ci: run Lean Hive simulators in CI

[dicethedev]

🗒️ Description / Motivation

This PR adds Hive coverage to CI for the Lean client simulators now available in ethereum/hive.

Hive already has Lean-focused simulator suites, and ethlambda already supports Hive test-driver mode via HIVE_LEAN_TEST_DRIVER. This change wires those pieces into GitHub Actions so PRs can exercise the Lean Hive suites automatically and surface failures with uploaded artifacts.

What Changed

• .github/workflows/ci.yml

  • Adds a docker_build job that builds the ethlambda Docker image and uploads it as a workflow artifact.
  • Adds a run-hive matrix job for the Lean Hive simulator suites:
    • RPC compatibility
    • sync
    • client interop
    • validation
    • gossip
    • req/resp
    • fork-choice spec assets
    • state-transition spec assets
    • signature-verification spec assets

• .github/config/hive/clients.yaml

  • Adds the Hive client config for ethlambda using the devnet4 nametag.

• .github/scripts/check-hive-results.sh

  • Adds a small Hive results checker that fails CI when Hive reports failed test cases.
  • Writes failure details to the GitHub step summary and prepares failure artifacts.

Correctness / Behavior Guarantees

• No runtime client behavior is changed.
• Existing Rust tests, lint, and formatting jobs are left unchanged.
• Hive runs use the Docker image built from the current commit.
• Hive failures are reported from the generated JSON result files rather than relying only on action success/failure status.

Tests Added / Run

Added CI coverage through the new Hive workflow jobs.

Local verification run:

• bash -n .github/scripts/check-hive-results.sh
• Parsed .github/workflows/ci.yml and .github/config/hive/clients.yaml with Python YAML
• git diff --check
• Tested check-hive-results.sh with sample passing and failing Hive JSON

Not run locally:

• make fmt
• make lint
• cargo test --workspace --release
• Full Docker build / Hive simulation

Related Issues / PRs

• Closes Run hive in CI #358

✅ Verification Checklist

• Ran make fmt — clean
• Ran make lint (clippy with -D warnings) — clean
• Ran cargo test --workspace --release — all passing

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR wires the Lean Hive simulator suites into GitHub Actions by adding a docker_build job that exports the ethlambda image as an artifact and a run-hive matrix job covering nine simulator categories. A results-checker script parses Hive JSON output and surfaces failures in the step summary.

• docker_build is never triggered: its if guard references needs.detect-changes.outputs.run_tests, but no detect-changes job exists in the workflow and needs: detect-changes is not declared — the condition is permanently false, skipping docker_build and every dependent run-hive job on every run.
• Failure artifact upload has a logic gap: the upload step only fires when the results-checker script fails, not when the Hive simulation step itself crashes; the verify-hive-results step is skipped on simulation failure, so its conclusion is never 'failure' and no artifacts are uploaded.
• Dead devnet3 config: clients.yaml registers both devnet3 and devnet4, but the workflow only uses ethlambda_devnet4.

Confidence Score: 3/5

Safe to merge from a runtime-behavior standpoint — no client code is changed — but the new CI jobs will never execute as written.

The docker_build job references a detect-changes job that does not exist anywhere in the workflow, making its if condition always false. All nine Hive matrix jobs depend on docker_build, so they are also permanently skipped. The PR's stated goal of running Lean Hive simulators in CI is entirely unmet until this is fixed. There is also a secondary gap where simulation-level crashes produce no uploaded artifacts.

ci.yml needs the if condition on docker_build either removed or replaced with a valid guard; the failure-artifact upload condition also needs revision.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/ci.yml	Adds docker_build and run-hive jobs, but docker_build references a non-existent detect-changes job making its if condition permanently false, so the entire Hive CI path is effectively dead; the failure-artifact upload also has a condition gap.
.github/scripts/check-hive-results.sh	New script that parses Hive JSON result files and exits non-zero on any failing test case; logic is sound, edge cases (no files, missing jq, missing dir) are handled, and GitHub step-summary output is guarded by env-var check.
.github/config/hive/clients.yaml	Adds devnet3 and devnet4 nametag entries for the ethlambda Hive client; only devnet4 is referenced in the workflow, leaving devnet3 as apparently unused config.

Prompt To Fix All With AI

Fix the following 3 code review issues. Work through them one at a time, proposing concise fixes.

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### Issue 1 of 3
.github/workflows/ci.yml:150-153
**`docker_build` always skipped — `detect-changes` job does not exist**

The `if` condition references `needs.detect-changes.outputs.run_tests`, but `docker_build` has no `needs: detect-changes` declaration and the workflow defines no `detect-changes` job at all. GitHub Actions evaluates `needs.detect-changes` as an empty context, so the expression `needs.detect-changes.outputs.run_tests == 'true'` is permanently `false`. Every run of this workflow will skip `docker_build`, and because `run-hive` declares `needs: docker_build`, every Hive matrix job is skipped as well — making the entire new CI path a no-op.

### Issue 2 of 3
.github/workflows/ci.yml:268-274
**Failure artifacts not uploaded when the Hive simulation itself crashes**

The upload condition `failure() && steps.verify-hive-results.conclusion == 'failure'` only fires when the explicit results-checker script exits non-zero. If the `Run Hive Simulation` step itself fails (e.g., Hive crashes, network timeout, bad Docker image), the `Check Hive Results For Failures` step is skipped (its guard is `if: success()`), leaving `steps.verify-hive-results.conclusion == 'skipped'`. The compound condition is never satisfied, so no artifacts are uploaded on simulation-level failures — exactly the case where diagnostic logs would be most useful.

### Issue 3 of 3
.github/workflows/ci.yml:252-260
**`client` field hard-codes `devnet4` and ignores the `devnet3` nametag**

`clients.yaml` registers both `ethlambda` with `devnet3` and `ethlambda` with `devnet4`, but `client: ethlambda_devnet4` is used unconditionally in the simulation step. The `devnet3` entry appears to be dead config — if it is truly needed for some simulators, it should be referenced in the matrix; if not, it should be removed from `clients.yaml` to avoid confusion.

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