The replay is a second deploy on the same runner, and mark() only ever checked the variant number of a row, never its mode. So the marker landed on whichever row of the smallest variant came first, which for 38 of 98 marked rows was a swarm one: that runner would have had to bring a compose stack up beside a swarm stack.
Two places needed it. The row now has to run in the mode guide_deployable names, and only rows in that mode count as deployed when the search looks for the smallest variant - without the second half the search settles on a variant this sweep runs in swarm alone and the marker falls away silently.
Measured over the full matrix: 98 marked rows become 71, swarm drops from 38 to 0, compose rises from 47 to 59. The 27 roles that lose the replay entirely are the ones this sweep deploys in no compose row of an eligible variant; getting them back means forcing such a row into the sweep, which is a change to matrix selection rather than to this marker.
mark() had no tests. It has eight now, including the two failure modes the old code showed under a negative control: a swarm row carrying instructions=compose, and a compose row left unmarked because a swarm-only variant won the search.
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The instructions test held a job of its own that picked one random role per
run, so a README's Production block was proven roughly once per 265 roles.
The replay now rides on a deploy row instead: no extra runner, and every role
the sweep touches gets its documented one-command deploy exercised.
The row is the role's smallest variant -- fewest services enabled -- because
that is the shape the README describes, and it is chosen among the variants
the sweep actually deploys, so a row cut as redundant coverage cannot silently
drop the role from the test. A role qualifies only when its README carries a
Production block and the guide's own mode is one the role runs and tests.
The marked entry carries the guide mode in `instructions` and a 📖 in its job
title, between the variant number and a priority ⭐. The guide mode is
independent of the mode the rotation gave the row: a swarm row still replays
in compose. The step runs last in the deploy job, after the swarm teardown,
because the replay deploys the role a second time and needs the runner's
ports.
call-test-instructions.yml, cli.meta.ci.guide_select and the `instructions`
dispatch input go with it. `redundant()` moves next to the marker so the
chunker, the plan table and the marker share one definition.
The plan table trades its 📊 Weight column for 📖 Instructions; nothing read
the weight any more, so it leaves the matrix entries too.
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