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 of the *same* case is an ordinary on-sight quarantine per the standing rule in AGENTS.md; because the
 case moves, the honest rescue is a deterministic settle signal in this file's harness rather than a
 longer wait.
+
+---
+
+## Entry: dashboard `api:backfill-*` lanes — PostgreSQL contention under lane concurrency (pattern, not a single test)
+
+- **Files:** no fixed set. Across three consecutive full-lane runs on the same tree, a DIFFERENT file failed each time:
+  - run 1: `app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.planning-flow.test.tsx`
+  - run 2: `src/__tests__/routes-branch-groups.test.ts`, `src/__tests__/routes-planning.test.ts`
+  - run 3: `src/__tests__/register-signal-routes.test.ts`, `src/__tests__/server-view-preload.test.ts`
+- **Command:** `pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard test -- --all --no-fail-fast` (the `run-quality-tests.mjs` lane runner: 15 lanes, concurrency 2, 6144MiB heap per lane).
+- **Observed tree/SHA:** `cc19584cc4`.
+- **Every one passes in isolation**, including re-running the exact multi-file command that had just failed.
+
+Failure shape in run 3 (`api:backfill-1`, `api:backfill-2`):
+
+```
+Error: Hook timed out in 15000ms.
+fnlvl=warn [dashboard-github-tracking-reconciler] … pass failed (other passes still run): Failed query: select … from "project"."tasks" …
+```
+
+The hook timeout arrives alongside PostgreSQL `Failed query` warnings, so the proximate cause is
+database contention/exhaustion when two api lanes and their workers share one PostgreSQL instance —
+the same class FN-9131 investigated for core's loaded PostgreSQL directory, where a shared
+connection-budget primitive made a loaded run WORSE and was reverted. This is suite infrastructure,
+not a defect in any of the five files above, and chasing the file that happened to lose the race on a
+given run is whack-a-mole.
+
+Scale for context: run 3 executed roughly 15,200 tests across 15 lanes and failed 2.
+
+**Not quarantined deliberately.** Quarantine is file-level and the failing file moves, so quarantining
+would evict healthy coverage without touching the cause. The rescue is a connection/concurrency budget
+for the api lanes (or per-lane database isolation), owned by whoever owns the lane runner. No timeout
+was widened, no retry added, and no assertion relaxed anywhere in this investigation.
+
+One genuinely structural failure WAS found and fixed rather than recorded here: the lane runner's own
+self-tests spawned `pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard test`, re-entering the suite from inside it. See
+`cc19584cc4`.