ci(gpu): gate the PR leg of the GPU workflow behind a maintainer-applied gpu-ci label

[mattmillerai]

ELI-5

The GPU test job runs on our own physical machines, and until now any pull request that touched comfy_cli/** got to run its own code on that hardware automatically, before a human had read the diff. This makes the PR half of that job opt-in: it runs only when a maintainer applies the gpu-ci label, and it runs the exact commit that was labeled. Pushes to main still run it automatically, exactly as before.

What changed

Single file, .github/workflows/run-on-gpu.yml.

1. pull_request.types: [labeled, unlabeled] — label events only. A PR run is one-to-one with a maintainer applying gpu-ci; because synchronize is not a trigger, a later push cannot inherit that approval. unlabeled never runs the job — it exists so removing the label lands in the same concurrency group and cancels an in-flight run.
2. A job-level if: gating on the labeling event, not on membership in the label set: github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event.action == 'labeled' && github.event.label.name == 'gpu-ci'). labeled fires for every label, so a membership test re-queued a full GPU run whenever any unrelated label was added to an already-labeled PR.
3. actions/checkout pinned to github.event.pull_request.head.sha (falling back to github.sha on push). The gpu-runners pool is small, so a labeled run can otherwise sit queued for minutes while the merge ref is resolved at checkout time.
4. persist-credentials: false on that checkout, so the job's GITHUB_TOKEN is not left in .git/config as an http.extraheader for the PR code that runs next to read on a persistent self-hosted runner. Nothing here pushes, and the build backend is plain setuptools.build_meta with a static version, so it needs no git metadata.
5. timeout-minutes: 30 on the job. It executes PR-supplied code under what was otherwise a 6-hour ceiling, and with the new concurrency group a stuck run also blocks that PR's next one. Sized from history: the last 20 successful runs all finished within ~11.5 min end to end.
6. A concurrency group keyed on PR number and label name, cancel-in-progress: true. Removing gpu-ci cancels an in-flight run; an unrelated label cannot. Push-to-main runs key on the SHA, so each sits alone in its own group and is unaffected.
7. The paths filter is dropped from the pull_request leg. With PR runs opt-in, applying the label is the intent signal, and filtering here only produced the surprise of a labeled PR that never runs (e.g. one touching just tests/ or .github/). The push-to-main leg keeps its filter, since those runs are automatic and do need narrowing.

This mirrors the pattern ci-cursor-review.yml already uses in this repo: label-event trigger, action == 'labeled' guard, concurrency keyed on PR + label.

The push trigger and every job step other than the checkout with: block are untouched.

I also created the label itself, since it has to exist before a maintainer can apply it: gpu-ci, colour D93F0B, description "Maintainer opt-in: run the self-hosted GPU CI leg on this PR". Verified present via gh api repos/Comfy-Org/comfy-cli/labels/gpu-ci — no operator step needed.

What maintainers need to know

• A push to a labeled PR does not re-run the GPU leg. Remove and re-apply gpu-ci to test new commits. This is what makes the label authorize a commit rather than a pull request, and it matches how cursor-review already behaves here.
• Check the head SHA when you label. The pin closes the queue window (label click → runner pickup), but labels are PR-level and carry no SHA, so a push landed between reading the diff and clicking the label is still what executes.
• Conflicted PRs are a trap. GitHub creates no pull_request runs at all while a PR has merge conflicts, so labeling one is silently lost — and resolving the conflict emits only synchronize, which is no longer a trigger. Recovery is remove the label, then re-add.
• The job tests the PR head, not the merge result. Two consequences: a branch that predates a file main added can fail on a step the merged YAML still references (rebase clears it), and for PRs outside the push leg's paths filter (tests/, .github/, pyproject.toml) the merged tree is never GPU-tested, since that leg will not run for them post-merge either.

Why the gate holds

test-cli-gpu is not a required status check. The only active ruleset on main (cla, id 18051499) requires exactly one context, cla-assistant — I read the ruleset directly rather than assuming, and branch protection is disabled on the repo. With the trigger narrowed to label events, unlabeled PRs produce no run at all, so there is no "skipped counts as passed" question either way.

Applying a label to a PR requires triage/write permission, which is precisely the "a maintainer looked at this" signal the gate wants. Outside contributors cannot self-authorize.

The if: covers both of the workflow's triggers exhaustively (push and pull_request). Note for a future editor: if a workflow_dispatch trigger is ever added, that arm has to be added to the if: too, or manual runs would skip.

Known limit: this is a convenience gate, not an authorization boundary

For pull_request events the workflow definition comes from the PR's merge ref, so a PR can edit this if: and have its own version execute. The repo's Actions fork-approval policy is currently first_time_contributors (gh api repos/Comfy-Org/comfy-cli/actions/permissions/fork-pr-contributor-approval), so a returning outside contributor's fork PR runs without approval. The same root cause means the unlabel-cancels-in-flight behaviour is a convenience rather than a guaranteed stop button.

