The Gemini, Claude, and Codex reviewer blocks invoked the CLIs with no explicit
timeout, so each inherited the host default (~2 min on Claude Code). A source-
grounded review of a large plan set takes ~570s (Codex xhigh) / ~525s (headless
Claude) — both exceed that window, so the lane 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.
Add a shared timeout-guidance note directing a high Bash timeout (>= 900000;
1200000 for Codex xhigh / headless Claude), referencing BASH_MAX_TIMEOUT_MS for
the Claude Code host cap, and framing a slow-lane empty output as a timeout kill
(not the 0xc0000142 crash it gets misdiagnosed as) so operators re-run with more
time instead of diagnosing a CLI failure.
Closes#2194
Recaptures the 18 golden-install-parity fixtures + workflow-size baseline (only
the review.md entry changed in each; review is LARGE-tier, 47168 < 61440).
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