GitNexus/gitnexus/test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts
Gergo Magyar b7e621df4c fix(ci): gate evolution runs on runner readiness (#2785)
Prevent paid scheduled work until host survival protections and the proven three-worker rollout are explicitly in place.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-09-03 07:46:26 +00:00

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import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
import {
chmodSync,
existsSync,
mkdirSync,
mkdtempSync,
readFileSync,
realpathSync,
rmSync,
statSync,
writeFileSync,
} from 'node:fs';
import os from 'node:os';
import path from 'node:path';
import { load } from 'js-yaml';
import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
// Contract guard for the online skill-evolution workflow. Both P1 blockers
// fixed here (a gate-passing run never applied its overlay; the benchmark
// could not resolve its task repo on a hosted runner) reached production
// because nothing exercised this workflow's path. Assert the structural
// contract so a regression fails loudly in CI instead of on the first real run.
const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../..');
const WORKFLOW_PATH = path.resolve(REPO_ROOT, '.github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml');
const workflow = readFileSync(WORKFLOW_PATH, 'utf8');
const workflowDocument = load(workflow) as {
jobs?: Record<
string,
{
environment?: unknown;
env?: Record<string, string>;
if?: unknown;
'timeout-minutes'?: unknown;
steps?: Array<{
name?: string;
if?: unknown;
run?: unknown;
uses?: string;
'timeout-minutes'?: unknown;
with?: Record<string, unknown>;
}>;
}
>;
};
const evolveJob = workflowDocument.jobs?.evolve;
type WorkflowStep = NonNullable<NonNullable<typeof evolveJob>['steps']>[number];
function findStep(stepName: string): WorkflowStep | undefined {
return evolveJob?.steps?.find(({ name }) => name === stepName);
}
function stepRun(stepName: string): string {
const step = findStep(stepName);
return typeof step?.run === 'string' ? step.run : '';
}
// The seed step's usability check is the proposer's OWN preflight
// (select_evidence + proposer_evidence_entries), invoked through uv. Stubbing
// uv would make these tests assert nothing about it: a stub accepts whatever
// fixture it is handed, so a fixture with a wrong digest, a wrong byte count,
// or world-readable transcripts would "pass" a check that rejects it in
// production — exactly backwards for a test whose subject is that rejection.
// So run the real thing, and skip rather than pretend when the eval project's
// environment is not provisioned (the node-only CI test jobs do not set up
// uv; `eval-tests` and this workflow's own runner do). UV_OFFLINE keeps the
// probe and the step itself from ever reaching the network mid-test.
const REAL_PREFLIGHT_AVAILABLE =
process.platform !== 'win32' &&
(() => {
try {
execFileSync(
'uv',
[
'run',
'--project',
'eval',
'--locked',
'--extra',
'dev',
'--offline',
'python',
'-c',
'import workflow_bench.evolve',
],
{ cwd: REPO_ROOT, stdio: 'ignore' },
);
return true;
} catch {
return false;
}
})();
// Provisioning uv is not free, and neither is the first `uv run` in a cold
// project, so give the two tests that shell out to it real headroom.
const PREFLIGHT_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000;
// sha256 of the 3-byte transcript body the fixture writes. evolve.py re-hashes
// the file on disk and compares it against the results row, so this pair has
// to be genuinely consistent — and the wrong-but-well-formed digest below has
// to be 64 hex characters, or it would be rejected as malformed metadata
// before anything is ever hashed.
const TRANSCRIPT_DIGEST = 'ca3d163bab055381827226140568f3bef7eaac187cebd76878e0b63e9e442356';
const WRONG_TRANSCRIPT_DIGEST = '0'.repeat(64);
/** Bash that materializes one downloaded evidence artifact under `destination`. */
function artifactFixture({ generation, digest }: { generation: number; digest: string }): string {
const bench = `\${destination}/artifact/gen-${generation}/bench`;
const row = JSON.stringify({
task: 'demo',
arm: 'workflow',
run: 0,
resolved: false,
// A measured outcome, not a harness death: select_evidence keeps this and
// drops session-error/infra-error rows.
error_kind: 'oracle-failed',
transcript_artifacts: [
{
path: 'transcripts/session.jsonl',
sha256: digest,
bytes: 3,
source: 'parent-captured-stream-json',
},
],
});
return ` mkdir -p "${bench}/transcripts"
printf '%s\\n' '${row}' > "${bench}/results.jsonl"
printf '{}\\n' > "${bench}/transcripts/session.jsonl"
# upload-artifact normalizes to 0755/0644 on the way out; the step's
# chmod -R go-rwx is what has to restore the owner-only modes the real
# transcript reader requires, so hand it the un-restored modes.
chmod 0755 "${bench}/transcripts"
chmod 0644 "${bench}/transcripts/session.jsonl"`;
}
function runSeedStep(ghImplementation: string): {
output: string;
trace: string;
transcriptDirectoryMode?: number;
transcriptMode?: number;
} {
// realpath: _real_results_root() in evolve.py rejects a results directory
// whose path traverses a symlink, and macOS hands out $TMPDIR under one.
