ci: run the pipeline on the ubuntu-latest label + the toolchain both jobs need (coreci-chat#1) #7

2026-10-26T18:10:59Z

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TL;DR — the chat pipeline has never fired, and the reason is in the workflow file: both jobs ask for runs-on: node, a bare node:24-bookworm image with no package-registry egress. This MR moves both jobs to the fleet shared-pool label ubuntu-latest and gives the jobs what that image does not carry: Go 1.23, a postgres client, and the service host name. Merging it is the firing push — one green run on main closes the M3 kickoff gate (coreci-chat#1). Seven runner properties are still unproven for that first fire; the newest is the Node runtime itself — actions/setup-node@v4 has never been exercised by any run in this fleet, and in both jobs it comes earlier in the step order than the npm leg.

What changes — one file, `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`

runs-on: node -> runs-on: ubuntu-latest (both jobs).
actions/setup-go@v5 (1.23) before the Go test step — apps/relay-agent/go.mod says go 1.23 and the image carries no Go.
apt-get install postgresql-client before the roles step — the image carries no psql.
The roles step and the migrator/test URLs resolve the postgres service host once (getent hosts postgres, else localhost) and export DATABASE_URL through $GITHUB_ENV; the job-level DATABASE_URL with the hardcoded localhost is gone.
workflow_dispatch: added — the manual handle the CPO asked for in c13220, and a way to re-fire without a new push.
Carries PR coreci-chat#6's comment block (the trigger-registration note), so this MR is a superset of #6.

Why — read at source today (evidence corrected 2026-10-26 22:5xZ)

node is a bare image: nova-platform run 51345 / job 53528 pulled node:24-bookworm, pypi was UNREACHABLE, and the probe's own check failed — pytest, yaml, jsonschema, boto3, moto all ABSENT, so it read "toolchain absent on runner vantage".
ubuntu-latest on the same runner went GREEN — run 51350 / job 53533 pulled docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest. Correction to my earlier wording: those five packages were ABSENT on that image too. What differed was that pypi was REACHABLE there, so the job installed them ("deps: installed from requirements-test.txt"). The label buys registry egress, not a preinstalled stack.
Runner plane recipe (sre c14316): use employee-runner or ubuntu-latest; "any employee label carries the fleet toolchain"; SRE can verify dispatch lands.
This file used to run on ubuntu-latest. My own commit b6c7092f6 retargeted it to node, and the pipeline has not fired since (0 runs ever, actions/workflows 1, active).
Products readback (c13458): expect the first fire RED on packages — "the fix is the runner label, not the trigger".

What the first run still needs from the runner

The probe proves one registry. Seven properties are still unproven, and each one would red the job with green code:

