The freeze diagnosis (T-424) was going to need a dedicated Windows VM to soak-
test. It doesn't: GitHub's windows-latest already runs our ConPTY suite green,
and tools/windows-verify/soak-conpty.ps1 detects the leak by counting the
conhost/OpenConsole hosts that survive each run — it never tries to crash the
box, so a throwaway runner works. The repeated runs happen inside one job, so
the orphan count can climb there even though the runner is discarded after.
New windows-soak.yml: workflow_dispatch + triggers when the soak kit changes.
Diagnostic only (always exits 0); publishes the verdict to the job summary and
uploads the CSV. This removes the GCP/VM requirement from the human entirely.
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