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Closes #267.

#267 recorded vitest's per-module transform as "the largest single lever
measured so far": 3.7x on test/findIslands.spec.ts, 162.11s against 43.63s
pre-bundled. I re-ran that same A/B on today's tree - three interleaved
rounds per arm, 11/11 passing every run:

arm runs min mean
as it ships 20.61 / 21.27 / 20.82s 20.61s 20.90s
src/ pre-bundled by esbuild 20.83 / 21.06 / 20.95s 20.83s 20.95s

0.99x. The lever is gone, and #267 predicted exactly this - its own "Why
this is filed rather than fixed" section names deleting the TypeScript noise
math as the thing that removes the tax. #227 and #371 did that, taking
src/noise/ from 99 modules to 25. Suite-wide import went 29.8% -> 3.8%.

What this PR is actually for

Re-measuring #267 meant re-measuring the gate, and the composition has
inverted without anyone writing it down. Measured 2026-09-05, all green:

phase time share
verify:rust 112.0s 54%
vp test 80.3s 39%
preview:test 8.0s 4%
check:vue 3.8s 2%
vp check 2.0s 1%

CLAUDE.md said the Rust phase "adds ~1.6s" and that vp test was 88% of the
gate; scripts/verify-rust.sh's own header claimed "1.62s cold, 0.84s warm".
That is wrong by more than a hundredfold, and it cannot ever have described a
script that runs the crate's tests twice.

  • Inside verify:rust: cargo test --features poison is 82.4s of the
    112.0s. Narrowing it to the 77 tests the gate requires was measured and buys
    nothing - fixtures:: alone runs 108 tests instead of 452 and still costs
    81.3s. The required tests are the expensive ones, and the perturbation is
    why: those same 108 cost 20.8s clean against 81.2s poisoned, 3.9x.
    Whether that blowup is inherent is explicitly recorded as not measured.
  • Inside vp test: the wall is one file again -
    wasmVulcanusRenderParity.spec.ts is 79.8s of the 80.3s wall, two files are
    66% of all test time, and only 12 files exceed 1s.

Two more levers measured and refuted

  • environment: "node" - the cost relocates. environment 83ms -> 0ms
    while setup 11ms -> 91ms, because test/setup.ts builds its own happy-dom
    Window for localStorage; totals are indistinguishable (159/156ms against
    154/165ms). Reading the environment column alone shows a fake 20.9s win.
    CLAUDE.md also claimed node was already the default, while
    vite.config.ts:51 sets happy-dom.
  • docs(ci): record the shard timings after the scrap work, and fix the timeout they exposed #203's rejection of splitting the heaviest spec file rested on import
    being first-order - 332s importing against 260s testing, with a 99-module
    re-import per added file. Today that is 9.4s against 208.3s on a 26-module
    graph, and the heaviest file's own import line is 58ms. docs(ci): record the shard timings after the scrap work, and fix the timeout they exposed #203's durable
    point still stands
    (adding a file re-slices every shard), so this records
    that the arithmetic changed; it does not propose a split.

previewAgreement.spec.ts no longer exists

#360 deleted it. This corrects every live reference: a present-tense rule in
CLAUDE.md, the test/diffArtifacts.ts header that names it as the motivating
case, and ten comments across the three wasm parity specs that cite it as a
live cross-check for their frozen numbers. Those numbers are unaffected - they
now stand alone, and the comments say so.

Archives are deliberately untouched: docs/rust-wasm-port-history.md and
docs/superpowers/** are point-in-time records. .github/workflows/verify.yml
gets a dated correction appended rather than a rewrite, for the same reason.

Verification

pnpm run verify green: 125 files, 1168 tests, plus preview 13 and the full
Rust phase. No product code, no test logic, and no frozen count changes.
Nothing under crates/ is touched, so engine.wasm is unaffected - confirmed
with git diff --name-only.

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    • Updated verification timing guidance with precise commands and cache behavior.
    • Refreshed CI sharding recommendations and performance measurements based on current results.
    • Revised runtime comparisons to reflect reduced module overhead and obsolete benchmarks.
    • Clarified that prior performance explanations remain unconfirmed.
    • Updated rendering and image-diff documentation with current parity coverage, measurements, and historical context for removed comparisons.

#267 recorded vitest's per-module transform as "the largest single lever
measured so far" - 3.7x on test/findIslands.spec.ts, 162.11s against 43.63s
pre-bundled. Re-running that same A/B on today's tree, three interleaved
rounds per arm with 11/11 passing every run, returns 0.99x.

The issue called this itself: it named deleting the TypeScript noise math as
the thing that removes the tax. #227 and #371 did that, taking src/noise/ from
99 modules to 25, and the tax scaled with the module count. Suite-wide, the
import line item went 29.8% -> 3.8%.

What nobody had re-measured is where the cost went instead. The gate's
composition has inverted:

  verify:rust    112.0s  54%     (CLAUDE.md said the Rust phase "adds ~1.6s",
  vp test         80.3s  39%      and verify-rust.sh's own header claimed
  preview:test     8.0s   4%      0.84s warm - wrong by over a hundredfold)
  check:vue        3.8s   2%
  vp check         2.0s   1%

Inside verify:rust, cargo test --features poison is 82.4s of the 112.0s.
Narrowing it to the 77 tests the gate requires was measured and buys nothing:
fixtures:: alone runs 108 tests instead of 452 and still costs 81.3s. The
required tests are the expensive ones, and the perturbation is why - those
same 108 cost 20.8s clean against 81.2s poisoned.

Inside vp test, the wall is one file again: wasmVulcanusRenderParity.spec.ts
is 79.8s of the 80.3s wall, and two files hold 66% of all test time.

Two more levers measured and refuted in the same pass. environment: "node"
relocates its cost rather than removing it - environment 83ms -> 0ms while
setup 11ms -> 91ms, because test/setup.ts builds its own happy-dom Window for
localStorage, so the totals are indistinguishable. And CLAUDE.md claimed
"node" was already the default when vite.config.ts sets happy-dom.

#203's rejection of splitting the heaviest spec file rested on import being
first-order (332s importing against 260s testing, a 99-module re-import per
added file). That is now 9.4s against 208.3s on a 26-module graph, and the
heaviest file's own import line is 58ms. #203's durable point still stands, so
this records that the arithmetic changed rather than proposing a split.

Also corrects every live reference to test/previewAgreement.spec.ts, which
#360 deleted - including a present-tense rule in CLAUDE.md and ten comments in
the wasm parity specs that cite it as a live cross-check.

No product code, no test logic, and no frozen count changes. Nothing under
crates/ is touched, so engine.wasm is unaffected.

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Both were my own imprecision in the previous commit, and both are the same
class of error this PR exists to fix.

- verify-rust.sh's new header said `cargo test --workspace` where the script
  runs `cargo test --locked --workspace`, and gave the 82.4s figure as "poison"
  without naming `cargo test --locked -p fmw-noise --features poison`.

- diffArtifacts.ts said "its callers are the two heaviest files in the suite"
  and then named two. It has THREE callers - wasmFulgoraRenderParity.spec.ts is
  the third, and at 5.4s it is nowhere near the other two, which is worth
  saying rather than eliding.

Also labels the gate table's test row `vp run --cache test` (on a MISS), which
is what `verify` actually invokes, and says so: uncached is what CI always pays
and what a real edit pays locally, while a cache hit makes that row ~0.6s and
the percentages meaningless. verify:rust is not cached at all, which is the
practical reason it dominates.

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