const root = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'gitnexus-evolution-seed-')));
try {
const bin = path.join(root, 'bin');
const runnerTemp = path.join(root, 'runner-temp');
const githubOutput = path.join(root, 'github-output');
const trace = path.join(root, 'gh-trace');
mkdirSync(bin);
mkdirSync(runnerTemp);
writeFileSync(githubOutput, '');
const gh = path.join(bin, 'gh');
writeFileSync(gh, `#!/usr/bin/env bash\nset -euo pipefail\n${ghImplementation}\n`);
chmodSync(gh, 0o700);
// Only `gh` is stubbed — it is the step's input (which runs exist, what
// their artifacts contain). `uv` is deliberately NOT on the stub PATH, so
// the usability check below resolves the real uv and runs the real
// preflight against these fixtures. cwd is the repo root because that is
// where the workflow runs the step from, and `--project eval` is relative
// to it.
execFileSync(
'/bin/bash',
['-c', stepRun("Seed the proposer with the previous run's evidence")],
{
cwd: REPO_ROOT,
env: {
...process.env,
PATH: `${bin}:${process.env.PATH ?? ''}`,
GITHUB_OUTPUT: githubOutput,
GITHUB_REPOSITORY: 'abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus',
GITHUB_RUN_ID: '999',
RUNNER_TEMP: runnerTemp,
TRACE: trace,
UV_OFFLINE: '1',
},
stdio: 'pipe',
},
);
const output = readFileSync(githubOutput, 'utf8');
const seed = output.match(/^seed=(.+)$/m)?.[1];
const transcriptDirectory = seed ? path.join(seed, 'transcripts') : undefined;
const transcript = transcriptDirectory
? path.join(transcriptDirectory, 'session.jsonl')
: undefined;
return {
output,
trace: readFileSync(trace, 'utf8'),
transcriptDirectoryMode:
transcriptDirectory && existsSync(transcriptDirectory)
? statSync(transcriptDirectory).mode & 0o777
: undefined,
transcriptMode:
transcript && existsSync(transcript) ? statSync(transcript).mode & 0o777 : undefined,
};
} finally {
rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
}
}
describe('gitnexus skill-evolution workflow contract', () => {
it('applies gate-passing overlays so the promotion-PR path is reachable', () => {
const loop = stepRun('Run the propose → benchmark → gate loop');
expect(loop).toContain('python -m workflow_bench.evolve');
// Without --apply the overlay is never written, git status stays clean,
// promoted=false is emitted, and the App-token/PR steps are dead code.
expect(loop).toContain('--apply');
});
it('passes the cell concurrency through to the benchmark', () => {
// The lane is serial unless told otherwise: concurrency only pays off when
// the runner has the vCPUs for it, and a cell starved of CPU drifts toward
// its session timeout, which the gate counts as an excluded run.
expect(stepRun('Run the propose → benchmark → gate loop')).toContain('--workers "${WORKERS}"');
expect(evolveJob?.env?.WORKERS).toBe(
"${{ inputs.workers || vars.GITNEXUS_EVOLUTION_WORKERS || '1' }}",
);
});
it('seeds from the newest usable completed main run, including failed runs', () => {
const seed = stepRun("Seed the proposer with the previous run's evidence");
// Failed sweeps deliberately upload partial evidence. Looking only at
// successful runs makes that evidence unreachable and leaves the weekly
// proposer memoryless once the last successful artifact expires.
expect(seed).toContain('--status completed');
expect(seed).not.toContain('--status success');
expect(seed).toContain('--limit 10');
expect(seed).toContain('for previous in ${previous_runs}');
expect(seed).toContain('continue');
expect(seed).toContain('gen-*/bench/results.jsonl');
expect(seed).toContain('chmod -R go-rwx');
expect(seed).toContain('select_evidence(load_jsonl');
// The usability check must stay the proposer's own preflight. Narrowing it
// to "the file has rows" would re-admit artifacts whose transcripts the
// proposer then refuses to read, costing the generation its evidence.
expect(seed).toContain('proposer_evidence_entries');
expect(seed).toContain('break');
});
it('bounds the best-effort seed walk well inside the job budget', () => {
// Every iteration blocks on a network download this job does not control,
// and the job-level timeout CANCELS rather than fails — which skips the
// `if: always()` upload and loses the sweep's evidence. So the walk needs
// its own budget: long enough to never trip on a healthy run, short
// enough that a wedged download is a fast, obvious failure.
