repo-contract 0.1.0

package/src/evidence/build-evidence.ts

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+import type { CheckExecutionEntry } from "../execution/run-checks.js"
+import type { ParserDependencyMissingError } from "../errors.js"
+import { parseOutput } from "../parsing/parse-output.js"
+import type { CheckDefinition, CheckEvidence, Evidence } from "../types.js"
+
+/** One check's id, its original definition, and its final evidence (parsed output attached, if requested) -- the parsed-output counterpart to `CheckExecutionEntry`, consumed directly by the policy phase so it never needs to look a check up by id either. */
+export type ParsedCheckEntry = readonly [string, CheckDefinition, CheckEvidence]
+
+// Not exported -- nothing outside this file references it by name; callers
+// (run-repo-contract.ts) destructure `{ evidence, entries }` directly.
+interface BuiltEvidence {
+  readonly evidence: Evidence
+  readonly entries: readonly ParsedCheckEntry[]
+}
+
+/**
+ * Attaches parsed output (if requested) to every check's raw execution
+ * evidence and assembles the versioned, immutable `Evidence` object for the
+ * run as a whole. Also returns the same information as a flat entries array
+ * (see `ParsedCheckEntry`) for the policy phase to consume directly -- by
+ * the time this function returns, every check's evidence -- including every
+ * sibling check's -- is fully assembled; nothing here is generated lazily
+ * or streamed, which is what makes it safe for a policy to read the full
+ * `evidence` object, not just its own check's `result` (see
+ * specs/architecture.md).
+ * @param results - each check's id, definition, and raw execution evidence from the run phase
+ * @param startedAt - when the overall run began, recorded on the assembled `Evidence`
+ * @param completedAt - when the overall run finished, used with `startedAt` to compute the assembled `Evidence`'s `durationMs`
+ * @returns the assembled `Evidence` for the whole run, plus the same checks as a flat `ParsedCheckEntry` array for the policy phase
+ */
+export async function buildEvidence(
+  results: readonly CheckExecutionEntry[],
+  startedAt: Date,
+  completedAt: Date,
+): Promise<BuiltEvidence> {
+  // Mirrors src/policy/run-policies.ts's own thrown-error aggregation: each
+  // mapped entry catches its own failure and records it rather than letting
+  // it reject `Promise.all` directly, so that two checks concurrently
+  // requesting an output format whose parser dependency is missing (e.g.
+  // "yaml" without the optional peer dependency installed) are both
+  // reported, not just whichever rejected first.
+  const thrown: unknown[] = []
+
+  const entries = await Promise.all(
+    results.map(async ([checkId, check, raw]): Promise<ParsedCheckEntry> => {
+      if (check.output === undefined) return [checkId, check, raw]
+      try {
+        const output = await parseOutput(check.output.format, raw.stdout, checkId)
+        return [checkId, check, { ...raw, output }]
+      } catch (error) {
+        thrown.push(error)
+        // Never actually consumed -- every branch below that follows a
+        // non-empty `thrown` throws before `entries` is read.
+        // Stryker disable next-line ArrayDeclaration -- this tuple is never read: both branches below that can run when `thrown` is non-empty (thrown.length === 1 or > 1) throw before `entries` -- the array this returns into -- is ever returned to a caller.
+        return [checkId, check, raw]
+      }
+    }),
+  )
+
+  if (thrown.length === 1) {
+    const [only] = thrown as [ParserDependencyMissingError]
+    throw only
+  }
+  // "> 1" vs. ">= 1" are equivalent here for the same reason as the
+  // identical comparison in src/policy/run-policies.ts: the `=== 1` early
+  // return just above already consumes the length-1 case, so by the time
+  // this line runs, thrown.length is never exactly 1 -- either 0 (falls
+  // through below either way) or >= 2 (takes this branch either way).
+  // Stryker disable next-line EqualityOperator -- "> 1" vs. ">= 1" are equivalent here given the early return just above: by the time this line runs, thrown.length is never exactly 1 (either 0 or >= 2 either way), documented so a future refactor that removes the early return doesn't quietly widen this comparison's real behavior without anyone noticing.
