ci: publish the cloud image in its own parallel job (#10408)

## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The CI workflow is responsible for producing and publishing the
Docker images that power Paperclip deployments
> - The cloud image publish was previously coupled to the stock publish
job, so a failure or delay in one path could gate the other
> - That coupling makes the release pipeline less resilient than it
needs to be
> - This pull request gives the cloud publish its own top-level job so
both publishes can run in parallel without a `needs:` dependency
> - The benefit is better failure isolation and less wasted time when
one publish path is slow or broken

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public GitHub issue was found for this change.

Problem statement:
- The cloud image publish was implemented as trailing work inside the
stock publish job.
- That setup meant the cloud publish could be delayed or skipped if the
stock job failed early.
- The desired behavior is for the cloud publish to run independently so
a failure in one publish path does not gate the other.

Proposed solution:
- Split the cloud publish into its own top-level workflow job.
- Keep the same cloud-specific build settings and cache behavior.
- Preserve the existing top-level concurrency behavior.

Alternatives considered:
- Keeping both publishes in one job with conditionals or later steps.
Rejected because it still couples success and runtime between the two
publish paths.

## What Changed

- Split the cloud image publish into a separate top-level Docker
workflow job.
- Removed the dependency coupling so the cloud job does not need the
stock job.
- Expanded the drift-guard test to assert the two-job structure and the
absence of `needs:` on the cloud job.

## Verification

- The workflow YAML was parsed successfully and confirmed to contain two
jobs: `build-and-push` and `build-and-push-cloud`.
- The cloud job was confirmed to have no `needs:` entry.
- The drift-guard assertions were reproduced in a dependency-free
harness and passed.
- PR #10408 completed GitHub Actions with all required checks green,
including the e2e shards.
- Greptile review completed at 5/5 with no unresolved comments.
- No documentation files changed because this is a workflow/test-only
change.

## Risks

- The workflow now duplicates the prep steps across two runners, so any
shared setup change must be kept in sync between both jobs.
- The new job increases workflow surface area slightly, which can make
future maintenance more verbose.
- Overall risk is low because the change is limited to CI orchestration
and test coverage.

## Model Used

OpenAI Codex (GPT-5, tool-using code assistant)

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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@ -155,11 +155,120 @@ jobs:
tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
# The cloud variant carries built bundled plugins for managed
# deployments (see the `cloud` stage in the Dockerfile). Published
# under the same tag set with a `-cloud` suffix (sha-<short>-cloud,
# latest-cloud, <version>-cloud). Reuses the layer cache from the
# production build, so this mostly adds the plugin-build layers.
# The cloud variant carries built bundled plugins for managed deployments
# (see the `cloud` stage in the Dockerfile). It runs as its own job with no
# `needs:` on the stock publish above, so the two builds run in parallel and
# a failure or slow build in one never gates, delays, or skips the other.
# Both jobs share only the single top-level concurrency slot. Each job is a
# separate runner, so this one carries its own copy of the prep steps
# (checkout through schema labels) — the accepted cost of that isolation.
build-and-push-cloud:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 60
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v7
with:
# Full history and tags so `git describe` below can compute the
# release version to stamp into the image.
fetch-depth: 0
# `.git` is dockerignored, so a running image cannot derive its own
# version and otherwise reports the source package.json placeholder in
# analytics and the debug panel. Compute it here from the pristine
# checkout (real CalVer drift from the nearest release tag) and pass it
# into the build. Empty when no release tag is reachable — the server
# then keeps its existing fallbacks.
- name: Compute build version
id: build-version
run: |
set -euo pipefail
version="$(git describe --tags --match 'v*' --long --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
echo "version=${version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Stamping build version: ${version:-<none>}"
- name: Setup pnpm
uses: pnpm/action-setup@v6
with:
version: 9.15.4
run_install: false
# No dependency cache here: this workflow publishes release images, and
# restoring a shared Actions cache into the build inputs would let a
# poisoned cache entry reach the published artifact.
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v7
with:
node-version: 20
- name: Refresh lockfile for Docker build context
run: |
set -euo pipefail
pnpm install --lockfile-only --ignore-scripts --no-frozen-lockfile
changed="$(git status --porcelain)"
if [ -z "$changed" ]; then
echo "Lockfile already matches package metadata."
exit 0
fi
if printf '%s\n' "$changed" | grep -Fvq ' pnpm-lock.yaml'; then
echo "Unexpected files changed during lockfile refresh:"
echo "$changed"
exit 1
fi
echo "Using refreshed pnpm-lock.yaml in the Docker build context."
- name: Free runner disk
run: |
set -euo pipefail
echo "Disk before cleanup:"
df -h
pnpm store prune || true
sudo apt-get clean || true
sudo rm -rf \
/usr/share/dotnet \
/usr/share/swift \
/usr/local/lib/android \
/usr/local/share/boost \
/usr/local/share/powershell \
/opt/ghc \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/PyPy \
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Ruby || true
docker system prune -af || true
echo "Disk after cleanup:"
df -h
- name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
uses: docker/login-action@v4
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Set up Docker Buildx
uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
# Deployment tooling reads these labels from the registry to verify an
# image's schema expectations against a migrator before deploying it,
# without pulling the image. The server refuses to start when the
# database is missing bundled migrations, so orchestrators need a cheap
# way to check image/migrator compatibility up front.
- name: Compute schema migration labels
id: schema
run: |
set -euo pipefail
last=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | sed 's|.*/||' | LC_ALL=C sort | tail -1)
count=$(ls packages/db/src/migrations/*.sql | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
echo "last=${last}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "count=${count}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
# Published under the same tag set with a `-cloud` suffix
# (sha-<short>-cloud, latest-cloud, <version>-cloud).
- name: Docker meta (cloud)
id: meta-cloud
uses: docker/metadata-action@v6

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@ -76,6 +76,36 @@ describe("cloud image bundled plugins", () => {
expect(workflow).toMatch(/^\s*target: production$/m);
});
it("publishes the cloud image in its own job with no needs coupling", () => {
// The cloud publish runs as its own top-level job so the stock/production
// publish can never gate, delay, or skip it. Both jobs share only the
// single top-level concurrency slot; there is deliberately no `needs:`
// between them, so a failure in one is never coupled to the other.
const jobsSection = workflow.slice(workflow.indexOf("\njobs:\n"));
const headers = [...jobsSection.matchAll(/^ {2}([\w-]+):[^\n]*$/gm)];
expect(
headers.length,
"docker.yml must declare at least two jobs under jobs:",
).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
// Locate the job block that carries the cloud build (target: cloud) and
// assert it declares no `needs:` — coupling it to another job would
// reintroduce the shared failure the split job exists to remove.
const cloudHeaderIdx = headers.findIndex((header, i) => {
const start = header.index ?? 0;
const end = headers[i + 1]?.index ?? jobsSection.length;
return jobsSection.slice(start, end).includes("target: cloud");
});
expect(cloudHeaderIdx, "one job must build the cloud target").toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
const start = headers[cloudHeaderIdx].index ?? 0;
const end = headers[cloudHeaderIdx + 1]?.index ?? jobsSection.length;
const cloudJobBlock = jobsSection.slice(start, end);
expect(
cloudJobBlock,
"the cloud job must not couple to another job via needs:",
).not.toMatch(/^\s*needs:/m);
});
it("throttles the docker workflow with cancel-in-progress: false", () => {
// Concurrency is declared at the workflow (top) level so a single group
// spans the whole run, and cancel-in-progress is false so an in-flight