A run-wide draw proved one distribution and said nothing about the other four, while reporting green. Both are matrix-row axes now, assigned by the same deterministic rotation mode and tor already use, so one sweep exercises every distribution and every filesystem.
The two read the row's position like an odometer, the distro as the low digit. Turning both on the position directly covers only n of the n x m pairs whenever the pools are the same length, and no sweep unlocks it.
Both are part of a row's identity: glyphs in the job label, columns in the plan table, shards in the artifact name. Both are selectable through %distro and /filesystem, and a retrigger replays the distro off a failed title. It leaves the filesystem out, because a title states the kind the matrix assigned and a deploy may have fallen back from it.
A row's filesystem is a preference unless a human names it, on the run or in a token. Reading the matrix's own narrowing as a demand would fail rows for every transient condition the applying step is built to tolerate.
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The merge assertion was a job nobody depended on. ci-orchestrator needed the
scope, the branch prefix and the affected roles -- not it -- so a PR whose base
was not merged in went on to spend five distros on a deploy sweep and reported
a single red job beside a chain that had already finished.
Validation is now a reusable workflow every entry calls, and what it checks
follows the event and the inputs rather than the caller: a pull request gets
its branch prefix and merge base asserted, a run carrying a selection gets that
selection checked, a fork PR waits here for the privileged run's images. The
wait and its gate move in with it, so the orchestrator no longer keeps a second
copy of that logic. Every downstream job depends on the gate.
The selection check is what the last two nights needed. cli.meta.ci.validate
resolves every token against the branch that would deploy it -- role, variant,
mode, onion state -- and reports all offenders at once. Until now the matrix
builder raised on the first bad token from inside a chunk job, so a stale
priority line cost one full CI round per entry and only ever showed the next
problem after the previous one was fixed. Measured on a real list: three
unusable tokens, one pass.
A bare role name that matches nothing is a warning, not an error: the
diff-derived whitelist legitimately names roles the lifecycle envelope filters
out.
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