I recorded that recreating the runs directory with a fresh inode preceded recovery. It recurred afterwards (build 1252), so that was not the fix. The real signal is that it is INTERMITTENT and tracks concurrent activity: every failure landed while a second run or manual deploy was in flight, and every build on a quiet host passed (1243, 1250, 1251, 1253). Free space never moves during a failing build. Practical guidance is therefore to wait for the host to go quiet and re-trigger before calling it a recipe failure, and DRONE_RUNNER_CAPACITY=2 is the obvious knob to test if it becomes disruptive. Root cause still not established, and the note now says so plainly rather than presenting a coincidence as understood.
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| name | description |
|---|---|
| cc-ci-status | Comprehensive read-only status check of the whole cc-ci system - how the recent weekly upgrade runs went and whether their reports published, which recipes/tests are stale, how long since the server + orchestrator host flake updates, open recipe PRs (flagging CVE-carrying PRs that have been open too long), host health (failed units, disk, timers, bridge/!testme path), ending with a verdict (ALL HEALTHY or a findings list) and recommended next steps mapped to the skills to invoke. Never changes anything - it only reads and reports. Invoke as /cc-ci-status. |
cc-ci-status
One comprehensive, read-only status pass over the cc-ci system. Output ends with either
ALL HEALTHY or a prioritized findings list, each finding paired with the skill to invoke.
Nothing here mutates state — no restarts, no deploys, no merges.
Checks (run all; collect findings, don't stop at the first)
1. Weekly upgrade runs — recency + outcome
ls -t /srv/cc-ci/.cc-ci-logs/upgrades/upgrade-all-*.md | head -3
head -20 <latest> # the Summary block: Considered/green/stale/Failed/Skipped
systemctl list-timers cc-ci-upgrade-all.timer --no-pager | head -3
- Overdue if the newest report is >8 days old, or the timer is inactive/missing → recommend
systemctl start cc-ci-upgrade-all.service(or investigate the timer) //upgrade-all. - Failed entries in the latest report → recommend
/recipe-upgrade <recipe>per entry (or/ci-test-reviewif the failure is harness-side). - A run currently in flight (tmux
cc-ci-upgradersession live) is NOT a finding — report it as in-progress and skip staleness checks that depend on its output.
2. Report publishing — report.ci.commoninternet.net
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://report.ci.commoninternet.net/
ls -t /var/lib/cc-ci-reports/week-*.html | head -2 # via ssh cc-ci
- Index must be 200 and there must be a
week-*.htmlat least as new as the last completed upgrade run (a completed run without a matching page = report generation broke → recommend/recipe-report/ inspectlaunch-report.py).
3. Stale recipes / stale tests
- Latest report's "PRs where a test looks stale" section + carry-over notes.
- Any entries → recommend
/cc-ci-tests-update(fleet) or/recipe-upgrade <recipe> --with-tests(single). - Also check
/srv/cc-ci/.cc-ci-logs/tests-update-*.mdrecency — if stale tests were reported weeks ago and no tests-update run since, say so.
4. Open recipe PRs — especially CVE-carrying ones that linger
Enumerate open PRs across recipe-maintainers/* (Gitea API, creds in /srv/cc-ci/.testenv):
GET /repos/recipe-maintainers/<repo>/pulls?state=open # repos = the used-recipes.md inventory + cc-ci
For each open PR: age (now − created_at), and whether the PR title/body/report row mentions CVE / security patch.
- CVE-carrying PR open >14 days → HIGH-priority finding: name the PR, the CVE context, and
the blocker (commonly a stale test — check the report row) → recommend the unblocking skill
(
/cc-ci-tests-update) plus "operator: review + merge ". - Non-CVE PRs open >30 days → low-priority note ("operator review backlog: N PRs").
- Verified-green PRs awaiting operator merge are normal — list them as "ready to merge", not as failures.
5. Server + orchestrator host update recency
For BOTH hosts:
# cc-ci server: ssh cc-ci 'nixos-version; cd /root/cc-ci-deploy && nix flake metadata --json' (or builder-clone)
# orchestrator: nixos-version; cd /srv/cc-ci-orch && nix flake metadata --json
git ls-remote https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs <channel> # current tip
ls -t /srv/cc-ci-orch/.cc-ci-logs/server-update-*.md /srv/cc-ci-orch/.cc-ci-logs/orchestrator-update-*.md | head -2
- Report: days since last update log + how far the running nixpkgs rev lags the channel tip.
- Lagging >30 days (or a NixOS release behind) → recommend
/cc-ci-server-update//cc-ci-orchestrator-update.
