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Tom Boucher
3fac6e629f test(#3145): bound the installer/runtime cluster onto the process seam (#3176)
* test(#3145): bound the installer/runtime cluster onto the process seam

Migrates 156 unbounded sync spawn sites across 47 files. Allowlist 120 to 73.

Timeouts are sized from evidence already in the tree rather than a house
default, because this wave spawns installers rather than git plumbing and an
undersized bound does not catch a hang -- it manufactures CI flake, which is
worse, since a flake gets re-run instead of investigated. install.test.cjs
records a real spawnSync ETIMEDOUT at a 60000ms cap on a loaded bench while
another lane passed the same commit in 12.7s, so full installs are bound at
120000ms against that recorded incident.

Also adds an auditable escape to the guard's timeout ceiling. The 600000ms
cap was set in #3143 from partial evidence, but fragment-single-edit-
propagation carries a documented, load-tested 900000ms bound on a run that
chains a full build plus eight generators -- the guard would have rejected a
correct timeout the moment that file left the allowlist. A value above the
ceiling is now permitted only with an inline allow-spawn-timeout-ceiling
marker carrying a non-empty reason. It raises the ceiling; it never waives
the requirement for a bound, which is asserted directly.

install-shared.cjs keeps its hand-rolled assert rather than routing through
throwIfFailed: its message embeds both streams, and throwIfFailed carries
only a trimmed stderr. The message now also names the outcome, so a bounded
timeout reads as such across its 38 importers instead of as
expected null to equal 0.

* test(#3145): extract class-norm timeouts and correct the build-hooks sizing

A pre-PR review found 52 copies of four class-norm timeout constants across
this wave. These are not per-suite fixture bindings -- they are shared facts
about how long a class of subprocess takes, derived from a recorded bench
incident. That norm already moved once (60000 to 120000 after a real
ETIMEDOUT), and 52 copies would have drifted the next time it moved.

Extracts tests/helpers/timeouts.cjs, where each norm is justified once, and
converts the copies. A site that genuinely differs -- a real tsc compile, or
regen:derived -- keeps its own local constant with its own justification.

Also corrects a misclassification: scripts/build-hooks.js was sized as a
build at 120000 in twelve places and 60000 in another, but it compiles and
bundles nothing. Its own header says no bundling needed; it copies pre-built
files and syntax-checks them with vm. Three different values bounded one
script; now there is one.

* test(#3145): fix red CI — lint self-match and a Windows chunk overrun

Two failures on PR 3176.

lint-allow-test-rule-refs read a RuleTester fixture as a real exemption. The
fixture exists to prove an unrelated marker does NOT suppress the rule, so it
carries that marker's literal text as test data. Split via concatenation, the
same idiom no-unbounded-spawn-allowlist.test.cjs already uses for its own
self-match problem. The explanatory comment needed the same treatment.

The Windows shard 3/3 chunk was killed at its 600000ms budget. Output stopped
seven minutes before the kill, so this was an overrun rather than a slow
chunk: regenDerivedPropagatesSingleFragmentEditWithNoSecondSourceSurface runs
regen:derived bounded at 900000ms, which is larger than the whole chunk
budget, so the chunk killer always fires first and it can never complete
there. Both the test and that bound predate this change; modifying the file
pulled it into the Windows targeted set and exposed it. Skipped on Windows
with the reason recorded; the Linux lanes cover it. The 900000 bound and its
ceiling marker are unchanged -- they are correct.

* test(#3145): refresh the stale test-timings cost table

The Windows shard was killed at its 600000ms per-chunk budget. run-tests.cjs
packs chunks by measured duration from tests/test-timings.json, and an
unknown file falls back to the table's median weight -- advisory by design,
but it silently underweights exactly the files that matter.

Four of the failing chunk's 22 files were absent from the table, including
the two heaviest: fragment-single-edit-propagation.install.test.cjs at 230s
(it runs regen:derived) and agent-fragments-emission.install.test.cjs at 79s.
Both were weighted as average, so the chunk's total weight read 53.68 against
a budget of 60 and the packer produced a single chunk.

Regenerated from a passing full-suite run, per the remedy the script itself
documents. 700 to 770 entries, 70 added, 0 dropped -- verified, since
gen-test-timings.cjs replaces the table wholesale rather than merging.

Proven against the real packer: the same 22 files now weigh 103.91 and split
into two chunks. No logic, budget, or timeout was changed; raising a budget
to make a red gate pass is not a fix.

