merge: explore allocation — bounded overshoot, displacement guard, exact budget (CG-30, CG-31, CG-26)

Lands the three-branch allocation stack. Every admitted file now receives at
least its reservation before any file draws on carry-forward slack, on every
render path — cluster, whole-file GRACE, and whole-file BUY.

CG-30 bounded how far an oversize cluster member may overshoot (windowed on
whole lines past 1.5x rather than emitted whole or dropped). CG-31 gave the
cluster path the `owedBelow` displacement guard the BUY arm always had, holding
back only the prefix of what is owed below that the response can actually pay.
CG-26 closed the three remaining holes: the whole-file arms had no displacement
guard at all, section overhead was charged at a flat 200 against a real 300-500,
and `owedPayableBelow` held all-or-nothing where it should hold partially.

Deterministic across the 6-repo suite, clean-rebuilt indexes, both builds: no
repo truncates, no repo loses a file, okhttp gains one, and every repo lands at
or under the 25,000 hard ceiling.

Accepted trade (maintainer decision): excalidraw -552 and okhttp -164 source
chars against the CG-31 tip, in exchange for the trailing pointer list surviving
instead of being discarded whole. Those bytes existed at the CG-31 tip only
because it over-filled a ceiling it mis-measured and then dropped the entire
epilogue; a pointer the agent can act on beats a few hundred chars on the
last-ranked file.

Two issues opened during this work were closed as invalid rather than fixed:
CG-32 (named-file ordering) and CG-34 (allocator over-reservation). Both were
filed on diagnoses that did not survive measurement — CG-32's symptom was index
drift (CG-33), and CG-34's premise was overturned by CG-31's own results.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 - On Windows, the Claude Code prompt hook written by `codegraph install` failed with "command not found" when hooks run through Git Bash, which needs the `.cmd` extension to find the launcher. The installer now writes the platform-correct command, and re-running `codegraph install` (or `codegraph upgrade`) repairs an existing install in place. (#1466)
 - 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.
+- When a `codegraph_explore` answer runs right up against its size limit, it now drops the trailing notes rather than a whole file's source. Previously the last file was cut even though trimming the notes alone would have fit, so a file that had already been read, ranked and rendered was thrown away at the last moment. Across a range of real projects this returns one more file and up to 20% more source per call.
+- Every file `codegraph_explore` decides to include now actually arrives. A file shown in full could still spend room set aside for files below it — the fix above covered files shown as excerpts but not files shown whole — and the answer's own size bookkeeping under-counted each file's heading, so the answer ran past its limit and a fully prepared file was discarded at the end. A file that no longer fits whole is now shown as excerpts instead of vanishing, and one that overshoots by a little is trimmed to fit rather than dropped.
+- The list of files an answer could not cover — the "explore these names for their source" pointers — is no longer thrown away when the answer is full. It is now budgeted for and trimmed to fit, so a full answer still tells you what it left out and which names to ask for next, instead of ending with no pointers at all.
 - 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

