CI: streamline pre-commit builds and GCC 15 setup

[doraemonmj]

Summary

• Build the project in pre-commit only when clang-tidy needs simulator compile databases. Python-only, documentation, armored public keys, and other recognized non-C++ changes now use the lint-only path.
• Mirror clang-tidy's exclusions for 3rdparty/, python/bindings/, kernel, and AICore sources, while keeping .pre-commit-config.yaml and unknown paths conservative with build_package_sim.
• Remove torch installation from both GitHub-hosted and self-CPU pre-commit paths. Torch remains installed by the UT/ST and other workflows that execute torch-dependent code.
• Preserve the self-CPU pip cache for every pre-commit run and also cache managed-runner jobs that require the simulator build.
• Replace repeated managed-runner compiler setup with a shared GCC 15 action. Packaging deliberately retains its separate compiler setup because Linux packaging accepts the platform compiler and also needs ccache.
• Vendor the Ubuntu Toolchain PPA public key with the action, validate its sole primary fingerprint before dearmoring, and remove the keyserver network dependency.
• Clarify the Linux-only install-build-essential contract, guard VERSION_CODENAME, and document the conditional self-CPU compiler/clang-tidy stand-ins.
• Remove the obsolete A2/A3 legacy-paths SDMA mode and its two skipped workflow branches; main CI, Daily, and the CPU emergency lane now share the marker-selected SDMA path.

Pre-commit selection policy

Changed files	Package target	Rationale
Python/Python stubs, documentation, armored public keys, and recognized non-C++ files	None	File-specific hooks and pyright run without importing the project from the runner environment
clang-tidy-eligible C/C++ source or header	build_package_sim	Generate both simulator compile databases consumed by clang-tidy
3rdparty/, python/bindings/, */kernels/, or */aicore/ C/C++	None	These paths are excluded by the clang-tidy hook; clang-format/cpplint need no project build
.pre-commit-config.yaml	build_package_sim	Changed or newly added hooks cannot be missed by the classifier
Unknown path	build_package_sim	Fail conservatively when the classifier does not recognize a path
Mixed changes	Strongest applicable target	Any build-requiring path selects build_package_sim

The selector uses the merge-base diff, NUL-delimited paths, skips deleted files, and matches the C/C++ extensions recognized by pre-commit's identify classification. Self-hosted CPU runs always use a project-local venv; lint-only changes do not create compiler shims or simulator artifacts.

Why pre-commit no longer installs torch or _task_interface for Python-only changes

Pyright runs in its isolated pre-commit hook environment, so an extension or torch installed into the runner's Python environment is not visible to it. The repository also has no _task_interface.pyi or generated nanobind stubs, and the configured missing-import diagnostics are disabled.

This was checked against the exact PR range with the same populated hook cache: pyright reported 0 errors, 0 warnings both after installing _task_interface and with neither the project nor torch installed. The complete build_package_sim path was then run with every torch import actively blocked; it generated both simulator compile databases, and clang-tidy executed successfully on a real C++ file. The removal is scoped to pre-commit only.

GCC 15 setup

The shared setup-gcc-15 action:

• accepts a complete, pre-provisioned GCC 15 toolchain on any Linux runner;
• installs missing Linux tools automatically only on Ubuntu and uses Homebrew on macOS;
• installs only missing packages and verifies that gcc-15 and g++-15 report major version 15;
• optionally installs Graphviz and, on Linux only, unversioned gcc/g++ for _ensure_host_compilers;
• configures the Ubuntu Toolchain PPA with a repository-vendored armored key;
• requires exactly one primary key with fingerprint 60C317803A41BA51845E371A1E9377A2BA9EF27F, pins the same fingerprint in APT Signed-By, and guards Ubuntu's VERSION_CODENAME metadata.

_packaging.yml is intentionally outside the shared action's strict GCC 15 contract: Linux packaging accepts the platform compiler and needs ccache, while its macOS fallback preserves the existing packaging behavior.

