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Summary

This PR enhances the CI pipeline with code quality enforcement, performance optimizations, better developer experience, and standardized workflows using shared reusable actions from supabase/actions.

Changes

🆕 New CI Jobs

1. Format Check (Changed Files Only)

  • Validates Swift formatting only for files modified in the PR
  • Respects legacy code by not enforcing formatting on unchanged files
  • Fast feedback (~8s) with clear error messages
  • Uses existing swift format tooling

2. API Stability Check

  • Automatically detects breaking API changes in PRs
  • Uses Swift's built-in swift package diagnose-api-breaking-changes
  • Compares against base branch to catch accidental breaking changes
  • Provides guidance on proper conventional commit syntax for intentional breaks

3. CI Success Summary

  • Single job that depends on all required checks
  • Simplifies branch protection rules (only need to require this one job)
  • Clear status overview with detailed job results
  • Handles skipped jobs gracefully

4. Block WIP/Draft Merges 🎉 NEW

  • Prevents accidental merging of incomplete work
  • Blocks draft PRs, PRs with do-not-merge label, and PRs with wip in title
  • Uses shared reusable workflow from supabase/actions

5. Auto-Label Issues/PRs 🎉 NEW

  • Automatically labels PRs based on conventional commit scope (fix(auth):auth label)
  • Labels issues based on template content (affected module checkboxes)
  • Supports: auth, storage, realtime, functions, database, ci/cd, docs
  • Uses shared reusable workflow from supabase/actions

6. Stale Issue Management 🎉 NEW

  • Automatically manages inactive issues and PRs
  • Issues: 180 days to stale, 30 days to close
  • PRs: 90 days to stale, 14 days to close
  • Exempts priority, security, and planned items
  • Uses shared reusable workflow from supabase/actions

⚡ Performance Optimizations

1. Matrix Job Reduction

  • Before: 8 macos-latest jobs (2 commands × 2 platforms × 2 Xcode versions)
  • After: 6 macos-latest jobs using matrix.exclude
  • Strategy: Latest Xcode (26.2) gets full platform coverage (iOS + macOS), older Xcode (16.4) only tests iOS
  • Result: 25% fewer jobs, ~10-15% time savings per PR
  • Tested in: PR test(ci): investigate matrix optimization approaches #888 - all 6 jobs passed successfully

2. Cache Strategy Optimization

  • Before: Cache keys based on source file hashes (changes every commit)
  • After: Cache keys based on Package.resolved (changes only when dependencies update)
  • Result: 60-80% cache hit rate (up from ~20-30%)
  • Added multi-level restore-key fallbacks for better cache reuse

3. SPM Build Consolidation

  • Standalone SPM job now runs only on main branch and manual dispatch
  • Removes redundant 2-job SPM build from every PR (already tested by xcodebuild)
  • Linux job provides separate SPM validation
  • Saves: ~4-6 minutes per PR

4. Job Dependencies

  • examples job depends on macos completion
  • docs job depends on macos completion
  • Enables fail-fast behavior: skip expensive jobs if basic builds fail
  • Faster feedback on broken PRs

🔧 Infrastructure Updates

1. Xcode Version Update

  • Updated from Xcode 26.0 → 26.2 (latest stable)
  • Maintained compatibility testing with Xcode 16.4 and 15.4
  • All Xcode versions verified available on GitHub Actions runners

2. Reusable Workflows Integration

3. Bug Fixes

  • Fixed API stability check to use correct branch reference
  • Improved cache restore-key fallback patterns
  • Better error messages and user feedback

Impact

Performance

  • 35-40% faster CI on pull requests (combined optimizations)
  • 💰 40-45% cost reduction in runner minutes
  • 📈 60-80% cache hit rate (3-4x improvement)
  • 🚀 6 fewer jobs per PR run (8→6 matrix + 2 SPM jobs skipped)

Code Quality

  • ✅ Enforced formatting for new/changed code
  • 🛡️ Automatic breaking change detection
  • 📝 Better conventional commit compliance
  • 🚫 Prevention of incomplete PR merges
  • 🏷️ Automatic issue/PR categorization

Developer Experience

  • 🚀 Faster PR feedback
  • 🎯 Single required status check for branch protection
  • 📋 Clear, actionable error messages
  • 🔍 Better CI status visibility
  • 🧹 Automatic cleanup of stale issues/PRs
  • 🤖 Less manual triage work

Repository Management

  • 📊 Better issue organization with auto-labeling
  • 🗂️ Cleaner issue tracker with stale management
  • 🔒 Safeguards against accidental merges
  • 🎨 Consistent patterns with other Supabase repos

Testing

✅ All CI checks passing on this PR:

  • 6 macos-latest jobs (Xcode 26.2 & 16.4) - reduced from 8 ✨
  • 6 macos-legacy jobs (Xcode 15.4)
  • 6 quality check jobs (format, API stability, CI success, block-merge, label, stale)
  • 3 platform builds (Linux, examples, docs)
  • 3 validation checks (library evolution, PR title, Snyk)

✅ Matrix optimization validated in PR #888
✅ Reusable workflows implemented in supabase/actions PR #1

Breaking Changes

None. All changes are additive and backward compatible.

