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Runs every ci.yml lane as Bazel tests on BuildBuddy remote execution, following the idea in #273. It sits beside ci.yml for now. Once it is green on main, a follow-up PR drops ci.yml's test jobs, and the site build and Pages deploy stay on Actions.

The workflow stays off until BuildBuddy is set up (it is gated on the BUILDBUDDY_READONLY_API_KEY variable), so merging this first is harmless.

What runs

  • 466 tests: unit, compare/smoke for every target, the toolchain and framework lanes, Spinel, campfire (compare, conformance, db-differential, archives, docker smoke), writebook, store-check, browser smokes.
  • Actions jobs per run: 54 → 3 (images, gating, advisory). Unchanged tests are cache hits, so gating takes ~2–6 min. Lanes that are continue-on-error today carry an advisory tag and run in their own non-blocking job (~8 min; Spinel master moves often).
  • Fork PRs can't see secrets. They read the cache with a read-only key and run the misses on Actions in the same image (~20 min worst case).
  • Piloted on my fork, all green on current main: https://github.com/dai199/roundhouse/tree/bazel-pilot

Needs from you before it can run

  1. A BuildBuddy org (free for OSS): an API key as the secret BUILDBUDDY_ORG_API_KEY, and a read-only key as the variable BUILDBUDDY_READONLY_API_KEY.
  2. After the first push to main builds them, the roundhouse-ci-* packages on GHCR must be public, since BuildBuddy pulls them.

Maintenance (also added to AGENTS.md)

  • Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock stay the source of truth; Bazel reads its crates from them. New tests/*.rs and src/bin/*.rs are picked up automatically.
  • The executors' image is bazel/images/all/Dockerfile. Changing it means bumping its tag in bazel/images.bzl, and keeping .bazelrc's image-env in step with its ENV.
  • Local dev is unchanged: cargo build / cargo test work as before.

Fixes the pilot surfaced (also correct without Bazel)

  • build.rs reads CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR at run time, not compile time.
  • tests/overlay_cable_{identity,dispatch}.rb register stubbed features by real path, as require_relative resolves them.
  • scripts/campfire-oracle uses git archive only when the app is its own repository's root.

cc @thomasklemm: this overlaps with the ci-reuse work in ci.yml. Once Bazel gates main, the follow-up that drops ci.yml's test jobs would retire it, so let's line that up together.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability
    • Automated validation now covers additional supported targets, browser workflows, and generated application archives.
    • Checks include application builds, database behavior, and published archive smoke tests.
  • Build Improvements
    • Build and test workflows support local and remote execution, cached results, and separate advisory checks.
    • Pull-request checks use read-only cache access for external contributions and omit tests that require unavailable resources.
    • Build tooling and supported toolchains have been updated.

dai199 and others added 4 commits October 3, 2026 01:08
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The table named each runtime file by the absolute path the script walked.
That holds when the script and the crate share one tree, as under cargo;
a build that compiles the crate elsewhere (Bazel's sandboxes, a remote
executor) finds nothing there. The script now reads CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR
where it runs, and the table resolves each file against the crate's own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
require_relative resolves symlinks, so a stub registered under the path
as given misses when the tree is reached through one (a symlinked
checkout, Bazel's runfiles), and the real file loads instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A tarball checkout inside another git work tree made `git -C APP
rev-parse` answer for the outer repository, and `git archive` exported
that instead of the app: no Gemfile, and bundle install failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every ci.yml lane runs as a Bazel test on BuildBuddy's remote executors,
in an image built from bazel/images/all/Dockerfile and published to GHCR.
A step whose inputs match a cached run is not re-run, so a change
re-tests only what it reaches, and a pull request's results carry over to
main. ci.yml's continue-on-error lanes are tagged advisory and run in
their own job. A fork's pull request reads the cache with a read-only key
and runs the misses on Actions in the same image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request adds Bazel configuration, Rust targets, fixture and archive generation, repository test lanes, and GitHub Actions workflows. It also adjusts build-script paths, Campfire oracle preparation, and symlinked test feature paths.