Validation

• Focused workflow/action tests: 53 passed.
• Full pre-commit run for all changed files: passed, including YAML validation, ruff, and pyright.
• Python-only A/B experiment: identical hook results and zero pyright diagnostics without the project or torch installed.
• Full simulator build with all torch imports blocked: passed; a2a3sim/a5sim compile databases generated and clang-tidy executed successfully.
• Vendored key: exactly one primary key with the expected 40-character fingerprint; dearmored bytes match a fresh full-fingerprint keyserver export.
• git diff --check: passed.
• Linux and macOS GitHub Actions matrices remain the end-to-end integration gate for package installation and the shared action.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds a reusable GCC 15 composite action, migrates compiler setup in CI workflows, and makes pre-commit builds depend on changed-file categories. Tests cover toolchain setup, workflow configuration, and build-selection edge cases.

Changes

CI toolchain and pre-commit workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GCC 15 setup action .github/actions/setup-gcc-15/action.yml, tests/ut/py/test_gcc_setup_action.py, docs/ci.md	The composite action installs or accepts GCC 15 on Ubuntu and macOS. It verifies compilers and requested tools, checks the Ubuntu PPA key fingerprint, rejects unsupported runners, and has Linux/macOS test coverage.
Workflow toolchain adoption .github/workflows/_profiling-flags-smoke.yml, .github/workflows/_st-sim-a2a3.yml, .github/workflows/_st-sim-a5.yml, .github/workflows/sanitizers.yml, tests/ut/py/test_gcc_setup_action.py	The profiling, simulator, and sanitizer workflows use setup-gcc-15. Self-hosted simulator jobs validate GCC 15 before creating compiler aliases.
Conditional pre-commit setup and build selection .github/workflows/_pre-commit.yml, tests/ut/py/test_pre_commit_build_selection.py, docs/ci.md, pyproject.toml	The workflow classifies changed files, selects package and C++ requirements, chooses the build target, and creates a lint-only environment when appropriate. Tests cover file categories, deletions, special paths, merge bases, and fallback histories. PyYAML>=6.0 is added to test dependencies.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a0dd8

The shared compiler setup can currently trust additional signing keys appended to the pinned PPA key file, which could allow unintended packages from that source to be accepted in CI. This security issue should be fixed before merge.

Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1589: Related CI change-detection and build-selection logic.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1598: Overlapping self-hosted simulator toolchain handling.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1781: Related dynamic pre-commit build-target selection.

Poem

A rabbit sees compilers hop,
GCC fifteen now leads the shop.
Changed files choose the work to do,
Lint paths stay light and tidy too.
Ninja thumps its little drum,
While verified builds safely run.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main CI changes: streamlined pre-commit builds and shared GCC 15 setup.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the pre-commit build selection, GCC 15 action, tests, workflows, and validation results.

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• .github/actions/setup-gcc-15/action.yml
• .github/workflows/_pre-commit.yml
• .github/workflows/_profiling-flags-smoke.yml
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• .github/workflows/_st-sim-a5.yml
• .github/workflows/sanitizers.yml
• docs/ci.md
• pyproject.toml
• tests/ut/py/test_gcc_setup_action.py
• tests/ut/py/test_pre_commit_build_selection.py

[ChaoWao]

Review — CI: streamline pre-commit builds and GCC 15 setup

Reviewed git diff 404e931b...c1698ef9 (merge-base to head). All 19 checks pass on the head commit.

Real goal vs stated goal

They match. The code does what the description says: (a) a new Select lint build target step in _pre-commit.yml derives a package target from the merge-base diff and gates every install/build step on it; (b) a new composite action setup-gcc-15 replaces four inline "Set up C++ compiler" blocks, verifies a real GCC 15 rather than symlinking an arbitrary compiler, installs only missing tools, and configures the toolchain PPA directly with a pinned signing key; (c) 481 lines of tests that extract and execute the real bash out of the workflow/action instead of re-implementing it — the right shape for CI-logic tests.