+  if (thrown.length > 1) {
+    throw new AggregateError(thrown, `${String(thrown.length)} check output(s) failed to parse.`)
+  }
+
+  // `Evidence["checks"]` is a mapped type over the *specific* CheckSchema a
+  // consumer's config declares (see runRepoContract's own generic
+  // signature) -- internal pipeline code works with the erased/default
+  // CheckSchema instead, whose `keyof` is a plain `string`. The precise
+  // generic Evidence<TChecks> is asserted only once, at runRepoContract's
+  // own public boundary.
+  const evidence = {
+    version: 1,
+    startedAt: startedAt.toISOString(),
+    completedAt: completedAt.toISOString(),
+    durationMs: completedAt.getTime() - startedAt.getTime(),
+    checks: Object.fromEntries(
+      entries.map(([checkId, , checkEvidence]) => [checkId, checkEvidence]),
+    ),
+  } as Evidence
+
+  return { evidence, entries }
+}

package/src/execution/abort-signals.ts

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+/** The composed signal, and a `dispose` to release any resources this composition holds once it's no longer needed. */
+interface ComposedSignal {
+  readonly signal: AbortSignal
+  readonly dispose: () => void
+}
+
+/**
+ * Combines multiple signals into one that aborts as soon as any input does.
+ * Prefers the native `AbortSignal.any()` where available; falls back to a
+ * manual composition for engines without it. `AbortSignal.any` landed in
+ * Node 20.3.0 -- genuinely newer than this package's `engines.node >=20.0.0`
+ * floor, so the fallback is live code for a real gap (a 20.0-20.2 patch
+ * release), not dead code kept out of caution.
+ *
+ * The native path's `dispose` is a no-op -- `AbortSignal.any` manages its own
+ * source-signal listeners internally and doesn't leak them. The manual
+ * fallback's `dispose` removes the "abort" listeners it added to each input
+ * `signal`; without calling it, a long-lived input (like a whole run's shared
+ * `AbortSignal`, composed fresh for every check the run spawns) would
+ * accumulate one permanent, never-removed listener per composed signal for
+ * the rest of its own lifetime, regardless of whether that particular
+ * composition ever actually needed to abort. Callers should call `dispose()`
+ * once the composed signal is no longer needed, whether or not it ever
+ * aborted.
+ * @param signals - the signals to combine; the composed signal aborts as soon as any one of them does
+ * @returns the composed signal (aborting with that input's abort reason as soon as any signal in `signals` aborts), and a `dispose` to release this composition's own resources
+ */
+export function composeSignals(signals: readonly AbortSignal[]): ComposedSignal {
+  if (typeof AbortSignal.any === "function") {
+    // Expression-bodied no-op, not `() => {}` (an empty block body trips
+    // @typescript-eslint/no-empty-function): the native AbortSignal.any
+    // manages its own source-signal listeners internally and doesn't leak
+    // them, so there's nothing for this composition's own dispose to
+    // release.
+    return { signal: AbortSignal.any(signals as AbortSignal[]), dispose: () => undefined }
+  }
+  const controller = new AbortController()
+  const attached: { signal: AbortSignal; listener: () => void }[] = []
+  for (const signal of signals) {
+    if (signal.aborted) {
+      controller.abort(signal.reason)
+      break
+    }
+    const listener = (): void => {
+      controller.abort(signal.reason)
+    }
+    signal.addEventListener("abort", listener)
+    attached.push({ signal, listener })
+  }
+  return {
+    signal: controller.signal,
+    dispose: () => {
+      for (const { signal, listener } of attached) signal.removeEventListener("abort", listener)
+    },
+  }
+}

package/src/execution/concurrency-pool.ts

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+/**
+ * Runs `worker` over `items` with at most `concurrency` invocations in
+ * flight at once, preserving each result at its original index regardless
+ * of completion order. Has no knowledge of aborting, killing, or check
+ * evidence -- a pure, reusable bounded-parallelism primitive; abort-
+ * awareness lives entirely in the caller's `worker` function (see
+ * spawn-check.ts).
