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Follows #1877, which named the levels but moved only the span vocabulary.

Why

#1877 established the ladder — core / chip / host / network1 / network2 / network3 — but converted only the [STRACE] span names. Everywhere else still called L4 a pod, so one level carried two names: SceneTestLevel.POD, st_pod_peer, st-pod-onboard-a2a3, l4_pod/, pod-stage, 28 POD_* variables. This converts the remainder and closes the three findings from #1877's review.

pod meant three different things

Judged per occurrence rather than swept — #1877 learned that lesson the hard way with simpler_run:

Meaning Count Action
POD = Plain Old Data, the C++ term codestyle.md rule 8 is built on 114 untouched
SceneTestLevel.POD = 4, the L4 scene level 1 + call sites → NETWORK1
lowercase pod, the level word 139 → network1

Renamed with history (git mv, so git log --follow still works):

.github/actions/pod-stage/        -> network1-stage/
.github/actions/pod-run-pytest/   -> network1-run-pytest/
.github/actions/pod-teardown/     -> network1-teardown/
.github/workflows/_st-pod.yml     -> _st-network1.yml
tests/st/.../l4_pod/test_global_tload_mixed_l3_pod.py
                                  -> l4_network1/test_global_tload_mixed_l3_network1.py

Job names follow (st-pod-onboard-a2a3 → st-network1-onboard-a2a3). Checked before doing it: the active ruleset (Main Branch Protection) enforces deletion, non_fast_forward, pull_request and required_linear_history and carries no required status checks, so nothing waits on a check that stops reporting.

Fixture names move with every signature that requests them (st_pod_peer → st_network1_peer, st_pod_logs, st_pod_remote_device_ids, pod_remote_device_count). A missed one is a fixture-not-found at collection, which is why all five L4 tests were collected as the check.

The one thing that cannot move yet — and why the reader takes both

POD_* is 28 variables read from a .env on each runner machine, and the loader accepts only keys matching a prefix:

[[ "$key" =~ ^POD_[A-Z0-9_]+$ ]] || continue

Renaming repo-side while those .env files still say POD_ would make the filter drop every key — and silently, because it continues rather than failing. Those files are not in this repository and I cannot reach them.

So the reader now accepts both spellings and normalizes every key to NETWORK1_*:

[[ "$key" =~ ^(POD|NETWORK1)_[A-Z0-9_]+$ ]] || continue
key="NETWORK1_${key#*_}"

The rest of the job and the tests see exactly one name, and a machine can be converted whenever, in either order, with no window where the lane misreads its config. POD_ENV_FILE still works for the same reason. The POD_ branch is marked for removal once no .env uses it.

Closing #1877's review

1. set_level_prefix could dangle a live name pointer — a real defect. SpanScope keeps the const char * it was handed and dereferences it in its destructor; rebinding reassigned the strings it points into. A process constructing Workers at two levels also relabelled the first Worker's spans while they were still open. My header comment stated the contract but nothing enforced it.

The first non-empty word now wins and later ones are refused. level_prefix() reports what is actually bound, so a caller that asked for something else can see it; Python compares and warns, because one process carries one vocabulary and that is worth saying rather than discovering in a trace. Verified both directions:

default        : host.submit
first binding  : network1.submit
second refused : network1.submit (held pointer still reads network1.submit)
PASS: first binding wins and the pointer stays valid

2. docs/dfx/host-trace.md documented only host.* and still claimed the names "do not encode which level emitted them" — pointing at #1793 for the fix that #1877 was. A paragraph I should have deleted in that PR. The table now reads <level>. and names the four words it can take.

3. test_strace_timing.py lost its retired-name coverage. The fixture is called old because it stood for an older log; #1877's rename converted its contents to the current names. Meanwhile that same PR added _RETIRED_WORDS, whose only job is reading archived logs — leaving it with no test at all. I removed the coverage of the code I was adding.

