PyAutoLabs · Jammy2211 · Aug 23, 2026 · Aug 23, 2026 · Aug 23, 2026 · Aug 23, 2026
diff --git a/dashboard.html b/dashboard.html
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 <body>
 <h1>📋 PyAutoMind Dashboard</h1>
 <p>Every task the Mind is holding. Tap a task's 📋 and its <code>/start_dev</code> command is on your clipboard — paste it into a Claude Code chat to route Claude straight to that task. <a href="#recent">Recent</a> is the same work by date — what has been happening rather than what to do next.</p>
-<p class="muted">In flight 1 · Parked 3 · Planned 6 · Backlog 150 · <a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/dashboard.md">markdown version</a></p>
+<p class="muted">In flight 1 · Parked 3 · Planned 6 · Backlog 152 · <a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/dashboard.md">markdown version</a></p>
 <h2>Start here</h2>
 <h3>Highest priority <span class="facets">(filed as high) — showing 12 of 17</span></h3>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/triage/jax_zero_contour.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/triage/jax_zero_contour.md">TRIAGE: needs manual review before routing</a> — <span class="facets">medium · safe · high</span></p></div>
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ <h2>Planned <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/route start the planned PyAutoMind task latent-nan-guard-honest-run — its record is in planned.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><b>latent-nan-guard-honest-run</b><span class="facets"> — planned 2026-07-22</span></p></div>
 </details>
 <h2>Backlog <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/tree/main/draft">markdown version</a></h2>
-<p class="muted">150 filed prompts, not started — sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). 23 of them belong to an epic and are listed only under Epics below.</p>
+<p class="muted">152 filed prompts, not started — sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). 23 of them belong to an epic and are listed only under Epics below.</p>
 <details>
 <summary>bug — 34</summary>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/bug/health_fixes/jax_runtime_and_parity.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/bug/health_fixes/jax_runtime_and_parity.md">Fix release JAX runtime compatibility and likelihood parity</a> — <span class="facets">health_fixes · too-large · supervised · high</span></p></div>
@@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ <h2>Backlog <a class="mdsrc" href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/tree
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/refactor/pyautomind/repos_sync_check_dedup.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/refactor/pyautomind/repos_sync_check_dedup.md">Deduplicate repos_sync.py's check/write pairs</a> — <span class="facets">pyautomind · medium · safe · low</span></p></div>
 </details>
 <details>
-<summary>test — 3</summary>
+<summary>test — 5</summary>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/test/autolens_workspace_developer/mge_jit_regression_rebaseline.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/test/autolens_workspace_developer/mge_jit_regression_rebaseline.md">Re-baseline the MGE imaging JIT profiling regression value</a> — <span class="facets">autolens_workspace_developer · too-large · supervised · high</span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/test/workspaces/restore_workspace_test_likelihood_baselines.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/test/workspaces/restore_workspace_test_likelihood_baselines.md">Restore absolute NumPy likelihood regression baselines in the <code>_workspace_test</code></a> — <span class="facets">workspaces · too-large · supervised · high</span></p></div>
+<div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md">Relevance-gate the reusable smoke workflow so a PR only runs</a> — <span class="facets">pyautoheart · medium · supervised · normal</span></p></div>
+<div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/test/workspaces/slowest_smoke_gate_scripts.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/test/workspaces/slowest_smoke_gate_scripts.md">Speed up the three slowest autolens_workspace_test smoke-gate scripts</a> — <span class="facets">workspaces · medium · supervised · normal</span></p></div>
 <div class="task"><button class="copy" data-cmd="/start_dev draft/test/workspaces/smoke_workspace_fixes.md" aria-label="Copy the Claude command">📋</button><p><a href="https://github.com/PyAutoLabs/PyAutoMind/blob/main/draft/test/workspaces/smoke_workspace_fixes.md">The new workspace smoke-test GitHub Actions (added via feature/smoke-test-ci) surfaced</a> — <span class="facets">workspaces · too-large · supervised · normal</span></p></div>
 </details>
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diff --git a/dashboard.md b/dashboard.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Every task the Mind is holding, on one page: what is in flight, what is parked,
 | [In flight](#in-flight) (`active/`) | 1 |
 | [Parked](#parked) (`parked.md`) | 3 |
 | [Planned](#planned) (`planned.md`) | 6 |
-| [Backlog](#backlog) (`draft/`) | 150 |
+| [Backlog](#backlog) (`draft/`) | 152 |
 
 ## Start here
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Scoped but not started; some are not yet prompt files. Full detail in [`planned.
 
