diff --git a/.github/workflows/local-backends.yml b/.github/workflows/local-backends.yml
index 5bf95c59c..ec4e12ce1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/local-backends.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/local-backends.yml
@@ -167,19 +167,63 @@ jobs:
       # starts afterwards.
       - name: Pull the base images from mirror.gcr.io
         run: python3 .github/scripts/mirror_base_images.py src tst
+      # A computer image or disk is tagged with a key of everything it is built from, and the composer reuses one the
+      # image store already holds for its key. The registry keeps its storage on the runner, restored from the computer
+      # images main saved latest this week, so a run reuses them rather than building them again. A shard that runs no
+      # computer tests misses.
+      - name: Week of the computer images' cache
+        id: week
+        run: echo "week=$(date -u +%G-W%V)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: Restore the computer images
+        id: computers
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0
+        with:
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/registry
+          key: computers-${{ matrix.shard }}-${{ steps.week.outputs.week }}
+          restore-keys: computers-${{ matrix.shard }}-${{ steps.week.outputs.week }}-
       - name: Start the local registry
         run: |
-          docker run --detach --name registry --publish 5000:5000 mirror.gcr.io/library/registry:2
+          mkdir -p "$RUNNER_TEMP/registry"
+          docker run --detach --name registry --publish 5000:5000 --volume "$RUNNER_TEMP/registry:/var/lib/registry" \
+            mirror.gcr.io/library/registry:2
           timeout 30 sh -c 'until curl -sf http://localhost:5000/v2/ >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done'
       # x64 hosted runners have /dev/kvm; the disk form's tests boot under it, and skip without it, which fails below.
       - name: Let the local provider boot disks with KVM
         run: sudo chmod 666 /dev/kvm
       - name: Slow integration tier on the local defaults
+        id: tests
         env:
           AGENTENV_TEST_SHARD: ${{ matrix.shard }}/12
         run: |
           .venv/bin/python -m pytest -m int_test_slow -rA --timeout=1200 --junitxml=junit-integration-slow.xml \
             tst/integration --ignore=tst/integration/env/gateway/gateway_test.py
+      # Only the computer images are kept, and only main saves them, once its tests pass, so pull requests reuse main's
+      # without filling the repository's cache. The entry is named by the image keys the registry holds, so a run that
+      # built any new image saves a new one. The garbage collection frees what only the deleted repositories
+      # referenced; with --delete-untagged it would also delete the untagged platform manifests of an image index, and
+      # their layers.
+      - name: Keep only the computer images
+        id: kept
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          repositories="$RUNNER_TEMP/registry/docker/registry/v2/repositories"
+          if [ ! -d "$repositories/agentenv-computers" ]; then echo "computers=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; exit 0; fi
+          docker stop registry
+          sudo find "$repositories" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name agentenv-computers -exec rm -rf {} +
+          docker run --rm --volume "$RUNNER_TEMP/registry:/var/lib/registry" mirror.gcr.io/library/registry:2 \
+            garbage-collect /etc/docker/registry/config.yml > /dev/null
+          du -sh "$RUNNER_TEMP/registry"
+          tags=$(sudo ls "$repositories/agentenv-computers/_manifests/tags" | sort | sha256sum | cut -c1-16)
+          echo "key=computers-${{ matrix.shard }}-${{ steps.week.outputs.week }}-$tags" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "computers=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: Save the computer images
+        if: >-
+          always() && github.event_name == 'push' && steps.tests.outcome == 'success'
+          && steps.kept.outputs.computers == 'true' && steps.kept.outputs.key != steps.computers.outputs.cache-matched-key
+        uses: actions/cache/save@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0
+        with:
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/registry
+          key: ${{ steps.kept.outputs.key }}
       - name: Skips must be declared capability gaps
         if: always()
         run: |