const seedBudget = findStep("Seed the proposer with the previous run's evidence")?.[
'timeout-minutes'
];
expect(typeof seedBudget).toBe('number');
expect(seedBudget as number).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(10);
expect(seedBudget as number).toBeLessThanOrEqual(30);
expect(seedBudget as number).toBeLessThan(evolveJob?.['timeout-minutes'] as number);
});
it.skipIf(!REAL_PREFLIGHT_AVAILABLE)(
'falls back past an empty newer artifact to an older usable run',
() => {
const result = runSeedStep(`
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run list' ]]; then
printf '300\\n200\\n'
exit 0
fi
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run download' ]]; then
run_id="$3"
shift 3
destination=''
while (( $# )); do
if [[ "$1" == '--dir' ]]; then destination="$2"; shift 2; else shift; fi
done
printf '%s\\n' "\${run_id}" >> "\${TRACE}"
if [[ "\${run_id}" == '300' ]]; then
mkdir -p "\${destination}/artifact/gen-3/bench"
printf '%s\\n' '{"error_kind":"session-error","resolved":false}' > "\${destination}/artifact/gen-3/bench/results.jsonl"
elif [[ "\${run_id}" == '200' ]]; then
${artifactFixture({ generation: 2, digest: TRANSCRIPT_DIGEST })}
fi
exit 0
fi
exit 1`);
// select_evidence drops session-error rows as unattributable, leaving
// gen-3 with nothing to propose from.
expect(result.trace).toBe('300\n200\n');
expect(result.output).toMatch(/seed=.*\/200\/artifact\/gen-2\/bench\n/);
expect(result.transcriptDirectoryMode).toBe(0o700);
expect(result.transcriptMode).toBe(0o600);
},
PREFLIGHT_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS,
);
it.skipIf(!REAL_PREFLIGHT_AVAILABLE)(
'falls back past a newer artifact whose transcript digest does not match',
() => {
// The sharp edge of running the real preflight: this artifact is
// non-empty and structurally well-formed, so every cheap check passes
// it. Only hashing the transcript and comparing against the row the
// proposer would trust rejects it — which is the whole reason the step
// shells out to the proposer's own code instead of grepping the JSONL.
const result = runSeedStep(`
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run list' ]]; then
printf '400\\n200\\n'
exit 0
fi
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run download' ]]; then
run_id="$3"
shift 3
destination=''
while (( $# )); do
if [[ "$1" == '--dir' ]]; then destination="$2"; shift 2; else shift; fi
done
printf '%s\\n' "\${run_id}" >> "\${TRACE}"
if [[ "\${run_id}" == '400' ]]; then
${artifactFixture({ generation: 4, digest: WRONG_TRANSCRIPT_DIGEST })}
elif [[ "\${run_id}" == '200' ]]; then
${artifactFixture({ generation: 2, digest: TRANSCRIPT_DIGEST })}
fi
exit 0
fi
exit 1`);
expect(result.trace).toBe('400\n200\n');
expect(result.output).toMatch(/seed=.*\/200\/artifact\/gen-2\/bench\n/);
},
PREFLIGHT_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS,
);
it.skipIf(process.platform === 'win32')(
'continues without a seed when every prior artifact is unavailable',
() => {
const result = runSeedStep(`
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run list' ]]; then
printf '300\\n'
exit 0
fi
if [[ "$1 $2" == 'run download' ]]; then
printf '%s\\n' "$3" >> "\${TRACE}"
exit 1
fi
exit 1`);
expect(result.trace).toBe('300\n');
expect(result.output).toBe('');
},
);
it('runs the proposer on its own model, separate from the benchmark arms', () => {
const loop = stepRun('Run the propose → benchmark → gate loop');
// The benchmark arms match the production model; the proposer/diagnosis
// session gets its own (stronger) model — one session per generation.
expect(loop).toContain('--model "${MODEL}"');
expect(loop).toContain('--proposer-model "${PROPOSER_MODEL}"');
});
it('provisions the benchmark task repo at ~/GitNexus before the loop', () => {
const provision = stepRun('Point the benchmark task repo at the checkout');
expect(provision).toContain('[[ -e "${HOME}/GitNexus" && ! -L "${HOME}/GitNexus" ]]');
expect(provision).toContain('ln -sfn');
expect(provision).toContain('${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}');
expect(provision).toContain('${HOME}/GitNexus');
});
it('installs node_modules for the monorepo root, gitnexus-shared, and gitnexus', () => {
// The benchmark sandbox-copies node_modules from all three (tasks.scenarios.yaml).
