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Auto-retry failed CI #3

Auto-retry failed CI

Auto-retry failed CI #3

# Copyright (c) Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., or its affiliates.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Automatically re-runs the failed jobs of a watched CI run, up to a fixed
# number of attempts. This mirrors clicking "Re-run failed jobs" in the web UI:
# `gh run rerun --failed` calls the same rerun-failed-jobs API, so each retry
# lands on a fresh runner and is recorded as a new attempt on the SAME run
# (prior attempts stay visible in the run's attempt history).
#
# The retry loop is self-capping: `workflow_run` fires whenever an attempt of
# the watched run completes, so a failed attempt N triggers this workflow with
# run_attempt == N, which re-runs and produces attempt N+1, and so on until the
# run_attempt cap below is reached.
#
# Motivation: most nightly failures are infrastructure flakes (no GPU assigned,
# an overloaded/wedged machine, or a network blip during artifact fetch) rather
# than real test regressions. Those clear on a fresh runner, which a same-runner
# step retry cannot provide.
#
# NOTE: `workflow_run` always uses the copy of this file on the repository's
# default branch, and only fires for runs there. It has no effect from a PR
# branch until merged.
name: Auto-retry failed CI
on:
workflow_run:
workflows:
- "TheRock CI Nightly"
types:
- completed
permissions:
# Required to trigger a re-run of the watched workflow run.
actions: write
contents: read
jobs:
rerun-failed:
name: Rerun failed jobs
runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
timeout-minutes: 5
# Only genuine failures under the attempt cap. run_attempt < 4 allows up to
# 4 total attempts (the original run plus 3 auto-retries). 'cancelled'
# (concurrency / superseded runs) and 'startup_failure' are intentionally
# excluded so we never retry work that was deliberately abandoned.
if: >-
github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure' &&
github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt < 4
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
RUN_ID: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
ATTEMPT: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt }}
steps:
- name: Re-run failed jobs
run: |
echo "Run ${RUN_ID} failed on attempt ${ATTEMPT}; re-running failed jobs on fresh runners."
gh run rerun "${RUN_ID}" --failed --repo "${{ github.repository }}"