[CTX-1001] chore(runtime): widen plugin_ui mount_loop wall budget for CI load (#1744)

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Priority: P2 | Area: runtime | Labels: chore,P2,area:runtime | Milestone: v0.1.0 | Task: CTX-1001

Closes #1744.

Decision

Widen the test-only wall budget; do not retry-on-suspend or exempt from sharded profiles — the #1727 treatment. The mount loop runs 65 bitty.ui.mount calls through PluginRuntime::activate, which enforces the per-chunk RC-1 wall budget via execute_bounded. Production keeps RC1_WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS (50ms); the test reused that default and suspended at 63ms (WallClockExceeded) under sharded CI load (QG2 shard 2/2 during #1741 CI). Wall time is load-sensitive, not correctness-sensitive. Retry would need a fresh VM per attempt and stays flaky under sustained load; exemption would hide coverage. Fixed 10x headroom (500ms, wall only; instruction/memory stay at RC defaults) keeps the chunk bounded while absorbing scheduler stalls. Budget enforcement stays pinned by bitty-lua measurement_lua/load_gate (50ms assertions unchanged). Block budget (UI_MAX_BLOCKS) unchanged.

Change

• crates/bitty-runtime/src/plugin_runtime/mod.rs: test-only vm_wall_budget_ms: Option<u64> (default None -> VmBudgets::default 50ms wall) + set_vm_wall_budget_ms; activate widens only the wall dimension when set. Production never sets this; default path untouched.
• crates/bitty-runtime/tests/plugin_ui.rs: MOUNT_LOOP_WALL_BUDGET_MS = 10 * RC1_WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS (500ms); mount_loop_hits_block_budget_fail_closed activates with the widened wall via activate_with_wall_budget; all other fixtures keep None (production 50ms). Documented in code.

Evidence

• cargo fmt --check: clean
• RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings cargo clippy -p bitty-runtime --all-targets: clean
• cargo nextest run -p bitty-runtime --test plugin_ui: 15/15 passed x7 consecutive runs
• cargo nextest run -p bitty-runtime --test plugin_ui mount_loop: 1/1 green (isolated)
• cargo nextest run -p bitty-lua --test measurement_lua: 27/27 green + --test load_gate: 9/9 green (production 50ms pins intact)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Expanded UI mount-budget coverage using a longer wall-clock allowance while retaining the default instruction and memory limits. Fixtures without a custom allowance continue to use the standard timing behavior.
  • Improved overlay-capture test diagnostics by recording and checking bridge error codes when acquisition attempts fail.

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PluginRuntime now accepts an optional activation wall-clock budget override. The plugin UI mount-loop block-budget test uses a test-local budget set to ten times the RC-1 default. Instruction and memory budgets remain at their defaults. The overlay-capture test also records error codes for failed acquire attempts.

Changes

Plugin UI mount-loop budget

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Activation wall-budget override crates/bitty-runtime/src/plugin_runtime/mod.rs	PluginRuntime stores an optional wall-clock budget override. Activation uses the override when set and otherwise uses default VM budgets.
Mount-loop test budget crates/bitty-runtime/tests/plugin_ui.rs	Test helpers accept an optional wall-clock budget. The mount-loop block-budget test uses the test-local override; existing fixture paths retain the default.

Overlay acquire diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture overlay acquire errors crates/bitty-runtime/tests/plugin_ui.rs	The Lua probe records error codes from the first and third overlay acquire attempts. Assertions include the recorded error codes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4fed9

The test's larger budget is exposed through the production runtime API, despite the 50 ms default remaining unchanged. Keep the override test-only or explicitly accept this scope change before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4fed9

The existing production default remains unchanged, and the only located use of the override is in an integration test. However, the override is available in normal builds and affects later plugin activations and callbacks, making its effective scope broader than the stated test-only purpose.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The documented test-only activation override is an ungated public resource-control API. Its value applies to every later activation on the same runtime, and successful VMs retain it for command and event callbacks. Resetting the runtime field to None does not restore budgets on existing VMs. The isolation boundary is therefore native caller discipline, not test-only or activation-only enforcement.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The maximum demonstrated policy scope is every plugin VM subsequently created by one configured runtime, including retained callback execution. Invoking the setter requires native mutable runtime access. The only invocation located in the repository is the integration-test helper; external consumers were not assessed.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supported concern is resource-policy scope drift, not demonstrated Lua privilege escalation. Plugin-controlled code inherits a relaxed wall limit only after a native caller configures the override before VM creation. The inspected changes add no Lua binding for choosing that value, and instruction, memory and capability controls remain independent countercontrols.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing VM gate validates every enforced budget dimension before constructing a VM. Some(0) therefore fails activation rather than disabling wall enforcement. Positive overrides retain the default instruction and memory budgets.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The override update is a single assignment requiring mutable access to a runtime documented as single-thread-owned. Repeating a setter value does not allocate resources. Restoring None changes future VM construction only; it neither tears down nor modifies an already active VM.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If this remains exclusively test support, isolate it behind an explicit opt-in test-support surface. Define whether the intended scope is one activation or the entire VM lifetime, and make runtime reuse and restoration behavior match that contract.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	Since the previous review, the PR changed overlay_capture_is_single_owner_and_release_is_idempotent to store and assert acquire error codes for load-flake triage. This overlay-capture diagnostic cha…	Revert the unrelated overlay-capture diagnostic and assertion changes in crates/bitty-runtime/tests/plugin_ui.rs. Keep the mount-loop wall-budget changes.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 69.23% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: widening the wall-clock budget for the plugin_ui mount-loop test under CI load.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1744 asks for a wider wall budget only for the mount-loop test, unchanged production defaults and block budget, and repeated green runs. The override defaults to None and replaces only `wall_…

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Explanation

Since the previous review, the PR changed overlay_capture_is_single_owner_and_release_is_idempotent to store and assert acquire error codes for load-flake triage. This overlay-capture diagnostic change does not implement or test the #1744 mount-loop wall-budget requirement, and the current PR description does not include it in scope.

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🟡 Minor · Keep the wall-budget override out of the production API. · mod.rs:625-635

crates/bitty-runtime/src/plugin_runtime/mod.rs:625-635
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the wall-budget override out of the production API.

PluginRuntime and set_vm_wall_budget_ms are public. A production caller can set Some(ms) before activation, and activation passes that wall budget to build_plugin_vm. The 50 ms budget remains the default when the override is None, but it is not enforced when a caller sets an override.

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Review comment at @crates/bitty-runtime/src/plugin_runtime/mod.rs around lines
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Keep the wall-budget override test-only: restrict set_vm_wall_budget_ms and its
backing override in PluginRuntime to test builds, and ensure production
activation always uses the default VmBudgets wall budget when calling
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