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Problem

Audits of the maintainer's agent hosts on 2026-11-12 found two avoidable CPU sinks: TLC runs that take every core (one gated route run used about 24 CPU-hours in 53 minutes and held 35 gated commands behind it), and TypeDoc regenerating the JS API reference on every JS-module check (50 runs in 4.8 hours at a median of 74 CPU-seconds).

Approach

• quest/m0/ci/tlc-cost.md [M]: cap TLC workers, replace the route model's SumOver with Community Modules' FoldSet (natively evaluated through its Java override), add SYMMETRY where sound, -checkpoint 0 and no leftover metadirs, and single-config local checks with whole directories left to Nightly. It sits in the CI cost epic, whose goal covers agents sharing expensive-command capacity.
• quest/m1/api-reference-cache.md [XS]: skip TypeDoc when a hash of its inputs is unchanged, replacing the modification-time --cached stamp. Nothing in quest/m0/ci/ owned this, so it is a new m1 quest.
• quest/m1/tla-native-checker.md links the TLC quest, since it moves that quest's baseline.

Decisions

From the maintainer's /quest-plan interview on 2026-11-12, recorded in the quests:

• ✅ All of the TLC changes above. Rejected: Apalache (no cheaper, out of memory on the route model in moq-dev/moq#8564) and waiting for the Rust checker (moq-dev/moq#8600), which complements this.
• ✅ Hash-keyed TypeDoc skip.

Found while planning, recorded in the quests:

• The move to nixpkgs#tlaplus18 already landed in moq-dev/moq#8499; the 1.7.4 run in the evidence bypassed the recipes, so the quest only keeps the old package out of docs and scripts.
• SumSet({f(x) : x \in S}) would drop equal counts, so the quest names FoldSet.
• test(net): Apalache reads the route model but cannot step it #8564 also rewrites SumOver (as an Apalache fold); whichever lands second keeps one fold.
• Left open in the TLC quest, with a recommendation: where a refinement check like the in-progress RefinesClaims runs (recommended: an exhaustive config, not the simulated Blind.cfg).

Addressed in /quest-iterate from CodeRabbit's review:

• The TLC quest also removes, at a run's start, metadirs that killed runs left in a checkout that outlives them, keyed by a lock each live run holds so a concurrent run's metadir survives.
• The API reference's hash inputs include every tsconfig reached through extends, such as js/tsconfig.json, which sets declaration and stripInternal.

Validation

• quest check: 505 documents ok, on the merge of main.
• just check: passes.

Public API: none. Wire: none.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

Size: S
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort (iterate, XS)

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Review

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• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1d338-63fc-7110-ac87-5d86cb018095, round 1
• Head: 36eff2b
• Base: origin/main at e434699
• Score: 10/10, The planning documents match the referenced implementation, change no executable code, and have no actionable defects.
• Findings: none

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — three quest planning documents; no executable behavior changes.

• quest/m0/ci/tlc-cost.md — plans capped TLC workers, a FoldSet replacement for SumOver, sound SYMMETRY, -checkpoint 0 with no leftover metadirs, and single-config local checks.
• quest/m1/api-reference-cache.md — plans a hash-keyed TypeDoc skip replacing the modification-time stamp.
• quest/m1/tla-native-checker.md — adds a Related link to the TLC cost quest.

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[coderabbitai]

No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.

Walkthrough

The changes add planning documentation for reducing TLC resource use and caching API reference generation. The TLC document records measurements, proposed configuration and execution choices, refinement-check guidance, and verification criteria. The API reference document describes hash-based cache inputs and location. A related native-checker quest now links to the TLC cost document.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 36eff

This change only adds planning documentation. The earlier gaps in the cleanup of killed TLC runs and in the API-reference cache inputs are now covered in the text, so there are no known merge-blocking issues.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the two changes in the PR: planning for cheaper TLC runs (quest/m0/ci/tlc-cost.md) and a cached JS API reference (quest/m1/api-reference-cache.md). It is specific and matches the chang…
Description check		The description is detailed and matches the changeset. It explains the problem (TLC and TypeDoc CPU use), lists the three edited quest files, records decisions and validation, and states there are no …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the two changes in the PR: planning for cheaper TLC runs (quest/m0/ci/tlc-cost.md) and a cached JS API reference (quest/m1/api-reference-cache.md). It is specific and matches the changeset, which only adds planning documents and one link. It does not cover every detail, which is expected.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is detailed and matches the changeset. It explains the problem (TLC and TypeDoc CPU use), lists the three edited quest files, records decisions and validation, and states there are no public API or wire changes.

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Review comments at @quest/m0/ci/tlc-cost.md:
- Around line 61-62: Update the metadir cleanup plan around the checkout’s .tmp/
location to include a cleanup step at the start of each run for stale metadirs
left by killed runs. Use an ownership or liveness rule that preserves metadirs
belonging to concurrent live runs; do not rely on worktree removal for cleanup.

Review comments at @quest/m1/api-reference-cache.md:
- Around line 23-27: Update the cache-input description around `generate` to
include every config reached through each package tsconfig’s `extends`,
including shared configs such as `js/tsconfig.json`. Preserve the other listed
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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review (doc-only).

• Stale metadir cleanup — tlc-cost.md now removes metadirs killed runs left behind, guarded by a per-run lock so concurrent runs survive.
• Inherited tsconfigs hashed — api-reference-cache.md includes configs reached through extends (e.g. js/tsconfig.json) in the hash inputs.
• Related link fix — tla-native-checker.md corrects the route-exhaustive-sim path.

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