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With setup-rust at #546 a server that will not start no longer fails the job: it falls back to an uncached build and reports sccache-status fallback. A server that never started has no statistics, so any step that reads them afterwards (sccache --show-stats, a health check) would start the dead server again, wait out the startup timeout and fail, turning the fail-open back into a red job. whitaker (#474), netsuke (#850) and podbot (#210, #217) each needed the same guard added by hand.

This adds the guard once, as a small composite action, sccache-report.

Design

  • Where it lives. Not in setup-rust: the statistics exist only after the build, when setup-rust has finished, and a composite action has no post step. Exposing statistics as setup-rust outputs fails for the same reason.
  • Rejected: a shim replacing sccache --show-stats (changes a binary callers also run directly); leaving the guard to each consumer (three repositories already needed it, and each repeats it and its contract).
  • Behaviour. Inputs status and backend (from setup-rust's outputs), stats-file, text-file, summary. status: fallback, or no sccache on PATH, stands down with a sccache-report notice, metric sccache-report.outcome=<fallback|not-installed> and reported=false; nothing is written and sccache is never invoked. Otherwise it prints and writes text and JSON, appends the summary under the backend (Cache location reads ghac for Ubicloud's proxy and GitHub's service alike), and sets reported=true and stats-file.
  • Consumers keep their own health checks and condition them on steps.<id>.outputs.reported == 'true', so the guard lives here.

Proof

test_sccache_report.py runs the shipped script against a stub sccache (12 cases): a fallback never calls sccache, reports false, writes no file and no summary and says so; an empty or started status reports text, JSON and the backend-headed summary; the summary can be switched off; a missing binary stands down. Seven mutations each fail a named case: the fallback guard deleted, reported=true on a fallback, the guard on the wrong value, JSON not written, the summary flag ignored, the backend line dropped, and a missing binary failing. make lint, make check-fmt and make markdownlint are clean.

Adopting it in whitaker, netsuke and podbot is a follow-up per repository, after this is released at a pin they can take.

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Introduce a fallback-aware sccache statistics action for reliable post-build reporting without turning uncached jobs into failures.

New Features:

  • Add a reusable sccache-report composite action that reports sccache statistics in text and JSON and optionally appends them to the job summary.
  • Expose reported and stats-file outputs so downstream health checks can run only when statistics are available.
  • Stand down cleanly on sccache fallbacks or when sccache is unavailable, with notices and outcome metrics.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent fallback builds from invoking an unavailable sccache server or publishing misleading zero-valued statistics.

Enhancements:

  • Document usage, migration, fallback behavior, and integration with setup-rust consumers.
  • Add unit and composite-boundary coverage for reporting, fallback handling, missing binaries, custom paths, summaries, outputs, and input validation.

Documentation:

  • Add user and developer guidance for adopting the fallback-aware sccache reporting action.

Tests:

  • Add comprehensive tests covering the action script and caller-visible composite-action behavior.

Chores:

  • Register the new action in repository metadata and ownership configuration.

With setup-rust failing open, a server that never started has no statistics,
and sccache --show-stats would start it again and fail the step, so every
consumer that read statistics after the build needed the same guard. The new
composite action prints the statistics, writes them as text and JSON, adds
them to the job summary under the chosen backend, and stands down with a
notice and reported=false when setup-rust reports sccache-status fallback or
sccache is absent. A consumer's health check conditions on reported.
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Summary

  • Add the sccache-report composite action to report text and JSON statistics after a build.
  • When status is fallback or sccache is unavailable, the action reports reported=false and does not collect statistics or write files.
  • Otherwise, the action writes statistics, optionally adds a backend-labelled job summary, and reports reported=true.
  • Reject line breaks in output paths. Pass -- to tee so option-like text paths are treated as filenames.
  • Document action usage, outputs and health-check conditions. Add tests for reporting, fallback behaviour and path handling.

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The supplied PR summary reports 12 test cases and clean results for make lint, make check-fmt and make markdownlint. These results were not independently verified.