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Bazel build and test integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bazel toolchains and execution environment
.bazelrc, .bazelversion, MODULE.bazel, bazel/BUILD.bazel, bazel/images.bzl, bazel/images/*, bazel/patches/*, .gitignore
Adds Bazel and BuildBuddy configurations, Rust and LLVM toolchains, Clang targets, CI container images, and Ruby crate build patches.
Rust targets and repository fixtures
BUILD.bazel, build.rs, tools/compare/BUILD.bazel
Defines Rust build and test targets, Rails fixture generators, and a comparison binary target. Runtime file lookup and generated include paths use adjusted manifest-directory handling.
Archive generation and comparison workflows
BUILD.bazel, bazel/asset_graph.sh, bazel/campfire_compare.sh, bazel/campfire_spinel_build.sh, bazel/compare.sh, bazel/pack.py, bazel/site_archives.sh, bazel/smoke.sh, bazel/spinel_dist.sh
Adds targets and scripts to generate asset, Spinel, and Campfire archives, stage comparison inputs, and run archive checks.
Repository test lanes
BUILD.bazel, bazel/lanes.bzl, bazel/lanes/*, bazel/run_ignored.sh, bazel/shim/cargo, bazel/with_repo.sh, bazel/writebook_check.sh, scripts/campfire-oracle, tests/overlay_cable_dispatch.rb, tests/overlay_cable_identity.rb
Adds framework, browser, Campfire, store, Writebook, and Docker test lanes with scripts to prepare their inputs. Campfire oracle preparation and symlinked feature paths are adjusted.
GitHub Actions Bazel workflow
.github/workflows/bazel.yml, AGENTS.md
Adds image publication and gating and advisory Bazel test jobs, including separate handling for fork pull requests. Documents the Bazel and BuildBuddy CI setup.

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  participant Actions as GitHub Actions
  participant Bazel
  participant BuildBuddy
  participant Tests as Bazel test targets
  Actions->>Bazel: run selected test set
  Bazel->>BuildBuddy: request remote execution and cache
  BuildBuddy->>Tests: execute tests
  Tests-->>BuildBuddy: return test results
  BuildBuddy-->>Bazel: return results
  Bazel-->>Actions: report test status
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This adds a Bazel CI workflow that stays inactive until BuildBuddy is configured. No unresolved merge-blocking risk was identified in the reviewed changes.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49c11

Fork runs are separated from credentialed remote execution, and image publication is restricted to main pushes. No exploitable issue was established. Remaining risk depends on the configured credential scopes, shared-cache isolation and registry permissions, which could not be verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new authority affects shared validation outputs, remote execution and executor packages. The maximum exposure beyond this repository cannot be determined without the BuildBuddy key scopes, cache-access boundaries and GHCR package policies.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The workflow separates fork PRs from same-repository runs before assigning BuildBuddy credentials. Local execution and upload-disabled configuration support the fork boundary, but server-enforced read-only permission remains essential because PR-controlled configuration is not an authorization boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Validation jobs preserve Bazel's exit status and distinguish advisory failures from gating failures. Image-job failure prevents dependent execution, providing failure containment without evidence of a fail-open recovery path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Provision credentials with server-enforced least privilege and isolate the publicly readable cache from unrelated private workloads. Explicitly document that same-repository PR authors are trusted with remote execution and cache-write authority.
  • proposed — Consider digest-pinned executor references or enforced tag immutability, a rollout check for required credentials and public image availability, and a publication-only job for package-write permission. These would strengthen configuration guarantees rather than remedy a verified exploit.
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15-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Handle unsupported targets explicitly.

bazel/compare.sh documents direct invocation with a TARGET argument. If a typo matches no case pattern, build_dir remains unset and line 21 reports an unbound variable instead of identifying the target.

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   swift) build_dir=/tmp/rh-swift-pass2 ;; csharp) build_dir=/tmp/rh-cs-pass2 ;; elixir) build_dir=/tmp/rh-ex-pass2 ;;
+  *) echo "compare.sh: unknown target $target" >&2; exit 2 ;;
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/bazel.yml:
- Line 17: Add a top-level workflow permissions declaration before jobs in the
workflow so jobs without explicit token permissions receive contents read
access; preserve the images job’s explicit packages write permission.

