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PR #1585's preview failed with VpcLimitExceeded. Looking into it turned up a way for preview stacks to leak:

  1. feat(setup-audit): warn at 0.1% and flag 1% of traces without a root span #1564's preview label came off, so its teardown started. A push to the same PR a few minutes later joined the same pr-preview-<n> concurrency group and cancelled the teardown mid-destroy (run 39311690590: "Destroy PR preview stack" cancelled). That push run was itself skipped, since the PR no longer had the label.
  2. Every orphan sweep only reaps closed PRs. feat(setup-audit): warn at 0.1% and flag 1% of traces without a root span #1564 is still open, so its stage would never have been cleaned up. Re-running the teardown by hand cleaned up AWS, but its retained replay R2 bucket is still there (see the dry run below).
  3. The cap was 8 live previews, but each preview's ingest needs a VPC in the prd AWS account. us-east-1 allows 5, and the default VPC and prd hold 2, so the 4th preview spent 11 minutes deploying before failing and left partial resources behind.

What changes

  • scripts/lib/pr-state.ts: the shared check now answers "is this preview live?" (open and labelled preview) instead of "is the PR open?". All four sweeps (stage, Workers/Queues, Hyperdrive, Tinybird) use it. tinybird-pr-branch.ts had its own copy, which is gone. An unknown state still means "don't delete".
  • deploy-pr-preview.yml: only runs that deploy or tear down join the PR's concurrency group, using the same test as the job's if. A run that would skip both gets a unique group, so it can't cancel anything.
  • MAX_LIVE_PREVIEWS goes from 8 to 3, so the 4th preview fails at the cap check in seconds.
  • Docs updated. pr-state.test.ts runs in CI's script-test step.

Evidence

  • AWS account 465760687006, us-east-1: 5/5 VPCs = default + prd + pr-1583 + pr-1566 + pr-1539. No orphaned VPCs, instances or endpoints in any region.
  • Dry run of the stage sweep against the live accounts on this branch:
    Candidate preview stage(s): pr-1539, pr-1564, pr-1566, pr-1583, pr-1585
    … keeping pr-1539 (PR #1539 has a live preview)
    … tearing down pr-1564 (PR #1564 is closed or unlabelled; found maple-replay-blobs-pr-1564)
      would destroy pr-1564, empty and delete maple-replay-blobs-pr-1564
    … keeping pr-1566 (PR #1566 has a live preview)
    … keeping pr-1583 (PR #1583 has a live preview)
    … keeping pr-1585 (PR #1585 has a live preview)
    
    With the old check, pr-1564 was "keeping (PR feat(setup-audit): warn at 0.1% and flag 1% of traces without a root span #1564 is open)".
  • bun test scripts/ci/plan-tests.test.ts scripts/lib/pr-state.test.ts: 13 pass. actionlint deploy-pr-preview.yml: clean.

Caveat

An open, unlabelled PR is reaped on the next 6-hourly sweep even if its own teardown is still running. That's a concurrent destroy of a stage that's already going away; both are idempotent.

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  • Preview Management
    • The live-preview limit is now three pull requests.
    • Resources for closed pull requests or those without the preview label are cleaned up. Resources are retained when a pull request’s status can’t be confirmed.
    • Cleanup covers preview stages, Workers, Queues, Hyperdrive, and Tinybird resources. Stages with a queued or running preview deployment are retained until a later cleanup sweep.
    • Preview deployments and teardowns for the same pull request are coordinated; events that skip both run independently.
  • Limits
    • Preview capacity documentation clarifies the regional VPC limit and its use by the default VPC and production account.

…g teardown

A push to PR #1564 right after its preview label came off cancelled the
teardown mid-destroy, and every orphan sweep kept the stage because the
PR was still open. The sweeps now treat an open PR without the preview
label as retired, and runs that neither deploy nor tear down get their
own concurrency group. The live-preview cap drops to 3, the number of
VPCs the prd account's us-east-1 quota leaves for previews.
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🟢 Confidence 10/10 · safe to merge
The new concurrency group mirrors the job if correctly for every trigger, and the pure state helper is pinned by a test that runs in CI.
no findings · tests covered · risk medium

Reaps preview stages for open-but-unlabelled PRs, gives runs that skip both deploy and teardown a unique concurrency group so they can't cancel a destroy, and drops the live-preview cap to 3. The logic holds for every trigger and is safe to merge.