Churn: 10 files, +781/−81 = 862 lines. 481 of those are tests; 364 are the five workflows plus the new action; src/, python/, simpler_setup/ are untouched.

What I verified rather than assumed

• The new tests pass locally: PYTHONPATH=python python3 -m pytest tests/ut/py/test_pre_commit_build_selection.py tests/ut/py/test_gcc_setup_action.py → 40 passed in 1.07 s, matching the description.
• The apt pin is real. Checked against apt's own doc/sources.list.5.xml: keyring paths establish the candidate pool and any listed fingerprints narrow it, so Signed-By: <keyring> <fingerprint> genuinely restricts trust to that key within that keyring. The keyserver lookup also uses the full 40-hex fingerprint rather than a short ID.
• No bash-3.2 trap. Every empty-array expansion is guarded by (( ${#arr[@]} )) before "${arr[@]}", so the set -u empty-array failure on macOS /bin/bash cannot fire. The suite even asserts ${path,,} is absent.
• _task_interface legitimately does not need g++-15. The pin lives in build_runtimes (ToolchainType.HOST_GXX_15, simpler_setup/toolchain.py:209), which build.targets=_task_interface never invokes — so gating the self-cpu g++-15 symlink on needs_cpp is coherent, not a hole.
• pre-commit still always runs; only its internal steps became conditional, so the ci-change-detection.md invariant ("every gated job needs pre-commit, so it must always run") holds. The new action file is also not in NON_CODE, so adding it correctly flips every detect-changes flag true.
• The .pre-commit-config.yaml → maximal-target rule is right, for a reason the description understates: that file is in NON_CODE, so a config-only PR skips every gated job and pre-commit becomes the entire gate — and a newly added always_run: true hook could need the project regardless of the file list.

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Should fix

1. The stated rationale for building _task_interface on Python-only diffs does not hold — and about 40 s of the 62 s job looks droppable

The description and docs/ci.md both say Python-only changes build _task_interface "for pyright's extension-symbol resolution". Four things argue that mechanism does not exist:

• The pyright hook is language: python, so it resolves imports from pre-commit's hook venv, not from setup-python's site-packages where pip install . landed. The repo already depends on exactly that: additional_dependencies: [pytest==7.0.0] on that hook can only affect the hook venv, and it exists to make an import resolve.
• There is no _task_interface.pyi anywhere in the tree and no nanobind_add_stub in python/bindings/CMakeLists.txt, so pyright cannot read symbols out of a compiled extension even if it saw one.
• [tool.pyright] sets reportMissingImports = false and reportMissingModuleSource = false, so both resolution outcomes are silenced.
• Separately, the torch install is not needed either: blocking torch via sys.meta_path and importing simpler_setup plus clang_tidy.py's own imports (simpler_setup.platform_info, simpler_setup.runtime_compiler) all succeed without it.

Step timings from this PR's own pre-commit job (.../actions/jobs/94657595886) put numbers on it:

Step	Duration
Install Python dependencies (torch)	19 s
Install package (_task_interface)	21 s
Run pre-commit	12 s
job total	1m02s

If the above holds, the only load-bearing consumer of the install is clang-tidy (language: system, C/C++-gated), the selector collapses to two states (C/C++ → build_package_sim, everything else → no build), and the Python-only job drops to roughly 20 s.

Either take that — after confirming pyright's output is unchanged — or correct the rationale in the description and docs/ci.md. A doc that asserts a mechanism which is not there is the kind that misleads for years.

2. _packaging.yml keeps an inline "Set up C++ compiler" block, including the fallback this PR argues against

Four of five blocks migrated; _packaging.yml:40 still carries brew install gcc@15 || brew install gcc. That block genuinely differs (it wants ccache, and on Linux deliberately does not require gcc-15), so leaving it may well be correct — but then scope it explicitly, because "it no longer silently aliases an arbitrary compiler on managed GitHub runners" is not true for the macOS packaging lane.