// The root tree was absent on the first real run because only the two subpackage
// steps ran, so capture_task_dependency_binding aborted at task binding.
const rootStep = findStep('Install monorepo root dependencies');
expect(rootStep).toBeDefined();
expect(rootStep).not.toHaveProperty('working-directory'); // installs at the repo root
expect(String(rootStep?.run)).toContain('npm ci');
expect(stepRun('Build pinned shared runtime')).toContain('npm ci');
expect(stepRun('Install and build pinned GitNexus runtime')).toContain('npm ci');
});
it('waits for the runner boot-time package lock before installing containment tools', () => {
const install = stepRun('Install sandbox runtime and pinned Claude CLI');
expect(install).toContain('DPkg::Lock::Timeout=600 update');
expect(install).toContain('DPkg::Lock::Timeout=600 install');
});
it('names the promotion branch with the run attempt for re-run recovery', () => {
const openPr = stepRun('Open the promotion PR');
expect(openPr).toContain('${GITHUB_RUN_ID}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT}');
});
it('emits only the promoted generation with a per-run random output delimiter', () => {
const detect = stepRun('Detect and bound the applied promotion');
// Random per-run delimiter, not a fixed heredoc marker that a summary
// value could close early.
expect(detect).toContain('openssl rand -hex');
expect(detect).not.toContain("echo 'summary<<PROMOTION_EOF'");
// Single promoted generation (highest-numbered gen-N), not a blind
// concatenation of every generation's promotion.json.
expect(detect).toContain('sort -V');
expect(detect).not.toContain('xargs -0 -r cat');
});
it('least-privileges the App token and gates the job on a protected Environment', () => {
expect(evolveJob?.environment).toBe('gitnexus-evolution');
const mint = findStep('Mint GitHub App token');
expect(mint?.with).toMatchObject({
'client-id': expect.any(String),
'permission-contents': 'write',
'permission-pull-requests': 'write',
});
expect(mint?.with).not.toHaveProperty('app-id');
});
it('keeps scheduled runs off until the three-worker proof is explicitly enabled', () => {
const condition = String(evolveJob?.if);
expect(condition).toContain("github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'");
expect(condition).toContain("vars.GITNEXUS_EVOLUTION_ENABLED == 'true'");
expect(condition).toContain("vars.GITNEXUS_EVOLUTION_WORKERS == '3'");
});
it('fails before paid work when runner survival protections are ineffective', () => {
const preflight = stepRun('Verify runner survival policy');
expect(preflight).toContain('/etc/needrestart/conf.d/90-gitnexus-evolution.conf');
expect(preflight).toContain("$nrconf{restart} = 'l';");
expect(preflight).toContain('/proc/self/oom_score_adj');
expect(preflight).toContain('oom_score_adjustment > -900');
});
it('labels the upload-artifact pin with its real version', () => {
expect(workflow).toContain(
'actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1',
);
expect(workflow).not.toContain('# v6.0.0');
});
it('runs every multi-line shell step under strict mode', () => {
const runSteps = (evolveJob?.steps ?? []).filter(
(step): step is { name?: string; run: string } =>
typeof step.run === 'string' && step.run.includes('\n'),
);
expect(runSteps.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
for (const step of runSteps) {
expect(step.run, `${step.name} must set -euo pipefail`).toContain('set -euo pipefail');
}
});
it('kills the benchmark with job time left to upload its evidence', () => {
// A job-level timeout cancels the job outright, so the upload step never
// runs and a multi-hour generation's evidence is lost. The sweep therefore
// needs its own, strictly shorter budget: a step timeout only fails that
// step, and the always() upload below still ships what it wrote.
const jobBudget = evolveJob?.['timeout-minutes'];
const loopStep = findStep('Run the propose → benchmark → gate loop');
const stepBudget = loopStep?.['timeout-minutes'];
expect(typeof jobBudget).toBe('number');
expect(typeof stepBudget).toBe('number');
expect(stepBudget as number).toBeLessThan(jobBudget as number);
// The runner is an EC2 box an EventBridge schedule stops 24h after it
// starts; when the box goes the runner vanishes mid-step and nothing
// uploads. The job must finish inside that window even when the schedule
// fires late (the 2026-08-01 run was queued 65 minutes after the cron).
expect(jobBudget as number).toBeLessThanOrEqual(21 * 60);
});
it('uploads benchmark evidence unconditionally, on a path it addresses itself', () => {
const upload = findStep('Upload benchmark evidence');
// The sweep appends results.jsonl and transcripts as it goes, so a killed
// generation still holds the evidence explaining why — and a path taken
// from the killed step's outputs is exactly what would not be there.
expect(upload?.if).toBe('always()');
expect(upload?.with?.path).toBe('${{ runner.temp }}/wfevolve');
});
it('documents the App secrets and protected Environment on the activation checklist', () => {
expect(workflow).toContain('RELEASE_APP_ID');
expect(workflow).toContain('RELEASE_APP_PRIVATE_KEY');
expect(workflow).toContain('gitnexus-evolution');
expect(workflow).toContain('GITNEXUS_EVOLUTION_ENABLED=true for scheduled runs');
expect(workflow).toContain('GITNEXUS_EVOLUTION_WORKERS');
});
});