+ * @param items - the items to process, each passed to `worker` along with its index
+ * @param concurrency - the maximum number of `worker` calls allowed in flight at once
+ * @param worker - the async function run per item; its resolved value becomes that item's result
+ * @returns the results, one per item, in the same order as `items` regardless of completion order
+ */
+export async function runWithConcurrency<T, R>(
+  items: readonly T[],
+  concurrency: number,
+  worker: (item: T, index: number) => Promise<R>,
+): Promise<R[]> {
+  const results: R[] = []
+  const entries = items.map((item, index) => [item, index] as const)
+  const iterator = entries[Symbol.iterator]()
+
+  // The first worker rejection is recorded and rethrown after every
+  // still-running sibling worker has settled, rather than let `Promise.all`
+  // reject eagerly while other `runNext` loops keep awaiting workers whose
+  // later rejections would then have no handler -- an `unhandledRejection`
+  // (fatal under Node's `--unhandled-rejections=throw`). The error itself is
+  // still propagated verbatim, matching how `dependency-scheduler.ts`
+  // forwards a worker rejection unwrapped.
+  let firstRejection: { readonly error: unknown } | undefined
+
+  /**
+   *
+   */
+  async function runNext(): Promise<void> {
+    for (let next = iterator.next(); !next.done; next = iterator.next()) {
+      if (firstRejection !== undefined) return
+      const [item, index] = next.value
+      try {
+        results[index] = await worker(item, index)
+      } catch (error) {
+        firstRejection ??= { error }
+        return
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // `Math.max`/`Math.min` both propagate a `NaN` argument straight through
+  // (NaN poisons them), so a caller-supplied `concurrency` of `NaN` would
+  // otherwise survive as `workerCount`, and `Array.from({ length: NaN }, ...)`
+  // spec-clamps a NaN length to zero -- silently returning an empty result
+  // array for every item, with no error to explain why. `validateRepoContractConfig`
+  // already rejects a non-integer/NaN `concurrency` before it can reach this
+  // internal, non-exported function via the public API, but this guard
+  // defends the primitive itself rather than relying solely on that upstream promise.
+  const effectiveConcurrency = Number.isFinite(concurrency) ? concurrency : 1
+  const workerCount = Math.max(1, Math.min(effectiveConcurrency, items.length))
+  await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: workerCount }, () => runNext()))
+  if (firstRejection !== undefined) {
+    // Propagated verbatim, exactly as Promise.all would have surfaced it and
+    // as dependency-scheduler.ts forwards a worker rejection unwrapped.
+    throw firstRejection.error
+  }
+  return results
+}

package/src/execution/dependency-scheduler.ts

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+/**
+ * Runs `worker` over `items` with at most `concurrency` invocations in
+ * flight at once, like `concurrency-pool.ts`'s `runWithConcurrency`, but
+ * additionally respecting a dependency graph: an item whose
+ * `dependencyIndexes` are non-empty is not started until every one of
+ * those indexes has settled. Has no knowledge of checks, evidence, or
+ * abort semantics -- a pure, reusable bounded-parallelism-plus-ordering
+ * primitive, kept in its own file rather than folded into
+ * `concurrency-pool.ts` so that file's simpler, more heavily-used flat
+ * primitive stays untouched.
+ *
+ * A reactive, event-driven scheduler (conceptually Kahn's algorithm run
+ * incrementally): a completing item immediately re-evaluates and unblocks
+ * its own dependents, with no artificial "wave" boundary -- a wave/layer
+ * design was considered and rejected because it would stall a dependent
+ * whose single dependency finished early behind an unrelated slow item
+ * sharing its layer, a real regression for a diamond or fan-out shape.
+ *
+ * The caller is responsible for ensuring `dependencyIndexes` describes an
+ * acyclic graph (see `validate-config.ts`'s cycle detection) -- this
+ * function's own stall guard below exists only as defense in depth against
+ * that invariant being violated, not as the primary means of catching it.
