main is red on e971b4c4

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main at e971b4c4 is red, and the code is not what failed.

Nothing failed a test. In the failing job (run 709, job 1093) every suite passed — 847 passed; 0 failed in cartopolis, plus the geo, core, simulator and big_space suites. The orbit smoke passed. The phone-tier smoke never ran. What failed is the flicker smoke, and it failed by running out of wall clock: the step is capped at timeout-minutes: 15 (.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml:474), it started at 10:02:23 and the runner killed it at 10:17:23 with [runner]: context deadline exceeded. It was part-way through the second of the pair's two captures.

The scene the code produced was identical to the last green run. Comparing the settled shot state line for capture 1 in run 708 (856f666b, green) against run 709 (e971b4c4, red): draws=1270, ktris_total=32, tiles_occluded=70, grass_patches=145, grass_slots=1511680, prop_colliders=13455, prop_meshes=738, traffic_cars=180, traffic_walkers=220, upload_peak_asset_kb=7817 — every geometry, placement and visibility number matches exactly. Only timing moved:

	run 708 (green)	run 709 (red)
`settled_in`	29.5 s	46.0 s
worker busy	154,974 ms	362,736 ms
tile-decode jobs	424	432
fetch body time	2,560 ms	17,398 ms
bytes fetched	79.91 MB	79.87 MB
compile (`test` profile)	7m03s	7m40s

The same work, the same bytes, two to seven times the time to do it — while pure compilation moved only 9 %. That is the host and the tile service being busy, not the client changing.

The commit could not have caused it. e971b4c4 touches only crates/cartopolis/src/systems/nav/driver.rs and .../locate.rs. Both read the device location provider, and LocationWatch::available() is a compile-time false on anything that is not wasm or Android (crates/cartopolis/src/platform/location.rs:102-104), so on the x86-64 runner neither code path can ever receive a fix.

But the gate has been running with almost no margin, and that is the standing problem. The flicker step's two captures, measured from the job logs of the last six main runs that reached it:

run	commit	capture 1	capture 2	both
686	`e71b9e67`	289 s	321 s	610 s
691	`f9e457b7`	461 s	326 s	787 s
698	`0b63cd7d`	262 s	259 s	521 s
703	`6473ddb1`	411 s	269 s	680 s
708	`856f666b`	316 s	338 s	654 s
709	`e971b4c4`	676 s	never finished	killed at 900 s

On top of those the step also pays an incremental relink (22.8 s in run 709) and process startup. So run 691 spent about 830 seconds of a 900-second budget and passed. The 15-minute figure was never calibrated against a measurement; a 15 % bad afternoon on a shared 8-core box is enough to trip it, and on 2026-09-05 one did.

Re-running CI cannot clear this. tools/deploy-main collects every Actions task row whose head_sha matches (tools/deploy-main:85-93) and refuses unless all of them say success (tools/deploy-main:154-160). A hand-dispatched run adds a green row; it does not remove the red one. The only things that clear the gate are a new commit on main with its own green run, or fifty newer task rows pushing the red one out of the API's window.

Approach

One commit, to .forgejo/workflows/ci.yml only. No client code.

Raise the timeout-minutes on the Headless flicker smoke (street) step (.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml:472-489) to at least 25, and extend the comment block above it (ci.yml:453-471) with the measured table above — the file's convention is that every number in it carries the measurement and the date that chose it, and this one currently carries neither.

Leave the two orbit steps at 15 minutes. Both settle in about 90 seconds on this runner (run 709: dev build finished 10:01:07, capture 1 settled 10:02:17); they are nowhere near their ceiling and a common number would hide that.

The commit body is where the diagnosis of run 709 goes: the runner was slow, the scene was identical, and the gate was already at 92 % of its budget on a green day.

Because the changed path is .forgejo/, the scope step will set render=false (ci.yml:337-338) and the resulting main run will skip all three smokes. That run is still green, still produces the task rows tools/deploy-main reads, and unblocks the deploy gate — but it does not exercise the new timeout. See Verification.

