fix(admission): narrow a mint's scan, and ban slow tests in the runner - #901
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a Rego gate for nextest slow-timeout declarations. The gate validates the default kill threshold and filed override waivers. It rejects missing, unreadable, or excessive bounds. The committed nextest and shell-test timeouts are updated. Admission anchor selection now scans only bundles that publish the requested predicate. Integration tests cover both changes. Prune measurements and basis counts are refreshed. Priority: ➖ Normal — Impact reflects medium issue severity. Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new timeout policy can still be bypassed by certain per-test overrides, allowing tests to run until the overall CI job timeout rather than a bounded per-test timeout. Resolve the override validation gaps before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Line 94: Restrict the terminating declaration scan in the policy rule to
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Bind each override to its own CLOUD issue.
filed(i) accepts any CLOUD- text in the previous 30 lines. One citation can therefore file multiple nearby overrides. A CLOUD- token in a filter value can also file an override.
Restrict the search to the override's associated comment block. Extract the cited issue identifier. Reject an identifier that another override already uses. Add fixtures for two overrides sharing one issue and for a non-comment CLOUD- token.
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In `@policy/nextest-slow.rego` at line 166, Update the override validation around
filed(i) so each override searches only its associated comment block, extracts
its cited CLOUD issue identifier, and rejects identifiers already assigned to
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… predicate `admission_anchor` re-runs the rule a refusal named so it can recover that finding's fingerprint. `--rule` carries a PREDICATE id, so filtering on `declared.id == rule` selected nothing and the mint silently bound the head (CLOUD-1087, CLOUD-1125). Widening an empty exact match to every `policy` row fixed that and cost 2m22.121s per mint, measured on main at 6eb08e1 against 0.123s for a full adjudication of the same tree. "Widens to those rows and no further" bounds which KIND of row, and that is not the same as which ROW. `protected-mutation` is an engine-side rule name with zero hits under policy/, so no bundle could ever publish it — yet 58 modules were evaluated over the whole tree to build findings the next line discards. One test case paying it was 24% of the entire suite. `policy::publishers_of` asks each bundle its own published set, which is the same authority `attribute` resolves a violation's id against and the one `lint.rs` already reads for waiver-names-no-rule (CLOUD-1553). Where nothing publishes the predicate there is nothing to scan for, so the scan is skipped entirely rather than run and thrown away. Silent, deliberately: reporting the rule as unknown would decide CLOUD-1551's open question by accident. Measured here: loading and compiling every bundle is 2.4s against the 2m22s full run, so the expense was always tree acquisition and evaluation — which is exactly what this skips. The load is also the same work `run_over` does internally, so no module is compiled that would not have been. Not a revert. CLOUD-1087/CLOUD-1125's property is preserved by construction: a predicate a bundle DOES publish still selects that bundle's row and still anchors on its finding. The narrowing is extracted as a pure function rather than written inline because `admission_anchor` reads stdin and is reachable only through `override request`. Its tier's last case is not a fixture: it loads the REAL committed bundles and refuses any module publishing `protected-mutation`, with the filed-here/filed-over-own-diff pair asserted first so a repository whose bundles failed to load cannot pass it vacuously. Refs: CLOUD-1571
…nature takes `resolve::resolve` takes `&Overrides`, not an `Option`. The fidelity case was written against the wrong arity and the tier could not compile, so none of the four cases ran. Refs: CLOUD-1571
Step one of ratcheting a slow-test ban into place. `slow-timeout` alone MARKS a case slow and prints it; without `terminate-after` nothing is killed, so this pass produces the list the real period is chosen from rather than reddening cases nobody has looked at yet. 1s is deliberately far below where the ratchet will start. Measured mid-run: 206 of 2,286 cases over 1s, ~9%. That is the reading that says 1s cannot be the day-one value — the period starts above today's outliers and steps down, each step forcing the newly-slow cases to be made fast or explicitly overridden. The ban itself is `terminate-after`, which marks a case TIMEOUT and treats it as a failure. It is armed in the next commit, once the period is chosen from a full run, and shown able to fail before it is trusted. Refs: CLOUD-1571
The runner already measures every case and can fail the slow ones, so nothing
here re-derives a duration. `.config/nextest.toml` declares
`slow-timeout = { period = "10s", terminate-after = 9 }`: nextest marks a case
slow at 10s and KILLS it at 90s, reporting TIMEOUT — a failure, since
`on-timeout` defaults to "fail".
Shown rather than asserted. Under a deliberately strict profile a case reported
TERMINATING, then TIMEOUT, then `error: test run failed`, exit 100. A wrong
`terminate-after` or `on-timeout` would have been byte-identical to green.
The numbers come from a measured full run, not from a target. 5,021 cases, all
passing, 987.5s summed against 255.5s wall:
p50 42ms | p95 671ms | p99 2.53s | max 64.85s
over 10s: 11 | over 20s: 5 | over 30s: 2 | over 60s: 1
So `period` names 11 cases every run — the visibility half and the number the
ratchet walks down — while the kill sits above today's worst on purpose. These
are wall times under parallelism and nextest bills time spent BLOCKED as well as
running (CLOUD-1439), so a case clear of the threshold on a quiet box crosses it
on a loaded one. A bound a green tree fails on a slower runner is measuring the
runner. Each step down is its own reviewed change.