  • previewStateOf reports live/retired/unknown from state plus the preview label
  • Skipped deploy-pr-preview runs get a per-run concurrency group instead of pr-preview-<n>
  • MAX_LIVE_PREVIEWS 8 → 3 to fit the us-east-1 VPC quota

Before merge

  • Manual · Three previews are live today (pr-1539, pr-1566, pr-1583) — exactly the new cap of 3, so a fourth PR needs a label removed first
What was checked
  • unlabeled of a non-preview label now gets the noop group and matches the job if, so it no longer cancels an in-flight deploy (deploy-pr-preview.yml:23-27)
  • Folded >- expression folds to one expression across pr-preview runs; the group string is identical whatever clause is true
  • All four sweeps branch on live/unknown/else-delete, so no caller still tests the old open/closed values

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The shared pull request state lookup now classifies previews using pull request status and the preview label. Orphan sweeps use that classification to retain live previews, skip unknown states, and clean up retired previews. The preview workflow limit and documentation also changed.

Changes: Preview state and cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify preview state
scripts/lib/pr-state.ts, scripts/lib/pr-state.test.ts, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The shared state API classifies pull requests as live, retired, or unknown based on status and the preview label. Tests cover these classifications, and CI runs the new tests.
Apply preview state to resource sweeps
scripts/cloudflare-worker-orphan-sweep.ts, scripts/hyperdrive-orphan-sweep.ts, scripts/preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts, scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts, .github/workflows/cleanup-preview-orphans.yml
The sweeps retain live previews, skip unknown states, and remove resources for retired previews. Tinybird now uses the shared state lookup and credential check. The cleanup workflow can read workflow runs, and stage teardown skips active or indeterminate preview runs.
Set preview workflow limits and cleanup conditions
.github/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml, docs/pr-previews.md
Deploy and teardown events use a PR-specific concurrency group; other events use a run-specific group. The live-preview limit is three, and the documentation describes the VPC quota and cleanup conditions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 87c2d

A preview can occasionally be removed while deployment is active. A rerun can restore it, but the active-run lookup should check all pages before merge or the residual risk should be explicitly accepted.

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- Line 57: Update the cleanup-preview-orphans.yml description in the
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  • scripts/hyperdrive-orphan-sweep.ts
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Comment thread scripts/preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts
A restored label can redeploy a stage the sweep just judged retired, so the
stage sweep now leaves a PR alone while a preview run for it is active.
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🔴 Confidence 4/10 · risky as written
Held at 4 because a critical finding is open.
1 critical −3 · tests partial −1 · risk medium

Reaps preview stages of open PRs that lost the preview label, and skips a stage while a preview run for its PR is queued or running. The skip gate cannot authenticate, so in CI it silences the whole sweep.

  • previewStateOf treats an open, unlabelled PR as retired; all four sweeps share it
  • hasActivePreviewRun skips a stage whose preview deploy run is not finished
  • MAX_LIVE_PREVIEWS drops from 8 to 3

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🔴 Critical · F1 · Stage sweep's run lookup gets 403 under the workflow's token, so every stage is skipped

correctness · scripts/lib/pr-state.ts:37-50

cleanup-preview-orphans.yml:13-16 grants only contents: read, pull-requests: read and id-token: write, and a permissions block sets every other scope to none, so the /actions/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml/runs call returns 403. hasActivePreviewRun then answers "unknown" for every PR and preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts:305 skips every candidate, logging preview runs unknown and exiting 0 — the unlabelled stages this PR is meant to reap are never destroyed, and the run stays green. Add actions: read to that workflow's permissions.

Add `actions: read # sweep lists deploy-pr-preview.yml runs` to the `permissions` block of `.github/workflows/cleanup-preview-orphans.yml`, and confirm with the workflow_dispatch run that the sweep logs "tearing down" instead of "preview runs unknown".
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F1 · Critical · correctness · scripts/lib/pr-state.ts:37-50
Stage sweep's run lookup gets 403 under the workflow's token, so every stage is skipped
`cleanup-preview-orphans.yml:13-16` grants only `contents: read`, `pull-requests: read` and `id-token: write`, and a `permissions` block sets every other scope to none, so the `/actions/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml/runs` call returns 403. `hasActivePreviewRun` then answers "unknown" for every PR and `preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts:305` skips every candidate, logging `preview runs unknown` and exiting 0 — the unlabelled stages this PR is meant to reap are never destroyed, and the run stays green. Add `actions: read` to that workflow's `permissions`.
Suggested fix: Add `actions: read # sweep lists deploy-pr-preview.yml runs` to the `permissions` block of `.github/workflows/cleanup-preview-orphans.yml`, and confirm with the workflow_dispatch run that the sweep logs "tearing down" instead of "preview runs unknown".

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Comment thread scripts/lib/pr-state.ts
Without actions: read the run lookup 403s, resolves unknown, and the stage
sweep skips every stage.
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🟢 Confidence 10/10 · safe to merge
The one change since the last review, actions: read, is exactly the scope the stage sweep's workflow-run lookup needs, and nothing else calls it.
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Preview sweeps now treat "open but unlabelled" as retired, skipped preview runs get their own concurrency group so they cannot cancel a teardown, and the live cap drops to 3. Safe to merge: the earlier 403 is fixed by actions: read.