__tests__/explore-displacement-guard.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,245 @@
+/**
+ * Regression fixture for CG-31 — a clustered render may not spend a reservation
+ * still owed to a file the loop has not reached.
+ *
+ * The allocator hands every admitted file a reservation (CG-12), and the render
+ * loop then walks the files in rank order. Carry-forward slack lets a file spend
+ * what the files ABOVE it left on the table, which is right; what was missing is
+ * the other half — nothing was held back for the files BELOW it. The whole-file
+ * BUY arm has always refused that trade (`owedBelow`, `tools.ts`); the cluster
+ * path had no equivalent, so `fileBudget`/`SPINE_CEILING` read what was left
+ * before the hard ceiling rather than what was still promised, and the first
+ * oversize file could take the response.
+ *
+ * `__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/` reproduces it. Four pipeline stages
+ * compete for one envelope; the first, `ingest.ts`, is a single ~20K function —
+ * one cluster member far bigger than any reservation it can earn — so it takes
+ * the bounded overshoot CG-30 left it. The fixture is padded to >500 indexed
+ * files on purpose: the displacement only exists on the 24K tier, where the
+ * reservations plus the response preamble genuinely saturate the hard ceiling.
+ *
+ * Measured against the pre-fix build (CG-30 landed, CG-31 not):
+ *
+ *   ingest.ts     9,301 chars emitted on a 6,289 spendable — then dropped whole
+ *                 by the final ceiling, so it cost the response and delivered 0
+ *   types.ts      skipped `budget-whole-file`
+ *   sink.ts       skipped `budget-whole-file`
+ *   delivered     3 of 6 admitted files, 14,908-char envelope
+ *
+ * With the guard: 6 of 6, 22,066-char envelope, and `ingest.ts` bounded to the
+ * 4,913 that were actually still free.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import CodeGraph from '../src/index';
+import { ToolHandler } from '../src/mcp/tools';
+import { attributeSourceBytes } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+import type { ExploreDiagnosticReport, ExploreDiagnosticFile } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+
+const FIXTURE_SRC = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'displacement-ts');
+
+/**
+ * Padding modules, written into the temp copy rather than checked in. The
+ * output tier is chosen by INDEXED FILE COUNT, and the displacement this test
+ * pins only exists at >=500 files (24K envelope against a 24.4K render ceiling
+ * that also has to hold the response preamble). Below that the ceiling has
+ * enough slack to absorb an overshoot and the bug is invisible.
+ */
+const FILLER_FILES = 520;
+
+/** A symbol bag spanning all four stages — they compete for one envelope. */
+const QUERY = 'ingestRecords normalizeRecords enrichRecords publishRecords';
+/** One symbol, one file — the concentration case the guard must not flatten. */
+const PRECISE_QUERY = 'ingestRecords';
+
+/** The giant: one ~20K function, the file that used to take the response. */
+const GIANT = 'src/pipeline/ingest.ts';
+/** Ranked below the giant and dropped by it pre-fix. */
+const STARVED = ['src/pipeline/types.ts', 'src/pipeline/sink.ts'];
+
+interface Probe {
+  response: string;
+  report: ExploreDiagnosticReport;
+  bytes: Map<string, number>;
+}
+
+describe('CG-31 — the cluster path holds back what is still owed below it', () => {
+  let testDir: string;
+  let cg: CodeGraph;
+  let spread: Probe;
+  let precise: Probe;
+
+  const fileOf = (probe: Probe, p: string): ExploreDiagnosticFile => {
+    const rec = probe.report.files.find((f) => f.path === p);
+    if (!rec) throw new Error(`${p} absent from the diagnostic report`);
+    return rec;
+  };
+  /** Admitted = the allocator reserved bytes for it. */
+  const admitted = (probe: Probe): ExploreDiagnosticFile[] =>
+    probe.report.files.filter((f) => (f.allowance ?? 0) > 0);
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    testDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-cg31-'));
+    fs.cpSync(FIXTURE_SRC, testDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.rmSync(path.join(testDir, '.codegraph'), { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+    const filler = path.join(testDir, 'src', 'generated');
+    fs.mkdirSync(filler, { recursive: true });
+    for (let i = 0; i < FILLER_FILES; i++) {
+      // Deterministic, unrelated to the query — these pad the file count, they
+      // must never rank.
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(filler, `unit${i}.ts`),
+        `export const seed${i} = ${i};\n`
+        + `export function widget${i}(n: number): number {\n  return n * ${i + 1} + seed${i};\n}\n`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    cg = CodeGraph.initSync(testDir);
+    await cg.indexAll();
+
+    // The per-file bounds are only observable through the diagnostic sidecar.
+    const sidecar = path.join(testDir, 'explore-diag.jsonl');
+    const previous = process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+    process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = sidecar;
+    const run = async (handler: ToolHandler, query: string): Promise<Probe> => {
+      const result = await handler.execute('codegraph_explore', { query });
+      const response = result.content?.[0]?.text ?? '';
+      const written = fs.readFileSync(sidecar, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+      return {
+        response,
+        report: JSON.parse(written[written.length - 1]!) as ExploreDiagnosticReport,
+        bytes: attributeSourceBytes(response),
+      };
+    };
+    try {
+      const handler = new ToolHandler(cg);
+      spread = await run(handler, QUERY);
+      precise = await run(handler, PRECISE_QUERY);
+    } finally {
+      if (previous === undefined) delete process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+      else process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = previous;
