diff --git a/.github/workflows/dart_skills_lint_workflow.yaml b/.github/workflows/dart_skills_lint_workflow.yaml
index fa9277c..7c322c9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dart_skills_lint_workflow.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dart_skills_lint_workflow.yaml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: dart analyze --fatal-infos
 
       - name: Run cyclomatic complexity check
-        run: dart run dart_code_linter:metrics analyze lib
+        run: dart run dart_code_linter:metrics analyze lib test
 
       - run: dart test
 
diff --git a/tool/dart_skills_lint/analysis_options.yaml b/tool/dart_skills_lint/analysis_options.yaml
index 3b2de7f..7128ea6 100644
--- a/tool/dart_skills_lint/analysis_options.yaml
+++ b/tool/dart_skills_lint/analysis_options.yaml
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ analyzer:
     strict-casts: true
     strict-inference: true
     strict-raw-types: true
-  plugins:
-    - dart_code_linter
+  # dart_code_linter is intentionally NOT registered as an analyzer
+  # `plugin` here. When it was, `dart analyze` had racy false positives. 
+  # See https://github.com/flutter/skills/issues/144
   errors:
     # allow deprecated members (we do this because otherwise we have to annotate
     # every member in every test, assert, etc, when we or the Dart SDK deprecates
@@ -286,11 +287,20 @@ dart_code_linter:
     - no-empty-block
     - avoid-redundant-async
     - avoid-passing-async-when-sync-expected
-    - avoid-late-keyword
+    # `late` for fields initialized in `setUp` is the idiomatic Dart test
+    # fixture pattern; enforce this rule on lib only.
+    - avoid-late-keyword:
+        exclude:
+          - test/**
     - prefer-named-record-fields
 
     # Clean up
     - avoid-unused-parameters
     - prefer-moving-to-variable
-    - prefer-match-file-name
+    # Test files must be named `*_test.dart` for the test runner, and commonly
+    # hold several small fixture/mock classes, so they can never match this
+    # rule's "file name == first class name" convention. Enforce it on lib only.
+    - prefer-match-file-name:
+        exclude:
+          - test/**
     - always-remove-listener
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/directory_structure_test.dart b/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/directory_structure_test.dart
index 54a5faa..8d501a1 100644
--- a/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/directory_structure_test.dart
+++ b/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/directory_structure_test.dart
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class MockInaccessibleFile implements File {
   }
 
   @override
-  dynamic noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) => super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
+  Object? noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) => super.noSuchMethod(invocation);
 }
 
 base class TestIOOverrides extends IOOverrides {
diff --git a/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/skills_ignores_storage_test.dart b/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/skills_ignores_storage_test.dart
index 398f2b8..99c10f3 100644
--- a/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/skills_ignores_storage_test.dart
+++ b/tool/dart_skills_lint/test/skills_ignores_storage_test.dart
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ void main() {
   late Directory tempDir;
   late SkillsIgnoresStorage storage;
 
-  setUp(() async {
+  setUp(() {
     tempDir = Directory.systemTemp.createTempSync('storage_test.');
     storage = SkillsIgnoresStorage();
   });