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Tom Boucher
4d65c248e5 fix(#4641): make test-conformance the sole Windows selector and narrow the tier to 28.5% (#4643)
* test(#4641): failing-first tests for the tier ceiling and a single Windows selector

Tests only, committed ahead of the implementation so the RED run is real.

- tests/platform-conformance-tier.test.cjs: tier-size ceiling asserted as a
  ratio against a live denominator (Windows 33%, macOS 25%); per-helper negative
  cases proving seam calls and path-call-plus-slash-literal are not platform
  signals; positive pins that genuine platform content, seam-bypassing spawns,
  chmod and symlink still classify in; macOS signal set and generated list
  unchanged.
- tests/ci-full-lane-sharding.test.cjs: the test job has zero windows-latest
  rows and test-conformance still has 3 windows + 1 macOS.
- tests/ci-test-scope.test.cjs: windows_tests is absent rather than empty, a
  non-tier test file no longer forces full_matrix, a RULE-pulled windows-hint
  test does, and resolveSelection rejects the retired windows scope.

Refs #4589, #4591, #4592, #4593, #4603

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): delete the second Windows selector and narrow the conformance tier

Epic #4589's goal — the OS-agnostic bulk on Linux, a small explicitly-scoped
conformance tier on real Windows/macOS — was not met. Measured on PR #4640
(run 34618834118): 7 non-Linux jobs, a 546/930 (58.7%) "tier", and 5 of 7
changed test files running on a real Windows runner twice.

Two selectors, only one in the epic's scope. The test job's three scope:windows
shards predate the epic (#494, sharded #3057) and gate on product_changed, not
full_matrix, so they fire on every product PR whatever Phase 3's classifier
decides. They are deleted; test-conformance becomes the sole Windows selector,
as it already was for macOS. Non-Linux jobs 7 -> 4.

Gating the lane instead was rejected as provably redundant: for a test file
reachesConformanceTierOrSeam is literally CONFORMANCE_TIER_FILES.includes(file),
and that same predicate sets full_matrix, which turns test-conformance on. Every
file a gated lane would run is already covered in the same run. The lane's one
non-redundant residue -- RULE-pulled tests matched by the isWindowsHint filename
heuristic -- is ported into reachesConformanceTierOrSeam so it sets full_matrix
instead of feeding a parallel lane.

Two detectors matched the repo's own test idiom rather than any platform signal
and carried 226 of the tier's sole-signal membership against 41 for the other
eight: process-seam-subprocess (335 files, 118 unique) matches the
tests/helpers.cjs entry points nearly every CLI test uses, and going through the
seam is the opposite of a platform signal since shell-command-projection takes
platform as an injected parameter; hardcoded-path-vs-path-call (328, 108) needs
only a path call anywhere plus a slash literal anywhere, and that class is
already enforced by ADR-1703's Linux-runnable ESLint rules. Both are removed.
Tier 546 -> 254 (27.3%). src/ reachability is unchanged at 28 files, measured.

Adds the size gate Phase 2 never had, as a ratio against a live denominator so
it cannot stop binding as the suite grows.

292 files leave real-OS Windows execution. The drop-out set was audited: 14 have
a platform-suggestive filename and all 14 are static source-text analyses or
seam-mediated CLI tests. raw-child-process was investigated as a suspected false
negative and left unchanged -- relaxing it adds 13 files, all false positives.

macOS is untouched: MACOS_CATEGORIES is a separate array and the regenerated
macos-conformance-tier.generated.cjs is byte-identical at 196 files.

Fixes #4641
Refs #4589, #4591, #4592, #4593, #4603

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): register the new ADR path in the docs-guard exempt baseline

tests/ci-test-scope.test.cjs references docs/adr/4641-windows-selector-consolidation.md
in a comment justifying the retired windows scope; lint-docs-guard-registration
tracks that reference set, so the baseline needs the new path. Verified the
exemption still holds: the path is prose, not a filesystem read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): make the escalation tier-backed and drop every hardcoded count

Three follow-ups from measuring the first pass rather than trusting it.