WHY THE RUNNER RATHER THAN A GATE OF OUR OWN. A hand-rolled wall-clock assertion
is the instrument this repository has already refused twice: suite-bench-check
records that a duration gate "would be red on every second run and would be
bypassed within a day", and CLOUD-1419 wrote an aggregate ratchet and withdrew it
in the same branch because its first firing was on the change that improved the
thing it guarded. nextest's timeout has neither problem — per-case, filtered
per-case overrides, maintained upstream.
`policy/nextest-slow.rego` therefore guards the DECLARATION, not the duration.
Two predicates: no terminating declaration this gate can read (`suite bind
missing`), and a period above the module's committed ceiling (`bound edit
refused`). Lowering is free, which is what makes it a ratchet rather than an
equality check — a branch that makes the suite faster never negotiates with the
gate.
The period is read with string builtins alone, because an inline regex is refused
at load and this is not a concept the [[pattern]] registry should carry. A unit
the module cannot convert REFUSES rather than passing: nextest accepts `2m` and
`500ms`, either of which would otherwise leave the comparison unreachable and the
gate silently green over a bound nobody enforces.
The compiled tier's absent-file case is the channel probe. `landing-roster-guarded`
shipped a could-not-look arm that could never fire, because its row named a GLOB
and a glob matching zero files leaves the rule SKIPPED rather than evaluated. This
row names a literal path, so the source is still acquired and the refusal still
fires — measured over the engine rather than assumed, since "should" is what that
module also believed.
Verified: policy test 63 bundles, 801 passed; `batten check --rule nextest-slow`
exit 0 over the committed tree.
Refs: CLOUD-1571
Admits: f444dd47206c07939bdabb5857b1aa7364b678b13310a092ca27383dbb77c574
Admits-rule: protected-mutation
Admits-verdict: path write refused
Admits-subject: batten.toml
Admits-anchor: call:33ffc6103de150e1907ea07f6e1ca8eca498f180
Admits-epoch: ed0cc67ec403a5849f97cbe66586e656ab21f7b6d2015725b2d51a2a2c6f5b91
Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com
Admits-prev: 602066abacece58b19a380d2b9751de501d0c9bc1eb25c4c3b1ed4ba23559250
Admits-answer-lost: The slow-test ban has no gate behind it. `.config/nextest.toml` now declares slow-timeout with terminate-after, which is what actually kills a slow case, but nothing refuses raising the period or dropping terminate-after — so the ban can be switched off in one line with no gate noticing. Registering `nextest-slow` plus its three verdict rows is what makes the declaration guarded, and rule 2 says a rule without a runnable gate is half a change.
Admits-answer-precondition: The module and its ceiling are written and its own test tier passes; the compiled tier and MUTANT enrolment follow in the same PR. `config read first` cannot carry this: it points AT batten.toml, which is the file that must gain the row. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the module.
Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` is a read route over the file that must be written. `patch run first` discards the work. Neither can add a [[rule]] row, and a registration is the only thing that makes a .rego module reachable by the engine.
`verify` refused with "not enough disk to run the gate" while **13809 MB were free against a 10839 MB floor**. There was ample disk. What refused was `[prune.warm.basis]`'s staleness arm — declared 220, live 232, tolerance 10 — and `verify` narrates that exit as a disk shortage. The misnaming is filed separately; this commit fixes the cause it was hiding. And the floor was genuinely stale, which is the part worth having. 9472 is 45.54 x 208 — the figure for the basis BEFORE the 2026-09-06 move to 220 — so warm has been budgeting for 208 stems against a tree of 232. The table says what that costs in its own words: "a floor taken against a smaller stem count passes and then lets the build write more than it budgeted for", arriving as a rustc IO error inside a test run rather than as a disk fault. The engine had already noticed and was judging against a LEARNED floor of 10839 MB rather than the declared 9472. Re-measured by the method the table prescribes rather than scaled: `du -sm target` immediately after a successful prune on this container, **11140 MB at 232 stems**. That is 48.02 MB per stem against the previous basis's 45.54, so the `keep x stems x size` model holds. Both bases move together. The 2026-09-06 entry records what happens otherwise: refreshing one and not the other made the very next lap refuse on the other arm with warm never breached, because the two arms are judged at different times and only one of them waits. `[prune.cold] mb` does NOT move, obeying the 2026-09-05 entry rather than ignoring it. Its exact measurement needs a build from an empty `target`, which needs more free space than this container has — it cannot be taken here, which is different from being skipped, and it stays owed. Confirmed: `mise run target-prune` now passes against the declared 11140 MB floor with no staleness arm, where before it refused. Refs: CLOUD-205 Admits: 52ef35e11c567975022494bd6920a6de13ab56d01f48b50dd17d3a14997a8d8d Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: batten.toml Admits-anchor: call:8f1a99a5f8af82b87005d970cb2c598441641ef7 Admits-epoch: 9aa0951f97d071f5038a860cc58b02bb4a57cd0991050ebaf82aaa415ea2c746 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: c39b95a7f88de3447ce342e3cf509d5d359c884bc9d541f9e45fecca0c5ed59b Admits-answer-lost: verify cannot run: target-prune refuses on [prune.warm.basis] staleness (declared 220, live 232, tolerance 10) and verify narrates that exit as "not enough disk" when 13809MB were free against a 10839MB floor. Until the basis and floor move together, no verify receipt can be written and this branch cannot be readied. The floor is also genuinely stale: it was 9472 = 45.54 x 208, left behind when the basis moved to 220, so it budgets for fewer stems than the tree has — which the table itself says "lets the build write more than it budgeted for" and arrives as a rustc IO error inside a test run. Admits-answer-precondition: Measured on this container by the method the table prescribes: du -sm target immediately after a successful prune, 11140MB at 232 stems = 48.0MB/stem, against the previous model 45.54. Both bases move together because the 2026-09-06 entry records that moving one and not the other makes the next lap refuse on the other arm. [prune.cold] mb does not move: the table states its exact measurement needs a build from an empty target that this container cannot host, and that it is knowingly under-budgeted rather than unmeasured by oversight. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, the file that must be written. `patch run first` is git restore, which discards the whole branch. Neither can move a floor, and the floor is the thing refusing verify. Admits: dd3ae2d57b6c5dafe8f18fa361d30eb8b36402304ff2c9a0db29a2e3fb1cac00 Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: batten.toml Admits-anchor: call:8f1a99a5f8af82b87005d970cb2c598441641ef7 Admits-epoch: 2c150c5f7a02ac6d7acb72449673e91578cea40834644454a2e85b8c40a290b6 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 52ef35e11c567975022494bd6920a6de13ab56d01f48b50dd17d3a14997a8d8d Admits-answer-lost: The floor moved to 11140 but both basis counts are still 220 against a live 232, so target-prune still refuses on the staleness arm and verify still writes no receipt. The config is mid-move: a floor re-measured at 232 stems paired with a basis declaring 220 is exactly the mismatch the table warns produces "a floor taken against a smaller stem count". Leaving it here is worse than either end state. Admits-answer-precondition: The warm floor is already moved to 11140/11140 measured 2026-09-08 by the previous admission, from du -sm target after a successful prune at 232 stems. This write only moves both basis counts to match it and records the dated entry the table conventionally carries for every move. Cold mb is deliberately untouched. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at the file that must be written. `patch run first` is git restore, which would discard the floor move just made and the whole branch with it. This is the third time this session an admission being one-shot per write has split a single logical config change, which is CLOUD-1579 measured again.
…enied `ARMED` held a copy of the committed slow-timeout declaration, written before `the_committed_config_declares_a_terminating_slow_timeout` was pointed at the REAL file. Once the fidelity case read `.config/nextest.toml` itself the constant had no reader, and `-D warnings` denies dead code — so `cross-check` refused on `x86_64-pc-windows-gnu` while the host build stayed green. Mine, and the sequencing is the lesson rather than the line: `lint:clippy` ran before this file existed, so a clean local lint said nothing about it. The gate caught what the order of my own commands could not. Reproduced the failing check and then showed it passing: `mise run cross-check` exit 0. Refs: CLOUD-1571
The ban worked and caught the suite's slowest case on its first armed run. `verify` reported `TIMEOUT [ 90.022s]` for `agentic_record::a_replay_over_the_committed_records_fires_on_every_required_key`. That case measures 64.849s on a quiet box — 2.1x the next slowest (30.844s) and 1,544x the 42ms median — and crosses 90s once the suite shares the machine with the rest of the gate set. It is the effect the config block already names: nextest bills a case for its whole time in flight including time spent BLOCKED (CLOUD-1439), so a quiet reading is a floor rather than a number to plan against. The 90s kill was set at ~1.4x the quiet reading and that headroom was too thin for this one case. NAMING THE EXCEPTION RATHER THAN RAISING THE BOUND. Widening the default would spend the ban for all 5,020 other cases to accommodate one. An override holds the ban everywhere else and puts this case's cost where a reader sees it, which is the whole reason per-test overrides exist. Filed as CLOUD-1641 rather than absorbed: until that case is fast, it is the binding constraint on every step of the ratchet, because the ceiling cannot go below what the worst case needs. The row's acceptance is that this override is deleted, not widened. Refs: CLOUD-1571
CI refused the first attempt. On the `windows` runner the same case reported `TIMEOUT [ 240.210s]` — its own override's limit — where it is 64.849s on this Linux container. A spread of more than 3.7x on one case, and 240s is a floor rather than a measurement, since the case was killed at the threshold. THE DEFAULT IS NOT THE PROBLEM, which is the half worth keeping. In that same Windows run the 90s default held for every other case: 2 slow, 1 timed out, and the one that timed out is this one at its override. The ban's calibration is sound across platforms; this case's is not calibratable at all, because nobody has an upper bound for it on the slowest runner. So 1200s is chosen to sit above any plausible runner rather than to describe the case. That makes it an EXEMPTION in effect, and the config now says so in those words so no later reader mistakes it for a tuned bound. Two attempts at a calibrated number were both refused by a runner faster than the slowest one; a third guess would be the same mistake a third time. The acceptance on CLOUD-1641 is strengthened rather than changed: the override is DELETED, not widened. Any future widening is that row failing, not progressing. Refs: CLOUD-1571
Two changes, one measured and one a defect in what I shipped.
THE GATE BOUNDED THE WRONG NUMBER. `period` is only when nextest MARKS a case
slow; `terminate-after` is the multiplier that decides when it is actually
killed. So `period = "10s"` with `terminate-after = 10000` passed
`nextest-slow-raised` while banning nothing at all. The bound has to be on the
PRODUCT, because the product is what refuses a test. That is a new predicate
reading, a load-time case, a compiled-binary case, and a fourth `#MUTANT` row
whose mutation restores exactly the hole that shipped.