+ * @param items - the items to process, each passed to `worker` and `dependencyIndexes` along with its index
+ * @param concurrency - the maximum number of `worker` calls allowed in flight at once
+ * @param dependencyIndexes - given an item and its index, returns the indexes into `items` that must settle first
+ * @param worker - the async function run per item once its dependencies have settled; its resolved value becomes that item's result
+ * @returns the results, one per item, in the same order as `items` regardless of completion order
+ */
+export async function runWithConcurrencyGraph<T, R>(
+  items: readonly T[],
+  concurrency: number,
+  dependencyIndexes: (item: T, index: number) => readonly number[],
+  worker: (item: T, index: number) => Promise<R>,
+): Promise<R[]> {
+  if (items.length === 0) return []
+
+  // `dependencyIndexes` is called exactly once per item and snapshotted --
+  // never invoked again below -- so the graph this function schedules
+  // against is fixed for the whole run, even if the callback isn't
+  // perfectly deterministic or does nontrivial work. Each item's own
+  // indexes are deduplicated defensively (a caller-supplied duplicate,
+  // e.g. `dependsOn: ["a", "a"]`, would otherwise double-decrement its
+  // dependent's `remaining` count -- harmless by coincidence today, but
+  // not a graph shape this primitive should silently rely on staying
+  // harmless).
+  const dependencies = items.map((item, index) =>
+    // An out-of-range index (`< 0`, `>= items.length`, or non-integer) is
+    // dropped here, at the single snapshot point, rather than carried into
+    // `remaining` below: it can never be decremented (nothing pushes the
+    // dependent onto a `dependents[outOfRange]` bucket that doesn't exist),
+    // so keeping it would leave `remaining[index]` permanently above zero
+    // and stall the whole run with a bogus "not acyclic" rejection. Dropping
+    // it is what "tolerates an out-of-range caller-supplied dependency
+    // index" (see dependency-scheduler.test.ts) actually means.
+    [...new Set(dependencyIndexes(item, index))].filter(
+      (depIndex) => Number.isInteger(depIndex) && depIndex >= 0 && depIndex < items.length,
+    ),
+  )
+  const remaining = dependencies.map((indexes) => indexes.length)
+  // Each entry's own initial value is unobservable regardless of its exact
+  // contents: confirmed empirically (diamond, fan-out, and no-dependency
+  // shapes) that seeding it with garbage produces identical scheduling
+  // results either way, since a stray non-index entry only ever causes a
+  // harmless, unused `remaining[...]` property to be created when
+  // processed, never affecting `ready` or the final results.
+  // Stryker disable next-line ArrayDeclaration -- each dependents[] entry's initial contents are unobservable regardless of value, confirmed empirically across diamond, fan-out, and no-dependency shapes that seeding it with garbage produces identical scheduling results.
+  const dependents: number[][] = items.map(() => [])
+  dependencies.forEach((indexes, index) => {
+    for (const depIndex of indexes) {
+      // `depIndex` is already guaranteed in-range: the snapshot above
+      // filters every out-of-range caller-supplied index out before this
+      // loop. The `?.` only satisfies `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` (`dependents`
+      // is built with exactly `items.length` entries, one per valid index),
+      // matching this function's other index guards -- see "tolerates an
+      // out-of-range caller-supplied dependency index" in
+      // dependency-scheduler.test.ts.
+      dependents[depIndex]?.push(index)
+    }
+  })
+
+  const ready: number[] = remaining.flatMap((count, index) => (count === 0 ? [index] : []))
+  // `Math.max`/`Math.min` both propagate a `NaN` argument straight through to
+  // their result (NaN poisons them), so a caller-supplied `concurrency` of
+  // `NaN` would otherwise survive `Math.max(1, concurrency)` below as `NaN`
+  // itself, making `active < effectiveConcurrency` always false and hanging
+  // this function's returned promise forever, with no worker ever launched
+  // and no error to explain why. `validateRepoContractConfig` already rejects
+  // a non-integer/NaN `concurrency` before it can reach this internal,
+  // non-exported function via the public API, but this guard defends the
+  // primitive itself rather than relying solely on that upstream promise.
+  const concurrencyIsUsable = Number.isFinite(concurrency)
+  // Pre-sizing here only matters while the run is in flight (so `results[index]
+  // = result` below never needs to extend the array); by the time this promise
+  // resolves, `settled === items.length` guarantees every index has already
+  // been assigned exactly once (see the property test "every item runs
+  // exactly once ..." in dependency-scheduler.property.test.ts), which turns
+  // any initially-sparse array just as dense as a pre-sized one -- the two are
+  // indistinguishable in the returned result. Confirmed empirically: an
+  // unexempted run showed the `ObjectLiteral` replacement (`{}`, i.e. starting
+  // from a zero-length array instead) survives.
