Follow-up to #10. A review of that PR found that the reclaim job cannot delete the largest artifact of every run, and that the port dropped an escape hatch it depends on.

1. reclaim could not delete the largest artifact of every run

assemble uploads unsloth-sd-prebuilt-<tag> (path: dist/*) unconditionally. That aggregate matches no single release asset name, so reclaim always classifies it KEEP. On a green publish its bytes are already release assets, so it is a pure duplicate that survives every cleanup.

Measured on run 31289281107: the aggregate is 1,442,716,005 B against the six -bin- artifacts totalling 1,442,714,834 B, identical to within a manifest, plus a 126 MiB source artifact. reclaim was deleting 1.34 GiB of 2.81 GiB, about 48%, and the single biggest item was always the one left behind.

llama.cpp gates its equivalent upload if: ${{ always() && !success() }}, with the reasoning recorded there: uploading it ahead of the publish gate cost storage per run for a bundle nothing reads, and published unverified builds, since any signed-in user can download an artifact from a public repo, for runs that deliberately never released. That gating was missed when this pipeline was ported.

This PR applies it, plus if-no-files-found: warn (an early failure can leave dist/ absent, and a missing debug bundle must not turn a diagnosable failure into a confusing second one) and overwrite: true.

!success() rather than failure() is deliberate: a cancelled run is exactly when a human wants the rescue bundle. The comment in #10 that presented keeping this artifact as a feature is replaced.

2. No way to keep artifacts from a run that publishes nothing

llama.cpp guards its unpublished-deletion step with && inputs.keep_artifacts != true; the port dropped it, and this repo has no such input. This repo has no retry workflow either, so assemble being skipped after a failed leg meant published was empty and every successfully built bundle was discarded, with no way to opt out. A publish:false dispatch, the documented default for testing, also deleted its own output.

This PR adds the keep_artifacts boolean input and the && inputs.keep_artifacts != true guard.

Verification

• YAML parses; the assemble upload step now carries if: ${{ always() && !success() }}.
• reclaim published-path condition unchanged; unpublished-path is now needs.assemble.outputs.published != 'true' && inputs.keep_artifacts != true.
• workflow_dispatch inputs are now ref, min_age_hours, publish, keep_artifacts.

Note on scope

build.yml in this repo still has 7 upload steps at the 90-day default retention, including a 563 MiB CUDA runtime zip, and it is where this repo's live artifact storage actually accumulates today. Deliberately out of scope here; worth a separate pass.