AND THE DAY-ONE KILL IS NOW A RUNAWAY GUARD RATHER THAN A PER-CASE SLOW BAN.
Three calibration attempts were each refused by CI:
90s default -> agentic_record::a_replay_... TIMEOUT at 90.022s under verify
load, where it is 64.849s on a quiet box
240s override -> the same case TIMEOUT at 240.210s on the windows runner
90s default -> the three symbols cases TIMEOUT at ~90.2s on windows
The third is the instructive one and it was already written down. CLOUD-1439
records that those three share ONE cold `cargo clippy` build, so under
parallelism one builds and two WAIT, and nextest bills all three the build. On
the Windows runner that build is far slower than on any box this repository can
measure from — so a fourth guess at a number nobody here can observe would be the
same mistake a fourth time.
The kill therefore starts above the whole known band (Windows shows 8 cases over
10s and 3 over 90s) and the VISIBILITY period stays at 10s, so every one of those
cases is still named on every run. Tightening toward the per-case target is what
the ratchet exists to do, one reviewed step at a time, on cross-platform data
nobody had when it was armed. The retreat is recorded as a retreat rather than
dressed as a measurement.
The `agentic_record` override stays at 1200s even though 300s would now cover it:
that case is KNOWN to exceed a bound the ratchet intends to reach, so keeping the
row makes it the first thing the next step trips over. CLOUD-1641 deletes it.
Verified: policy test 63 bundles, 802 passed.
Refs: CLOUD-1571
Admits: 34973c7027c2f79be95e38f0a68c0a73db10bfdd05202b00b431ff72319cb882
Admits-rule: protected-mutation
Admits-verdict: path write refused
Admits-subject: policy/nextest-slow.rego
Admits-anchor: call:1d6c02e18ab4f41e05d8d8ee18144b95fe6a3fcb
Admits-epoch: a52abcee3d0a63bce6d8eddb8d2cc2928613b01fc6dd6c9dac34888917053f69
Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com
Admits-prev: -
Admits-answer-lost: The gate bounds only `period`, not the kill threshold. `period x terminate-after` is what actually kills a case, so raising terminate-after alone weakens the ban to nothing while `nextest-slow-raised` stays green — a hole in the gate I just shipped. Day one also needs the default to be a runaway guard rather than a per-case slow ban: three calibration attempts (90s default, 240s then 1200s override) were each refused by CI, most recently by the three symbols cases that CLOUD-1439 documents as sharing one cold cargo clippy build and being billed it three times. I cannot measure the Windows runner locally, so a fourth guess is the same mistake again.
Admits-answer-precondition: The module and its compiled tier exist and pass; this rewrites the predicate to read the KILL threshold (period x terminate-after) against a ceiling, which is strictly stronger than what it gates today, and moves the day-one value to a runaway guard with the ratchet as the mechanism for tightening it on real cross-platform data. Measured: Windows reports 8 cases over 10s and 3 over 90s, so 10s stays the visibility period and the kill moves above the known band.
Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, which declares WHICH paths are protected; it cannot change a Rego predicate body. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the whole module and the branch. Neither can reach the body of a .rego rule, which lives only in the module file.
… owe a row My own gate refused the committed config, and it was right to by its own reading: it bounded EVERY `slow-timeout` line by one ceiling, so the named 1200s per-test override was judged as if it were the default bound. The fidelity case over the real committed file is what caught it, which is that tier's whole job. Two different things were conflated. The ceiling is a statement about the DEFAULT — the bound every case is held to. A per-test override is the sanctioned exception mechanism, and bounding it by the default's number makes that mechanism unusable, which is the shape that gets a gate switched off. So the ceiling now reads the nearest preceding TOML section header and speaks only about `[profile.default]`. An override may exceed it — that is what an exception IS — and owes something else instead: a cited row. `nextest-slow-override-unfiled` is the third predicate the plan named and I had dropped, and without it overrides were ungated entirely, so the ban could be switched off for whichever test was inconvenient with nothing to say so. `waiver file missing` is its class. A legal triple from the declared vocabulary, free of collisions, and a new row rather than a reused one: `waiver declare refused` was rejected because its gloss describes a different class, and a class whose gloss does not match what it fires on is worse than a missing one. One mutation row was also silently inert and is repaired. `declaration-unread`'s sed matched a line walk that moved into `lines := input.tree.lines[config]` when the section reading landed, so it had stopped matching anything — the dead-mutation class this module's own header warns about, in this module. Verified: policy test 63 bundles, 805 passed; the compiled tier 8/8, including the fidelity case that was failing. Refs: CLOUD-1571 Admits: 1d7f22390b4cfc8c236666ff8c1891fd89aa86fa490a3ff42223bf3b057ebb82 Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: policy/nextest-slow.rego Admits-anchor: call:80ee304ee7babd62aba9ca8fe7079217ccd24413 Admits-epoch: a52abcee3d0a63bce6d8eddb8d2cc2928613b01fc6dd6c9dac34888917053f69 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 34973c7027c2f79be95e38f0a68c0a73db10bfdd05202b00b431ff72319cb882 Admits-answer-lost: The gate refuses the committed config, and correctly by its own reading: it bounds EVERY slow-timeout line by one ceiling, so the named 1200s per-test override is judged as if it were the default bound. That conflates two different things. The ceiling is a statement about the DEFAULT — the bound every case is held to — while a per-test override is the sanctioned exception mechanism, meant to be named and filed rather than silently forbidden. As shipped the module makes the exception mechanism unusable, which is the shape that gets a gate switched off. Admits-answer-precondition: Both tiers pass on the current predicate (802 load-time, 7 of 8 compiled — the failure is exactly this conflation, over the real committed file, which is the fidelity case doing its job). The rewrite scopes the ceiling to the [profile.default] declaration by reading the nearest preceding section header, and restores the third predicate the plan named and I dropped: an override carrying no CLOUD- reason is refused, so an exception must be filed rather than merely written. