Docs: Clarify contract output handling

2026-08-26 23:38:09 -04:00
parent 34e295d184
commit 77f625d7bb
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@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ before it starts any non-hermetic contract. Automation cannot answer that
 prompt, so it must grant every required capability with a repeatable `--allow`.
 Each contract has a 180-second outer timeout by default. Set
 `PANAMA_TEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` to a positive integer to override it. When a
-contract fails, the runner prints its captured stdout and stderr.
+contract fails, the runner prints its captured stdout and stderr. Successful
+stdout stays quiet. Successful stderr is surfaced as a warning.

 They are called contracts rather than unit tests because that is what they are:
 each one pins a decision that was expensive to get right and is cheap to undo by