Acceptance criteria

.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml sets timeout-minutes on the flicker smoke step to 25 or more; the two orbit smoke steps are unchanged at 15.
The comment above the flicker step records the measured per-capture times from runs 686–709, the date they were taken, and the run they were taken after.
No file outside .forgejo/workflows/ci.yml is changed.
The commit body states the run-709 diagnosis: every suite passed, the flicker step hit its 15-minute cap, and the settled scene metrics for capture 1 were identical to run 708's.
The main run for the new head is green in every job (test cartopolis and wasm & android targets).
tools/deploy-main --dry-run reaches "dry run — would deploy" instead of "refusing: CI is not green".

Verification

# after the commit is on main, and CI has reported:
tools/deploy-main --dry-run

# exercise the raised timeout for real — workflow_dispatch overrides both scope
# gates (ci.yml:314-320), so this runs the three smokes on a .forgejo-only head:
# dispatch ci.yml on main from the Actions UI, or via the API with the
# repository-write token.

Only the runner can check the thing this changes. The flicker smoke needs a render, and it takes 9–14 minutes on lavapipe; it is not something to run in this container. The dispatched run above is the check.

There is nothing to verify locally beyond YAML validity — the change compiles nothing and asserts nothing new.

Out of scope

Making the flicker smoke cheaper. The obvious saving is real and is a separate ticket: the harness places every shot through a full Teleport (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/dev/shot_harness.rs:2056), a teleport always calls request_reanchor (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/nav/geo_nav.rs:2003), and apply_reanchor unconditionally despawns every tile and restarts the streamers (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/map_stream.rs:368-411) — even when snap_anchor lands on the identical anchor it already had. So --flicker's second capture, which moves the camera about 5 cm (shot_harness.rs:1087-1096, FLICKER_NUDGE_DEG at :286), re-streams the entire city: run 708's capture 2 did 522 worker jobs and 103,723 ms of worker time to photograph the frame it had just photographed. Skipping the re-anchor when the snapped anchor is unchanged would roughly halve this step and would also stop a short in-city teleport tearing the world down for the player. It is a behaviour change to the map streamer with its own risk, and it is not what this ticket asked for.
Anything about e971b4c4 itself. Nothing in it is implicated; it does not need reverting, re-testing or reviewing on this ticket's account.
The bimodal settle (settled_in is either ~29.5 s or ~46.0 s across these six runs, in both green and red ones). Worth understanding, unexplained here, not blocking.
Runner capacity, the tile server's throughput, or anything on the host. Diagnosed as the trigger; not fixed here.

Open questions

None.

Branch: ci/290-flicker-smoke-headroom

Original request

The last commit on main that CI ran for is e971b4c4, and it did not pass:

test cartopolis — failure

Nothing can be deployed while this stands — tools/deploy-main gates on it — so this
comes before anything on the frontier.

Read the failing job's log, reproduce it locally, and fix the cause. If the failure is
the runner rather than the code (a flake, a cache miss, a missing tool), say so on this
ticket and close it rather than changing code to suit it.