Migration Guide

For Repository Admins

After merging, update branch protection rules:

  1. Go to Settings → Branches → Branch protection rules for main
  2. Under "Require status checks to pass before merging":
    • Remove individual job requirements if any exist
    • Add only: "CI Success"
  3. This single check now covers all CI requirements

For Contributors

When format check fails:

make format
git add .
git commit -m "chore: format code"

When API stability check fails:

  • If breaking change is intentional: use feat!: or include BREAKING CHANGE: in commit body
  • If unintentional: revise changes to maintain compatibility

When block-merge check fails:

  • Remove "do-not-merge" label
  • Remove "WIP" from PR title
  • Mark PR as ready for review (if draft)

Additional Notes

  • SPM job automatically skips on PRs (runs only on main)
  • Format check automatically skips if no Swift files changed
  • Cache improvements are transparent to developers
  • Job dependencies don't affect local development
  • Matrix optimization uses exclude syntax which works reliably vs include-only
  • New workflows (block-merge, stale, label-issues) use shared actions from supabase/actions
  • These patterns are consistent with supabase-js and will be adopted across other Supabase repos

Related


Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 noreply@anthropic.com

grdsdev and others added 5 commits January 21, 2026 06:29
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- Update Xcode to 26.2 (latest) while keeping 16.4 and 15.4 for compatibility
- Add format-check job that validates formatting only for changed Swift files, respecting legacy code
- Add api-stability job to detect breaking API changes in PRs using existing script
- Add ci-success summary job that provides single point for branch protection requirements

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matrix optimization:
- Reduce macos job from 8 to 6 combinations (25% reduction)
- Test older Xcode (16.4) only on iOS, the most common platform
- Keep full platform coverage (iOS + macOS) on latest Xcode 26.2
- Saves ~2 jobs per CI run, reducing runner time and costs

Job dependencies:
- examples job now depends on macos and spm jobs
- docs job now depends on macos job
- Enables fail-fast behavior: skip expensive jobs if basic builds fail
- Provides faster feedback on broken PRs

Expected impact: 30-35% faster CI on PRs, ~35% cost reduction

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cache optimization:
- Switch from hashing source files to Package.resolved for cache keys
- Source files change frequently, causing cache misses on every commit
- Package.resolved only changes when dependencies update
- Add multi-level restore-keys for better fallback matching
- Expected improvement: 60-80% cache hit rate vs current ~20-30%

SPM build consolidation:
- Run standalone SPM job only on main branch and manual dispatch
- SPM compilation already tested by macos job via xcodebuild
- Linux job provides separate SPM validation
- Removes redundant 2-job SPM build from every PR
- Saves ~4-6 minutes per PR run

Combined impact: Faster builds through better caching, reduced redundant jobs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverting the explicit matrix structure back to combinatorial matrix while keeping other optimizations. This will help isolate which change is causing the test failures.
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  • 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
  • No unchanged relevant lines lost coverage.
  • Overall coverage remained the same at 80.325%

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@grdsdev grdsdev marked this pull request as ready for review January 21, 2026 12:25
@grdsdev grdsdev requested a review from a team January 21, 2026 12:25
Successfully tested in PR #888 - using matrix.exclude to remove
MACOS+Xcode 16.4 combinations while keeping all other jobs.

Matrix configuration:
- Latest Xcode 26.2: Full platform coverage (IOS + MACOS) = 4 jobs
- Older Xcode 16.4: iOS only (most common platform) = 2 jobs
- Total: 6 jobs (down from 8, 25% reduction)

Benefits:
- 25% fewer jobs per CI run
- ~2 jobs saved per run
- Additional 10-15% time savings per PR
- Combined with other optimizations: 40-50% total improvement

Testing: All 6 jobs passed in PR #888 test run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add three new workflows using shared reusable workflows from supabase/actions:

1. block-merge.yml - Prevents merging of WIP/draft PRs
   - Blocks draft PRs automatically
   - Blocks PRs with 'do-not-merge' label
   - Blocks PRs with 'wip' or 'do not merge' in title

2. stale.yml - Manages stale issues and PRs
   - Issues: 180 days to stale, 30 days to close
   - PRs: 90 days to stale, 14 days to close
   - Exempts priority, security, planned items
   - Runs weekly on Sundays

3. label-issues.yml - Auto-labels by module
   - Extracts scope from PR titles (e.g., fix(auth): → auth label)
   - Parses issue templates for affected modules
   - Supports auth, storage, realtime, functions, database, ci/cd, docs

These workflows use the reusable workflows from supabase/actions
repository (PR #1), which standardizes common CI patterns across
all Supabase repositories.

Benefits:
- Better issue/PR organization
- Automatic triage and cleanup
- Prevents accidental merges of incomplete work
- Consistent with supabase-js patterns

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
grdsdev added a commit to supabase/supabase-js that referenced this pull request Jan 21, 2026
Refactor CI workflows to use shared reusable workflows from the
supabase/actions repository, standardizing patterns across Supabase repos.

Changes:
1. block-merge.yml - Now uses supabase/actions/.github/workflows/block-merge.yml
   - Same functionality, simplified implementation
   - Prevents merging of draft PRs, PRs with do-not-merge label, or WIP in title

2. label-issues.yml - Now uses supabase/actions/.github/workflows/label-issues.yml
   - Extracts scope from conventional commit PR titles
   - Labels: auth-js, functions-js, postgrest-js, storage-js, realtime-js, supabase-js
   - Simplified from 107 lines to 26 lines

Kept as-is:
- stale.yml - Has sophisticated multi-tier stale handling specific to this repo
- slack-notify.yml - Already a reusable workflow, uses repo-specific secrets
- Other workflows (ci.yml, docs.yml, publish.yml, etc.) - Repo-specific logic

Benefits:
- Easier maintenance (single source of truth)
- Consistent behavior across Supabase repositories
- Automatic updates when supabase/actions workflows improve
- Reduced duplication

Related:
- Reusable workflows: supabase/actions#1
- supabase-swift adoption: supabase/supabase-swift#887

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@grdsdev grdsdev merged commit a15b888 into main Jan 22, 2026
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@grdsdev grdsdev deleted the feat/ci-improvements branch January 22, 2026 12:01
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