The windows-hint escalation now requires tier membership as well as the
filename hint. Setting full_matrix runs test-conformance, which runs only the
tier; escalating on a test that is NOT in the tier costs four jobs and still
never runs that test on Windows. Measured over the 16 RULES entries the
narrowed predicate fires on exactly the same rules today, so this is
correct-by-construction rather than a behavior change. The broader variant --
escalate on any tier member a rule pulls in, ignoring the hint -- was measured
at 14/16 rules and rejected as over-broad.

Removes the hardcoded counts. A hardcoded macOS tier length of 196 broke as
soon as the rebase pulled in one new test file from #4253, which is the whole
argument against them: the ceilings are ratios against a live denominator, the
committed lists are pinned by comparison against a fresh classification of the
live tree, and the three named probe files now assert on their SIGNAL rather
than on membership in a literal list -- asserting by filename is the exact
error this PR fixes in the classifier.

Regenerates both lists against the rebased tree. Same-tree figures are now
547 -> 255 of 931 eligible (58.8% -> 27.4%), 292 entries removed and none
added; macOS is unchanged at 197 with a zero-line diff.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): restore real-shell-spawn coverage and repair assertions the narrowing broke

An isolated adversarial review found a real false negative. Removing the
blanket process-seam-subprocess detector also removed the only coverage for
tests that spawn a REAL shell: tests/helpers/process-seam.cjs's runHook
spawns options.interpreter via real spawnSync, so
runHook('-c', [script], { interpreter: 'bash' }) runs a real bash binary
executing a shell script extracted from workflow markdown. The seam argument
holds for src/shell-command-projection.cts, which takes platform as an
injected parameter; it does NOT hold for the test helpers, which spawn real
binaries. Conflating the two is what made the blanket detector look purely
noisy -- it was 99% noise wrapping a real signal.

Adds a narrow shell-interpreter-spawn category keyed on a real interpreter
option. Measured 2026-09-11: 33 files match, 9 were outside the tier and are
added back, taking it 255 -> 264 of 931 (27.4% -> 28.4%), still under the 33%
ceiling. All 9 confirmed by reading the matching source line, zero comment or
fixture matches. runGit-alone and non-node-spawnSeam alternatives were measured
and rejected -- each adds 9 files but misses the counterexample entirely.

Fixes a real bug the suite caught: jobs.test is ubuntu-only now that its
scope:windows rows are gone, so it must wire GSD_STRICT_LIVE_CONFIG_GUARD
strictly rather than carrying the Windows report-only carve-out. The carve-out
now lives solely on test-conformance, whose matrix does include windows.

Repairs seven pre-existing assertions the category removal invalidated,
preserving each case's purpose rather than deleting coverage, and converts the
last hardcoded tier bounds to live-derived ratios -- including the macOS
sanity range that was still a magic [100, 350].

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): keep the confinement test on a real OS via a documented allowlist

A security review found tests/external-descriptor-confinement.test.cjs had
dropped out of the Windows tier. It must stay in, and no content signal can
express why: it exercises isPathConfined (src/external-descriptor-trust.cts),
which uses the AMBIENT path module -- path.resolve(root, target) and path.sep
-- with no injection. Its win32 semantics (drive letters, UNC, separator) are
only reachable by actually running on Windows, and it is a security-relevant
write-confinement gate. A content classifier cannot see 'this module reads the
ambient path module', so no regex belongs here.

Adds ALWAYS_REAL_OS, a Map of path -> recorded reason, unioned into the Windows
tier only. A Map rather than a list so an entry without a reason is impossible
by construction, and tests assert every entry names a file that exists on disk
so a stale entry fails loudly instead of rotting. This is the centrally-
enumerated single source of truth epic #4589 Phase 2 asked for and ADR-1703's
portability-vocab.cjs already models -- deliberately not a heuristic.

Windows tier 264 -> 265 of 931 (28.5%), still under the 33% ceiling. macOS is
untouched and byte-identical: the win32 concern does not apply to a POSIX
runner, and a test asserts the allowlist does not leak into that tier.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#4641): inject the path impl into isPathConfined and correct the ADR count

Two review findings, both fixed rather than dispositioned.

