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Server test shards are now the slowest CI job: on main they set the run's length in 346 of 440 runs since #34554, at a 130–165s p50. scripts/test-cached.ts runs each file in its own Vitest process, one at a time, because CI never passes --concurrency. Across 16 shard logs from main, 649 file runs took 2,672s of wall time but only 1,212s of test time: each file spends about 2.25s starting its process and loading imports before its first test.

• Four files at a time per shard. The server runners have 4 vCPUs. On a cold cache, shard 6 ran in 53s locally instead of 353s, with the same failures both ways: four CodexManagedRuntime tests that fail locally in a PID namespace and pass in CI.
  • vite.config.ts turns off Vitest file parallelism because parallel sqlite and git tests used to flake under load. That setting dates from March, when timeouts were 15–60s and before the no-wall-clock test rules. To check it again, I ran the full suite the way CI now does: every file in its own process, four at a time, pinned to 4 CPUs with taskset, every file uncached. That was one full pass and a second through shards 1–3, about 675 file runs. No file failed that also passes when run alone. The five files that failed fail alone too, so the local environment causes them; all pass in CI.
• The three slowest files do less setup. Once files run side by side, the largest file sets the shard's floor. A simulation over per-file CI times from 10 main commits puts that floor at about 54s, before CPU contention, whatever the shard weights say.

  • GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts (46s median in CI, up to 115s) and GitManager.test.ts (54s, up to 77s) built a fresh repo with git init and a first commit in almost every test. Each now builds one template repo per file and copies it per test, so tests stay isolated. GitVcsDriverCore also builds its 102-commit and 101-ref fixtures with one git fast-import and one git update-ref --stdin.

    file	git init	git processes
    GitVcsDriverCore	331 → 93	9,559 → 7,191
    GitManager	256 → 2	7,958 → 7,114

    Most of GitManager's remaining processes come from GitManager itself (1,415 git config reads per run), not from test setup.

  • AcpAdapterV2.test.ts (40s median, up to 57s) spawned scripts/acp-mock-agent.ts about 64 times, and each spawn spent ~0.5s loading the agent's TypeScript graph before answering initialize. The file now bundles the mock and replay agents once in beforeAll and spawns the bundle: same agent code over the same stdio, with no real subprocess replaced. Locally the file went from 75–79s to 23–25s.

  • AcpAdapterV2 also no longer waits out real-clock time it doesn't test. Three tests set processGroupTerminationGrace: 0, as one test already did, and one test sends the late tool_call_update itself through the agent's _test/emit-update instead of waiting for the mock agent's 2.5s timer.

• No tests deleted or merged; all 526 tests in the three files pass.

I did not change the shard weights. They were recorded on a dev machine and are 5–15× off for git-heavy files, but with four files per shard, CI-measured weights give the same slowest shard in simulation (54s).

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The workflow runs four cached test tasks concurrently per shard. An unresolved review identifies a shared-cache race that could cause intermittent CI failures and needs resolution before relying on this parallel execution.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Other scenarios

All 64 scenario measurements match main.

All 64 scenario measurements

Provider	Scenario	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.5 KiB	10.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	281.7 KiB	281.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	92.4 KiB	92.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	381.5 KiB	381.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	381.6 KiB	381.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	186.2 KiB	186.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	72.4 KiB	72.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.6 KiB	10.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	283.3 KiB	283.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	93.4 KiB	93.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	384.2 KiB	384.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	384.3 KiB	384.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	188.1 KiB	188.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	42.9 KiB	42.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	42.9 KiB	42.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	73.4 KiB	73.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅

Baseline: 0bc993a · PR result: ea3dbd2 · 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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Walkthrough

The changes set server test concurrency and update test setup across Git and ACP adapter suites. Git tests reuse prepared repositories and batch Git commands. ACP tests bundle agents, adjust selected teardown settings, and test a late duplicate task update.

Changes: CI Test Concurrency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set server test concurrency .github/workflows/ci.yml	The server test command now sets concurrency to four per shard. Its shard selection and cache-verification arguments remain unchanged.

Git Test Fixtures

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prepare and copy GitManager fixtures apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts	The tests create shared committed-repository and bare-remote templates. Repository setup copies these templates instead of initializing and committing repositories for each call.
Reuse repository fixtures and batch Git setup apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts	The tests reuse a committed-repository template for empty directories and remove it after the suite. They also create 102 commits with one fast-import command and 101 refs with one update-ref --stdin command.

ACP Adapter Test Harness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bundle agents for ACP tests apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts	The suite bundles mock and replay agents once and uses their paths across tests. Mock-agent processes receive the bundled compile-cache directory through NODE_COMPILE_CACHE.
Test late updates and teardown timing apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/AcpAdapterV2.test.ts	Selected teardown tests set process-group termination grace to zero. A test injects a duplicate completed fetch update with late output through the native runtime.

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

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: stienswout

Merge Risk: Low · up to ea3db

This change only affects CI and test setup. The open concerns are a possible intermittent CI cache race and a weak assertion in one test. Neither affects production behavior, so owner awareness or a follow-up is enough.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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