Remyx Outrider

Version updated for https://github.com/remyxai/outrider to version v1.7.28.

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Action Type

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Action Summary

Outrider is a GitHub Action that automates the validation and comparison of new methods against an organization’s codebase. It provides draft PRs with a self-review, handles preflight checks and issues, supports branch-only mode for exploring multiple candidates without committing to any one, and allows quickstart installation via CLI tools. The action uses Anthropic Opus or z.ai GLM-5.2 as model backends, with configurable costs based on the backend used.

What’s Changed

New

Two-tier drafter/refiner setup (PR #91) — a companion pair of workflow templates alongside the existing outrider.yml:

  • outrider-daily.yml — drafter role: high-frequency, publish=branch, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 default. Distinctive defaults: maintain-state=true, staged-synthesis=false. Accumulates .remyx/repo_intel.yaml across dispatches; produces branches that the refiner selects from weekly.
  • outrider-weekly-refine.yml — refiner orchestrator: weekly cron + workflow_dispatch. Three steps in one job: pick candidate from past 7 days of drafter output → generate targeted gap analysis via Claude Sonnet 4.6 → dispatch outrider.yml with pin-arxiv + start-from-ref + lead-content=<inline markdown> + staged-synthesis=true + Opus 4.8. The refinement’s chain (fidelity → convention → test) runs inline. Terminal artifact: a ready-for-review draft PR.

Design rationale in docs/customization.md §5:

  • Higher commit-to-PR rate on borderline cases — drafter branches anchor extension point, test scaffolding, and diff shape before Opus’s preflight decision.
  • Cheap exploration of the arxiv frontier — daily dispatches sample from an ever-growing candidate pool; spec generation alone saturates on any given paper × repo pair while the arxiv corpus keeps growing.
  • Compounding intel accumulation — failed drafts still add negative-space signal to preflight.

Single-vendor default: one ANTHROPIC_API_KEY secret covers both tiers. z.ai GLM path documented as an opt-in override in docs/backends.md.

Fixed

Refiner picker enumeration (PR #92) — the auto-pick step now enumerates only branches present in .remyx/repo_intel.yaml’s confirmed_by list (the drafter’s own landing record) instead of filtering the full branch list on name patterns. Prior behavior let inherited upstream branches on forks (dependabot/*, feat/*, chore/*) slip through and often win the most-recent pick, then fail at the arxiv-resolution gate. Now: only drafter-authored branches are candidates, by construction.

First-time-setup forks with no drafter landings yet emit a clear no-op warning (No drafter-known branches in .remyx/repo_intel.yaml — nothing to promote yet) rather than the misleading “no candidate branches in past N days” message.

Compatibility

Backwards-compatible. Existing single-file outrider.yml installs continue to work unchanged. The remyxai/outrider@v1 action tag now points to v1.7.28; workflows already referencing @v1 pick up both changes on next dispatch.

remyxai-cli companion

An opt-in --two-tier flag for remyxai outrider setup-local is proposed in remyxai/remyxai-cli#47, which fetches these templates from remyxai/outrider@v1 at install time.