A security review found tests/external-descriptor-confinement.test.cjs had left
real-OS execution. The allowlist pinned it back, but that only restored
INCIDENTAL coverage: isPathConfined used the ambient path module, and its test
carried POSIX-only literals, so a win32 confinement escape was unverified on
every platform including Windows. isPathConfined now takes an optional third
parameter carrying the path implementation, defaulting to the ambient module.
Blast radius is CRITICAL -- 53 affected symbols across 19 files -- so the change
is purely additive and every existing two-argument caller is byte-identical.

Tests now inject path.win32 and path.posix, covering a different drive letter,
a cross-drive absolute, backslash and forward-slash traversal, UNC, and the
startsWith prefix-boundary bug (.gsdEVIL against root .gsd) on both separators.
Proved load-bearing: dropping the + p.sep from the prefix check fails exactly
the two boundary cases and nothing else. Callers' suites 149/149.

The spec review caught an off-by-one: the ADR narrated a 264-file tier while the
committed list holds 265. The ADR now records the full chain 547 -> 255 -> 264
-> 265 (28.5%).

Also corrects a stale comment in scripts/docs-guard-registry.cjs that narrated
classify() as zeroing windows_tests, a key this change removes -- kept as
historical narration but labelled as such.

Refs #4641

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#131): make the unwritable-HOME test actually test something

Found by sweeping for the root-bypass class after fixing commit-files-deletion.
This one is the silent variant, and it was broken twice over.

First, the condition: the test made a fake HOME unwritable with chmod 0o500.
The gsd-test Docker bench runs as root, root bypasses mode bits, so HOME stayed
writable and the hostile condition never existed. Replaced with a HOME whose
PARENT is a regular file, so every write under it fails ENOTDIR at the VFS
layer for every uid -- no permission check is involved at all.

Second, and more fundamental: the probe was npm --version, which on npm 11.19.0
performs zero filesystem I/O against HOME. Proven rather than assumed --
neutralizing runNpm()'s isolation turned the sibling test red while this one
stayed green, so its assertion could never detect the regression it guards, on
any uid, with or without the condition fix. npm config get cache was tried next
and proved vacuous the same way (it only string-resolves the path). The probe is
now npm cache verify, which really does mkdir _cacache under HOME.

Re-proved load-bearing after the change: with isolation neutralized the test now
fails with ENOTDIR on <blocker>/home/.npm/_cacache. tests/helpers.cjs was
restored and verified diff-clean; suite 13/13.

Refs #4641

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): correct the net drop-out figure in ADR-4641

The Consequences section still said 292 files leave real-OS Windows execution.
That was the count before the narrow shell-interpreter-spawn replacement
restored 9 and ALWAYS_REAL_OS pinned 1. Net is 282. Also names both real-binary
categories rather than only raw-child-process, and clarifies that the 14-file
filename audit was against the 292 initially dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): record the rejected concentration ceiling and its measurement

Applying Goodhart's own question to the new ceiling -- how would you make this
metric look good without improving what it represents -- surfaces a real
weakness: a ratio can be satisfied by inflating the denominator, so adding
OS-agnostic tests loosens it without narrowing the tier.

The obvious companion gate was a sole-signal concentration ceiling, since the
original defect was one detector carrying half the tier. Measured and rejected:
peak concentration post-fix is raw-child-process at 53/265 = 20.0%, against the
historic offenders at 21.6% and 19.8%. Any threshold above 20% misses the
original defect; any threshold below it fails on a legitimate category. The
discriminator is whether a signal is platform-meaningful, which no threshold
encodes. Weakness disclosed rather than covered by a gate that does not bind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#4641): add the changeset fragment for the confinement-check change

changeset-lint failed on PR #4643: the PR touches user-facing paths and carried
no fragment. The earlier no-changeset call matched #4604's CI-only precedent and
was correct then; it was not revisited once the PR grew a src/ change, which is
my miss.

The fragment describes the real user-visible improvement: the external-descriptor
write-confinement check's Windows semantics are now verified deterministically
rather than only when the suite happened to run on Windows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): correct the tier count in TESTING-SUITES.md

Said the tier narrowed from 546 to 254. The final committed list is 265 of 931
eligible (58.8% -> 28.5%) after the shell-interpreter-spawn replacement restored
9 files and ALWAYS_REAL_OS pinned 1. Same error class the spec review caught in
the ADR, in a live reference page rather than a dated record, so it states the
current truth rather than carrying an amendment note.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): record the measured aggregate from real CI job lists

Epic #4589's closeout asserted its reduction from a static count; #4641's
acceptance criterion asks for a figure read off a real run. Recorded here:
test.yml job count 21 -> 15 and non-Linux 7 -> 4, comparing PR #4640's run
against this PR's own. Against the true pre-epic baseline of 9, that is 9 -> 4.

