FC-gate-timeout-below-cold-cost.json

{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "id": "FC-gate-timeout-below-cold-cost",
  "violated_contract": "A release gate's fixed time budget must exceed the worst-case cost of the healthy work it bounds (a cold, from-scratch rebuild), and a timed-out attempt must not poison the cache that would let the retry run warm.",
  "canonical_prevention": "Size the qualification cold-preparation budget to the observed cold-build duration with headroom (env-overridable), and keep the static timing-contract test asserting the current budget plus its recurrence history so the value cannot silently regress below the cold cost again.",
  "canonical_prevention_artifact": [
    "desktop/macos/scripts/desktop-core-harness.sh",
    "desktop/macos/tests/test-fault-suite-launch-env.sh"
  ],
  "evidence_prs": [10374],
  "scope_hints": [
    "desktop/macos/scripts/qualify-desktop-beta.sh",
    "desktop/macos/tests/test-qualify-desktop-beta-contract.sh"
  ],
  "status": "open"
}