+    }
+  }, 180_000);
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    if (cg) cg.destroy();
+    if (testDir && fs.existsSync(testDir)) fs.rmSync(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  // ── Fixture shape — if these rot, the gate below means nothing ─────────────
+
+  describe('fixture shape', () => {
+    it('sits on the 24K tier, where the reservations saturate the ceiling', () => {
+      expect(cg.getStats().fileCount).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(500);
+      expect(spread.report.budget.maxOutputChars).toBe(24000);
+    });
+
+    it('admits every stage file, so there is something to displace', () => {
+      const paths = admitted(spread).map((f) => f.path);
+      expect(paths).toContain(GIANT);
+      for (const p of STARVED) expect(paths).toContain(p);
+      expect(paths.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(5);
+    });
+
+    it('renders the giant through the CLUSTER path, over its reservation', () => {
+      const rec = fileOf(spread, GIANT);
+      expect(rec.render).toBe('clusters');
+      // One member bigger than anything it can earn beside its siblings — the
+      // shape that makes the bounded overshoot fire at all.
+      const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(testDir, GIANT), 'utf-8');
+      expect(source.length).toBeGreaterThan((rec.spendable ?? 0) * 2);
+      // And the guard actually bit — a vacuous pass here would hide a
+      // regression. Measured against the bounded overshoot a cluster's top
+      // member may otherwise take (1.5x, CG-30), which is what it refused.
+      expect(rec.funded).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(rec.funded!).toBeLessThan(Math.round(rec.spendable! * 1.5));
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The gate ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('displacement refusal', () => {
+    it('CG-31 GATE: no clustered file emits past what was still free to spend', () => {
+      for (const probe of [spread, precise]) {
+        const over = probe.report.files
+          .filter((f) => f.render === 'clusters' && f.funded !== null)
+          // +1 for the render loop's own rounding on the windowed cut.
+          .filter((f) => f.emittedChars > f.funded! + 1)
+          .map((f) => `${f.path}: ${f.emittedChars} of ${f.funded}`);
+        expect(over).toEqual([]);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('CG-31 GATE: every admitted file below the top one is delivered', () => {
+      // Pre-fix: 3 of 6 — `ingest.ts` overshot, was itself cut by the final
+      // ceiling, and took `types.ts` + `sink.ts` down with it.
+      for (const rec of admitted(spread)) {
+        expect(rec.skipped, `${rec.path} skipped`).toBeNull();
+        expect(spread.bytes.get(rec.path) ?? 0, `${rec.path} bytes`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      }
+      for (const p of STARVED) expect(spread.bytes.get(p) ?? 0).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+
+    it('the guard is symmetric — it is about ORDER, not rank', () => {
+      // Nothing here protects rank #1 specifically: the LAST admitted file, the
+      // only one with no reservation owed below it, is delivered too.
+      const files = admitted(spread);
+      const last = files[files.length - 1]!;
+      expect(last.skipped).toBeNull();
+      expect(spread.bytes.get(last.path) ?? 0).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      // And the last file is never itself cut by the guard — nothing is owed
+      // below it, so `funded` may not sit under its own reservation.
+      expect(last.funded!).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Math.min(last.allowance!, last.emittedChars));
+    });
+
+    it('a kept promise is not a displacement — no file is cut below its reservation', () => {
+      for (const probe of [spread, precise]) {
+        for (const rec of admitted(probe)) {
+          if (rec.funded === null) continue;
+          expect(rec.funded, rec.path).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(
+            Math.min(rec.allowance!, rec.emittedChars));
+        }
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('nothing is lost to the hard ceiling — the epilogue is cut before a section', () => {
+      // A section thrown away by the final truncation is the same starvation
+      // arriving after the guard has done its work: the bytes were held back
+      // for that file and then nobody received them.
+      for (const probe of [spread, precise]) {
+        expect(probe.report.files.filter((f) => f.render === 'dropped')).toEqual([]);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('keeps the response inside the hard ceiling', () => {
+      for (const probe of [spread, precise]) {
+        expect(probe.report.envelope.chars).toBeLessThanOrEqual(probe.report.budget.hardCeiling);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The thing the guard must NOT become ───────────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('concentration survives', () => {
+    it('a precise symbol query still puts the most source in the named file', () => {
+      const mine = precise.bytes.get(GIANT) ?? 0;
+      const others = [...precise.bytes.entries()].filter(([p]) => p !== GIANT);
+      expect(mine).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const [p, n] of others) {
+        expect(mine, `${GIANT} vs ${p}`).toBeGreaterThan(n);
+      }
+      // Not a forced even split: the named file takes a clear plurality.
+      const total = [...precise.bytes.values()].reduce((s, n) => s + n, 0);
+      expect(mine / total).toBeGreaterThan(1 / precise.bytes.size);
+    });
+
+    it('the named file still outspends what it would get from an even split', () => {
+      const rec = fileOf(precise, GIANT);
+      const even = precise.report.budget.maxOutputChars / admitted(precise).length;
+      expect(rec.emittedChars).toBeGreaterThan(even);
+    });
+  });
+});

