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ci: lint alone only the crates a change can affect - #1476
Two lint steps check crates in a Cargo graph of their own, whatever the change. In Pull CI and the merge queue they now check only the crates the change can affect:
Rust isolated crates lints about 85 libraries one at a time, in four configurations each, so that a crate that relies on a dependency feature only workspace unification enables fails. It took 5.3 min on a 16-core runner, the slowest job of a pull request without Kind smoke.
Rust clippy runs sbx-mgr's production configurations three times, about 77 s of its run.
Effect:
Before
With this PR
Rust isolated crates, a change to one listed crate (CI run)
5.3 min
53 s, linting 1 crate
Isolated crates linted, replaying main's last 60 first-parent commits
85 each
median 1, mean 32.8; none for 28, every crate for 23
sbx-mgr production clippy (about 77 s), same replay
60 of 60
32 of 60
The required check of a pull request without Kind smoke waits on its slowest jobs, which are within about 1.5 min of each other: isolated crates, clippy, Rust tests and the Shell and Python tests. This PR removes the slowest of them. The Shell and Python tests' own changes are separate PRs.
Which crates a change affects:
crates whose own directory changed;
crates whose source includes a changed file from another crate's directory. The scan covers include!, include_str! and include_bytes! of a literal path or of concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), …), and #[path = "…"]. One crate does this today: build-mgr's runtime_systemd example. An include of a path the scan cannot resolve lints every crate; concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), …) reads the crate's own build output and is skipped;
every workspace crate that depends on one of those, through any kind of dependency.
When every crate is checked. The change touches a path outside all crates that such a lint may read: Cargo.lock, the root manifest, the toolchain, proto/, db/, templates/, the lint's own scripts and CI image, or any path not named as unread. Unread paths are ci/check-scopes/rust.skip plus archcheck's files, nextest's configuration, and the workflows and CI scripts other than the lint's own (rust-static-ci.yml, run-rust-checks.sh, rust-isolated-crates.sh, ci/Dockerfile.ci). Main CI passes no base and checks every crate.
Which base. The one ci/scripts/check-needed.sh decided against: for Pull CI, the synthetic merge's first parent; for the merge queue, the group's base_sha. The script now prints it after its answer, and the decision step accepts that line.
Stack
#1503: unblock the dependency checks; keep GitHub outages from failing PRs.
#1473: run the shell regression tests in parallel.
This PR: lint alone only the crates a change can affect.
Validation
ci/scripts/test-rust-isolated-crates.sh (new) builds a five-crate workspace with a chain of dependents and cross-crate includes by literal path and through CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR. It checks:
a crate and its dependents, transitively;
included files of both forms, and a computed include, which checks every crate;
paths no lint reads;
Cargo.lock, proto/, the lint's own script and an unknown path, which check everything;
lint_affects_any with and without a base.
Making the walk one level deep, or removing the include rules, fails it.
ci/scripts/test-check-needed.sh covers the new base= line: it names the base when there is a change, the synthetic merge's first parent for a pull request, and nothing for an empty change.
The CI run above, of a one-crate change on this head, linted exactly that crate in its four configurations. It still ran the sbx-mgr clippy, which is correct, because that crate is one of sbx-mgr's dependencies.
shellcheck and actionlint are clean. run-rust-checks.sh keeps the same 7 shellcheck findings as on main.
Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup.
Risk:
A missed dependency. If a crate reads another crate's file through a build script rather than an include, the change set misses it. Main CI checks every crate after the merge.
Caches.run-rust-checks.sh is part of the Rust compiler and target caches' keys, so the first runs after merge build those caches cold once.
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Walkthrough
check-needed.sh now reports the resolved comparison base when available. CI scope steps accept the optional base output. The Rust workflow passes the base to lint checks, which select affected crates and related workspace dependents. The sbx-mgr production checks run only when a listed crate is affected. Tests cover the output contract, crate selection, and fallback behavior.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1434: Introduced the scope_base and check-needed.sh decision contract that this change extends with a base= output.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 2de23
Rust CI now skips checks for crates it considers unaffected. The selection is tested, but the reduced pre-merge coverage warrants explicit acceptance before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2de23
The change narrows validation coverage rather than expanding production privileges or access. Comparison-base validation and conservative error handling limit the risk of accidentally skipping checks. No concrete security bypass was established, but selection remains dependent on accurately modeling the files each crate reads.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The supported security-relevant blast radius is pre-merge validation coverage across listed isolated crates and the five sbx-mgr production-check packages. The changed authority is which checks run, rather than application identity or data access.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — PR-controlled changed paths influence selection through a subprocess argument list, not shell interpolation. The workflow validates the scope-output format before forwarding the comparison base, and the selector requests a NUL-delimited Git diff with rename detection disabled.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Failed diff or selection operations do not become successful empty selections: explicit fallback paths retain every listed crate. The sbx-mgr predicate also treats metadata-generation failure as affected, while the isolated consumer restores its original list after selection failure.
inferred — Selection correctness still depends on maintaining the input model. The scanner recognizes specific Rust include forms, but does not establish arbitrary cross-crate file reads by build scripts. This is a coverage limitation, not an established exploitable omission.
