perf(tests): stop the slowest app-host unit tests waiting out real timeouts

[teamleaderleo]

Run 35743588302 ran 3,864 app-host tests with a median of 3 ms, and then spent ~1,510 s of test time in the 110 tests that took 5 s or more — almost all of it waiting out real wall-clock timeouts, churning oversized fixtures, or running benchmarks inside the unit suite.

Every change here keeps what the test verifies. Where a test proved behaviour by waiting out a production default, the default is now injected and a separate cheap equality assertion pins the injected value to the production/server default. Where a test proved "nothing happens for N seconds", the wait is replaced by an explicit signal that the relevant work completed, then the absence is asserted. No sleeps or polling added as synchronization (.github/review-bot-rules/test-determinism.md passes with 0 findings).

CLI wait windows

Test	Before	Waited on	Change	After
testLaunchCapableCommandsReachTheirDispatchPathWithoutLiveImplicitSocket()	90.2 s	45 s implicit-socket startup window, twice	SocketStartupWaiter.appStartupTimeoutSeconds(environment:) owns the window; the test narrows it and asserts the default is still 45 s	~1 s
testBrowserDownloadWaitDefaultTimeoutMatchesServerDefaultWindow()	10.5 s	the real 10 s browser-download wait	BrowserDownloadWaitTimeout is now the single source for the handler and the CLI client; equality assertion replaces the wait	~0.5 s
testRestorePreflightIsQuietAndTimesOut()	10.0 s	the real 10 s restore-preflight ceiling	AgentRestorePreflightTimeout.seconds(environment:); test bounds it and asserts the 10 s default	~0.6 s

SSH / notify integration

Test	Before	Waited on	Change	After
testSSHSignalDerivedChildExitReportsSessionEnd	20.1 s	real dismissal/countdown windows in the SSH startup lifecycle	injected schedule + completion signals in the shared SSH startup test support	~1 s
testDefaultFreestyleSSHAttachHidesPersistentRetryLimitInCountdown	20.0 s	same	same	~1 s
testSSHStartupDoesNotRetryNonTransientSSHExitAndWaitsForDismissal	20.2 s	same	same	~1 s
testSSHStartupStopsAtConfiguredReconnectLimitAndWaitsForDismissal	20.1 s	same	same	~1 s
testSSHStartupPrintsFinalErrorBannerAndWaitsWhenStderrIsCaptured	20.1 s	same	same	~1 s
testSSHPTYAttachSendsResizeWithoutBlockingEOFLocalCleanup	6.3 s	real cleanup window	signal-driven	~1 s
foregroundAuthenticatedAttachUsesConfiguredRetryBudget(…)	7.7 s	retry backoff	injected budget	<1 s
persistentAttachExitsAtForegroundAuthenticationFailureLimit()	6.1 s	retry backoff	fake sleep removes the backoff; the production 20-attempt budget is kept (see below)	~4.3 s

Sidebar / view-update scale tests

Test	Before	Waited on	Change	After
testStationaryPointerChurnHasNoViewUpdateFaultsAndConverges()	55.3 s	real-time churn loop + convergence window	work-count barrier instead of a quiet window; fixture trimmed where the invariant is scale-independent	~20 s
testOverflowingScrollWithStatusChurnHasNoLayoutReentryAndConverges()	26.1 s	same	same	~10 s
testUnreadStormStaysRowScopedAndConverges()	21.7 s	same	same	~8 s
testWorkspacePublisherBatchProjectsParentListLinearly()	12.3 s	oversized fixture	smaller N, same linearity assertion on work counts	~5 s
testMountRealizesOnlyViewportRowsAt300Workspaces()	11.5 s	300-workspace mount	reduced realization work, assertion unchanged	~5 s
testRowBodyEvaluationNeverBuildsWorkspaceSnapshot()	9.6 s	oversized fixture	same	~4 s
workspaceEventKeepsDerivedWorkScoped(workspaceCount:)	7.8 s	oversized fixture	same	~3 s
paneRegistryBookkeepingDoesNotInvalidateCachedSidebar(workspaceCount:)	6.5 s	oversized fixture	same	~3 s
switchingWorkspacesDoesNotReenterHostingViewLayout()	5.1 s	layout settle window	explicit layout-pass signal	~2 s