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
2026-08-07 15:18:18 -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
Tom Boucher
c5e0371775 feat(#1951): reversibility tagging — gate one-way-door decisions (#2471)
* test(#1951): add failing-first tests for reversibility tagging

Red phase for issue #1951 (reversibility tagging: classify decisions by
undo cost, gate one-way doors behind a checkpoint:decision).

Tests assert, per the issue's acceptance criteria:
- discuss-phase CONTEXT.md template records a **Reversibility:** field with
  a rationale on captured decisions, and states it is optional
- gsd-planner @-references planner-reversibility.md and stays under the
  49152-char agent cap (LARGE_CAP, tests/agent-size-budget.test.cjs)
- a one-way rating inserts a checkpoint:decision before the dependent task;
  reversible inserts none; costly is flagged but never blocks
- the taxonomy defaults to reversible when unsure (checkpoint-fatigue guard)
  and inserting a checkpoint implies autonomous: false
- docs/reference/plan-md.md documents <reversibility> as optional with all
  three ratings
- --no-reversibility-gates parses to REVERSIBILITY_GATES=false, is injected
  into the planner prompt, and is advertised in the command argument-hint
  and help full mode (argument-hint parity)
- the override suppresses the gate but still persists the rating
- cmdVerifyPlanStructure accepts every rating and the absent case
  (additive-validator guarantee, behavioral via runGsdTools)
- parity: thinking-models-planning.md #4 adopts the canonical three-level
  taxonomy and the binary REVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE vocabulary is gone
- no content loss from the planner extraction made to fit under the cap

Prose-contract assertions are Red until the implementation lands. The
behavioral validator assertions pass immediately — regression guards
proving the validator already accepts unknown optional tags.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(#1951): reversibility tagging — gate one-way-door decisions

Classify planning decisions by what undoing them would cost, and give a
one-way door a human beat before the agent walks through it (issue #1951,
The Pragmatic Programmer Topic 15 'Reversibility'; Bezos's one-way/two-way
door framing).

Acceptance criteria met:
- discuss-phase records an optional reversibility rating with a rationale
  on <decisions> entries in the phase CONTEXT.md template. Unrated
  decisions are treated as reversible, so existing phases are unaffected.
- a one-way rating makes gsd-planner insert a checkpoint:decision before
  the task that implements the decision, reusing the existing checkpoint
  mechanism -- no new checkpoint machinery.
- reversible ratings trigger no checkpoint; costly ratings are flagged in
  the plan but never block.
- the rating persists on the task as the optional <reversibility rating=>
  element. cmdVerifyPlanStructure accepts every rating and the absent
  case; the structural validator does not reject unknown optional tags.
- --no-reversibility-gates (REVERSIBILITY_GATES=false) suppresses
  checkpoint insertion for intentionally-unattended runs while still
  recording ratings -- the override changes what stops the run, not what
  the plan remembers.

Single taxonomy, not two: references/thinking-models-planning.md #4
already shipped a binary REVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE classification and is
loaded by both gsd-planner and gsd-plan-checker. It is rewritten onto the
canonical three-level vocabulary and now points at planner-reversibility.md
as the taxonomy owner, with a parity test that fails if the surfaces
diverge (DEFECT.GENERATIVE-FIX-DIVERGENCE).

agents/gsd-planner.md sat 47 chars under the 49152 LARGE_CAP, so the
checkpoint DO/DON'T guidance was relocated verbatim into
planner-antipatterns.md -- already @-referenced from the same section for
the same topic, so the planner still loads it and nothing was dropped. A
test guards the relocation against content loss.

Files: gsd-core/references/planner-reversibility.md (NEW, canonical
taxonomy + emission rules + anti-patterns), gsd-planner.md, plan-phase
workflow/command/help (flag wiring + parity), plan-md.md schema,
discuss-phase context template, CONTEXT.md glossary, INVENTORY + manifest,
size baselines, install goldens, plugin skills regen, changeset.

Closes #1951

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#1951): address orthogonal review findings

Two isolated reviewers (correctness + security), neither of which authored
the change. Every finding fixed:

Security — the rationale is untrusted input (ADR-1577). It originates in
conversation and flows CONTEXT.md -> planner -> PLAN.md -> executor, each
hop an LLM reading the previous hop's output, with no validation on the
path. planner-reversibility.md and the discuss-phase template now state
it is data and never instructions, and name the </reversibility>
early-termination hazard explicitly -- a rationale that closes its own
element injects sibling structure the executor reads as real tasks.
Four tests guard it.