__tests__/explore-oversize-member.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+/**
+ * Regression fixture for CG-30 — a cluster's top member may not overshoot the
+ * file's budget without bound.
+ *
+ * `shrinkCluster` keeps the highest-importance member of an oversize cluster
+ * WHOLE, deliberately: an empty file section sends the agent to Read, which is
+ * the outcome explore exists to prevent. What it lacked was a bound. On the
+ * originating repo one file emitted 22,376 chars against a 9,181-char
+ * reservation — 2.44x — past both the per-file budget and the spine ceiling,
+ * because its top member alone was that big. The overshoot is what collapses
+ * `headroom` for every file ranked below it (CG-31), and it has a second face:
+ * a member too big for the whole response ceiling makes the file drop out
+ * entirely rather than render short.
+ *
+ * `__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/` reproduces both permanently. Three
+ * report builders compete for one envelope, each a single long function far
+ * bigger than any reservation it can earn beside its siblings. Measured against
+ * the pre-fix build, this fixture produced:
+ *
+ *   monthly.ts    12,391 chars emitted on a 3,334 budget  (3.7x)
+ *   quarterly.ts  dropped entirely — no headroom left     (the CG-31 half)
+ *
+ * The gate below is that both are now bounded AND delivered: the bound cuts the
+ * overshoot, and cutting the overshoot is what buys back the starved file.
+ *
+ * Measured against `spendable`, not `reserved`: the render paths bound
+ * themselves by the reservation PLUS whatever slack the files above left on the
+ * table, so a file legitimately spending inherited slack is not an overshoot.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import CodeGraph from '../src/index';
+import { ToolHandler } from '../src/mcp/tools';
+import { attributeSourceBytes } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+import type { ExploreDiagnosticReport, ExploreDiagnosticFile } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+
+const FIXTURE_SRC = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'oversize-member-ts');
+
+/** A symbol bag spanning the three builders — the sibling files compete. */
+const QUERY = 'buildMonthlyReport buildWeeklyReport buildQuarterlyReport formatReportRow persistReport';
+
+/** The giant: one ~24K function, far past the whole-response ceiling. */
+const GIANT = 'src/report/monthly.ts';
+/** Mid-size: one ~11K function — the file the giant's overshoot used to starve. */
+const STARVED = 'src/report/quarterly.ts';
+
+/** The bound: 1.5x, the same multiple the spine ceiling already draws. */
+const OVERSHOOT_FACTOR = 1.5;
+
+describe('CG-30 — an oversize cluster member is bounded, not unbounded', () => {
+  let testDir: string;
+  let cg: CodeGraph;
+  let response: string;
+  let report: ExploreDiagnosticReport;
+  let bytes: Map<string, number>;
+
+  const fileOf = (p: string): ExploreDiagnosticFile => {
+    const rec = report.files.find((f) => f.path === p);
+    if (!rec) throw new Error(`${p} absent from the diagnostic report`);
+    return rec;
+  };
+  /** What the render paths actually bound themselves by. */
+  const budgetOf = (rec: ExploreDiagnosticFile): number => rec.spendable ?? rec.allowance ?? 0;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    testDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-cg30-'));
+    fs.cpSync(FIXTURE_SRC, testDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.rmSync(path.join(testDir, '.codegraph'), { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+    cg = CodeGraph.initSync(testDir);
+    await cg.indexAll();
+
+    // The per-file budget is only observable through the diagnostic sidecar, and
+    // the whole gate is "emitted vs what the file was allowed to spend".
+    const sidecar = path.join(testDir, 'explore-diag.jsonl');
+    const previous = process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+    process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = sidecar;
+    try {
+      const handler = new ToolHandler(cg);
+      const result = await handler.execute('codegraph_explore', { query: QUERY });
+      response = result.content?.[0]?.text ?? '';
+    } finally {
+      if (previous === undefined) delete process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+      else process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = previous;
+    }
+    const written = fs.readFileSync(sidecar, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+    report = JSON.parse(written[written.length - 1]!) as ExploreDiagnosticReport;
+    bytes = attributeSourceBytes(response);
+  }, 120_000);
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    if (cg) cg.destroy();
+    if (testDir && fs.existsSync(testDir)) fs.rmSync(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  // ── Fixture shape — if these rot, the gate below means nothing ─────────────
+
+  describe('fixture shape', () => {
+    it('holds single members far bigger than any budget they can earn', () => {
+      for (const file of [GIANT, STARVED]) {
+        const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(testDir, file), 'utf-8');
+        const top = cg.getNodesInFile(file)
+          .filter((n) => n.kind === 'function')
+          .sort((a, b) => (b.endLine - b.startLine) - (a.endLine - a.startLine))[0];
+        expect(top, `${file} has no function node`).toBeDefined();
+        // One symbol, most of the file — the "top member alone is oversize" shape.
+        expect(top!.endLine - top!.startLine).toBeGreaterThan(180);
+        expect(source.length).toBeGreaterThan(budgetOf(fileOf(file)) * 2);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('is too long to ship whole, so both render through the cluster path', () => {
+      for (const file of [GIANT, STARVED]) {
+        const lineCount = fs.readFileSync(path.join(testDir, file), 'utf-8').split('\n').length;
+        // Past WHOLE_FILE_MAX_LINES (220 for a non-central file), so the
+        // whole-file paths — grace and buy — cannot claim it.
+        expect(lineCount, file).toBeGreaterThan(220);
+        expect(fileOf(file).render, file).toBe('clusters');
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The gate ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('bounded overshoot', () => {
+    it('CG-30 GATE: the giant no longer emits a multiple of its budget', () => {
+      const rec = fileOf(GIANT);
+      // Pre-fix this file emitted 12,391 on a 3,334 budget (3.7x).
+      expect(rec.emittedChars).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+        Math.round(budgetOf(rec) * OVERSHOOT_FACTOR) + 1);
+    });
+
+    it('CG-30 GATE: no clustered file emits past 1.5x what it may spend', () => {
+      const over = report.files
+        .filter((f) => f.render === 'clusters' && budgetOf(f) > 0)
+        .filter((f) => f.emittedChars > Math.round(budgetOf(f) * OVERSHOOT_FACTOR) + 1)
+        .map((f) => `${f.path}: ${f.emittedChars} of ${budgetOf(f)}`);
+      expect(over).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
+    it('CG-31: the file the overshoot used to starve is delivered', () => {
+      // Pre-fix: dropped with skip reason `budget-clusters` — the giant above it
+      // had already spent the headroom this file needed.
+      expect(fileOf(STARVED).skipped).toBeNull();
+      expect(bytes.get(STARVED) ?? 0).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+
+    it('never emits an empty section — the invariant the old rule protected', () => {
+      for (const rec of report.files) {
+        if (rec.render !== 'clusters') continue;
+        expect(rec.emittedChars, rec.path).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      }
+      // And the windowed file still leads with the symbol the query named.
+      expect(response).toContain('export function buildMonthlyReport');
+    });
+
+    it('cuts on whole lines — a body is never sliced mid-line', () => {
+      const source = fs.readFileSync(path.join(testDir, GIANT), 'utf-8').split('\n');
+      const numbered = response
+        .split('\n')
+        .map((l) => /^(\d+)\t(.*)$/.exec(l))
+        .filter((m): m is RegExpExecArray => m !== null)
+        .filter((m) => Number(m[1]) >= 1 && Number(m[1]) <= source.length);
+      const matching = numbered.filter((m) => source[Number(m[1]) - 1] === m[2]);
+      // Every line the response numbers for this file is that whole source line.
+      expect(matching.length).toBeGreaterThan(20);
+    });
+
+    it('reports the cut rather than presenting a window as the whole file', () => {
+      expect(fileOf(GIANT).clipped).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('keeps the response inside the hard ceiling', () => {
+      expect(report.envelope.chars).toBeLessThanOrEqual(report.budget.hardCeiling);
+    });
+  });
+});

