CI - IMPROVEMENT - Gate the Julia test suite on Julia changes, and general workflow cleanup

.github/workflows/claude-code-review.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ jobs:
       contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude review')
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
     permissions:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: read
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 1
 

.github/workflows/claude.yml

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review' && contains(github.event.review.body, '@claude') && !contains(github.event.review.body, '@claude review')) ||
       (github.event_name == 'issues' && (contains(github.event.issue.body, '@claude') || contains(github.event.issue.title, '@claude')))
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
     permissions:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: read
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       actions: read # Required for Claude to read CI results on PRs
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 1
 

.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yaml

@@ -6,36 +6,37 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   push:
     paths:
-      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
+      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yaml
   pull_request:
     paths:
-      - . github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
+      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yaml
 
 jobs:
   # The job MUST be called `copilot-setup-steps` or it will not be picked up by Copilot
   copilot-setup-steps:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
 
     # Set the permissions to the lowest permissions possible needed for your steps
     permissions:
       contents: read
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Julia
         uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
         with:
-          version:  '1.11'
+          version: '1.11'
 
       - name: Cache Julia packages
-        uses: julia-actions/cache@v2
+        uses: julia-actions/cache@v3
         with:
           cache-name: julia-cache
           cache-packages: true
           cache-artifacts: true
           cache-registries: true
 
-      - name:  Instantiate Julia environment
+      - name: Instantiate Julia environment
         run: julia --project="." -e "using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()"

.github/workflows/format.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+name: Format and Hygiene
+
+# Runs the repository's pre-commit suite (JuliaFormatter + file hygiene) so that
+# contributors who have not run `pre-commit install` locally are still caught.
+#
+# DISABLED as a pull request gate for now: the repository has pre-existing
+# formatting drift that has to be cleaned up first. Until then, run this
+# manually from the Actions tab ("Run workflow") to see the current damage.
+#
+# To enable it as a gate, uncomment the `pull_request` trigger below. If the
+# test suite's `Tests` job is a required status check, add `pre-commit` too.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # pull_request:
+  #   branches:
+  #     - main
+  #     - develop
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  pre-commit:
+    name: pre-commit
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          # Matches default_language_version in .pre-commit-config.yaml
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
+      - name: Set up Julia
+        uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
+        with:
+          version: '1.11'
+
+      # The julia-formatter hook is `language: system`: it shells out to
+      # `julia -e 'import JuliaFormatter: format; format(ARGS)'` and therefore
+      # uses whatever JuliaFormatter lives in the default depot environment.
+      # Pin it to the same version .pre-commit-config.yaml pins the hook repo
+      # to, otherwise CI and local pre-commit runs disagree on formatting.
+      - name: Install JuliaFormatter
+        run: julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="JuliaFormatter", version="1.0.62"))'
+
+      - name: Cache pre-commit environments
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
+          key: pre-commit-${{ runner.os }}-py3.10-${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            pre-commit-${{ runner.os }}-py3.10-
+
+      - name: Run pre-commit
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pre-commit
+          pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure --color=always

.github/workflows/make_docs.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ jobs:
   docs:
     name: Documentation
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
     permissions:
       actions: write
       contents: write

.github/workflows/test.yaml

@@ -15,10 +15,83 @@ permissions:
   actions: write
   contents: read
 
+concurrency:
+  # One in-flight run per branch/PR. Superseded pull request runs are cancelled;
+  # runs on main/develop are allowed to finish so every merged commit is verified.
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+
 jobs:
+  changes:
+    name: Detect Julia changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: read
+    outputs:
+      julia: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.julia }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Check whether the pull request touches Julia code
+        id: filter
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          # Report the decision to the job log as well as the run summary, so
+          # `why did/didn't this run?` is answerable from either one.
+          say() { echo "$1"; echo "$1" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"; }
+
+          # Pushes to main/develop always run: every merged commit gets verified.
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" != "pull_request" ]; then
+            echo "julia=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            say "Not a pull request — running the full test suite."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          files=$(gh api --paginate "repos/${REPO}/pulls/${PR_NUMBER}/files" --jq '.[].filename')
+
+          # Allowlist of what test/runtests.jl actually exercises: the package
+          # itself, the tests and their fixtures, the example decks the tests run
+          # end-to-end, the dependency set, and this workflow. Anything not listed
+          # here does not trigger a run, so new untested Julia (benchmarks, docs
+          # scripts, a future tools/ directory) is excluded by default rather than
+          # by remembering to exclude it.
+          tested='(^src/|^test/|^examples/|^Project\.toml$|^\.github/workflows/test\.yaml$)'
+
+          relevant=$(printf '%s\n' "$files" | grep -E "$tested" || true)
+
+          say "### Julia change detection"
+          say ""
+          if [ -n "$relevant" ]; then
+            say "Running the test suite. Matched files:"
+            say '```'
+            say "$relevant"
+            say '```'
+          else
+            say "No Julia code, test data or example decks changed — skipping the test suite."
+            say ""
+            say "Files considered:"
+            say '```'
+            say "$files"
+            say '```'
+          fi
+
+          if [ -n "$relevant" ]; then
+            echo "julia=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "julia=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
   test:
     name: runtests ${{ matrix.version }} - ${{ matrix.os }}
+    needs: changes
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.julia == 'true'
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 90
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -43,5 +116,33 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build Julia packages
         uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
 
+      # Coverage instrumentation is off: nothing consumes the .cov files (they are
+      # gitignored and never uploaded), and instrumenting slows compute-heavy
+      # numerical code noticeably. Set coverage: true and add a Codecov upload
+      # step together if coverage reporting is ever wanted.
       - name: Run tests
         uses: julia-actions/julia-runtest@v1
+        with:
+          coverage: false
+
+  # Stable check that is present on every pull request, whether or not the suite
+  # ran. Point branch protection at this job so skipped runs do not block merges.
+  test-status:
+    name: Tests
+    needs: [changes, test]
+    if: always()
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - name: Report suite result
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ "${{ needs.changes.result }}" != "success" ]; then
+            echo "Change detection failed; cannot tell whether tests were needed."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          case "${{ needs.test.result }}" in
+            success) echo "Test suite passed." ;;
+            skipped) echo "No Julia code changed; test suite intentionally skipped." ;;
+            *)       echo "Test suite result: ${{ needs.test.result }}"; exit 1 ;;
+          esac