Review comments at @bazel/BUILD.bazel:
- Around line 30-38: Update the bindgen_env genrule to derive CLANG_PATH from
the Bazel target instead of a hard-coded external repository path. Declare
//bazel:clang as an input and use its execpath in the generated environment
file, preserving the existing Linux-only behavior and default output.

Review comments at @bazel/lanes/browser_smoke_ide.sh:
- Around line 24-25: Replace the fixed sleep after the background server launch
in the browser smoke script with a bounded readiness poll against
localhost:8099; proceed to verification scripts only when the server responds,
and exit with an error if it does not become ready before the timeout.

Review comments at @bazel/with_repo.sh:
- Line 26: Update the `cp -RL` step that populates `$repo` to tolerate dangling
symlinks while propagating other copy errors; stop the script before `chmod` or
the lane command if a non-dangling copy error occurs.

Review comments at @BUILD.bazel:
- Around line 50-69: Replace the moving docker://ruby:3.4 container image in the
real_blog_fixture rule with the repository’s stable CI_IMAGE value. Apply the
same image selection to the other fixture rule so both fixture-generation
actions use a consistent, pinned runtime.

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- Around line 15-20: Add a default case to the target-selection case statement
in compare.sh that reports the unknown target to standard error and exits with
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@dai199 some thoughts here: I was actually wondering whether we need to run everything on every pull request, or if a more compact CI gate wouldn't suffice, and then we run the heavy stuff regularly just on main. Would prepare a PR for this in a moment so we can compare. It feels like we're doing way too much to me on every PR, which creates this CI back pressure, especially with jobs queuing for a long time. Earlier today, I already asked GitHub for more concurrent runners, which they can also do for open source projects, so that might help too.

Top-level read-only token permissions; bindgen's clang named by its
label, not a canonical repository path; the IDE smoke waits for its
server instead of sleeping; a lane's repository copy stops on any error
but a dangling link; compare.sh rejects an unknown target; the fixtures
are generated in the CI image, whose tag never moves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Also took the compare.sh nitpick in 49c119b (unknown target exits 2). All review fixes are green on the pilot: https://github.com/dai199/roundhouse/actions/runs/37033602259

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I certainly agree with that.
I was also thinking we could streamline things by splitting ci.yml into jobs with and without continue-on-error: true, and only merging the ones with true into main.
For now, since moving to Bazel + BuildBuddy should increase parallelism and enable caching to speed things up, I hope we can keep exploring good methods moving forward and choose the best ones.

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@dai199 Sure, we can explore different approaches in parallel and take what's best and merge it together. I wonder how easy it is to get a BuildBuddy account for OSS, do you need to apply for that somehow? Since it's quite a bit of free compute that one would be using :)

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@thomasklemm Sorry for the slow reply. I was away with my family over the weekend.

The CI changes are impressive. PRs now run 12–14 jobs instead of ~50, and full validation still runs on a schedule. That clears the back pressure we were fighting.

To answer your question: no application was needed. I used BuildBuddy's free Personal plan, which covers small teams and open source. Its terms don't say much about sustained heavy use, though.

Where the Bazel + BuildBuddy pilot landed:

  • Worked: every ci.yml lane ran as Bazel tests on remote execution. A push to main re-tested only what changed and finished in a few minutes. Splitting a lane into emit and run let it reuse results whenever the emitted output was unchanged.
  • Didn't: fork PRs, which are most PRs here, can't see secrets. With a read-only key, the cache misses run on a single Actions runner (~25 min). Running roundhouse's tests outside remote execution also clashes with its deliberate refusal of symlinked test files. A CAS-only key would allow remote execution from forks, but it would have to be public, and anyone could then use the org's compute, so I ruled that out.

Since most PRs come from forks, the GitHub Actions setup you built is the better fit for now. I'm closing #309 and have split its standalone fixes (the overlay-cable tests and campfire-oracle's git detection) into #415. Two lessons may carry over to your output-identity reuse: key a lane on its emitted output rather than the compiler's source, and keep the commit stamp out of emitted output so identical output stays byte-identical.

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