v3.8.40 cycle integration → main. All test gates green (Unit/Integration/Coverage/Node-compat/Quality-Ratchet). The only red check, 'PR Test Policy', is the test-masking heuristic firing on the cumulative ~57-commit release diff (legitimate assert consolidations already reviewed per-PR — Gemini CLI removal #5246, retired GPT models #5280, provider catalog refreshes); overridden with --admin per the documented release-PR convention. CodeQL/SonarQube advisory scans non-blocking; #5278's code already passed CodeQL on main. Homologated on VPS 192.168.0.15 (v3.8.40 healthy).
Move chat pipeline validation, circuit breaker execution, proxy
resolution, logging, and session header handling into dedicated
helpers to keep the SSE handler smaller and easier to verify.
Also fix shared API option precedence, rebuild skill version caches
after deletions, ignore api.trycloudflare.com false positives, and
add rate-limit manager test flush/reset hooks for deterministic
coverage.
Expand integration and unit coverage across chat routing, auth,
cloud sync, skills, executors, streaming, DB helpers, proxy handling,
and provider/model utilities.
