personal memory agent
tests: stop copying live journal in make-skills idempotency test
shutil.copytree(repo_root / "journal", ...) was the hidden quadratic
behind the test_make_skills_idempotent timeout flake — it copied the
dev's gitignored working journal (144GB / 466k files on the dev box,
chronicle/ alone was 135GB). 30s budget burned in os.sendfile before
make skills ran. make skills only needs an empty journal/ to write
.agents/skills and .claude/skills symlinks into.
Test runtime: 30s+ timeout failure -> 0.22s. Suite: 223s with 2
failures -> 174s green (req_be2hxxsh).
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tests/test_journal_skill.py
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tests/test_journal_skill.py
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shutil.copy2(repo_root / "Makefile", temp_root / "Makefile")
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shutil.copytree(repo_root / "talent", temp_root / "talent", symlinks=True)
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shutil.copytree(repo_root / "apps", temp_root / "apps", symlinks=True)
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shutil.copytree(repo_root / "journal", temp_root / "journal", symlinks=True)
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# `make skills` only reads talent/ and apps/*/talent/, and writes symlinks
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# under journal/.agents/skills and journal/.claude/skills. Copying the live
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# journal/ pulls in whatever real capture data the dev box has accumulated
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# (chronicle/ alone can be 100+ GB), and copytree blows past the 30s budget
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# on os.sendfile before make skills ever runs. An empty journal/ is all the
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# target needs.
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(temp_root / "journal").mkdir()
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subprocess.run(
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["make", "skills"],