, so a console or documentation change still paid for the Rust, Windows, Python and shell jobs, several on 16-core runners. This PR lets each check job decide, right after its checkout, whether the change touches anything the check reads; if not, its remaining steps skip and the job passes, so space-pull-ci needs no change. Main CI passes no base and still runs everything.

PR changes only ui/src/app/page.tsx
  Rust tests job: check-needed.sh rust <base> -> changed paths [ui/src/app/page.tsx]
    ui/* is in rust.skip -> needed=false -> later steps skip -> job passes in ~10 s
  Documentation site: scope always -> runs
  space-pull-ci: 2.8 min on the trial run (6.0 min median for recent runs without Kind)
PR changes ui/... and crates/... -> crates/ is not in rust.skip -> needed=true -> full run

I checked the selector's fallbacks, the rewritten step conditions, Main CI, the reuse records and the cancelled-run fallback. Every error path in the selector runs the check, every rewritten if: keeps its old result when the check is needed, and Main CI runs everything. Reuse stays sound because a Pull CI record names exactly the trees its run decided on (but see item 3). The rest is one scope entry that skips a check that reads it, a wrong claim about what a merge group's diff holds, and a base choice that differs from the sibling selectors'.

Approved; 6 threads to resolve before merge.

Before merge (inline threads)

1. Rust format still reads shim/env_contract_generated.go
2. A merge group's diff holds only its own entry, not the entries ahead
3. Pull CI decides against the event's base, not the commit the run tests
4. go.run and always.txt miss inputs the Go job reads
5. Two selector cases cannot fail
6. The docs promise more than the scope files and Main CI do

Follow-ups

• Fail closed on an empty scope. A comment-only go.run answers needed=false for every change (I ran it), and a missing always.txt drops the CI rule silently, because mapfile < <(...) hides the read failure (ci/scripts/check-needed.sh:99,107); kind-pull-needed.sh refuses an empty list. The gates also test needed == 'true', so a decision step that exits 0 without printing would skip every step, on Main CI too. A case in the decision step that accepts only needed=true or needed=false closes that.
• One glob dialect for the path lists in ci/. In the scope files * crosses /; in ci/kind-pull-paths.txt it stays within a directory. A pattern copied from the Kind list into a .skip file matches more than intended. At least cross-reference the two, and write directory entries as dir/**, which means the same in both.
• In the README, say how to wire a new check: a matrix scope: or a decision step with id scope, and the gate on every later step, inside any existing always(), failure() or !cancelled(). The YAML-anchored steps now need a step with id scope. The always scope and always.txt mean different things; renaming one would help.

Nits

• The commit message and PR body: "67 (17%) touched neither Rust nor CI". Replaying main's first-parent commits from 2026-10-21 to the merge base through rust.skip, 32 of 446 skip the Rust checks (about 7%). Most of the rest touch infra/, scripts/, db/, Tiltfile or templates/, which the Rust scope rightly keeps. The squash message keeps the commit text, so state the replayed share.
• "skipped the 14 code checks in CI run 41882458595": that run skipped 11 jobs, ran at an earlier head (before the rename, quoting and !ui/*.py fixes), and the run ID is not a link.

[zibi-pplx]

Thanks. All six threads are fixed in 81e9d9d, with a reply on each. The follow-ups and nits went in as well:

• Fail closed: a scope file without patterns, or a missing run-all.txt, now exits 2 and fails the check. Both lists are read before anything is decided, without mapfile < <(...). The decision step passes on only needed=true or needed=false and fails on anything else, on Main CI too. Tests cover a comment-only scope and a missing run-all.txt.
• One glob dialect: directory entries are dir/** throughout, and the README cross-references ci/kind-pull-paths.txt, where * stays within a directory.
• Wiring a new check: the README now has a section on it: a matrix scope: or a step with id: scope, the gate on every later step inside any existing always(), failure() or !cancelled(), and the anchored steps' dependency on that step. always.txt is renamed run-all.txt, so it no longer reads like the always scope.
• Nits: the commit message and PR body now give the replayed shares: 32 of 456 first-parent commits (7%) skip the Rust checks, 22 the Python tests, 24 the shell tests, 32 the migration guards and 318 the Go shim. They also cite a trial run on this head (41949294373), which skipped 11 jobs and passed space-pull-ci in 2.0 min.