  • previewStateOf returns retired for an open PR without the preview label
  • deploy-pr-preview concurrency group is per-PR only for runs that deploy or tear down
  • cleanup-preview-orphans grants actions: read so the stage sweep can list preview runs
What was checked
  • actions: read covers GET /repos/{repo}/actions/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml/runs (pr-state.ts:38), and only preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts:304 calls hasActivePreviewRun
  • The concurrency test matches the job if for closed, unlabeled and labelled pushes; a missing label.name yields false, not an error
  • CI's plan-tests step runs pr-state.test.ts under bun:test, and its assertions match previewStateOf

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Comment thread scripts/lib/pr-state.ts
Comment on lines +36 to +58
for (const status of ["queued", "in_progress"]) {
const response = await fetch(
`https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/actions/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml/runs?status=${status}&per_page=100`,
{
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
Accept: "application/vnd.github+json",
"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
},
},
)
if (!response.ok) {
console.log(`⚠ Could not list ${status} preview runs (HTTP ${response.status})`)
return "unknown"
}
const { workflow_runs: runs = [] } = (await response.json()) as {
workflow_runs?: ReadonlyArray<{ pull_requests?: ReadonlyArray<{ number?: number }> }>
}
if (runs.some((run) => run.pull_requests?.some((pull) => String(pull.number) === prNumber))) {
return true
}
}
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- scripts/lib/pr-state.ts ---'
nl -ba scripts/lib/pr-state.ts | sed -n '1,150p'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests and pagination code ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'hasActivePreviewRun' -e 'fetchPreviewState' -e 'Link' -e 'rel="next"' scripts .github || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- package context ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'package.json' -e '"typescript"' -e '"bun"' -e '"test"' .

Repository: MapleTechLabs/maple

Length of output: 11774


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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- stage sweep control flow ---'
nl -ba scripts/preview-stage-orphan-sweep.ts | sed -n '270,335p'
printf '%s\n' '--- destroyStage definition and callers ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'destroyStage' scripts
printf '%s\n' '--- deploy workflow relevant jobs and stage operations ---'
nl -ba .github/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml | sed -n '1,125p'

Repository: MapleTechLabs/maple

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- destroyStage implementation ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- deployment and teardown steps ---'
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Follow every Link: rel="next" page for both run statuses.

per_page=100 does not include a run on a later page. When the target run is beyond the first page, hasActivePreviewRun returns false. The sweep then runs alchemy destroy --stage pr-${prNumber} while the preview workflow is still active. This can remove the active preview and make the deployment fail. A rerun can recreate the preview, so the impact is narrow but recoverable.

Suggested fix
--- "a/scripts/lib/pr-state.ts"
+++ "b/scripts/lib/pr-state.ts"
@@ -33,28 +33,30 @@
 	const token = (process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN ?? process.env.GH_TOKEN)?.trim()
 	if (!repo || !token) return "unknown"
 	try {
 		for (const status of ["queued", "in_progress"]) {
-			const response = await fetch(
+			let nextUrl =
 				`https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/actions/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml/runs?status=${status}&per_page=100`,
-				{
-					headers: {
-						Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
-						Accept: "application/vnd.github+json",
-						"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
-					},
-				},
-			)
-			if (!response.ok) {
-				console.log(`⚠ Could not list ${status} preview runs (HTTP ${response.status})`)
-				return "unknown"
-			}
-			const { workflow_runs: runs = [] } = (await response.json()) as {
-				workflow_runs?: ReadonlyArray<{ pull_requests?: ReadonlyArray<{ number?: number }> }>
-			}
-			if (runs.some((run) => run.pull_requests?.some((pull) => String(pull.number) === prNumber))) {
-				return true
+			while (nextUrl) {
+				const response = await fetch(nextUrl, {
+					headers: {
+						Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
+						Accept: "application/vnd.github+json",
+						"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
+					},
+				})
+				if (!response.ok) {
+					console.log(`⚠ Could not list ${status} preview runs (HTTP ${response.status})`)
+					return "unknown"
+				}
+				const { workflow_runs: runs = [] } = (await response.json()) as {
+					workflow_runs?: ReadonlyArray<{ pull_requests?: ReadonlyArray<{ number?: number }> }>
+				}
+				if (runs.some((run) => run.pull_requests?.some((pull) => String(pull.number) === prNumber))) {
+					return true
+				}
+				nextUrl = response.headers.get("link")?.match(/<([^>]+)>;\s*rel="next"/)?.[1] ?? ""
 			}
 		}
 		return false
 	} catch (error) {
 		console.log(
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Review comment at @scripts/lib/pr-state.ts around lines 36 - 58:
Update hasActivePreviewRun to follow GitHub’s Link rel="next" pagination for
both queued and in_progress runs, checking each page for the target pull request
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