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What this changes

#116 merged with this workflow's "Occupancy typed peak" check red (its squash carried a draft TH.[_] placeholder; #117 fixed the proof), because nothing required the check to pass first -- and nothing could have: the pull_request trigger was path-filtered, so the occupancy checks never posted on PRs that touch no occupancy file, and a required check that never posts can never be satisfied. The Branch-Floor ruleset requires nothing today; ci.yml's header already documents this trap for its own job names.

The PR path filter now lives in an Occupancy relevance gate job:

  • the workflow runs on every pull request, so all three of its checks always post;
  • the gate diffs the change against the same file list with plain case globs (a third-party paths-filter action would be refused by the account's allow-list; in a case pattern * crosses /, so docs/occupancy/* is the old docs/occupancy/**);
  • Occupancy disagreement test and Occupancy typed peak run only when the gate says relevant, and post skipped otherwise -- which a required check counts as satisfied;
  • the push trigger keeps its native paths: filter, so pushes to main still run this only when they should.

All three job names are stable identifiers with no matrix, as test/unit/test_install_pins.jl asserts for every job in every workflow.

What this enables (kept out of this PR on purpose)

Once merged, Branch-Floor can require Occupancy relevance (itself included: a failed gate skips its dependents, and a skipped check satisfies a requirement silently -- the gate is the one check that must not be skipped), Occupancy disagreement test, Occupancy typed peak, alongside ci.yml's Julia tests and Agda proofs. That ruleset change is a settings change and will follow separately.

How to run its tests

From the repository root:

julia --project=. test/unit/test_install_pins.jl

All 223 assertions pass locally (the gate job satisfies the every-job stable-name and no-matrix rules and uses the pinned actions/checkout SHA). CI on this PR is the full check: this PR touches occupancy.yml itself, so the gate must mark it relevant and both heavy jobs must run.

What this leaves out

No ruleset change (above), no change to the heavy jobs' contents, and the two startup_failure-era path lists (push trigger, gate patterns) necessarily duplicate each other -- push filtering cannot be scripted, and the gate's list is documented as the pull_request half.

Versions tested

Julia 1.13.1 (local; CI pins 1.12.5 per tool_versions.yml). Bun, R and Agda untouched by this change -- CI runs the pinned ones.

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…ecks can be required

squash carried a draft `TH.[_]` placeholder; #117 fixed the proof),
because nothing required the check to pass first -- and nothing could
have: the pull_request trigger was path-filtered, so the check never
posted on PRs that touch no occupancy file, and a required check that
never posts can never be satisfied.

The path filter now lives in an `Occupancy relevance` gate job: the
workflow runs on every PR, the gate diffs the change against the same
file list (plain `case` globs; a third-party paths-filter action is
refused by the account's allow-list), and the two heavy jobs run only
when it matches -- posting `skipped` otherwise, which a required check
counts as satisfied. All three job names are stable identifiers with no
matrix, as test_install_pins.jl asserts for every job in every workflow.

Branch-Floor can then require `Occupancy relevance` (itself included:
a failed gate skips its dependents, and a skipped check satisfies a
requirement -- the gate is the one check that must not be skipped
silently), `Occupancy disagreement test`, `Occupancy typed peak`,
alongside ci.yml's `Julia tests` and `Agda proofs`. That ruleset change
is a settings change, kept out of this PR on purpose.

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    • Occupancy checks now evaluate every pull request and run only when changes affect relevant paths. Pushes continue to trigger checks only when changes match the existing path filter. This keeps unrelated pull requests from running the checks while preserving the existing behaviour for qualifying pushes.

The occupancy workflow now runs for every pull request. A gate checks whether pull request changes match the occupancy paths. The disagreement and typed-peak jobs run only when the gate reports relevant changes. The push trigger retains its path filter.

Changes: Occupancy workflow gating

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Trigger and gate occupancy checks
.github/workflows/occupancy.yml
Pull requests trigger the workflow without a path filter. The gate checks the base-to-HEAD three-dot diff against the occupancy paths. Both occupancy jobs depend on the gate and run only when it reports relevant changes.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkflowTrigger
  participant Gate
  participant Disagreement
  participant TypedPeak
  WorkflowTrigger->>Gate: Start occupancy workflow
  Gate->>Disagreement: Run when relevant is true
  Gate->>TypedPeak: Run when relevant is true
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The new gate can report that a pull request does not affect occupancy when the change comparison itself fails. Both occupancy checks would then be skipped and appear to pass. That failure is uncommon with full history, but the gate should fail loudly before these checks become required.

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The changed surface does not map to a changed system, dependency edge, entrypoint, or external dependency.