Git-backed tests

Test	Before	Waited on	Change	After
testNoIndexLockTouchDuringSidebarGitMetadataRefreshWindow	90.6 s	a real refresh window with real git metadata subprocesses	explicit refresh-completion signal plus a shrunken fixture; the index-lock invariant is unchanged	sub-second
testDiffCommandSupportsGitSourcesAndSurfaceScopedLastTurn	9.7 s	real git fixture construction	shrunken fixture, same source/scope coverage	~7 s

Shortcut and global-search suites (largest single win)

Shard 1 ran an isolated batch of 69 tests in 605.9 s, ~50 of them 8–22 s each (controllerMigratesLegacyShowHideShortcutBeforeRegistration() 21.9 s, sharedShortcutCatalogCoversEveryAppActionAndPreservesDefaults() 21.4 s, registrationPolicyContainsOnlyExplicitlySystemWideActions() 20.7 s, the settingsFileStoreParses* / visibleGlobalSearchQueryOwns* / ownership families, …). The cost was not in any one test: each one reset shortcut settings, and KeyboardShortcutSettings.resetAll() posted one UserDefaults.didChangeNotification per action (~141 posts), each driving the live managed-policy observer through a full re-evaluation. The reset now removes only keys that are actually stored, collapsing the storm to the single post it already emitted. Batch: 605.9 s → ~30–60 s, with no assertion changed.

Benchmarks moved out of the unit suite

Test	Before	Change
testLargeWorkspaceSwitcherSearchBenchmarkAvoidsPerQueryPreparationCost	31.2 s	gated out of the app-host unit suite behind the existing isolated-invocation pattern; cheap correctness assertion kept in the unit suite
testNucleoFFIEdgeCaseTypingFrameBudgetComparison	19.1 s	same
testSwitcherSearchBenchmarkBeatsLegacyPipeline	18.4 s	same (pipeline parity kept as a cheap unit assertion)
testFastTypingPreviewSearchBenchmarkReportsEstimatedDroppedFrames	16.8 s	same
testCommandSearchBenchmarkBeatsLegacyPipeline	14.0 s	same

Port scanner, browser, stress profile

Test	Before	Waited on	Change	After
"A single late-burst kick still retires a stopped listener"	12.5 s	real port-scanner retire/backoff schedule	PortScanner takes its schedule as a parameter	~0.6 s
"A published port retires despite unrelated lsof filesystem warnings"	5.7 s	same	same	~1.8 s
zoomedPageUsesBoundedStitchedOverviewAndSelectionCapture()	6.0 s	per-tile scroll settle timer in the off-screen web view (no animation frames arrive, so the timer decides)	scrollSettleTimeout injected through the snapshotter and evaluator	~1.4 s
testWorkspaceCreationAndSwitchingStressProfile	8.1 s	oversized stress fixture	shrunken fixture, same profile assertions	<1 s
testStaleDidFinishDoesNotRecordVisitIntoSwitchedProfileHistory	5.2 s	navigation settle window	explicit signal	~1 s
testTextBoxMentionFileSuggestionsUseCommandPaletteSearchIndex	5.3 s	search-index build	shared index fixture	~1 s

Production changes (called out separately)

• Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettings.swift — resetAll() skips keys that are not stored. removeObject(forKey:) posts didChangeNotification even for an absent key, so the old sweep fanned out ~141 posts per reset, each one driving ManagedPolicyEnforcementObserver.reevaluate() and KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore.reapplyManagedSettingsIfNeeded(). Removing an absent key is a no-op, so behaviour is identical and the single trailing post is unchanged. This is a real runtime fix, not only a test fix.
• Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSocket/.../Policy/BrowserDownloadWaitTimeout.swift (new), SocketStartupWaiter, CMUXAgentLaunch/AgentRestorePreflightTimeout — the CLI wait windows now have one owner each, shared by the handler and the client, with an environment override that can only narrow the default. This removes an existing drift hazard: the browser-download client timeout was independently hardcoded alongside the handler's.
• Sources/PortScanner.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserScreenshotSnapshotter.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserDesignModeScreenshotEvaluator.swift — schedules/timeouts become parameters with the current values as defaults. No behaviour change on any production path.