Restored as its own case, plus one covering span_family across every level word, the reserved ext., and an unrecognized leader:

assert [span_family(s.name) for s in retired] == ["chip", "chip", "chip", "host"]
assert [s.name for s in legacy_spans(retired)] == ["simpler_run", "simpler_run.bind", "simpler_prewarm.build"]
assert host_span_leaf("l3.dispatch") == "dispatch"

Testing

pytest tests/ut/py -m "not requires_hardware" 1520 passed, 0 failed
ctest -LE requires_hardware --timeout 300 101/101
L4 test collection 5/5 — what proves the fixture renames
All 51 local uses: in .github/ resolve, 0 missing
End to end on a2a3sim a real trace still splits 13 chip / 9 host spans
pre-commit clean except clang-tidy

The uses: check is the important one: a stale action path is this change's only way to redden CI, and GitHub reports it as "Can't find 'action.yml'" after allocating the runner. It is checked against the working tree, not the index — an earlier run of it passed only because the index still held the pre-rename paths.

clang-tidy's hook venv cannot import simpler and fails identically on untouched files. The 15 sim failures #1877 reported as pre-existing did not recur in this run.

Where the mapping lives

Per the instruction that everything normalizes to network1 and only the level-to-entity correspondence explains it: docs/hierarchical-level-runtime.md is that one place. Its ladder now carries the level word alongside the hardware name, and a paragraph states that network1 is the layer commonly deployed as a pod, network2 as a supernode, network3 as a cluster — while explaining why the words count hops instead: the correspondence is not fixed (a host sometimes sits under a pod, sometimes directly under a supernode), and naming a level after an interconnect fails too, since it is mostly SU and sometimes RoCE.

python/simpler/worker_level.py states the rationale once and points at that table rather than repeating the mapping, so the two cannot drift.

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The PR replaces pod-oriented scene-test infrastructure with Network1 workflows, actions, markers, fixtures, tests, and documentation. It also adds one-time host span prefix binding and expands span classification coverage.

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Reusable workflow and job wiring
.github/workflows/_st-network1.yml, .github/workflows/_st-pod.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/daily.yml
Adds the reusable Network1 workflow and routes CI and daily A2/A3 jobs to it. The pod workflow is removed.
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.github/actions/network1-*, .github/actions/setup-venv/action.yml
Renames pod actions and replaces their SSH, workspace, daemon, logging, build, proxy, and MPI settings with Network1 settings.
Network1 test fixtures and examples
conftest.py, simpler_setup/scene_test.py, examples/workers/*, tests/st/a2a3/..., tests/ut/py/test_scene_level_selection.py
Renames POD to NETWORK1, updates remote-device fixtures and markers, and converts L4 tests to Network1 execution.
Hierarchy and span handling
src/common/log/include/common/host_span_names.h, python/simpler/worker.py, tests/ut/py/test_strace_timing.py, docs/dfx/host-trace.md, docs/hierarchical-level-runtime.md
Binds the host span prefix once, warns on mismatched levels, and adds current and legacy span classification coverage.
Testing and CI documentation
.claude/skills/*, docs/*, examples/README.md, examples/workers/*/README.md
Documents Network1 level-4 selection and changes A5 filtering to --exclude-level 4, retaining SDMA tests.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f825c

The change standardizes Network1 naming, but workflow errors may expose proxy credentials in build logs and the updated device-test instructions may run incompatible Network1 tests during single-machine reproductions. These bounded security and test-execution risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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  participant CI
  participant Network1Workflow
  participant Network1Stage
  participant Network1Pytest
  participant Network1Teardown
  participant Logs
  CI->>Network1Workflow: call reusable workflow
  Network1Workflow->>Network1Stage: stage target on peer
  Network1Workflow->>Network1Pytest: run Network1 tests
  Network1Workflow->>Network1Teardown: remove staging and processes
  Network1Workflow->>Logs: upload run logs
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With pytest marks and cleaner names.
The level-four tests now know their place,
Span prefixes bind with steady grace.
SDMA stays within the race.

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Fixed the pre-commit failure and force-pushed (still one commit).