Changed systems: None identified.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/occupancy.yml: Added comments describing the all-pull-request trigger, gate behaviour, and required-check handling; these are documentation changes.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/occupancy.yml: Removed the pull-request paths filter and its file list, so all pull requests trigger the workflow; the push trigger retains its path filter.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/occupancy.yml: Added the gate job. Pushes are marked relevant because the trigger already filters their paths. For pull requests, it checks out full history and tests the base-to-HEAD three-dot diff against the former occupancy path list, outputting whether any changed file matches.
  • observed — Modified behavior in .github/workflows/occupancy.yml: The disagreement job now depends on gate and runs only when its relevant output is true.
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- Line 118: Update the git diff command in the occupancy-file gate to use
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of relevant files still trigger the occupancy jobs.
- Line 112: Update the pathname-reading loops in the occupancy workflow to use
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zizmor's template-injection rule (surfaced with CodeRabbit's review) flags
the `${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}` expansion interpolated
directly into the gate's run script. The base SHA is GitHub-supplied and
hex-only, so it is not practically injectable, but the env indirection
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renaming docs/occupancy/schedules.yml away and adding an unusual-character
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Re: the Merge Risk finding ("Both occupancy checks can be skipped for some relevant pull requests. Correct the gate's pathname handling before merging.") — the finding is valid for the commit it covers, b697288, but the review coverage marker (final_review_risk_coverage: sourceCommitId b697288...) means it predates the two commits that followed on this branch, d160c8d (your agent's autofix: git diff --no-renames --name-only -z with NUL-delimited reading — exactly the pathname handling the finding asks for) and 18ba140 (base SHA via env).

Verified against the current tip with the gate's exact script in a scratch repository:

  • rename of an occupancy file elsewhere → true (the deletion side matches — this was the class of relevant PR the original commit could skip);
  • rename into an occupancy path → true;
  • irrelevant change → false;
  • paths containing newlines cannot split a record, because -z NUL-delimits and the loop reads -d ''.

So the gate at 18ba140 has the pathname handling the finding requires. Re-reviewing so the merge-risk assessment reflects the tip rather than b697288.

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- Line 124: Update the occupancy-change detection step around the `git diff`
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CodeRabbit functional-correctness finding (Major): the gate read its diff
through a process substitution, which hides git diff's exit status. An
unavailable comparison SHA or a repository error would supply no
pathnames, the loop would read nothing, and the gate would post
relevant=false -- skipping the two occupancy jobs, whose skipped
conclusion satisfies a required check, and passing a relevant PR
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The workflow already runs on every pull request; now a cheap gate decides
whether the change touches anything the suite exercises, and the two
heavy jobs -- Julia tests (~19 minutes), Agda proofs -- run only when it
says relevant. On a docs-only PR they post `skipped`, which satisfies a
required check, exactly as the occupancy workflow's gate (#125) already
does for its two reading jobs. The trigger stays unfiltered on purpose:
a path-filtered pull_request trigger does not run at all on a PR that
matches no path, so a required check from that workflow never posts and
can never be satisfied -- the trap #116 sprang.

The relevant-path list is the positive form: anything not listed is not
relevant, so a new directory joins the suite by being added here rather
than by being forgotten. Paths the tests themselves read are listed even
though they are documentation-shaped: .github/workflows/ (the pin tests
parse it), docs/occupancy/ (the reading's Agda tree), and the repo-shape
inputs (Project.toml, Manifest.toml, renv.lock, the launchers).

The gate carries every hardening #125's review produced: --no-renames
(a file renamed out of a listed path is reported as a deletion under its
original name), -z with a NUL-delimited read (a pathname Git would quote
or that contains a newline arrives raw), the base SHA through env rather
than template interpolation into the script, and now every pattern
quoted in the array -- an unquoted `src/*` expands against the checkout
at assignment time, which a directory-level glob list makes visible;
the glob must fire at case time, against the diff.

Verified locally: the gate logic was run against seven cases (docs-only,
src change, occupancy docs, rename-away, an unusual-character occupancy
path, a workflow change, README+CITATION) with the expected verdict each
time; actionlint clean; the pin suite passes 259/259, which asserts the
gate job's name is a stable identifier, that it has no matrix, and that
its pinned actions/checkout is allowed by the account's policy. This PR
touches .github/workflows/ci.yml, so the gate marks it relevant and the
full suite runs on it -- the gate's own first test.