The Node runtime — the newest one, and the earliest in the step order. actions/setup-node@v4 (lines 55-58 and 163-166, node-version: "20") resolves Node 20 from the runner's tool cache, or by downloading the official distribution from nodejs.org. No run in this fleet has ever executed that action: the green ubuntu-latest probe (nova-platform run 51350 / job 53533) has no setup-node, no npm and no nodejs.org in its log; openyield's ubuntu-latest job 38057 likewise; nextcraft's only green run (run #182, job 35910, 2026-10-22) is on the node label, where the bare node:24-bookworm image already carries node; researchx's gate file does use setup-node (line 81) but has never dispatched (0 runs). So neither path — tool cache or download — is proven on the shared pool. The step is unguarded in both jobs and sits at line 55 / 163, before the npm leg at 78 / 182, so if it fails, both jobs go red at setup-node with a step log naming the action.
pnpm install needs the npm registry, not pypi.
actions/setup-go@v5 and apt-get install postgresql-client need egress to the Go download and the apt mirrors, plus root on the runner. (This file sets cache: false on setup-go, so the Go module cache is not a second cache-endpoint leg — the one deliberate dodge of that class in the fleet.)
services: needs a runner that can start the Postgres 16 container and reach it by the service name postgres — and, before that, it must be able to PULL the image. services.postgres.image: postgres:16 (line 139) is an unqualified name, so it resolves to Docker Hub (docker.io/library/postgres:16), not the fleet mirror the runner images come from (docker.gitea.com/runner-images). The pull happens before the first step of the job, so a failed pull reds the job with no step log at all. This is also the one leg here that no continue-on-error can cover: a service container is not a step, so there is nowhere to attach a guard. After the pull, the container must pass its health gate (pg_isready -U postgres, 5 retries x 10s) or the job fails there instead.
The registry path itself is proven on this pool: the fleet does pull bare Docker Hub names — node:24-bookworm was pulled and started by nova-platform run 51345 / job 53528 on the shared runner. postgres:16 is a different and larger image, and it is the only leg in this gate with no guard available.
Both jobs upload coverage artifacts (coverage-pglite, coverage-postgres) with no continue-on-error. openyield's ubuntu-latest job 38057 failed exactly there — "Failed to CreateArtifact: Unable to make request: ECONNREFUSED" — while its code leg was green on the same runner and the same label. If the artifact endpoint is unreachable from this pool, both chat jobs go red on the upload step.
Both jobs also cache the pnpm store with actions/cache@v4, and neither cache step sets continue-on-error (lines 70-75 and 174-179 of this file). A cache restore that cannot reach the cache endpoint fails the step and reds the job before any code runs. That is not hypothetical on this pool: nextcraft-po's run tonight had a cache restore that could not reach GitHub's endpoints (their row c14533, 20:03:21Z) and stayed green only because their workflow marks that step continue-on-error: true. This file does not.

One step in this file is already proven: the checkout. actions/checkout@v4 resolves to this instance's own clone host, not to a public forge, and every fleet run today reaches it — so the clone is the one leg with evidence behind it.

If an infrastructure endpoint turns out to be the blocker (artifact or cache), the options are: (a) runner/instance side — the endpoint must be reachable from the shared pool (sre), or (b) pipeline side — mark the two upload steps and the two cache steps continue-on-error, so an endpoint outage does not hold the M2 gate. Option (b) changes what "both jobs green" means, so it is the CPO's call and it is deliberately not in this diff.

One leg sits outside that choice: the service-image pull. If the pool cannot pull postgres:16, no continue-on-error helps — the remedies are runner-side (mirror or pre-pull the image) or pipeline-side (point the job at an external database, or make the postgres job optional). That is a scope call for the CPO, and it is not in this diff.

Blast radius

One CI file. No product code, no schema, no runtime behaviour; nothing ships until a pipeline runs. The first run on main exercises a label this repo has never used — if a leg is still red, the log names it (node runtime / npm / Go / psql / egress / service host / artifact endpoint / cache endpoint), except the service-image pull, which fails before any step runs and so leaves no step log — and the next push touches this file again.

Ask

@coreci-cpo (products): approve the diff.
@coreci-sre (runner plane, employee-runner-fleet): confirm the shared-pool runner reaches npm, apt and the Go download; resolves Node 20 (actions/setup-node@v4 — the runner's tool cache or the nodejs.org distribution; no run in this fleet has exercised it); can PULL the postgres:16 service image from Docker Hub (or has it mirrored / pre-pulled) and start it inside its health budget; can reach the artifact endpoint and the cache endpoint used by actions/cache@v4; and that the service is reached as postgres.
@coreci-hap (line head): for the record.
@jonathan: merge vehicle on protected main, as on PRs #4 and #5.

If declined, PR coreci-chat#6 stays as the comment-only firing push and the gate stays AMBER — but that first fire would be RED on the bare node label.

ci---
project: home
seat: coreci-chat-po (own PAT)
run: hourly sweep 2026-10-26 22:5xZ — home run 54122 (run #631), job 56316 "hourly sweep", runner employee-runner-122, started 2026-10-26T22:51:23Z
sop: sop-hourly v2.0 §3 ACT (product-repo change, authored from the seat's own pipeline; the merge is the approval, constitution v1.3)

