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+/**
+ * U6 (B3 from PR #1693 review) — Multi-chunk pipeline integration with a
+ * wall-clock budget.
+ *
+ * The PR's headline claim is "analyze no longer hangs on TS-root-shaped
+ * loads". The unit suite already pins each resilience layer individually
+ * (worker-pool-resilience.test.ts), the deferred-extraction equivalence
+ * (parse-impl-deferred-extraction.test.ts — U7), and the chunk
+ * concurrency (parse-impl-chunk-concurrency.test.ts — U1). What was
+ * missing: a single end-to-end run that exercises the full chunked
+ * parse-and-resolve path on a multi-chunk fixture, BOUNDED by a
+ * wall-clock so a regression that re-introduces the hang fails this
+ * test loudly instead of slipping past via inequality assertions.
+ *
+ * Scope note: this test runs the sequential-fallback path (skipWorkers).
+ * The full "real workers + actually-pathological file" scenario from
+ * the plan requires a built `dist/parse-worker.js` and ~60s wall-clock
+ * per run, which is more appropriate for a CI-integration job than a
+ * vitest. Once the dist worker is wired into the test harness (a Phase 2
+ * follow-up), this file can be extended to swap skipWorkers off. The
+ * load-bearing invariants verified here — multi-chunk parsing
+ * completes within a bounded budget and produces all expected symbols
+ * — catch the bulk of the regressions B3 was concerned about.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import os from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+
+const ORIGINAL_BUDGET = process.env.GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET;
+const WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS = 30_000;
+
+function buildFixture(): Record<string, string> {
+  const fixture: Record<string, string> = {};
+  for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
+    fixture[`mod${i}.ts`] = `export function fn${i}(): number {\n  return ${i};\n}\n`;
+  }
+  // A "realistically dense" file — 30 functions + a class + an interface +
+  // a re-export. Stands in for the kind of file that previously stalled the
+  // serial-extraction chunk loop. Pure-TS so the parser doesn't choke.
+  const complexFnLines = Array.from(
+    { length: 30 },
+    (_, i) => `export function complex${i}(c: Config): string { return c.name + String(${i}); }`,
+  ).join('\n');
+  fixture['complex.ts'] = `
+export interface Config { name: string; }
+export class Service {
+  configure(c: Config): void { this.name = c.name; }
+  private name: string = '';
+  describe(): string { return this.name; }
+}
+${complexFnLines}
+`;
+  fixture['index.ts'] =
+    'export { Service, type Config } from "./complex";\n' +
+    Array.from({ length: 15 }, (_, i) => `export { fn${i} } from "./mod${i}";`).join('\n') +
+    '\n';
+  return fixture;
+}
+
+async function runFixture(): Promise<{
+  nodeCount: number;
+  relationshipCount: number;
+  symbolNames: Set<string>;
+  elapsedMs: number;
+}> {
+  const fixture = buildFixture();
+  // Force multi-chunk parsing on the small fixture by lowering the byte
+  // budget below each file's size. parse-impl reads the budget at module
+  // load — vi.resetModules() forces a fresh module so the env takes effect.
+  process.env.GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET = '64';
+  vi.resetModules();
+  const { runChunkedParseAndResolve } =
+    await import('../../src/core/ingestion/pipeline-phases/parse-impl.js');
+  const { createKnowledgeGraph } = await import('../../src/core/graph/graph.js');
+
+  const repoPath = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'parse-impl-large-fixture-'));
+  try {
+    for (const [name, content] of Object.entries(fixture)) {
+      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(repoPath, name), content);
+    }
+    const files = Object.keys(fixture);
+    const scanned = files.map((rel) => ({
+      path: rel,
+      size: fs.statSync(path.join(repoPath, rel)).size,
+    }));
+    const graph = createKnowledgeGraph();
+
+    // Wrap the run in Promise.race so the wall-clock budget is enforced
+    // as an exception, not a >=/<= inequality assertion (DoD §2.7 — a
+    // bounds-only count is a regression-mask; a hard timeout is a
+    // hang-detector). If the run exceeds the budget, the rejection
+    // fails the test with a specific timeout error so the diagnostic
+    // surfaces the actual regression class.
+    const start = Date.now();
+    await Promise.race([
+      runChunkedParseAndResolve(graph, scanned, files, files.length, repoPath, start, () => {}, {
+        skipWorkers: true,
+      }),
+      new Promise<never>((_, reject) =>
+        setTimeout(
+          () =>
+            reject(
+              new Error(
+                `runChunkedParseAndResolve exceeded ${WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS}ms wall-clock budget — likely the hang B3 was meant to prevent`,
+              ),
+            ),
+          WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS,
+        ),
+      ),
+    ]);
+    const elapsedMs = Date.now() - start;
+
+    const symbolNames = new Set<string>();
+    for (const node of graph.nodes.values()) {
+      const name = (node.properties as { name?: string } | undefined)?.name;
+      if (typeof name === 'string') symbolNames.add(name);
+    }
+
+    return {
+      nodeCount: graph.nodeCount,
+      relationshipCount: graph.relationshipCount,
+      symbolNames,
+      elapsedMs,
+    };
+  } finally {
+    if (fs.existsSync(repoPath)) {
+      fs.rmSync(repoPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+describe('parse-impl wall-clock integration on multi-chunk fixture (U6 / B3)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.resetModules();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (ORIGINAL_BUDGET === undefined) {
+      delete process.env.GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET;
+    } else {
+      process.env.GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET = ORIGINAL_BUDGET;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('completes a 17-file multi-chunk fixture within wall-clock and indexes every named symbol', async () => {
+    const result = await runFixture();
+
+    // Reaching this assertion means the Promise.race did NOT time out —
+    // the run completed in under WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS. That alone is the
+    // primary B3 invariant: "does not hang on a multi-chunk workload".
+    // We additionally pin specific expected symbols below so a silent
+    // mid-chunk crash that exits 0 without producing graph data also
+    // fails this test, not just the hang case.
+    expect(result.elapsedMs).toBe(Math.min(result.elapsedMs, WALL_CLOCK_BUDGET_MS));
+
+    // All 15 plain function declarations must show up in the graph.
+    for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
+      expect(result.symbolNames.has(`fn${i}`)).toBe(true);
+    }
+
+    // The complex.ts surfaces: Service class, Config interface, configure
+    // method, and a representative sampling of the complex0..complex29
+    // functions. Pin specific names (not just a count) so chunk-boundary
+    // truncation surfaces as a concrete missing-symbol failure with a
+    // specific diagnostic.
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('Service')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('Config')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('configure')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('describe')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('complex0')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('complex15')).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.symbolNames.has('complex29')).toBe(true);
+  });
+});