[gnoff]

Summary

• remove skipDeployment and skipped from nextTestSetup after every caller has migrated to @force-gate
• update the test review guidance to identify new deployment exclusions by their gate directive

This final layer makes @force-gate the only suite-scoped deployment exclusion mechanism.

The base is pinned to the original migration stack at 4c7272754c9b975625a1378eb4af42282c56825d so this PR retains its two-file diff while #98156, #98157, #98158, #98159, and #98160 land independently on canary. This PR still depends on the remaining App Router migration (#98155) and must be rebased only after all remaining callers have migrated.

Verification

• verified on the combined top-of-stack tree with pnpm typescript
• verified the feature-oriented stack has the same Git tree as the previously tested migration

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Failing test suites

Commit: 09e79c0 | About building and testing Next.js

pnpm test-dev-turbo test/development/app-dir/instant-navs-devtools/instant-navs-devtools.test.ts (turbopack) (job)

• instant-nav-panel > history traversals > shows real content on forward after back while awaiting navigation (DD)
• instant-nav-panel > transitions between capture types > should keep the panel in MPA state after capture -> reload and then update to SPA state after client navigation (DD)

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● instant-nav-panel › transitions between capture types › should keep the panel in MPA state after capture -> reload and then update to SPA state after client navigation

locator.waitFor: Timeout 60000ms exceeded.
Call log:
  - waiting for locator('[data-testid="dynamic-skeleton"]') to be visible

  278 |     await browser
  279 |       .locator('[data-testid="dynamic-skeleton"]')
> 280 |       .waitFor({ state: 'visible' })
      |        ^
  281 |     await browser
  282 |       .locator('[data-testid="param-skeleton"]')
  283 |       .waitFor({ state: 'visible' })

  at waitFor (development/app-dir/instant-navs-devtools/instant-navs-devtools.test.ts:280:8)
  at Object.expectTargetPageSpaShell (development/app-dir/instant-navs-devtools/instant-navs-devtools.test.ts:794:13)

● instant-nav-panel › history traversals › shows real content on forward after back while awaiting navigation

locator.waitFor: Timeout 60000ms exceeded.
Call log:
  - waiting for locator('[data-testid="dynamic-skeleton"]') to be visible

  278 |     await browser
  279 |       .locator('[data-testid="dynamic-skeleton"]')
> 280 |       .waitFor({ state: 'visible' })
      |        ^
  281 |     await browser
  282 |       .locator('[data-testid="param-skeleton"]')
  283 |       .waitFor({ state: 'visible' })

  at waitFor (development/app-dir/instant-navs-devtools/instant-navs-devtools.test.ts:280:8)
  at Object.expectTargetPageSpaShell (development/app-dir/instant-navs-devtools/instant-navs-devtools.test.ts:870:13)

Other failing CI jobs

• types and precompiled / build

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