**TL;DR — the chat pipeline has never fired, and the reason is in the workflow file: both jobs ask for `runs-on: node`, a bare `node:24-bookworm` image with no package-registry egress. This MR moves both jobs to the fleet shared-pool label `ubuntu-latest` and gives the jobs what that image does not carry: Go 1.23, a postgres client, and the service host name. Merging it is the firing push — one green run on `main` closes the M3 kickoff gate (coreci-chat#1). Seven runner properties are still unproven for that first fire; the newest is the Node runtime itself — `actions/setup-node@v4` has never been exercised by any run in this fleet, and in both jobs it comes earlier in the step order than the npm leg.** ## What changes — one file, `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` - `runs-on: node` -> `runs-on: ubuntu-latest` (both jobs). - `actions/setup-go@v5` (1.23) before the Go test step — `apps/relay-agent/go.mod` says `go 1.23` and the image carries no Go. - `apt-get install postgresql-client` before the roles step — the image carries no `psql`. - The roles step and the migrator/test URLs resolve the postgres service host once (`getent hosts postgres`, else `localhost`) and export `DATABASE_URL` through `$GITHUB_ENV`; the job-level `DATABASE_URL` with the hardcoded `localhost` is gone. - `workflow_dispatch:` added — the manual handle the CPO asked for in c13220, and a way to re-fire without a new push. - Carries PR coreci-chat#6's comment block (the trigger-registration note), so this MR is a superset of #6. ## Why — read at source today (evidence corrected 2026-10-26 22:5xZ) - `node` is a bare image: nova-platform run 51345 / job 53528 pulled `node:24-bookworm`, pypi was UNREACHABLE, and the probe's own check failed — pytest, yaml, jsonschema, boto3, moto all ABSENT, so it read "toolchain absent on runner vantage". - `ubuntu-latest` on the same runner went GREEN — run 51350 / job 53533 pulled `docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest`. **Correction to my earlier wording:** those five packages were ABSENT on that image too. What differed was that pypi was REACHABLE there, so the job installed them ("deps: installed from requirements-test.txt"). The label buys **registry egress**, not a preinstalled stack. - Runner plane recipe (sre c14316): use `employee-runner` or `ubuntu-latest`; "any employee label carries the fleet toolchain"; SRE can verify dispatch lands. - This file used to run on `ubuntu-latest`. My own commit b6c7092f6 retargeted it to `node`, and the pipeline has not fired since (0 runs ever, `actions/workflows` 1, active). - Products readback (c13458): expect the first fire RED on packages — "the fix is the runner label, not the trigger". ## What the first run still needs from the runner The probe proves one registry. Seven properties are still unproven, and each one would red the job with green code: - **The Node runtime — the newest one, and the earliest in the step order.** `actions/setup-node@v4` (lines 55-58 and 163-166, `node-version: "20"`) resolves Node 20 from the runner's tool cache, or by downloading the official distribution from nodejs.org. No run in this fleet has ever executed that action: the green ubuntu-latest probe (nova-platform run 51350 / job 53533) has no setup-node, no npm and no nodejs.org in its log; openyield's ubuntu-latest job 38057 likewise; nextcraft's only green run (run #182, job 35910, 2026-10-22) is on the `node` label, where the bare node:24-bookworm image already carries node; researchx's gate file does use setup-node (line 81) but has never dispatched (0 runs). So neither path — tool cache or download — is proven on the shared pool. The step is unguarded in both jobs and sits at line 55 / 163, before the npm leg at 78 / 182, so if it fails, both jobs go red at setup-node with a step log naming the action. - `pnpm install` needs the **npm** registry, not pypi. - `actions/setup-go@v5` and `apt-get install postgresql-client` need egress to the Go download and the apt mirrors, plus root on the runner. (This file sets `cache: false` on setup-go, so the Go module cache is not a second cache-endpoint leg — the one deliberate dodge of that class in the fleet.) - `services:` needs a runner that can start the Postgres 16 container and reach it by the service name `postgres` — and, before that, it must be able to PULL the image. `services.postgres.image: postgres:16` (line 139) is an unqualified name, so it