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Pass the canary's paid secrets only on a weekly run; the daily run stays free - #22

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Problem: the canary runs daily and its job(s) (live-run, variation-canary) work from a bare runner with no secret, but each passes the optional paid secret(s) AMAZON_PROXY into the run when set. With a secret configured, every daily run would bill proxy traffic or a Scraping Browser session.

Change: a second schedule, 23 6 (Mondays, at the daily run's hour and minute), is added, and each of those secrets is now mapped as ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '23 6') && secrets.X || '' }} (and the presence flags likewise). On the daily run the secrets read as empty, so the job takes its free no-secret route exactly as it does today without them; on the Monday run and on any manual dispatch they reach the run as before. No job is skipped and no job is made weekly, because the jobs themselves are free paths. No secret named here is currently set in this repository, so today's daily runs are unchanged.

Not changed: what each canary job runs and asserts, its thresholds, and its behaviour when a secret is missing (a paid job without its secret still fails with an ::error:: naming it, now on its weekly run). workflow_dispatch still runs every job.

Evidence: the edited workflow parses as YAML and its on.schedule / job if: values were printed from the parsed file (listed above). The offline suite runs in this PR's tests workflow on the head commit. No paid call was made to check this change.

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…ays free

Paid canary paths (proxy, Scraping Browser, captcha) run weekly on Mondays;
free paths keep their daily schedule. A manual dispatch runs everything.

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# Mondays: the same jobs, WITH the paid secrets (proxy, Scraping Browser,
# captcha key). On the daily run above those secrets read as empty, so
# it takes the free no-secret route and bills nothing.
- cron: "23 6 * * 1"

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Two problems here:

  1. The comment names three paid secrets (proxy, Scraping Browser, captcha key). The workflow only references secrets.AMAZON_PROXY, and only that one is gated. Either the comment is wrong or the other secrets aren't gated.
  2. * * * already fires on Mondays. Both crons then trigger at 06:23, so Monday gets two runs: one with the proxy and one without. Make the daily cron 23 6 * * 2-6,0 if you don't want the duplicate.

The 0 1 schedule string also has to match github.event.schedule exactly. If the two ever drift apart, the paid run silently never gets the secret.

Comment thread CHANGELOG.md
### Changed

- CI only: the canary's optional paid secret `AMAZON_PROXY` now reaches it only on a new weekly
run (Mondays 06:23 UTC) and on a manual dispatch. The daily run keeps its

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"Bills nothing" is stated as fact but not measured. The change only blanks AMAZON_PROXY. The free route's behaviour with no proxy hasn't been shown, and the Monday daily-cron overlap still runs a proxy-less job alongside the paid one.

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jehrr merged commit 7681c14 into main Oct 16, 2026
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