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estchargecheck.sh timed out at its 1200 s budget on the macOS plain shard three times on 2026-10-13 (on PRs that do not touch it). This change makes the gate fast without changing any assertion. Same pattern as #394 (legendcoveragecheck) and #393 (cppqualcheck).

Cause. About 154 of the gate's 337 ripwire calls re-parsed src/ or the repo root from scratch with --no-cache, roughly 89% of call time.

Change (test/estchargecheck.sh only):

• Those calls share one warm cached index per run, so only the first call parses.
• Every call has a 300 s budget; a call that hits it prints a named TIMEOUT/ERROR FAIL line instead of the whole gate dying at the shard limit.
• Sections that depend on each other run as fixed groups, up to min(4, cpus) groups in parallel (ESTCHARGE_JOBS overrides), and output is printed back in the original order.

Evidence (macOS, busy 16 GB machine):

• Wall 471 → 171 s (0.36×), CPU 725 → 200 s (0.28×), mean of 2 alternating base/new runs.
• Gate output byte-identical across 5 runs: 2 base/new pairs, groups in forward order, reversed order, and ESTCHARGE_JOBS=1. All 431 per-call answer files match base apart from temp-dir paths and one path-dependent index hash.
• Mutations all go red: a 1 s call budget (114 TIMEOUT lines), padding every answer (63 FAILs), dropping a section from the groups, splitting a dependent group.
• gateexitcheck, manifestcheck pass; --quality-delta gates 0.

Noted, not changed here: a cached --for still spends ~0.5 s in a git subprocess on the main thread per call (githarden::gitResolvedConfigDirs); tracked separately.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Expanded validation of charging and budget behavior, including limit handling and disclosure of relevant information.
  • Added checks for degraded operation and output integrity across JSON, MCP, and tabular results.
  • Added comparisons to verify behavior across different charging ceilings.

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📝 Walkthrough

The test script adds timeout and cache wrappers for binary calls, reorganizes checks into dependency-ordered chains that run concurrently, and replays results in roster order. It also updates coverage for charging, budgets, fault handling, and output integrity.

Changes: Estimation test suite

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Call harness and pooled test chains test/estchargecheck.sh	Adds per-call timeouts and shared repository-call caching. Runs dependency-ordered chains in a configurable pool capped at four jobs, then replays output in roster order.
Charging and budget test coverage test/estchargecheck.sh	Organizes estimation and --for checks into functions. The checks cover rate bands, output accounting, budget withholding, disclosure, and ceiling behavior.
Fault and output-integrity coverage test/estchargecheck.sh	Organizes fault and degradation checks into functions. Retains checks for JSON charging, max-token dialect labels, MCP errors, and output integrity.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: barefootski

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7722e

A hung base comparison can delay the test gate without a named call failure. Apply the same timeout and reporting wrapper before merging, or accept this bounded test-workflow risk.

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- Line 1336: Update rwcall to delegate to a wrapper that accepts an executable,
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Thanks for the review. Disposition of every item, plus the commit pushed since the reviewed head (7722e7f):

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1. test/estchargecheck.sh:1336: run RIPWIRE_BASE under the same timeout and failure accounting as rwcall (Minor). Fixed in cb64b67.
   • rwcall_bin EXE ARGS… now holds the per-call budget and the TIMEOUT/ERROR reporting, including the $TMP/call_failures record.
   • rwcall is rwcall_bin "$BIN" "$@", and The quality fleet: nesting profile + ev(G), JS closure attribution, five disclosure fixes, frozen recall eval #13 runs $RIPWIRE_BASE through rwcall_bin.
   • Checked with a RIPWIRE_BASE that hangs and a 15 s budget. It prints FAIL TIMEOUT (no answer within 15s): ripwire test/fixture --no-cache, records the call in call_failures and exits 1. With a real base binary it passes.
   • The SC2329 info ("function never invoked") is a false positive: rwcall is called throughout the gate.

Commits after the reviewed head

• cb64b670: test(estchargecheck): keep the zero-hit sentinel out of section bodies; budget RIPWIRE_BASE too.
  • This fixes the red CI on this PR: forcalibfactscheck.sh: FAIL zero-hit query reports scored 1, expected scored 0 on 6 jobs.
  • Cause. Wrapping the sections in est_* functions turned Front page: the CLI is the setup, MCP is the option #11 A9's nonsense query word into a body token of an indexed bash symbol (est_11_a7d). forcalibfactscheck's zero-hit --for on the repo root then matched that function.
  • Not a shared-state leak. The failure reproduces with forcalibfactscheck alone on the PR tree, and it is green on the base tree.
  • Fix. The word is now spelled once, at top level, in WEAK_QUERY.
  • New arm Front page: the CLI is the setup, MCP is the option #11 A9b. It asserts that the same query on the repo root does not find this gate. It goes red, together with forcalibfactscheck, when the word is put back inside a section body.
  • The same commit carries item 1.