From 1f5939dffc1c346cbfbf0f67e3e72423f7bfea6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: OrcaWin <alpha-eng@stably.ai>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:21:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ci: run relay integration on a free hosted runner (#34666)

It finishes in ~1.2 min beside ~7 min unit shards, so Blacksmith minutes buy no wall time.

Co-authored-by: OrcaWin <293788423+OrcaWin@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/unit-tests.yml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index 0bea124ed91..4e85f2d41de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -189,7 +189,8 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         node: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.node_versions) }}
-    runs-on: blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404
+    # Free hosted runner: ~1.2 min of work finishes well inside the ~7 min unit shards it runs beside.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 60
 
     steps: