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Every Windows lane=all dispatch had become a coin flip against the 30-minute job wall. Measured wall time per shard over the last seven dispatches, in minutes:

run 1 2 3 4 5 6
35168946544 30.2 cancelled 20.8 20.3 21.3 13.4 21.0
35164979005 23.6 22.5 20.4 23.3 13.8 16.6
35161399172 23.5 24.7 23.7 26.8 17.2 17.3
35152226272 16.5 18.6 20.3 13.7 20.4 24.8
35148850553 18.6 20.0 24.8 14.2 23.9 22.8
35139132889 21.7 18.8 23.8 18.9 24.7 20.5
35134620067 20.5 20.3 19.9 16.8 24.0 28.3

A shard killed at the wall reports cancelled — neither a pass nor a fail, with no indication of which file was running when it died. That is the worst possible result from a gate, and it had become routine.

This is the third time this leg has grown into its ceiling, and ci.yml already records the first two: one leg reached 30 minutes and died in cleanup; four shards then ran 17–25 minutes with a green 3/4 cancelled at 25m12s; six were chosen to put each leg at two-thirds of that. Six has now done the same, helped by a suite that keeps growing and by #4835 re-enabling a family that had been skipped.

Nine shards. Total observed work is about 133 minutes, so nine legs project to 26.5 minutes once the ~1.43 slowest-shard skew and the 25% run-to-run variance this file already documents are applied; eight projects to 29.8, which is not margin. The ceiling stays at 30 minutes — raising it is the masking answer, and the number is supposed to mean something. The cost is three more concurrent Windows runners and their fixed checkout/install/build overhead.

A wedge is now legible. Cutting work per shard buys time but does not make a stuck file readable, so this leg runs through the same batch runner Linux uses: at-most-12-file processes with a 120-second bound. A timeout or crash fixes the shard red immediately and names the batch; the singleton sweep that follows is diagnosis only and cannot turn it green, exactly as #4837 established. BUN_TEST_FILE_SCOPE=all keeps all 1327 Windows files — Linux alone excludes the storage-policy and api-usage families because separate Linux jobs own them.

The aggregate gate counts the nine legs by name through the Actions API, using filter=latest so a partial re-run still reads correctly. A matrix rolls up to success when a leg never starts, so counting is the only way to know a dispatch produced the evidence it was run to produce.

Verification

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run; this lane is hosted-CI-only by task contract. Verification is static plus exact-head hosted CI, and the batching itself can only be proven by a Windows dispatch on this head.

Static checks performed:

  • YAML parses; bash -n on the changed shell.
  • Matrix length, the /9 divisor, the TEST_SHARD value and the gate's shard count are mutually consistent; a search for stale six-shard assertions found and updated every one.
  • File partition accounting: 1327 files across 9 shards gives 147–148 files and 13 batches per shard.
  • structure/ ownership honoured — structure/ops/docs-and-release.md and structure/overview.md updated, since changing an owned source area obliges updating its doc.
  • Security review of the workflow diff: no trigger, permission, secret, action-pin, runner-selection or workspace-cleanup change. The one permission added is actions: read, scoped to the gate job only, so it can read its own run's job list.
  • git diff --check clean.

No timeout was widened, no retry was added, and no test was skipped. Windows runs the same file set it ran before.

Checklist

  • No timeout widened — the 30-minute ceiling is unchanged and the fix is less work per shard
  • No retry-to-green reintroduced; the singleton sweep runs only after the shard is irreversibly red
  • Same Windows test file set as before
  • structure/ docs updated for the owned area
  • Targets dev

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  • CI Improvements

    • Windows CI now runs across nine shards for broader test coverage.
    • Windows and Linux test execution use standardized fresh-process batching with defined process limits.
    • CI supports general and full-suite validation, including dedicated test areas.
    • Aggregate checks validate all Windows shard results before passing.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CI workflow and project documentation to reflect revised test coverage, batching, and validation requirements.

…each legible

Every Windows dispatch had become a coin flip against the 30-minute job wall.
Measured wall time per shard over the last seven lane=all dispatches, in minutes:

  run 35168946544   30.2 CANCELLED   20.8  20.3  21.3  13.4  21.0
  run 35164979005   23.6  22.5  20.4  23.3  13.8  16.6
  run 35161399172   23.5  24.7  23.7  26.8  17.2  17.3
  run 35152226272   16.5  18.6  20.3  13.7  20.4  24.8
  run 35148850553   18.6  20.0  24.8  14.2  23.9  22.8
  run 35139132889   21.7  18.8  23.8  18.9  24.7  20.5
  run 35134620067   20.5  20.3  19.9  16.8  24.0  28.3

13.4 to 30.2 against a 30-minute ceiling. A shard killed at the wall reports
cancelled - neither a pass nor a fail, and with no indication of which file was
running when it died.

