ci(core): move all workflows to ubuntu-latest (LAB-3501) - #76
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Move every job in cachekit-core off the self-hosted ARC pool
(cachekit/cachekit-lean) to GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest — LAB-1161 stage 1
(option a+c). cachekit-core is public/forkable and its workflows ran on the
privileged homelab ARC pool; ADR-0002 §5 always said PR lanes should be hosted,
and the workflows had drifted. Slower-but-isolated hosted CI is the accepted
trade (Ray's a+c+b ruling, 2026-09-13). The server-side fork control (runner
group cachekit-private) is LAB-1161 stage 2, staged behind this.
- ci.yml: collapse the redundant matrix `runner:` key into `os:`; security job hosted
- codeql.yml, security.yml, release.yml (release-please), attestation-check: all jobs hosted
- security.yml deep-fuzz: timeout-minutes 540 -> 360; fuzz_seconds dispatch input
clamped (default 8h -> 5h, hard cap 18000s) so no job can exceed GitHub's 6h cap
- drop pod-specific CARGO_BUILD_JOBS OOM caps (a no-op on 4-core/16GB hosted runners)
- correct comments that claimed jobs run self-hosted or that ubuntu-latest was chosen
to avoid a per-job pool option that no longer exists repo-wide
Add a fail-closed drift guard (option a): runner-guard.yml runs
assert_hosted_runners.py on push + pull_request. It is an allow-list — any
runs-on that cannot be proven to resolve to a hosted label (a pool label, a
runner group, or an unresolvable ${{ }} expression) fails CI. This is drift
protection for maintainers, NOT a fork-PR control (a fork runs its own copy of
the workflow); the server-side control is stage 2.
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GitHubActions->>RunnerGuard: Trigger on push or pull request
RunnerGuard->>HostedRunner: Start hosted Ubuntu job
HostedRunner->>RunnerScanner: Run self-test and full scan
RunnerScanner->>WorkflowFiles: Read workflow files
WorkflowFiles-->>RunnerScanner: Return workflow text
RunnerScanner-->>HostedRunner: Return success or validation errors
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In @.github/scripts/assert_hosted_runners.py:
- Around line 111-113: Update find_violations to reject expression-valued runner
targets by default: only allow a complete scalar runs-on value of exactly ${{
matrix.os }} or ${{ matrix.runner }}. Remove the exemptions for os, runner,
block-sequence entries, and object-form runs-on.group, while preserving the
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The guard is an allow-list that must fail closed, but it had four places
where a shape it could not evaluate was *skipped* instead of rejected:
- `${{ }}` as an os:/runner: matrix value, as a block-list entry, or as
runs-on.group was ignored. With runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }} blessed, an
`os: ${{ vars.POOL }}` laundered a self-hosted pool through the one
indirection the scanner trusts (Kody critical, CodeRabbit major).
- A generated or flow-form matrix (`matrix: ${{ fromJSON(...) }}`,
`matrix: {os: [...]}`) hid the os: values that earn that blessing.
- Inside a runs-on:/os:/runner: block, any line that was not `- item` or
group:/labels: was silently skipped: prettier's own `[self-hosted, ...]`
continuation, a same-indent k8s-style list, a column-0 commented-out entry
ending the block early, a plain-scalar continuation.
- Flow mappings anywhere (`- { os: cachekit, rust: stable }` is the standard
Rust cross-compile include idiom), quoted keys, a space before the colon,
a YAML anchor before the brace, and remote reusable-workflow `uses:` were
invisible to the line-anchored regexes.
Now exactly one expression is blessed (the complete scalar
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os|runner }}, quotes optional); every other unknown
shape falls through to the allow-list check or is rejected as
unscannable. The top-level on: block is skipped whole so a
workflow_dispatch input named os/runner is not misread, and flow-mapping
detection is anchored to YAML value positions so JS object literals in
github-script steps and jq programs in run: are not mistaken for one.
Also from the review:
- The selftest used `assert`, which `python3 -O` strips: a sabotaged
_bad_label still printed "selftest OK". It is now a (input, expected)
table plus a loop; the sabotage now exits 1 under -O. 67 cases lock
every shape above, pass and fail.
- open() is wrapped so an unreadable workflow file emits a `::error file=`
annotation and fails the scan instead of a traceback.
- The annotation no longer calls a matrix a "runner target"; it names the
field and the rule that rejected it.
- print() is kept deliberately: stdout is the GitHub Actions
workflow-command protocol and a logging formatter would corrupt the
`::error` lines (Kody print-to-logging suggestion rejected on that basis).
Still a maintainer-drift control, not a fork-PR control; PyYAML is not
documented on the ubuntu-24.04 image so the stdlib-only design stands.