__tests__/explore-reservation-invariant.test.ts

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+/**
+ * Regression fixture for CG-26 — the end-to-end reservation invariant.
+ *
+ *   Every admitted file receives at least its reservation before any file draws
+ *   on carry-forward slack.
+ *
+ * CG-30 bounded how far an oversize cluster member may overshoot and CG-31 gave
+ * the cluster path a displacement guard. This pins the invariant they jointly
+ * satisfy across EVERY render path — cluster, whole-file grace, whole-file BUY —
+ * and in BOTH directions: the top-ranked file when the files below it overspend,
+ * and an admitted lower-ranked file when the top one does.
+ *
+ * Two things CG-26 fixed are pinned here because nothing else can see them:
+ *
+ *   - The whole-file arms were fit-tested against raw room before the ceiling,
+ *     never against what was still owed below. A grace-sized file could take a
+ *     pending file's reservation on its way to the ceiling; okhttp's
+ *     `CallServerInterceptor.kt` shipped 8,499 chars on a 5,964 funded ceiling
+ *     and the rank-6 file below it delivered nothing.
+ *   - Every section was charged a flat 200 chars of overhead while a real header
+ *     runs 300–500. The loop believed it had room it did not have (okhttp
+ *     rendered 26,601 chars against a 24,400 ceiling), so the final truncation
+ *     threw a fully-rendered section away — the same starvation, arriving after
+ *     the guard had done its work.
+ *
+ * Shares the `displacement-ts` fixture: four pipeline stages competing for one
+ * envelope, the first a single ~20K function, padded past 500 indexed files so
+ * the response sits on the 24K tier where reservations genuinely saturate the
+ * ceiling.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import CodeGraph from '../src/index';
+import { ToolHandler } from '../src/mcp/tools';
+import { attributeSourceBytes } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+import type { ExploreDiagnosticReport, ExploreDiagnosticFile } from '../src/mcp/explore-diagnostics';
+
+const FIXTURE_SRC = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'displacement-ts');
+const FILLER_FILES = 520;
+
+/** The giant: one ~20K function. Ranks #1 under the spread query. */
+const GIANT = 'src/pipeline/ingest.ts';
+
+/**
+ * Three shapes, so the invariant is tested from both sides:
+ *   spread   — every stage named; the giant ranks #1 and overspends downwards.
+ *   tail     — the stages BELOW the giant named; something small ranks #1 while
+ *              the giant competes from underneath. This is the direction CG-31's
+ *              fixture could not reach.
+ *   precise  — one symbol. The concentration case the guard must not flatten.
+ */
+const QUERIES = {
+  spread: 'ingestRecords normalizeRecords enrichRecords publishRecords',
+  tail: 'publishRecords sinkRecord PipelineRecord ingestRecords',
+  precise: 'ingestRecords',
+} as const;
+type Shape = keyof typeof QUERIES;
+
+interface Probe {
+  response: string;
+  report: ExploreDiagnosticReport;
+  bytes: Map<string, number>;
+}
+
+describe('CG-26 — no admitted file is starved, on any render path', () => {
+  let testDir: string;
+  let cg: CodeGraph;
+  const probes = {} as Record<Shape, Probe>;
+
+  /** Admitted = the allocator reserved bytes for it. */
+  const admitted = (probe: Probe): ExploreDiagnosticFile[] =>
+    probe.report.files.filter((f) => (f.allowance ?? 0) > 0);
+  const all = (): Probe[] => Object.values(probes);
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    testDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-cg26-'));
+    fs.cpSync(FIXTURE_SRC, testDir, { recursive: true });
+    fs.rmSync(path.join(testDir, '.codegraph'), { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+    const filler = path.join(testDir, 'src', 'generated');
+    fs.mkdirSync(filler, { recursive: true });
+    for (let i = 0; i < FILLER_FILES; i++) {
+      fs.writeFileSync(
+        path.join(filler, `unit${i}.ts`),
+        `export const seed${i} = ${i};\n`
+        + `export function widget${i}(n: number): number {\n  return n * ${i + 1} + seed${i};\n}\n`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    cg = CodeGraph.initSync(testDir);
+    await cg.indexAll();
+
+    const sidecar = path.join(testDir, 'explore-diag.jsonl');
+    const previous = process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+    process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = sidecar;
+    try {
+      const handler = new ToolHandler(cg);
+      for (const [shape, query] of Object.entries(QUERIES) as [Shape, string][]) {
+        const result = await handler.execute('codegraph_explore', { query });
+        const response = result.content?.[0]?.text ?? '';
+        const written = fs.readFileSync(sidecar, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+        probes[shape] = {
+          response,
+          report: JSON.parse(written[written.length - 1]!) as ExploreDiagnosticReport,
+          bytes: attributeSourceBytes(response),
+        };
+      }
+    } finally {
+      if (previous === undefined) delete process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
+      else process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = previous;
+    }
+  }, 180_000);
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    if (cg) cg.destroy();
+    if (testDir && fs.existsSync(testDir)) fs.rmSync(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  // ── Fixture shape — if these rot, the gates below mean nothing ─────────────
+
+  describe('fixture shape', () => {
+    it('sits on the 24K tier, where the reservations saturate the ceiling', () => {
+      expect(cg.getStats().fileCount).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(500);
+      for (const probe of all()) expect(probe.report.budget.maxOutputChars).toBe(24000);
+    });
+
+    it('exercises both directions — the giant ranks #1 in one shape and lower in another', () => {
+      // Which shape puts it where is the ranker's business and may move; that
+      // it lands on BOTH sides across the three is what makes the gates below
+      // test the invariant rather than one arrangement of it.
+      const ranks = all().map((p) => p.report.files.find((f) => f.path === GIANT)?.rank ?? -1);
+      expect(ranks).toContain(1);
+      expect(ranks.some((r) => r > 1)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('exercises both render paths — something ships whole, something clusters', () => {
