tests/configs/vitest.perf.config.ts

@@ -21,13 +21,6 @@ export default defineConfig({
     setupFiles: ['./tests/setup.ts'],
     environment: 'node',
 
-    // The marker a test uses to tell it is running under this lane (see
-    // tests/integration/storage-batch-operations.test.ts's batch-vs-
-    // individual timing case) — a wall-clock RATIO assertion self-skips
-    // with a reason when this is absent, rather than flaking the
-    // correctness gate on whichever path happens to be faster this build.
-    env: { BRAINY_PERF_LANE: '1' },
-
     // Sequential, single fork — same isolation the gate uses, so a perf
     // measurement isn't skewed by sibling test contention.
     pool: 'forks',
@@ -52,12 +45,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
       'tests/critical-performance-benchmark.test.ts',
       'tests/api/performance-benchmarks.test.ts',
       'tests/package-size-limit.test.ts',
-      'tests/model-loading.test.ts',
-      // Not a whole perf file — one wall-clock-ratio case inside an
-      // otherwise-correctness integration suite (self-skipped everywhere
-      // else via BRAINY_PERF_LANE). Stays in the integration gate's
-      // include too, so every OTHER test in the file keeps running there.
-      'tests/integration/storage-batch-operations.test.ts'
+      'tests/model-loading.test.ts'
     ],
 
     reporters: process.env.CI ? ['dot'] : ['basic'],

tests/integration/storage-batch-operations.test.ts

@@ -95,13 +95,7 @@ describe('Storage-Level Batch Operations v5.12.0', () => {
       expect(entity?.vector?.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
     })
 
-    it('should be faster than individual gets for large batches', async (ctx) => {
-      // Wall-clock RATIO assertion — belongs to the perf lane (npm run
-      // test:perf), not the correctness gate: under the exclusive release
-      // gate this flaked when individual gets got faster on their own
-      // (open-path/hydration changes), not because batchGet regressed.
-      ctx.skip(!process.env.BRAINY_PERF_LANE, 'timing-ratio assertion — runs only under the perf lane (npm run test:perf)')
-
+    it('should be faster than individual gets for large batches', async () => {
       // Create 100 entities
       const ids: string[] = []
       for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {

tests/unit/test-suite-coverage-guard.test.ts

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
  * config (so it never runs and gives false coverage confidence — the exact drift
  * that left ~27 test files un-run before 8.0). Every `*.test.ts` must either match
  * a gate config (`tests/unit/**`, `tests/integration/**`, `*.unit.test.ts`,
- * `*.integration.test.ts`, or the perf lane's `tests/configs/vitest.perf.config.ts`
- * — see PERF_LANE_FILES below) or be explicitly listed in MANUAL_ONLY below.
+ * `*.integration.test.ts`) or be explicitly listed in MANUAL_ONLY below.
  */
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
 import { readdirSync } from 'node:fs'
@@ -25,12 +24,10 @@ function allTestFiles(dir: string, out: string[] = []): string[] {
 }
 
 /**
- * Test files INTENTIONALLY excluded from every automated gate — conformance
- * suites invoked directly, and checks that need real resources (network,
- * unusual scale) no CI lane provides. Wall-clock/scale benchmarks that DO
- * run automatically belong to the perf lane (PERF_LANE_FILES / inGate
- * below), not here. Every entry is a conscious decision — a NEW orphan not
- * listed here fails the guard below.
+ * Test files INTENTIONALLY excluded from the unit/integration gate: benchmarks,
+ * scale/perf measurements, package-size checks, and real-model-load checks. They
+ * are run manually (slow / need real resources), not in CI. Every entry is a
+ * conscious decision — a NEW orphan not listed here fails the guard below.
  */
 const MANUAL_ONLY = new Set<string>([
   // Conformance suites run as an explicit gate stage (both engines run them
@@ -43,11 +40,15 @@ const MANUAL_ONLY = new Set<string>([
   // The sparse-store cut's shared operator rows (both engines run these):
   // explicit conformance-gate invocation, like its siblings.
   'tests/conformance/sparse-store-cut.test.ts',
-  // NOT the perf lane: no wall-clock/scale assertion, so it does not belong
-  // in tests/configs/vitest.perf.config.ts's include list — genuinely run
-  // by hand only.
+  'tests/api/performance-benchmarks.test.ts',
   'tests/critical-neural-validation.test.ts',
+  'tests/critical-performance-benchmark.test.ts',
+  'tests/model-loading.test.ts',
   'tests/package-size-breakdown.test.ts',
+  'tests/package-size-limit.test.ts',
+  'tests/performance/graph-scale-performance.test.ts',
+  'tests/performance/triple-intelligence-scale.test.ts',
+  'tests/performance/typeAware.bench.test.ts',
   // Cross-engine field-addressing conformance suite: pinned bit-for-bit against
   // the native accelerator's implementation of the SAME contract, and invoked
   // directly (`npx vitest run tests/conformance/namespace-law.test.ts`), never
@@ -58,21 +59,6 @@ const MANUAL_ONLY = new Set<string>([
   'tests/conformance/namespace-law.test.ts'
 ])
 
-/**
- * The perf lane's own gate: `tests/configs/vitest.perf.config.ts`, run by
- * `npm run test:perf`. Mirrors that config's `include` list — kept in sync
- * by inspection, the same convention that config uses against the root
- * gate's exclude list (see its own header comment). A file that runs here
- * is GATED, not manual: it belongs in this set (or the `tests/performance/`
- * prefix below), never in MANUAL_ONLY.
- */
-const PERF_LANE_FILES = new Set<string>([
-  'tests/critical-performance-benchmark.test.ts',
-  'tests/api/performance-benchmarks.test.ts',
-  'tests/package-size-limit.test.ts',
-  'tests/model-loading.test.ts'
-])
-
 function inGate(rel: string): boolean {
   return (
     rel.startsWith('tests/unit/') ||
@@ -81,11 +67,7 @@ function inGate(rel: string): boolean {
     // ('tests/lifecycle/**/*.test.ts'; see tests/lifecycle/README.md).
     rel.startsWith('tests/lifecycle/') ||
     rel.endsWith('.unit.test.ts') ||
-    rel.endsWith('.integration.test.ts') ||
-    // The perf lane (see PERF_LANE_FILES above) — mirrors
-    // tests/configs/vitest.perf.config.ts's `tests/performance/**` glob.
-    rel.startsWith('tests/performance/') ||
-    PERF_LANE_FILES.has(rel)
+    rel.endsWith('.integration.test.ts')
   )
 }
 

tests/vfs/vfs-search-path-scope.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * @module tests/vfs/vfs-search-path-scope.unit
+ * @module tests/vfs/vfs-search-path-scope
  * @description `vfs.search({ path })` scopes with a SERVED filter.
  *
  * The scope used to be emitted as `path: { $startsWith }` — an operator that is