Three CI flakes hit while landing the credential-pool restore fix; all three
were timing/wall-clock races in the tests, not product bugs (each passes
locally and the assertions are correct):
- test_entire_tree_is_sigkilled_not_just_parent: _terminate_host_pid SIGKILLs
synchronously, but the test's 4s budget after a 1s in-function SIGTERM grace
left almost no slack for the kernel to tear down 3 processes + reparent the
children to zombies under loaded-CI scheduling. Widen the wait to 15s and
make the liveness predicate tolerant of vanished-pid / zombie races. The
assertion never weakens: every tree member must end up dead or zombie.
- test_session_resume_follows_compression_tip: appended messages got
time.time() timestamps (~now) while the test forced session started_at into
the past, so the get_compression_tip MAX(m.timestamp) tiebreaker depended on
wall-clock ordering. Pass explicit, well-separated message timestamps so the
chain resolution is deterministic by construction.
- test_non_retryable_exhaustion_arms_cooldown: asserted the short (5s)
exhaustion cooldown with a tight +1.0s slack, which false-fails when
wall-clock jitter between the 'before' snapshot and the cooldown computation
exceeds a second on a loaded runner. Widen to +30s — still cleanly below the
60s rate-limit window it must distinguish from.
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