test(cli): route the last three serve-* e2e spawners through childEnv(), 3 -> 0 on the child-env ratchet

packages/cli/test/serve-app-anchored-optional-import.e2e.test.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@
  *
  * The spawn is written out here rather than taken from `test/helpers/
  * serve-process.ts` on purpose: that helper always runs the child WITH `cwd` set
- * to the app, which is the one shape this file must not use.
+ * to the app, which is the one shape this file must not use. Only its
+ * `childEnv()` choke point is borrowed (#11267) — what the child INHERITS is
+ * orthogonal to which directory it is started in, and this file boots the real
+ * stack, better-auth included, which reads `TEST` directly.
  *
  * ── The anti-vacuity floor ───────────────────────────────────────────────
  *
@@ -54,6 +57,7 @@ import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'nod
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import { dirname, join, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { childEnv } from './helpers/serve-process.js';
 
 const HERE = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 
@@ -156,16 +160,15 @@ function runServeFrom(
  const port = String(40000 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 20000));
  const child = spawn(TSX, [CLI, 'serve', configArg, '--port', port], {
  cwd,
- env: {
- ...process.env,
+ env: childEnv({
  NO_COLOR: '1',
  OS_DATABASE_URL: ':memory:',
  OS_LOG_LEVEL: '',
  OS_DISABLE_CONSOLE: '1',
  // The trigger: without a non-memory driver the cluster block is skipped
  // entirely and this file would measure nothing.
  OS_CLUSTER_DRIVER: 'redis',
- },
+ }),
  });
 
  let stdout = '';

packages/cli/test/serve-app-runtime-hooks.e2e.test.ts

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import { promisify } from 'node:util';
 import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
-import { runServe, randomPort, CLI, TSX } from './helpers/serve-process.js';
+import { childEnv, runServe, randomPort, CLI, TSX } from './helpers/serve-process.js';
 
 const execFileP = promisify(execFile);
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ beforeAll(async () => {
  await execFileP(TSX, [CLI, 'compile'], {
  cwd: dir,
  maxBuffer: 16 * 1024 * 1024,
- env: { ...process.env, NO_COLOR: '1' },
+ env: childEnv({ NO_COLOR: '1' }),
  });
 }, 240_000);
 

packages/cli/test/serve-host-fallback-base.e2e.test.ts

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import { dirname, join, resolve } from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 import { promisify } from 'node:util';
+import { childEnv } from './helpers/serve-process.js';
 
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ beforeAll(async () => {
 
  const { stdout } = await execFileAsync(TSX, [probeFile, SERVE_TS, appRoot], {
  cwd: neutralCwd,
- env: { ...process.env, NO_COLOR: '1' },
+ env: childEnv({ NO_COLOR: '1' }),
  maxBuffer: 16 * 1024 * 1024,
  });
  const payload = stdout.slice(stdout.indexOf(SENTINEL) + SENTINEL.length);

scripts/check-cli-test-child-env.mjs

@@ -873,12 +873,30 @@ export function selfTest() {
  // preceded this gate. A gate has no worklist, so they are members of the
  // population rather than extra scope -- pinned here because "the derivation
  // covers them" is exactly the kind of claim that rots silently.
+ //
+ // ⚠️ Pinned as membership of the SCANNED population -- walked, and classified
+ // as a spawner, so `bulkEnvReferences` really runs over them. It is NOT
+ // pinned as membership of `findings`, which is what the first revision of
+ // these two cases asserted. That spelling reads identically on the day it is
+ // written and means the opposite: it holds only while the two files still
+ // LEAK, so it turned red the moment #11596's burn-down repaired them --
+ // an anti-shrink pin sitting on a shrink-only ratchet, and one that reports
+ // "the derivation lost this file" when the file is merely clean. A repaired
+ // source is still derived and still scanned; that is the claim #11441
+ // measured, and it is the one that has to survive the repair.
+ const scanned = walkSources(join(REPO_ROOT, POPULATION_ROOT))
+ .filter((abs) => {
+ const text = readFileSync(abs, 'utf8');
+ return /child_process|worker_threads/.test(text)
+ && isSpawnerSource(parseSourceFile(abs, text, scriptKindFor(abs)));
+ })
+ .map((abs) => relative(REPO_ROOT, abs).split(sep).join('/'));
  for (const named of [
  'packages/cli/test/serve-app-anchored-optional-import.e2e.test.ts',
  'packages/cli/test/serve-host-fallback-base.e2e.test.ts',
  ]) {
  t(`the enumerated population contains ${named.split('/').pop()}`,
- live.refusal === null && live.findings.some((f) => f.file === named));
+ live.refusal === null && scanned.includes(named));
  }
  } finally {
  rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });

scripts/cli-test-child-env.baseline.json

@@ -12,18 +12,19 @@
  "not a sanctioned move, it is a mute button -- and a count that FALLS must be lowered in",
  "the same PR. A ceiling left above reality silently licenses that many new leaks.",
  "",
- "Burn-down is tracked on https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/11596.",
+ "BURNED DOWN TO ZERO -- the ledger below is empty and stays that way. The burn-down",
+ "ran on https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/11596 and closed with it.",
+ "An empty ratchet is the strongest one this file can hold: every bulk copy in the",
+ "population is now either repaired or a DELIBERATE entry in the gate. ⛔ A new key here",
+ "is not a baseline, it is a carve-out -- the gate's failure text says so and means it.",
  "",
  "The repair is `childEnv()` from packages/cli/test/helpers/serve-process.ts, which copies",
  "the environment minus the vitest worker family (TEST, VITEST, VITEST_*) and then applies",
  "the overrides you pass. Burning this list down is one card per neighbourhood; it is NOT",
- "the job of the PR that lands the gate, and two of the files below were held by another",
- "card in flight when it did.",
+ "the job of the PR that lands the gate, and two of the files it baselined were held by",
+ "another card in flight when it did.",
  "",
  "Sites that copy the whole environment ON PURPOSE do not belong here. They are DELIBERATE",
  "entries in the gate itself, carrying their reason, and they are pinned in both directions."
- ],
- "packages/cli/test/serve-app-anchored-optional-import.e2e.test.ts": 1,
- "packages/cli/test/serve-app-runtime-hooks.e2e.test.ts": 1,
- "packages/cli/test/serve-host-fallback-base.e2e.test.ts": 1
+ ]
 }