Also states the caveat that a PR's total CHECK count is not a clean before/after
comparison, since many gates are path-scoped and this change touches a broader
path set -- the like-for-like figure is the test.yml job count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): compare job totals the same way on both sides

The measured-aggregate table put #4640's COMPLETED run total (21) against this
run's count at matrix-expansion time (15). Those are not the same measurement:
the completed total includes the post-test Coverage gate and baseline-publisher
jobs. Counted identically, it is 21 -> 17. The load-bearing figure, non-Linux
jobs 7 -> 4, was correct and is unchanged.

Called out in the table rather than silently corrected -- comparing two
differently-derived numbers is exactly the error class this ADR is about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): record measured conformance wall-clock and date the stale counterfactual

Adds the per-job durations from both runs. The honest read is that this is a
correctness win more than a speed one: file count fell 52% but wall-clock only
9-29%, because what was removed were the cheap static tests and what remains is
concentrated in expensive spawn-heavy work. Stated explicitly so nobody expects
a future narrowing to buy time proportional to file count.

The load-bearing figure is windows shard 3/3: 40m24s against a 45-minute cap on
the 547-file tier -- 90% of the cliff #869 and #3057 were both filed about --
pulled back to 31m27s. macOS moved the wrong way (17m48s -> 21m02s) while its
tier was UNCHANGED at 197 files, which fixes that as runner variance and is
noted as a caution against reading a single duration as signal.

Also dates the symlink-keyword counterfactual, which cited a 254-file tier from
before the replacement category and allowlist took it to its final 265.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(#4641): re-measure against the rebased tree and disclose the allowlist's zero

next gained #4644 mid-flight, so every absolute count shifted. Re-measured on
the tree this actually ships against (932 eligible): 548 -> 257 by detector
removal, 257 -> 266 once shell-interpreter-spawn restores 9. Net 282 removed,
9 restored. macOS 198, unchanged by this PR.

The percentages did not move across three rebases (58.8% -> 28.5%), which is
the whole argument for expressing the ceilings as ratios rather than counts --
noted in the ADR since it is now evidence rather than assertion.

Also discloses that ALWAYS_REAL_OS now contributes ZERO files: this PR's own
win32 test cases introduced the literal win32 into the pinned file, so it
classifies in on content via win32-darwin-literal. The entry stays and the
reason is written down, because the file's real-OS need is a property of the
code under test (isPathConfined reads the ambient path module), not of the
test's text -- the text that currently saves it is incidental and could be
refactored away silently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-11 17:00:11 -04:00
Tom Boucher
86452da7cb fix(#4070): reserve shard 1's aux-suite cost out of the LPT unit-test packer (#4072)
* test(#4070): failing-first regression for shard1 aux-suite budget imbalance

- selectShard has no way to reserve virtual weight on a bin, so the LPT
  unit-test packer cannot account for shard 1's fixed aux-suite cost
  (integration/security/install/slow all pinned to shard 1/3).
- test.yml wires no such reserve into the workflow.
- ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs's LANE_COSTS entry for job `test`
  was stale (7m12s from run 30677442953, predating the aux-suite growth);
  corrected to the real evidence cited in #4070 (13m48s / cancelled at
  ~14m51s), which now honestly fails the file's own 1.5x headroom policy
  against the current 15-minute cap.

All three are expected RED on this commit; see
.gsd/bug/fix-4070-shard1-aux-suite-budget/50-test-matrix.md.

* fix(#4070): reserve shard 1's aux-suite cost out of the LPT unit-test packer

selectShard now accepts an optional initialWeights array giving one or more
bins a virtual head start before any file is placed, so LPT converges each
bin's FINAL total (assigned weight + head start) toward equal instead of
raw assigned weight alone. test.yml wires RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE=1:77 into
the full-scope unit-test step (gated on matrix.scope == 'full', so the
unrelated windows lane is unaffected) -- 77 weight units is the empirical
conversion of the aux suites' ~220s measured fixed cost, derived against
the real tests/test-timings.json (see the diagnosis artifact for the full
computation).

