diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ AOP via source transformation at load time (stream filter, no PECL, no eval).
 ## Agent gate
 - PHP 8.4+ required. If PHP 8.3 or less → STOP, report can't run tests/phpstan.
 - Gate: `composer analyze` before commit (phpstan level 10).
+- Remote session (Claude Code on the web): `composer install` is source-only/slow and dies on phpstan/phpstan → packagist-mirror recipe in `tests/AGENTS.md` § Remote sessions.
 
 ## Commands
 | Action    | Command                                                               |
diff --git a/tests/AGENTS.md b/tests/AGENTS.md
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@@ -23,4 +23,62 @@
 ## PHPStan gate
 - Mandatory before commit
 - `./vendor/bin/phpstan analyze --memory-limit=512M`
-- If phpstan fails: fix errors before offering to commit
\ No newline at end of file
+- If phpstan fails: fix errors before offering to commit
+## Remote sessions (Claude Code on the web) — installing phpstan
+Diagnosed 2026-09-03; hits every fresh remote session of this repo.
+
+### `composer install` is slow (everything from source) and dies on phpstan/phpstan
+What blocks dist installs:
+- The session's GitHub proxy serves `api.github.com` / `codeload.github.com` / `github.com/*/archive` only
+  for repos attached to the session (this one). Every other package's zipball answers
+  `403 "GitHub access to this repository is not enabled for this session"` — with or without a token,
+  so no `COMPOSER_AUTH`/`github-oauth` setting and no composer option can fix it. `add_repo` does not
+  open it either (read = git only; API needs an attached repo with credentials, refused cross-owner).
+- Composer then falls back to `source` per package (full `git clone` into ~/.cache/composer/vcs):
+  anonymous git reads of public repos DO pass the proxy, so it works, but ~80 failed dist attempts
+  (some as "Proxy CONNECT aborted due to timeout") plus 80 clones take 70–85 s instead of ~30 s.
+- phpstan/phpstan has no `source` at all: packagist metadata and composer.lock say `"source": null`
+  (its composer.json declares an empty `source` block on purpose; the code lives in phpstan/phpstan-src,
+  the package is just the phar). Nothing to fall back to → the whole install aborts with
+  "Could not authenticate against github.com".
+
+Fix A (recommended, dist for everything, ~30 s): point composer at a packagist mirror that hosts its own
+dist zips. Non-GitHub hosts are not gated by the proxy. Verified: mirrors.cloud.tencent.com rewrites
+every dist URL to its own host, is up to date with packagist (same-day releases), and its zips are
+byte-identical to the GitHub tags (checked phpstan.phar sha256 against the git tag and the release
+asset). Not usable: mirrors.aliyun.com (declares dist mirrors but serves 404), mirrors.huaweicloud.com
+(rewrites URLs, serves 404), packagist.jp (metadata only, dists stay on GitHub).
+
+```bash
+# global (session-local) composer config, composer.json stays untouched; composer.lock is gitignored,
+# so remove a stale lock (it would pin api.github.com dist URLs) and let install resolve via the mirror
+COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer config -g repos.packagist composer https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/composer
+rm -f composer.lock
+COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer install --no-interaction     # 83 × "Extracting archive", 0 fallbacks
+./vendor/bin/phpstan --version                                   # → PHPStan 2.x
+```
+
+Fix B (fallback when the mirror is unreachable): seed composer's dist cache for phpstan/phpstan with a
+zip built from a shallow git clone of the release tag. Composer looks up
+`<cache-files-dir>/phpstan/phpstan/<sha1(dist url)>.zip` and, since the lock carries no shasum for it,
+uses the file as-is. `--prefer-source` makes the other packages skip the doomed dist attempts.
+
+```bash
+# composer.lock is gitignored: resolve it first, without downloading (packagist metadata is reachable)
+[ -f composer.lock ] || COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer update --no-install --no-interaction
+# version, dist reference and cache key of the locked phpstan/phpstan
+eval "$(php -r '$l = json_decode(file_get_contents("composer.lock"), true);
+  foreach (array_merge($l["packages"], $l["packages-dev"]) as $p) {
+      if ($p["name"] === "phpstan/phpstan") {
+          printf("V=%s REF=%s KEY=%s\n", $p["version"], $p["dist"]["reference"], sha1($p["dist"]["url"]));
+      }
+  }')"
+# shallow-clone the release tag (anonymous git reads of public repos pass the proxy, ~5s)
+TMP=$(mktemp -d); git clone -q --depth 1 --branch "$V" https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan.git "$TMP/phpstan"
+# zip it into composer's dist cache under the key composer will look for (.gitattributes export-ignore applies)
+CACHE="$(composer config --global cache-files-dir 2>/dev/null)/phpstan/phpstan"; mkdir -p "$CACHE"
+git -C "$TMP/phpstan" archive --format=zip --prefix="phpstan-phpstan-${REF:0:7}/" -o "$CACHE/$KEY.zip" HEAD
+# phpstan comes from the cache, everything else from git; ALLOW_SUPERUSER keeps phpstan/extension-installer active
+COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer install --prefer-source --no-interaction
+./vendor/bin/phpstan --version   # → PHPStan 2.x
+```