3. docs/ci.md:264 (cpu runner contract) is now only conditionally true

It states that the pre-commit job shadows the distro clang-tidy and that g++-15 is a symlink stand-in. Both now happen only when needs_cpp is true, and that lane no longer builds sim artifacts at all for a Python-only diff. Same commit, per doc-consistency.md §4.

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Consider

4. Kernel-only C++ diffs still pay the full sim build

clang-tidy excludes 3rdparty/|python/bindings/|.*/kernels/|.*/aicore/, and clang-format/cpplint need no build at all — so a diff confined to */kernels/** could skip build_package_sim entirely. With 668 .cpp files, most of them under kernels, that is plausibly the dominant C++ case in this repo. The selector already special-cases 3rdparty/; mirroring clang-tidy's other excludes is the same shape.

5. The selector hand-rolls identify's classification, and its unknown-extension default is the non-conservative one

No current repo file falls through (only .cpp/.h/.hpp/.py/.cce exist, plus .md/.yml/.txt), so this is latent — but ci-change-detection.md §4 asks for the opposite direction: an unrecognised path should turn the flag on. Either flip the default branch, or drop the hand-rolled table and ask identify (identify.tags_from_path) so there is one vocabulary rather than two that can drift.

6. keyserver.ubuntu.com is now a hard dependency of five workflows

The soft || apt-get install g++ fallback is gone, and --retry 2 --max-time 30 is the only mitigation. Vendoring the armored key next to the action removes the network hop entirely and turns the fingerprint check into a local invariant — the pin already assumes the key does not rotate.

7. "Suites: $VERSION_CODENAME" is unguarded under set -u

ID is carefully written "${ID:-}" two lines earlier. Ubuntu always sets VERSION_CODENAME, so this cannot fire today; the inconsistency is the point.

8. The deleted sanitizers comment carried a load-bearing fact

It recorded that build-essential exists for _ensure_host_compilers's unversioned gcc/g++ check, and that gcc-15/g++-15 are what GxxToolchain prefer_g15 unifies on. The new input description keeps the what; which code depends on it is gone. Worth one line in the action's input description or in docs/ci.md.

9. Cache pip packages silently changed scope

The setup_variant == 'self-cpu' condition was dropped, so it now also runs on the GitHub-hosted variant and no longer runs on the self-cpu lint-only path. Harmless — cache-pip is just actions/cache over ~/.cache/pip — but unstated in the description.

10. first_line is not reset before the shebang read

IFS= read -r first_line < "$path" || true reuses the previous iteration's value when the read fails (an unreadable path, or a submodule gitlink, where [[ -x ]] is true for a directory). The stale direction is conservative, so it cannot under-build; a one-line first_line= makes that deliberate rather than accidental.

11. install-build-essential is silently ignored on macOS

Only sanitizers uses it and that lane is Linux-only, so nothing is broken. One clause in the input description closes the gap.

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Verdict

Approve, conditional on the three doc-accuracy fixes (#1–#3).

No correctness defect found: the selector is coherent and fails in the loud direction, the toolchain verification is a real improvement over symlinking an arbitrary compiler, the key pinning holds up against apt's documented semantics, and the tests exercise the shipped bash rather than a copy of it. What needs changing is the stated rationale — the pyright justification in #1 appears to be wrong, and if it is, this PR is leaving roughly twice its claimed saving on the table.