This is the third time this leg has grown into its ceiling; ci.yml already records
the first two. One leg reached 30 minutes and died in cleanup, four shards then ran
17-25 minutes with a green 3/4 cancelled at 25m12s, and six were chosen to put each
leg at two-thirds of that. Six has now done the same, helped by a suite that keeps
growing and by #4835 re-enabling a family that had been skipped.

Nine shards, arithmetic in the workflow: total observed work is about 133 minutes,
so nine legs project to 26.5 minutes including the ~1.43 slowest-shard skew and the
25% run-to-run variance this file already documents; eight projects to 29.8, which
is not margin. The ceiling stays 30 minutes, because raising it is the masking
answer and the number is supposed to mean something. The cost is three more
concurrent Windows runners and their fixed setup.

Cutting work per shard buys time but does not make a wedge readable, so this leg
now runs through the same batch runner Linux uses: at-most-12-file processes with a
120-second bound. A timeout or crash fixes the shard red immediately and names the
batch; the singleton sweep that follows is diagnosis only and cannot turn it green,
exactly as #4837 established. scope=all keeps all 1327 Windows files - Linux alone
excludes the storage-policy and api-usage families because separate jobs own them.

The aggregate gate counts the nine legs by name through the Actions API. A matrix
rolls up to success when a leg never starts, so counting is the only way to know
the dispatch produced the evidence it was run to produce.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
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Windows CI now runs nine shards through the shared fresh-process batch runner. The runner supports general and all test-file scopes. Workflow gates, tests, and CI documentation validate and describe the updated behavior.

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Windows CI batching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Batch runner scope selection
scripts/ci/run-bun-test-batches.sh, tests/ci-workflows/ci-crash-disposition.test.ts
The runner validates general and all scopes. General scope excludes dedicated storage-policy, storage, and API-usage files. All scope includes them. Tests cover both scopes and the Windows-compatible execution model.
Windows workflow integration
.github/workflows/ci.yml, tests/ci-workflows/ci-workflows.test.ts, tests/ci-workflows/ci-bun-crash-classifier.test.ts
Windows expands from six to nine shards and invokes the shared runner with BUN_TEST_FILE_SCOPE=all, six-file batches, and 480-second batch timeouts. The aggregate gate validates nine successful Windows results.
CI contract documentation
structure/ops/docs-and-release.md, structure/overview.md
Documentation records the nine-shard Windows matrix, Linux and Windows batching limits, test-file scopes, and aggregate gate requirements.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WindowsMatrix
  participant BatchRunner
  participant Bun
  participant AggregateGate
  WindowsMatrix->>BatchRunner: Run shard with all test-file scope
  BatchRunner->>Bun: Execute batches of up to 6 files with 480-second bounds
  Bun-->>BatchRunner: Return process status
  BatchRunner-->>WindowsMatrix: Return shard result
  WindowsMatrix-->>AggregateGate: Publish windows N/9 result
  AggregateGate->>AggregateGate: Validate nine successful results
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  • lidge-jun/opencodex#899: Introduced the Windows promotion lane and aggregate ci gate that this change modifies from six to nine shards.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 76 / 80

이 PR은 Windows lane=all 다리가 30분 천장에 다시 닿은 문제를 고칩니다. 지금 dev HEAD는 7ef3f6745이고, 바로 위에는 #4846(계약을 소스 형태가 아니라 행동으로 단언)과 #4849(kill 뒤 자식이 실제로 죽을 때까지 기다린 다음 삭제)가 있습니다. 그 아래에서 Windows 수동 배치는 여전히 여섯 샤드·한 프로세스 bun test --shard=N/6 형태입니다. PR 본문이 보여 준 최근 일곱 번 dispatch를 보면 샤드 합이 대략 114~133분이고, 한 샤드가 30분에 cancelled로 끊기면 패스도 페일도 아닌 상태가 됩니다. 어떤 파일이 돌다 죽었는지도 안 남습니다. 게이트로서 제일 나쁜 결과입니다.