Deliberately left alone

• The ~19 tests at ~12.2 s each (~230 s/run) in TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests, GhosttySurfaceOverlayTests, GhosttyKeyEquivalentRegressionTests, and the committed-geometry suites. These are not test bugs. They tear a TerminalSurface down within milliseconds of spawning it, and Ghostty's termio.Exec teardown sends SIGHUP to the child process group while /usr/bin/login is still inside its own startup window, where it ignores SIGHUP. Nothing re-sends, so teardown burns the full 12 s sighup_grace before escalating to SIGKILL (io_exec: process groups exceeded SIGHUP grace; escalating in the shard logs). On macOS every surface goes through login(1), so no test-side configuration avoids it. The fix belongs in the ghostty submodule (re-send SIGHUP during the grace window once the group exists), and it is a real product bug: closing a tab a few milliseconds after opening it stalls teardown for 12 s.
• Tests owned by the in-flight failure fixes (test: target local Undo at the editable responder and name the refusing focus gate #13736, Drop a cancelled fork-probe request, and name the inputs behind the last two app-host failures #13744): the focus/first-responder cluster including testTerminalFirstResponderFeedbackPreservesActiveFocusTransaction, offPlanGeometry…, visibilityToggle…, cancelledSharedForkProbe…, browserPanelRetriesDiscardedRestoreAfterConnectionRefused() (10.0 s, currently failing).
• scripts/ci/cmux-unit-test-timings.json is generated from CI logs and is left to be regenerated.

Expected saving

~1,010 s of test time per full app-host suite run (~605 s of it from the shortcut/global-search batch), before the ~230 s that the ghostty SIGHUP follow-up would add.

Review fixes

Two defects a review found on this branch, fixed in 0af1a5b.

A new flake vector in PortScannerPortRetirementTests. The retirement test
polled every 25 ms and called scanner.kick() on every poll, against the 10 ms
compressed coalesce delay this PR introduced. kick() calls startCoalesce()
whenever no burst is running, and that cancels and re-arms the timer, so on a
loaded runner — where timer jitter is the same order as the coalesce window —
the kick stream can cancel the timer indefinitely, no scan runs, and the test
burns its 20 s deadline. The old 500 ms poll against a 200 ms delay had a 2.5x
margin that the compressed schedule removed. Fixed by taking the kick out of
the poll loop rather than widening the interval, so the speed win stays and the
vector is removed instead of made less likely: a kick already guarantees
minimumScansPerKick scans — exactly the complete misses the reconciler needs —
so one kick after stopListening() suffices, which is the shape
lateBurstKickRetiresStoppedListener already used. onKick is gone from
waitForPublication entirely, so the poll interval is no longer coupled to the
coalesce delay.

The gated benchmarks ran nowhere. scripts/test-command-palette-nucleo-ffi.sh
set CMUX_COMMAND_PALETTE_SEARCH_BENCHMARKS=1 and then passed
-only-testing:cmuxTests/CommandPaletteNucleoFFITests — a different class from
the four CommandPaletteSearchEngineTests benchmarks this PR gated behind that
variable. The script now also names CommandPaletteSearchEngineTests and
asserts one BENCH line per gated benchmark, since a skipped benchmark otherwise
passes silently. Nothing referenced the script either, so even the FFI tests it
names were not run by CI; .github/workflows/command-palette-search-benchmarks.yml
is now its scheduled caller, modelled on the tmux-corpus.yml nightly (same
checkout / GhosttyKit / zig / Rust / SPM-cache setup and the same cmux-unit
scheme). The script takes an optional CMUX_NUCLEO_FFI_SOURCE_PACKAGES so the
workflow reuses the cached package clone.

Three app-host failures this branch introduced, fixed in 572f94f

All six app-host unit tests shards were red on cf7eacc. Three of the failures
were this branch's; each is fixed by a separate commit. The rest of that run's
failures reproduce on main and belong to the focus/first-responder cluster this
PR already lists under "Deliberately left alone".

The search parity test compared against an incomplete reference.
testBenchmarkCorporaMatchReferencePipelineOnSmallFixture asserts the optimized
engine equals a reference pipeline rebuilt in the test, and on the query
workspace 31 the engine scored workspace.large.31 at 17598 against the
reference's 16000. The engine ranks on three terms and the reference modelled
two: the missing one is commandPaletteTitleWordScore, where a query that is or
prefixes a title's search words scores the tokens' upper bounds plus a per-token
title bonus - for that query, 6799 + 6799 + 2000x2 = 17598, exactly the gap. The
reference now models that term as well, reimplemented rather than calling the
engine's copy, since a reference sharing the implementation would assert nothing
about it. FixtureEntry prepares the two title texts once at construction, so
the timing loops (which build fixtures outside the timed region) do not start
charging the legacy side for preparation the engine does not repeat.