+  // Stryker disable next-line ObjectLiteral -- pre-sizing only matters while the run is in flight; by completion every index is guaranteed filled exactly once, so a sparse vs. dense start is indistinguishable in the returned result, confirmed empirically that the unexempted {} mutant survives.
+  const results: R[] = Array.from({ length: items.length })
+  const effectiveConcurrency = concurrencyIsUsable ? Math.max(1, concurrency) : 1
+  let active = 0
+  let settled = 0
+  let done = false
+
+  return new Promise<R[]>((resolvePromise, rejectPromise) => {
+    // `fail` is a hoisted function declaration, usable below before its
+    // textual definition.
+    // A graph where *every* item has at least one dependency (the whole
+    // graph forms a cycle, not just part of it) never launches a single
+    // worker -- the post-settlement stall check below can only ever run
+    // once at least one worker has settled, so this covers the one stall
+    // shape that check cannot: a stall from the very start.
+    if (ready.length === 0) {
+      fail(
+        new Error(
+          "runWithConcurrencyGraph: stalled before starting -- the dependency graph passed " +
+            "in is not acyclic.",
+        ),
+      )
+      return
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @param error - the error to reject the returned promise with, propagated verbatim (unwrapped)
+     */
+    function fail(error: unknown): void {
+      // A second call after the promise has already settled is harmless
+      // even without this guard: native Promise resolution is idempotent,
+      // so a later rejectPromise call would have no observable effect on
+      // the promise's own outcome regardless -- kept for clarity/intent,
+      // not because it changes behavior.
+      // Stryker disable next-line ConditionalExpression -- native Promise resolution is idempotent, so a second rejectPromise call after settling has no observable effect either way; kept only for clarity/intent, not because it changes behavior.
+      if (done) return
+      done = true
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/prefer-promise-reject-errors -- propagated verbatim, not wrapped: matches runWithConcurrency's own existing behavior (a worker rejection passes straight through Promise.all unmodified), which this function is meant to be a drop-in graph-aware replacement for.
+      rejectPromise(error)
+    }
+
+    // launchNext is only ever called (both its initial call below and its
+    // own recursive call inside .then()) at a point already known to have
+    // done === false -- every call site is guarded by a done check before
+    // reaching it -- so an equivalent internal guard here was removed
+    // rather than kept only to be marked equivalent.
+    /**
+     *
+     */
+    function launchNext(): void {
+      // Loosening `ready.length > 0` (e.g. to always-true) is behaviorally
+      // invisible: the loop would simply enter once more with `ready`
+      // genuinely empty, `ready.shift()` would return `undefined` (a safe
+      // no-op on an empty array), and the very next line's `index ===
+      // undefined` check -- itself unmutatable for the same reason --
+      // immediately breaks out, identically to the condition correctly
+      // stopping the loop one iteration earlier. `ready.length > 0` also
+      // already guarantees `.shift()` returns a real index, and every
+      // index this function ever pushes onto `ready` is a valid index into
+      // `items`/`dependents`/`remaining` (all built with exactly
+      // `items.length` entries) -- these guards are kept only because
+      // `noUncheckedIndexedAccess` can't itself express any of these
+      // invariants, confirmed equivalent by exhaustive differential
+      // testing, not assumed.
+      // Stryker disable ConditionalExpression,EqualityOperator,LogicalOperator,BlockStatement -- loosening the while condition or its guard checks to always-true is behaviorally invisible: the loop just runs one harmless extra iteration where ready.shift() returns undefined and the immediately-following index === undefined check breaks back out, and every index ever pushed onto ready is already guaranteed valid so the equivalent item === undefined guard is confirmed equivalent by exhaustive differential testing, not assumed.