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## Problem `main` at `e971b4c4` is red, and the code is not what failed. **Nothing failed a test.** In the failing job (run 709, job 1093) every suite passed — `847 passed; 0 failed` in `cartopolis`, plus the geo, core, simulator and big_space suites. The orbit smoke passed. The phone-tier smoke never ran. What failed is the **flicker smoke**, and it failed by running out of wall clock: the step is capped at `timeout-minutes: 15` (`.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml:474`), it started at 10:02:23 and the runner killed it at 10:17:23 with `[runner]: context deadline exceeded`. It was part-way through the second of the pair's two captures. **The scene the code produced was identical to the last green run.** Comparing the settled `shot state` line for capture 1 in run 708 (`856f666b`, green) against run 709 (`e971b4c4`, red): `draws=1270`, `ktris_total=32`, `tiles_occluded=70`, `grass_patches=145`, `grass_slots=1511680`, `prop_colliders=13455`, `prop_meshes=738`, `traffic_cars=180`, `traffic_walkers=220`, `upload_peak_asset_kb=7817` — every geometry, placement and visibility number matches exactly. Only timing moved: | | run 708 (green) | run 709 (red) | |---|---|---| | `settled_in` | 29.5 s | 46.0 s | | worker busy | 154,974 ms | 362,736 ms | | tile-decode jobs | 424 | 432 | | fetch body time | 2,560 ms | 17,398 ms | | bytes fetched | 79.91 MB | 79.87 MB | | compile (`test` profile) | 7m03s | 7m40s | The same work, the same bytes, two to seven times the time to do it — while pure compilation moved only 9 %. That is the host and the tile service being busy, not the client changing. **The commit could not have caused it.** `e971b4c4` touches only `crates/cartopolis/src/systems/nav/driver.rs` and `.../locate.rs`. Both read the device location provider, and `LocationWatch::available()` is a compile-time `false` on anything that is not wasm or Android (`crates/cartopolis/src/platform/location.rs:102-104`), so on the x86-64 runner neither code path can ever receive a fix. **But the gate has been running with almost no margin, and that is the standing problem.** The flicker step's two captures, measured from the job logs of the last six `main` runs that reached it: | run | commit | capture 1 | capture 2 | both | |---|---|---|---|---| | 686 | `e71b9e67` | 289 s | 321 s | 610 s | | 691 | `f9e457b7` | 461 s | 326 s | 787 s | | 698 | `0b63cd7d` | 262 s | 259 s | 521 s | | 703 | `6473ddb1` | 411 s | 269 s | 680 s | | 708 | `856f666b` | 316 s | 338 s | 654 s | | 709 | `e971b4c4` | 676 s | never finished | killed at 900 s | On top of those the step also pays an incremental relink (22.8 s in run 709) and process startup. So run 691 spent about 830 seconds of a 900-second budget and passed. The 15-minute figure was never calibrated against a measurement; a 15 % bad afternoon on a shared 8-core box is enough to trip it, and on 2026-09-05 one did. **Re-running CI cannot clear this.** `tools/deploy-main` collects *every* Actions task row whose `head_sha` matches (`tools/deploy-main:85-93`) and refuses unless all of them say `success` (`tools/deploy-main:154-160`). A hand-dispatched run adds a green row; it does not remove the red one. The only things that clear the gate are a new commit on `main` with its own green run, or fifty newer task rows pushing the red one out of the API's window. ## Approach One commit, to `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml` only. No client code. Raise the `timeout-minutes` on the **Headless flicker smoke (street)** step (`.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml:472-489`) to at least 25, and extend the comment block above it (`ci.yml:453-471`) with the measured table above — the file's convention is that every number in it carries the measurement and the date that chose it, and this one currently carries neither. Leave the two orbit steps at 15 minutes. Both settle in about 90 seconds on this runner (run 709: `dev` build finished 10:01:07, capture 1 settled 10:02:17); they are nowhere near their ceiling and a common number would hide that. The commit body is where the diagnosis of run 709 goes: the runner was slow, the scene was identical, and the gate was already at 92 % of its budget on a green day. Because the changed path is `.forgejo/`, the scope step will set `render=false` (`ci.yml:337-338`) and the resulting `main` run will skip all three smokes. That run is still green, still produces the task rows `tools/deploy-main` reads, and unblocks the deploy gate — but it does **not** exercise the new timeout. See Verification. ## Acceptance criteria - [ ] `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml` sets `timeout-minutes` on the flicker smoke step to 25 or more; the two orbit smoke steps are unchanged at 15. - [ ] The comment above the flicker step records the measured per-capture times from runs 686–709, the date they were taken, and the run they were taken after. - [ ] No file outside `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml` is changed. - [ ] The commit body states the run-709 diagnosis: every suite passed, the flicker step hit its 15-minute cap, and the settled scene metrics for capture 1 were identical to run 708's. - [ ] The `main` run for the new head is green in every job (`test cartopolis` and `wasm & android targets`). - [ ] `tools/deploy-main --dry-run` reaches "dry run — would deploy" instead of "refusing: CI is not green". ## Verification ```bash # after the commit is on main, and CI has reported: tools/deploy-main --dry-run # exercise the raised timeout for real — workflow_dispatch overrides both scope # gates (ci.yml:314-320), so this runs the three smokes on a .forgejo-only head: # dispatch ci.yml on main from the Actions UI, or via the API with the # repository-write token. ``` **Only the runner can check the thing this changes.** The flicker smoke needs a render, and it takes 9–14 minutes on lavapipe; it is not something to run in this container. The dispatched run above is the check. There is nothing to verify locally beyond YAML validity — the change compiles nothing and asserts nothing new. ## Out of scope - **Making the flicker smoke cheaper.** The obvious saving is real and is a separate ticket: the harness places every shot through a full `Teleport` (`crates/cartopolis/src/systems/dev/shot_harness.rs:2056`), a teleport always calls `request_reanchor` (`crates/cartopolis/src/systems/nav/geo_nav.rs:2003`), and `apply_reanchor` unconditionally despawns every tile and restarts the streamers (`crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/map_stream.rs:368-411`) — even when `snap_anchor` lands on the identical anchor it already had. So `--flicker`'s second capture, which moves the camera about 5 cm (`shot_harness.rs:1087-1096`, `FLICKER_NUDGE_DEG` at `:286`), re-streams the entire city: run 708's capture 2 did 522 worker jobs and 103,723 ms of worker time to photograph the frame it had just photographed. Skipping the re-anchor when the snapped anchor is unchanged would roughly halve this step and would also stop a short in-city teleport tearing the world down for the player. It is a behaviour change to the map streamer with its own risk, and it is not what this ticket asked for. - **Anything about `e971b4c4` itself.** Nothing in it is implicated; it does not need reverting, re-testing or reviewing on this ticket's account. - **The bimodal settle** (`settled_in` is either ~29.5 s or ~46.0 s across these six runs, in both green and red ones). Worth understanding, unexplained here, not blocking. - **Runner capacity, the tile server's throughput, or anything on the host.** Diagnosed as the trigger; not fixed here. ## Open questions None. --- Branch: `ci/290-flicker-smoke-headroom` <details><summary>Original request</summary> The last commit on `main` that CI ran for is `e971b4c4`, and it did not pass: - `test cartopolis` — failure Nothing can be deployed while this stands — `tools/deploy-main` gates on it — so this comes before anything on the frontier. Read the failing job's log, reproduce it locally, and fix the cause. If the failure is the runner rather than the code (a flake, a cache miss, a missing tool), say so on this ticket and close it rather than changing code to suit it. Filed by the autopilot.  </details> 🤖 Refined by the viberfox issue agent. Reply with **@agent refine** and what is wrong to have this rewritten.

