ci: shrink the push pipeline to the affordable gate set

Assisted-by: GLM 5.3 Flash

debug/ptrace_integration_test.go

@@ -18,8 +18,17 @@ import (
 )
 
 // buildGasm produces the gasm binary the debugger spawns as its debuggee.
+// Every live ptrace test funnels through here, so this is also where the
+// deliberate-run boundary sits: under -short (the push pipeline's mode) the
+// live sessions skip, because a real debuggee's launch handshake needs the
+// machine to itself and a starved single-core runner turns each one into a
+// timeout that burns the step's whole budget. The local test gate and the
+// dispatched workflows run them in full.
 func buildGasm(t *testing.T) string {
 	t.Helper()
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("live ptrace session: skipped in -short mode")
+	}
 	if p := os.Getenv("GASM_TEST_BIN"); p != "" {
 		return p
 	}