Also corrects two pieces of now-stale bookkeeping this issue exposed:
- ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs's LANE_COSTS entry for job `test`
  carried a 7m12s figure that predated the aux-suite growth; corrected to
  the real pre-fix evidence (13m48s / cancelled at ~14m51s, issue #4070),
  which requires raising timeout-minutes from 15 to 21 (1.5x headroom over
  the real worst-case measurement) to satisfy the file's own policy.
- test.yml's job-header and matrix comments, which still claimed the aux
  suites cost "~1m35s combined" (they now measure ~216-224s).

Closes the gap the previous commit's failing-first tests proved: selectShard
had no reserve-capacity mechanism and test.yml wired none in.

* fix(#4070): correct the reserved-weight property bound; cover main()'s reserve bounds check

Isolated code review found a genuine gap and gsd-test's real run confirmed a real
test bug it exposed:

- The fast-check property "no shard exceeds average(+reserve) + heaviest file" was
  falsified by gsd-test itself (weights=[1,1,1], total=2, reserve=6 on bin 0):
  selectShard is correct, the BOUND was wrong. A reserve large enough that its bin
  never receives a real item stays at exactly that reserve forever -- no amount of
  routing real items elsewhere can dilute a fixed head start below itself -- so the
  true bound is max(reserve, the classic Graham term), not the Graham term alone.
  Verified the corrected bound against the exact counterexample plus 20,000
  additional random trials (zero violations) before re-running gsd-test.

- Isolated review (MAJOR): the shard-total bounds check on RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE
  and its console.error fallback in main() were untested end-to-end --
  parseShardReserve itself has no concept of the shard total, so only main()
  enforces that guard, and nothing exercised it through the subprocess seam. Added
  an E2E harness test that sets RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE to an out-of-range index
  via the real CLI, asserts the fallback warning fires, AND asserts the resulting
  file selection is byte-identical to a no-reserve control run against the same
  injected timings table -- proving the reserve was actually ignored, not just
  that a warning printed.

* chore(#4070): backfill changeset PR number

pr:0 -> pr:4072

* fix(#4070): strip leaked RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE from the harness test's child env

Real GH Actions CI on this PR (run 33288554040, ubuntu shard 2/3) failed 7
tests in the shard-partitioning describe block, all with the same symptom:
`run-tests: no tests in suite "all"` where a real file count was expected.
gsd-test's own dockerized bench run never showed this, and ubuntu shards 1/3
and 3/3 (which run the same test.yml step) passed clean -- the discrepancy is
the tell: only shard 2/3 happened to schedule this specific test FILE for
that run, and the outer CI job's own environment is where the leak lives.

Root cause: test.yml's "Run unit tests" step now sets
RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE=1:77 (this issue's own reserve mechanism) on the
OUTER job that runs `npm run test:coverage:unit:raw -- --shard N`. The
harness test file's runHarness() helper spawns run-tests.cjs as a CHILD of
that same job via `{...process.env, ...extraEnv}`, so every pre-existing
--shard test in this describe block silently inherited the ambient reserve
-- even though none of them know it exists. A reserve of 77 weight units
utterly dwarfs the ~0.3 total weight of the 9-file synthetic fixtures these
tests use (none are in the real timings table, so all fall back to the same
tiny median weight), so shard index 1 is routed zero files every time --
exactly the observed "no tests" failures, and exactly the skewed 5/4 split
observed on the shard-2 test that expected a plain 3/3/3 round-robin.

Reproduced locally end to end (set RUN_TESTS_SHARD_RESERVE=1:77, spawn the
old runHarness against a synthetic 9-file fixture, --shard 1/3 -- reproduces
the exact "no tests in suite \"all\"" stderr) and confirmed the fix (env
stripped unless a test opts in via extraEnv, as the #4070 E2E bounds-check
test already does) resolves it, before re-running gsd-test.

