[theoephraim]

Fixes the failing checks on the release PR (#1264).

• tanstack-start framework test: Accept VARLOCK_* aliases for _VARLOCK_* config vars (AWS Lambda) #1295 changed the runtime missing-key error to _VARLOCK_ENV_KEY (or VARLOCK_ENV_KEY) is not set, which broke a shouldContain assertion and silently weakened several shouldNotContain guards in other framework tests. The message keeps the literal _VARLOCK_ENV_KEY is not set again, with the alias noted after it.
• Windows smoke tests: the two run-output-drain tests from Fix varlock run dropping piped output on exit #1296 have failed on every Windows run. The SIGTERM test can't work there (no SIGTERM, and Node writes to pipes synchronously, so a stalled reader blocks the event loop). The background-process late-output test is skipped on Windows pending investigation; that may be a real Windows gap.
• Proxy smoke tests (ubuntu): proxy-signals and proxy-python share the smoke-test-proxy fixture dir and run in parallel, so proxy run could attach to the other file's session while it was shutting down (ECONNREFUSED). Both now pass --new.

The macOS signals.test.ts failure on #1264 looks like a flake (passed on the previous run of the same code, and 60/60 locally under load), so it's untouched.

[github-actions]

This PR includes an empty bump file — no version bump is needed. ✅

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dist/ only; native binaries are versioned separately and not counted here.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes: Reviewed the runtime diagnostic fix and platform-specific smoke test exclusions.

• Missing-key diagnostic: Restores the substring used by framework assertions while retaining alias guidance.
• Windows smoke tests: Skips the two affected scenarios only on Windows, preserving slow-reader coverage. The late-grandchild-output gap remains explicitly uninvestigated.
• Release bookkeeping: Adds an empty bump file.

Validation: Build and 19 focused tests passed on Linux. Windows behavior was not locally tested.

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