From dd6c5df76a12369ab7a660157632c3f0918f0f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dotta <bippadotta@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 22:27:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] test(evals): give archive-card's Research card a real blocker
 to summarize

The unrelated Research card asks for the project's biggest blockers, but
its only task was a backlog follow-up. The summarizer searched for
blockers that did not exist, and its pre-query generation took 171-182s
against the 180s limit, failing setup in 2 of 4 runs. The Research
project now has one blocked task, as Launch does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../chat-catalog-domains/integrator-status-cards.ts          | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/integrator-status-cards.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/integrator-status-cards.ts
index 17ae1258d7b..3abe51f7ae7 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/integrator-status-cards.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/integrator-status-cards.ts
@@ -223,7 +223,10 @@ function define(id: string, seed: "none" | "ceo" | "morgan", extra: Partial<Chat
       if (initialChecklist) await ctx.input.evidence("chat-card-initial-required-checklist.json", initialChecklist);
       let otherCard: StatusCard | undefined; const sourceTasks = [t];
       if (id === "status-cards.archive-card") {
-        const research = await project(ctx, "Research"); sourceTasks.push(await task(ctx, "Research follow-up", research.id));
+        // The Research card asks for blockers, so give it one, as Launch has. With only a backlog task the
+        // summarizer searched for blockers that did not exist and its generation ran 171-182s against the 180s limit.
+        const research = await project(ctx, "Research");
+        sourceTasks.push(await task(ctx, "Lab access blocks research", research.id, { status: "blocked", description: "Research is blocked until the synthetic lab access request is approved." }));
         otherCard = await seedCard(ctx, ctx.input.fixtures.agent.id, worker.id, research.id, "Research");
         await pollUntil({ label: "independent Research card generation completion", deadlineAt: Date.now() + 45_000, load: () => ctx.allRuns(), accept: rows => rows.length === 2 && rows.every(row => row.status === "succeeded") });
       }