fix(evals): tsx-safe generics in eval-flake-rank, legacy artifact names, no-retry wall docs

docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md

@@ -492,22 +492,23 @@ minus overhead and ratchets raw literals. Budget above the wall is fiction.
 No paid test may exceed the ordinary tiers.
 
 `FINDING_RETRY_BUDGETS` also registers the CEO split-overflow and Eng
-multi-finding batching files. Each retains its 25-minute case deadline and, as a
-case past the retry cap, runs once in a 27-minute shard wall including two
-minutes for cleanup. No per-case budget grows. Overlay wrappers
+multi-finding batching files. Each retains its 25-minute case deadline and runs
+once (paid evals never retry) in a 27-minute shard wall including two minutes for
+cleanup. No per-case budget grows. Overlay wrappers
 have a 1,830-second minimum shard wall and run without Bun retries; see the
 [overlay contract](OVERLAY_BENCHMARK_CONTRACT.md) for their unchanged work budget.
 
-The quality file reserves its whole-file wall for every case and its one retry
-(judge cases are under the retry cap), plus cleanup. Each still has 120 seconds of model work. Its 17 workflow
+The quality file reserves its whole-file wall (3,170 seconds) for every case run
+once, plus cleanup. Each still has 120 seconds of model work. Its 17 workflow
 judges own their deadline and abort signal, with five seconds for terminal
 recording inside a ten-second Bun grace; the other 11 retain their existing
 120-second Bun timeout. Late responses cannot create records or cache passes.
 
-The ship documentation file reserves 5,520 seconds for five 600-second cases and
-eight 300-second fault cases, run once (a 600-second case is past the retry cap), plus cleanup. The standalone
+The ship documentation file reserves 4,920 seconds for four 600-second cases and
+eight 300-second fault cases, run once, plus cleanup; in CI each case runs as its
+own shard. The standalone
 documentation child retains its 600-second case. The five review/ship explorer
-cases reserve 3,270 seconds including their existing retry and finalization grace.
+cases reserve 1,695 seconds, run once, including finalization grace.
 These are whole-file supervision limits, not additional model work per case.
 
 The shared-library path file reserves 1,920 seconds for its three serial
@@ -521,7 +522,7 @@ records fail reconciliation. Case deadlines and model budgets do not grow.
 `resolvePaidShardBudget(files, overrideMs?)` is the canonical per-job resolver.
 Each registered finding file and each overlay wrapper requires its
 own shard, even with `--files-per-shard` above one. Mixed or multi-file overlay
-jobs are rejected so ordinary files retain their configured retries. An explicit
+jobs are rejected. An explicit
 CLI `--timeout`, `EVALS_SHARD_TIMEOUT_MS`, or API `timeoutMs` still wins for these
 policies, including a lower cap; overlay overrides below their minimum are rejected.
 Planner entries and execution results record the effective wall,
@@ -529,13 +530,13 @@ its source and policy identifier. Custom drivers must resolve each job instead
 of passing their ordinary 1800-second default as an explicit cap;
 their outer controller/detach wall must also cover the allocated work and cleanup.
 The paid census counts are printed by `--list` for each tier.
-`eval:bg:pr` and `eval:bg:periodic` have 92820/67380-second outer caps; the PR
+`eval:bg:pr` and `eval:bg:periodic` have 92820/67380-second outer caps, above their recomputed floors (PR fallback 72,755 s, periodic 33,821 s including the trial shards); the PR
 wrapper covers a full-gate fallback at its default two workers. The broad gate
-wrapper reserves 49320 seconds, and release reserves 116700 seconds for both
+wrapper reserves 49320 seconds (floor 21,725 s), and release reserves 116700 seconds for both
 tiers; free tests recompute each floor from the live shard census, case shards
 included. Legacy monolithic
-`eval:bg`/`eval:bg:all` retain their shorter 5400/7200-second caps and do not
-promise every registered retry; use the sharded periodic path for this policy.
+`eval:bg`/`eval:bg:all` retain their shorter 5400/7200-second caps; use the
+sharded periodic path for complete coverage.
 
 CI plans with `--slice-budget 540 --jobs 2` for the PR gate, the periodic census
 and the weekly gate census (the gate census also `--skip-judges`), and

scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts

@@ -578,13 +578,15 @@ function gh(args: string[]): Buffer {
   return result.stdout;
 }
 
-const jsonLines = <T>(buffer: Buffer): T[] => buffer.toString('utf8').split('\n').filter(Boolean).map(line => JSON.parse(line) as T);
+function jsonLines<T>(buffer: Buffer): T[] {
+  return buffer.toString('utf8').split('\n').filter(Boolean).map(line => JSON.parse(line) as T);
+}
 
 export const GH_HISTORY: HistoryFetcher = {
-  listRuns: (repo, workflow, branch, limit) => jsonLines<WeeklyRun>(gh(['api',
+  listRuns: (repo, workflow, branch, limit): WeeklyRun[] => jsonLines(gh(['api',
     `repos/${repo}/actions/workflows/${workflow}/runs?branch=${encodeURIComponent(branch)}&status=completed&per_page=${limit}`,
     '--jq', '.workflow_runs[] | {id, attempt: .run_attempt, sha: .head_sha, branch: .head_branch, createdAt: .created_at}'])),
-  listArtifacts: (repo, runId) => jsonLines<RunArtifact>(gh(['api', `repos/${repo}/actions/runs/${runId}/artifacts?per_page=100`,
+  listArtifacts: (repo, runId): RunArtifact[] => jsonLines(gh(['api', `repos/${repo}/actions/runs/${runId}/artifacts?per_page=100`,
     '--paginate', '--jq', '.artifacts[] | select(.expired | not) | {id, name, size: .size_in_bytes}'])),
   downloadZip: (repo, artifactId, destination) => fs.writeFileSync(destination, gh(['api', `repos/${repo}/actions/artifacts/${artifactId}/zip`])),
 };
@@ -674,7 +676,7 @@ if (import.meta.main) {
       weeklyRuns = runs.map(run => run.createdAt);
       const cacheDir = path.join(os.homedir(), '.gstack', 'eval-pass-rates-cache', repo.replace('/', '-'));
       const match = backfill
-        ? (name: string) => name.startsWith('trial-outcomes') || /^(paid-slice-\d+|gate-census-\d+)$/.test(name)
+        ? (name: string) => name.startsWith('trial-outcomes') || /^(paid-slice-\d+|gate-census-\d+)(-a\d+)?$/.test(name)
         : (name: string) => name.startsWith('trial-outcomes');
       for (const run of runs) {
         const dirsForRun = downloadRunArtifacts({ repo, run, match, cacheDir, maxBytes: backfill ? 64 * 1024 * 1024 : undefined });

test/helpers/touchfiles-data.ts

@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ export const E2E_TOUCHFILES: Record<string, string[]> = {
   // Covers ceo (preamble misfire) + eng/design (scope-gate bypass must not
   // fire outside plan mode) + the named-target exception case. 4 PTY runs;
   // in CI these run CONCURRENT with the rest of the pty-plan-smoke suite
-  // (--max-concurrency + --retry 1), so worst-case cost is ~2x a single
-  // pass of each, sharing the API budget with sibling tests — not the
+  // (--max-concurrency, no retries), so worst-case cost is one pass of
+  // each, sharing the API budget with sibling tests — not the
   // sequential ~+10min a local read suggests.
   'plan-mode-no-op':              [