Pre-merge checks: 5
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The title starts with the lowercase area "ci:", uses a lowercase summary, and accurately describes selecting only affected crates for linting. It has no trailing period, ticket ID, or internal link.
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The diff narrows two existing CI checks, which the custom check covers. The Rust isolated-crate lint now checks only crates the change can affect, and the sbx-mgr production clippy now runs only when …
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The diff narrows two existing CI checks, which the custom check covers. The Rust isolated-crate lint now checks only crates the change can affect, and the sbx-mgr production clippy now runs only when lint_affects_any reports an affected crate (ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh). The PR description gives a specific reason for both: a 5.3 min to 53 s speedup on a one-crate change, and the slowest-job rationale for the required check. It also states the risk (dependencies read through build scripts may be missed; main CI checks every crate after merge) and the rollback path. Diff evidence: rust-static-ci.yml and run-rust-checks.sh show removals, but these are the decision-regex change and the refactor of the sbx-mgr crate list into SBXMGR_PRODUCTION_CRATES, which keeps the same five packages. rust-isolated-crates.sh is add-only (+204/-0), and test-check-needed.sh is add-only (+22/-0). No test, assertion, #[allow], skip/xfail, allowlist, continue-on-error, or lint-level change appears in the diff. The new test script adds coverage. The narrowing is therefore justified in the description.
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Review comments at @ci/scripts/lib/rust-isolated-crates.sh:
- Around line 302-306: Update lint_affects_any so failures from cargo metadata
or affected_lint_crates return success, causing run_clippy_checks to run the
production checks instead of skipping them; preserve the existing affected-crate
result behavior when both commands succeed.
Review comments at @ci/scripts/test-check-needed.sh:
- Line 34: Update the valid-base selector-output captures in the test script to
drain all output while retaining only the first line, avoiding early pipe
closure under pipefail. Apply this only to the six valid-base paths; leave
no-base and early-fallback paths using their existing behavior.
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ci/scripts/test-rust-isolated-crates.sh: the new test can't tell transitive dependents from direct ones.
The fixture's only dependency edge is b on a, so every case passes whether the walk at ci/scripts/lib/rust-isolated-crates.sh:281 follows dependents transitively or stops after one level. I replaced the pending loop with a one-level union (affected |= dependents[direct] for each directly affected crate), and the test still printed "all cases pass". The transitive walk is the property that matters most here: a change to a foundation crate has to reach the crates several layers above it. A third crate, e depending on b, plus an "a b e" case for a change to a, would pin it.
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ci/scripts/lib/rust-isolated-crates.sh:231: unread_by_lint treats everything under .github/ as unread, but .github/workflows/rust-static-ci.yml sets the lint's environment: the matrix command, the docker run --env list and the new SPACE_RUST_LINT_BASE wiring. A change to only that file runs the job (run-all.txt) and then lints no crate alone. Main CI would still catch it after merge. Listing that one workflow in LINT_INPUTS_IN_CI would match how the lint's own script and image are already treated.
ci/scripts/lib/rust-isolated-crates.sh:261: the include rule matches only a literal first argument to include_str!/include_bytes!. It doesn't see include_str!(concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/../…")), which the tree uses about a dozen times, or include! and #[path = "…"]. This is latent today. I checked every concat! include, #[path] and build-script path in crates/: each reads proto/ or db/, which already lints every crate, or stays inside its own crate. A future cross-crate one of those forms would go undetected without failing anything. Treating concat!, include! and #[path] forms that leave the crate as "lint every crate" would close it cheaply.
ci/scripts/check-needed.sh:114: decided_base is set before the empty-change check, so an empty change answers needed=true and also prints base=. affected_lint_crates then finds nothing changed, so no crate is linted alone and the sbx-mgr production clippy is skipped. The tree then equals a base that Main CI has already linted, so the cost is small, but it contradicts the script's own rule that an undecidable case "costs time, never coverage". Setting decided_base after the empty check keeps that rule.
ci/scripts/test-check-needed.sh:151-152: the new comment says the printed base "is its synthetic merge's first parent", but the case passes no PULL_REQUEST_HEAD, so it only checks that base= echoes BASE. Either pass the PR head as the synthetic-merge case above it does, or narrow the comment. Related: the crate list given to lint_affects_any in run-rust-checks.sh copies the -p list in run_sbxmgr_production_checks by hand. The two match today, and one shared array would keep them in step.
Verified against f25dd32abfef0fb9f6228a1fd488d51f07b0fb01. Reproduced locally:
test-rust-isolated-crates.sh and test-check-needed.sh both pass.
The mutation in finding 1.
