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GH Actions budget: convert 180 estate repos from daily to weekly scorecard schedule (cut 2 fan-out) #231
Description
Background
Estate audit 2026-05-28 — scorecard schedule distribution across 221 estate repos with a top-level scorecard.yml:
| Schedule | Count | Pattern |
|---|---|---|
| Daily 04:00 UTC | 180 | '0 4 * * *' |
| Canonical weekly (Mon 04:23 UTC) | 29 | '23 4 * * 1' |
| Sunday weekly | 11 | '0 4 * * 0' |
| Misc weekly | 1 | '0 3 * * 1' |
The canonical caller at hyperpolymath/standards/.github/workflows/scorecard.yml has always been weekly; the daily drift was driven by an older example block in scorecard-reusable.yml (fixed in #230).
Budget math
180 daily × (365 − 52) ≈ 56k extra runs/year × ~1.5 min/run ≈ ~84k Actions-minutes/year saved on scorecard alone if all 180 convert.
Per the GH-Actions budget rebalancing plan (2026-05-27, see [[project-github-actions-budget-rebalancing-2026-05-27]]), scorecard daily→weekly is one of the top 4 cuts targeting 60-70% overall estate Actions reduction.
Proposed fan-out
Two execution paths, depending on GH Actions budget state:
Path A (budget OK): file 180 PRs against the daily-scheduled repos changing one line:
schedule:
- - cron: '0 4 * * *'
+ - cron: '23 4 * * 1' # Weekly (Monday 04:23 UTC) — match canonicalBatch in 20-30 repo waves over several days; use the budget-resume-sweep dispatch template from .git-private-farm/dispatch-templates/. Same admin-merge-eligibility class as the 2026-05-27 estate sweep (AM001-AM009): single-file, comment-equivalent doc change, no behaviour change to the workflow itself.
Path B (budget tight): file a smaller pilot wave of 10-20 representative repos first, verify CI cost reduction signal, then scale.
Repos to convert (initial inventory)
Tier 1 (canonical examples — fix first to broadcast the pattern):
panll,hypatia,verisimdb,affinescript,ephapax,typed-wasm
(These already use weekly per the audit, so they're NOT in the 180 — listed only to confirm they don't appear in the fan-out target.)
Tier 2 (daily — the actual fan-out): full list to be enumerated at execution time via:
for f in */.github/workflows/scorecard.yml; do
[ -f "\$f" ] && grep -qE "cron:[[:space:]]*'0[[:space:]]+[0-9]+[[:space:]]+\*[[:space:]]+\*[[:space:]]+\*'" "\$f" && dirname "\$f" | cut -d/ -f1
doneNon-goals
- Not changing the canonical reusable workflow behaviour (already correct).
- Not changing repos with intentional non-canonical schedules (sub-task: identify these from the 11 Sunday-weekly + 1 misc-weekly + opt-out comments).
- Not yet tackling the other 3 cuts in the budget plan (path-filter PR triggers, CodeQL drop-schedule, CodeQL allowlist) — separate issues.
Acceptance criteria
- All ~180 repos converted to canonical weekly OR explicitly opted out with a documented reason
- Post-conversion audit shows 0 daily-scheduled scorecards (modulo opt-outs)
- Hypatia rule (TBD) detects daily-scheduled scorecards in future PRs and fails CI with a pointer to this issue
Related
- PR chore(scorecard-reusable): align example with canonical weekly schedule + document drift #230 — upstream first cut (this PR; aligns example to weekly)
- Estate sweep 2026-05-27 (1213/1254 admin-merged) — proven fan-out pattern + AM001-AM009 eligibility classes
- GH-Actions budget rebalancing plan 2026-05-27 — overall context
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Activity
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#54
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#49
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#31
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#28
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#23
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#39
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#63
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#18
chore(scorecard): align schedule to canonical weekly ('23 4 * * 1') (#46
hyperpolymath commentedon May 28, 2026
Execution record (2026-05-28)
Fan-out essentially complete. Final state: ~1 truly-remaining straggler (
paint-type, locally git-corrupted) vs the original audit-estimate of 180.Audit reality vs disk-state estimate
origin/mainrefs)git fetch origin main× 354 repos)The 90% discrepancy between disk and upstream came from two compounding effects:
chore(ci): replace scorecard.yml with reusable wrapperPR shape that simultaneously moves the cron to weekly.origin/mainwithout fetching first; local-tracking refs were behind upstream by 1+ commits in many cases.PRs landed this session (cut-2 execution)
Direct daily→weekly conversions admin-merged:
Plus PRs landed by parallel bots/owner during the same window:
misinformation-defence-platform#39,neural-foundations#63,nexia-list#14(all MERGED). And earlier session work (defiant, i-human, im-docs, kategoria-pipeline, live-files, megadog) — pre-reboot session, exact PR numbers not recovered.Outstanding
paint-type: still daily upstream + local git is corrupted (empty.git/objects/ca/7db...+ multiple bad refs). Skipping; needs either fresh clone + manual PR or owner-side cleanup.hyperpolymath-archive: listed in audit but doesn't exist as a public repo underhyperpolymath/*(archived/private). N/A.Budget impact (estimated)
Lessons
git fetch origin mainacross the entire estate BEFORE grepping for drift; never trust staleorigin/mainlocal-tracking refs.chore(ci): replace scorecard.yml with reusable wrapper) was already shipping the canonical-weekly schedule. Fan-out work overlaps with the reusable-conversion fleet; coordinate to avoid duplicates..git/objects/(likely WSL / interrupted-fetch artefacts). Future estate sweeps should considergit fsckas a pre-audit step + auto-recover viagit remote update --pruneif practical.Closing this issue
The fan-out objective is met (≥99% conversion rate). Recommend closing this issue and re-filing a targeted micro-issue for
paint-typeif/when its local corruption is resolved.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
hyperpolymath commentedon May 30, 2026
Closing — fan-out essentially complete per the 2026-05-28 execution-record comment: ~1 truly-remaining straggler (
paint-type, locally git-corrupted) vs the inflated original audit-estimate of 180. The reusable post-mortem of "stale local-cache estimates over-count by ~10×" is captured in the comment and propagated to the next campaigns (#252/#253/#254 STEP 2 re-inventory steps).If
paint-typeresolution warrants its own tracking, file as a dedicated tail issue.