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Generated sources are inputs to their own generation, so one pass of the regeneration pipeline applies the generation function rather than reaching its fixed point. Run once, a tree several passes behind and a generation cycle that never settles both reach the currency check as "stale". `rainix-static codegen-fixed-point` loops the pipeline until the working tree stops changing, observing the tree as a git tree object built in a scratch index so .gitignore applies, untracked output counts, and the repo's own index is left for the currency check. `max-codegen-passes` bounds it; exhausting the bound fails with its own error. Closes #314 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…error The scratch-index `remove_file` before `git add --all` could not change any observation: `--all` already updates entries whose content moved and drops entries whose file is gone, so the tree it writes describes the working tree as it is now either way. A mutant deleting the line survived the whole suite, which is the proof it was inert rather than untested, so it goes rather than staying behind a mutant no test can justify. The not-a-repo error now asserts the root path is in the message. git's own "not a git repository" names no path, so without this an operator who pointed the loop at the wrong directory learns only that some directory was wrong; deleting the wrapping error left the assertion satisfied by git's message alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… the wiring The step invoked `nix run github:rainlanguage/rainix/$RAINIX_SHA#rainix-static`, and `codegen-fixed-point` is added by this same branch. A pinned flake ref can only ever name a commit that predates it, so from the moment this merged until a follow-up bumped the pin, every consumer's copy-artifacts job would have failed with "unknown subcommand" — the rainix-static half of `80e9432`'s soldeer-gate window, reopened. rainix already answers this. Five of the six rainix-static entry points are composite actions resolving the binary with a `path:` flake ref out of `$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH`, and rpc-preflight's comment says why: "the check version always matches the action version regardless of any RAINIX_SHA the caller pins". codegen-fixed-point needs no devshell — that is what the wrapper's bash/git/curl PATH is for — so nothing kept it from the same shape. The action and the workflow calling it land in one commit, so `@main` resolves both at once and the window is zero rather than merely short. The bound is now required on the action rather than defaulted, leaving exactly one published default: the workflow input the README documents. Two bats suites, registered in default-shell-test alongside the existing action tests. The workflow suite reads the step's pipeline and the composite's script out of the shipped YAML, stubs only `nix` and `forge` as files on PATH, and runs the REAL rainix-static against fixture consumer checkouts, so what is covered is the wiring rather than a restatement of it. The action suite pins the argv the composite builds, including that a multi-line pipeline survives as one argument and that the action never evaluates what it is handed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds bounded fixed-point code generation to ChangesFixed-point code generation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR changes codegen CI to iterate until generated artifacts converge, with a bounded failure mode. It is mergeable, but README.md should clarify that build.sh may select its own shell rather than always using sol-shell; otherwise the documentation could mislead maintainers without affecting execution. Possibly related issues
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participant Workflow as rainix-copy-artifacts workflow
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Workflow->>Action: Provide pipeline and max-codegen-passes
Action->>CLI: Invoke fixed-point command
CLI->>Git: Snapshot working tree
CLI->>CLI: Execute generation passes
CLI->>Git: Compare successive snapshots
CLI-->>Action: Report convergence or bounded failure
Action-->>Workflow: Return result
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Dropping the per-pass scratch-index reset rested on `git add --all` reconciling removals as well as content. That claim had no test: every case asserted so far adds or rewrites a path, and an observation that only ever accumulated paths would pass all of them while calling a deleting pass converged on pass 1 — and hand the currency check a tree it never watched settle. The mutant that rules it out is `add --no-all .`, which stages content but not deletions. Folded in from the parallel branch at 2026-08-16-issue-314, which found this gap independently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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127-145: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe scratch index name is fixed per repository.
index_pathalways returns<git-dir>/rainix-codegen-fixed-point.index. Two concurrentcodegen-fixed-pointinvocations against the same checkout would share one scratch index, and the first to finish deletes it for the other. A self-hosted runner that reuses a workspace, or a local developer running the command twice, can hit this.The current CI usage runs one invocation per job, so this is not a defect today. If you want defence in depth, append the process id to the file name.
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161-201: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winIsolate the fixture repository from ambient Git configuration.