+      const modes = new Set(all().flatMap((p) => p.report.files.map((f) => f.render)));
+      expect(modes).toContain('clusters');
+      expect(modes).toContain('whole');
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The invariant ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('the reservation invariant', () => {
+    it('CG-26 GATE: no file on ANY render path emits past what was still free', () => {
+      // CG-31 pinned this for `clusters` only. The whole-file arms were fit-
+      // tested against `renderCeiling - totalChars`, which is everyone's room,
+      // not this file's — so a whole render could spend a reservation the loop
+      // had already promised further down.
+      for (const [shape, probe] of Object.entries(probes) as [Shape, Probe][]) {
+        const over = probe.report.files
+          .filter((f) => f.render !== null && f.render !== 'dropped' && f.funded !== null)
+          // +1 for the render loop's own rounding on a windowed cut.
+          .filter((f) => f.emittedChars > f.funded! + 1)
+          .map((f) => `${shape}/${f.path}: ${f.emittedChars} emitted of ${f.funded} funded (${f.render})`);
+        expect(over).toEqual([]);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('CG-26 GATE: every admitted file is delivered, whatever its rank', () => {
+      for (const [shape, probe] of Object.entries(probes) as [Shape, Probe][]) {
+        for (const rec of admitted(probe)) {
+          expect(rec.skipped, `${shape}/${rec.path} skipped`).toBeNull();
+          expect(probe.bytes.get(rec.path) ?? 0, `${shape}/${rec.path} bytes`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+        }
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('CG-26 GATE: the rank-#1 file gets its reservation even when a file below overspends', () => {
+      // The direction CG-31's fixture could not reach: under `tail` the giant
+      // ranks below a small file and draws far past its own reservation from
+      // carry-forward slack. Rank #1 must still receive what it was promised
+      // (or its whole file, if that is less).
+      for (const [shape, probe] of Object.entries(probes) as [Shape, Probe][]) {
+        const top = admitted(probe).sort((a, b) => a.rank - b.rank)[0];
+        if (!top) continue;
+        const onDisk = fs.statSync(path.join(testDir, top.path)).size;
+        expect(probe.bytes.get(top.path) ?? 0, `${shape}/${top.path}`)
+          .toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(Math.min(top.allowance!, onDisk) * 0.9);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('and the gate above is not vacuous — a lower-ranked file does overspend', () => {
+      const overspenders = (probe: Probe) => admitted(probe)
+        .filter((f) => f.rank > 1 && f.emittedChars > f.allowance!);
+      expect(overspenders(probes.tail).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── What the ceiling must no longer do ────────────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('the hard ceiling never throws a rendered section away', () => {
+    it('the render loop spends what it counts — nothing is allocated past the ceiling', () => {
+      // Sections used to be charged a flat 200 chars against a header that runs
+      // 300–500, so the loop over-filled and the final truncation dropped whole
+      // sections. `allocatedChars` is the pre-truncation length: it staying
+      // under the ceiling IS the accounting being exact.
+      for (const [shape, probe] of Object.entries(probes) as [Shape, Probe][]) {
+        expect(probe.report.envelope.allocatedChars, shape)
+          .toBeLessThanOrEqual(probe.report.budget.hardCeiling);
+        expect(probe.report.envelope.truncated, shape).toBe(false);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('no file is rendered and then dropped', () => {
+      for (const probe of all()) {
+        expect(probe.report.files.filter((f) => f.render === 'dropped')).toEqual([]);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('keeps the response inside the hard ceiling', () => {
+      for (const probe of all()) {
+        expect(probe.report.envelope.chars).toBeLessThanOrEqual(probe.report.budget.hardCeiling);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The epilogue is budgeted, not discarded ───────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('the epilogue the loop budgeted for is the epilogue it emits', () => {
+    it('a response that withheld files still says so, and says to explore not Read', () => {
+      // The flat 600-char margin was neither the epilogue's size nor a bound on
+      // it, so a saturated response shipped with no pointer list and no
+      // reminders at all. Whatever else is traded away, the agent must be told
+      // an uncovered area exists and that another explore reaches it.
+      for (const [shape, probe] of Object.entries(probes) as [Shape, Probe][]) {
+        const withheld = probe.report.files.some(
+          (f) => f.render === null || (probe.bytes.get(f.path) ?? 0) === 0);
+        if (!withheld) continue;
+        expect(
+          /Not shown above|omitted for size|codegraph_explore/.test(probe.response),
+          `${shape} withheld files without saying where to look`,
+        ).toBe(true);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('never steers the agent to Read', () => {
+      for (const probe of all()) {
+        expect(/use (the )?Read|fall back to Read(?!ing those files)/i.test(probe.response)).toBe(false);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ── The thing the invariant must NOT become ───────────────────────────────
+
+  describe('concentration survives', () => {
+    it('a precise symbol query still puts the most source in the named file', () => {
+      const mine = probes.precise.bytes.get(GIANT) ?? 0;
+      expect(mine).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const [p, n] of probes.precise.bytes) {
+        if (p === GIANT) continue;
+        expect(mine, `${GIANT} vs ${p}`).toBeGreaterThan(n);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('is not an even split — the named file outspends its equal share', () => {
+      const rec = probes.precise.report.files.find((f) => f.path === GIANT)!;
+      const even = probes.precise.report.budget.maxOutputChars / admitted(probes.precise).length;
+      expect(rec.emittedChars).toBeGreaterThan(even);
+    });
+  });
+});

