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The document calls HARBOR_TIMEOUT_SEC 'unconditional' yet says it applies when heuristic deadlines are disabled, so the exact interaction is ambiguous.\n\nEvidence strength: MODERATE\n\nTransferability: LOW\n\nCost effect: UNKNOWN; latency effect: UNKNOWN\n\nRecommended behavior: INFERENCE: When running Harbor-based terminal evals through this workflow, set the enforcement flag and wall-clock limit explicitly, record them, and treat exit code 124 as an incomplete run.\n\nAnti-pattern: Assuming heuristic deadlines are enforced by default, or reporting a 124-exit partial result as a complete score.\n\nMaterial claims and sources:\n- claim-1: In the tt-inference-server agentic workflow, the Harbor progress watchdog only logs wave and stall deadlines by default, enforces them only when HARBOR_ENFORCE_AGENT_DEADLINE=true, and HARBOR_TIMEOUT_SEC is an unconditional wall-clock limit that applies when heuristic deadlines are disabled; on timeout the partial result is kept and exit code 124 is returned. 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