Correctness 1 — nothing machine-enforced the feature's own promise: a task
rated one-way with no preceding checkpoint:decision validated as fully
clean, so a planner error silently reopened the gap this feature exists to
close. cmdVerifyPlanStructure now warns on an ungated one-way rating. A
warning, not an error: <reversibility> stays additive and the plan stays
valid. Four tests cover ungated (warns), gated (silent), still-valid, and
reversible/costly never flagged.

Correctness 2 — pass-always test. The --no-reversibility-gates parse test
substring-matched the whole workflow file, and plan-phase.md prose mentions
both tokens in one sentence, so it passed with the bash conditional
deleted: it was testing the documentation, not the parser. Now scoped to
the fenced bash blocks and matched as one physical line, with a negative
control confirming prose alone cannot satisfy it.

Correctness 3 — costly had no itemized emission rule, only one-way did, so
two agents could diverge on whether to tag costly at all.

Correctness 4 — template convention break: the example ratings were bare
while every sibling field uses [...] to signal substitution, inviting an
LLM to copy one-way/costly forward as boilerplate. Now bracketed.

Correctness 5 — latent false-green: .includes('reversible') also matches
inside irreversible/irreversibility, which appear in anti-pattern
prose, so a surface that dropped the real taxonomy entry would still pass.
Now word-boundary matched.

ADR-857 phase-6 ceiling — the first gsd-test run caught plan-phase.md
1216 bytes over its frozen 94519 ceiling (it had 49 bytes of headroom on
next). The ceiling may only rise for privileged host machinery, and
reversibility gating is optional-feature logic, so the wiring was slimmed
to its minimum and the explanatory prose moved to the reference files the
planner already loads. plan-phase.md is now 94400 bytes -- 119 under the
ceiling and 70 bytes SMALLER than on next, so the host loop shrank while
gaining the feature, which is what phase 6 ratchets toward. The tracer
contract (tests/tracer-bullet.test.cjs) is unchanged.

Lint — fixed an unnecessary non-null assertion in verify.cts and a
CRLF-fragile bare \n regex in the new test (DEFECT.WINDOWS-CRLF-TEST-
PORTABILITY, the #1658/#1668/#2206/#2449/#2450 class).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): checkpoint fixture must carry the common task elements

The gated-one-way fixture built a checkpoint:decision task from the
abbreviated skeleton in gsd-planner.md, which shows only the
checkpoint-specific elements (<decision>/<context>/<resume-signal>).
cmdVerifyPlanStructure requires <name> and <action> on EVERY task
regardless of type, so the fixture failed validation for reasons that had
nothing to do with reversibility:

  errors: ["Task missing <name> element", "Task 'unnamed' missing <action>"]

Caught by gsd-test on 14d14a39 (2 failures, both this fixture).

The canonical shape is in tests/verify.test.cjs:266 — a checkpoint task
carries <name>/<files>/<action>/<verify> like any other. Fixture corrected
to match. Verified behaviorally against the real gsd-tools CLI across all
four cases: gated one-way (valid, silent), ungated one-way (valid, warns),
costly (valid, silent), absent (valid, silent).

Not a product defect: the validator's every-task contract is intentional
and pre-existing, and docs/reference/plan-md.md scopes its required-element
list to type=auto/tracer only because those are the elements a planner must
author, not because checkpoints are exempt from <name>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#1951): backfill changeset pr number to 2471

* fix(#1951): CodeQL incomplete-sanitization + prompt-injection scan collision

Both CI failures were real defects in code this PR added, not false
positives.

CodeQL js/incomplete-sanitization (high), reversibility-tagging.test.cjs:46 —
the namesRating helper built its regex with `rating.replace(/[-]/g, '\\-')`,
which escapes the hyphen but not backslash, so the escape was incomplete.
It was also unnecessary: `-` carries no special meaning outside a character
class. Replaced with a complete metacharacter escape (backslash included).
Word-boundary behavior verified unchanged across all three ratings — notably
that "irreversible" prose still does not satisfy a "reversible" match, which
is the false-green this helper exists to prevent.

Prompt injection scan — the checkpoint fixture used the human-verification
child element inside <verify>. That tag name is a fake-instruction-boundary
pattern in scripts/prompt-injection-scan.sh, and the scan runs over changed
files, so copying the shape from tests/verify.test.cjs (unflagged only
because it is not in this diff) tripped the gate. Switched to the documented
plain-prose <verify> form.

The first attempt at that fix failed the same gate a second time: the
comment explaining the collision quoted the offending tag literally. The
comment now names it in prose instead — the scanner does not care whether a
match is code or commentary, which is the whole point of the
DEFECT.PROMPT-INJECTION-SCAN-COLLISION note in CLAUDE.md.