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In @.github/scripts/assert_hosted_runners.py:
- Line 84: Replace the broad HOSTED regex with a finite allow-list containing
the repository-supported labels ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, and windows-latest.
Ensure find_violations rejects custom or misspelled labels such as
ubuntu-private, windows-cachekit, and ubuntu-lates, and add negative tests
covering those cases.
- Around line 168-173: Update the uses-value validation in the YAML scanning
logic to reject scalar alias tokens before normal workflow-path checks,
including aliases such as *remote that resolve to remote reusable workflows. Add
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…s aliases (LAB-3516)
Replace the (ubuntu|macos|windows)-.* family regex with a finite HOSTED_LABELS
allow-list ({ubuntu,macos,windows}-latest): the family pattern accepted a custom
ubuntu-private label that GitHub Actions routes to a self-hosted runner,
laundering it through this hosted-only fail-closed guard. Version pins are now a
deliberate opt-in that must extend the set. Also reject YAML aliases (uses:
*remote) as an unverifiable form — an anchored remote reusable workflow would
otherwise run on our pool undetected. Selftest extended with the negative cases
(ubuntu-private, windows-cachekit, ubuntu-lates, pinned versions, uses alias).
CodeRabbit-Resolved: assert_hosted_runners.py:84:Use an explicit allow-list
CodeRabbit-Resolved: assert_hosted_runners.py:173:Reject unresolved aliases in uses
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… (LAB-3501) Comment- and string-only. The guard's docstring, selftest fixture names and workflow comments named org runner infrastructure and settings that do not belong in a public repository; the public reason is simply that a public, forkable repo runs only on GitHub-hosted runners. No behaviour change: selftest (71 cases, also under -O) and the workflow scan pass unchanged.
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Summary
This PR moves every CI/CD workflow in the repository to GitHub-hosted
ubuntu-latestrunners and adds an automated guard that keeps them there. The repo is public and forkable, so its workflows belong on GitHub-hosted runners.Changes
Workflow migration to
ubuntu-latestci.yml: Test matrix now usesruns-on: ${{ matrix.os }}(dropping the separaterunnerindirection), and thesecurityjob moves toubuntu-latest. TheCARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "4"cap (previously needed to avoid OOM-killing the linker on a memory-constrained runner) is removed.codeql.yml:analyzejob moved toubuntu-latest;CARGO_BUILD_JOBScap removed.release.yml:release-pleasejob moved toubuntu-latest. Comments updated to explain why a credentialed job must not share a writable build cache with other jobs.security.yml:fast-security,quick-fuzz,deep-fuzz,kani, andcargo-vetjobs all moved toubuntu-latest;CARGO_BUILD_JOBScap removed.attestation-check.yml: Comments updated to clarify why the job must stay GitHub-hosted (needsghand Sigstore egress).Deep-fuzz time limits adjusted for hosted constraints
timeout-minuteslowered from540to360to fit GitHub's 6h hosted job cap.fuzz_secondsreduced from28800(8h) to18000(5h), with the validation ceiling changed from32400to18000to keep dispatched jobs under the 6h limit.New drift-protection guard
.github/scripts/assert_hosted_runners.py: A dependency-free (stdlib-only) allow-list scanner that fails closed. Everyruns-on/ matrixos:/runner:value across all workflow files must be one of the allow-listed GitHub-hosted labels (ubuntu-latest,macos-latest,windows-latest); self-hosted labels, runner groups, unresolvable${{ }}expressions, generated or flow-form matrices, flow mappings and remote reusable workflows are all rejected. A table-driven--selftest(notassert-based, sopython3 -Ocannot silence it) locks every handled shape, pass and fail..github/workflows/runner-guard.yml: A new workflow that runs the self-test and then scans all workflows on every push/PR tomain, failing if any job could run on a non-hosted runner.HOSTED_LABELS.Misc
.gitignore: Ignores Python bytecode (__pycache__/,*.py[cod]) generated by the new guard script.Review follow-ups
os:/runner:/runs-on.group, non-static matrices, flow mappings at any depth, block-form edge cases (same-indent lists, quoted keys, spaces before colons, comment lines inside blocks, unverifiable continuation lines) and remote reusable-workflowuses:. The top-levelon:block is skipped so dispatch inputs namedos:/runner:are not misread, and unreadable files fail closed.(ubuntu|macos|windows)-*family regex with a finite allow-list: the family pattern accepted hosted-sounding custom labels such asubuntu-privateor a typo likeubuntu-lates. YAML aliases inuses:(uses: *remote) are rejected as unverifiable.Summary by CodeRabbit