apps/gateway/src/federation/__tests__/enrollment.service.spec.ts

@@ -245,9 +245,21 @@ describe('EnrollmentService.createToken', () => {
     const after = Date.now();
 
     const expiresMs = new Date(result.expiresAt).getTime();
-    // Should be at most 900s from now
-    expect(expiresMs - before).toBeLessThanOrEqual(900_000 + 100);
+
+    // The property under test is CLAMPING: a 9999s request must come back as 900s.
+    // The gap between clamped and unclamped is 9_099_000 ms, so the tolerance below
+    // only has to exceed CI scheduling jitter — it does not need to be tight to keep
+    // the assertion discriminating. A 5s allowance consumes 0.05% of that margin and
+    // an unclamped result still misses by three orders of magnitude.
+    //
+    // It was 100ms and failed on a loaded agent at 900_106 — 6ms over (#1090). A
+    // wall-clock budget sized to a fast machine is a flake, not a tighter test.
+    const CI_JITTER_MS = 5_000;
+    expect(expiresMs - before).toBeLessThanOrEqual(900_000 + CI_JITTER_MS);
     expect(expiresMs - after).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    // Explicitly pin the clamp itself, independent of any timing allowance:
+    // unclamped (9999s) would exceed this by ~9_099_000 ms.
+    expect(expiresMs - before).toBeLessThan(1_000_000);
   });
 });