A rubocop autocorrect in commit 8db64312b ("Enable rubocop on all files, with exceptions" — PR #3005) flattened the original if test.skip_reason and unless req.satisfied? guards in spec/runners/transactions.rb into bare skip calls inside a single before(:all) block.

The result is two unconditional skip statements:

before(:all) do
  ...
  skip test.skip_reason            # always skips, even when skip_reason is nil
  skip 'Requirements not satisfied' # always skips
  test.setup_test                   # never reached
end

Effect: every transactions_spec.rb and transactions_api_spec.rb example reports as PENDING: Requirements not satisfied (or PENDING: No reason given) regardless of cluster topology or actual requirements. The transactions spec test suite has not run locally on master since that commit (2026-03-27).

Fix: restore the conditional checks (skip test.skip_reason if test.skip_reason and skip 'Requirements not satisfied' unless req.satisfied?) and pass the req block argument through.