Owner decision (2026-08-30): shipping speed matters more than holding the debt line
until the v4.0 LTS modularization; the base was going red on every merge batch and
each red baseline cost a sweep.
Relaxation (one auditable pass, scripts/quality/relax-baselines.mjs):
- quality-baseline.json metrics: lower-is-better ×1.2, higher-is-better ÷1.2
(coverage floor 60 kept; eslintErrors stays 0; eslintWarnings 0 → 1050 = 20% of
the 5,247 frozen suppressions). Adds `_policy {phase: velocity, until: 4.0.0,
relaxPct: 20, requireTighten: false}` + a `_relax_velocity_2026_08_30` note
listing every before → after.
- complexity count 2681 → 3218; duplication 5.72 → 6.86; file-size cap/testCap
1000 → 1200 and all 127 frozen caps ×1.2; api/dashboard/open-sse typecheck
per-file counts ×1.2; openapi-coverage THRESHOLD 36 → 30.
- check-quality-ratchet: --require-tighten is advisory while _policy.requireTighten
is false (2 new tests); nightly bank-ratchet-shrinks pauses during the phase (it
would bank the measured shrink and undo the headroom every night).
Monitoring (scripts/quality/baseline-headroom.mjs, npm run quality:headroom):
measures each numeric gate the way CI does, prints live / baseline / headroom per
gate (ok ≥10%, warn <10%, critical <0); the new nightly `baseline-headroom` job
posts the table to the living issue "📈 Baseline headroom (velocity phase)" and
toggles the `headroom-alert` label. 6 unit tests on the pure helpers.
Also aligns the remaining red tests on the tip to contracts already merged:
#11775 (FREE lease-capable connections are ordinary capacity: gate inventory 48/97/99,
sse-auth selection, warmup scheduler), #11794 (dual-loopback readiness probe), and the
8 vi strings #11775 left as __MISSING__.
Docs: QUALITY_GATES.md → "Velocity phase" (what changed, tooling, how to close the
phase at 4.0), AGENTS.md quick reference.
* test(infra): retry recursive temp-dir removal instead of failing a shard on ENOTEMPTY (#11966)
Two shards on release/v3.8.51 went red in one day with the same signature —
"ENOTEMPTY, Directory not empty: /tmp/omniroute-<test>-XXXXXX" — from
combo-same-provider-cascade (Unit Tests fast-path 4/4, on a PR that touches only
.github/) and auth-policy-embeddings-webfetch-7785 (the 20k-test TIA step). Both pass
alone and on re-run: the cleanup races something still writing into the directory
(SQLite WAL/-shm checkpoint, a worker, the backup) and under a loaded hosted runner
the window opens. 1154 test files do their own cleanup with
fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true }); 57 already asked for retries.
One-shot codemod (scripts/ad-hoc/codemod-rm-maxretries.mjs, kept for the record):
every rm / rmSync / rmdirSync option object with `recursive: true` and no
`maxRetries` gains `maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 100` — Node itself then retries
ENOTEMPTY/EBUSY/EPERM for up to ~0.5 s before giving up. 2243 call sites in 1292
files under tests/, the shared tests/_setup/isolateDataDir.ts exit hook included.
Only the option object changes: no call site, assertion or import is touched.
Validation: prettier and ESLint (with the frozen suppressions) clean on all 1292
files; a random 20-file sample runs green (quota-redis-store hangs identically on
the untouched tree — it needs a Redis on localhost, an environment matter). The
four unit shards on this PR are the full run.
* fix(quality): let check-forgotten-sibling-tests read a 1,000-file diff
The gate shells out to `git diff` through execFileSync with Node's default 1 MB
maxBuffer; the 1,292-file codemod in this PR is the first diff large enough to
overflow it, and the gate died with `spawnSync git ENOBUFS` before comparing
anything. 64 MB is far above any real PR and costs nothing when unused.
