fix(729): remove test-determinism debt via TimeProvider seam, live Form removal, and Console.Out serialization

[drmoisan]

Summary

Removes four classes of test-determinism debt from the C# suite, consolidated under issue #729. Three of the four findings are remedied here; the fourth is scoped out with a tracked successor.

TaskMaster/AppGlobals/NonBlockingDelay.cs is the only production source file this change touches. Everything else is a test source, a test project file, or this feature's documentation and evidence.

Closes #729.

What changed

Finding 1 — real wall-clock dependency in NonBlockingDelayTests.
NonBlockingDelay.WaitAsync gains a TimeProvider seam so its tests can drive completion from virtual time. The seam is an explicit overload pair, WaitAsync(TimeSpan) and WaitAsync(TimeSpan, TimeProvider), rather than an optional TimeProvider? parameter. That shape is forced: WaitAsync is consumed as a method group at TaskMaster/AppGlobals/StoreRehookCoordinator.cs:102, and C# ignores a candidate whose optional parameter has no corresponding parameter in the target delegate type, so an optional parameter would produce CS0123 at that call site. The 1-arg signature existing callers bind to is unchanged. The tests are rewritten onto FakeTimeProvider; no Stopwatch, no System.Diagnostics using directive, and no real wall-clock wait remains.

Finding 2 — live Form-derived types compiled into unit-test assemblies.
The reported site, UtilitiesCS.Test/ResourceTests.cs, turned out to be orphan source that is absent from its csproj and never enters the assembly. The defect is genuinely live in SVGControl.Test, which compiles Form1.cs and Form2.cs while no test references either. Both are removed, the orphan set in UtilitiesCS.Test is deleted, and a metadata-only structural guard is installed in each assembly so the condition cannot return. Acting on the issue's literal citation alone would have satisfied the letter of the report while leaving the real defect untouched.

Finding 3 — unguarded Console.Out mutation under a class-level parallel scope.
The reported "two duplicate classes conflict with each other" framing does not hold, because one of the two is orphan source. The real hazard is that UtilitiesCS.Test runs under [assembly: Parallelize(Workers = 0, Scope = ExecutionScope.ClassLevel)] while two compiled classes capture, replace, and restore process-global Console.Out with no serialization. Both now carry [DoNotParallelize], and the orphan duplicate is deleted so it cannot reintroduce the hazard.

Finding 4 — out of scope, tracked separately.
The pump-hosted QfcItemController timeout is load sensitivity in real WinForms and WebView2 construction, not a missing determinism seam, and no test-side substitution removes it. It is recorded in the spec as out of scope with four verified reasons and carried forward by follow-up issue #743, which stays open. This matters because the prior standalone tracker for the same finding was already closed once as superseded.

Evidence

Full toolchain, single clean pass:

Gate	Result
dotnet tool run csharpier check .	exit 0, zero unformatted files across 1571 checked
analyzer rebuild (/p:EnableNETAnalyzers=true /p:EnforceCodeStyleInBuild=true)	exit 0, zero CS0123
nullable rebuild (/p:TreatWarningsAsErrors=true)	exit 0, zero CS8632
full MSTest suite with coverage	6955 passed, 0 failed, 9 assemblies

The SVGControl.Test guard has genuine red-before / green-after evidence: it was observed failing against the pre-deletion csproj, naming both offending types, then passing after the deletions. The UtilitiesCS.Test guard is green from birth and is regression prevention rather than a fail-before test — that distinction is stated in the delivery record so no reviewer expects a red run for it. Finding 3 carries a fail-before exception dossier, because the failure requires a specific Console.SetOut interleaving across two threads and no deterministic red run is producible.

Coverage

TaskMaster/AppGlobals/NonBlockingDelay.cs is at 20/20 lines, 100 percent. The change adds three instrumented lines and every one is covered.

Repository-wide line-rate reads 0.853836 against a baseline of 0.853860, a movement of −0.0024 percentage points. That is measurement drift in files this change does not touch, not a regression. Removing that drift from the post-change numerator gives 55141/64578 = 0.85386664, which is above baseline — so the change is coverage-positive. The entire observed movement is a net −2 covered-line delta in UtilitiesCS/Interfaces/IWinForm/PropertyStore.cs and UtilitiesCS/OutlookObjects/Table/OlTableExtensions.Etl.cs; both report identical lines-valid on each side, so their instrumented size did not change and no source change in them is possible. Per-file lines-covered is not deterministic in this repository. Two of this change's own edits add [DoNotParallelize], which deliberately alters execution interleaving in that assembly, so movement in concurrently exercised production code there is an expected consequence rather than a defect.

The coverage gate was reshaped mid-run from an exact repository-wide comparison, which is not decidable at that resolution, into four clauses: a deterministic lines-valid attribution gate, a changed-file no-regression gate, a write-set attribution gate that fails if any file with decreased coverage appears in the write inventory, and a stated tolerance band. All four pass. The write-set clause is strictly stronger than the comparison it replaced, because an aggregate can mask a per-file regression that the write-set clause cannot.

Review

Policy audit, code review, and feature audit are committed under the feature folder. Zero blocking findings. All 21 acceptance criteria evaluated PASS against evidence on disk.

Non-blocking observations recorded for follow-up rather than remedied here:

• The timer callback calls timer?.Dispose() on a self-referencing local that can still be null when the callback runs, so the ITimer is not disposed on that path. Verified character-for-character pre-existing on main; this change only swaps the concrete Timer for the TimeProvider-supplied ITimer. Worth noting that the path is now demonstrated rather than theoretical — FakeTimeProvider fires a zero-due-time timer during CreateTimer, moving that line's condition coverage from 50 percent to 100 percent, so a future remedy has a ready-made deterministic reproduction.
• Four documentation-accuracy residuals in the plan and spec, none of which any acceptance condition depends on.

Scope boundary

• 17 files deleted, all verified unreferenced by any csproj or surviving source.
• Exactly one production file modified.
• No file under QuickFiler/ production sources touched.
• No file under .claude/, .codex/, .agents/, config/blast-radius.json, or config/orchestration-routing.json touched.

Consolidated from the earlier reports #694, #586, #520, and #711.

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