What broke: ruff E501 Line too long (125 > 120) at conftest.py:1398. POD_REMOTE_DEVICES → NETWORK1_REMOTE_DEVICES added five characters to an f-string that already nested a len(...) call, pushing it three characters past the limit. The message is now built from a local:

available = len(st_network1_peer.remote_device_ids)
pytest.fail(f"need {n} remote devices but NETWORK1_REMOTE_DEVICES only has {available} entries")

Why my local run missed it: I ran pre-commit run --all-files before the last edits landed, so it linted the tree without them. Reproduced locally after the fact, which is how the fix was verified — ruff check and ruff format both pass on the whole tree now.

I also checked whether the rename pushed any other line over the limit, since that is the failure mode a long-identifier rename creates: ruff check --all-files is clean, so this was the only one.

The other eleven checks reported skipping because they needs: pre-commit; they should run now.

@coderabbitai your walkthrough came back rate-limited on this PR, so there is nothing from it to address — flagging it so the empty review is not mistaken for an approving one. A re-review is welcome now that the branch is green locally.

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Rename PodPeer to Network1Peer.

st_network1_peer still exposes the retired topology term through its return type. Rename the PodPeer declaration and its uses in the same change.

Based on learnings: “when a type is renamed ... remove the old name across the repo rather than adding backward-compatibility aliases.”

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In `@conftest.py` around lines 1379 - 1384, Rename the PodPeer type declaration to
Network1Peer and update all references, including the return construction in
st_network1_peer, to use Network1Peer. Remove the retired PodPeer name entirely
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In @.claude/skills/test-all-device/SKILL.md:
- Around line 20-24: Update the A2/A3 ordinary sweep command in
.claude/skills/test-all-device/SKILL.md lines 20-24 to retain the -m "not sdma"
filter and add --exclude-level 4. Apply the same change to the corresponding
sweep command in .claude/skills/test-runtime-device/SKILL.md lines 21-28; leave
the separate SDMA pass unchanged.

In @.github/workflows/_st-network1.yml:
- Line 208: Update the comment near the Network1 test-result handling to replace
the retired “POD” term with “network1,” while preserving the existing statement
that artifact service availability must not override the test result.
- Around line 125-128: Remove proxy URL values from the error messages in the
loop using proxy_reachable in .github/workflows/_st-network1.yml lines 125-128,
logging only the variable name or sanitized host and port. Also update the peer
proxy error messages in .github/actions/network1-stage/action.yml lines 108-114
to remove both $NETWORK1_REMOTE_HTTP_PROXY and $NETWORK1_REMOTE_HTTPS_PROXY
values.

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In `@conftest.py`:
- Around line 1379-1384: Rename the PodPeer type declaration to Network1Peer and
update all references, including the return construction in st_network1_peer, to
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`network1` / `network2` / `network3`, but only the span vocabulary moved. The
rest of the tree still called L4 a pod, so one level had two names. This
converts the remainder and fixes the three findings from hw-native-sys#1877's review.

`pod` meant three different things, so each occurrence was judged rather than
swept:

  * `POD` — Plain Old Data, the C++ term codestyle.md rule 8 is built on.
    114 occurrences, untouched.
  * `SceneTestLevel.POD = 4` — the L4 scene level, now `NETWORK1`, together with
    its `@scene_level()` call sites.
  * lowercase `pod` — the level word, in identifiers, paths, CI job names and
    prose. Converted.

Renamed with history: the three `.github/actions/pod-*` composite actions,
`_st-pod.yml`, and `tests/st/.../l4_pod/` with its test file. Job names follow
(`st-pod-onboard-a2a3` -> `st-network1-onboard-a2a3`), which is safe because the
active ruleset enforces deletion, non-fast-forward, pull_request and linear
history and carries no required status checks — so no PR waits on a check that
stops reporting.

Fixture names move together with every signature that requests them
(`st_pod_peer` -> `st_network1_peer` and siblings); a missed one is a
fixture-not-found at collection, so all five L4 tests were collected to check.

`POD_*` are 28 variables read from a `.env` on each runner machine, and
`_st-network1.yml` accepts only keys matching a prefix. Renaming repo-side while
those files still say `POD_` would make the filter drop every key — silently,
because it `continue`s. Those files are not in this repository.