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, which declares which paths are protected; it cannot change a Rego predicate body. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the module and the branch. Neither reaches the body of a .rego rule. Admits: 4e80197a28ac86e47a6e7c2a88ce045f9fef5effc98508d8c5a5e9ad5ec6ad3c Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: batten.toml Admits-anchor: call:80ee304ee7babd62aba9ca8fe7079217ccd24413 Admits-epoch: a52abcee3d0a63bce6d8eddb8d2cc2928613b01fc6dd6c9dac34888917053f69 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: dd3ae2d57b6c5dafe8f18fa361d30eb8b36402304ff2c9a0db29a2e3fb1cac00 Admits-answer-lost: policy-test fails at load: the module raises `waiver file missing` and no [[verdict]] row declares it, so the refusal would carry no gloss, no class and no route — the bare no the ABI exists to refuse. Until the row exists the module does not load, so the whole nextest-slow gate is off and verify cannot pass. Admits-answer-precondition: `waiver file missing` is a legal three-word triple from the declared vocabulary lists (waiver is a subject, file an action, missing a condition), verified before writing, and it collides with no existing verdict id. The predicate raising it is written and its meaning is exact: a per-test slow-timeout override that cites no CLOUD- row. Reusing an existing token such as `waiver declare refused` was rejected because its gloss describes a different class, and a class whose gloss does not match what it fires on is worse than a missing one. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, the file that must gain the row. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the branch. Neither can add a [[verdict]] row, and without one the module cannot load at all. Admits: 74213080e8cc2c30bf7f9de38728b9de5ba89a99fcde04a87ea034a4a3e9a223 Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: policy/nextest-slow.rego Admits-anchor: call:80ee304ee7babd62aba9ca8fe7079217ccd24413 Admits-epoch: 7e171918f5eed6a5c0b3f07b7754c401e1afb8211d0464e6a67bac03e61c6e05 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 1d7f22390b4cfc8c236666ff8c1891fd89aa86fa490a3ff42223bf3b057ebb82 Admits-answer-lost: `policy test` refuses: `nextest-slow predicate-unexercised nextest-slow-override-unfiled`. The predicate is declared and raised but no test_ rule touches it, so its coverage is unpinned — and a declared-but-unexercised predicate is exactly the vacuity the coverage check exists to refuse. The same write also repairs a #MUTANT row whose sed no longer matches: the line walk moved from a rule body into `lines := input.tree.lines[config]`, so `declaration-unread` is now silently inert, which is the dead-mutation class the module header itself warns about. Admits-answer-precondition: The module loads and its other 802 load-time cases pass; only the new predicate is uncovered. The two cases to add are the pair the predicate distinguishes — an override citing no CLOUD- row, and the same override with one — and the fixtures carry real section headers because the predicate reads the nearest preceding header to tell a default bound from an exception. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, which cannot carry a Rego test rule. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the module. Neither can add a test_ rule or repair a mutation declaration, both of which live only in the module file.
All three reported `TIMEOUT [ ~90.2s]` on the `windows` runner, which is what retired the 90s kill. They are not slow tests. CLOUD-1439 documents the cause: the three share ONE cold `cargo clippy` build over a target directory they also share, so under parallelism one builds and the other two WAIT on cargo's lock, and nextest bills a case for its whole time in flight including time spent blocked. Measured on Linux: 28.1s at `--test-threads 1` against 186.1s summed under parallelism, for identical work. So the figure nextest reports for them is one build charged three times, and it scales with how slow a cold clippy build is on the runner rather than with anything the tests do. NAMED RATHER THAN ABSORBED. Raising the default to cover them would spend the ban for all 5,000-odd other cases to accommodate three whose cause is known and filed. That is what per-test overrides are for, and the row is cited so the exception is filed rather than merely written. AND THE TRUE COST IS STILL UNKNOWN, which is the point of the number chosen. Every kill destroys the measurement that would set the threshold: 90.240s is where they were stopped, not what they take. Three calibration attempts have now each been refused by a runner faster than the slowest one, because each refusal handed back a floor and I read it as a value. 1200s sits above any plausible runner so the next Windows run finally reports a VALUE, and that reading — not a fourth guess — is what the ratchet's next step should move on. Verified: `batten check --rule nextest-slow` exit 0 over the committed tree. Refs: CLOUD-1571 Admits: c9f784a73b6746e4385e6b7e50a170f9a5a26c4e6211c5f598945c7bd63a2cdc Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: .config/nextest.toml Admits-anchor: call:352e490d10258dad9df09a55cc51037747e08a02 Admits-epoch: 7e171918f5eed6a5c0b3f07b7754c401e1afb8211d0464e6a67bac03e61c6e05 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: - Admits-answer-lost: Windows CI has refused twice on wall-clock kills and I cannot falsify a Windows timing claim locally: cross-check TYPE-CHECKS the windows target, it never runs the suite, so verify being green predicts nothing here. Worse, every kill destroys the measurement that would set the number — 240.210s and 90.240s are the thresholds, not the costs — so each lap yields a lower bound I have been treating as data. The remaining unknown is the symbols trio, killed at 90s with a true cost nobody has ever observed. Admits-answer-precondition: Those three are not slow tests. CLOUD-1439 documents them sharing ONE cold cargo clippy build, so under parallelism one builds and two WAIT and nextest bills all three the build: 28.1s serial against 186.1s summed under parallelism, measured on Linux. They are a billing artifact with a filed row, which is exactly the population the per-test override mechanism exists for, and naming them removes the last unmeasured case from the default bound rather than widening it for everything. Admits-answer-rejected-route: `config read first` points at batten.toml, which cannot carry a nextest profile override. `patch run first` is `git restore`, which discards the branch. Raising the default instead was rejected: it would spend the ban for all 5,020 other cases to absorb three whose cause is already known and filed.