+      while (active < effectiveConcurrency && ready.length > 0) {
+        const index = ready.shift()
+        if (index === undefined) break
+        const item = items[index]
+        if (item === undefined) continue
+        // Stryker restore all
+        active += 1
+        worker(item, index)
+          .then((result) => {
+            results[index] = result
+            active -= 1
+            settled += 1
+            // `dependents[index]` can never actually be undefined -- `dependents`
+            // is built above with exactly `items.length` entries, one per valid
+            // index, same invariant as `launchNext`'s own guards. Confirmed
+            // empirically, not just by analogy: un-exempting this mutant and
+            // running Stryker scoped to this file showed the `?? []` fallback's
+            // own content (`ArrayDeclaration`) is NoCoverage -- the fallback
+            // branch never executes at all. The surrounding `BlockStatement`/
+            // `LogicalOperator` mutants on this same line are not exempted:
+            // confirmed Killed under the same run, so they stay live.
+            // Stryker disable next-line ArrayDeclaration -- dependents[index] can never actually be undefined (dependents is built with exactly items.length entries, one per valid index), confirmed empirically -- not just by analogy -- that un-exempting this mutant and running Stryker scoped to this file shows the ?? [] fallback's own ArrayDeclaration content is NoCoverage, i.e. the fallback branch never executes.
+            for (const dependentIndex of dependents[index] ?? []) {
+              const nextRemaining = (remaining[dependentIndex] ?? 0) - 1
+              remaining[dependentIndex] = nextRemaining
+              if (nextRemaining === 0) ready.push(dependentIndex)
+            }
+            if (done) return
+            if (settled === items.length) {
+              resolvePromise(results)
+              return
+            }
+            if (active === 0 && ready.length === 0) {
+              fail(
+                new Error(
+                  "runWithConcurrencyGraph: stalled with unsettled items remaining -- the " +
+                    "dependency graph passed in is not acyclic.",
+                ),
+              )
+              return
+            }
+            launchNext()
+          })
+          .catch(fail)
+      }
+    }
+
+    launchNext()
+  })
+}

package/src/execution/process-tree.ts

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+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"
+
+/**
+ * Whether a check's process should be spawned with `detached: true`. On
+ * POSIX this makes the spawned process the leader of a new process group
+ * (sharing its own pid as the group id), which is what lets `killTree`
+ * target the whole group rather than just the immediate child. On Windows,
+ * process groups work differently and `detached: true` would instead launch
+ * the process in its own console window -- not what's wanted here, since
+ * Windows cleanup goes through `taskkill /t` instead (see `killTree`).
+ * @returns true on POSIX (spawn as its own process group leader, killable via `killTree`); false on Windows
+ */
+export function shouldSpawnDetached(): boolean {
+  return process.platform !== "win32"
+}
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @param error - the caught value to narrow
+ * @returns true if `error` is an `Error` carrying a `code` property, as Node's errno exceptions do
+ */
+function isErrnoException(error: unknown): error is NodeJS.ErrnoException {
+  return error instanceof Error && "code" in error
+}
+
+/**
+ * Best-effort termination of an entire process tree rooted at `pid`, not
+ * just the immediate process -- necessary because a check's command is
+ * often itself a wrapper (`npm run test` spawns `npm`, which spawns the
+ * actual test runner), and killing only the wrapper would orphan its
+ * descendants. `spawn`'s own `timeout`/`signal` options only ever affect the
+ * directly spawned process, never its descendants, which is why this exists
+ * as a separate utility rather than relying on those.
+ *
+ * On POSIX, sends `signal` to the whole process group via the negative-pid
+ * convention (requires the process to have been spawned with
+ * `detached: true`, see `shouldSpawnDetached`). On Windows, process groups
+ * don't work the same way, so this shells out to `taskkill /pid <pid> /t
+ * /f` -- the same technique the `tree-kill` package uses internally -- which
+ * walks the system process table for descendants of `pid` regardless of how
+ * it was spawned.
+ *
+ * Swallows the expected best-effort-cleanup failures, but not every failure: a
+ * process that has already exited (POSIX `ESRCH`, or `taskkill`'s "not found"
+ * case) is a no-op, and a POSIX `EPERM` permission error is swallowed the same
+ * way -- by the time cleanup runs the process may well have exited on its own,
+ * and a failed cleanup should not crash the run. Any *other* failure is
+ * rethrown: an unexpected POSIX errno, or (on Windows) a JS-level spawn failure
+ * of `taskkill` itself (`result.error`, e.g. the tool missing from PATH), which
+ * would otherwise silently leave an orphaned process tree behind.
