From 55971eebc3f5a6aef5b1e0cde96b3f2ece105c07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Lynch <marcelomlynch@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:36:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] =?UTF-8?q?ci:=20Update=20the=20workflow=20so=20the=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?chain=20doesn=E2=80=99t=20get=20skipped=20when=20upload=5Fcache?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20is=20skipped?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

---
 .github/workflows/build_template.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_template.yml b/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
index 544d06835ea6cf..bf2523f9fc8d35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ jobs:
   post_steps:
     name: Post-Build Step
     needs: [build, upload_cache]
+    if: ${{ always() && needs.build.result == 'success' && (needs.upload_cache.result == 'success' || needs.upload_cache.result == 'skipped') }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest # Note these steps run on disposable GitHub runners, so no landrun sandboxing is needed.
     steps:
 

From d844ff6e163fcbd97c438db5e0ed0e7cede07ac6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Gin-ge Chen <bryangingechen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:09:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Modify post-CI job condition for dependency success

Updated post-CI job condition to ensure it runs only if direct dependencies succeeded.
---
 .github/workflows/build_template.yml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_template.yml b/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
index bf2523f9fc8d35..d6e25d4dc15175 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_template.yml
@@ -745,7 +745,8 @@ jobs:
 
   final:
     name: Post-CI job
-    if: ${{ inputs.run_post_ci }}
+    # ensure that this runs iff direct dependencies succeeded even if transitive dependencies  were skipped
+    if: ${{ always() && inputs.run_post_ci && needs.style_lint.result == 'success' && needs.build.result == 'success' && needs.post_steps.result == 'success' }}
     needs: [style_lint, build, post_steps]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps: