Two corrections found by measuring the first cut of the guard against the
6-repo suite. The first version held back the FULL sum of the reservations
below a file. On django that took 2,319 chars off a file the agent receives
and handed them to a section the hard ceiling then threw away — the guard's
own failure mode, one layer down. tokio lost 1,298 the same way.
1. `owedPayableBelow` — hold back only the prefix of what is owed below that
the response can still PAY, in rank order. A promise the ceiling cannot
reach is not a claim on this file's bytes.
2. The final truncation now spends the EPILOGUE before it spends a rendered
file section. It used to cut at the last section header, dropping that
section AND the trailing notes; dropping the notes alone is almost always
enough. A section is source the agent otherwise has to Read; the epilogue
is a pointer list and two reminders, and the note that replaces it carries
the "explore these names" instruction forward.
Also count `flow.text` in `totalChars`. It is prepended to `lines` to make the
final output, so the render loop always spent against a ceiling it was ~2K
under on symbol-bag queries.
Deterministic, same clean-rebuilt indexes, both builds (baseline = CG-30 tip):
repo base source new source files
django 20,033 20,791 5 trunc -> 6
excalidraw 18,776 20,204 7 trunc -> 8
okhttp 15,628 19,034 4 trunc -> 5
tokio 20,340 21,521 4 trunc -> 5
gin 10,776 10,776 4 -> 4 (byte-identical)
alamofire 11,662 11,662 2 -> 2 (byte-identical)
No repo delivers less; four stop truncating. `funded` in the diagnostic now
reports the render CEILING the guard allows, which is what every render path
is actually bounded by.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5
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