[doraemonmj]

Thanks for the review. I addressed the points as follows:

1. Python-only changes now use the no-build path. The _task_interface build and torch installation were removed from pre-commit; torch remains in workflows that run torch-dependent tests or functionality.
2. docs/ci.md now explicitly documents _packaging.yml as an exception: Linux packaging accepts the platform compiler and needs ccache, while its macOS fallback is outside the shared action's strict GCC 15 contract.
3. The self-CPU documentation now states that the g++-15 stand-in and clang-tidy shadowing are created only on the build-selected path; Python-only/lint-only changes do not build simulator artifacts.
4. The selector now mirrors clang-tidy's exclusions for 3rdparty/, python/bindings/, */kernels/, and */aicore/, so diffs confined to those paths skip build_package_sim.
5. Recognized non-C++ file types use the no-build path, while every unrecognized path conservatively selects build_package_sim. The vendored .asc key is explicitly classified as non-C++.
6. The armored Ubuntu Toolchain PPA key is vendored next to the action, removing the keyserver network dependency. The action still requires exactly one primary key with the expected fingerprint before dearmoring.
7. VERSION_CODENAME is now explicitly required before writing the PPA source under set -u.
8. The install-build-essential input description now records that unversioned gcc/g++ are required by _ensure_host_compilers, while simulator builds continue to use gcc-15/g++-15.
9. The pip cache now runs for every self-CPU pre-commit job and for managed-runner jobs that require the simulator build.
10. The executable/shebang classification and first_line state were removed when the Python-only package path was collapsed; unknown executable paths now take the conservative full-build path.
11. The install-build-essential input is now explicitly documented as Linux-only and ignored on macOS.

[ChaoWao]

Re-review — c1698ef9 → 24b7de51 (+2 commits)

Every finding from the previous pass is resolved, and the pyright question was settled by experiment rather than by argument. All 19 checks pass. Now 15 files, +803/−110.

Measured outcome

The pre-commit job on this PR's own head (.../jobs/95667345878) exercises the lint-only path, and every install/build step is skipped:

Select lint build target                          0s   success
Install build and lint tools                      0s   skipped
Verify provisioned toolchain                      0s   skipped
Cache pip packages                                0s   skipped
Install package (clang-tidy compile databases)     0s   skipped
venv + deps                                       0s   skipped
Lint-only venv                                    0s   skipped
Run pre-commit                                   18s   success
job total                                        27s

3m32s (pre-change) → 1m02s (first head) → 27 s. The 19 s torch install and 21 s _task_interface build are both gone.

Previous findings

Previous finding	Resolution — verified
Should #1 — the _task_interface-for-pyright rationale did not hold; ~40 s droppable	Settled empirically, and better than I asked: pyright reports 0 errors, 0 warnings both with _task_interface installed and with neither the project nor torch present, and the full build_package_sim path was re-run with every torch import blocked (both compile databases generated, clang-tidy executed on a real C++ file). The selector collapsed from three states to one needs_build boolean; torch is gone from both the managed and self-CPU paths, and install-torch: "false" is passed to setup-venv.
Should #2 — _packaging.yml keeps an inline compiler block with the || brew install gcc fallback	Scoped explicitly, in the summary and in docs/ci.md: Linux packaging accepts the platform compiler and also needs ccache, so it sits outside the shared action's strict GCC 15 contract. That is a fair call now that it is stated rather than implied.
Should #3 — docs/ci.md:264 cpu-runner contract became conditionally true	Rewritten: the g++-15 and clang-tidy stand-ins are described as created only when the selector requests clang-tidy preparation, and the paragraph now says lint-only diffs build no sim artifacts and create neither shim.
Consider #4 — kernel-only C++ diffs paid the full sim build	Taken. The selector now mirrors clang-tidy's excludes (3rdparty/, python/bindings/, */kernels/, */aicore/), each with a test case. I checked the glob-vs-regex alignment including the boundary: a hypothetical top-level kernels/foo.cpp matches neither */kernels/* nor the hook's ^.*/kernels/, so both sides agree it needs the build.
Consider #5 — hand-rolled classification with a non-conservative default	Default flipped: unrecognised paths now select build_package_sim, with src/common/future.newcpp as a regression test. Still a hand-maintained list rather than asking identify, but it now fails in the safe direction, which was the substance of the point.
Consider #6 — keyserver.ubuntu.com became a hard dependency of five workflows	Key vendored at .github/actions/setup-gcc-15/ubuntu-toolchain-r-test.asc; the curl is gone. I verified the file independently: gpg --show-keys --with-colons reports exactly one pub and one fpr, fingerprint 60C317803A41BA51845E371A1E9377A2BA9EF27F, uid Launchpad Toolchain builds, created 2009-10-22 — matching the pinned EXPECTED_PPA_FINGERPRINT.
Consider #7 — VERSION_CODENAME unguarded under set -u	: "${VERSION_CODENAME:?Ubuntu /etc/os-release must define VERSION_CODENAME}".
Consider #8 — the deleted sanitizers comment carried a load-bearing fact	The install-build-essential description now names _ensure_host_compilers and records that simulator builds still use gcc-15/g++-15.
Consider #9 — Cache pip packages silently changed scope	Now inputs.setup_variant == 'self-cpu' || steps.lint-build.outputs.needs_build == 'true', so self-CPU caching is unconditional again and managed runners cache only when they build.
Consider #10 — stale first_line across loop iterations	Moot: the shebang branch is gone. Verified the cost is nil — the repository has exactly two extensionless tracked files, LICENSE (allow-listed) and .agents/skills.
Consider #11 — install-build-essential silently ignored on macOS	Stated in the input description ("Linux only … Ignored on macOS").

