perf(bench): record what each bats suite costs, from a run that already happened - #646
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CLOUD-352 Build duration is already the throughput ceiling and every timeout budget is grandfathered, so nothing fails when it gets slower
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Measured. The prediction is already visible here, not hypothetical:
So the quantity the source says governs the branching model is, here, the binding constraint on fan-out — and it is the one quantity with no ratchet. The ceiling was reached, 2026-08-11. The N ≈ 2.9 figure above was a model. Here is the model failing in practice: a single one-commit change to Nothing was broken. The lap cap is a runaway backstop and it fired correctly. But it is the first observation of the loop failing to converge on a trivial change, and it happened because several sessions were landing concurrently — which is exactly what the fan-out memory predicts once Worth recording precisely because the symptom is not "the build is slow". It is "a one-line fix cannot land", which reads as a landing-loop problem and is not one. Root cause. Two corrections from a CI cost investigation — 2026-08-201. This is partly implemented, and the issue reads untouchedFour jobs now carry a measured budget: 2. The
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In `@tests/suite-bench-check.bats`:
- Around line 91-99: Update the “output is a pointer — no duration is echoed”
test to assert that running GATE returns status 1 before verifying the output
excludes “1.0”, ensuring the test specifically validates the failure path.
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| @test "output is a pointer — no duration is echoed" { | ||
| # Rule 4, and the specific hazard: a gate that printed the number would be a | ||
| # second authority over the corpus it is judging. | ||
| suite tests/a.bats | ||
| suite tests/b.bats | ||
| corpus tests/a.bats | ||
| run "$GATE" | ||
| [[ "$output" != *"1.0"* ]] | ||
| } |
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Make the pointer-only test prove the failure path.
The test does not assert status. A regression that exits with status 0 or 2 and emits no duration still passes. Assert status 1 before checking that the output excludes 1.0.
Proposed fix
corpus tests/a.bats
run "$GATE"
+ [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
+ [[ "$output" == *"tests/b.bats is tracked but absent"* ]]
[[ "$output" != *"1.0"* ]]
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| @test "output is a pointer — no duration is echoed" { | |
| # Rule 4, and the specific hazard: a gate that printed the number would be a | |
| # second authority over the corpus it is judging. | |
| suite tests/a.bats | |
| suite tests/b.bats | |
| corpus tests/a.bats | |
| run "$GATE" | |
| [[ "$output" != *"1.0"* ]] | |
| } | |
| @test "output is a pointer — no duration is echoed" { | |
| # Rule 4, and the specific hazard: a gate that printed the number would be a | |
| # second authority over the corpus it is judging. | |
| suite tests/a.bats | |
| suite tests/b.bats | |
| corpus tests/a.bats | |
| run "$GATE" | |
| [ "$status" -eq 1 ] | |
| [[ "$output" == *"tests/b.bats is tracked but absent"* ]] | |
| [[ "$output" != *"1.0"* ]] | |
| } |
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In `@tests/suite-bench-check.bats` around lines 91 - 99, Update the “output is a
pointer — no duration is echoed” test to assert that running GATE returns status
1 before verifying the output excludes “1.0”, ensuring the test specifically
validates the failure path.
…dy happened `test:bats` is 2,648 cases over 151 suites and the distribution is very uneven: `derived-check.bats`, `land-lock.bats`, `land.bats` and `ci-wait.bats` are together ~44% of the serial total. Nothing told an author which side of that a suite they were editing sits on, and the timeout budgets that would eventually notice fire minutes after a push, against an agent whose context is gone. IT RUNS NOTHING. `test:bats` was writing per-case timings into a `mktemp -d` under a `trap rm`, so the only such measurements this repository produces were discarded microseconds after being written. The report now lands under gitignored `target/` and `suite-bench` derives the corpus from it. Re-executing 2,600 cases to measure them would cost more than the waste it reports. JUNIT RATHER THAN TAP, because TAP names a case but not the file it came from, and per-suite attribution is the whole point. The anti-vacuity assertion is unchanged in meaning: `ran` counts `<testcase` elements, the same population `^(ok|not ok) ` matched, verified equal at 2558 on one tree before the swap. A suite that got faster by running fewer cases still fails it (CLOUD-386). THE CORPUS IS NOT BYTE-DIFFED, and that is the design rather than an omission. `token-bench-check` can diff its corpus because token counts are deterministic; wall clock is not. Two runs of this suite on this machine, minutes apart, totalled 1449.6s and 1188.9s -- a 22% swing from load alone. A gate demanding byte equality on that is red on every second run and bypassed within a day. Durations are a clock, and .claude/rules/toolchain.md puts a clock in a drift job, not in the gate. The ranking is stable and answers "is this file expensive"; no individual number is trustworthy to better than ~20%, and the corpus says so. WHAT IS DETERMINISTIC IS MEMBERSHIP, and that is what rots. A suite added and never recorded is a file nothing describes; a row naming a deleted suite is a cost attached to nothing. `suite-bench-check` decides exactly that, from committed text, in milliseconds, so it sits in the untagged tier and re-runs nothing. It caught both on its first live run: a too-strict row pattern that matched nothing against a formatted table and reported all 150 suites missing, and then the real case -- this commit's own new suite, absent from the corpus until it was regenerated. The corpus joins `CHANGELOG.md` and `bench/tokens/RESULTS.md` in `.prettierignore` on their shared rationale: its generator owns the bytes, and formatting it would make every regeneration land unformatted, get rewritten, and need regenerating again to stay stable. Two consecutive runs now produce byte-identical output. `test-bats-parallel.bats` gains a row asserting the report SURVIVES the run, because `suite-bench` now depends on it and a re-added `trap` would leave the corpus silently sourceless. Refs: CLOUD-352
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Refs: CLOUD-897 CLOUD-441 put `sonar-gate` in `final` so a failing quality gate could block a land. It never blocked one. `sonar-gate` reads the analyzer's check-run by name and ABSENT is a pass by design, and `final` has been finishing before the analyzer starts: #648 final done 04:56:37Z analyzer started 04:57:06Z (+29s) #647 final done 04:46:24Z analyzer started 04:46:52Z (+28s) #646 final done 04:14:51Z analyzer started 04:15:16Z (+25s) All three landed with a `failure` analysis on their head. The bounded retry never ran either: it retries on exit 3 (pending), and absent returns 0 on the first look. The verdict a branch received was a function of how long its own CI took, which is not a verdict. Removed rather than softened. A step that cannot decide has no business in the one job branch protection requires, and leaving it there as an advisory would keep a red annotation on every run while deciding nothing — the sensor-only shape non-negotiable rule 2 refuses. Dropped from `verify:gated` in the same change, which is what keeps `ci-local-parity` true: verify ran it because CI ran it. `mise run sonar-gate` still exists and still works; nothing in the landing path reads it. CLOUD-897 owns restoring it, and only alongside CLOUD-528: arming a deterministic gate while `main` sits at C Security Rating would refuse every PR in the repository. `ci-local-parity` and `actionlint` green.
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Records what each bats suite costs, so an author editing one can see whether it
is expensive — and derives it from a run that already happened rather than
buying a second one.
Why
test:batsis 2,648 cases over 151 suites and the distribution is very uneven:derived-check.bats,land-lock.bats,land.batsandci-wait.batsaretogether ~44% of the serial total. Nothing told an author which side of that a
suite they were editing sits on. The timeout budgets that would eventually
notice fire minutes after a push, against an agent whose context is gone.
It runs nothing
test:batswas writing per-case timings into amktemp -dunder atrap rm,so the only such measurements this repository produces were discarded
microseconds after being written. The report now lands under gitignored
target/andsuite-benchderives the corpus from it.The formatter changes TAP → junit because TAP names a case but not the file it
came from, and per-suite attribution is the whole point. The anti-vacuity
assertion is unchanged in meaning:
rancounts<testcaseelements, the samepopulation
^(ok|not ok)matched, verified equal at 2558 on one tree beforethe swap.
The corpus is deliberately not byte-diffed
token-bench-checkcan diff its corpus because token counts are deterministic.Wall clock is not: two runs of this suite on this machine, minutes apart,
totalled 1449.6s and 1188.9s — a 22% swing from load alone. A gate demanding
byte equality on that is red on every second run and bypassed within a day.
Durations are a clock, and
.claude/rules/toolchain.mdputs a clock in a driftjob rather than in the gate.
What is deterministic is membership, and that is what rots: a suite added
and never recorded is a file nothing describes, and a row naming a deleted suite
is a cost attached to nothing.
suite-bench-checkdecides exactly that, fromcommitted text, in milliseconds.
Shown able to fail, on real cases
The gate caught two things on its first live run. Its row pattern required
exactly one space before the closing pipe, so against a formatted table it
matched nothing and reported all 150 tracked suites as missing — 150 findings,
all false, from a gate that looked like it was working. Then, with the pattern
fixed, it caught the real case: this PR's own new suite, absent from the corpus
until it was regenerated.
Eight bats cases cover both rot directions, both could-not-look arms, and
pointer-only output. Both mutations are caught by
mise run mutant.Scope
This is the data half. The authoring-time nudge that would read this corpus and
tell an agent at write time is not here:
RuleSeverity::WarnreturnsDecision::Allowon the hook surface and there is no advisory channel, which isCLOUD-461. A
denywould block an author writing a legitimately expensive test,so the module waits for that channel rather than shipping as a refusal.
DO-NOT-CLOSE: CLOUD-352 asks that something go red when a job gets slower. This
makes the cost visible and gates only the corpus's honesty; it fails on no
duration. The row stays open for the budgets and for the authoring-time half.
Refs: CLOUD-352