A zero on any of the five timeout fields (settings.timeout, agent, script,
llm, rag) now disables the bound instead of firing an immediate
"timed out after 0s" or graph bail. Unset values keep their defaults
(agent 300, script 30, rag 120, llm/settings none); non-zero values are
unchanged. One resolution helper, wall_clock(secs) -> Option<Duration>,
feeds all five call sites; the C17 peer-retirement mark and every error
message stay where they were.
The one existing test that relied on timeout: 0 firing
(run_item_chain_marks_identity_finished_when_agent_step_times_out) moves
to timeout: 1 with its 5s hold unchanged.
Design §3.13 / C21.
python3 first-start on fresh Windows runners (AV interpreter scans) blew
the 5s/10s/30s script timeouts. Drop the incidental python3 spawns from
the bash fixtures (pure-bash JSON extraction) and give the genuinely
python tests 60s headroom.