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+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * #2194 — review.md prompt-fed reviewers (Gemini/Claude/Codex) need explicit
+ * Bash timeout guidance.
+ *
+ * Without it each lane inherits the host default (~2 min on Claude Code), so a
+ * source-grounded review (~570s Codex xhigh, ~525s headless Claude) is killed
+ * mid-review, its output is empty, and the cross-AI review silently proceeds
+ * with fewer lanes. CodeRabbit and OpenCode already documented a timeout; the
+ * four main lanes did not. review.md IS the product the runtime loads, so this
+ * asserts the deployed text carries the guidance.
+ */
+
+const { describe, test } = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+
+const REVIEW_MD = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'gsd-core', 'workflows', 'review.md');
+
+describe('#2194 review.md prompt-fed reviewer timeout guidance', () => {
+  const content = fs.readFileSync(REVIEW_MD, 'utf-8');
+  const sectionStart = content.indexOf('invoke in sequence');
+  const section = sectionStart !== -1
+    ? content.slice(sectionStart, sectionStart + 3000)
+    : '';
+
+  test('review.md has the reviewer-invocation section', () => {
+    assert.notEqual(sectionStart, -1, 'review.md must contain the "invoke in sequence" section');
+  });
+
+  test('the section carries Bash timeout guidance for the prompt-fed lanes', () => {
+    assert.ok(/timeout/i.test(section),
+      'the Gemini/Claude/Codex reviewer blocks must carry Bash timeout guidance');
+    assert.ok(/900000|1200000/.test(section),
+      'timeout guidance must recommend a high ms value (>= 900000) so a slow lane is not killed');
+  });
+
+  test('a slow-lane empty output is framed as a timeout, not a crash', () => {
+    assert.ok(/timeout.+not.+crash|not a crash/i.test(section),
+      'the guidance must distinguish a timeout kill from a crash so operators do not misdiagnose (e.g. the Codex 0xc0000142 misattribution)');
+  });
+});