So the reader now accepts both spellings and exports every key as `NETWORK1_*`.
The rest of the job and the tests see exactly one name, and a machine can be
converted whenever, in either order. `POD_ENV_FILE` still works for the same
reason. Drop the `POD_` branch once no `.env` uses it.

**`set_level_prefix` could dangle a live name pointer.** `SpanScope` keeps the
`const char *` it was handed and dereferences it in its destructor, and rebinding
reassigned the strings it points into. A process constructing Workers at two
levels also relabelled the first Worker's spans mid-run. The first non-empty word
now wins and later ones are refused; `level_prefix()` reports what is actually
bound, and Python compares the two and warns, because one process has one
vocabulary and that is worth saying rather than leaving in a trace.

**docs/dfx/host-trace.md documented only `host.*`** and still claimed names do
not encode the emitting level — pointing at hw-native-sys#1793 for the fix that hw-native-sys#1877 was.
The table now uses `<level>.` and names the four possible words.

**test_strace_timing.py lost its retired-name coverage.** The fixture was called
`old` because it stood for an older log; hw-native-sys#1877's rename converted its contents to
the current names, leaving `_RETIRED_WORDS` — added by that same PR to read
archived logs — with no test at all. Restored as its own case, plus one covering
`span_family` across every level word, `ext.`, and an unknown leader.

- `pytest tests/ut/py -m "not requires_hardware"` — 1520 passed, 0 failed.
- `ctest -LE requires_hardware --timeout 300` — 101/101.
- All 51 local `uses:` references in `.github/` resolve, checked against the
  working tree; a stale one is this change's only way to redden CI.
- All five L4 tests collect, which is what proves the fixture renames.
- End to end on a2a3sim: a real trace still splits into 13 chip and 9 host spans.
- `pre-commit` clean except clang-tidy, whose hook venv cannot import simpler and
  fails identically on untouched files. The longer variable names pushed one
  `pytest.fail` message in conftest.py past the 120-column limit; the message is
  now built from a local rather than nested inside the f-string.

`docs/hierarchical-level-runtime.md` is the one place that maps a level word onto
a physical entity, so it is where `network1` is explained as the layer commonly
deployed as a pod. Nothing else in the tree repeats the mapping.

Three findings from the hw-native-sys#1880 review are folded in. A proxy URL may carry
`user:password@`, and both the local reachability check and the peer-side one in
network1-stage wrote the whole value to the job log; the parse that already
stripped the credential is now a `proxy_hostport` helper the error message shares,
so a failure still names the address without the secret. The a2a3 reproduction
commands in three skills carried `-m "not sdma"` but not `--exclude-level 4`,
which CI pairs it with, so a single-machine reproduction would collect the
level-4 tests that need the two-machine job. One `POD` survived in an
_st-network1.yml comment describing that job's test result.

Rebasing onto hw-native-sys#1823 conflicted in three docs: it rewrote the `manual` marker
rows that this change had only reworded, in `.claude/skills/testing/SKILL.md`,
`docs/testing.md` and `docs/ci.md`. Both sides are kept — the expanded DFX-step
wording with the level word applied. That PR also added prose calling the level
POD, which this converts too.
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Rebased onto 5bcceb0f and folded in all three review findings — still one commit.

Rebase conflicted with #1823 in three docs (.claude/skills/testing/SKILL.md, docs/testing.md, docs/ci.md). Both sides kept: that PR rewrote the manual marker rows to describe the dedicated DFX steps, this one had only reworded them for the level. It also added prose calling the level POD, which is now converted — that is the second occurrence I had missed, and it came in on the rebase rather than being left behind.

All three findings addressed (replies on each thread, all resolved):

Finding Fix
1 a2a3 reproduction commands lacked --exclude-level 4 Added in all three skills, plus the prose above one of them that gave the same half-instruction
2 Proxy URL written to the job log proxy_hostport helper shared by the probe and the message; verified against six URL shapes including user:secret@
3 Retired POD in an _st-network1.yml comment Converted

Finding 2 was the one worth having: a .env proxy value can carry user:password@, and three error paths echoed it whole. The fix keeps the diagnostic — a failure still names which address is unreachable, which is why the check exists — while dropping the credential.