Closing this requires enforcement outside PR-controlled YAML — a protected Environment with required reviewers, or moving the policy to "all outside collaborators" — which is a repo-settings change, not a workflow change, and so is not in this PR. Filed as a follow-up. This is pre-existing and strictly improved here: before this PR, such a PR ran on the GPU runners with no label at all.

Verification

• python -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(...)" — parses; I dumped the parsed on:, concurrency, job if:, timeout-minutes and checkout step and confirmed each is what is intended, and that the push trigger and its paths list are byte-identical to main.
• ruff check . and ruff format --check . at the pinned ruff==0.15.15 (the version in [dev], and what CI runs) — all checks passed, 446 files already formatted. A stray local ruff 0.16.0 flags one file as reformattable; that is version drift in a file this PR does not touch, not a real failure.
• pytest (full suite, uv run --python 3.12 --extra dev) — 7380 passed, 38 skipped, 1 failed in 291s. The one failure, test_an_unloadable_supplement_falls_through_to_the_platform_roots, asserts the platform trust store's CA count and is an artifact of this macOS box (182 vs certifi's 145). This diff contains no Python, and CI's build job passes on the branch.
• timeout-minutes: 30 sized against real data, not guessed: gh api .../actions/workflows/105477158/runs for the last 20 successful runs gives a maximum of ~11.5 min end to end.
• persist-credentials: false checked safe: no step after checkout uses git, and pyproject.toml uses setuptools.build_meta with version = "0.0.0" (no setuptools-scm), so the editable install needs no git metadata.
• Premise check, since this change removes an automatic run: the last 100 runs of this workflow are 78 pull_request + 22 push, all completed with conclusions only in {success, failure} — zero action_required, i.e. no same-repo PR run has ever been held for approval. That is the hole this closes.
• Two full review-panel rounds (17 findings) are addressed and all threads resolved.

Residual

The acceptance checks are post-merge and could not be exercised from this branch, because a pull_request gate only takes effect once the workflow file is on main. Someone should confirm each after merge:

1. Unlabeled PR produces no run. On the next unlabeled PR touching comfy_cli/**, gh run list --workflow=run-on-gpu.yml shows no new run for it.
2. Labeled PR runs on GPU, against the labeled commit. Apply gpu-ci to a trusted PR and confirm the job lands on the gpu-runners group and the checked-out SHA equals the PR head at label time.
3. Removing the label cancels an in-flight run, via the concurrency group.
4. Push-to-main is unaffected. Confirm the next push to main touching comfy_cli/** still runs automatically.

Two knowingly-accepted items, neither fixable at this layer:

• GitHub expression string comparison is case-insensitive, so a label named GPU-CI would also satisfy github.event.label.name == 'gpu-ci'. Benign — either label needs the same write permission to create or apply.
• Every label add/remove on a PR targeting main creates a run whose job is skipped, publishing a skipped check under this name. GitHub offers no label-name filter on the trigger itself, so any label-gated workflow has this property (ci-cursor-review.yml included). Cosmetic here, since no check is required.

One documented deviation from the plan I was given: the comment block was asked to cite an internal tracker id alongside #786. This repo is public, so the comment cites only #786 and omits the internal id. Same reason there is no tracker reference anywhere in this PR's title or body.

Provenance

• Authored by: agent-work loop
• Verified: YAML parse of the changed workflow with on:/concurrency/if:/timeout-minutes/checkout dumped and inspected; ruff check . and ruff format --check . at the pinned ruff==0.15.15: both clean; pytest: 7380 passed, 38 skipped, 1 failed — the single failure asserts this machine's platform CA count and is unrelated to a workflow-only diff; timeout-minutes and persist-credentials each checked against repo/run evidence before being added; 17 review findings across two panel rounds addressed, all threads resolved
• Deviations: the in-file comment omits the internal tracker id the plan quoted (public repo); acceptance checks are post-merge and are listed under ## Residual instead of being run; the fork-approval hardening raised in review is a repo-settings change and was deferred to a follow-up rather than attempted here; SHA-pinning actions/checkout/actions/setup-python was declined as a repo-wide convention decision, since first-party actions are tag-pinned in all thirteen workflows

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The GPU workflow now responds to push and pull-request label events. It runs GPU tests for pushes and gpu-ci labels, cancels matching in-progress runs, limits execution to 30 minutes, and checks out the pull-request head commit.

Changes

GPU workflow execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GPU trigger and job gating .github/workflows/run-on-gpu.yml	The workflow handles labeled and unlabeled pull-request events. The GPU job runs for pushes or when the gpu-ci label is applied.
Run concurrency and commit checkout .github/workflows/run-on-gpu.yml	Concurrency groups include the event identifier and label name. In-progress runs are canceled. GPU jobs have a 30-minute timeout. Pull-request runs check out the head SHA without persisting Git credentials.

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GPU tests now require explicit gpu-ci labeling for pull requests while preserving push behavior, with no current merge-blocking risk identified.

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Addressed the review panel in 20d9f12. All six findings handled; threads replied to and resolved.

