Remove dashboard-load timing instrumentation

The perf logs were temporary diagnostics used to identify that slow
reloads were caused by a registered remote node timing out in
/projects/across-nodes. Root cause is resolved and the short-circuit
for zero-remote setups (already committed in 7ea60382a) remains.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

packages/core/src/__tests__/agent-instructions-bundle.test.ts

@@ -27,9 +27,11 @@ describe("AgentStore — instructions bundle", () => {
     }
     createdAgentIds.length = 0;
 
+    store.close();
+
     // Filesystem cleanup last
     try {
-      await rm(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      await rm(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
     } catch {
       // Ignore cleanup errors
     }

packages/core/src/__tests__/agent-instructions.test.ts

@@ -27,9 +27,11 @@ describe("AgentStore — instructions fields", () => {
     }
     createdAgentIds.length = 0;
 
+    store.close();
+
     // Filesystem cleanup last
     try {
-      await rm(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      await rm(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
     } catch {
       // Ignore cleanup errors
     }

packages/core/src/agent-store.test.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
   });
 
   afterEach(async () => {
-    await rm(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    store.close();
+    await rm(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
   });
 
   // ── init ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
 
         const legacyStore = new AgentStore({ rootDir: legacyRoot });
         await legacyStore.init();
+        try {
           const run = await legacyStore.getRunDetail("agent-legacy", "run-legacy");
 
           expect(run).toMatchObject({
@@ -91,7 +93,10 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
           });
           expect(await legacyStore.importLegacyFileRuns()).toBe(0);
         } finally {
-        await rm(legacyRoot, { recursive: true, force: true });
+          legacyStore.close();
+        }
+      } finally {
+        await rm(legacyRoot, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
       }
     });
   });
@@ -1502,6 +1507,10 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
       taskId = task.id;
     });
 
+    afterEach(() => {
+      taskStore.close();
+    });
+
     it("checkoutTask acquires a lease and stamps checkedOutAt", async () => {
       const updated = await store.checkoutTask(holderId, taskId);
 
@@ -2382,11 +2391,14 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
 
       const store2 = new AgentStore({ rootDir });
       await store2.init();
-
+      try {
         const keys = await store2.listApiKeys(agent.id);
         expect(keys).toHaveLength(1);
         expect(keys[0].id).toBe(key.id);
         expect(keys[0].label).toBe("persist");
+      } finally {
+        store2.close();
+      }
     });
   });
 
@@ -2461,7 +2473,7 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
       // Create a new store instance pointing to the same rootDir
       const store2 = new AgentStore({ rootDir });
       await store2.init();
-
+      try {
         const found = await store2.getAgent(agent.id);
         expect(found).not.toBeNull();
         expect(found!.id).toBe(agent.id);
@@ -2473,6 +2485,9 @@ describe("AgentStore", () => {
         // Heartbeat history persists too
         const history = await store2.getHeartbeatHistory(agent.id);
         expect(history).toHaveLength(1);
+      } finally {
+        store2.close();
+      }
     });
   });
 });

packages/core/src/agent-store.ts

@@ -1995,6 +1995,16 @@ export class AgentStore extends EventEmitter {
     this.db.bumpLastModified();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Close the underlying SQLite connection and release resources.
+   */
+  close(): void {
+    if (this._db) {
+      this._db.close();
+      this._db = null;
+    }
+  }
+
   private async withLock<T>(agentId: string, fn: () => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
     // Get or create lock for this agent
     let lock = this.locks.get(agentId);

packages/core/src/store.test.ts

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ describe("TaskStore", () => {
 
   afterEach(async () => {
     store.close();
-    await rm(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    await rm(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
-    await rm(globalDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    await rm(globalDir, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5, retryDelay: 50 });
   });
 
   async function createTestTask(): Promise<Task> {