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "displacement-fixture",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module"
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/index.ts

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+import { ingestRecords } from './pipeline/ingest';
+import { normalizeRecords } from './pipeline/normalize';
+import { enrichRecords } from './pipeline/enrich';
+import { publishRecords } from './pipeline/publish';
+import type { PipelineOptions, PipelineRecord, RawRecord } from './pipeline/types';
+
+/** Run one batch through every pipeline stage, in order. */
+export function runPipeline(batch: RawRecord[], options: PipelineOptions): PipelineRecord[] {
+  return publishRecords(enrichRecords(normalizeRecords(ingestRecords(batch, options), options), options), options);
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/enrich.ts

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+import { writeBatch } from './sink';
+import type { PipelineOptions, PipelineRecord } from './types';
+
+/** Enrich every record in a batch. */
+export function enrichRecords(records: PipelineRecord[], options: PipelineOptions): PipelineRecord[] {
+  const out: PipelineRecord[] = [];
+  for (const record of records) {
+    const tags = [...record.tags];
+    const warnings = [...record.warnings];
+    let value = record.value;
+
+    // 1. segment
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('segment:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('segment: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = weightFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('segment.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 2. referrer
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('referrer:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('referrer: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = blendFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('referrer.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 3. experiment
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('experiment:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('experiment: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = weightFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('experiment.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 4. subscription
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('subscription:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('subscription: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = blendFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('subscription.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 5. entitlement
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('entitlement:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('entitlement: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = weightFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('entitlement.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 6. invoice
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('invoice:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('invoice: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = blendFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('invoice.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 7. refund
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('refund:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('refund: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = weightFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('refund.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 8. dispute
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('dispute:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('dispute: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = blendFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('dispute.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 9. payout
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('payout:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('payout: missing after enrich');
+      } else {
+        value = weightFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('payout.enri');
+      }
+    }
+
+    out.push({ ...record, value, tags: tags.slice(0, options.maxTags), warnings });
+  }
+  writeBatch('enrichRecords', out);
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** weightFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function weightFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}
+
+/** blendFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function blendFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/ingest.ts

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+import { scaleFacet, clampFacet } from './normalize';
+import { writeBatch } from './sink';
+import type { PipelineOptions, PipelineRecord, RawRecord } from './types';
+
+/**
+ * Ingest one batch of raw records.
+ *
+ * Every facet is unpacked in its own block so an on-call engineer can read the
+ * ingest end-to-end in one place. The shape is deliberately flat: this single
+ * function is the whole stage, which is exactly the shape that makes it the
+ * biggest cluster member in the file.
+ */
+export function ingestRecords(batch: RawRecord[], options: PipelineOptions): PipelineRecord[] {
+  const out: PipelineRecord[] = [];
+  for (const record of batch) {
+    const tags: string[] = [];
+    const warnings: string[] = [];
+    let value = 0;
+
+  // 1. identity — normalise the identity facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['identity'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('identity: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('identity:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('identity: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 2. geography — normalise the geography facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['geography'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('geography: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('geography:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('geography: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 3. currency — normalise the currency facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['currency'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('currency: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('currency:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('currency: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 4. timestamp — normalise the timestamp facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['timestamp'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('timestamp: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('timestamp:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('timestamp: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 5. channel — normalise the channel facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['channel'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('channel: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('channel:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('channel: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 6. campaign — normalise the campaign facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['campaign'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('campaign: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('campaign:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('campaign: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 7. device — normalise the device facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['device'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('device: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('device:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('device: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 8. locale — normalise the locale facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['locale'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('locale: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('locale:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('locale: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 9. consent — normalise the consent facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['consent'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('consent: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('consent:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('consent: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 10. segment — normalise the segment facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['segment'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('segment: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('segment:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('segment: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 11. referrer — normalise the referrer facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['referrer'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('referrer: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('referrer:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('referrer: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 12. experiment — normalise the experiment facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['experiment'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('experiment: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('experiment:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('experiment: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 13. subscription — normalise the subscription facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['subscription'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('subscription: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('subscription:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('subscription: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 14. entitlement — normalise the entitlement facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['entitlement'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('entitlement: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('entitlement:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('entitlement: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 15. invoice — normalise the invoice facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['invoice'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('invoice: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('invoice:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('invoice: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 16. refund — normalise the refund facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['refund'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('refund: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('refund:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('refund: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 17. dispute — normalise the dispute facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['dispute'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('dispute: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('dispute:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('dispute: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 18. payout — normalise the payout facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['payout'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('payout: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('payout:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('payout: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 19. shipment — normalise the shipment facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['shipment'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('shipment: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('shipment:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('shipment: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 20. inventory — normalise the inventory facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['inventory'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('inventory: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('inventory:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('inventory: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 21. warehouse — normalise the warehouse facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['warehouse'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('warehouse: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('warehouse:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('warehouse: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 22. carrier — normalise the carrier facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['carrier'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('carrier: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('carrier:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('carrier: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 23. customs — normalise the customs facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['customs'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('customs: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('customs:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('customs: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 24. tariff — normalise the tariff facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['tariff'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('tariff: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('tariff:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('tariff: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 25. sensor — normalise the sensor facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['sensor'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('sensor: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('sensor:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('sensor: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 26. firmware — normalise the firmware facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['firmware'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('firmware: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('firmware:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('firmware: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 27. telemetry — normalise the telemetry facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['telemetry'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('telemetry: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('telemetry:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('telemetry: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 28. battery — normalise the battery facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['battery'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('battery: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('battery:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('battery: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 29. network — normalise the network facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['network'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('network: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = scaleFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('network:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('network: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 30. roaming — normalise the roaming facet of the record.
+  {
+    const raw = record.payload['roaming'];
+    const text = typeof raw === 'string' ? raw.trim() : raw === null ? '' : String(raw);
+    if (text.length === 0 && options.dropEmpty) {
+      warnings.push('roaming: empty, dropped');
+    } else {
+      const scaled = clampFacet(text.length, options.maxTags);
+      if (Number.isFinite(scaled) && scaled !== 0) {
+        tags.push('roaming:' + text.slice(0, 24));
+        value += scaled;
+      } else if (options.strict) {
+        warnings.push('roaming: not scalable — ' + text.slice(0, 16));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+    out.push({
+      id: record.id,
+      source: record.source,
+      kind: options.defaultKind,
+      value,
+      tags: tags.slice(0, options.maxTags),
+      warnings,
+    });
+  }
+  writeBatch('ingest', out);
+  return out;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/normalize.ts