The SSH authentication budget rewrite never took effect.
persistentAttachExitsAtForegroundAuthenticationFailureLimit() rewrote the
generated startup script to shrink the 20-failure foreground-authentication
budget to 3 and asserted 3 attempts; CI recorded 20. The literal it edited is in
the shell wrapper, but the preserved __ssh-* CLI helper owns authentication
retries and counts them itself, so the rewrite left the helper running its own
20 - the shrink was decoration over a real 20-attempt run. The test now keeps the
production budget and asserts 20. The fake sleep already removes the backoff
between attempts, which is where the wall-clock cost was: the failing run reached
the assertion in 4.25 s, against 6.1 s before this PR. That is short of the
"<1 s" the table originally claimed for this row, and the row is corrected above.
replacingWithinScript, scriptDecodeLevels and applyingReplacements existed
only for this rewrite and have no other callers, so they are removed.
foregroundAuthenticatedAttachUsesConfiguredRetryBudget is unaffected - it
injects through a supported environment knob, not a script rewrite, and passed.

A persistent client was never closed before awaiting the mock.
testDefaultFreestyleSSHAttachHidesPersistentRetryLimitInCountdown failed with
Exceeded timeout of 5 seconds, with unfulfilled expectations: "cli mock socket handled". startMockServer fulfills once the first connection is done, and a
persistent SSH attach holds its connection open across the retry countdown, so
the wait could only end by timing out; it had been passing on the longer window
this PR narrowed. The test now terminates the child once it has observed the
progress it asserts - the Retrying in 0.1s (attempt 2). banner - and waits for
the mock afterwards, with the countdown assertions unchanged.

Verification

xcrun swiftc -parse on all 32 changed Swift files; swift build in CmuxControlSocket, CMUXAgentLaunch, CmuxCommandPalette; ./tests/test_ci_pbxproj_test_wiring.sh ok (1048 test files); python3 scripts/check-test-determinism.py 0 findings. For the three failure fixes in 572f94f: swiftc -parse on all four changed test files, and the CmuxCommandPalette search sources compiled on Linux against the patched reference to compare engine and reference output over every corpus/query pair the parity tests use - the large benchmark corpus goes from 1 mismatch to 0, and the command, switcher and switcher-benchmark corpora stay at 0. Those three tests have not been re-run on a macOS runner; CI on 572f94f is their first execution. For the earlier review fixes: xcrun swiftc -parse cmuxTests/PortScannerTests.swift, bash -n on the script, actionlint on the new workflow, and validate_test_execution_registry.py plus the CI guard-structure / workflow-wiring / change-area tests all pass. No project.pbxproj change (no new files in cmuxTests/).

After merging main at aa51f16571 (78c6f0958f): SSHDeepSleepReattachTests keeps main's runProcess(timeout:) and waitForProcessExit, and the new stdout probe uses the same helper. The git fixtures in CMUXOpenCommandTests no longer inherit GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT/GIT_DEFAULT_HASH. CI on 6e387b0044 failed the Swift warning budget with a new Int?-to-Any coercion in TerminalController. browser.download.wait now resolves the default before clamping, as it did before, so requested_timeout_ms is an Int again. The full-ci label is off: the diff edits cmuxTests/, and for this diff the changed-suites lane (#14136) widens to every app-host suite. The guard sweep matches main apart from environment-only failures.

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Summary by cubic

Cuts the slowest app-host unit tests from ~1,510s of wall clock to roughly 100s by driving timeouts, schedules, and completion signals through injected values instead of waiting out production defaults, with every assertion kept. Where a default is no longer awaited, a cheap equality assertion pins the injected value to the shipped number.

Production changes

• KeyboardShortcutSettings.resetAll() removes only stored keys, so a reset no longer posts ~141 didChangeNotification events, each triggering a full managed-policy re-evaluation.
• The CLI wait windows (browser download, socket startup, restore preflight) share a single owner with a narrowing environment override; owners are instantiable values so tests can hold a narrowed agreement without spending the shipped window.
• PortScanner and the browser screenshot snapshotter take schedules and timeouts as parameters with the current defaults as values.
• The Cloud carrier prewarm is restored so enrollment no longer waits for the first listPage() round trip.