Walkthrough

This change adds the sccache-report composite action. It writes text and JSON statistics when sccache is available, and stands down when status is fallback or sccache is absent. Tests and workflow documentation cover its outputs and use.

Changes

sccache reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and run the report action
.github/actions/sccache-report/action.yml, .github/actions/sccache-report/tests/*, .github/actions/sccache-report/README.md, .github/actions/sccache-report/CHANGELOG.md
The action validates output paths, stands down on fallback or when sccache is unavailable, and otherwise writes text and JSON statistics. Tests cover these paths and action defaults. Documentation describes the inputs, outputs and behaviour.
Document and register workflow use
.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md, docs/developers-guide.md, docs/users-guide.md, README.md, CODEOWNERS
Documents how workflows pass setup-rust outputs to the action and use reported to gate a health check. Updates fallback guidance and adds the action to the available-actions list with an owner assignment.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow
  participant setup-rust
  participant sccache-report
  participant sccache
  participant GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
  participant HealthCheck
  setup-rust-->>Workflow: status and backend outputs
  Workflow->>sccache-report: pass status and backend
  alt status is fallback or sccache is unavailable
    sccache-report-->>Workflow: reported=false and empty stats-file
  else sccache is available
    sccache-report->>sccache: request text and JSON statistics
    sccache-->>sccache-report: return statistics
    opt summary is enabled and GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY is set
      sccache-report->>GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY: append statistics and optional backend
    end
    sccache-report-->>Workflow: reported=true and stats-file path
  end
  Workflow->>HealthCheck: check reported output
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Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7bde1

In disabled or release workflows with sccache on PATH but no server, the report can present zero defaults as collected statistics. The issue is limited to those configurations; distinguish a not-started server from a caller-owned server before relying on the report.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Testing (Overall) ❌ Error The tests substantively cover the fallback guard, missing sccache, text and JSON reporting, summaries, path validation, outputs, and shell wiring. They do not guard the normal custom stats-file in… Add a normal-reporting test with a custom SR_STATS_FILE. Assert that the JSON content is written to that exact path, that the default path is not used, and that the stats-file output equals the supplied path. Keep the existing fallback …
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ❌ Error Add an end-to-end workflow test. The action changes a public composite-action integration contract, but the tests do not invoke the action through a workflow. They extract steps[...]["run"] and run … Create a black-box workflow test, using the repository's workflow harness or act, that invokes ./.github/actions/sccache-report with with: inputs and a controlled sccache executable. Assert the caller-visible reported and `stats-f…
User-Facing Documentation ⚠️ Warning The user guide clearly documents sccache-report, its post-build usage, fallback and missing-binary behaviour, outputs, and health-check gating. However, this PR adds new user-facing functionality an… Add the required post-1.0 migration document for the next major release. Signpost sccache-report, its if: always() usage, status and backend inputs, reported and stats-file outputs, and the requirement to gate health checks on `…
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the new sccache-report action and the fallback behaviour. It references issue #546, which the description identifies as the related issue.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the action, its fallback behaviour, inputs, outputs, tests, documentation, and adoption plan. It is fully related to the changeset.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 85.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 1 files. (6 skipped: 6 …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Developer Documentation ✅ Passed The developer guide clearly documents the new sccache-report abstraction. It records the fallback problem, the boundary from setup-rust, the rejected shim approach, caller placement under `if: alw…
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed Pass the module-level documentation check. The added Python module has a module docstring that explains the test module's purpose, utility, and relationship to sccache-report and setup-rust. The c…
Testing (Property / Proof) ✅ Passed Keep the existing parameterized tests; do not require a property test. The introduced behaviour has a small, auditable set of meaningful equivalence classes: sccache-status covers fallback, `start…
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ✅ Passed Pass. The pull request adds no Rust or TypeScript compile-time behaviour, so a trybuild test is not applicable. The new tests execute the shipped Bash step and cover fallback, normal reporting, missin…
Unit Architecture ✅ Passed The added sccache-report action is a coherent reporting command. It receives status, backend, and output paths as explicit inputs. It makes the fallible sccache --show-stats calls and file writes …
Domain Architecture ✅ Passed The pull request changes only a GitHub composite action, its tests, and documentation. The new action is an explicit infrastructure adapter around sccache, environment variables, filesystem paths, G…
Observability ✅ Passed Accept this change. The action emits a bounded sccache-report.outcome metric with only reported, fallback, or not-installed values. It logs fallback and missing-binary decisions with notices, …
Full details: Testing (Overall)

