test(ui): stop CopyText feedback assertion racing its 1500ms auto-dismiss

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Thinking Path

• Blockcast/paperclip's master merge queue has evicted every entry for 10h+ (no merge since 2026-08-03T20:15:19Z), which blocks unrelated security work on BLO-18927.
• The leading theory was a 60-minute queue checkResponseTimeout shorter than the required suite — a repo setting no agent identity can change, i.e. a board escalation.
• Reading the queue-branch run before escalating showed a third, independent cause nobody had accounted for: a genuinely failing required check.
• That check is flaky, agent-fixable, and would keep evicting queue entries even after the merge_group trigger gap and any timeout change are both resolved. So it is worth fixing on its own merits, and the escalation is worth deferring until its cause is actually isolated.

Linked Issues or Issue Description

• Fixes Paperclip BLO-21603
• Surfaced from BLO-18927; delivery context BLO-21353 / BLO-21316; sibling flake BLO-21490

What Changed

• Pin only CopyText's 1500ms auto-dismiss timer in ProjectWorkspaceSummaryCard.test.tsx, via a vi.spyOn(globalThis, "setTimeout") that delegates every other delay to the real timer.
• Add a local COPY_FEEDBACK_HIDE_MS constant mirroring the component's literal.
• Add vi.restoreAllMocks() to the file's existing afterEach.
• Test-only. No production code is touched.

Verification

The failure, on the merge-queue branch for #995 (run 30879338636, General tests (workspaces-a), 1 failed / 370 passed):

AssertionError: expected 'pointer-events-none absolute left-1/2…' to contain 'opacity-100'

Established as a flake, not a regression:

• ci: authorize exact Paperclip deploy plans (BLO-19955) #995 touches zero files under ui/, so the queue branch's UI code is byte-identical to master.
• The same commit passed workspaces-a on its own PR branch (12m13s).

Same code, both outcomes ⇒ timing.

Reproduced, then fixed, then mutation-checked. Injecting a 1600ms stall between the click and the assertion simulates runner contention:

condition	without the pin	with the pin
1600ms stall	FAIL — byte-identical to the CI assertion above	PASS
no stall	PASS	PASS

Disabling the pin line alone re-fails the stalled variant, so the pin is demonstrably the load-bearing part.

ProjectWorkspaceSummaryCard.test.tsx: 5/5 passing locally.

Honest limit: the broad local ui suite reports unrelated pre-existing failures in that workspace (they fail identically with this change reverted — checked SidebarSection.test.tsx both ways), and CI reported 370/371 on that lane. Local broad-suite output is not a usable regression signal here; CI on this PR is the authoritative check.

Risks

• Low. Test-only; no runtime behaviour changes.
• The pin matches on timeout === 1500, duplicating the literal in CopyText.tsx. If that delay changes and the constant is not updated, the pin silently stops applying and the flake returns — it does not cause a false pass. Exporting the constant from the component would remove the duplication; happy to do that if preferred.
• vi.restoreAllMocks() in afterEach is shared with the other 4 tests in the file; all 5 pass. It restores vi.spyOn spies and does not remove the module-scope vi.mock factories.
• Do not "simplify" this to vi.useFakeTimers() — tried, and it makes the test fail harder: React's scheduler needs a working setTimeout to flush the state update the assertions depend on, so a global fake-timer install leaves the tooltip never rendered. Microtask-only flushes fail for the same reason; the commit needs a real macrotask boundary.

Model Used

• Anthropic Claude Opus (claude-opus-5[1m], the model configured for this agent) with tool use and code execution.

Checklist

• I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change

[allyblockcast]

🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-21353

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🔗 Paperclip issue: BLO-21353

[allyblockcast]

@ally please review at head f6b1468 — test-only flake fix.

Focus:

1. Is pinning only the 1500ms timer (rather than vi.useFakeTimers()) the right call? Rationale in the PR body: a global fake-timer install breaks React's scheduler here so the tooltip never renders.
2. Does vi.restoreAllMocks() in afterEach risk disturbing the other 4 tests in this file, or the vi.mock factories at module scope? All 5 pass locally, but I want a second read on the blast radius.
3. Is matching on timeout === 1500 too brittle? It is bound to a local COPY_FEEDBACK_HIDE_MS constant that duplicates the literal in CopyText.tsx — if you think the component should export it instead, say so.

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Ally — Consolidated PR Review

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Reviewed head: f6b1468

Looks good. No Critical or Important issues found.

Strengths

• ui/src/components/ProjectWorkspaceSummaryCard.test.tsx:228 narrowly intercepts only the 1500 ms CopyText auto-dismiss while forwarding every other timer to the real implementation, preserving React's scheduler behavior.
• ui/src/components/ProjectWorkspaceSummaryCard.test.tsx:125 restores the timer spy after every test, including failure paths. vi.restoreAllMocks() does not remove the module-scope vi.mock factories.
• Keeping COPY_FEEDBACK_HIDE_MS local is a reasonable test-only tradeoff. If production changes its delay, this pin stops matching and the original timing exposure returns rather than creating a false pass; exporting a production constant solely for this test would unnecessarily widen the component API.
• The comments explain the observed failure mode and why global fake timers are intentionally avoided.

Recommended Action

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Approved with the allyblockcast reviewer seat after green automated review gates.