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feat(ci): a warm Cargo cache per job, so a run starts warm - #129
The GitForge pipeline is the authoritative receipt for a merge, and it is the
binding constraint on the release campaign. The firecraft-ci chain is eight
jobs — fmt-layers, clippy-test, wasm-web, corpus-golden, perf-budgets, fuzz, generated-docs, release — and every one of them
compiled the workspace from scratch, because Cargo's target output went to a
disposable directory inside the job container.
Measured on the swarmone-docker runner under fleet load on 2026-11-11: fmt-layers 10 min, clippy-test 31 min, wasm-web 27 min, corpus-golden 11 min, perf-budgets 10.5 min, fuzz 29 min, generated-docs 11 min, release still running after ~90 min. One run's
chain took about seven hours before its last job started.
What
The runner can bind-mount a host directory at /cargo-target and export CARGO_TARGET_DIR into the container, so compiled artifacts survive the job.
The runner also takes an exclusive advisory lock on every writable host
directory a job mounts, and holds it for the job's whole lifetime
(GitForge GF-11): two jobs writing one Cargo target tree clobber each other's
binaries — measured on the DIL repository on 2026-11-05, where two coverage
jobs lost their test binaries to a concurrent rebuild.
So the cache directory is a serialization point, not just a directory. One
directory per image — the bare default — would serialize every Cargo job in
the fleet into a single lane, which is the opposite of what the cache is for.
Each job therefore declares its own cache directory, named for the job:
The web crate keeps its own tree (separate workspace, separate lockfile) as a
subdirectory of the same mount, so it is persistent too — not a disposable
container /tmp directory.
The gate
scripts/validate_gitforge_pipeline.py now enforces the shape:
a job whose steps run Cargo must declare a cache: mapping;
the source must name its job, and no two jobs may share one;
a step may not point CARGO_TARGET_DIR at a disposable container /tmp.
It also runs in the GitHub backup workflow's fmt job. The GitForge API has
no dry-run endpoint and creating a pipeline needs authentication, so a
malformed .gitforge.yml fails every run at parse time — after the commit has
already landed. The offline check takes seconds.
Cost, stated plainly
The first run after this change is still cold: the cache directories do not
exist yet, so that run pays the full compile cost. Every later run of every
branch reuses the artifacts. The change is a net loss for exactly one run and
a win for all of them after it.
The cache is keyed by image and job, not by branch, so branches share one
tree — that is what makes a warm run possible for work that has not been
merged yet. Nothing prunes the cache yet; a prune policy is recorded as debt
in decision 0098.
The per-job durations of the first warm run are to be read from the
authoritative store (/var/lib/gitforge/gitforge.db) before any throughput
claim is made. This PR claims the mechanism, not the measurement.
The pipeline's eight jobs each compiled the workspace from scratch:
Cargo's target output went to a disposable container /tmp directory, so
no job ever started warm. A run's chain took about seven hours before
its last job began, which is the binding constraint on every merge
receipt.
The runner can mount a host directory at /cargo-target and export
CARGO_TARGET_DIR, so the compiled artifacts survive the job. It also
takes an EXCLUSIVE advisory lock on every writable host directory a job
mounts, for the job's whole lifetime (GitForge GF-11): two jobs writing
one target tree clobber each other's binaries. One directory per image
would therefore serialize every Cargo job in the fleet into a single
lane, which is the opposite of what the cache is for.
Each job now declares its own cache directory, named for the job. The
offline validator enforces that shape - a per-job source, no source
shared between jobs, no disposable container /tmp target - and it now
runs in the GitHub backup CI's fmt job, because a malformed
.gitforge.yml fails every run at parse time and the GitForge API has no
dry-run endpoint.
Decision 0098.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
Cargo jobs now use distinct host-local target caches across runs. The pipeline validator checks cache mappings and Cargo target-directory settings, and the GitHub workflow runs the validator. The fuzz job now follows perf-budgets.
Cargo jobs use job-specific caches instead of inline /tmp target directories. The fuzz job now depends on perf-budgets. The decision record describes the cache configuration, and the task table records measurement and cache-pruning follow-up.
Validate cache configuration in CI scripts/validate_gitforge_pipeline.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .gitignore
The validator checks that Cargo jobs have unique, job-specific cache sources and rejects Cargo target directories under /tmp/. The GitHub workflow runs the validator, and .gitignore excludes __pycache__/ directories.
