Findings from the efficiency review pass on the two salvages, applied as one
small follow-up:
- copilot_auth: check the negative cache BEFORE taking the per-fingerprint
exchange lock. During the 60 s post-failure window, dashboard polls now
raise immediately instead of parking an executor thread behind the
in-flight holder (up to ~50 s) to learn the same answer. Test hangs
without the check (timeout 124), passes with it.
- buzz _localize_inbound_media: download_path.read_bytes() was still
evaluated on the loop as the argument to the offloaded cache call — up to
the 128 MiB inbound cap. Read off the loop too.
- test_list_credential_pool_keeps_loop_responsive: 0.5 s block / 0.25 s
threshold (2x margin) so runner descheduling cannot false-fail it while a
real regression still trips it.
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