고치는 방법은 두 갈래입니다. 첫째, 샤드를 6에서 9로 늘립니다. 총 작업량·1.43배 불균형·25% 실행마다 느려짐까지 곱하면 8샤드는 약 29.8분으로 여유가 없고, 9샤드는 약 26.5분으로 30분 한도를 유지한 채 여유를 다시 만듭니다. 천장(timeout-minutes: 30)은 올리지 않습니다. 둘째, Windows도 Linux와 같은 scripts/ci/run-bun-test-batches.sh로 돌립니다. 파일은 한 번에 최대 12개, 프로세스 한도는 120초입니다. 타임아웃·크래시가 나면 샤드는 바로 빨개지고, 그다음 싱글톤 sweep은 원인만 적고 초록으로 되돌리지 않습니다. 이건 #4837이 정한 "첫 실패에서 끝, 재시도로 초록 만들지 않기"와 같은 방향입니다.

파일 집합은 그대로 둡니다. Linux 일반 샤드는 storage-policy·api-usage를 빼고, Windows만 BUN_TEST_FILE_SCOPE=all로 전 스위트(약 1327파일)를 유지합니다. 배치로 프로세스 크기만 바꾸고 Windows 계약 파일 수는 줄이지 않겠다는 뜻입니다. 합산 게이트도 windows N/6windows N/9로 세도록 같이 바꿉니다. 매트릭스 rollup은 다리가 안 떠도 success처럼 보일 수 있어서, Actions API로 이름별 9다리를 세는 쪽이 맞습니다. structure/ops/docs-and-release.md·structure/overview.mdtests/ci-workflows/ 세 테스트도 같은 숫자·배치 경로·scope=all을 같이 고정합니다. types/config 대형 분리와도 무관하고, 타임아웃 확대·재시도·스킵도 없습니다.

라인 ci.yml platform-windows matrix - 샤드가 9로 늘면 동시 Windows 러너가 3개 더 필요하고, checkout/install/build 고정 비용도 3번 더 납니다. 여유를 산 대가가 분명합니다.
path scripts/ci/run-bun-test-batches.sh - Windows에서 이 스크립트를 쓰는 건 처음입니다. mapfile·GNU timeout·Git-for-Windows Bash 조합이 호스티드 러너에서 실제로 도는지, 첫 lane=all exact-head가 증명하기 전에는 정적 검토만으로는 닫히지 않습니다.
path 배치 오버헤드 - 샤드당 약 147~148파일 → 약 13번 Bun 프로세스 기동입니다. 한 프로세스 --shard보다 spawn·isolate 비용이 커서, 계산상 26.5분 여유가 실측에서 얼마나 남는지 첫 그린 런으로 확인이 필요합니다.
path PR 본문 permissions - 본문은 gate에 actions: read를 새로 준다고 적었지만, 현재 dev gate job에 이미 있고 이 PR diff에도 permission hunk는 없습니다. 동작에는 문제 없고 설명만 어긋납니다.
path tests/ci-workflows - 워크플로·배치 스크립트·scope 계약은 잘 고정했지만, Windows 실러너에서의 batch timeout/crash 귀속은 로컬 가짜 toolchain 테스트가 아니라 호스티드 증거에 남아 있습니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 러너 3개·고정 오버헤드 증가를 장기 비용으로 받아들일지, 아니면 스위트 줄이기·느린 테스트 분해가 먼저인지
  • 첫 Windows lane=all exact-head 그린을 머지 게이트로 둘지, 정적·단위 계약만으로 먼저 넣을지
  • 배치 spawn 오버헤드가 여유를 다시 갉아먹으면 다음 수단을 샤드 추가가 아니라 파일/테스트 쪽으로 갈지
  • PR 본문의 actions: read 문장을 고칠지(이미 dev에 있음)

너의 추천
방향은 #4837·#4835 이후 Windows 게이트를 다시 읽을 수 있게 만드는 올바른 다음 단계다. 숫자(9)·잡 이름·TEST_SHARD·게이트 카운트·문서·테스트가 한 세트로 움직여서 계약이 깨질 구멍은 작다. 머지 전에 이 헤드로 Windows lane=all을 한 번 돌려, (1) batch runner가 Git-for-Windows에서 뜨는지 (2) 최악 샤드가 30분 안에 끝나는지 (3) 쐐기가 파일/배치 이름으로 남는지 확인한 뒤 넣는 쪽을 추천한다. 본문의 permission 문장만 고치면 설명도 맞는다.