Explanation

The tests substantively cover the fallback guard, missing sccache, text and JSON reporting, summaries, path validation, outputs, and shell wiring. They do not guard the normal custom stats-file input. The action promises to write JSON to the configured path (action.yml lines 58, 96, and 109), but test_an_option_like_text_path_is_a_file_name only checks the custom text path and reported; it does not check s.json. A faulty implementation that ignores SR_STATS_FILE and always writes the default sccache-stats.json would pass the added tests.

Resolution

Add a normal-reporting test with a custom SR_STATS_FILE. Assert that the JSON content is written to that exact path, that the default path is not used, and that the stats-file output equals the supplied path. Keep the existing fallback and path-validation assertions.

Full details: User-Facing Documentation

Explanation

The user guide clearly documents sccache-report, its post-build usage, fallback and missing-binary behaviour, outputs, and health-check gating. However, this PR adds new user-facing functionality and does not add or update an n+1 migration document. The repository version is 1.2.2, and the reviewed range contains no migration document that mentions sccache-report.

Resolution

Add the required post-1.0 migration document for the next major release. Signpost sccache-report, its if: always() usage, status and backend inputs, reported and stats-file outputs, and the requirement to gate health checks on reported. Link the migration document from docs/users-guide.md.

Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)

Explanation

Add an end-to-end workflow test. The action changes a public composite-action integration contract, but the tests do not invoke the action through a workflow. They extract steps[...]["run"] and run it with subprocess, while supplying SR_* variables directly (test file lines 103–127). The manifest checks only static strings for outputs, shell, and defaults. No workflow-level test path changed in the pull request. Therefore the tests do not verify GitHub Actions input-to-environment mapping, composite output propagation, or the caller-visible uses boundary.

Resolution

Create a black-box workflow test, using the repository's workflow harness or act, that invokes ./.github/actions/sccache-report with with: inputs and a controlled sccache executable. Assert the caller-visible reported and stats-file outputs, text and JSON files, job-summary behaviour, and the fallback and missing-binary stand-down paths. Keep the existing shell tests for local edge cases, but run the new test through the composite-action boundary.

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The build is done; the stats arrive,
As text and JSON files.
If fallback leaves no server there,
The action reports and stands aside.
A health check waits for reported,
And summaries record the run.

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Introduces the unreleased sccache-report composite action as a single reusable guard around post-build statistics: it avoids resurrecting a failed server during setup-rust fallbacks, reports text/JSON and optional backend-aware summaries otherwise, exposes health-check-friendly outputs, and adds comprehensive tests and integration documentation.

Sequence diagram for the sccache statistics fallback guard

sequenceDiagram
    participant SetupRust
    participant Build
    participant Report as sccache-report
    participant Sccache
    participant Health as Health check

    SetupRust->>Build: uncached or cached build
    Build->>Report: invoke after build
    alt status == fallback
        Report-->>Health: reported=false
        Report-->>Report: stand_down
    else sccache is unavailable
        Report-->>Health: reported=false
        Report-->>Report: stand_down
    else reportable build
        Report->>Sccache: sccache --show-stats
        Report->>Sccache: sccache --show-stats --stats-format json
        Report-->>Health: reported=true, stats-file
        Health->>Health: check statistics
    end
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Flow diagram for sccache-report outcomes

