#350 made ci-trigger.yml dispatch ci.yml with the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN, on the
claim that a workflow_dispatch is anti-recursion-exempt so no PAT is needed. In
practice a GITHUB_TOKEN-triggered run is held in `action_required` awaiting manual
approval and never runs un-attended, so auto-updated PRs' CI never ran (stalled
#285). The original #349 design was right: dispatch with a PAT so the run executes
as the authorized owner with no approval gate.
- ci-trigger.yml: the trigger step's GH_TOKEN is now
`${{ secrets.AUTOUPDATE_TOKEN || github.token }}` (was `${{ github.token }}`).
AUTOUPDATE_TOKEN (the PAT) is REQUIRED for the scheduler; the `|| github.token`
fallback stays fail-open but only starts CI if repo settings don't gate
GITHUB_TOKEN-triggered runs.
- autoupdate.yml: branch update stays on GITHUB_TOKEN (must NOT retrigger CI --
that would re-introduce the cascade). Clarified that AUTOUPDATE_TOKEN is still
required by the repo (by ci-trigger.yml) so the secret isn't deleted.
- Corrected the now-wrong "no PAT needed / workflow_dispatch anti-recursion-exempt"
comments in ci-trigger.yml and the traffic_control.py docstrings.
updates = GITHUB_TOKEN, triggering = PAT.
Validation: all three workflow YAMLs parse clean; traffic-control unit tests still
pass (59 tests) -- the change is workflow-env only, script logic unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
End the merge cascade and give the traffic-controller ownership of CI *triggering*.
- autoupdate.yml updates PR branches with the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a PAT,
so an update push no longer auto-retriggers CI (GitHub's anti-recursion rule) — the
cascade (every merge re-runs every PR, cancel-in-progress thrashing them) is gone.
- New scheduler ci-trigger.yml -> traffic_control.py --mode trigger (re-)triggers CI
for the highest-priority PR(s) whose head SHA has absent/stale checks, a few at a
time (inflight cap), in the existing P0-P9 / broken-draft priority order — a
poor-man's merge queue reusing the priority core. It runs after autoupdate finishes
(workflow_run, race-free) plus a cron backstop plus manual dispatch.
- Triggering uses workflow_dispatch, which is EXEMPT from anti-recursion, so the
built-in GITHUB_TOKEN (actions: write) starts the run — NO PAT / secret change needed.
- ci.yml gains a workflow_dispatch trigger (pr/head_sha/reason inputs) and a per-PR
concurrency group unifying pull_request and dispatch runs; its on: pull_request path
is kept so brand-new PRs, human pushes, and fork PRs always get CI (fail-open).
Pure select_triggers / classify_sha_runs decision core added to traffic_control.py with
24 new unit tests (priority order, oldest-first fairness, inflight cap, fork skip, P0
bypass+preempt, head-SHA needy classification, and a liveness/anti-starvation simulation).
Closes#349
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JMR-devandClaude Opus 4.8