#	Finding	Outcome
🟠 High	Gate authorizes the PR, not the reviewed commit	Fixed — synchronize removed from the trigger set entirely (types: [labeled, unlabeled]), gate bound to the labeling event, and checkout pinned to github.event.pull_request.head.sha
🟡 Med	labeled fires for every label; membership test re-queues runs	Fixed — github.event.action == 'labeled' && github.event.label.name == 'gpu-ci'
🟡 Med	skipped may satisfy a required status check	Not a defect — branch protection is disabled; the only active ruleset (cla, 18051499) requires just cla-assistant. Also moot now: unlabeled PRs produce no run at all
🟡 Med	Label is not an authorization boundary (workflow comes from the merge ref)	Valid, deferred — needs a repo-settings change (protected Environment or stricter fork-approval policy), not a workflow change. Recorded as a follow-up and documented in the PR body
🟢 Low	paths filter also gates labeled, so a labeled PR may never run	Fixed — paths dropped from the PR leg; the label is now the intent signal. Push-to-main keeps its filter
🟢 Low	No concurrency group	Fixed — added, keyed on PR + label name so removing gpu-ci cancels an in-flight run while an unrelated label does not

Net effect is a tighter gate than the one reviewed: the GPU leg now runs only on an explicit label application, against exactly the commit that carried the label, and a maintainer can cancel a run by removing the label. This mirrors ci-cursor-review.yml.

One behaviour change worth knowing before you merge: a push to a labeled PR no longer re-runs the GPU leg. Remove and re-apply gpu-ci to test new commits — that is what makes the label authorize a commit rather than a pull request.

Verification: pinned ruff==0.15.15 check + format clean; full pytest 7380 passed / 38 skipped / 1 failed, the one failure being an artifact of this macOS box's CA count in a diff that contains no Python; all 11 PR checks green. I have re-triggered the review panel against the updated diff, since the fixes introduce logic the first panel never saw.

I have not merged this, and will not — it still needs a human approval.

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Round 2 — ledger: 6 prior finding(s) across 1 round(s) (0 never answered).

Found 10 finding(s).

Severity	Count
🟡 Medium	3
🟢 Low	5
⚪ Nit	2

Panel: 6/6 reviewers contributed findings.

[mattmillerai]

Round 2 addressed in 53854f3. All 11 findings handled; every thread on this PR (17 across both rounds) is now resolved, and all 12 checks are green.

Three substantive changes:

• timeout-minutes: 30 on the job. It runs PR-supplied code on the shared self-hosted pool under what was a 6-hour default, and the new concurrency group means a stuck run also blocks that PR's next one. Sized from history, not guessed: the last 20 successful runs all finished within ~11.5 min end to end.
• persist-credentials: false on checkout, so the job's GITHUB_TOKEN is not sitting in .git/config when the PR's code runs on a persistent runner. Verified safe first — no step after checkout uses git, and the build backend is plain setuptools with a static version, so the editable install needs no git metadata.
• Documented the conflicted-PR trap. GitHub creates no pull_request runs while a PR has merge conflicts, so labeling a conflicted PR is silently lost, and resolving it emits only synchronize, which this PR removed. Recovery is remove the label, then re-add.

Four of the findings were that my own Round 1 comments overclaimed, and they were right on all four. Corrected, no behaviour change: the "push runs queue" note was simply backwards (each push sits alone in its group and is unaffected); the checkout pin closes the queue window but is not proof the maintainer read that commit; "the push-to-main leg covers the merged state" is false for exactly the PRs the paths removal newly admits; and unlabel-cancellation is a convenience, not a guaranteed stop button, since the cancelling run comes from the merge ref's copy of this file.

Two findings I deliberately did not act on, with reasoning on the threads: the skipped check published on unrelated label events (GitHub has no label-name filter on triggers, so every label-gated workflow has this — ci-cursor-review.yml included — and no check is required here), and SHA-pinning actions/checkout/actions/setup-python (first-party actions are tag-pinned in all 13 workflows, so pinning these two lines would break convention rather than match it; the repo-level sha_pinning_required toggle is the right lever and is a maintainer call).

I have not re-triggered the panel a third time — Round 2 was mostly comment corrections plus two small, reviewer-requested hardening lines, so I would be spending a full panel on diminishing returns. Happy to if a reviewer wants it.

Not merged, and I will not merge it — this still needs a human approval. The one carried-forward item is the follow-up to back the gate with enforcement outside PR-controlled YAML (protected Environment, or a stricter fork-approval policy); it is a repo-settings change and is written up in the PR body.

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🤖 The reviews loop filed Linear follow-up ticket(s) for review thread(s) deferred as out of scope for this PR:

• BE-11735 — Back the gpu-ci gate with enforcement outside PR-controlled YAML (protected Environment or stricter fork-approval policy) — filed as agent-spike (premise unverified)

The following carry agent-spike instead of agent-ok because their reachability claim was not backed by evidence (BE-5378) — the claim is investigated before any code is written, and "the premise does not hold" is a valid, successful outcome:

• Back the gpu-ci gate with enforcement outside PR-controlled YAML (protected Environment or stricter fork-approval policy) — no reachability block in the proposal