diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 2cc2f883..e002b2b2 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -435,12 +435,16 @@ free to run a full `local:gate`). Raising a budget nobody chose hides no race.
   tool can be asked to resolve; assert at runtime when it is about behavior.
 - **A budget is stated, which is not the same as raised.** Testing Library's
   `asyncUtilTimeout` is pinned at its own default in both web setup files
-  because raising it was *measured worse*: a wait that is meant to expire —
-  a test asserting something never appears, a poll allowed to run out — spends
-  its whole budget on the happy path, so a raise is a proportional cost on
-  exactly those tests and starves the worker pool. Measure before raising a
-  budget that a passing test can spend in full; the call-site comment records
-  the three-arm run.
+  because raising it was *measured* and found to buy nothing: #2323's
+  three-arm run went red at 5000, and #2335's interleaved re-run on a leased
+  machine found no web test that lets a Testing Library wait expire on its
+  passing path and no difference between 1000 and 5000 beyond the guard
+  refusing the raised value. The hazard the rule guards against is still
+  real: a wait that is meant to expire — a test asserting something never
+  appears, a poll allowed to run out — spends its whole budget on the happy
+  path, so a raise is a proportional cost on exactly those tests. Measure
+  before raising a budget that a passing test can spend in full; the
+  call-site comment records both runs.
 - **An inner budget must be strictly smaller than the budget enclosing it.**
   `waitFor({ timeout: N })` inside a test whose own budget is `N` can never win:
   the test expires first and reports a timeout naming neither the wait nor its
diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts
index c7817328..e13a8cc6 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts
@@ -22,11 +22,15 @@ import { getConfig } from "@testing-library/react";
  *
  * A different unrelated set failed each time and every one passed in about a
  * second in isolation, which is the shape of CPU starvation rather than of a
- * slow assertion. The mechanism: `asyncUtilTimeout` is not only a ceiling — any
- * wait that is *meant* to expire spends the whole budget on the happy path, so
- * a 5x raise is a 5x cost on exactly those tests, which saturates the worker
- * pool and starves tests that were never slow. The tests that assert absence
- * that way are the real defect and are #2335; revisit this when they are gone.
+ * slow assertion. The mechanism proposed at the time — a wait that is *meant*
+ * to expire spends the whole budget on the happy path, so a 5x raise is a 5x
+ * cost on those tests — was checked on #2335 and does not hold here: no web
+ * test lets a Testing Library wait expire on its passing path, and the same
+ * three-arm protocol re-run interleaved on a leased machine showed no failure
+ * in any arm beyond this very assertion refusing the raised value, and 0 tests
+ * at or above 5000ms with the raise in place. Raising
+ * the budget buys nothing, so the pin stays at the default until a measurement
+ * says otherwise. `setup.ts` carries the full record.
  *
  * ⚠️ This asserts the EFFECTIVE value at runtime rather than checking that
  * `setup.ts` contains a `configure()` call. An earlier revision of #2334 did
diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/setup.ts b/clients/web/src/test/setup.ts
index 344c0ee2..dae9776c 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/setup.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/setup.ts
@@ -21,17 +21,28 @@ import { cleanup, configure } from "@testing-library/react";
 //
 // The failures were a different, unrelated set each time and every one passed
 // in about a second in isolation, which is the shape of CPU starvation rather
-// than of a slow assertion. The mechanism is that `asyncUtilTimeout` is not
-// only a ceiling: any wait that is *meant* to expire — a test asserting
-// something never appears, and anything that lets a poll run out — spends the
-// whole budget on the happy path, so a 5x raise is a 5x cost on those tests,
-// which saturates the worker pool and starves tests that were never slow.
+// than of a slow assertion. The mechanism proposed at the time was that
+// `asyncUtilTimeout` is not only a ceiling: a wait that is *meant* to expire —
+// a test asserting something never appears, a poll allowed to run out — spends
+// the whole budget on the happy path, so a 5x raise would be a 5x cost on
+// those tests, saturating the worker pool.
+//
+// #2335 went looking for those tests and found none. Zero hits for every
+// expiring-wait shape against Testing Library across the unit, `core/`,
+// integration and story files; no test at or above 2000ms in a full unit run;
+// and the same three-arm protocol re-run interleaved on a leased machine
+// (1000 / 5000 / reverted, three rounds) gave 0 failures in every arm — the
+// one red test in each 5000 arm being `asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts` refusing the
+// raised value, which is the guard doing its job — and 0 tests at or above
+// 5000ms with the raise in place. Nothing on the passing
+// path spends this budget, so raising it buys nothing — and the #2323 reds
+// read as ambient load the arms did not share (an inference from that data,
+// not a re-measurement of the original run).
 //
 // So the general rule this repo now follows — a budget must be a value someone
-// chose — is satisfied by choosing it, not by raising it. Raising it is what
-// #2323's own "do not raise" list would have said had the measurement been
-// taken first. The tests that assert absence by letting a wait expire are the
-// real defect and are tracked on #2335; when they are gone, revisit this.
+// chose — is satisfied by choosing it, not by raising it. The pin stays at the
+// default until a measurement says otherwise; `asyncUtilTimeout.test.ts`
+// asserts the effective value, so moving it is deliberate by construction.
 configure({ asyncUtilTimeout: 1000 });
 
 // Node 22+ exposes an experimental `localStorage` placeholder that overrides