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The unit suite concatenates + parses every embedded app.*.js (plus argon2) in a vm, so a syntax error already fails it. Run the ~10 cold `node --check` spawns (~3-4s) only when tests are bypassed (PM_SKIP_TESTS) or absent. Cuts the pre-compile freeze from ~7s to ~4s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>