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TL;DR

• CI restores the pinned Opus comparator archive from an Actions cache keyed comparator-archive-<sha256>, the digest the composed-audio registration pins, on every branch, and downloads it only on a true miss; the ci-fixtures action and the opus job of audio-conformance.yml share the entry.
• The composed-audio generator's download of the registered address is answered from that file by a stand-in for curl scoped to the generator call; the generator's own digest check still judges the bytes, and no registered or judging source changes.
• Only an archive whose digest matched the registration enters the cache, so a failed or corrupt download never poisons the entry.

Background

The composed-audio fixture cache is saved on main only and keyed by the composed sources, so a pull request that changes scripts/composed_audio.py misses it and every push downloads the pinned comparator archive from its publisher, which redirects to a mirror. On #467 that download failed in 4 of 9 attempts and one more job failed with curl exit 35; that pull request added retries and a probe diagnostic. The download itself lives in scripts/composed_audio_fixtures.py, which is part of the composed check's method digest and of the invocation evidence record, so it stays unchanged here.

What changes

What changes for users of the library or CLI? Nothing; CI only.

• Covered: .github/actions/ci-fixtures/action.yml (digest key, actions/cache step, fetch step, stand-in on the generator's PATH), .github/actions/ci-fixtures/comparator-curl.sh, the opus job of .github/workflows/audio-conformance.yml, scripts/tests/test_ci_fixtures.py, docs/agents/ci.md, docs/design/ci-checks.md, and docs/design/oracle-invocation-dispositions.json refreshed for the three changed files.
• Not covered: scripts/composed_audio.py, scripts/composed_audio_fixtures.py, the registration and judging.json (unchanged bytes); the composed-audio fixture cache still saves on main only; the stderr change to composed_audio.bounded, deferred to the next registration; other workflows that download pinned archives.

What must a person do after merging? None. The first main run of audio-conformance.yml, or the first composed-fixture miss on main, seeds the entry that every branch restores.

Decisions

• The archive is cached rather than the download skipped: the generator always calls curl for the registered address, so a stand-in named curl, first on the PATH of that one call, copies the cached file to the requested output and refuses any other request. Rejected: teaching scripts/composed_audio_fixtures.py to accept a local archive, because that file is in composed_audio.method_digest() and the maintainer deferred method changes to the next registration. Rejected: saving the composed-fixture cache on pull requests, because the first push of a composed change would still download.
• The stand-in is a tracked script that the tests run with the generator's exact curl arguments, rather than a heredoc inside the action, so its copy and refusal paths are tested and the invocation census sees it (it has no discovered site).
• Both workflows use one key and one path, comparator-archive-<registered sha256> and coreav-comparator-archive/opus.tar.gz, so whichever runs first on a branch seeds the other; test_comparator_archive_is_cached_by_its_registered_digest_on_every_branch holds the audio workflow's LIBOPUS_* values to the registration.
• Nothing unverified enters the cached directory: the download lands outside it and moves in only after sha256sum agrees, a cached file that no longer matches is deleted and fetched again, and actions/cache saves nothing when the directory was never created. The cache step has no main-only condition.
• A fetch failure in the action is a warning, not a failure: the generator then downloads on its own with the retries and probe from fix(oracle): classify every oracle invocation #467, which stay as they were.
• The action's miss path cannot run on this pull request: the composed-fixture cache from main hits because no composed source changes here. The opus job does run here and restores the archive on its second run (Evidence); the action's steps are exercised by the tests, which execute their shell blocks with a stand-in curl.

Evidence

Verification run: python3 -I -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p test_ci_fixtures.py (9 tests, OK; the fetch test fails when the download is made to land inside the cached directory); python3 -I -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_oracle_invocation*.py' (85, OK); python3 -I -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_composed_audio*.py' (39, OK); python3 -I scripts/oracle_invocation_classify.py --json REPORT (evidence valid, the same 23 reviewed bypass and 17 unavailable-input rows as main); python3 -I scripts/workflow_check.py; python3 -I scripts/issue_refs_check.py; actionlint -shellcheck= -pyflakes=; cargo checks not run (no Rust changes). The PR's second opus run succeeded and logged Cache restored from key: comparator-archive-6ffcb593207be92584df15b32466ed64bbec99109f007c82205f0194572411a1. This proves a PR-scoped cache restores without main seeding. GitHub still scopes caches by ref; unrelated branches gain a shared entry after main seeds it.

Similarity guard: checked public head 56d37b72a8a339c7ad49064efd047f9b929bca0d against the main allowlist; 108 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries (exit 0).

Links: #467; docs/design/ci-checks.md, "Caches"; docs/agents/ci.md.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• CI Improvements
  • CI now reuses a cached comparator archive across fixture generation and audio conformance checks, reducing repeated downloads.
  • Archives are checked against their registered digest before caching or use. If the cached archive is unavailable or invalid, fixture generation can still attempt to fetch it.
• Documentation
  • Updated CI guidance to describe archive caching and verification.

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Walkthrough

The CI fixtures action and audio-conformance workflow now use a SHA-256-keyed cache for the registered comparator archive. The action verifies or fetches the archive for fixture generation. The workflow uses it to build opus_compare. Tests, documentation, and registry records cover the cache behavior.

Changes: Comparator archive handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fixture generation archive flow .github/actions/ci-fixtures/action.yml, .github/actions/ci-fixtures/comparator-curl.sh, scripts/tests/test_ci_fixtures.py, docs/agents/ci.md, docs/design/oracle-invocation-dispositions.json	The action keys the archive cache by the registered digest, verifies cached or fetched bytes, and provides the archive to the fixture generator through a restricted curl stand-in. Tests cover cache keys, fetch outcomes, and stand-in requests. The registry updates source hashes and reviewed evidence.
Audio-conformance comparator build .github/workflows/audio-conformance.yml, scripts/tests/test_ci_fixtures.py, docs/agents/ci.md, docs/design/ci-checks.md, docs/design/oracle-invocation-dispositions.json	The workflow uses the digest-keyed archive cache to build opus_compare. Tests cover cache hits, fetches, and invalid archives. Documentation describes the shared cache, and the registry updates workflow hashes and evidence.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 56d37

This CI-only change caches the pinned comparator archive by digest. No actionable merge-blocking risk is identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title "ci(fixtures): cache the comparator archive by digest" follows Conventional Commits and matches the main change: the comparator archive is now cached under its SHA-256 digest and shared by t…
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The title "ci(fixtures): cache the comparator archive by digest" follows Conventional Commits and matches the main change: the comparator archive is now cached under its SHA-256 digest and shared by the ci-fixtures action and the audio-conformance opus job. It is specific, 52 characters, and conveys the primary change without listing files.

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Review: no blocking issue

Reviewed head 5b18e01dcb40d904dea50c3c6b9bc18e477ad4ca.

Both consumers verify the restored archive against the pinned SHA-256 before use and reject/refetch mismatches. Downloads move into the cached directory only after verification. The composed generator also retains its independent digest check before extraction; its new stand-in serves only the registered URL. PR-scoped caches do not become main-scoped entries, and main still verifies any restored bytes rather than trusting the key.

All external actions in the changed workflow and composite action have full-SHA pins; workflow_check.py passes. The three generator attempts, cleanup, backoff and real-network probe from #467 remain intact. The registered sources, registration and judging bytes are unchanged.

Verified locally with Python 3.12: 9 fixture-cache tests and 39 composed-audio tests pass, including corrupt-cache and corrupt-download rejection. Additional oracle-invocation tests could not fully run locally: 8 of 85 error because ast-grep is absent (the other 77 pass). CI and CodeRabbit are still pending; this is a code-review verdict, not a merge-gate verdict. No CodeRabbit or Greptile inline findings are currently present.

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Replying to #473 (comment)

Fixed the audit-prose concern in 56d37b72a8a339c7ad49064efd047f9b929bca0d: both exclusions now state that the stand-in's child command is cp, which copies the prepared archive and invokes neither FFmpeg nor ffprobe. The executable behavior is unchanged. The docstring-coverage warning does not identify a behavioral defect; no additional test narration is needed.

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