Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is
claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a
contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files,
0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8
fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and
census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.
- test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only
test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead;
a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction.
- test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for
the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests.
- CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one
row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the
detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval.
- TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3),
the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment
seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories,
selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives.
* perf: remove repeated test work and preserve AUQ execution budgets
* fix: validate native evaluation fixture evidence at its actual boundaries
* fix: clarify deployment approval and recovery state transitions
* chore: document coverage and release v1.90.2.0
* test: preserve Windows scheduling and native no-change consent
* test: recognize verified reads through fixture symlinks
* test: isolate alias-name installation from runtime assets