Verified locally before push: scan reports 0 findings across 57 changed
files, eslint clean, and both fixtures still validate as designed (gated
one-way silent, ungated one-way warns, neither errors).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): record measured cost and halve gsd-tools spawns

The Windows shard 1/3 job timeout was traced to the sharding layer, not to
this PR's assertions — see #2472. Two contributing factors were this file's
own, and are fixed here.

1. tests/test-timings.json had no entry for reversibility-tagging.test.cjs,
   so scripts/run-tests.cjs weighted it at the table's median fallback
   (~315ms) for LPT chunk packing. It actually measures 5595ms — an 18x
   under-weight. Recorded the measured value from the green gsd-test run
   (max across the node22/node24 lanes, per gen-test-timings.cjs's
   convention). Only this one entry: a full regen churns 634 entries of
   run-to-run drift, and the table is explicitly advisory and un-gated, so
   a 637-line diff does not belong in a feature PR.

2. Each verifyPlan() spawns gsd-tools, which dominates this file's cost.
   Spawns cut from 9 to 6 with no coverage lost:
   - the ungated-one-way warning and its stays-valid assertion now share
     one plan instead of building the same plan twice;
   - the reversible/costly never-flagged-as-ungated test was strictly
     subsumed by the additive suite, which already runs those two ratings
     ungated and asserts no /reversibilit/ warning at all — and the gate
     warning's text contains both "reversibility" and "one-way", so the
     broader assertion catches it. It only re-spawned gsd-tools twice to
     prove the same thing.

Both are symptom fixes. The shard imbalance itself (19/11/10 minutes
against a 20-minute cap, from a cost-blind round-robin partition that also
reshuffles downstream files whenever one is inserted) is tracked in #2472.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(#1951): checkpoint fixture adopts the #2444 type-branched contract

Surfaced by rebasing onto next, which gained #2444 (branch plan-structure
validation on task type=checkpoint:*) while this PR was in review.

cmdVerifyPlanStructure no longer applies one required-element set to every
task. A checkpoint:decision now requires <name> + <resume-signal> +
<decision> + <options>, and is exempt from the <action>/<verify>/<done>/
<files> set that auto and tracer tasks carry. The gated-one-way fixture
predated that split and failed on the new requirement:

  errors: ["Task 'Task 0: Confirm the on-disk format' missing <options>"]

Fixture rewritten to mirror the checkpoint:decision contract exactly — real
<options> with two <option> children — rather than padding it with fields
checkpoints no longer need. That also drops the plain-prose <verify> the
earlier revision carried purely to dodge the prompt-injection scan; a
checkpoint task has no <verify> requirement at all, so the workaround is
moot.

Verified against the real gsd-tools CLI across all four cases: gated one-way
(valid, silent), ungated one-way (valid, warns), costly (valid, silent),
absent (valid, silent).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 10:44:55 -04:00
Tom Boucher
953b8043ea fix(#2456): weight test chunks by measured cost and pack with LPT (#2463)
* fix(#2456): weight test chunks by measured cost and pack with LPT

scripts/run-tests.cjs guessed each test file's cost from its filename
(basename matching /^(?:install|codex-)/ scored 12, everything else 1).
Measured durations show that guess is wrong in both directions:
installer-migration-authoring.test.cjs scored 12 while running ~0.1s, and
the two most expensive files in the suite both scored 1 —
run-tests-harness.test.cjs never matched the prefix, and
release-tarball-smoke.install.test.cjs was missed because the regex is
anchored to the START of the basename.

Chunks were therefore balanced by file COUNT, not cost. On the real
shard 2/3 the two heaviest files packed into the SAME chunk, leaving the
slowest chunk 2.8x the lightest and sitting near the 600s per-chunk
timeout while other chunks idled.

Weight each file by its measured duration from a checked-in, regenerable
timings table and pack with LPT (heaviest first, into the lightest
chunk). On the same shard this drops the slowest chunk from 383s to 238s
and the imbalance from 2.79x to 1.00x, and separates the two heavy files.

Timings are advisory, never gated: an unknown file falls back to the
table's median weight, a missing or corrupt table falls back to uniform
weight, and a count-based floor guarantees the packer never produces
fewer chunks than plain count-based packing would.

Closes #2456

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2456): harden chunk packing against degenerate knobs and table keys

Follow-up hardening found while reviewing the packer, fixed inline.

