ci: add pull-request gate for format, lint, and tests

[plz12345]

Why

release.yml was the only workflow and it fires on v* tags only — a tag push was the first time SwiftLint or the test suite ran anywhere but a developer's machine. This adds the everyday gate.

Jobs

Job	Runner	Blocking	What
Format & lint	macos-26	yes	swiftformat --lint, swiftlint --strict against a baseline
Test	macos-26	yes	xcodebuild test (+ analyzer rules, advisory)
Duplication	ubuntu-latest	no	jscpd → step summary
Dead code	macos-26	no	Periphery, push-to-main only

Decisions

• Format check runs before any xcodebuild. The app target's pre-build phase runs SwiftFormat in write mode (project.yml), so a build would silently repair the violations the check exists to catch.
• SwiftLint is strict against a baseline. The tree carries 139 pre-existing violations, all warning-severity. The pre-build phase in project.yml emits them as build warnings, which is why they were never surfaced. .swiftlint-baseline.json records them so the gate fails on new violations without demanding a 139-violation cleanup first. Relative paths, so it resolves on both a laptop and a runner.
• Duplication runs on Linux. jscpd is token analysis with no Xcode dependency; no reason to spend a macOS runner on it.
• Periphery is push-only. It runs its own full build, which would roughly double PR wall-clock for advisory output.

Advisory, with reasons

Two checks report but do not fail, each with a comment in the workflow saying what has to change first:

1. unused_import — 16 pre-existing violations. The analyzer_rules block in .swiftlint.yml has never run: analyzer rules require a full compiler log, which neither swiftlint lint nor the pre-build phase provides. Once cleared, drop the || true and add --strict.
2. Duplication is 10.39% against a 2.5% threshold (184 clones, 3,309 lines). The configured threshold has never been met, so blocking on it today would just mean a permanently red job.

The backlog this exposes

Count	Rule	Notes
79	type_contents_order	member ordering, largely mechanical
21	legacy_swiftui_aspect_ratio	aspectRatio(contentMode:) → scaledToFit/Fill
16	closure_parameter_position	autocorrectable
7	force_unwrapping	worth reading individually
6	nesting
3	function_body_length
3	file_length
4	others

Several are autocorrectable with swiftlint --fix. Regenerate the baseline after any cleanup:

swiftlint lint --config .swiftlint.yml --write-baseline .swiftlint-baseline.json

Also found while verifying

Views/PreviewPane/SeedVR2UpscaleSheet.swift:226 calls seedVR2PixelSize(ofImageAt:) across an actor boundary without await — a warning at SWIFT_VERSION 5.9, an error in Swift 6 language mode. Not fixed here.

Testing

The first CI run on this branch failed, which is how the 139 came to light — see the commit message on 348663a for the full story (a local SwiftLint crash on a missing sourcekitdInProc reported as an empty result). With DEVELOPER_DIR set, local now reproduces CI exactly, and swiftlint --strict --baseline exits 0 with 0 reported violations.

Every tool invocation was run against this tree: SwiftFormat (0/146 files need formatting), SwiftLint (139, baselined), swiftlint analyze against a real xcodebuild log (16 findings), jscpd (10.39%).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests

  • Added automated formatting, linting, build, and test checks for pull requests and updates to the main branch.
  • Added advisory analysis for duplicated and potentially unused code.

• Chores

  • Added a baseline for existing code-quality warnings, helping focus attention on newly introduced issues.
  • Added safeguards to prevent outdated or redundant checks from continuing after newer updates.

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Adds GitHub Actions checks for formatting, linting, tests, duplication, and dead code. Adds a SwiftLint baseline for existing warning violations. Periphery scan failures now fail the job.

Changes

CI workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow triggers and shared settings .github/workflows/ci.yml	The workflow runs for pull requests and pushes to main. It cancels superseded runs, uses read-only contents permission, and defines shared Xcode settings.
Formatting and test validation .github/workflows/ci.yml, .swiftlint-baseline.json	The workflow runs SwiftFormat, strict SwiftLint with the baseline, unsigned Debug tests, compiler-log analyzer rules, and failure-only result uploads.
Duplication and dead-code analysis .github/workflows/ci.yml	The workflow runs advisory jscpd checks on Ubuntu and push-only Periphery scans on macOS. It reports findings and exits with status 1 when the Periphery scan fails.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

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This change adds CI gates for formatting, linting, tests, duplication, and dead-code detection, with a checked-in SwiftLint baseline to avoid failing on 139 pre-existing warnings. The test and lint jobs still run in parallel rather than sequentially; this can waste runner time on revisions that lint would reject, but does not appear to compromise the correctness of either check since each job uses its own checkout. This is a minor efficiency consideration rather than a blocking defect, and the workflow otherwise appears ready to merge.

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[plz12345]

First run failed the lint job with 139 SwiftLint violations.

Cause: the "tree is clean" claim in the original description was wrong. It came from a local swiftlint lint that crashed on a missing sourcekitdInProc — this machine's xcode-select points at CommandLineTools rather than Xcode.app — with stderr redirected to /dev/null. An empty result read as zero violations. Both sides run SwiftLint 0.65.1; there was never any version drift.

With DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, local reproduces CI exactly: 139 violations, all warning-severity, 0 errors. They predate this workflow — the pre-build phase in project.yml has been emitting them as build warnings all along.

Fixed in 348663a by baselining them instead of blocking on a cleanup. Description updated with the real numbers and the backlog breakdown.

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 58: Update the test job configuration so it declares lint as a
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lint to complete and is skipped when lint fails.
- Around line 153-155: Update the Periphery scan failure branch in the workflow
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status, ensuring the step fails when the scan cannot run. Keep the successful
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Serialize test after lint.

Jobs without needs can run in parallel. xcodebuild can start before the format gate completes. Add needs: lint so the workflow enforces its stated ordering and skips costly tests for rejected revisions. (docs.github.com)

Proposed fix

  test:
    name: Test
+   needs: lint
    runs-on: macos-26

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml at line 58, Update the test job configuration so it
declares lint as a prerequisite using the existing lint job identifier, ensuring
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[plz12345]

Working through the review:

Periphery failure swallowed — valid, fixed in 0ae2e55. The if/else wrote to the step summary and fell out of the branch, so the trailing echo returned 0 and a Periphery that couldn't build the project at all would have reported green. The intent was that findings are advisory while a broken scan is not; the code didn't implement the second half. Now exit 1 in the else branch. Same silent-failure shape as the crashed SwiftLint earlier on this branch, so it's a welcome catch.

needs: lint on the test job — declining, with a caveat. The premise doesn't hold: the review reads the "must run before anything invokes xcodebuild" comment as cross-job ordering, but it's about ordering within a single checkout. The pre-build SwiftFormat phase rewrites files on the runner that builds; each job gets its own runner and its own checkout, so the test job's build cannot affect the lint job's result. There's no correctness issue to enforce.

That leaves a pure trade-off: needs: lint saves macOS runner minutes on revisions that fail lint, at the cost of adding lint's wall-clock (~1 min) to the front of every successful run. Public repo, so those minutes are free, and PR feedback latency is the scarcer resource. Keeping them parallel — but it's a preference, not a correctness call, and trivially flipped if the ordering is wanted for cost or for a cleaner failure signal.