diff --git a/script/test b/script/test
index 301ae21..39bfcb7 100755
--- a/script/test
+++ b/script/test
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@
 # binaries build or run at once, each with at most eight parallel tests. Under
 # -race every test binary and every link costs a few hundred MB, so the
 # defaults (one per core) add up to several GB on a many-core host.
+#
+# No -v: the Docker build cuts each step's log off at 2 MiB, and verbose output
+# from the whole suite passes that before a failure is printed. Without it, go
+# test prints one result line per package and, for a package that fails,
+# everything its tests wrote, application log lines included.
 set -eu
 
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
@@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
 main() {
     cd "$ROOT"
     "$ROOT/script/assets"
-    go test -v -race -p 4 -parallel 8 -timeout 90s ./...
+    go test -race -p 4 -parallel 8 -timeout 90s ./...
 }
 
 main "$@"