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Finishes quest/m0/clock-guard: its children (the bun guard, moq-dev/moq#8078, and the Rust guard, moq-dev/moq#8081) have landed; this is the README's own work.

Summary

• REVIEW.md gains a Tests section restoring "unit tests mock time instead of depending on wall-clock timing or sleeps", which sat in root AGENTS.md until moq-dev/moq#7761 moved it into quest context, out of online reviewers' sight. Per the maintainer's decision recorded in the quest, it applies to every language and says what a fix looks like: a mocked clock or an awaited event, never a shorter or longer real wait, with the same fix in each language's sibling test.
• It tells reviewers what the runtime guards miss (Go and Python tests, waits that bypass kio::clock / @moq/clock) and that host_time() / hostTime() opt-outs belong only on tests driving real sockets, devices, or processes.
• Deletes the quest and its m0 link; rewords the m1 mock-clock-tests reference to it.

Choices made without asking

• Placed the rule as its own # Tests section after # Stance rather than as another Stance bullet, since it is a concrete defect to flag, not an approach question.
• Did not touch rs/AGENTS.md / rs/moq-net/AGENTS.md; their narrower Rust rules stay.

Impact

Reviewer instructions only; no API or wire change. REVIEW.md is read from the base branch, so it takes effect for PRs reviewed after this merges.

Checks

• quest check --base origin/main: ok.

Review

Codex gpt-6.1-sol (medium) via quest review, head c88fdbcdaac2e75a19255f884802c31dad6130c7: no findings.

CodeRabbit's three threads on the first head (elapsed-time budgets, the real-I/O exception, the process-wide scope of host_time()) are fixed in c88fdbc.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit ce5f7f7 against base 9920a3f.

No actionable findings in this documentation-only change. The review rule states the actual failure mode and remedy across languages, distinguishes using the clock wrapper from installing a mocked clock, and preserves real-I/O opt-outs. I verified that the two runtime-guard PRs (#8078 and #8081) are merged. Removing the completed m0 quest and its link leaves the existing-test migration tracked in m1 rather than implying that migration is finished.

Direction: apply the rule to settle sleeps and timing-based assertions at their shared helper, including existing sibling tests; preserve the documented distinction between those assertions and simply awaiting an event.

Verification limits: GitHub source/diff and PR-state inspection only. No quest check, tests, or runtime guard execution performed. This is a COMMENT, not approval.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• REVIEW.md gains a # Tests section — restores the mock-time rule for reviewers, states what a fix looks like (mocked clock or awaited event, mirrored in each language's sibling test), and records what the runtime guards miss.
• quest/m0/clock-guard/README.md deleted — its children landed with #8078 and #8081, and the directory is gone with no surviving references (grep -rn clock-guard is clean).
• quest/m0/README.md drops the deleted quest's Required bullet.
• quest/m1/mock-clock-tests/README.md rewords the m0 reference to name the guards inline instead of linking the removed quest.

Verified against source rather than the prose: rs/kio/src/clock/mod.rs backs the "paused, simulated, or Manual" and "only waits that ran out count" claims, rs/justfile's test recipe sets KIO_DENY_HOST_TIMERS=1, doc/lib/js/clock.md backs the bun-preload scope and the hostTime() opt-out's real-I/O wording, and the Go (go/wrapper) and Python (py/) suites do sit outside both guards. The m1 wording stays consistent with its recorded scope, which keeps wait-for-progress timeouts and real socket/device/process tests on the real clock.

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Walkthrough

REVIEW.md adds guidance against real-time sleeps and timeout waits in tests, and limits when tests should opt out of clock checks. The m0 README removes a related requirement, and the clock-guard README is deleted. The m1 plan now states that runtime guards and the review rule landed in m0.

Merge Risk: Low · up to ce5f7

This documentation-only change is mergeable with bounded follow-up. Clarifying elapsed-time assertions, real-I/O exceptions, and Rust opt-out scope would prevent inconsistent test-review advice.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the new test review guidance.
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.
Description check		The description is specific and on-topic. It names the quest being finished (quest/m0/clock-guard), the child PRs that landed, and the new Tests section in REVIEW.md that restores the mocked-time rule…

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Explanation

The description is specific and on-topic. It names the quest being finished (quest/m0/clock-guard), the child PRs that landed, and the new Tests section in REVIEW.md that restores the mocked-time rule. It also lists the deletion of the quest and its m0 link, the m1 reference rewording, and the reviewer-only impact. It describes the changeset in detail, so it is related and not vague.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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• Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @REVIEW.md:
- Around line 32-33: Update the review rule to flag unit tests that assert
elapsed real time, including duration thresholds such as completing an operation
in under 50 ms, as well as tests that wait on real timers. Keep the existing
guidance about simulated clocks and apply the rule across languages.
- Line 35: Clarify the Rust `host_time()` opt-out documentation to state that it
disables the timer guard process-wide, so other tests in that process can also
bypass detection. Note that nextest isolates tests to avoid this shared-process
effect; do not broaden the change beyond clarifying the opt-out scope.
- Around line 33-35: Update the timer-review rule to explicitly exempt
real-clock waits in tests that drive real sockets, devices, or processes, such
as deadlines used to verify no output. Keep the mocked-clock or awaited-event
requirement for other tests.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Delta since the prior pullfrog review (ce5f7f7 → c88fdbc): four prose lines in REVIEW.md's new # Tests section, all closing CodeRabbit's three threads.

• Elapsed-time assertions added to the rule — an assertion that an operation finished within a real-time budget now counts as real-clock dependence, and the fix wording rejects a looser budget alongside shorter or longer waits.
• Real-I/O exception named explicitly — tests driving real sockets, devices, or processes may wait on the real clock, and host_time() / hostTime() belong nowhere else.
• Guard limitations made precise — the runtime guards miss elapsed-time assertions as well as Go/Python tests and waits that bypass kio::clock / @moq/clock; Rust's host_time() is noted as process-wide, which nextest's one-test-per-process runs mask.

Each claim checks out against the tree: rs/kio/src/clock/runtime.rs documents and implements the process-wide ALLOWED flag and only fires from a timer that actually waited, js/clock/src/host.ts + preload.ts reset the per-test opt-out, and neither guard observes instantaneous elapsed reads. The three CodeRabbit threads are resolved. No dangling clock-guard references, and the m1 wording still matches its recorded scope.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head c88fdbc, incrementally since ce5f7f7.

No new actionable findings. The update closes the elapsed-time-budget gap, makes the real-I/O exception explicit, and correctly describes Rust's process-wide opt-out: host_time() sets a shared static atomic, so nextest's process isolation matters. The direction remains deterministic unit tests without weakening real-I/O coverage.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the documentation delta and kio clock guard source. No tests, guard execution or quest validation run.