The new pipeline validator can miss some ways a Cargo job might send its build output to temporary storage, so a future edit could quietly lose the warm-cache benefit. Nothing in the current pipeline is affected. Tightening the check is a small follow-up and does not need to block merging.
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The title "feat(ci): a warm Cargo cache per job, so a run starts warm" matches the main change. The PR gives each pipeline job its own host-local Cargo cache directory so build artifacts persist across runs, and it adds validator checks for those caches. The title names the primary change. It does not mention the validator or the docs, which is acceptable because it need not cover every detail. The phrase "so a run starts warm" states an intended benefit that the PR does not measure yet, but the title still describes the mechanism that is implemented.
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CARGO_TARGET_DIR="/tmp/ci-target" cargo test bypasses this check. With a valid cache mapping, the validator accepts the command even though Cargo writes outside the persistent mount. The unquoted assignment CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp also bypasses the check.
Handle shell quoting and match both /tmp itself and its subdirectories. This preserves the temporary-directory prohibition stated in decision 0098.
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…he current pipeline
Main's pipeline shape is kept — the detect-changes gate, the separate
layers job, the skip_if gates, image :2 — and the per-job Cargo cache
is applied onto it: every Cargo job declares its own
{cache_root}/cargo/{image}-<job-name> directory and the disposable
/tmp target dirs are gone. The runner takes an exclusive lock on every
writable mount (GF-11), so one directory per job is what keeps the
cache from serializing the fleet into a single lane.
The validator's graph rule is updated to the shape main actually
ships: one root, no joins, every job reachable. A fork (perf-budgets
and fuzz out of corpus-golden) is allowed; the old single-chain rule
forbade a pipeline main has been running, and the CI step that
enforces it would have failed every run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
The GitForge pipeline is the authoritative receipt for a merge, and it is the
binding constraint on the release campaign. The
firecraft-cichain is eightjobs —
fmt-layers,clippy-test,wasm-web,corpus-golden,perf-budgets,fuzz,generated-docs,release— and every one of themcompiled the workspace from scratch, because Cargo's target output went to a
disposable directory inside the job container.
Measured on the
swarmone-dockerrunner under fleet load on 2026-11-11:fmt-layers10 min,clippy-test31 min,wasm-web27 min,corpus-golden11 min,perf-budgets10.5 min,fuzz29 min,generated-docs11 min,releasestill running after ~90 min. One run'schain took about seven hours before its last job started.
What
The runner can bind-mount a host directory at
/cargo-targetand exportCARGO_TARGET_DIRinto the container, so compiled artifacts survive the job.The runner also takes an exclusive advisory lock on every writable host
directory a job mounts, and holds it for the job's whole lifetime
(GitForge GF-11): two jobs writing one Cargo target tree clobber each other's
binaries — measured on the DIL repository on 2026-11-05, where two coverage
jobs lost their test binaries to a concurrent rebuild.
So the cache directory is a serialization point, not just a directory. One
directory per image — the bare default — would serialize every Cargo job in
the fleet into a single lane, which is the opposite of what the cache is for.
Each job therefore declares its own cache directory, named for the job:
The web crate keeps its own tree (separate workspace, separate lockfile) as a
subdirectory of the same mount, so it is persistent too — not a disposable
container
/tmpdirectory.The gate
scripts/validate_gitforge_pipeline.pynow enforces the shape:cache:mapping;CARGO_TARGET_DIRat a disposable container/tmp.It also runs in the GitHub backup workflow's
fmtjob. The GitForge API hasno dry-run endpoint and creating a pipeline needs authentication, so a
malformed
.gitforge.ymlfails every run at parse time — after the commit hasalready landed. The offline check takes seconds.
Cost, stated plainly
The first run after this change is still cold: the cache directories do not
exist yet, so that run pays the full compile cost. Every later run of every
branch reuses the artifacts. The change is a net loss for exactly one run and
a win for all of them after it.
The cache is keyed by image and job, not by branch, so branches share one
tree — that is what makes a warm run possible for work that has not been
merged yet. Nothing prunes the cache yet; a prune policy is recorded as debt
in decision 0098.
Verification
python3 -I scripts/validate_gitforge_pipeline.py .gitforge.yml— passes.authoritative store (
/var/lib/gitforge/gitforge.db) before any throughputclaim is made. This PR claims the mechanism, not the measurement.
Decision record:
docs/decisions/0098-per-job-cargo-cache.md🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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