Every app's compose pass ran three remote tasks before compose up: create the directories, compose ps for running containers, and stat the pending marker (53 apps x ~2.7 s in a production run). compose_instance_prepare does all three in one call from 02_stack_host_prep.yml, sharing the directory creation with directory_batch through utils/directory_batch.py; compose ps runs only in compose mode. up.yml evaluates the registered result, named compose_instance_before_files because it predates 04_files: the running check is skipped whenever the compose, env or override file changed in this run (those changes notify compose-up themselves).
Replay harness old vs new: rendered files and the compose-up, marker and swarm handlers identical in every scenario; the only difference is the skipped running check when only the override changed, where compose-up still runs. About 85 s per full production run.
Merge note: store-i18n's a4c7fda974 hoists the removed marker stat into a block; resolve up.yml with this side.
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The reason appended to the nocheck marker pushed the line past ruff's limit, so ruff format wrapped the call and left the marker on the closing-parenthesis line, away from the rglob the lint matches. Keep the bare marker, the form every other project-walk opt-out in the repository uses.
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test_no_raw_project_walk flagged the rglob in DirectoryBatchTests.tearDown. It walks the test's own TemporaryDirectory to make every directory writable again before cleanup, after tests that leave an unwritable parent behind, so the cached project-file helpers do not apply.
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Directory loops over ansible.builtin.file cost one SSH round trip per path: the openresty config tree (20 paths) took up to 12.9 s, the webserver core directories (16) up to 13.2 s, every app's compose directories (5) 2.5-5 s per app, the shared CDN roots 5.8 s and the OpenLDAP LDIF dirs 2.2 s on echoserver.
directory_batch takes entries (path plus its own mode, owner, group) or paths with one shared set, and handles each path like file with state: directory: symlinks are followed, missing parents get the same attributes, an attribute left out stays as found, and it never recurses. It reports changed_paths, supports check and diff mode, and fails on a relative path, an existing non-directory or a failed mkdir. It replaces the five loops and the earlier install -d of the CDN role directories, which now report changed honestly.
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