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test("all scope preserves the dedicated families in the Windows suite", () => {
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P1 Badge Count the final one-file primary batch correctly

With the added dedicated fixture, all scope supplies seven files at batch size three, so the runner correctly launches batches of 3, 3, and 1 files. However, batchCalls() excludes every call beginning with 1|, treating the final primary batch as an attribution call, so this assertion receives 2 and fails on every Linux run; this is reproducible with bun test tests/ci-workflows/ci-crash-disposition.test.ts and blocks CI. Count run.calls in this green case or distinguish primary calls from attribution calls explicitly.

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🟠 Major · Count primary calls separately from attribution calls. · ci-crash-disposition.test.ts:206-209

tests/ci-workflows/ci-crash-disposition.test.ts:206-209
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Count primary calls separately from attribution calls.

The all-scope fixture creates seven distinct files, and the runner selects all seven. With a batch size of three, it creates three primary calls. The final call contains only foxtrot.test.ts, so FAKE_BUN records it with a 1| prefix. batchCalls removes every 1| record and therefore misclassifies this primary call as an attribution call, returning two instead of three. Track the call phase in the harness, then keep the expected count at three.

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In `@tests/ci-workflows/ci-crash-disposition.test.ts` around lines 206 - 209,
Update the test harness around batchCalls and singletonCalls to track call phase
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Use all job executions for partial re-runs.

filter=latest returns only the most recent execution of the workflow run. If GitHub re-runs one failed Windows shard, the eight successful shards from the original execution are omitted. The gate then reports missing windows N/9 results and fails.

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 1103-1108: Update the jobs API query in the workflow’s legs
collection to use filter=all, then select the latest execution for each shard
name before validating conclusions and counts. Preserve the existing gate
behavior while correctly handling partial re-runs, and add a regression fixture
covering nine original legs plus a partial re-run of one failed leg.

In `@tests/ci-workflows/ci-crash-disposition.test.ts`:
- Around line 206-209: Update the test harness around batchCalls and
singletonCalls to track call phase explicitly rather than classifying calls
solely by the "1|" prefix, so the final single-file primary batch remains a
primary call while attribution calls are counted separately. Preserve the
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readonly BATCH_SIZE="${BUN_TEST_BATCH_SIZE:-12}"
readonly BATCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS="${BUN_TEST_BATCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS:-120}"
readonly BATCH_KILL_GRACE_SECONDS="${BUN_TEST_BATCH_KILL_GRACE_SECONDS:-15}"
readonly TEST_FILE_SCOPE="${BUN_TEST_FILE_SCOPE:-general}"

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Run the required validation for this cross-platform script.

The PR records no local tests or builds. The scripts/** rules require a focused probe, bun run typecheck, bun run privacy:scan, and bun run prepush for this change. Report any Windows validation that was not run.

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The first attempt gave this leg Linux's batch settings unchanged - 12 files, 120
seconds - and 7 of 9 shards went red on dispatch 35171877721. The runner reported
it precisely: "batch 5 timeout failure (exit 124)" followed by "every file passed
alone, so the timeout lives in multi-file process state". That second line is the
report you get when a bound is simply too small, not when something is wedged.

Windows is the slowest hardware on the board, which is the whole reason this leg
needed nine shards; a bound copied from the fastest one was never going to hold.
Measured across 58 completed batches in that dispatch: median 39.1s, p90 92.6s,
p95 100.1s, max 105.8s, and seven batches reached the 120s ceiling. The bound sat
at roughly the mean, so about half of all batches were always going to breach it.

Six files per batch with a 480-second bound. The sizing case is one naturally slow
file: codex-inject-integration.test.ts passes in 312.0s and 317.6s in green runs,
so its six-file batch projects to 337.4s, and 421.8s with the 25% run-to-run
variance this workflow already documents. 480 leaves 58.2s over that. Six-file
attribution halves topped out at 148.0s, so every other batch has an enormous
margin.

Linux keeps 12 files and 120 seconds. That number is correctly sized for that
hardware and sharing one constant across two very different machines is what
caused this.

The two numbers are independent. Batch size and bound decide how quickly a wedge
is named; the nine-shard split decides total wall time. Six-file batches add 12
processes per shard at a measured 0.106-0.168s of wrapper overhead each, about 2.1s
per shard, so the margin arithmetic in the shard comment is unchanged.