This is a genuine bug this PR introduced -- a new ambient env var that a
pre-existing subprocess-spawning test helper didn't know to isolate against
-- not a pre-existing flake and not resource contention.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-30 00:43:02 -04:00
sim
5039d49924 ci(#3057): shard the scoped Windows lane, the last unsharded one
The scoped Windows lane reached exactly 15m05s and was cancelled on four
consecutive shas of PR #3094. A job that exceeds timeout-minutes reports as
CANCELLED rather than FAILURE, which is why it first read as infrastructure
noise; the giveaway is that the duration equals the cap. The Required tests
rollup fans that job in, so it red-blocked merge while every other lane —
including all three sharded full-Windows shards — was green.

The trigger was a change to the shared test helper, which scopes the
install-heavy suites into the selected list. The lane normally runs about eight
minutes; with that list it does not fit. It was the only unsharded lane left in
this job, so it was the only one without headroom to absorb a large scoped
list.

Issue #869 hit this exact cliff on the sibling lane and named the durable answer
in its own follow-up: a timeout bump moves the cliff, sharding removes it.
#2952 then sharded the full lane. This finishes that work.

The runner already supports it — the shard partition is applied after scope
selection, so it composes with a selected file list rather than only with a
suite, and the partition is cost-weighted from the measured timings table. The
job name template already renders a shard suffix when one is present, so the
three entries name themselves. No individual matrix job is a required status
check; the rollup is, and it is name-independent, so renaming these jobs does
not touch branch protection.

timeout-minutes stays at 15. Each shard now does roughly a third of the work,
so the cap goes from binding to backstop without being raised.

The lane-shape tests were generalized rather than relaxed: the complete-shard-set
invariant now runs per sharded scope instead of only over the full lane, and
"only the full lane is sharded" became "targeted is the only unsharded lane". A
new assertion pins the shard through to the runner — without it the three shards
would each run the entire selected list, triple the cost and no speedup, and
every check would stay green.

No LANE_COSTS entry is added for the new shards. The only recorded cost for that
lane is the pre-sharding run that hit the cap, and inventing a post-sharding
number would be exactly the kind of unmeasured claim the rest of that table
avoids. The estimate and the reason are written down instead, to be replaced by
a real measurement.

Refs #3057

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 23:22:59 -04:00
Tom Boucher
f6257f3745 ci(#2952): shard the full test lane instead of widening its cap (#2960)
* ci(#2952): budget CI job timeouts by headroom over measured cost

`origin/next` was red. The only failing check was `Required tests`, and its
sole cause was `test (ubuntu-latest, 24)` reported `cancelled` — GitHub's
conclusion for a job that exceeds its `timeout-minutes`, not a button press.

That job's `ubuntu-latest / 24` entry is the only `scope: full` matrix entry:
it runs the whole unit suite under c8 coverage, then the scripts/ coverage
floor, integration, security, install and slow, serially on one runner. On
next@5a0a9f097 it ran 15m16s against `timeout-minutes: 15` and was axed 23s
into `npm run test:slow`. Projected to a completed slow step (27s on the last
green run) the lane costs ~15m20s.

Confirmed hypothesis: the budget, not the suite. The lane had been riding the
ceiling all day — 12m03s, 11m34s, 11m50s, 14m25s, 14m51s — and crossed on
three of the last four full-lane runs (d2d2f7c08, 07603df8f, 5a0a9f097). There
is no pathological test: the unit run is cost-first bin-packed into 12 chunks,
chunk 1 is gated by run-tests-harness.test.cjs at 169s (expensive by design —
it spawns real harness subprocesses, one of which exercises the per-chunk
timeout), and the remaining chunks are 32-94s. 769s is the honest cost of 689
files under c8. Re-running could not have helped; the work exceeded the budget.

Review of the first cut surfaced the same defect one runner away: `full test
(windows-latest, 22, shard 3/3)` reached 18m59s against its own 20-minute cap
on 05b170e44 (94%) and 18m14s on 81eeb8a53 (91%). That lane has already blown
its cap twice (#1051, #1212). Fixed here rather than deferred.