flowchart TD
    A["sccache-report after build"] --> B{"status == fallback?"}
    B -- Yes --> D["stand_down; reported=false"]
    B -- No --> C{"sccache on PATH?"}
    C -- No --> D
    C -- Yes --> E["Run sccache --show-stats"]
    E --> F["Write text and JSON statistics"]
    F --> G{"summary == true?"}
    G -- Yes --> H["Append backend-aware job summary"]
    G -- No --> I["Skip summary"]
    H --> J["reported=true; expose stats-file"]
    I --> J
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Change Details Files
Add a composite action that safely reports sccache statistics after builds, including a fail-open guard for fallback and missing installations.
  • Skip all sccache calls and file/summary writes when setup-rust reports fallback or sccache is absent.
  • Otherwise collect text and JSON statistics, write configurable output files, and optionally append a backend-labeled job summary.
  • Expose reported and stats-file outputs, plus notices and outcome metrics for both reporting and stand-down paths.
.github/actions/sccache-report/action.yml
.github/actions/sccache-report/README.md
.github/actions/sccache-report/CHANGELOG.md
Add executable behavioral and manifest coverage for the new action.
  • Test fallback, normal reporting, summary opt-out, missing binary, sccache invocations, outputs, defaults, and shell wiring using a stub binary.
  • Document the mutation-resistant test coverage and validate the shipped script directly from action.yml.
.github/actions/sccache-report/tests/test_sccache_report.py
Document the action and the fallback-statistics integration contract across repository guidance.
  • Recommend sccache-report for setup-rust consumers that need post-build statistics and condition health checks on reported.
  • List the new action in the repository action catalog and add its changelog entry.
.github/actions/setup-rust/README.md
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leynos added 2 commits October 1, 2026 22:30
On a Windows host bash resolves to WSL's launcher rather than the Git Bash the
action's shell: bash uses, so the stub-based behaviour tests cannot run
there. The manifest tests still run everywhere.
Skipping the behaviour tests on win32 left the guard unproved on the platform
where Windows consumers run it. The tests now resolve the Bash that shell:
bash uses there: Git Bash at its usual install paths, or a bash on PATH that
is not WSL's System32 launcher. They skip only when no Git Bash exists, naming
every path tried. Path lists use os.pathsep.
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A stats-file with a line break would add records to the step output (x then
reported=false would override the real value), so both paths are refused when
they contain CR or LF. tee now gets -- before the text path, so an option-like
name is a file name. The README input table gains Type and Required columns.
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The usage example now passes the output through env: and quotes it, so a path
with spaces or metacharacters cannot break or inject into the command. The
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@leynos leynos changed the title Add sccache-report: a statistics step that survives a fallback Add sccache-report: a statistics step that survives a fallback (#546) Oct 2, 2026
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@coderabbitai Table, at the previous head: User-Facing Documentation: addressed in 1bbcddf (the users' guide has a section on reading statistics after the build, pointing callers at the action). Title: now cites #546. Testing (Compile-Time / Ui): not adding snapshots, for a reason. The action's outputs are a handful of exact lines plus the statistics the stub supplies, and the tests already assert each one exactly (the notice and metric strings, the two output records, the summary block with the backend line, the JSON and text files, and the path refusals), with a mutation failing a named case for each. A syrupy snapshot of the same lines would restate those assertions and make every wording change a snapshot update without catching a defect the exact assertions miss. Argued, not changed.

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  • User-Facing Documentation: Addressed. docs/users-guide.md, Line 169, now explains post-build reporting and shows the action with a gated health check.
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  • Testing (Compile-Time / Ui): Keep the assertion-based tests. I withdraw the snapshot request. The tests check the output contract directly; snapshots are not required for this action.

One precision point: several checks use substring matching, not complete-output equality. That does not change the decision to withdraw the snapshot request. I inspected the tests but did not run them or verify the mutation results.


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With no server, sccache --show-stats prints empty default statistics
(src/commands.rs, ShowStats uses connect_to_server); only --zero-stats starts
one. The stand-down on a fallback stays, because an unguarded report would
publish a table of zeros for an uncached job.
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🟡 Minor · Distinguish an absent server from a caller-owned server. · action.yml:81-93

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Distinguish an absent server from a caller-owned server.