Two notes on my own process, since both findings 1 and 3 were things I should have caught:

  • Uppercase POD is genuinely ambiguous in this repo: it is both the L4 level and Plain Old Data, the C++ term codestyle.md rule 8 is built on (113 remaining occurrences, all correctly untouched). My classifier bucketed by case and word boundary, which cannot separate those two senses — only the surrounding sentence can. I have now read every remaining POD in context.
  • The local pre-commit --all-files run that I reported as clean had executed before the last edits landed, which is how the E501 reached CI. Re-run after every edit since.

clang-tidy still fails locally because its hook venv cannot import simpler; it passes in CI, so that is environment rather than code.

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`network1` / `network2` / `network3`, but only the span vocabulary moved. The
rest of the tree still called L4 a pod, so one level had two names. This
converts the remainder and fixes the three findings from hw-native-sys#1877's review.

`pod` meant three different things, so each occurrence was judged rather than
swept:

  * `POD` — Plain Old Data, the C++ term codestyle.md rule 8 is built on.
    114 occurrences, untouched.
  * `SceneTestLevel.POD = 4` — the L4 scene level, now `NETWORK1`, together with
    its `@scene_level()` call sites.
  * lowercase `pod` — the level word, in identifiers, paths, CI job names and
    prose. Converted.

Renamed with history: the three `.github/actions/pod-*` composite actions,
`_st-pod.yml`, and `tests/st/.../l4_pod/` with its test file. Job names follow
(`st-pod-onboard-a2a3` -> `st-network1-onboard-a2a3`), which is safe because the
active ruleset enforces deletion, non-fast-forward, pull_request and linear
history and carries no required status checks — so no PR waits on a check that
stops reporting.

Fixture names move together with every signature that requests them
(`st_pod_peer` -> `st_network1_peer` and siblings), as does the type one of them
returns (`PodPeer` -> `Network1Peer`); a missed fixture is a fixture-not-found at
collection, so all five L4 tests were collected to check.

`POD_*` are 28 variables read from a `.env` on each runner machine, and
`_st-network1.yml` accepts only keys matching a prefix. Renaming repo-side while
those files still say `POD_` would make the filter drop every key — silently,
because it `continue`s. Those files are not in this repository.

So the reader now accepts both spellings and exports every key as `NETWORK1_*`.
The rest of the job and the tests see exactly one name, and a machine can be
converted whenever, in either order. `POD_ENV_FILE` still works for the same
reason. Drop the `POD_` branch once no `.env` uses it.

The `a2a3pod` runner label is machine-side for the same reason and gets no such
escape: a job matches every label in its list, so it cannot accept either
spelling. It stays until those machines are relabelled, and the workflows and
docs/ci.md say why it reads differently from everything around it.

**`set_level_prefix` could dangle a live name pointer.** `SpanScope` keeps the
`const char *` it was handed and dereferences it in its destructor, and rebinding
reassigned the strings it points into. A process constructing Workers at two
levels also relabelled the first Worker's spans mid-run. The first non-empty word
now wins and later ones are refused; `level_prefix()` reports what is actually
bound, and Python compares the two and warns, because one process has one
vocabulary and that is worth saying rather than leaving in a trace.

**docs/dfx/host-trace.md documented only `host.*`** and still claimed names do
not encode the emitting level — pointing at hw-native-sys#1793 for the fix that hw-native-sys#1877 was.
The table now uses `<level>.` and names the four possible words.

**test_strace_timing.py lost its retired-name coverage.** The fixture was called
`old` because it stood for an older log; hw-native-sys#1877's rename converted its contents to
the current names, leaving `_RETIRED_WORDS` — added by that same PR to read
archived logs — with no test at all. Restored as its own case, plus one covering
`span_family` across every level word, `ext.`, and an unknown leader.