Fixture::new()setsuser.emailanduser.namelocally, but the spawnedgitprocesses still read the system and global config. A developer machine or CI image withcommit.gpgsign = true,core.excludesFile,core.autocrlf, orinit.templateDirhooks changes the commit and the snapshot content. The commit assertion then fails for reasons unrelated to the runner. The Bats suite already guards against this withGIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1and a scopedHOME; the Rust fixture does not.Set the isolation variables on each fixture
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for args in [ vec!["init", "-q", "-b", "main"], vec!["config", "user.email", "rainix@example.com"], vec!["config", "user.name", "rainix"], ] { assert!(Command::new("git") .arg("-C") .arg(&repo) .args(&args) + .env("GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM", "1") + .env("GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL", "/dev/null") .status() .unwrap() .success()); }Apply the same two
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 167-169: Update the README statement describing the `sol-shell`
execution to remove the incorrect claim that `./script/build.sh` always runs
through rainix’s `sol-shell`; accurately state that the workflow invokes the
script directly and it selects its own shell.
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In `@rainix-static/src/codegen_fixed_point.rs`:
- Around line 127-145: Update index_path to include the current process ID in
the scratch index filename, keeping the file inside the repository’s git
directory while ensuring concurrent codegen-fixed-point invocations use distinct
indexes.
- Around line 161-201: Update Fixture::new so every git Command invocation,
including the init/config loop and the add and commit commands, sets
GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 and uses a fixture-scoped HOME environment value, matching
the existing Bats isolation behavior.
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Correct the sol-shell statement.
./script/build.sh runs directly in .github/workflows/rainix-copy-artifacts.yaml lines 90-91. It can select its own shell. The phrase “Always runs through rainix's sol-shell” is incorrect.
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| just omits `CopyArtifacts.sol` (the copy step is skipped when the file is | |
| absent). Always runs through rainix's `sol-shell` (slim), regardless of the | |
| consumer's default devShell. `secrets: inherit` carries `CACHIX_AUTH_TOKEN`. | |
| just omits `CopyArtifacts.sol` (the copy step is skipped when the file is | |
| absent). Except for `./script/build.sh`, commands run through rainix's | |
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In `@README.md` around lines 167 - 169, Update the README statement describing the
`sol-shell` execution to remove the incorrect claim that `./script/build.sh`
always runs through rainix’s `sol-shell`; accurately state that the workflow
invokes the script directly and it selects its own shell.
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The paragraph this branch added documented a `max-codegen-passes` bound, a default of 5 and a `did not reach a fixed point` failure. None of them exist: rainix at HEAD 7f223b4 runs `forge script ./script/Build.sol` exactly once inside an `if [ -f ... ]` guard, `max-codegen-passes` has 0 hits across the whole repo, and the only failure that step emits is `Committed artifacts are stale`. rainlanguage/rainix#319, which would add the bound, is still open. State what is true instead: the loop is unbounded, nothing iterates it, and the operator regenerates until the working tree stops changing. Written in the register #140 established for this README (closing #139): the consequence for someone working in a consuming repo plus one link to the workflow that owns it, not a transcription of what that workflow does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #314
The loop was a person
rainix-copy-artifacts.yamlranforge script ./script/Build.sol, thenforge fmt, thengit diff --exit-code. Exactly once.Generated Solidity is an input to its own generation — a pointer table is
imported by the contract whose codehash that same table records — so one pass
applies the generation function rather than reaching its fixed point. Three
different states therefore arrived at the currency check wearing the same face:
The check's advice covers only the first (
Regenerate … and commit). Followedliterally on the second it produces a still-stale tree and a still-red run; on
the third it never terminates, and the tempting way out — commit whichever
iteration happened to diff clean — is exactly the internally inconsistent state
where
BYTECODE_HASHnames a contract compiled against a different pass of thesame file. The iteration count lived only in
rain.sol.codegen's README, asprose, unbounded.
What the job does now
A new
rainix-staticsubcommand:It repeats the pipeline until two consecutive observations of the working tree
agree, and fails with its own
::error::Codegen did not reach a fixed point…once the bound is spent — a distinct diagnosis from "artifacts are stale",
because it takes a distinct fix.
An observation is
git add --all+git write-treein a scratch index under.git/. That choice carries four properties at once:.gitignoreapplies, soout/,cache/anddependencies/— rewritten every pass, committed bynobody — do not read as a tree that never settles; untracked files still count,
so a pass that writes to a new path is a change; comparison is by content, so a
pass rewriting a file with identical bytes is correctly no change; and the
repo's real index is left unstaged for the currency check that follows.