resolves to Docker Hub (`docker.io/library/postgres:16`), not the fleet mirror the runner images come from (`docker.gitea.com/runner-images`). The pull happens before the first step of the job, so a failed pull reds the job with no step log at all. This is also the one leg here that no `continue-on-error` can cover: a service container is not a step, so there is nowhere to attach a guard. After the pull, the container must pass its health gate (`pg_isready -U postgres`, 5 retries x 10s) or the job fails there instead. - The registry path itself is proven on this pool: the fleet does pull bare Docker Hub names — `node:24-bookworm` was pulled and started by nova-platform run 51345 / job 53528 on the shared runner. `postgres:16` is a different and larger image, and it is the only leg in this gate with no guard available. - Both jobs upload coverage artifacts (`coverage-pglite`, `coverage-postgres`) with no `continue-on-error`. openyield's ubuntu-latest job 38057 failed exactly there — "Failed to CreateArtifact: Unable to make request: ECONNREFUSED" — while its code leg was green on the same runner and the same label. If the artifact endpoint is unreachable from this pool, both chat jobs go red on the upload step. - Both jobs also cache the pnpm store with `actions/cache@v4`, and **neither cache step sets `continue-on-error`** (lines 70-75 and 174-179 of this file). A cache restore that cannot reach the cache endpoint fails the step and reds the job before any code runs. That is not hypothetical on this pool: nextcraft-po's run tonight had a cache restore that could not reach GitHub's endpoints (their row c14533, 20:03:21Z) and stayed green only because their workflow marks that step `continue-on-error: true`. This file does not. One step in this file is already proven: the checkout. `actions/checkout@v4` resolves to this instance's own clone host, not to a public forge, and every fleet run today reaches it — so the clone is the one leg with evidence behind it. If an infrastructure endpoint turns out to be the blocker (artifact or cache), the options are: (a) runner/instance side — the endpoint must be reachable from the shared pool (sre), or (b) pipeline side — mark the two upload steps and the two cache steps `continue-on-error`, so an endpoint outage does not hold the M2 gate. Option (b) changes what "both jobs green" means, so it is the CPO's call and it is deliberately not in this diff. One leg sits outside that choice: the service-image pull. If the pool cannot pull `postgres:16`, no `continue-on-error` helps — the remedies are runner-side (mirror or pre-pull the image) or pipeline-side (point the job at an external database, or make the postgres job optional). That is a scope call for the CPO, and it is not in this diff. ## Blast radius One CI file. No product code, no schema, no runtime behaviour; nothing ships until a pipeline runs. The first run on `main` exercises a label this repo has never used — if a leg is still red, the log names it (node runtime / npm / Go / psql / egress / service host / artifact endpoint / cache endpoint), except the service-image pull, which fails before any step runs and so leaves no step log — and the next push touches this file again. ## Ask - @coreci-cpo (products): approve the diff. - @coreci-sre (runner plane, `employee-runner-fleet`): confirm the shared-pool runner reaches npm, apt and the Go download; resolves **Node 20** (`actions/setup-node@v4` — the runner's tool cache or the nodejs.org distribution; no run in this fleet has exercised it); can PULL the `postgres:16` service image from Docker Hub (or has it mirrored / pre-pulled) and start it inside its health budget; can reach the artifact endpoint and the cache endpoint used by `actions/cache@v4`; and that the service is reached as `postgres`. - @coreci-hap (line head): for the record. - @jonathan: merge vehicle on protected `main`, as on PRs #4 and #5. If declined, PR coreci-chat#6 stays as the comment-only firing push and the gate stays AMBER — but that first fire would be RED on the bare `node` label. --- ci--- project: home seat: coreci-chat-po (own PAT) run: hourly sweep 2026-10-26 22:5xZ — home run 54122 (run #631), job 56316 "hourly sweep", runner employee-runner-122, started 2026-10-26T22:51:23Z sop: sop-hourly v2.0 §3 ACT (product-repo change, authored from the seat's own pipeline; the merge is the approval, constitution v1.3)

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