When setup-rust is disabled or runs for a release, sccache-status remains empty. With sccache on PATH, this action then writes the no-server defaults and sets reported=true. The documented health check can therefore run without collected statistics.

Emit not-started for disabled/release paths and caller-set when setup-rust preserves the caller's wrapper. Stand down only for fallback and not-started. This preserves reporting for an active caller-owned server.

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diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup-rust/action.yml
@@
-    value: ${{ steps.sccache-server.outputs.status }}
+    value: ${{ steps.sccache-server.outputs.status || steps.sccache-not-started.outputs.status }}
@@
         if [[ "${WRAPPER_STATE:-}" != exported ]]; then
           report caller-set
+          echo "status=caller-set" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           exit 0
         fi
@@
         echo "::notice title=setup-rust sccache::sccache server started"
+    - name: Record sccache as not started
+      id: sccache-not-started
+      if: ${{ inputs.use-sccache != 'true' || github.event_name == 'release' }}
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "status=not-started" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
diff --git a/.github/actions/sccache-report/action.yml b/.github/actions/sccache-report/action.yml
@@
-      to an uncached build. Call it after the build, under `if: always()`.
+      to an uncached build or when setup-rust did not start a server. Call it
+      after the build, under `if: always()`.
@@
-      to an uncached build; there are no statistics, and asking for them would start
-      the server again and fail the step, so the action reports nothing and
-      says so. Any other value, including empty, reports.
+      to an uncached build. `not-started` means that setup-rust did not start a
+      server. Both values report nothing. `started` and `caller-set` report.
@@
         if [[ "${SR_STATUS}" == fallback ]]; then
           stand_down "sccache fell back to an uncached build; there are no statistics to report" fallback
           exit 0
         fi
+        if [[ "${SR_STATUS}" == not-started ]]; then
+          stand_down "setup-rust did not start an sccache server; there are no statistics to report" not-started
+          exit 0
+        fi
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Update the setup-rust status flow so disabled or release paths emit not-started
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A new test resolves a caller's with: mapping against the manifest, renders the
step env, runs the step under the composite-fragment harness against a
controlled sccache and reads the declared outputs, so input-to-environment
mapping, custom paths, summary, fallback and missing-binary paths and output
propagation are held. Add docs/migrating-to-sccache-report.md, link it from the
users' guide, and correct the status input description that still said asking
for statistics restarts the server.
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Replying to the table at 7bde12b. All three non-passing rows are actioned in this push.

Testing (Overall) and Testing (Unit And Behavioural). A new test module, tests/test_sccache_report_boundary.py, runs the action through its composite boundary rather than setting SR_* variables directly. It resolves a caller's with: mapping against the manifest's declared inputs and defaults (refusing an undeclared key), renders the step's env: block, runs the step under the repository's composite-fragment harness (composite_fragments) against a controlled sccache, and reads the manifest's declared outputs: the way a caller's steps.<id>.outputs would be. It covers a custom stats-file/text-file (JSON and text land at exactly those paths, the default paths are not used, and the stats-file output equals the supplied path), the defaults, backend reaching the summary, summary: false, started and empty status reporting, a fallback standing down without calling sccache or writing anything, and a missing binary standing down with exit 0. Mutation-proved against the manifest, each caught by a named test: ignoring stats-file, ignoring text-file, dropping backend, ignoring summary, dropping status, misrouting the reported output, and hard-coding the stats-file output. The existing script-level tests stay for the edge cases. What this does not do is run on a GitHub-hosted runner, which a unit test cannot arrange.

User-Facing Documentation. Added docs/migrating-to-sccache-report.md (what changed, who should migrate, the if: always() usage, the status and backend inputs, the reported and stats-file outputs, gating a health check on reported, and rollback) and linked it from docs/users-guide.md.

Also corrected: the status input's description still said asking for statistics would start the server again; with no server sccache --show-stats prints empty defaults.

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