fix(mount): bound GitHub tar seed bootstrap

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Summary

• give the retained GitHub working-tree tar seed its own configurable subdeadline
• clamp that deadline beneath the active bootstrap idle/hard-cap window
• honor cancellation throughout local baseline, staging, verification, and publication work
• after a seed deadline, skip the second atomic JSON export and fall through directly to the resumable tree pull in the same cycle
• cover the Agent37 240s idle / 120s seed budget, ambient-env isolation, completed-mount fallback, and canceled local application

Rollout dependency

Agent37 Cloud must set RELAYFILE_BOOTSTRAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT=240s before a template containing this mount is used. That preserves the 120s archive budget plus two minutes for the resumable fallback. Shorter outer windows clamp the seed deadline to 75% of the active window.

Verification

• focused tar-seed/deadline tests: pass
• go test ./internal/mountsync -count=1 (pass, 110.638s)
• gofmt and git diff --check: pass

Review follow-ups

• a tar timeout on an already-bootstrapped mount now bypasses pullRemoteFullExport, preventing two sequential atomic deadlines from exhausting the tree fallback window
• applyGithubWorkingTreeTarSeedStrict now receives the seed context and checks cancellation at safe per-file boundaries; already-published entries remain consistently tracked before the next cancellation boundary
• timeout assertions clear all supported ambient timeout variables

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Note

Medium Risk
Changes bootstrap timing and full-pull fallback ordering for GitHub mounts; mis-tuned env vars could still affect large-repo bootstrap, but behavior is clamped and covered by regression tests.

Overview
Adds a dedicated sub-deadline for the retained GitHub working-tree tar bootstrap seed (RELAYFILE_GITHUB_TAR_SEED_TIMEOUT, default 120s), configured via SyncerOptions.GithubTarSeedTimeout and clamped under the active bootstrap idle/hard-cap window using the same 75% rule as export timeout.

During full pull, the seed runs under context.WithTimeout. If it expires while the parent bootstrap context is still alive, the syncer logs, skips the atomic JSON export, and falls through to pullRemoteFullTree in the same cycle so resumable bootstrap can make progress instead of burning the whole idle watchdog.

applyGithubWorkingTreeTarSeedStrict now accepts a context.Context and aborts cooperatively across baseline capture, tar read, staging, and publish. Tests cover Agent37-style budgets, same-cycle tree fallback when the tar blocks, and canceled-context apply behavior.

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Walkthrough

The syncer now resolves a configurable GitHub tar-seed timeout, clamps it to the bootstrap window, and falls back to resumable tree traversal when that timeout expires while the parent context remains active.

Changes

GitHub tar-seed timeout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve and clamp seed timeout internal/mountsync/syncer.go	The syncer resolves the timeout from an option or environment variable, uses a 120-second default for non-positive values, and clamps it with the export timeout to the bootstrap window.
Apply deadline and test tree fallback internal/mountsync/syncer.go, internal/mountsync/syncer_test.go	The tar seed runs with a child timeout. If only that timeout expires, the syncer continues with tree traversal. Tests cover defaulting, clamping, and fallback after a blocked seed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: khaliqgant

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 70ee5

After the archive seed times out on an already-bootstrapped mount, sync can try a full export instead of the intended tree fallback. If that export fails, the sync cycle ends without refreshing the tree. This should be fixed before merge. There is also a small test-isolation fix.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 70ee5

The change improves recovery from blocked archive requests without widening repository access or credential privileges. Local archive processing can still outlast the new budget, and the required deployment timing configuration remains unverified.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: The new seed budget does not contain the complete operation. Local verification and publication have no context cancellation checks, and a successful seed returns without checking deadline expiration. A slow publication phase can therefore consume the intended fallback budget and still publish bootstrap completion. The underlying local work predates this PR; the concern is incomplete enforcement of the new temporal-isolation contract.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected change affects timing for existing GitHub-seeding syncers, not their workspace, repository, local-root, or credential authority. Earlier fallback reuses the established remote-root traversal rather than introducing a new service or tenant scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Remote archive contents remain subject to expected-file, type, hash, size, path, and symlink checks before visible publication. Dirty tracked state and newer on-disk identity take precedence over the remote snapshot.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing resumable tree path preserves incomplete traversal state after transient failures, checks strict expected counts, and avoids destructive reconciliation for resumed partial traversals. The timeout change reuses these recovery controls.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Extend cooperative cancellation through local verification and publication, with explicit handling of already-published entries and incomplete bootstrap state. Validate deadline expiration during publication and safe recovery on the next cycle.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: bounding the GitHub tar seed during mount bootstrap.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the tar-seed deadline, fallback behavior, rollout dependency, and verification. It is directly related to the changeset.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/mountsync/syncer_test.go:
- Line 3403: Update the default-timeout subtest near NewSyncer to set
RELAYFILE_GITHUB_TAR_SEED_TIMEOUT to an empty string, ensuring the assertion
checks the 120-second default regardless of developer or CI environment
settings.

Review comments at @internal/mountsync/syncer.go:
- Around line 6669-6671: Update the export-selection logic in pullRemoteFull to
skip pullRemoteFullExport when seedTimedOut is true, routing directly to the
resumable tree pull instead. Preserve the existing behavior that skips atomic
export when BootstrapComplete is false.

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