 ## Backlog
 
-**150** filed prompts, not started. Each section is sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). **23** of them belong to an epic and are listed only under [Epics](#epics) below.
+**152** filed prompts, not started. Each section is sorted most-pickable first (priority, then size). **23** of them belong to an epic and are listed only under [Epics](#epics) below.
 
 <details>
 <summary><b>bug</b> — 34</summary>
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ Scoped but not started; some are not yet prompt files. Full detail in [`planned.
 </details>
 
 <details>
-<summary><b>test</b> — 3</summary>
+<summary><b>test</b> — 5</summary>
 
 <details><summary>📋 <a href="draft/test/autolens_workspace_developer/mge_jit_regression_rebaseline.md">Re-baseline the MGE imaging JIT profiling regression value</a> — autolens_workspace_developer · too-large · supervised · high</summary>
 
@@ -1238,6 +1238,22 @@ Scoped but not started; some are not yet prompt files. Full detail in [`planned.
 
 </details>
 
+<details><summary>📋 <a href="draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md">Relevance-gate the reusable smoke workflow so a PR only runs</a> — pyautoheart · medium · supervised · normal</summary>
+
+```
+/start_dev draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md
+```
+
+</details>
+
+<details><summary>📋 <a href="draft/test/workspaces/slowest_smoke_gate_scripts.md">Speed up the three slowest autolens_workspace_test smoke-gate scripts</a> — workspaces · medium · supervised · normal</summary>
+
+```
+/start_dev draft/test/workspaces/slowest_smoke_gate_scripts.md
+```
+
+</details>
+
 <details><summary>📋 <a href="draft/test/workspaces/smoke_workspace_fixes.md">The new workspace smoke-test GitHub Actions (added via feature/smoke-test-ci) surfaced</a> — workspaces · too-large · supervised · normal</summary>
 