- `pytest tests/ut/py -m "not requires_hardware"` — 1581 passed, 0 failed.
- `ctest -LE requires_hardware --timeout 300` — 101/101.
- All 55 local `uses:` references in `.github/` resolve, checked against the
  working tree; a stale one is this change's only way to redden CI.
- All five L4 tests collect, which is what proves the fixture renames.
- End to end on a2a3sim: a real trace still splits into 13 chip and 9 host spans.
- `pre-commit` clean except clang-tidy, whose hook venv cannot import simpler and
  fails identically on untouched files. The longer variable names pushed one
  `pytest.fail` message in conftest.py past the 120-column limit; the message is
  now built from a local rather than nested inside the f-string.

`docs/hierarchical-level-runtime.md` is the one place that maps a level word onto
a physical entity, so it is where `network1` is explained as the layer commonly
deployed as a pod. Nothing else in the tree repeats the mapping.

Three findings from the hw-native-sys#1880 review are folded in. A proxy URL may carry
`user:password@`, and both the local reachability check and the peer-side one in
network1-stage wrote the whole value to the job log; the parse that already
stripped the credential is now a `proxy_hostport` helper the error message shares,
so a failure still names the address without the secret. The a2a3 reproduction
commands in three skills carried `-m "not sdma"` but not `--exclude-level 4`,
which CI pairs it with, so a single-machine reproduction would collect the
level-4 tests that need the two-machine job. One `POD` survived in an
_st-network1.yml comment describing that job's test result.

`.claude/skills/testing/SKILL.md`, `docs/testing.md` and `docs/ci.md` carry both
hw-native-sys#1823's expanded `manual`-marker and pre-commit-build wording and the level word,
which this change also applies to the prose that PR added calling the level POD.
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@coderabbitai Rebased onto 55556ba0 (#1829 had landed) and folded in your review-summary nitpick — still one commit.

PodPeer → Network1Peer — fixed. Two references, both in conftest.py; no alias left behind. My own post-rebase scan found the same thing independently: the word-boundary sweep that produced this PR matched lowercase pod and uppercase POD, so a CamelCase Pod inside an identifier fell between them.

Two things the rebase turned up that are worth naming, since they read as misses:

  • The a2a3pod runner label stays. It is provisioned on the machines, not in this repo, and unlike the POD_* .env keys it has no dual-read escape — a job matches every label in its runs-on list, so it cannot accept either spelling. Renaming it here would strand the job with no eligible runner. ci.yml, daily.yml and docs/ci.md now state that, so the odd word out is explained where it appears.
  • FixedSizePodTypes in test_worker_chip_orch_comm.cpp is Plain Old Data, as are the other 114 POD occurrences. Untouched.

Rebase conflicts were two paragraphs of docs/ci.md where #1829 rewrote the pre-commit build-selection prose this change had only reworded; both sides are kept, with the level word applied.

Re-verified on the new base: pytest tests/ut/py -m "not requires_hardware" 1581 passed, ctest -LE requires_hardware 101/101, all 55 local uses: references resolve, all five L4 tests collect.

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@ChaoWao Thanks for the update. The PodPeer → Network1Peer rename addresses the review-summary finding.

Keeping a2a3pod is correct when the externally provisioned runner label cannot change. Keeping FixedSizePodTypes is also correct because it uses the Plain Old Data meaning.

The reported verification covers the affected Python, CTest, workflow-reference, and L4 collection paths.

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Timestamp: 2026-08-18T11:39:53.717Z
Learning: In this repository, the `a2a3pod` GitHub Actions runner label is externally provisioned. Workflow `runs-on` selectors must retain `a2a3pod` because GitHub Actions requires every specified runner label to match, and no dual-label compatibility mechanism exists for runner labels. `ci.yml`, `daily.yml`, and `docs/ci.md` document this exception.

Learnt from: ChaoWao
URL: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/1880

Timestamp: 2026-08-18T11:39:53.717Z
Learning: In this repository, uppercase `POD` can mean the C++ term Plain Old Data rather than the L4 scene level. For example, `FixedSizePodTypes` in `test_worker_chip_orch_comm.cpp` is Plain Old Data terminology and must not be renamed as part of the L4 `pod` to `network1` terminology migration.

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