@benmoss thanks for your patience here.

Following these steps to commit 7cac80c74d52cce38faa8a0068305a370a417ebd you reference above, using cad3f23 (current tip):

exec curl -sJLO https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/raw/7cac80c74d52cce38faa8a0068305a370a417ebd/app/assets/javascripts/editor/schema/ci.json
exec cue import jsonschema: ci.json

I see:

> exec cue import jsonschema: ci.json
[stderr]
constraint not allowed because type string is excluded:
    ./ci.json:68:33
constraint not allowed because type string is excluded:
    ./ci.json:577:29
[exit status 1]
FAIL: /tmp/testscript1311223080/repro.txtar/script.txtar:2: unexpected command failure

Looking at the relevant bits from the schema:

        "rules": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "anyOf": [
              {"type": "object"},
              {"type": "array", "minLength": 1, "items": { "type": "string" }}
            ],
            "properties": {
              "if": { "$ref": "#/definitions/if" },
              "changes": { "$ref": "#/definitions/changes" },
              "exists": { "$ref": "#/definitions/exists" },
              "variables": { "$ref": "#/definitions/variables" },
              "when": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": ["always", "never"]
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": false
          }
        }

The slightly cryptic error message refers to this line:

{"type": "array", "minLength": 1, "items": { "type": "string" }}

minLength is only something that applies to strings, not arrays. minItems is what is needed here, unless minLength was a constraint intended for the items in the array in which case:

{"type": "array", "items": { "type": "string",  "minLength": 1 }}

might have been what was intended.

If we fix the schema in these two places to use minItems it imports as expected.

So I believe this is a bug in the source JSONSchema. But please let me know if this analysis doesn't correspond with your understanding.

For anyone following along here, I just raised https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/148555 to fix the schema upstream.

And delighted to say that https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/148555 is now merged! cue import on the current tip of that schema now works!