fix(explore): hold back what is still owed below a clustered render (CG-31)

Carry-forward slack let a file spend what the files ABOVE it left on the
table. Nothing held back what was promised BELOW it. The whole-file BUY arm
has always refused that trade (`owedBelow`); the cluster path read `headroom`
— what is left before the hard ceiling — instead of what is still owed, so
`fileBudget` and `SPINE_CEILING` could pay a 1.5x overshoot out of another
file's reservation.

`fundedHeadroom` is the same inequality in the units the cluster path spends
in: source PLUS the per-section overhead each unreached file will charge.
Floored at the file's own reservation — a kept promise is not a displacement —
and it is <= `headroom` by construction, so it is the only bound the three
render sites need. The skeleton path's `bodyCap` takes it too.

Measured on `__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts` (a 4-stage pipeline padded
past 500 files, where the 24K envelope genuinely saturates the 24.4K render
ceiling):

  before  ingest.ts emitted 9,301 on a 6,289 spendable, then lost the whole
          section to the final ceiling — 0 delivered. types.ts and sink.ts
          skipped `budget-whole-file`. 3 of 6 admitted files delivered.
  after   ingest.ts bounded to the 4,913 actually free. 6 of 6 delivered,
          envelope 14,908 -> 22,066.

The self-query allocation fixture flips back to PASS with it, on a clean full
rebuild of this repo's index (CG-33). Its `afterCG30` verdict blamed an
over-RESERVED incidental file; the reservation was identical in both arms —
the file was over-SPENDING. Recorded honestly in `afterCG31`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Python classes used as values — `return SomeSerializer` from a factory method, `handler = SomeClass` aliases, registry dicts and lists, and classes passed as arguments — now produce reference edges in the graph. Previously these idioms were invisible, so on Django and Django REST Framework projects, asking for a serializer's callers or the impact of editing it missed the views that actually use it. Re-index after upgrading to pick up the new edges. (#1478)
- When a file changed on disk after its last index sync, `codegraph_node` and `codegraph_explore` could return a different symbol's code under the requested name — current file bytes cut at outdated line positions — while presenting it as verbatim, trustworthy source. This hit hardest on projects queried through `projectPath` (for example, sub-projects of a monorepo), which have no live file watcher to flag pending edits. Both tools now verify each file against the index before showing sliced code: an out-of-date file is either shown whole with its full current source, or its code is withheld with a clear "changed on disk" notice — never served as a wrong slice. A fresh re-index restores normal output automatically. Thanks @inth3shadows for the thorough report and verification passes. (#1474)
- A file built around one very long function no longer takes the whole `codegraph_explore` answer for itself — or disappears from it. Previously such a file was shown in full however big it was, which used up the room every file after it needed, and when the function was larger than the entire response the file was dropped without a word. These files now come back as a bounded window on whole lines — the signature and the top of the body, plus the call site when the call path runs through it — with the rest one follow-up `codegraph_explore` away.
- `codegraph_explore` no longer lets the first file in an answer spend the room set aside for the files below it, so the rest of the answer still arrives. Previously a large file near the top could quietly use up everything left, and the files ranked under it — each already judged relevant enough to include — were dropped with no source at all; on one question only one of six made it into the answer. Every file now keeps what it was given, and a question that really is about one file still concentrates on that file.
- The blast-radius section of `codegraph_explore` flagged "no covering tests found" whenever no test called a symbol directly — falsely branding helpers that tests exercise through their callers as untested (about 40% of flagged symbols in a measured sample). The check now follows caller chains up to 3 hops and reports indirect coverage as "tested via callers"; when nothing is found it states exactly what was checked instead of an unconditional warning. Thanks @inth3shadows for measuring the false-positive rate. (#1475)
## [1.5.0] - 2026-07-21