The ZIP loop checked desiredSize only after a push and responded to an overfull queue with setTimeout(0). A timer turn does not mean the consumer drained anything, so a slow or disconnected client still allowed the producer to enqueue the complete compressed archive while later artifact and attachment reads ran eagerly.
Give the ReadableStream a 64 KiB byte queuing strategy and block the single producer on a pull-released capacity gate whenever desiredSize is non-positive. Cancellation wakes that gate through the existing producer signal; synchronous fflate output is therefore bounded to the queue high-water mark plus one input push. A regression test exhausts timer turns without consuming and proves the next media entry remains unread until response pulling begins, and the bilingual contracts now describe the real bound.
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