`main` has been red since b342c1a361 on the vitest and integration gates:
✖ tests/unit/autoCombo/provider-family-combos.test.ts > auto/<family>
✖ chat pipeline applies Codex OAuth fingerprint and priority tier inside combos
Both call resetStorage() from beforeEach, which does an fs.rmSync(TEST_DATA_DIR,
{recursive: true, force: true}) with no retry, and intermittently loses the race
with a not-yet-released SQLite handle (ENOTEMPTY).
release/v3.8.51 fixed this in #11968 with a mechanical codemod adding
maxRetries/retryDelay to every recursive rm/rmSync/rmdirSync under tests/, but
that PR landed only on the release branch. Because main only receives work at
the release squash, it stayed broken for the whole cycle — and repo-wide gates
then turn every open PR into main red on checks unrelated to their diff.
This is the --base main twin: re-runs the same codemod that already shipped on
the release branch (scripts/ad-hoc/codemod-rm-maxretries.mjs), so the two
branches converge on identical test-teardown semantics. Test-only; no product
logic is touched.
The remaining three failures reported on #12133 (unit full suite exceeding its
4800s ceiling, package-artifact exceeding 1200s, and the boot-smoke that is
skipped as a consequence) are runner-contention timeouts, not code defects —
validate-release-green.mjs runs those heavy gates concurrently on one shared
hosted runner. There is no fix to port for those.
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).