A real wedge now fails within eight minutes naming at most six files, with
singleton attribution after the shard is already red.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
The new scope=all case failed expecting three batches and seeing two, and the
interesting part is that the runner was right and the test was wrong.

batchCalls() classified every invocation beginning with "1|" as singleton
attribution. Seven fixture files at batch size three is a valid primary sequence of
3, 3, 1 - so the oracle threw away the last real batch and then reported the count
it had just corrupted. A test that miscounts and then asserts its own miscount is
the same false confidence this branch has been removing elsewhere, so the fix is the
oracle, not the number.

It now asserts the exact primary sequence 3, 3, 1, checks the runner's own summary
line for seven files in three processes, and still requires the dedicated file to
appear.

Windows coverage was verified independently rather than assumed, because a scope
that silently dropped the dedicated families would be exactly the silent loss this
round exists to prevent. From dispatch 35174148018: 1327 test files in the
repository, 1320 in general scope, 7 dedicated; the Windows legs ran 148x4 + 147x5
= 1327, and the logs show all seven - tests/server/api-usage.test.ts and the six
storage-policy files - executing across shards 3 through 8.

That dispatch also carried the calibration result: nine Windows shards, all green,
at 10.3 12.2 12.5 13.1 13.6 13.8 15.0 15.1 17.1 minutes against the 30-minute wall,
against a six-shard spread of 13.4 to 30.2.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.

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🟠 Major · Preserve prior shard results across partial reruns. · ci.yml:1112-1121

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Preserve prior shard results across partial reruns. The GitHub API defines filter=latest as the most recent execution of the workflow run, not the latest execution for each job. A partial rerun can therefore return only the rerun Windows shard(s). The exact nine-success check at lines 1123-1131 then fails because previously successful, non-rerun shards are absent. Use filter=all or merge the latest result for each shard from all executions.

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each shard uses its latest execution, ensuring the existing exact nine-success
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…nst itself (#4876)

dev went red on windows 4/9 of dispatch 35191675127, and the cause is mine.

#4851 replaced the Windows leg's single `bun test` invocation with 25 sequential
batch invocations. tests/preload.ts takes a user-scoped machine-local lock, and
line 101 makes it win32-only, so Linux and macOS have run this same batch runner
unqueued for a long time while Windows had never batched at all. The lock joins
workers that share a run ID and blocks anything with a different one, so each batch
now queued behind the previous batch's stragglers:

  [test] bare Bun worker 2548 is waiting for test run pid 7272 to release the user lock.
  ##[warning]Bun test process timed out after 480s in shard 4/9 batch 6/25.
  ##[error]Shard 4/9 batch 6: every file passed alone

The first file of that batch then ran in 11.25s during attribution. The eight
minutes were queue, not work, which is why a larger bound would only have hidden it
for longer.

scripts/test-run-lock.ts already names this case in its own timeout message: set
OCX_TEST_NO_QUEUE=1 only when overlapping test runners are intentional. A dedicated
CI job running its own batches back to back is one logical test run, so the batch
step now sets it. What the queue protects against - an unrelated second suite
stacking load on a developer's machine - cannot happen in that job, and each batch
still creates its isolated home and arms the live-home and service-manager guards
before it would have reached the lock.

The lock's own unit tests now pin an explicitly queued environment, so the workflow
bypass can never silently turn their acquisitions into no-ops. That was the real
risk in disabling a guard by environment variable.

The 480-second batch bound and the 30-minute job ceiling are unchanged.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
agentHits pushed a commit to agentHits/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
…each legible (lidge-jun#4851)

* ci(windows): restore the margin the six-shard leg lost, and make a breach legible

Every Windows dispatch had become a coin flip against the 30-minute job wall.
Measured wall time per shard over the last seven lane=all dispatches, in minutes:

  run 35168946544   30.2 CANCELLED   20.8  20.3  21.3  13.4  21.0
  run 35164979005   23.6  22.5  20.4  23.3  13.8  16.6
  run 35161399172   23.5  24.7  23.7  26.8  17.2  17.3
  run 35152226272   16.5  18.6  20.3  13.7  20.4  24.8
  run 35148850553   18.6  20.0  24.8  14.2  23.9  22.8
  run 35139132889   21.7  18.8  23.8  18.9  24.7  20.5
  run 35134620067   20.5  20.3  19.9  16.8  24.0  28.3

13.4 to 30.2 against a 30-minute ceiling. A shard killed at the wall reports
cancelled - neither a pass nor a fail, and with no indication of which file was
running when it died.