The baseline observation is taken before the first pass, so an
already-converged repo costs exactly one pass — the same CI cost as today. The
second pass is only ever paid by a build that was already going red.
The workflow's six regeneration steps collapse into one step whose pipeline is
the previous sequence verbatim (
hashFiles()guards became[ -f ], which iswhat lets them be re-evaluated per pass). The
src/generatedwithoutscript/Build.solprecondition was split into its own step, since it is aprecondition rather than part of the loop. New
workflow_callinputmax-codegen-passes, default 5.Why a composite action and not the pinned flake ref
The first cut of this called the binary directly:
That is broken on arrival.
codegen-fixed-pointis added by this branch, andRAINIX_SHAis53e96a7, so the pinned flake could only ever resolve to acommit that predates the subcommand. Every consumer's copy-artifacts job would
have failed with
unknown subcommandfrom the moment this merged until afollow-up bumped the pin — reopening precisely the window
80e9432("bump RAINIX_SHA to 53e96a7 (soldeer-gate + general rainix-static)") had to
close by hand after
0c2a923.rainix already answers this. Five of the six rainix-static entry points are
composite actions that resolve the binary with a
path:flake ref out of$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH, andrpc-preflight's own comment states the reason: "thecheck version always matches the action version regardless of any RAINIX_SHA the
caller pins".
codegen-fixed-pointneeds no devshell — that is what thewrapper's pinned bash/git/curl PATH is for — so nothing kept it from the same
shape.
soldeer-gateis the one exception because it must run insidesol-shell.So the step is now
uses: rainlanguage/rainix/.github/actions/codegen-fixed-point@main.The action and the workflow that calls it land in the same commit, so
@mainresolves both at once: the window is zero rather than merely short.
The bound is
requiredon the action rather than defaulted, leaving exactly onepublished default — the workflow input the README documents.
Test
Unit (Rust,
rainix-static/src/codegen_fixed_point.rs) — 12 tests over theloop itself: already-converged costs one pass, stale converges and leaves the
regenerated tree, settles-on-pass-3, oscillation is
NotConverged, the bound isthe bound, a new untracked path counts, gitignored output does not, the repo
index is left unstaged, the scratch index is cleaned up, a failing pipeline
stops the loop and is not retried, a zero bound is rejected, a non-repo root is
an error naming the root.
Wiring (bats) — two suites, registered in
default-shell-testsocheck-shell.ymlruns them, followingtest/bats/action/rpc-preflight.test.bats:test/bats/workflow/copy-artifacts-fixed-point.test.batsreads the step'spipeline and the composite's script straight out of the shipped YAML, stubs
only
nixandforgeas files on PATH, and runs the realrainix-staticagainst fixture consumer checkouts. So it covers the wiring rather than a
restatement of it, including that every command of the pipeline is inside the
loop (not just the codegen), that absent optional hooks are skipped rather
than invoked, and that every devshell the pipeline enters is pinned.
test/bats/action/codegen-fixed-point.test.batspins the argv the compositebuilds: the bound is the caller's, a multi-line pipeline survives as exactly
one argument, the action never evaluates what it is handed, and the binary is
resolved from the action's own checkout rather than any
github:ref.End to end —
nix build .#rainix-static, then the composite's own script(extracted with
yq) driven against a realrain.sol.codegencheckout with areal
forgepipeline, nothing stubbed:fixed point reached after 1 pass(es), exit 0, tree unchanged, nothing staged, scratch index cleaned upbuild.shhook that flips an artifact every pass::error::Codegen did not reach a fixed point in 5 passes, exit 1--max-passes 2QA
a_file_no_pass_has_committed_yet_counts_as_a_change,the_bound_is_the_bound,the_repos_own_index_is_left_for_the_currency_check_to_stage,a_stale_repo_converges_and_leaves_the_regenerated_tree,generation_that_settles_only_after_several_passes_still_converges,oscillating_generation_is_reported_as_not_converged— each fails on base(verified by stubbing
iterateback to today's single-shot behaviour andre-running the suite: 114 passed; 6 failed, these exact 6, against
120 passed; 0 failed after; e.g.
the_bound_is_the_boundgotOk(Converged { passes: 1 })where it wantsOk(NotConverged { passes: 2 })).For the wiring, all 18 bats tests are new — the step they cover did not exist
on base.