6. Host + service health (both machines)
ssh cc-ci 'systemctl --failed --no-legend; df -h / | tail -1; docker service ls --format "{{.Name}} {{.Replicas}}"'
systemctl --failed --no-legend; df -h / | tail -1; tmux ls
- Failed units, core swarm services not 1/1 (warm-* spares flapping is a known benign pattern —
note, don't page), disk >65% (server) / >85% (orchestrator) → findings. Server unreachable →
HIGH: recommend
hetzner-server-recovery.65%, not 80%, on the server — it is not a steady-state measure. Two concurrent recipe runs pull images and write volumes worth tens of GB, so a host sitting at 73% still hits 100% mid-run. That is exactly what happened on 2026-08-11: 63GB of unused images had accumulated (nothing ever pruned them), the filesystem filled during a run, and the harness died at startup with
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device. Remedy:docker image prune -afon cc-ci — it spares anything a container references, so infra and warm-* canonicals are untouched. Do NOTdocker volume prune: warm-* canonical volumes are data-warm and legitimately dangling. - !testme actually produces results (the check that would have caught the above days earlier):
the newest few
/var/lib/cc-ci-runs/<build>/dirs must each containresults.json. A build that dies before the harness writes one leaves an EMPTY dir — and the PR badge still says "failure", so it reads as a recipe regression rather than a sick host. Builds 1236–1242 all failed that way. Finding: "N recent builds produced no results.json — the harness is dying at startup, check disk and the drone step log". The step log lives in drone's sqlite (/var/lib/docker/volumes/drone_ci_commoninternet_net_data/_data/database.sqlite) — copy it and readlogs.log_datafor the failingsteps.step_id; the bridge's drone token is not extractable (distroless container, swarm secret).If the error is ENOSPC but the disk is fine, it is not disk. Seen 2026-08-11: builds 1244-1249 died on
mkdir /var/lib/cc-ci-runs/<build>with 110GB free and 16% inodes, while the identical mkdir succeeded as root over ssh, inside the runner's own mount namespace, and 61/61 times in a stress loop — and the same harness run by hand with a numeric run id worked fine. Restartingdrone-runner-execdid NOT help, and neither did recreating the runs directory with a fresh inode (it recurred afterwards — that apparent fix was coincidence).It is INTERMITTENT and tracks concurrent activity, which is the useful signal: every failure landed while a second run or a manual deploy was in flight (1252 was triggered while 1251 was still finishing), and every build on a quiet host succeeded (1243, 1250, 1251, 1253). Free space never moved during a failing build. So on ENOSPC-with-free-disk: wait for the host to go quiet and re-trigger before treating it as a recipe failure. Root cause is still NOT established;
DRONE_RUNNER_CAPACITY=2allows the overlap, so lowering it to 1 is the obvious next experiment if it becomes disruptive. - Bridge / !testme path:
docker service lsshowsccci-bridge_app 1/1AND the bridge log has no auth errors (docker service logs --since 24h ccci-bridge_app 2>&1 | grep -ci "401\|user does not exist"== 0). A silently-401ing bridge drops!testme(seen 2026-08-03, stale rotated Gitea secret) → recommend refreshing the bridge secret + redeploy (test-before-switch).
7. Maintained-set consistency (quick)
- Every
weeklyrow inused-recipes.mdhastests/<recipe>/on cc-ci AND arecipe-maintainers/<recipe>mirror AND is in bridgePOLL_REPOS; mismatches → recommend finishing enrollment (/recipe-enroll <recipe>covers all touchpoints).
Output format
# cc-ci status — <date>
## Verdict: ALL HEALTHY | N findings (M high-priority)
## Weekly upgrades: <last run date + one-line outcome; next timer firing>
## Report site: <ok/broken + latest page>
## Stale tests: <none | list>
## Open PRs: <count; CVE-carrying + age flagged FIRST; ready-to-merge list>
## Host updates: server <rev, N days behind tip> · orchestrator <rev, N days>
## Health: server <failed/disk/services> · orchestrator <failed/disk/sessions> · bridge <ok/401s>
## Recommended next steps
1. <finding> → /<skill> (or operator action)
…
When a finding is that the fleet's security exposure is unknown — the last weekly run failed or
is stale, so nobody has scanned for CVEs recently — the recommended step is /cve-check (read-only,
minutes, no PRs). If it is instead that a known CVE is sitting unpatched, recommend
/cve-check-and-upgrade (add --min-severity high when only the urgent ones matter). Prefer
/cve-check over waiting for the next weekly run whenever the question is "are we exposed?".
ALL HEALTHY requires: recent successful weekly run + published report, no stale tests, no
CVE PR open >14 days, both hosts <30 days behind their channel, zero failed units, recent builds all
producing results.json, disk under
thresholds, bridge clean, maintained-set consistent. Anything else is a finding — even minor
ones get a recommended next step. Order findings by priority (CVE/unreachable-host first).
Guardrails
- Read-only. This skill diagnoses and recommends; it invokes nothing and changes nothing.
- Use the pseudo-TTY wrap for any abra call; plain ssh for everything else.
- Don't double-count: a finding that explains another (bridge 401 → !testme "failures") gets reported once, at the root cause.