[t3dotgg]

Every Release run since this morning failed in "Release tests", and that job was also the slowest step. CI passes on the same commits.

The cause is drift from CI. Release ran the web browser suite at the same time as every other package on one runner. Chromium got too little CPU, so diff workers missed their 10s start budget and other browser tests timed out. CI moved web to its own job long ago. Release did not follow. (#13321 fixed the same drift once.)

Release now uses the same test split as CI:

• Release tests no longer runs @t3tools/web.
• New Release web tests job runs only the web suite, with CI's cached Chromium. The publish job waits for it.
• Release server tests goes from 3 shards on 8 vCPU to 8 shards on 4 vCPU. Server test files run one at a time, so more runners is the real speedup.

CI takes about 5 minutes for these jobs. Release took 7 to 9 minutes and often failed.

#22508 raised the timeouts. This change removes the CPU contention that caused them.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at f493e6b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This PR only reorganizes release CI tests, adds browser caching, and increases server-test parallelism to reduce timeouts. It changes release validation timing and gating but does not change product behavior or deployment targets.

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📝 Walkthrough

The release workflow now runs package, web, and server tests separately. It adds Chromium setup for web tests, expands server testing to eight shards on 4-vCPU runners, and requires web tests to succeed before release publication.

Changes: Release test workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Test orchestration and release gate .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml	The release package test excludes the web package, which runs in a separate job with Chromium setup and caching. Server tests expand from three to eight shards and use 4-vCPU runners. Release publication requires test_web to succeed. Workflow comments note that the CI and release test splits should remain aligned.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f493e

The release workflow now runs web tests as a separate required job, and the server tests are split into more shards. The only remaining concern is a small credential-hardening change in the new web test job. Merging is low risk, and the fix can be done before or soon after merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: release tests should stop timing out and complete faster. It is concise and uses a conventional commit format.
Description check		The description covers the problem, root cause, implementation, affected release jobs, expected performance impact, related pull requests, and agent attribution. The verification section does not stat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description covers the problem, root cause, implementation, affected release jobs, expected performance impact, related pull requests, and agent attribution. The verification section does not state a specific post-change test result, but the description is otherwise complete and directly aligned with the pull request objectives.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 301-304: Update the Checkout step using actions/checkout@v6 in the
web test job to set persist-credentials to false, while preserving the existing
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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+7 B (+0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+24 B (+0.5%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+24 B (+2.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 5bcc90e · PR result: f493e6b · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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