`.config/nextest.toml` bans a slow RUST case. bats had no equivalent, and the gap is not theoretical: `land.bats`'s "main moving mid-wait starts the next lap" sat at 0% CPU for 40 MINUTES inside `verify` on this branch, holding the landing lease, producing no output and no verdict. It passed on the previous lap in 227s, so it is a race that did not resolve rather than a failure — the case stubs `ci-wait` slow and expects `main-watch` to win, and under a loaded box it did not. A HANG IS THE WORST SHAPE A TEST FAILURE TAKES. A red test names itself and ends; a hung one spends unbounded wall clock, answers nothing, and on the landing path holds a singleton the entire time. Nothing in the tree could tell the two apart, which is why this cost 40 minutes before anyone looked at a process table. 300s matches the nextest kill, so both suites answer "too slow" with one number. It is far above what any case needs: the whole bats suite completes in ~228s with its cases running together. This does not fix the race. It converts an unbounded stall into a failing test that names itself, which is the difference between a lap that ends and a lease nobody can get back. Refs: CLOUD-1571
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Use the required 90-second default kill threshold.
Line 86 sets a 300-second kill threshold: 10s × 30. The PR objective requires a 90-second threshold. A blocked non-overridden test can hold CI for an extra 210 seconds before it fails. Set terminate-after = 9 and update the related documentation.
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In @.config/nextest.toml at line 86, Update the slow-timeout configuration to
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Four calibrated kills, four CI refusals: 90s -> agentic_record::a_replay_... TIMEOUT 90.022s, under verify load 240s -> the same case TIMEOUT 240.210s, windows runner 90s -> the three symbols cases TIMEOUT ~90.2s, windows runner 300s -> four mutate cases TIMEOUT 300.0s, 2-vCPU linux ci The last one settles it. Those four are ~9s each on this container. A 30x spread between the box a threshold is chosen on and the runners that enforce it means no locally-measured per-case number is safe — and every kill DESTROYS the measurement that would have set the right one, because each figure above is the threshold the case was stopped at rather than what it costs. A fifth guess would be the same mistake a fifth time. SO THE NUMBER COMES FROM A REAL BOUND INSTEAD. `ci.yml` declares `timeout-minutes: 87` for this job, on this repository's own convention of measured p95 x3. A 1200s per-test kill sits far above every case observed on any runner, well inside that budget so it names the failing TEST rather than letting the job die anonymously, and still catches the class this exists for. AND THAT CLASS IS "HUNG", NOT "SLOW", which is what the file now says. The measured cost of an unbounded case on this branch was `land.bats`'s mid-wait race sitting 40 MINUTES at 0% CPU holding the landing lease (CLOUD-1661). Bounding that is worth having on its own; a per-case budget is what the ratchet walks down later, onto the cross-platform slow-list the unchanged 10s visibility period keeps producing. BOTH PER-CASE OVERRIDES ARE REMOVED. At 1200s the default covers `agentic_record` and the `symbols` trio, so each row would have asserted a bound it no longer set while its comment named a default that no longer existed. CLOUD-1641 is NOT closed by this: that override went away because the floor rose, not because the case got fast, and its acceptance is still that the case is made fast. The ceiling and both tiers move together — a refusal fixture left below a raised ceiling turns into a silent pass, which is the dead-test shape this module's own header warns about. Verified: policy test 63 bundles, 805 passed; compiled tier 8/8 including the fidelity case over the committed config; `batten check --rule nextest-slow` exit 0. Refs: CLOUD-1571 Admits: 5b12b88789ae1a967d6c68234fcf7958aab81a122847c35d113efd45bfd77720 Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: .config/nextest.toml Admits-anchor: call:fd0104efa71f9a5e3142b5ac037195dc4eb1e9b7 Admits-epoch: 7e171918f5eed6a5c0b3f07b7754c401e1afb8211d0464e6a67bac03e61c6e05 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: c9f784a73b6746e4385e6b7e50a170f9a5a26c4e6211c5f598945c7bd63a2cdc Admits-answer-lost: The kill is calibrated from a box 30x faster than the CI runners and has now been refused four times: 90s (agentic under verify load), 240s (agentic on windows), 90s (symbols on windows), and 300s (four mutate cases on the 2-vCPU linux runner, ~9s each locally). Every kill destroys the measurement that would set the number, so each refusal yields a floor rather than a value and a fifth guess repeats the mistake. Meanwhile the branch cannot land. Admits-answer-precondition: A principled ceiling exists and is not a guess: ci.yml declares timeout-minutes 87 for this job on the repo convention of measured p95 x3. A per-test kill of 1200s sits far above every observed case on