`MAX_WAIT_MS` in scripts/gate-lease.mjs said the 45-minute wait only ever
expires against a live holder still running after 45 minutes. The budget is
measured from the waiter's first `acquireLease` attempt and is not reset when
the lease changes hands, so a queue of healthy gates deeper than about ten
also exhausts it. The comment now says so, matching docs/quality-gate.md.
The "Run cross-client smokes" step in .github/workflows/main.yml pointed at
a CI-vs-local table in the root README that the README no longer carries; it
now points at docs/quality-gate.md, which declares itself canonical.
Comment-only; no behaviour change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PsmUAZ6aLUAFqenjJKSSRp
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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