`build` ran `npm run validate` and `npm run coverage` back to back, and on a
recent green run those two steps were 84% of a 17m9s wall clock (7m41 + 6m50).
They are serial for no reason: `coverage` consumes nothing `validate` produces.
Every client's `test:coverage` is self-sufficient — web and cli build the test
servers themselves (cli its own bin too), tui and launcher run from source — and
the only consumers of `clients/*/build` are the smokes, which stay in `build`
alongside the `validate` that produces them.
So split `coverage` into a sibling job. Both publish jobs become
`needs: [build, coverage]`: that is the safety property, not a side effect —
left as `needs: build` a release could publish with the coverage gate red.
Deliberately NOT backgrounding the two inside one job: that puts two vitest
fleets on one 4-core runner, which already times tests out at the 5s default.
Wall clock ~17m -> ~10m, for one extra runner and a duplicated ~24s install.
Splitting `coverage` per client is the next lever and stays out of scope.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177mPHAdECD18nLLCTwR5rh
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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