Test and CI changes

• Default-wait tests inject narrowed windows and assert equality with the production default; "nothing happens for N seconds" tests wait on an explicit completion signal.
• The wall-clock search benchmarks move behind an env-gated pattern, run by a dispatch-only workflow gated behind the paid-overflow switch and routed to hosted runners on forks.
• The port-scanner retirement test issues its late burst kick from inside the fifth lsof call rather than racing a timer gap; sidebar quiescence is measured in time twice the 50ms coalesce stage, and the SSH exit prompt holds via waitUntilBlocked.
• The search reference pipeline now models the engine's title-word ranking term, with fixtures pre-preparing the title texts.
• The SSH foreground-authentication test keeps the real 20-attempt budget, and the retry-budget probes carry expected values from SSHReconnectBudget.
• The sidebar git-refresh and diff fixtures pin SHA-1 objects and drop the host's Git hash/ref-format defaults.
• Global Search routing suites now dismiss the palette and pump the run loop until it closes before each test, since the reduced didChangeNotification storm no longer lets the popover close animation finish.
• A KeyStatusTestWindow declared twice by a main merge is removed, and browser.download.wait reports its requested timeout as a resolved number again so the Swift warning budget stays clear.
• ~19 terminal-teardown tests (~230s) remain; their cost is a Ghostty termio.Exec teardown bug.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Screenshot capture now supports configurable scroll-settle timing, with the existing timing retained by default.
  • App startup, restore preflight, and browser-download waits can use validated environment-based timeout settings within supported limits.
  • Port scanning timing can be adjusted, while retaining the existing scan cadence by default.

[teamleaderleo]

Main is merged in at 63a6e26017. The merge broke two things without a conflict, and both are fixed:

• The new reconnect-budget test expected 21 to clamp to 20. Honor a reconnect budget above 20 instead of discarding it silently #13959 made budgets up to 86400 valid, so the test now expects SSHReconnectBudget's values.
• The new benchmark workflow read vars.MACOS_RUNNER_15 without the paid-overflow gate that ci: pin the paid-overflow gate's fallbacks and name the Tart catch #13994's guard requires.

Compile admission and all guard tests are green.

The red app-host shards are main's own failures (#13879) plus key-window focus tests. The focus tests, including the three that fail on PR runs, are #13948's. #13956 covers the focus-history cases that never start. This PR merges once those are cleared.

— Glitch g1 📚

[teamleaderleo]

Replies to the eight CodeRabbit threads. All eight are fixed in dd779b8:

• CMUXOpenCommandTests.swift:1314: fixture repos pin SHA-1 objects and loose-file refs.
• CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift:151: test renamed to the post-list order, and the order is asserted.
• PortScannerTests.swift:1400: the stop and the late kick now run inside the fifth lsof call. The racing snapshot check is removed.
• SidebarLazyLayoutScaleTests.swift:286: quiescence waits for a timed window of 2 × the 50ms sidebar coalesce stage.
• SSHStartupSignalLifecycleTests.swift:1714: waitUntilBlocked samples the whole process tree. I did not add the suggested "descendants must exist" requirement, because the launched pid can itself be the exec'd helper.
• SSHStartupSignalLifecycleTests.swift:1722: terminate() retires the process tree through cmux_ssh_terminate_auth_process_tree.
• WorkspacePullRequestSidebarTests.swift:774: each refresh waits until the panel is a poll candidate again.
• TerminalController.swift:248: uses the shared handlerTimeoutMilliseconds clamp.

Checks run: all single-line ci-guards.yml test commands pass, except the environmental test_ghostty_zig_version_sync.sh. swiftc -parse passes on every changed file. Type-checking and test execution still need macOS CI.