This is the third time this leg has grown into its ceiling; ci.yml already records
the first two. One leg reached 30 minutes and died in cleanup, four shards then ran
17-25 minutes with a green 3/4 cancelled at 25m12s, and six were chosen to put each
leg at two-thirds of that. Six has now done the same, helped by a suite that keeps
growing and by lidge-jun#4835 re-enabling a family that had been skipped.

Nine shards, arithmetic in the workflow: total observed work is about 133 minutes,
so nine legs project to 26.5 minutes including the ~1.43 slowest-shard skew and the
25% run-to-run variance this file already documents; eight projects to 29.8, which
is not margin. The ceiling stays 30 minutes, because raising it is the masking
answer and the number is supposed to mean something. The cost is three more
concurrent Windows runners and their fixed setup.

Cutting work per shard buys time but does not make a wedge readable, so this leg
now runs through the same batch runner Linux uses: at-most-12-file processes with a
120-second bound. A timeout or crash fixes the shard red immediately and names the
batch; the singleton sweep that follows is diagnosis only and cannot turn it green,
exactly as lidge-jun#4837 established. scope=all keeps all 1327 Windows files - Linux alone
excludes the storage-policy and api-usage families because separate jobs own them.

The aggregate gate counts the nine legs by name through the Actions API. A matrix
rolls up to success when a leg never starts, so counting is the only way to know
the dispatch produced the evidence it was run to produce.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.

* ci(windows): size the batch bound from Windows data, not Linux's

The first attempt gave this leg Linux's batch settings unchanged - 12 files, 120
seconds - and 7 of 9 shards went red on dispatch 35171877721. The runner reported
it precisely: "batch 5 timeout failure (exit 124)" followed by "every file passed
alone, so the timeout lives in multi-file process state". That second line is the
report you get when a bound is simply too small, not when something is wedged.

Windows is the slowest hardware on the board, which is the whole reason this leg
needed nine shards; a bound copied from the fastest one was never going to hold.
Measured across 58 completed batches in that dispatch: median 39.1s, p90 92.6s,
p95 100.1s, max 105.8s, and seven batches reached the 120s ceiling. The bound sat
at roughly the mean, so about half of all batches were always going to breach it.

Six files per batch with a 480-second bound. The sizing case is one naturally slow
file: codex-inject-integration.test.ts passes in 312.0s and 317.6s in green runs,
so its six-file batch projects to 337.4s, and 421.8s with the 25% run-to-run
variance this workflow already documents. 480 leaves 58.2s over that. Six-file
attribution halves topped out at 148.0s, so every other batch has an enormous
margin.

Linux keeps 12 files and 120 seconds. That number is correctly sized for that
hardware and sharing one constant across two very different machines is what
caused this.

The two numbers are independent. Batch size and bound decide how quickly a wedge
is named; the nine-shard split decides total wall time. Six-file batches add 12
processes per shard at a measured 0.106-0.168s of wrapper overhead each, about 2.1s
per shard, so the margin arithmetic in the shard comment is unchanged.

A real wedge now fails within eight minutes naming at most six files, with
singleton attribution after the shard is already red.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.

* test(ci): stop the batch oracle from discarding a one-file primary batch

The new scope=all case failed expecting three batches and seeing two, and the
interesting part is that the runner was right and the test was wrong.

batchCalls() classified every invocation beginning with "1|" as singleton
attribution. Seven fixture files at batch size three is a valid primary sequence of
3, 3, 1 - so the oracle threw away the last real batch and then reported the count
it had just corrupted. A test that miscounts and then asserts its own miscount is
the same false confidence this branch has been removing elsewhere, so the fix is the
oracle, not the number.

It now asserts the exact primary sequence 3, 3, 1, checks the runner's own summary
line for seven files in three processes, and still requires the dedicated file to
appear.

Windows coverage was verified independently rather than assumed, because a scope
that silently dropped the dedicated families would be exactly the silent loss this
round exists to prevent. From dispatch 35174148018: 1327 test files in the
repository, 1320 in general scope, 7 dedicated; the Windows legs ran 148x4 + 147x5
= 1327, and the logs show all seven - tests/server/api-usage.test.ts and the six
storage-policy files - executing across shards 3 through 8.

That dispatch also carried the calibration result: nine Windows shards, all green,
at 10.3 12.2 12.5 13.1 13.6 13.8 15.0 15.1 17.1 minutes against the 30-minute wall,
against a six-shard spread of 13.4 to 30.2.

No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
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