The chunk knobs are read from the environment with Number(), so a typo
(RUN_TESTS_MAX_FILES_PER_CHUNK=abc) yields NaN and an explicit 0 yields
0. Both flow into the new chunk-count arithmetic: NaN made Math.ceil
return NaN, Array.from({length: NaN}) produce zero bins, and packChunks'
retry loop spin forever — a hung CI job with no output. Zero made the
count Infinity and threw RangeError: Invalid array length. The previous
count-based packer degraded to a single chunk instead, so this was a
regression introduced by the LPT rewrite.

Normalize the knobs at the environment boundary (positiveNumberEnv:
anything not a positive finite number falls back to the default) and
guard packChunks itself, since it is exported and cannot assume its
caller normalized. Non-finite weights from an arbitrary weightOf are
clamped too. RUN_TESTS_CHUNK_TIMEOUT_MS gets the same treatment.

Also resolve timing-table lookups with Object.hasOwn: the table is
JSON-parsed, so a bare index would walk the prototype chain and return a
function for a file named constructor.test.cjs or toString.test.cjs.
The typeof guard already rejected that, but the lookup now resolves
correctly rather than relying on the downstream check.

Refs #2456

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2456): correct prototype-lookup rationale and guard generator keys

Two findings from independent security review, fixed inline.

The makeFileWeigher comment claimed a bare table lookup "would return a
FUNCTION for a file named constructor.test.cjs". That premise is false:
basename('constructor.test.cjs') is 'constructor.test.cjs', which is not
an Object.prototype key, and walkTestFiles only ever collects *.test.cjs.
The prototype chain was never reachable from a real selection, and the
existing typeof guard already rejected the function it would return, so
Object.hasOwn is defense-in-depth rather than a behavior change. The
comment now says that instead of asserting something untrue.

The accompanying test inherited the same false premise: it fed
constructor.test.cjs and asserted a median fallback that would have held
with or without the guard, so it passed for a reason unrelated to what
it claimed to prove. It now uses BARE keys (constructor, toString,
valueOf, hasOwnProperty, __proto__) — the only inputs that actually
resolve on Object.prototype — and asserts the real exported contract:
any key absent from the table weighs the median, never a function.

gen-test-timings.cjs built its output object by computed-key assignment
from basenames taken out of a reporter stream it does not control — the
js/prototype-polluting-assignment shape, and this repo has a CodeQL
barrier for exactly that pattern. It was not exploitable (the value is
always a rounded number, so the __proto__ setter is a silent no-op), but
it silently DROPPED such an entry rather than reporting it. Validate every
key against a test-basename pattern and fail loudly instead, and build
the table with a null prototype.

Refs #2456

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#2456): replace tautological chunking tests and clamp chunk count

Six findings from independent correctness review, all reproduced and
fixed inline.

The two subprocess tests written to carry the #2088 guarantee forward
were tautological: every seeded file weighed exactly 1, so both passed
under the OLD prefix-heuristic packer and with the timings file deleted
entirely. Neither could fail for the reason it existed. Both are rebuilt
so the old algorithm produces a different packing and the assertion goes
red: the spread test now uses three expensive files named so the old
heuristic scored them 1 alongside three trivial `install-`-prefixed
files it scored 12 — inverted from real cost, giving {2,2,1,1} under the
old packer versus {2,2,2} under measured weights. The companion test
covers the other direction: four trivial `install-` files the old
heuristic split into four single-file chunks now stay in one.

packChunks clamped the chunk count from below but not above, so a
legitimate but tiny budget (RUN_TESTS_MAX_FILES_PER_CHUNK=1e-9, which
positiveNumberEnv accepts) asked for 637,000,000,000 bins and threw
RangeError. More chunks than files is never useful; the count now clamps
at one file per chunk.

The generator's basename-collision guard compared full dirnames, so two
OS lanes reporting the same file under different container roots
(/work/tests vs C:/work/tests) flagged every shared basename as a
collision — on the script's own documented multi-lane usage. Detection is
now scoped per stream, where the root is constant; a genuine same-lane
collision is still caught.

Also: the LPT tie-break compared raw paths, so a path separator (0x2F vs
0x5C) could order a subdir file differently per platform, contradicting
the documented byte-identical guarantee — it now normalizes separators.
loadTestTimings now honors schema_version instead of writing it and
never reading it, falling back to uniform weight on an unknown version.
A comment claiming an all-uniform suite "chunks exactly as it did
before" was false and contradicted by this PR's own test: the chunk
count is preserved, the composition is not. And the missing-table test
created a temp dir it never cleaned up, for a path that only needed to
not exist.

Refs #2456

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-07-20 16:51:35 -04:00