Second measured instance of the class #16497 already records in packages/core ("a pin awaits a dynamic import of the whole package index under vitest's default 5000ms timeout, and timed out once in two full-suite runs on a shared box"). #16497 fixes one pin; this is a different pin, in a different package, with the same mechanism — so the maintainer may prefer to widen that card into a class fix rather than take this one on its own.
Found while running packages/cli's unit tier for objectstack#15951, whose diff touches neither packages/cli nor packages/cloud-connection.
Measured (this branch's tree, content-identical to origin/main 5d12b16e for both files involved; 2026-09-09)
packages/cli/src/utils/optional-package.test.ts:108 — "resolves a real workspace package rather than mistaking it for absent" — calls loadOptionalPackage('@objectstack/cloud-connection') under vitest's default 5000ms budget.
- With
packages/cloud-connection/dist absent: the test fails with state: 'broken' (the honest unbuilt-artifact reading).
- With that dist built: the failure changes shape to
Error: Test timed out in 5000ms, and it reproduces on a warm re-run — 5004ms, 5010ms across two runs.
- The same import in plain node, from the same directory, same built dist: 707ms.
⇒ The 7x gap is not import cost. It is the hazard scripts/check-test-source-alias.mjs documents in its own header: every workspace package here is a pnpm link whose realpath contains no /node_modules/ segment, so vitest's default server.deps.external inlines it — dist/ included. Under vitest the call therefore pays a whole-package source-graph transform, not a dist import, and the test's budget was sized against the latter.
Control, and what it says
CI is green on origin/main 5d12b16e for this content (Test Core, all six shards, success). ⇒ This is not a red main and not a broken test — it is a budget with no headroom, which spends it all on a shared, contended box and none on an idle CI runner. That is exactly #16497's reading, one package over.
⛔ Recording the shape rather than proposing the fix: raising a timeout is the reflex, and the two candidate reads (raise the budget vs. stop paying a source-graph transform for what is meant to be a dist-resolution probe) are not the same decision. The second one is the one that also makes the test measure what its name says.
Not in this card
objectstack#15951's own suites; anything in @objectstack/verify.
Refs: #16497 (same class, packages/core) - #11412 (the inlining hazard, measured) - scripts/check-test-source-alias.mjs header - objectstack#15951 (where this was found).
Generated by Claude Code
Second measured instance of the class #16497 already records in
packages/core("a pin awaits a dynamic import of the whole package index under vitest's default 5000ms timeout, and timed out once in two full-suite runs on a shared box"). #16497 fixes one pin; this is a different pin, in a different package, with the same mechanism — so the maintainer may prefer to widen that card into a class fix rather than take this one on its own.Found while running
packages/cli's unit tier for objectstack#15951, whose diff touches neitherpackages/clinorpackages/cloud-connection.Measured (this branch's tree, content-identical to
origin/main5d12b16efor both files involved; 2026-09-09)packages/cli/src/utils/optional-package.test.ts:108— "resolves a real workspace package rather than mistaking it for absent" — callsloadOptionalPackage('@objectstack/cloud-connection')under vitest's default 5000ms budget.packages/cloud-connection/distabsent: the test fails withstate: 'broken'(the honest unbuilt-artifact reading).Error: Test timed out in 5000ms, and it reproduces on a warm re-run — 5004ms, 5010ms across two runs.⇒ The 7x gap is not import cost. It is the hazard
scripts/check-test-source-alias.mjsdocuments in its own header: every workspace package here is a pnpm link whose realpath contains no/node_modules/segment, so vitest's defaultserver.deps.externalinlines it —dist/included. Under vitest the call therefore pays a whole-package source-graph transform, not a dist import, and the test's budget was sized against the latter.Control, and what it says
CI is green on
origin/main5d12b16efor this content (Test Core, all six shards, success). ⇒ This is not a red main and not a broken test — it is a budget with no headroom, which spends it all on a shared, contended box and none on an idle CI runner. That is exactly #16497's reading, one package over.⛔ Recording the shape rather than proposing the fix: raising a timeout is the reflex, and the two candidate reads (raise the budget vs. stop paying a source-graph transform for what is meant to be a dist-resolution probe) are not the same decision. The second one is the one that also makes the test measure what its name says.
Not in this card
objectstack#15951's own suites; anything in
@objectstack/verify.Refs: #16497 (same class,
packages/core) - #11412 (the inlining hazard, measured) -scripts/check-test-source-alias.mjsheader - objectstack#15951 (where this was found).Generated by Claude Code