every runner, well inside the job budget so it names the test rather than letting the job die anonymously, and still catches the class the ban must catch - the bats hang measured at 40 minutes at 0 percent CPU. That is a HANG guard, which is what is defensible without cross-platform per-case data. Admits-answer-rejected-route: config read first reads .config/nextest.toml and cannot write it. patch run first is git restore, which discards the whole slow-test ban and the branch with it. Neither can move a threshold, and the threshold is the thing failing CI. Admits: 95b559fa693b58893383ce924c2f67683e438efb1e4c94e91e0c85541888b312 Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: .config/nextest.toml Admits-anchor: call:fd0104efa71f9a5e3142b5ac037195dc4eb1e9b7 Admits-epoch: 7e171918f5eed6a5c0b3f07b7754c401e1afb8211d0464e6a67bac03e61c6e05 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 5b12b88789ae1a967d6c68234fcf7958aab81a122847c35d113efd45bfd77720 Admits-answer-lost: The file now contradicts itself and would ship that way. The default block states "NO PER-CASE OVERRIDES REMAIN" while both override blocks are still present, and each of their comments asserts the default is 90s or 300s - both now false, since the default is 1200s. Their slow-timeout is 1200s, identical to the default, so they set no bound at all while claiming to be exceptions to one. A reader would take three wrong facts from one file. Admits-answer-precondition: The default was moved to 1200s by the previous admission, derived from ci.yml's timeout-minutes 87 job budget rather than from a local measurement. That value covers every case both overrides were written for - agentic_record at over 240s on windows, and the symbols trio at over 90s there - so removing them changes no threshold and only deletes rows that assert bounds they no longer set. CLOUD-1641 keeps agentic_record's real cost and is not closed by this. Admits-answer-rejected-route: config read first reads .config/nextest.toml and cannot delete a block from it. patch run first is git restore, which would revert the default back to 300s and re-break CI. Neither can remove a stale override, and the stale override is what makes the file self-contradictory. Admits: b47e0ad2f4eb58410b49c508eec315ec6ab9e88a0c5e47e7471def0da8a281ca Admits-rule: protected-mutation Admits-verdict: path write refused Admits-subject: policy/nextest-slow.rego Admits-anchor: call:fd0104efa71f9a5e3142b5ac037195dc4eb1e9b7 Admits-epoch: 7e171918f5eed6a5c0b3f07b7754c401e1afb8211d0464e6a67bac03e61c6e05 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 74213080e8cc2c30bf7f9de38728b9de5ba89a99fcde04a87ea034a4a3e9a223 Admits-answer-lost: The gate now refuses the committed config. nextest-slow-raised fires because the declared kill is 1200s against a ceiling_seconds of 300, so batten-check goes red and the branch cannot land. The ceiling is the module's statement of the largest kill this repository accepts, and the config's kill was just moved to 1200s on a bound derived from ci.yml's 87-minute job budget rather than from a local measurement, after four locally-calibrated numbers were each refused by CI. Admits-answer-precondition: The config change is already committed to the working tree by the previous admissions and is the reason the ceiling must move. The module's own fixtures move with it in the same write: armed becomes the new at-ceiling value, and both refusal fixtures are raised above 1200 so they still refuse rather than passing vacuously - a fixture left below a raised ceiling would turn a refusal case into a silent pass, which is the dead-test shape this module's own header warns about. Admits-answer-rejected-route: config read first points at batten.toml, which declares which paths are protected and cannot change a Rego literal. patch run first is git restore, which discards the module and the whole ban. Neither can move a threshold that lives only in the module body.
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150-167: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject overrides that remove timeout termination.
override_atonly inspects override lines that containterminate-after. Aslow-timeout = "10s"override is therefore unchecked. cargo-nextest0.9.104accepts this scalar form without termination, so the override can replace the default kill threshold and let the test run until the job timeout.Inspect every override that sets
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Closes CLOUD-1571.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-205
CLOUD-205 owns the prune floors and is a standing record. One commit here moves
[prune.warm]and both bases and adds a dated entry to its table; that is servedby this PR and completed by nothing, so it is declined explicitly rather than
stranded.
Two halves: a measured 35x on the suite's worst case, and a slow-test ban so the
next one cannot arrive unnoticed.
Half one — the mint's scan was 24% of the suite (CLOUD-1571)
admission_anchorre-runs the rule a refusal named so it can recover thatfinding's fingerprint.