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diff --git a/draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md b/draft/test/pyautoheart/smoke_relevance_gate.md
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+# Relevance-gate the reusable smoke workflow so a PR only runs what its diff can affect
+
+Type: test
+Target: PyAutoHeart
+Repos:
+- PyAutoHeart
+- autolens_workspace_test
+- autogalaxy_workspace_test
+- autolens_workspace
+Difficulty: medium
+Autonomy: supervised
+Priority: normal
+Status: formalised
+
+`PyAutoHeart/.github/workflows/smoke-tests.yml` — the reusable workflow every
+workspace's `smoke_tests.yml` is a thin caller of — has exactly one skip
+condition: a docs-only gate that skips the matrix when every changed file
+matches `*.md`, `docs/`, `LICENSE` or `runtime.txt`. Anything else runs the
+full curated smoke list, whatever it touched.
+
+This prompt cuts how *often* the gate runs. Making the slow entries cheaper is
+the sibling prompt `draft/test/workspaces/slowest_smoke_gate_scripts.md`; they
+compound but are separate changes in separate repos.
+
+## Why
+
+- `autolens_workspace_test` smoke costs ~11m20s and fires on every PR event
+  plus every push to `main`. Run numbers put it at roughly 17 runs/week
+  (#555 on 2026-07-28 → #616 on 2026-08-22; approximate, since superseded PR
+  runs are cancelled).
+- `autolens_workspace` costs ~8m40s over 37 entries, 5.8 runs/day in the week
+  to 2026-08-23.
+- The failure mode is already recorded in the repo. `smoke_tests.txt`, on the
+  2026-08-22 disable of `multi_dataset/jax_likelihood/mge.py`: *"Hit 4/4 jobs
+  (3.12 and 3.13, twice each) on autolens_workspace_test#261, whose diff
+  touches no script this gate runs."*
+- The two extremes already exist and are 80x apart: a docs-only PR finishes in
+  **8 seconds** (autolens_workspace_test run #605, autogalaxy_workspace #545);
+  a one-character change to any non-markdown file costs the full run.
+
+## Task
+
+Two tiers, shippable independently. Tier 1 alone is most of the win.
+
+1. **Skip when no script can be affected.** Extend the existing `changes` job's
+   classification: if the diff touches nothing under `scripts/`, `config/`,
+   `smoke_tests.txt`, `smoke_notebooks.txt` or `.github/`, skip the matrix the
+   same way the docs-only path does. Same fail-closed shape, same
+   `docs_only`-style output, one more reason to skip.
+2. **Narrow the entry list to the packages the diff touches, plus a fixed
+   core.** The smoke entries cluster cleanly by top-level package, so a
+   directory-level mapping is enough — no dependency analysis needed:
+
+   | package | autolens_ws_test | autogalaxy_ws_test | autolens_workspace |
+   |---|---:|---:|---:|
+   | `imaging/` | 232.8s (42%) | 175.8s (32%) | 63.6s (18%) |
+   | `multi_dataset/` | — | 177.1s (32%) | 13.5s (4%) |
+   | `misc/` | 154.6s (28%) | 37.6s (7%) | — |
+   | `interferometer/` | 92.1s (17%) | 150.6s (27%) | 54.6s (16%) |
+   | `point_source/` | 47.7s (9%) | — | 15.7s (4%) |
+   | `multi_galaxy/` | 25.8s (5%) | 11.8s (2%) | 166.4s (47%) |
+   | `group/` | — | — | 22.9s (7%) |
+   | `guides/` | — | — | 14.3s (4%) |
+   | `cluster/` | — | 4.2s (1%) | — |
+
+   A PR touching only `scripts/misc/` would run 155s instead of 553s; one
+   touching only `multi_galaxy/` in `_test` would run 26s. Tier 2 needs the
+   selected set passed down to `run_smoke.py` as an input, so it also touches
+   each workspace's vendored runner — scope it deliberately or defer it.
+
+## autogalaxy_workspace_test is the same size and has no other lever
+
+Measured after this prompt was first filed (run 32533004337, 2026-08-21, py3.12,
+**557.1s across 37 entries** — within 4s of autolens_workspace_test's 553.0s,
+and again reconciling exactly to the step wall-clock).
+
+Unlike its autolens sibling it has **no hot spot at all**: slowest entry 40.0s,
+median 13.5s, and the top three are only 21% of the run. There is nothing to
+speed up, so the sibling prompt does not apply and this gate is the *only*
+lever for that repo.
+
+What it does have is a combinatorial matrix: 25 of its 37 entries are
+`{imaging, interferometer, multi_dataset}/jax_{likelihood,grad}/{lp, mge,
+mge_group, rectangular, rectangular_mge, delaunay, delaunay_mge}`, i.e. the
+same handful of meshes crossed with three dataset types. Tier 2's
+package-level narrowing maps onto that cleanly. A representative-subset
+policy for the PR gate (full cross-product weekly) is worth considering
+alongside it, but is a separate decision and belongs to that repo, not here.
+
+Checked and NOT a factor: its six `jax_grad/` entries were the obvious
+suspect, since Heart budgets that class at 1800s for running at full
+resolution. Measured they are 86.4s total (15.5%), 10.8–21.8s each. The
+expensive jax_grad scripts are the autolens ones, and those are not in any
+smoke list.
+
+## Hard constraints
+
+- **Do not implement this with `on.pull_request.paths`.** A job skipped by a
+  path filter never reports a conclusion, so a required status check sits
+  pending forever and blocks the merge. The in-workflow `changes` job emits a
+  real `skipped`, which satisfies required-check semantics — the workflow's own
+  comment already says so. Keep the skip inside the workflow.
+- **Fail closed**, matching the docs-only gate exactly: no base SHA, unfetchable
+  base, empty diff, or a single unclassifiable path ⇒ run everything. Only an
+  explicit every-file-matches verdict may skip. Keep the two-dot diff against
+  the base *tip* so upstream drift shows up as extra files.
+- **Do not touch the push-to-`main` run.** `PyAutoHeart/config/repos.yaml` lists
+  `workspaces_test: ["Smoke Tests"]` and `workspaces: ["Smoke Tests",
+  "Navigator Check"]` under `required_workflows`; `ci_status` reads their
+  conclusion on the `main` HEAD commit and `readiness` gates RED on failure.
+  `cancelled` is in Heart's `FAILURE_CONCLUSIONS`, which is why the callers'
+  concurrency block only cancels non-`main` refs. Narrowing PR-side runs is
+  free — Heart never reads them — but a skipped or cancelled `main` run breaks
+  the readiness gate. If tier 1 would skip on a `main` push, gate it to
+  `pull_request` events only.
+- The change is Heart-owned and lands once for every caller (both `_workspace`
+  and `_workspace_test` families, plus the HowTo repos). Verify against at
+  least one caller of each shape before merging.
+
+## Acceptance
+
+- A PR touching only `scripts/misc/` in `autolens_workspace_test` runs
+  materially less than the full 553s (tier 2), or a PR touching only
+  `README.md` + a config sidecar still skips (tier 1).
+- A PR with an unresolvable base still runs the full matrix.
+- The `Smoke Tests` check reports `skipped`, not pending, on every skip path.
+- `main`-push runs are unchanged and Heart's `ci_status` still reads a real
+  conclusion.
+
+<!-- formalised by the Intake (Conception) Agent on 2026-08-23 from user-intake -->