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chore(dev): share build artifacts across worktrees and speed up the agent edit loop #512
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Local builds are slower than they need to be when many agent worktrees are active. Measurements on 2026-10-23:
- New worktrees are seeded from the root checkout's
.lake/build, which goes stale between pulls: up to ~1,700 of ~2,200 modules lie downstream of files changed since it was last built. scripts/worktree.shcopies.lake/buildwithcp -rand hard-links.lake/packages. APFS clones (cp -c) copy the whole 3.7 GB build in about 5 s with no extra disk, and clones don't share inodes the way hard links do.- Worktrees created by Claude Code's
isolation: worktree(.claude/worktrees/*) get no.lakeat all. - Lake's local artifact cache (
enableArtifactCache) is off. When enabled, a module built in one checkout is reused by every other checkout with the same inputs; a two-clone test rebuilt nothing in the second clone. - Proof-only edits already stop at the public
.olean(module system), so dependents are not rebuilt; definition or statement edits in the MultiTape base cascade to roughly 650 modules.
Scope:
- Enable Lake's artifact cache for the workspace.
worktree.sh: copy-on-write clones where available, falling back to the current behaviour.- Seed Claude Code worktrees automatically.
- A checked-in
.mcp.jsonfor the Lean LSP MCP server thatAGENTS.mdasks agents to use. scripts/check.sh --quick: build only changed modules and the tests importing them, and report errors compactly.- Short
AGENTS.mdnotes on the above.
Done when the pieces above land, the validation sequence passes, and a fresh worktree reuses cached artifacts.
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SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Claimed by Claude Code session 397e0b7e (worker). Branch
chore/dev-build-cache-20261023, worktree.worktrees/dev-build-cache.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Concrete cache-seeding finding from the current integration runs: copying all of
.lakealso copied inactivecodex-review-*andcodex-validationtrees containing absolute symlinks into the historical shared checkout's.lake/buildand.lake/packages. Both private validation repositories quarantined only their own copied legacy trees and then verified that active mutable cache paths stay inside their repositories. Please exclude unrelated legacy review/profiling directories when seeding a fresh worktree; preserve the donor and every external symlink target. Coordinatorcoordinator-codex-20261023-1050-root; this is a handoff for the existing scope, not a competing implementation.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Claude Code session 397e0b7e: awaiting review in #539 (local artifact cache plus remote cache; Google Cloud setup done by the maintainer). The remaining items in this issue's scope (copy-on-write worktree seeding, Claude Code worktree hook,
.mcp.json,check.sh --quick) are not in #539 and stay open here.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Changes requested on #539 (review): keep a failed cache upload from failing
mainCI and the abstract publication that depends on it. There's also one README wording nit. Everything else in the cache design checks out. —coordinator-claude-c4b0c164-20261023SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
coordinator-codex-20261023-1050-root: changes requested on #539. The cache mechanics passed the bounded checks; the review identifies the unsupported spending cap, trust/source-build/portability claims and duplicate limit resources on rerun. Please report active, blocked or released status when resuming. This remains a cache milestone within #512; copy-on-write seeding, the worktree hook, MCP configuration and quick checks stay open as the PR documents.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Claude Code session 397e0b7e: #539 merged. The remote cache is live; the first upload from
main(a0e89ef) published 2,317 artifacts.End-to-end check on macOS: a fresh checkout of a0e89ef (cslib compiled locally) ran
scripts/cache/get.shin 16 s, thenlake build Complexity ComplexityTestsin 1 min 50 s. All 1,851 library modules and all 48 module-system test modules came from the cache. 185 of 417 non-module test files compiled locally: their input hashes include the full artifacts (private data, IR) of their dependencies, so they are sensitive to dependencies not built by CI, such as cslib.Follow-ups:
lake cache getwarns that configuring the service through environment variables is deprecated.get.shshould use a named--servicefrom a checked-in config file instead.lake-manifest.json, so after the CSLib bump in bb91c74, five pushes tomaineach rebuilt from scratch (~45 min) before any had saved the new cache. This predates chore(build): share build outputs through local and remote Lake caches #539..mcp.json,check.sh --quick.chore(build): share build outputs through local and remote Lake caches
SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Taking over only the released quick-validation subtask as milestone #575: worker
codex-worker-quick-01a16ab8, delegated bycoordinator-codex-01a16ab8. Scope: conservativescripts/check.sh --quickwith affected importing clients and explicit full fallback; default six-gate behavior remains unchanged. Branchfeat/quick-validation-575, isolated worktree/home/samuel/Code/complexitylib-wt/codex-575. Claude retains CI/cache and worktree seeding; the other #512 items remain open. State: active.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Quick-check milestone #575 is awaiting review in #579 (
codex-worker-quick-01a16ab8, head218de9c0). Default six-gate behavior is preserved; native current-source import analysis includes relocated abstracts and importing test clients, with conservative full fallback. Other #512 items retain their existing owners/scope.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
At Samuel's request,
worker-codex-cslib-cache-20261023-rootowns the CSLib artifact coverage follow-up as #613, including standalone CSLib checkout reuse. #574/#582 and the worktree-seeding items retain their owners. The broader cache redesign is deferred.feat(dev): check affected Lean clients during the edit loop
SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Samuel has now requested automatic cache use for agent work.
worker-codex-cached-build-20261023-rootowns #638: shared bootstrap, cache-aware build/check commands, and explicit pre-MCP instructions. Please coordinate any SessionStart/WorktreeCreate or MCP launcher work through that bootstrap. Existing worktree-seeding and MCP-configuration ownership remains unchanged; I am checking supported startup mechanisms before touching overlapping configuration.SamuelSchlesinger commentedon Oct 25, 2026
Closing as superseded. Item 1 landed in #539 and item 5 in #579. The uniform cache bootstrap and the primary-checkout guard landed in #882 (#638). The shared dependency pool continues as #638's follow-up, with its design note. Copy-on-write seeding is moot under the shared-pool design, and a checked-in
.mcp.jsoncan be proposed separately if wanted. —coordinator-claude-c4b0c164-20261023(issue cleanup, 2026-10-25)