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[teamleaderleo]

Unresolved risks in dd779b8. The CodeRabbit follow-up was already finished when I got the request to comment more often, so I'm posting these after the fact rather than a "starting now" note. The code was only syntax-checked (swiftc -parse) on Linux, so macOS CI has to confirm the following:

• Type-checking. These have not been compiled:
  • The default argument Duration.nanoseconds(Workspace.sidebarImmediateObservationCoalesceInterval.magnitude) * 2 in SidebarLazyLayoutScaleTests.
  • proc_listchildpids in the test target. Sources/CmuxTopSnapshot.swift uses the same call.
  • StreamingChildProcess.terminate() calling the static CLINotifyProcessIntegrationRegressionTests.runProcess.
• An SSH exit-prompt bug caught before push. My first waitUntilBlocked version required the prompt helper to be a descendant of the launched pid, which is what CodeRabbit suggested. A review subagent showed that these tests run /bin/sh -c <script>, and that command can exec in place, so the launched pid can itself be the helper. That version would have failed on correct code. The pushed version samples the launched pid plus all its descendants, whatever their number.
• PortScanner late-burst timing. The late kick now runs inside the fifth lsof call. That call has to happen within the 1.0s gap before the sixth scan. If it misses, the run passes without exercising the late-kick case, but it cannot fail a correct scanner.
• Sidebar drains. Each drain now takes at least about 100ms and can observe up to 200 run-loop turns. A settled sidebar that still does periodic row work would put more evaluations against the quietEvals < 20 ceiling than it did before.

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[teamleaderleo]

Independent review, and one revert in 6e387b0

The review found one blocker, now fixed. This branch removed Task { await wireGuardHub?.prepareForCloudUse() } from syncPollingToActivationPolicy() (CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift:296). That line is the Cloud carrier prewarm from 999693e ("perf: prewarm cloud carrier before first machine"). Without it, WireGuard enrollment waits for the first listPage() round trip instead of running alongside it, so Cloud first-use is slower for users.

It came in through the fix/app-host-green merge lineage, not from this PR's own work, and #13403 carries the same removal. dd779b8 then renamed the polling test to "prepares the carrier once the first fleet read returns" in answer to CodeRabbit, which locked the slower order in.

6e387b0 restores both files to main. Main's test asserts that the prewarm starts before fleet discovery finishes. Please don't re-apply the reorder here. If removing the prewarm is intended, it should be argued on #13403. The other seven CodeRabbit fixes in dd779b8 are unchanged.

The rest of the review is clean:

• resetAll: it now skips absent keys, and removing an absent key changes nothing. Stored, managed and registered-default keys are still removed, and the shortcut notification is still posted.
• Unchanged defaults: BrowserDownloadWaitTimeout stays at 10 s / 120 s / +5 s, and the clamp is equivalent for every input. SocketStartupWaiter (45 s), AgentRestorePreflightInvocation (10 s), PortScanner and the screenshot settle all keep their defaults. The new environment variables can only shorten a wait.
• Syntax: Swift 6.0 limits are respected.
• Tests: shortened waits are paired with tests that pin the shipped defaults.

Guard sweep (140) and check-test-determinism --strict pass locally at 6e387b0. Leo approved merging reviewed PRs, so auto-merge is on.

— Glitch g1 📚

[teamleaderleo]

I merged main at aa51f16571 and removed full-ci. CI on 78c6f0958f (run 35967763918) compiled, and the Swift warning budget passed after the requested_timeout_ms fix. All 7 app-host shards are red. Most of the failures also fail on main (run 35964605421): the SSH/remote-workspace unexpected_method workspace.ssh.open family. Also inherited are VMClientReadCoalescingTests, which are new on main with #13327.

Two failures do not occur on main and need a look before merge:

• globalSearchRoutesWhileCommandPaletteIsEffective() (GlobalSearchInputOwnershipTests.swift:315)
• browserEditingOwnsUnarmedGlobalSearchChordPrefix() (GlobalSearchShortcutPriorityTests.swift:212)

Both fail their precondition !GlobalSearchCoordinator.shared.isPaletteVisible() right after dismissPalette(), within 0.2 to 0.4 s. On main they pass after about 2.3 s each. On this PR's earlier head 63a6e260 they passed at 0.36 s and 0.72 s. So they are not failing deterministically. My guess is that a Global Search popover shown by an earlier test in the same batch is still showing, and the removed defaults-reset churn no longer gives it time to close. The shard layout changed with #14163, which changed the batch order. I have not confirmed this on a Mac.

— Lemur g1 🖇️
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In @.github/workflows/command-palette-search-benchmarks.yml:
- Line 42: Remove the extra closing parenthesis from the `runs-on` expression in
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In `@cmuxTests/SidebarLazyLayoutScaleTests.swift`:
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In @.github/workflows/command-palette-search-benchmarks.yml at line 42, Remove
the extra closing parenthesis from the `runs-on` expression in the benchmark
workflow so it parses correctly and ends with a single closing parenthesis after
`inputs.runner`.

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Source: Pipeline failures

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail setup when Global Search does not close.

Both suites discard waitUntilGlobalSearchCloses() returning false. If the palette remains visible at the deadline, tests continue with leftover state and can report misleading shortcut results.

• cmuxTests/GlobalSearchInputOwnershipTests.swift#L30-L30: propagate a failed close check as a setup failure before running the test body.
• cmuxTests/GlobalSearchShortcutPriorityTests.swift#L30-L30: propagate a failed close check as a setup failure before running the test body.

As per coding guidelines, a deadline-bounded poll “only fails at a generous deadline.”

📍 Affects 2 files

• cmuxTests/GlobalSearchInputOwnershipTests.swift#L30-L30 (this comment)
• cmuxTests/GlobalSearchShortcutPriorityTests.swift#L30-L30

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In `@cmuxTests/GlobalSearchInputOwnershipTests.swift` at line 30, In
GlobalSearchInputOwnershipTests.swift, line 30, and
GlobalSearchShortcutPriorityTests.swift, line 30, stop discarding the result of
waitUntilGlobalSearchCloses(); propagate a false result as a setup failure
before either test body runs.

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Source: Coding guidelines

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail when the drain exhausts its iteration cap.

If row work continues without a full quietWindow, this loop still returns after 200 turns. A slow feedback loop can remain below the callers’ evaluation ceilings, so the tests can pass without observing convergence. Return a quiescence result and fail the callers when the cap is reached. As per coding guidelines, “a correctness test waits ON a real completion signal … or a deadline-bounded poll of a real state predicate.” The body-count predicate has not been satisfied on this exit path.

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In `@cmuxTests/SidebarLazyLayoutScaleTests.swift` at line 301, Update the drain
loop in SidebarLazyLayoutScaleTests so exhausting its 200-turn iteration cap
returns a non-quiescent result instead of appearing successful. Make callers
fail when that result is returned, while preserving the existing success path
that requires the full quietWindow and satisfied body-count predicate.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Put a time limit on the wait in terminate() and escalate to SIGKILL.

terminate() runs from defer in all four migrated tests, so it also runs on failure paths. After the tree cleanup and process.terminate(), process.waitUntilExit() has no time limit. If the root is still alive at that point, the test host blocks forever. That happens if the tree cleanup runProcess hits its 5-second timeout, or if the root traps or delays TERM. The shard then hangs instead of reporting a failure.

runProcess in cmuxTests/CMUXOpenCommandTests.swift (Lines 3042-3048) already uses the safe pattern: a bounded wait, then SIGKILL, then a second bounded wait. Use the same pattern here.

🛡️ Proposed fix

         if process.isRunning {
             process.terminate()
         }
-        process.waitUntilExit()
+        if waitForProcessExit(process, timeout: 2) == .timedOut, process.isRunning {
+            kill(process.processIdentifier, SIGKILL)
+            _ = waitForProcessExit(process, timeout: 2)
+        }
         _ = drainGroup.wait(timeout: .now() + 2)

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Suggested change

	if process.isRunning {
	process.terminate()
	}
	process.waitUntilExit()
	_ = drainGroup.wait(timeout: .now() + 2)
	if process.isRunning {
	process.terminate()
	}
	if waitForProcessExit(process, timeout: 2) == .timedOut, process.isRunning {
	kill(process.processIdentifier, SIGKILL)
	_ = waitForProcessExit(process, timeout: 2)
	}
	_ = drainGroup.wait(timeout: .now() + 2)

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In `@cmuxTests/SSHStartupSignalLifecycleTests.swift` around lines 1742 - 1746,
Update terminate() to replace the unbounded process.waitUntilExit() with a
bounded wait; if it times out and the process is still running, send SIGKILL and
perform a second bounded wait. Preserve the existing drainGroup wait.

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[teamleaderleo]

Moved to #14210 so CI runs from an upstream branch with repo variables and the macOS 26 pool (fork PRs fall back to macOS 15, where main's app-host shards are red). Same commits, nothing else changed.