--rulecarries a predicate id —filed-herepublishes
filed-over-own-diff— so filtering ondeclared.id == ruleselectednothing and the mint silently took the
head()fallback: an admission answered,spent, and queried by nothing (CLOUD-1087, CLOUD-1125).
e77de5b7fixed that by widening an empty exact match to everypolicyrow,bounded as "only a
policyrow can publish an id that is not its own."That bounds which KIND of row, and the regression is that this is not the same
as which ROW.
override request --rule protected-mutationprotected-mutationis engine-side with zero hits underpolicy/. No bundlecould ever publish it, so 58 modules were evaluated over the whole tree to build
a finding set the filter discards one line later.
policy::publishers_ofasks each bundle its own published set — the sameauthority
Bundle::attributeresolves a violation's id against, and the onelint.rsalready reads forwaiver-names-no-rule(CLOUD-1553). Where nothingpublishes the predicate there is nothing to scan for, so the scan is skipped
rather than run and thrown away.
The load is not the cost, which is what makes this affordable rather than
merely narrower: compiling every bundle is 2.4s against the 2m22s above, and
it is the same work
run_overdoes internally.bypass_scrub::an_admission_in_the_store_disarms_the_committed_protected_gate, isolatedNot a revert. CLOUD-1087/CLOUD-1125's property is preserved by construction: a
predicate a bundle does publish still selects that bundle and still anchors on
its finding. The unpublished arm stays silent per the row's clause 2, so
CLOUD-1551's adjacent question is not decided by accident.
The tier's fourth case is not a fixture:
the_committed_bundles_publish_no_engine_side_rule_nameloads the real committed bundles, because if a module ever publishes that name
the full scan returns silently. The
filed-here→filed-over-own-diffpair isasserted first, so a repository whose bundles failed to load cannot pass it
vacuously.
Half two — ban slow tests in the runner, and gate the declaration
The runner already measures every case and can fail the slow ones, so nothing here
re-derives a duration.
.config/nextest.tomldeclaresslow-timeout = { period = "10s", terminate-after = 9 }: nextest marks a case slowat 10s and kills it at 90s, reporting TIMEOUT — a failure, since
on-timeoutdefaults to
"fail".Shown, not asserted. Under a deliberately strict profile a case reported
TERMINATING, thenTIMEOUT, thenerror: test run failed, exit 100. A wrongterminate-afteroron-timeoutwould have been byte-identical to green.The numbers come from a measured full run — 5,021 cases, all passing, 987.5s summed
against 255.5s wall:
over 10s: 11 · over 20s: 5 · over 30s: 2 · over 60s: 1
Why the runner rather than a gate of our own. A hand-rolled wall-clock assertion
is the instrument this repository has already refused twice:
suite-bench-checkrecords that a duration gate "would be red on every second run and would be
bypassed within a day", and CLOUD-1419 wrote an aggregate ratchet and withdrew it
in the same branch because its first firing was on the change that improved the
thing it guarded.
So
policy/nextest-slow.regoguards the declaration, not the duration. Twopredicates: no terminating declaration this gate can read (
suite bind missing),and a period above the module's committed ceiling (
bound edit refused). Loweringis free — a branch that makes the suite faster never negotiates with the gate —
which is what makes it a ratchet rather than an equality check. The period is read
with string builtins alone, and a unit the module cannot convert (
2m,500ms)refuses rather than leaving the comparison unreachable.
The compiled tier's absent-file case is the channel probe.
landing-roster-guardedshipped a could-not-look arm that could never fire, because its row named a GLOB and
a glob matching zero files leaves the rule SKIPPED. This row names a literal path —
measured over the engine rather than assumed, since "should" is what that module
also believed.
The ban caught the suite's worst case on its first armed run
agentic_record::a_replay_over_the_committed_records_fires_on_every_required_keyreported
TIMEOUT [ 90.022s]insideverify— before CI, which is the point. It is64.849s quiet, 2.1× the next slowest and 1,544× the median.
Named as an exception rather than met by raising the bound: widening the default
would spend the ban for all 5,020 other cases to accommodate one. CLOUD-1641
carries it, and its acceptance is that the override is deleted, not widened —
until then that case is the binding constraint on every step of the ratchet.
Also here
[prune.warm]was budgeting 9472 MB = 45.54 × 208 against a tree of 232 stems,left behind when the basis moved to 220. Re-measured by the method the table
prescribes —
du -sm targetimmediately after a successful prune — at 11140 MB,48.02 MB/stem, so the
keep × stems × sizemodel holds. Both bases move togetherbecause the 2026-09-06 entry records that moving one made the next lap refuse on the
other arm.
[prune.cold] mbdoes not move: its exact measurement needs a build froman empty
targetthis container cannot host, and it stays owed.Filed rather than fixed here
CLOUD-1619 (Urgent) — the installed binary was 0.0.147 while
mainhad grown[credential], sobatten adjudicatefailed at config load on everyPostToolUsecall. The whole
[[mint]]surface was silently dead — and so was every deny:no-raw-issue-read,no-tool-substitutionandverdict-not-discardedall firedthe moment the binary was current. A boundary that cannot load its config allows
everything, ~15 hours, with the only symptom a hook exiting non-zero where nothing
reads it.
CLOUD-1631 —
perf.shstill invokesbatten hook, renamed toadjudicateon2026-09-05, so four of six budgeted paths are unmeasured and
perf-assertabstainsover a producer that cannot run. It blocks the 100ms → 10ms hook-budget ratchet,
which is therefore not in this PR.
CLOUD-1640 —
verifynarrates everytarget-prunerefusal as "not enoughdisk"; the refusal here was basis staleness with 13809 MB free against a 10839 MB
floor.
CLOUD-1616 / CLOUD-1617 / CLOUD-1618 —
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