The first cut also asserted `test >= test-full`, which is unsound — those two
budgets are dominated by different platforms, so their ordering carries no
meaning. Replaced with the invariant that actually generalises: every lane is
held to a headroom FACTOR over its own measured cost. `test` 15 -> 25 (1.5x of
16m), `test-full` 20 -> 30 (1.5x of 19m), `test-inert` unchanged at 15.

tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs locks that rule. No unit test can
prove a lane still FITS its budget — only a real run measures that — but a
budget can no longer be lowered back beneath what its lane is known to need,
and a lane that gets slower must be re-measured rather than excused.

Separately: the earlier `failure` at 05b170e44 was an unrelated, already-fixed
CONTEXT-INDEX.json drift (07603df8f re-synced it; lint-tests is green at HEAD).
07603df8f's own run hit this same timeout, which is why it never reported green.

Refs #869, #1051, #1212

* ci(#2952): shard the full test lane instead of widening its cap

The `scope: full` lane was the only unsharded lane in this file. It ran the
entire unit suite under c8 on one runner, grew past a 15-minute cap, and
reddened `next`. Raising the cap bought room; it did not change the shape, and
the same lane would have walked back into the ceiling. Shard it, the way #1212
answered this for the Windows lane.

Balance comes from measurement, not file counts. scripts/run-tests.cjs already
partitions by measured per-file duration using LPT (#2472); the table it reads
was 10 days stale — 638 of 695 files timed, 64 missing, including the whole
context-predicates group. Regenerated from a verified matrix run: 700 files, 0
missing. On that table the 685-file unit suite splits 19.37m / 19.37m / 19.37m
— 0.0% spread — and the split is a total, disjoint cover with 0 files dropped.
Completeness, disjointness, balance and determinism of the partition itself are
already pinned against selectShard in run-tests-harness.test.cjs, including a
fast-check property, so this change does not restate them.

Sharding a COVERAGE run is the part that needs care. A per-shard percentage is
meaningless — shard 2 never executes shard 1's files, so those read 0% — and
leaving the gate on the shards would have quietly measured a third of the tree.
Each shard now renders no report and only leaves raw V8 dumps; a new
`coverage-gate` job merges all three into one coverage/tmp and runs the gate
there. c8's default temp directory is where the download lands, so the ≥70%
lines / ≥60% branches gate and the ≥55% scripts floor run unmodified against
merged data.

Both surfaces call the same npm scripts rather than inlining c8 into YAML, so
the include/exclude globs and both thresholds stay defined once in package.json.
The workflow holding its own copy is the divergence this repo has a rule
against, and the new test cross-checks package.json so an inline reintroduction
fails rather than drifts.

tests/ci-full-lane-sharding.test.cjs covers the two ways this stays GREEN while
being wrong: an incomplete shard set (declare 1/3 and 2/3, never 3/3, and a
third of the suite silently stops running) and a coverage gate that stops being
required. required-tests now depends on coverage-gate and fails on it, while
still tolerating `skipped` so docs-only PRs are not blocked.

`timeout-minutes: 25` on the lane is deliberately left alone. The budget test
requires a real measurement before a lane's declared cost changes, and the
sharded cost is not measured until this PR's own CI run.

Refs #1212, #2472

* ci(#2952): tighten the sharded lane's budget to its measured cost

The sharding commit deliberately left `timeout-minutes: 25` alone, because
tests/ci-test-job-timeout-budget.test.cjs requires a real measurement before a
lane's declared cost changes and the sharded cost did not exist yet.

It exists now. Run 30677442953: shard 1/3 7m12s, 2/3 4m32s, 3/3 3m59s, and
coverage-gate 1m20s. Shard 1 is the long pole because the unsharded aux suites
ride along on it, which is deliberate — they total ~1m35s and sharding them
would cost more than it saves.

So the lane's budget is 15 against a slowest measured shard of 8 minutes
(~1.9x), and coverage-gate joins LANE_COSTS at 2 minutes. 15 is the same number
the lane blew before sharding; the work behind it is now a third the size.

Merged coverage was checked against the pre-shard single-runner baseline rather
than assumed from a green check: 94.36 stmts / 96.3 funcs / 94.36 lines
identical, branches 84.22 vs 84.21 — one branch across two different trees,
noise rather than a regression.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-07-31 22:16:26 -04:00