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 ## Tests & bench
 
 ```
-make test                # 641+ tests, default suite, ~10s with pytest -n auto
+make test                # 2000+ tests, default suite, ~60s sequential / ~10s with pytest -n auto
 make test-crawler        # opt-in: tests for the verbatim crawler lift
 make test-live           # gated: live QA quality fixtures against Hermes (~1 min)
 make bench               # ETL throughput across configs (serial / shared-WAL / attached)