The new decision-step regex on the possible outputs: it accepts needed=true, needed=false and needed=…\nbase=<40 hex>, and rejects a short sha, an unknown answer and a trailing extra line.
The five crate names passed to lint_affects_any all exist in the workspace.
By reading: the scope step and the lint run are in the same validation matrix job, and Main CI passes no base, so it still lints every crate.
Transitive dependents. The fixture adds e, which depends on b. A change to a now expects a b e, and your one-level mutation fails it.
The workflow..github/workflows/rust-static-ci.yml is in LINT_INPUTS_IN_CI, so a change to it lints every crate. A test case covers it.
Other include forms. The scan now resolves:
include!, include_str! and include_bytes! of a literal, multi-line ones included;
concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "…"), relative to the crate;
#[path = "…"], relative to the source file.
concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), …) reads the crate's own build output, so the scan skips it. Any other computed include lints every crate. Today the workspace has 117 literal includes and paths, 9 manifest-relative ones, and none the scan cannot resolve. New cases cover the manifest-relative and computed forms, and removing the manifest-relative rule fails one.
Empty change.check-needed.sh names a base only once there is a change, so an empty change prints needed=true and no base=. A test case covers it.
The test comment. The base= case no longer claims more than it checks. The synthetic-merge case now asserts that the base line names the merge's first parent. run-rust-checks.sh keeps the sbx-mgr crates in one array, SBXMGR_PRODUCTION_CRATES, used by both the clippy run and lint_affects_any.
Two lint steps build crates in a Cargo graph of their own, whatever the
change. Rust isolated crates lints about 85 libraries one at a time, in
four configurations each, and took 5.3 min on a 16-core runner, the
slowest job of a pull request without Kind smoke. Rust clippy runs
sbx-mgr's production configurations three times, about 77 s of its run.
In Pull CI and the merge queue both now check only the crates the change
can affect: those whose own directory changed, those that include a
changed file from another crate's directory, and every workspace crate
that depends on either, through any kind of dependency. A path outside
every crate that such a lint may read (Cargo.lock, the root manifest,
the toolchain, proto/, db/, templates/, the lint's own scripts and
image, or anything not named as unread) checks every crate. Main CI
passes no base and checks all of them.
The base is the one ci/scripts/check-needed.sh decided against, which it
now prints after its answer; the decision step accepts that line.
Replaying main's last 60 first-parent commits, each with its own
workspace, isolated crates would lint a median of 1 crate (mean 32.8 of
85): none for 28 commits, every crate for 23. On a change to one listed
crate the job took 59 s.
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Summary
Two lint steps check crates in a Cargo graph of their own, whatever the change. In Pull CI and the merge queue they now check only the crates the change can affect:
Effect:
The required check of a pull request without Kind smoke waits on its slowest jobs, which are within about 1.5 min of each other: isolated crates, clippy, Rust tests and the Shell and Python tests. This PR removes the slowest of them. The Shell and Python tests' own changes are separate PRs.
Which crates a change affects:
include!,include_str!andinclude_bytes!of a literal path or ofconcat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), …), and#[path = "…"]. One crate does this today: build-mgr'sruntime_systemdexample. An include of a path the scan cannot resolve lints every crate;concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), …)reads the crate's own build output and is skipped;When every crate is checked. The change touches a path outside all crates that such a lint may read:
Cargo.lock, the root manifest, the toolchain,proto/,db/,templates/, the lint's own scripts and CI image, or any path not named as unread. Unread paths areci/check-scopes/rust.skipplus archcheck's files, nextest's configuration, and the workflows and CI scripts other than the lint's own (rust-static-ci.yml,run-rust-checks.sh,rust-isolated-crates.sh,ci/Dockerfile.ci). Main CI passes no base and checks every crate.Which base. The one
ci/scripts/check-needed.shdecided against: for Pull CI, the synthetic merge's first parent; for the merge queue, the group'sbase_sha. The script now prints it after its answer, and the decision step accepts that line.Stack
Validation
ci/scripts/test-rust-isolated-crates.sh(new) builds a five-crate workspace with a chain of dependents and cross-crate includes by literal path and throughCARGO_MANIFEST_DIR. It checks:Cargo.lock,proto/, the lint's own script and an unknown path, which check everything;lint_affects_anywith and without a base.Making the walk one level deep, or removing the include rules, fails it.
ci/scripts/test-check-needed.shcovers the newbase=line: it names the base when there is a change, the synthetic merge's first parent for a pull request, and nothing for an empty change.The CI run above, of a one-crate change on this head, linted exactly that crate in its four configurations. It still ran the sbx-mgr clippy, which is correct, because that crate is one of sbx-mgr's dependencies.
shellcheck and actionlint are clean.
run-rust-checks.shkeeps the same 7 shellcheck findings as on main.Severity and risk
Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup.
Risk:
run-rust-checks.shis part of the Rust compiler and target caches' keys, so the first runs after merge build those caches cold once.AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the change, its tests and this description.
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