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Preserving done-but-unpushed work (see morning-batch context — boss/Aaron aware).

start() runs an unawaited infinite poll loop. At the 1s default pollInterval, advancing 50 minutes of fake time replayed ~3,000 poll cycles of real fs work purely as overhead — enough to blow the 10s timeout on a busy machine.

Worse, stop()/wake() sat at the END of each test body, so a test that timed out never reached them and leaked a live loop; afterEach's useRealTimers() then turned that into a REAL 1s fs-polling loop for the remainder of the file, slowing later tests until they timed out too. That cascade is why WHICH watchdog test failed varied run to run — it read as flaky, but the root cause was a leaked loop, not test-order-dependent state.

Fix: coarser pollInterval for these tests, teardown moved into afterEach so it always runs regardless of how the test body exits. 42s runtime with 3-4 flaky failures → 6.8s, 75/75 stable.

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  • tests/unit/daemon/fast-checker.test.ts — 75/75 stable, no leaked loops
  • Review + merge deferred to morning batch (core daemon test infra — never-auto-merge class)

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    • Improved heartbeat watchdog test reliability by standardizing setup and teardown.
    • Added centralized cleanup for polling loops and fake timers, reducing the risk of leaked test activity.
    • Preserved coverage for heartbeat execution, agent-name propagation, timer cancellation, and bootstrap gating.

start() runs an unawaited infinite poll loop. At the 1s default
pollInterval, advancing 50 minutes of fake time replayed ~3,000 poll
cycles of real fs work purely as overhead -- enough to blow the 10s
timeout on a busy machine.

Worse, stop()/wake() sat at the END of each test body, so a test that
timed out never reached it and leaked a live loop; afterEach's
useRealTimers() then turned that into a REAL 1s fs-polling loop for the
remainder of the file, slowing later tests until they timed out too.
That cascade is why WHICH watchdog test failed varied run to run.

Coarse pollInterval for these tests, teardown moved into afterEach.
42s with 3-4 flaky failures -> 6.8s, 75/75 stable.
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The heartbeat watchdog tests now use a shared startup helper, a five-minute polling interval, and centralized checker cleanup. The tests retain coverage for heartbeat execution, agent-name propagation, timer cancellation, and bootstrap gating.

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Heartbeat watchdog test lifecycle

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Shared watchdog startup and teardown
tests/unit/daemon/fast-checker.test.ts
Watchdog tests use a shared startup helper and track started checkers. Teardown stops and wakes all checkers before restoring real timers. Existing heartbeat, agent-name, cancellation, and bootstrap assertions remain in place.

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The test cleanup can still leak watchdog startup work when bootstrap is incomplete, potentially causing flaky tests or timeout cascades. This lifecycle gap should be fixed before merge.

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Rebased onto current main. Real conflict this time (not just CHANGELOG): a since-merged PR had independently applied a partial fix to the same 3 watchdog tests (widened pollInterval to 60s per-test, no shared helper, no afterEach teardown) — a different, incomplete fix for the same flakiness this PR targets. Took this PR's version at all 3 conflict sites (the startWatchdog() helper + WATCHDOG_POLL_MS + centralized afterEach teardown), since it's the more complete fix — it also closes the leaked-loop/cascading-timeout mechanism the interim fix didn't touch. Confirmed no other test in the file still used the old 60_000 pattern post-rebase.

Verified: tsc --noEmit clean, npm run build clean, fast-checker.test.ts 78/78 stable across 3 consecutive runs (~1.7s each, matching the PR's own reported fix), broader tests/unit/daemon/ suite 596/596 green.

Per this PR's own test-plan note ("core daemon test infra — never-auto-merge class"), not merging this myself even once CI is green — leaving it ready for the morning batch review.

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- Line 860: Update the FastChecker teardown and startup flow so bootstrap cannot
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// into a REAL 1s-interval loop doing fs I/O for the remainder of the
// file, slowing later tests until they time out in turn. That cascade is
// why WHICH watchdog test failed varied from run to run.
for (const checker of startedCheckers) { checker.stop(); checker.wake(); }

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Cancel or await startup before restoring timers.

If bootstrap is incomplete, FastChecker.start() remains inside waitForBootstrap(). stop() only sets running and clears an existing heartbeat timer. wake() does not resolve the separate bootstrap sleep. The startup promise and its SIGUSR1 listener can therefore remain pending after afterEach calls vi.useRealTimers().

Add a regression test for teardown during bootstrap. Make waitForBootstrap() cancellable and guard post-bootstrap setup with running, or await the startup promise before restoring timers.

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In `@tests/unit/daemon/fast-checker.test.ts` at line 860, Update the FastChecker
teardown and startup flow so bootstrap cannot remain pending when tests restore
real timers: make waitForBootstrap cancellable, or await the startup promise
before vi.useRealTimers(), and ensure post-bootstrap setup is skipped when
running is false. Add a regression test covering teardown while bootstrap is in
progress, using FastChecker.start(), stop(), wake(), and the existing
startedCheckers cleanup path.

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