+ *
+ * On Windows this always runs `taskkill` with `/f` regardless of which `signal` was requested --
+ * not a partial implementation of POSIX's cooperative-SIGTERM-then-SIGKILL escalation, but a
+ * reflection of a real platform difference: Windows has no signal-delivery mechanism for an
+ * arbitrary process tree by pid at all (this is also why Node's own `ChildProcess.kill()` treats
+ * every signal identically on Windows, per Node's own child_process documentation), so there is no
+ * more-cooperative alternative to fall back to here the way there is on POSIX.
+ * @param pid - the pid of the tree's root process (the process group id on POSIX, since it was spawned detached)
+ * @param signal - the POSIX signal to send (on Windows, ignored -- see doc comment above)
+ */
+export function killTree(pid: number, signal: NodeJS.Signals): void {
+  // `process.kill(-pid, ...)` signals a process *group*, and `-0` coerces to
+  // `0`, which POSIX interprets as "every process in the caller's own group"
+  // -- i.e. this would signal the repo-contract host itself. `taskkill /pid
+  // 0` is likewise not a real target. A pid of `0` (or negative, or
+  // non-integer) is never a real child here; spawn-check.ts guards its own
+  // kill calls with `child.pid !== undefined`, but that admits `0`. Refuse
+  // it rather than turn a best-effort cleanup call into self-harm.
+  if (!Number.isInteger(pid) || pid <= 0) {
+    return
+  }
+
+  /* v8 ignore start -- Windows-only; exercised for real by
+   * test/unit/cross-platform/windows-taskkill.test.ts on the CI Windows runner
+   * (see vitest.config.ts's coverage thresholds for the rationale -- this
+   * branch cannot run on the OS any other CI job/local dev uses). Mutation
+   * testing only runs in the ubuntu-only `contract` CI job (see
+   * .github/workflows/ci.yml), so this branch is never covered there either
+   * -- disabled for the same reason, not left to inflate "no coverage"
+   * counts against a branch that genuinely is tested, just on a different
+   * platform than the one that runs Stryker. */
+  // Stryker disable ConditionalExpression,EqualityOperator,StringLiteral,ArrayDeclaration,ObjectLiteral,BlockStatement,CallExpression -- this whole branch only runs on Windows, and mutation testing only runs in the ubuntu-only CI job (see the v8-ignore comment above), so every mutator that could apply to it would surface as an unreachable "no coverage" survivor rather than a real test gap.
+  if (process.platform === "win32") {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line n/no-sync -- `killTree` is itself synchronous best-effort cleanup, callable from error/signal-handling paths that don't await anything else; an async `spawn` here would need every caller threaded through `await` for what's already a fire-and-forget `taskkill`.
+    const result = spawnSync("taskkill", ["/pid", String(pid), "/t", "/f"], { stdio: "ignore" })
+    // `result.error` is a JS-level spawn failure (e.g. ENOENT if `taskkill.exe` itself is
+    // missing from PATH, or EPERM from a policy blocking process creation) -- distinct from
+    // `result.status`, taskkill's own process-table-dependent exit code for "pid not found" vs.
+    // other in-process failures, which isn't documented precisely enough to safely distinguish
+    // an expected no-op from a genuine bug the same way the POSIX branch's ESRCH/EPERM check
+    // does. Rethrowing only `result.error` still closes the most likely silent-orphan gap (the
+    // tool being unavailable at all) without risking a false rethrow on Windows's legitimate
+    // "already exited" no-op case, which this file's own test (`windows-taskkill.test.ts`, "is a
+    // no-op, not a throw, for a PID taskkill cannot find") pins as a passing case.
+    if (result.error !== undefined) throw result.error
+    return
+  }
+  // Stryker restore all
+  /* v8 ignore stop */
+
+  try {
+    process.kill(-pid, signal)
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (isErrnoException(error) && (error.code === "ESRCH" || error.code === "EPERM")) return
+    throw error
+  }
+}