Loop (baseline green at 120):
for pass in 1..=max_passes {…}→ single pass →killed by
the_bound_is_the_bound;if current == previous→!=→ killed byoscillating_generation_is_reported_as_not_converged; baselinesnapshot()→
String::new()→ killed bya_repo_already_at_its_fixed_point_costs_one_pass;.env("GIT_INDEX_FILE", index)dropped → killed bythe_repos_own_index_is_left_for_the_currency_check_to_stage;max_passes == 0guard dropped → killed by
a_bound_of_zero_is_rejected_rather_than_passing_without_running;NotConverged→Converged→ killed bythe_bound_is_the_bound;status.success()check dropped → killed bya_failing_pipeline_stops_the_loop_and_reports_itself; not-a-repo guard dropped→ killed by
a_directory_that_is_not_a_repo_is_an_error_not_a_pass;remove_file(&index)dropped → killed bya_scratch_index_is_not_left_behind;add --all→add --all --force→ killed bygitignored_build_output_does_not_look_like_a_moving_tree.Wiring (baseline green at 18):
path:ref →github:…/$SHA→ killed by 5 testsvia the
nixstub;--max-passes "$RAINIX_CODEGEN_MAX_PASSES"→5→ killed bythe workflow input is the bound, not a value baked into the binary;--run "$RAINIX_CODEGEN_RUN"unquoted → killed by 5;eval "$RAINIX_CODEGEN_RUN"added → killed by 5;
[ -f script/build.sh ]→[ -d . ]and the same forbuild-meta.sh→ both killed byoptional consumer hooks that are absent are skipped, not invoked;forge fmt→true→ killed byevery command of the pipeline is inside the loop;max-passes: ${{ inputs.max-codegen-passes }}→5→ killed by 5;
default: 5→7→ killed bythe default bound is 5;#sol-shellref →…/main#sol-shell→ killed by 5.rainix-copy-artifacts runs codegen exactly once, so a non-converging build is indistinguishable from a forgotten regeneration #314 and
rain.sol.codegen'sREADME.md:18-21say generation "may need to beregenerated several times until they reach a fixed point" — so the expected
values are derived from what a fixed point is (two consecutive observations
agreeing) and from what the bound must distinguish (a tree N passes behind vs a
cycle that never settles), with pass counts asserted against an out-of-tree
counter the loop cannot see. Independently corroborated end to end against a
real
rain.sol.codegencheckout with a realforgepipeline: converged repo →1 pass; drifted artifact → 2 passes, left unstaged; a
build.shthat flips anartifact every pass →
did not reach a fixed point in 5 passes, exit 1.bound, (c) so a non-converging build says so, and (d) the currency check
comparing the committed tree against the converged output rather than one
iteration. Covered a, b, c, d — a is the subcommand + the collapsed step, b is
--max-passes/max-codegen-passes, c is the distinct::error::Codegen did not reach a fixed point…, and d follows because the loop now precedes theunchanged
git diffstep and leaves the tree converged and unstaged. Theissue's YAML sketch is illustrative; the same category is covered in Rust
rather than inline bash, per
CLAUDE.md("the moment it branches over data,that logic is Rust"), and the observation is content-addressed rather than
git status --porcelain, which the sketch would have had re-run per pass.Also run:
batsworkflow + action suites 18 passed; 0 failed;pre-commitshellcheck, yamlfmt, nixfmt, statix, deadnix, nil all pass on the diff.
(
rustfmt-conditionalfails under--all-fileson cleanmaintoo — it runscargo fmtfrom the repo root, where there is noCargo.toml. Pre-existing,unrelated, not touched here.)
Two things worth a reviewer's attention
rainix-staticnow spawns the consumer'sbuild.shwith its wrapper PATHprefix (pinned bash/curl/git ahead of the runner's), because the pipeline
runs as a child of the binary rather than as a workflow step. That is a small
behavioural change for every consumer with a
build.sh.Regenerate meta artifacts, which this change replaces, and owns theAssert committed artifacts match freshly builtstep — deliberatelyuntouched here. Whoever merges second resolves. Its currency-check message
("regenerate and commit") is correct advice now that the loop precedes it.
Also corrected while rewriting the list it belongs to: rainix's
README.mddocumented
./script/BuildPointers.solfor a workflow that runsscript/Build.sol, and omittedbuild-meta.sh/build.shentirely.Summary by CodeRabbit
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