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title: CI Pipeline
summary: "CI job graph, scope gates, and local command equivalents"
read_when:
- You need to understand why a CI job did or did not run
- You are debugging failing GitHub Actions checks
---
# CI Pipeline
The CI runs on every push to `main` and every pull request. It uses smart scoping to skip expensive jobs when only unrelated areas changed.
## Job Overview
| Job | Purpose | When it runs |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| `preflight` | Detect docs-only changes, changed scopes, changed extensions, and build the CI manifest | Always on non-draft pushes and PRs |
| `security-fast` | Private key detection, workflow audit via `zizmor`, production dependency audit | Always on non-draft pushes and PRs |
| `build-artifacts` | Build `dist/` and the Control UI once, upload reusable artifacts for downstream jobs | Node-relevant changes |
| `checks-fast-core` | Fast Linux correctness lanes such as bundled/plugin-contract/protocol checks | Node-relevant changes |
| `checks-fast-extensions` | Aggregate the extension shard lanes after `checks-fast-extensions-shard` completes | Node-relevant changes |
| `extension-fast` | Focused tests for only the changed bundled plugins | When extension changes are detected |
| `check` | Main local gate in CI: `pnpm check` plus `pnpm build:strict-smoke` | Node-relevant changes |
| `check-additional` | Architecture and boundary guards plus the gateway watch regression harness | Node-relevant changes |
| `build-smoke` | Built-CLI smoke tests and startup-memory smoke | Node-relevant changes |
| `checks` | Heavier Linux Node lanes: full tests, channel tests, and push-only Node 22 compatibility | Node-relevant changes |
| `check-docs` | Docs formatting, lint, and broken-link checks | Docs changed |
| `skills-python` | Ruff + pytest for Python-backed skills | Python-skill-relevant changes |
| `checks-windows` | Windows-specific test lanes | Windows-relevant changes |
| `macos-node` | macOS TypeScript test lane using the shared built artifacts | macOS-relevant changes |
| `macos-swift` | Swift lint, build, and tests for the macOS app | macOS-relevant changes |
| `android` | Android build and test matrix | Android-relevant changes |
## Fail-Fast Order
Jobs are ordered so cheap checks fail before expensive ones run:
1. `preflight` decides which lanes exist at all. The `docs-scope` and `changed-scope` logic are steps inside this job, not standalone jobs.
2. `security-fast`, `check`, `check-additional`, `check-docs`, and `skills-python` fail quickly without waiting on the heavier artifact and platform matrix jobs.
3. `build-artifacts` overlaps with the fast Linux lanes so downstream consumers can start as soon as the shared build is ready.
4. Heavier platform and runtime lanes fan out after that: `checks-fast-core`, `checks-fast-extensions`, `extension-fast`, `checks`, `checks-windows`, `macos-node`, `macos-swift`, and `android`.
Scope logic lives in `scripts/ci-changed-scope.mjs` and is covered by unit tests in `src/scripts/ci-changed-scope.test.ts`.
The separate `install-smoke` workflow reuses the same scope script through its own `preflight` job. It computes `run_install_smoke` from the narrower changed-smoke signal, so Docker/install smoke only runs for install, packaging, and container-relevant changes.
On pushes, the `checks` matrix adds the push-only `compat-node22` lane. On pull requests, that lane is skipped and the matrix stays focused on the normal test/channel lanes.
## Runners
| Runner | Jobs |
| -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `blacksmith-16vcpu-ubuntu-2404` | `preflight`, `security-fast`, `build-artifacts`, Linux checks, docs checks, Python skills, `android` |
| `blacksmith-32vcpu-windows-2025` | `checks-windows` |
| `macos-latest` | `macos-node`, `macos-swift` |
## Local Equivalents
```bash
pnpm check # types + lint + format
pnpm build:strict-smoke
pnpm test:gateway:watch-regression
pnpm test # vitest tests
pnpm test:channels
pnpm check:docs # docs format + lint + broken links
pnpm build # build dist when CI artifact/build-smoke lanes matter
```