fix(tests): the pause test raced the deferred launch and blocked the deploy (v0.446.1)

[vikasprogrammer]

What happened

make-live.sh refused to restart anything after v0.446.0: session-pause-test.cjs failed its last assertion on instawp and passed on expresstech. The gate was right — but the failure was in the test, not the feature.

The HTTP section asserted the row read running after unpause. launchAgentRuntime stamps launching synchronously and hands the real launch to a setImmediate whose .catch stamps the row crashed — and that deferred half does far more than the stubbed backend.spawn (env files, skills, credentials). On a box where any of it throws, the status flips between the await and the read.

A test that passes on one box and fails on another for timing reasons is the worst shape a test can have, so this removes the race rather than widening the assertion.

Fix

• Stub launchAgentRuntimeNow in that section. It is about the route and the status transition; the launcher has its own tests, and the section already stubs every other backend call.
• Both status assertions now pass the value they actually found into the failure detail, so the next failure is diagnosable from the deploy log alone instead of needing an ssh round trip.

Also checked

The same deploy showed warm-chat-test failing once on expresstech. It passes 5/5 standalone there and the full suite now passes end to end on that box (EXIT=0), so that one was a flake under suite load, not a regression — noted rather than papered over.

Testing

npm run test:governance green locally; verified on instawp (the box that reproduced it) before merge.

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