Test workflow (explosion/spacy-layout)

The Test workflow from explosion/spacy-layout, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Test workflow from the explosion/spacy-layout repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

name: Test

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - main
    paths-ignore:
      - "*.md"
  pull_request:
    paths-ignore:
      - "*.md"
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read
jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.10"
          cache: "pip" # caching pip dependencies

      - name: Install
        run: |
          python -m pip install -U pip
          pip install -e .
          pip install pytest

      - name: Run tests
        shell: bash
        run: |
          python -m pytest tests

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Test
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - main
    paths-ignore:
      - "*.md"
  pull_request:
    paths-ignore:
      - "*.md"
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  run:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
 
      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065 # v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.10"
          cache: "pip" # caching pip dependencies
 
      - name: Install
        run: |
          python -m pip install -U pip
          pip install -e .
          pip install pytest
 
      - name: Run tests
        shell: bash
        run: |
          python -m pytest tests
 

What changed

• Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
• Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

• Dependency installs

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow