[juliusmarminge]

Problem

Tests asserted "finishes within N ms" with performance.now(), or built fixtures from Date.now(). Elapsed-time assertions pass or fail with runner load; live timestamps make fixtures drift.

Fix

• New rule t3code/no-wall-clock-in-tests: flags performance.now(), process.hrtime, Date.now(), and zero-arg new Date() outside vi.spyOn/vi.setSystemTime/mock arguments.
• 33 sites in 19 files: timing assertions dropped (the behavioral assertion next to them stays), fixtures use fixed epochs, fake-clock seeds are constants. Two suppressions on the env-gated recovery benchmark.

Part of the anti-flake stack (#22563). Context: main was red in ~600 of ~2,900 runs since September; the genuinely flaky tests all waited on real time, scheduler budgets, or renderer frames. These rules make those tests fail lint instead of CI.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.9 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	21.2 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: 595c604 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 595c604

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This PR makes tests deterministic by removing live wall-clock reads and adds a tested oxlint rule to prevent them from returning. The changes are limited to test code and development/CI lint tooling, with no shipped product behavior or defaults affected.

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The PR adds and enables an Oxlint rule that detects wall-clock reads in test files. Several server, mobile, and web tests now use fixed timestamps or a mocked clock.

Changes: Test clock determinism

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wall-clock rule and lint integration oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.test.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/index.ts, vite.config.ts	The Oxlint plugin adds and registers a rule that reports wall-clock reads in test files, with exemptions for reads used in mocking calls. Rule tests cover permitted and prohibited cases. The lint configuration enables the rule at error severity.
Fixed test timestamps and clock values apps/server/src/serverRuntimeState.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/home/useThreadListActions.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/onboarding/WelcomeWizard.import.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/src/hooks/useThreadActions.undo.test.ts	These tests replace runtime-derived timestamps with fixed values. The web onboarding test also mocks Date.now() to return its fixed timestamp.

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Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, maria-rcks

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oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-wall-clock-in-tests.ts: 1

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Rule exempts any wall-clock read nested anywhere inside a mocking call.

isMockArgument walks all ancestors. A read that sits inside any vi.fn(...), vi.spyOn(...), or .mockImplementation(...) call is allowed, even when the read measures elapsed time. Example: vi.fn(() => { const t = performance.now(); ...; assert(performance.now() - t < 10) }). The rule is a lint guard, so false negatives are low impact. Narrow the walk if you want stricter enforcement, for example stop at the first enclosing function that is not the direct mock argument.
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Restrict isMockArgument so it only exempts nodes belonging to the direct
argument of the nearest mocking call, rather than any descendant nested inside
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• apps/mobile/src/features/review/reviewState.test.ts
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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderRuntimeRecoveryPerformance.test.ts
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Re CodeRabbit's nitpick on isMockArgument: leaving as is. A wall-clock read inside a mock implementation is the mock faking a clock, which is the one place the rule must allow; a timing assertion inside a vi.fn body is contrived and would be caught in review. Narrowing the walk would start flagging the vi.spyOn(Date, "now").mockImplementation(() => performance.now()) shape that the fixed tests rely on.

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