Every unix build leg of release run 30499236230 died during packaging:
scripts/package-release.sh: line 190: scripts/ci/check-binary-composition.sh: Permission denied
The composition gate was committed 100644 while being invoked as a command. It
passed every local check because my WORKING COPY had the exec bit -- only the
committed mode was wrong, and nothing you can run locally reveals that.
scripts/ci/append-vt-notes.sh had the identical defect waiting in the verify
step, the last step of the release, so this would have failed a second time after
two hours of tests, build, smoke and soak.
Fixed on BOTH sides, because either alone suffices and the pair is mode-proof:
the two scripts are now 100755, and their call sites invoke them through `bash`,
which is what most of this repo already does and which cannot break if a mode bit
is ever lost to a patch application or a non-POSIX checkout.
tests/test_script_exec_bit_contract.sh pins the class: any tracked .sh whose
COMMITTED mode is non-executable must not appear as the first word of a command
in workflows, scripts, test-infrastructure or the Makefiles. Verified in both
directions -- it passes on this tree, and fails on the exact defect when the mode
and the call site are reverted. It also joins backslash continuations before
analysing, because its own first draft reported a false positive on
... && bash \
test-infrastructure/vm/vm-run-tests.sh --soak
and a contract that cries wolf teaches people to ignore contracts.
Product code is untouched: the test phase of the failed run was 27/27 green on
this exact tree, and a file mode cannot change a test outcome.
Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
scripts/ — the canonical leg entries
The doctrine (enforced, not advisory): a venue may provision a machine;
only a canonical leg script may exercise the product. Local CI, PR CI, the
dry run and the release all call the SAME files below — venues differ only in
host specs, architecture and inputs, never in what a leg does. Platform
differences (arm64 sanitizer flags, the Windows launcher, the linux portable
binary) live INSIDE these scripts, once, never per-venue.
tests/test_venue_parity_contract.sh (run as Step 0j of every test leg) turns
any violation — inline harness logic in a workflow, a bypassed wrapper, a
missing --help — into a red build.
Every entry answers --help (authoritative, agent-oriented: modes, env, exit
codes) and rejects unknown flags with exit 2 + Please consult --help.
The legs
| leg | entry | what a run gives you |
|---|---|---|
| test | test.sh |
DEFAULT = the venue leg: static contracts (Step 0a–0j) + CLEAN ASan+UBSan build + all suites via the parallel harness + prod-binary guards. --suites a,b = iteration mode (incremental rebuild, subset, seconds). --tsan = the ThreadSanitizer leg. CLANGARM64 gets CI's trap-UBSan flags automatically. |
| build | build.sh |
CLEAN production build (+ launcher on Windows). ccache via env.sh makes repeats fast; CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK=content guarantees a hit is byte-identical to a cold compile — never stale. --with-ui, --version, STATIC=1, BUILD_DIR=. |
| lint | lint.sh |
clang-tidy + cppcheck + clang-format (+ no-skips policy). --ci = the CI gate set (no clang-tidy). Drives the same make targets as make lint/lint-ci. |
| smoke (unix) | smoke-local.sh |
Stages a full release fixture, serves it on a kernel-assigned port, runs smoke-test.sh (ALL phases incl. download/install/update E2E) inside a disposable HOME/XDG/TMP sandbox. ui variant makes a missing embedded UI a FAILURE. CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR = smoke an extracted release artifact verbatim (release mode). |
| smoke (windows) | ../test-infrastructure/vm/vm-smoke.sh |
Same contract for the launcher+payload pair, plus the user-PATH registry guard (prepare/verify/cleanup). |
| smoke-invariants | smoke-invariants.sh |
The "shipped binary does not fail" battery (MCP handshake, all tools invocable, malformed-input resilience) — no fixture server, no install E2E. smoke.yml runs it on the WIDEST build-from-source matrix (incl. older-glibc legs the release artifacts cannot cover). |
| soak | soak-legs.sh |
The release-gating soak SEQUENCE: quick then query-leak (the #581 detector — never reindexes, so RSS growth = query-path leak), each guarded by a completion-summary check. --legs quick for the ASan single-leg variant. Duration is per leg. |
Internal harnesses — never called directly by a venue (the contract forbids
it): smoke-test.sh (phases; wrappers provide fixture server + sandbox),
soak-test.sh (one soak run; soak-legs.sh provides the sequence + guards),
run-tests-parallel.sh (reached through test.sh).
Conventions
- Exit codes: 0 = pass · 2 = usage error · 90 = guard (a run died without its completion summary — never counts as green) · anything else = the leg's real failure.
- Iteration is a flag, not a side-tool: the fast paths (
--suites,--legs) are modes of the SAME entry the gates run, so a dev loop can never drift from the venue behaviour. - Env sandboxing: the smoke wrappers neutralize every agent-config destination override; a smoke can never scribble on your real config.
Recommended workflows
- Iterating on a change:
scripts/test.sh --suites <suite>(seconds, incremental, same ASan+UBSan flags as the gate). List suites:build/c/test-runner --list-suites. Debugging a Windows-on-ARM trap: re-run withSANITIZE=for a plain build, or use the emulatedwin.sh ubsan-*pair for full diagnostics. - Before any push (the 3-OS ladder):
scripts/test.sh(macOS, full) →./test-infrastructure/run.sh full(Linux + TSan + smoke) →test-infrastructure/vm/win.sh test-par+guards+smoke-install(+soakwhen the change touches memory/daemon paths). - Concurrency-touching change: add
scripts/test.sh --tsanearly — the same leg CI gates on. - Release-shaped verification:
CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR=<extracted artifact> scripts/smoke-local.sh <binary> [ui]smokes exactly what would ship. - A leg is red in CI but green locally: first suspect environment shape,
not code — the preflights (
win.shautomatic;scripts/ci/preflight-docker.sh) andtest-infrastructure/README.md's residuals list cover the knowable differences.
See scripts/ci/README.md for the CI plumbing and
test-infrastructure/README.md for the venue map.