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ci: give the flicker smoke the headroom its own logs say it needs

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I raised the time limit on one continuous integration step from 15 minutes to 25, in .forgejo/workflows/ci.yml. Nothing else changed — no client code, no other step.

Why

Run 709 on e971b4c4 went red without anything failing a test. All five test suites passed (847 tests passed, 0 failed in cartopolis), and the orbit smoke passed. The flicker smoke ran out of wall clock: it started at 10:02:23 and the runner killed it at 10:17:23, part-way through the second of its two captures.

The scene it rendered was identical to the last green run's. Comparing the settled metrics for capture 1 against run 708: draw calls 1270, triangles 32k, occluded tiles 70, grass slots 1,511,680, traffic cars 180, peak asset upload 7817 kB — every geometry, placement and visibility number matches exactly. Only the timing moved: settling took 46.0 seconds against 29.5, worker threads were busy for 363 seconds against 155, and fetching the same 80 MB of tiles took 17.4 seconds against 2.6. That is a busy host, not a change in the client.

The real problem is that the step had almost no margin. Across the six main runs that reached it, its two captures cost between 521 and 787 seconds, plus a relink and process startup — so run 691 passed having spent about 830 of its 900 seconds. I wrote that per-run table into the comment above the step, with the date and the run it was read after, since the file's convention is that every number carries its measurement.

The two orbit smoke steps stay at 15 minutes; they settle in about 90 seconds and are nowhere near their limit.

Verified

The file parses as YAML and the three step timeouts read 15 / 25 / 15 as intended. Nothing compiled changed, so there was no crate to check or test.