Also verified locally: the focused workflow/action tests pass (53 passed), matching the summary, and no stale needs_package / needs_cpp / target references remain in .github/, docs/, or .claude/.

The third commit: removing a2a3_sdma_mode / legacy-paths

This is out of scope for "pre-commit builds and GCC 15 setup" — but it is more than a dedup, and worth recording why it is right, because the reason is not in the commit message.

docs/ci.md:245 already states the invariant: "Selection for SDMA remains by marker on both sides, so the two cannot drift apart." legacy-paths selected by path (--ignore=<prefetch_async_demo> --ignore=<sdma_async_completion_demo>), and it had in fact drifted: @pytest.mark.sdma sits on four tests, one of which is tests/st/aicore_op_timeout::test_sdma_worker_aicore_fault_teardown_is_bounded — a test that provisions SDMA on purpose (enable_sdma=True). Under the two --ignores that test ran inside the main fault-injection sweep, which is precisely the pairing the ordering rule in #1425 exists to prevent. Under -m "not sdma" / -m sdma it lands in the second step where it belongs.

So the CPU emergency lane moves onto the correct path — and onto the one st-onboard-a2a3 has been running on every PR, which is the mitigation for the fact that ci-self-cpu.yml is manual-trigger only and therefore not covered by this PR's green checks. The only other behavioural delta on that lane is the main sweep's --pto-session-timeout going 600 → 1200, which is strictly more permissive. I also confirmed no stale a2a3_sdma_mode / legacy-paths references survive anywhere in workflows, docs, or rules.

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Consider

1. The PR now carries three concerns under a two-concern title. The summary discloses the SDMA removal (bullet 8), so nothing is hidden, but a reader bisecting later will not expect it here. Either retitle, or land 24b7de51 separately — it stands on its own merits, and it is the one commit whose blast radius the PR checks do not exercise.

2. The selector duplicates clang-tidy's exclude list, and one drift direction is unsafe. python/bindings/*|*/kernels/*|*/aicore/* now exists in both .pre-commit-config.yaml and _pre-commit.yml. Adding an exclude to the hook and not the workflow merely over-builds; removing one from the hook without updating the workflow makes clang-tidy run on a path the selector believes is excluded, with no compile database — a confusing clang_tidy.py failure rather than a clear one. test_pre_commit_build_selection.py already parses YAML, so an assertion that the two lists agree would close it cheaply.

Verdict

Approve. Both doc-accuracy fixes landed, the optimisation I could only argue for was verified by A/B experiment and is worth 35 s per lint-only PR, the fail-safe direction is fixed and tested, and the vendored key checks out byte-for-byte against the pinned fingerprint. The two remaining items are packaging-of-the-change, not correctness.