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The workflow already runs on every pull request; now a cheap gate decides
whether the change touches anything the suite exercises, and the two
heavy jobs -- Julia tests (~19 minutes), Agda proofs -- run only when it
says relevant. On a docs-only PR they post `skipped`, which satisfies a
required check, exactly as the occupancy workflow's gate (#125) already
does for its two reading jobs. The trigger stays unfiltered on purpose:
a path-filtered pull_request trigger does not run at all on a PR that
matches no path, so a required check from that workflow never posts and
can never be satisfied -- the trap #116 sprang.

The relevant-path list is the positive form: anything not listed is not
relevant, so a new directory joins the suite by being added here rather
than by being forgotten. Paths the tests themselves read are listed even
though they are documentation-shaped: .github/workflows/ (the pin tests
parse it), docs/occupancy/ (the reading's Agda tree), and the repo-shape
inputs (Project.toml, Manifest.toml, renv.lock, the launchers).

The gate carries every hardening its reviews produced: --no-renames (a
file renamed out of a listed path is reported as a deletion under its
original name), -z with a NUL-delimited read (a pathname Git would quote
or that contains a newline arrives raw), the base SHA through env rather
than template interpolation into the script, every pattern quoted in the
array (an unquoted `src/*` expands against the checkout at assignment
time; the glob must fire at case time, against the diff), and -- per the
CodeRabbit review of this PR, mirroring the occupancy gate -- the diff is
written to a file first with git diff's exit status checked, because a
process substitution hides it and a failed diff would read as "no
changes", skipping the suite on a PR that changed code.

Verified locally: the gate logic was run against seven cases (docs-only,
src change, occupancy docs, rename-away, an unusual-character occupancy
path, a workflow change, README+CITATION) with the expected verdict each
time, plus the failed-diff case now failing the gate; actionlint clean;
the pin suite passes, which asserts the gate job's name is a stable
identifier, that it has no matrix, and that its pinned actions/checkout
is allowed by the account's policy. This PR touches
.github/workflows/ci.yml, so the gate marks it relevant and the full
suite runs on it -- the gate's own first test.

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## What this changes

The answer to "must every check run on everything equally": no, and
without giving up enforcement. A new cheap **`Code relevance`** gate job
runs on every pull request and decides whether the change touches
anything the suite exercises; the two heavy jobs — **`Julia tests`**
(~19 minutes) and **`Agda proofs`** — now carry `if:
needs.gate.outputs.relevant == 'true'` and post `skipped` when the gate
says not relevant. A skipped check satisfies a required check, so
Branch-Floor enforcement is unchanged: a docs-only PR (README, wiki,
templates, licence records) finishes in the gate's ~10 seconds plus the
external scanners instead of ~19 minutes.

The design is the pattern PR #125 established for the occupancy
workflow, applied to the main suite, with every hardening that review
produced:

- **The trigger stays unfiltered on purpose** — a path-filtered
`pull_request` trigger does not run at all on a PR that matches no path,
so a required check from that workflow never posts and can never be
satisfied. That trap was sprung here once (#116) and documented in this
file's header.
- **`--no-renames`** — a file renamed out of a listed path is reported
as a deletion under its original name and still counts.
- **`-z` with a NUL-delimited read** — a pathname Git would quote, or
that contains a newline, arrives raw and matches the pattern.
- **Base SHA through `env:`**, not template interpolation into the
script (zizmor's rule).
- **Every pattern quoted in the array** — this PR's own new finding: an
unquoted `src/*` in an array assignment expands against the checkout the
runner happens to stand in; with a directory-level glob list that is
visibly wrong, and the glob must fire at `case` time against the diff.

The relevant-path list is deliberately the positive form: anything not
listed is not relevant, so a new directory joins the suite by being
added to the list, not by being forgotten. Paths the tests themselves
read stay relevant even though they are documentation-shaped:
`.github/workflows/` (the pin tests parse it), `docs/occupancy/` (the
reading's Agda tree), and the repo-shape inputs (`Project.toml`,
`Manifest.toml`, `renv.lock`, the launchers, `R/`, `renv/`).

## Verification

- The gate logic ran locally against seven cases — docs-only, src
change, occupancy docs, rename-away, an unusual-character occupancy
path, a workflow change, README+CITATION — with the expected verdict
each time.
- `actionlint` clean; the pin suite passes 259/259, which asserts for
the new gate job that its name is a stable identifier, that it has no
matrix, and that its pinned `actions/checkout` is allowed by the
account's policy.
- **This PR is the gate's own first test**: it touches
`.github/workflows/ci.yml`, so the gate must mark it relevant and the
full suite must run on it. The first docs-only PR after this lands is
the second test.

## Follow-up after merge

Add `Code relevance` to the Branch-Floor ruleset's required checks — it
is the one check that must never be skipped, since it vouches for the
others' absence. I'll apply it once the check has posted here.

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