| name | slowest-tests |
| description | Find the top-N slowest test files in CI from a recent BuildKite run, optionally posting the results to a Slack channel as a formatted table. Use when asked to find slow CI tests, "what's making CI slow", or to post a slow-test report to Slack. |
Slowest CI tests
Args: [N] [#channel] — both optional. N defaults to 500. If #channel is omitted, just print the table and stop.
1. Gather the data
Run the script. With no build number it auto-picks the most recent finished build from a merged PR.
bun run ci:slowest
bun run ci:slowest 47324 100
bun run ci:slowest --json > /tmp/slow.json
The script (scripts/ci-slowest-tests.ts) does the heavy lifting:
- Lists
test-bun jobs from bk build view <N>, skipping retried: true.
- Fetches each job's
raw_log_url directly with Authorization: Bearer $BUILDKITE_TOKEN. Do not use bk job log — it hangs indefinitely on some Windows/alpine jobs.
- Caches logs to
$TMPDIR/bun-ci-logs-<build>/ so re-runs are instant.
- Parses
_bk;t=<ms> ... --- [N/TOTAL] <file> group headers, normalising backslashes to / and stripping [attempt #N] retries.
- Aggregates each file's duration as the max across all platforms (a file appears once per platform; shards within a platform are disjoint).
- Drops
package.json / non-JS entries — those are setup steps, not tests.
If the script can't find a build automatically (rare — it walks the last 10 merged PRs), pick one yourself: gh pr list --state merged --limit 10 --json number,headRefName, then bk build list --branch <headRefName> and pass the first build with a finished_at. Merged-PR builds usually report state: failed because of flaky tests — that's fine, the timing data is still valid.
2. Post to Slack (only if a channel was given)
slack_send_message does NOT support markdown tables — its markdown→blocks converter rejects | a | b | syntax with invalid_blocks. Don't use Canvases either; they render tables but the MCP proxy 502s above ~10 KB and the result is clunky.
Procedure:
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Look up the channel ID with slack_search_channels (the user gives a name, you need the C… ID).
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Write the full N-row markdown table to ~/code/tmp/top<N>-slow-tests.md, then upload it as a secret gist: gh gist create <file> --desc "Bun CI: top N slowest test files (build #<num>)". (The Slack MCP has no file-upload tool; secret gist is the agreed fallback. Do not ask the user to attach anything manually.)
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Post the main message: header (build link + gist link, "Rest in thread.") followed by the top 20 bullets. Row format:
• 325s `test/js/bun/cron/in-process-cron.test.ts` 🐧 x64-baseline
• 96s `test/js/bun/http/serve-body-leak.test.ts` 🐧 x64-asan
- seconds: plain text, left-aligned, padded so the backticks line up
- filepath: code-font, full path including
test/ prefix and extension — do not strip anything
- platform: standard Unicode emoji only (🐧 linux, 🪟 windows, 🍎 macOS — never workspace-custom shortcodes) followed by the arch/variant verbatim from the job name (
x64-asan, aarch64, x64-baseline — do not abbreviate)
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Reply in-thread (thread_ts = the main message) with rows 21–N in the same bullet format, packed into chunks under 4800 chars each (~70 rows per chunk). Post chunks sequentially so they stay ordered.
