From eca641972723e640e3df715d5f8e727159f220f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jehrr <79864894+jehrr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:35:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Pass the canary's paid secrets only on a weekly run; the
 daily run stays free

Paid canary paths (proxy, Scraping Browser, captcha) run weekly on Mondays;
free paths keep their daily schedule. A manual dispatch runs everything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CKsd7q25N19WzUZjrAdzx8
---
 .github/workflows/canary.yml | 8 ++++++--
 CHANGELOG.md                 | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/canary.yml b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
index 45cff61..0c7d6bc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/canary.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ on:
     # 06:20 UTC. Off the hour, because everything else in the world runs on
     # it and a queued runner adds nothing but latency.
     - cron: "20 6 * * *"
+    # Mondays: the same jobs, WITH the paid secrets (proxy, Scraping Browser,
+    # captcha key). On the daily run above those secrets read as empty, so
+    # it takes the free no-secret route and bills nothing.
+    - cron: "20 6 * * 1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
@@ -99,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Scrape three days of a tag archive (the legacy-payload path)
         id: archive
         env:
-          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY }}
+          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY || '' }}
         # `set +e`: GitHub runs `run:` steps under `bash -e`, so a non-zero
         # command aborts the step BEFORE the following echo and
         # continue-on-error does not change that — it stops the step failing
@@ -180,7 +184,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Scrape a tag feed (the modern-payload path)
         id: feed
         env:
-          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY }}
+          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY || '' }}
         # Runs even when the archive half failed, so one red run still says
         # which of the two paths broke.
         if: always()
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 03f990c..3635737 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ empty output file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- CI only: the canary's optional paid secret `MEDIUM_PROXY` now reaches it only on a new weekly
+  run (Mondays 06:20 UTC) and on a manual dispatch. The daily run keeps its
+  schedule and takes the free route without them, so it bills nothing.
+
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-16
 
 > **Behaviour changes in this batch:**