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ci-diagnostics

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Diagnose Proton CI failures and performance comparison results from GitHub checks and uploaded reports. Make sure to use this skill whenever CI checks are mentioned, a PR has red or failing checks, the user pastes a CI URL, or asks about test failures in the pipeline, even if they just ask 'why is CI failing'.

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How to use this skill

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  1. Open your project in Codex.
  2. Copy the prompt below and paste it into your agent.
  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/ci-diagnostics/SKILL.md

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After I approve, install the complete skill folder, including required referenced files, into that project location. Verify it is discoverable, then tell me its actual invocation name and how to use it. Do not claim it is installed until you have verified it.

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CI Diagnostics

Inputs

  • PR number or URL
  • optional check name substring
  • optional direct report URL

First step: collect check status

For a PR:

gh pr view "$PR" --json title,body,url
gh pr checks "$PR"
REPO=$(gh repo view --json nameWithOwner --jq .nameWithOwner)
SHA=$(gh pr view "$PR" --json commits --jq '.commits[-1].oid')
gh api "repos/$REPO/commits/$SHA/status"

Use the commit status payload to find:

  • failing or pending contexts
  • target_url links for uploaded HTML reports, raw logs, or performance artifacts

Proton report layout

CI uploads reports under:

<pr-number>/<commit-sha>/<normalized-check-name>...

The normalization logic is defined in:

Normalize a check name with lowercase and replacements for spaces, (, ), and ,.

Failure triage workflow

  1. List failing contexts from gh pr checks or commit statuses.
  2. Open each target_url report first.
  3. If the report is sparse, inspect the linked raw log.
  4. For test reports, summarize:
    • failing test names
    • first common error signature
    • whether the failure looks deterministic, flaky, infra, or environment-specific
  5. Map failures back to touched areas in the diff.

Performance comparison workflow

Performance comparison artifacts upload:

  • report.html
  • all-queries.html
  • all-query-metrics.tsv
  • queries.rep
  • images/flamegraphs

If you have a report.html URL, inspect sibling artifacts by replacing the filename in the same prefix.

When reviewing perf results:

  • start from the summary in report.html
  • inspect all-query-metrics.tsv for the biggest client_time regressions
  • distinguish broad regressions from a few outlier queries
  • correlate with touched execution paths, joins, windows, aggregations, or storage reads

Output expectations

Always report:

  1. failing checks
  2. best report/log URL for each failing check
  3. likely failure class: code bug, flaky test, infra, dependency, or timeout/resource limit
  4. smallest next debugging action

For performance changes also report:

  1. whether the regression is broad or narrow
  2. the most affected workload family
  3. whether more local benchmarking is needed before code changes