Not verified

The raised limit itself has not been exercised. Because the only changed path is under .forgejo/, the scope step will set render=false and the main run for this commit will skip all three smokes. That run is still green and still produces the rows tools/deploy-main reads, so it unblocks the deploy gate — but to actually run the flicker smoke against the new 25 minutes, dispatch ci.yml on main by hand, which overrides the scope gates.

For you to decide

The obvious saving is a separate ticket and I did not touch it: the flicker smoke's second capture re-streams the entire city to photograph the frame it just photographed, because the ~5 cm camera nudge goes through a full teleport and a teleport always re-anchors the map. Skipping the re-anchor when the snapped anchor is unchanged would roughly halve this step — and would also stop a short in-city teleport tearing the world down for a player — but it is a behaviour change to the map streamer with its own risk.

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I raised the time limit on one continuous integration step from 15 minutes to 25, in `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml`. Nothing else changed — no client code, no other step. ## Why Run 709 on `e971b4c4` went red without anything failing a test. All five test suites passed (847 tests passed, 0 failed in `cartopolis`), and the orbit smoke passed. The flicker smoke ran out of wall clock: it started at 10:02:23 and the runner killed it at 10:17:23, part-way through the second of its two captures. The scene it rendered was identical to the last green run's. Comparing the settled metrics for capture 1 against run 708: draw calls 1270, triangles 32k, occluded tiles 70, grass slots 1,511,680, traffic cars 180, peak asset upload 7817 kB — every geometry, placement and visibility number matches exactly. Only the timing moved: settling took 46.0 seconds against 29.5, worker threads were busy for 363 seconds against 155, and fetching the same 80 MB of tiles took 17.4 seconds against 2.6. That is a busy host, not a change in the client. The real problem is that the step had almost no margin. Across the six `main` runs that reached it, its two captures cost between 521 and 787 seconds, plus a relink and process startup — so run 691 passed having spent about 830 of its 900 seconds. I wrote that per-run table into the comment above the step, with the date and the run it was read after, since the file's convention is that every number carries its measurement. The two orbit smoke steps stay at 15 minutes; they settle in about 90 seconds and are nowhere near their limit. ## Verified The file parses as YAML and the three step timeouts read 15 / 25 / 15 as intended. Nothing compiled changed, so there was no crate to check or test. ## Not verified **The raised limit itself has not been exercised.** Because the only changed path is under `.forgejo/`, the scope step will set `render=false` and the `main` run for this commit will skip all three smokes. That run is still green and still produces the rows `tools/deploy-main` reads, so it unblocks the deploy gate — but to actually run the flicker smoke against the new 25 minutes, dispatch `ci.yml` on `main` by hand, which overrides the scope gates. ## For you to decide The obvious saving is a separate ticket and I did not touch it: the flicker smoke's second capture re-streams the entire city to photograph the frame it just photographed, because the ~5 cm camera nudge goes through a full teleport and a teleport always re-anchors the map. Skipping the re-anchor when the snapped anchor is unchanged would roughly halve this step — and would also stop a short in-city teleport tearing the world down for a player — but it is a behaviour change to the map streamer with its own risk. **Branch** `ci/290-flicker-smoke-headroom` (pushed) ``` 13518a7 ci: give the flicker smoke the headroom its own logs say it needs ``` --- 🤖 viberfox issue agent on the VPS — 13 turns · $1.33 · session `f33e0d6a-8cd6-4de0-b42d-7229951dc31a`. Reply with **@agent** to continue this session.

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🤖 Not shipping this one — it touches something the unattended lane may not change:

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The branch ci/290-flicker-smoke-headroom is finished and CI passed on it; it is waiting for you to land it. The reasoning is in docs/direction.md — these are the changes no revert from here undoes.

🤖 **Not shipping this one — it touches something the unattended lane may not change:** - `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml` — the CI or deploy workflows The branch `ci/290-flicker-smoke-headroom` is finished and CI passed on it; it is waiting for you to land it. The reasoning is in `docs/direction.md` — these are the changes no revert from here undoes.

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