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+import { writeBatch } from './sink';
+import type { PipelineOptions, PipelineRecord } from './types';
+
+/** Normalize every record in a batch. */
+export function normalizeRecords(records: PipelineRecord[], options: PipelineOptions): PipelineRecord[] {
+  const out: PipelineRecord[] = [];
+  for (const record of records) {
+    const tags = [...record.tags];
+    const warnings = [...record.warnings];
+    let value = record.value;
+
+    // 1. identity
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('identity:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('identity: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = scaleFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('identity.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 2. geography
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('geography:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('geography: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = clampFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('geography.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 3. currency
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('currency:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('currency: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = scaleFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('currency.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 4. timestamp
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('timestamp:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('timestamp: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = clampFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('timestamp.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 5. channel
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('channel:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('channel: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = scaleFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('channel.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 6. campaign
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('campaign:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('campaign: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = clampFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('campaign.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 7. device
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('device:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('device: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = scaleFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('device.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 8. locale
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('locale:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('locale: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = clampFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('locale.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 9. consent
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('consent:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('consent: missing after normalize');
+      } else {
+        value = scaleFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('consent.norm');
+      }
+    }
+
+    out.push({ ...record, value, tags: tags.slice(0, options.maxTags), warnings });
+  }
+  writeBatch('normalizeRecords', out);
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** scaleFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function scaleFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}
+
+/** clampFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function clampFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/publish.ts

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+import { writeBatch } from './sink';
+import type { PipelineOptions, PipelineRecord } from './types';
+
+/** Publish every record in a batch. */
+export function publishRecords(records: PipelineRecord[], options: PipelineOptions): PipelineRecord[] {
+  const out: PipelineRecord[] = [];
+  for (const record of records) {
+    const tags = [...record.tags];
+    const warnings = [...record.warnings];
+    let value = record.value;
+
+    // 1. shipment
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('shipment:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('shipment: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = rankFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('shipment.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 2. inventory
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('inventory:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('inventory: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = sealFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('inventory.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 3. warehouse
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('warehouse:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('warehouse: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = rankFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('warehouse.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 4. carrier
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('carrier:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('carrier: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = sealFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('carrier.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 5. customs
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('customs:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('customs: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = rankFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('customs.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 6. tariff
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('tariff:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('tariff: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = sealFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('tariff.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 7. sensor
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('sensor:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('sensor: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = rankFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('sensor.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 8. firmware
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('firmware:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('firmware: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = sealFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('firmware.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    // 9. telemetry
+    {
+      const hit = tags.find((t) => t.startsWith('telemetry:'));
+      if (hit === undefined) {
+        if (options.strict) warnings.push('telemetry: missing after publish');
+      } else {
+        value = rankFacet(value, hit.length);
+        tags.push('telemetry.publ');
+      }
+    }
+
+    out.push({ ...record, value, tags: tags.slice(0, options.maxTags), warnings });
+  }
+  writeBatch('publishRecords', out);
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** rankFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function rankFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}
+
+/** sealFacet — a small deterministic helper. */
+export function sealFacet(base: number, width: number): number {
+  const scaled = base + width * 3 - (width % 7);
+  return scaled < 0 ? 0 : scaled;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/sink.ts

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+import type { PipelineRecord } from './types';
+
+const sink = new Map<string, PipelineRecord[]>();
+
+/** Hand a finished batch to the downstream sink. */
+export function writeBatch(batchId: string, records: PipelineRecord[]): void {
+  sink.set(batchId, records);
+}
+
+/** Read a batch back out of the sink. */
+export function readBatch(batchId: string): PipelineRecord[] {
+  return sink.get(batchId) ?? [];
+}
+
+/** Forget a batch. */
+export function dropBatch(batchId: string): void {
+  sink.delete(batchId);
+}

__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts/src/pipeline/types.ts

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+/** One raw record as it arrives from the upstream feed. */
+export interface RawRecord {
+  id: string;
+  source: string;
+  payload: Record<string, string | number | null>;
+  receivedAt: number;
+}
+
+/** A record after the pipeline has cleaned and annotated it. */
+export interface PipelineRecord {
+  id: string;
+  source: string;
+  kind: string;
+  value: number;
+  tags: string[];
+  warnings: string[];
+}
+
+/** Per-run knobs shared by every pipeline stage. */
+export interface PipelineOptions {
+  strict: boolean;
+  dropEmpty: boolean;
+  defaultKind: string;
+  maxTags: number;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "oversize-member-fixture",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module"
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/index.ts

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+import { buildMonthlyReport } from './report/monthly';
+import { buildWeeklyReport } from './report/weekly';
+import { buildQuarterlyReport } from './report/quarterly';
+import { formatReportRows } from './report/format';
+import type { Ledger, ReportOptions } from './report/types';
+
+/** Run every report for a ledger and render them. */
+export function runReports(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): string {
+  return [
+    formatReportRows(buildMonthlyReport(ledger, options)),
+    formatReportRows(buildWeeklyReport(ledger, options)),
+    formatReportRows(buildQuarterlyReport(ledger, options)),
+  ].join('\n\n');
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/format.ts

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+import type { ReportRow } from './types';
+
+/** Format one category total as a report row. */
+export function formatReportRow(category: string, amountCents: number, currency: string): ReportRow {
+  return {
+    category,
+    amount: formatAmount(amountCents),
+    currency,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Render cents as a fixed-point amount. */
+export function formatAmount(amountCents: number): string {
+  const sign = amountCents < 0 ? '-' : '';
+  const abs = Math.abs(amountCents);
+  return `${sign}${Math.floor(abs / 100)}.${String(abs % 100).padStart(2, '0')}`;
+}
+
+/** Render a set of rows as plain text. */
+export function formatReportRows(rows: ReportRow[]): string {
+  return rows.map((row) => `${row.category}\t${row.amount} ${row.currency}`).join('\n');
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/monthly.ts

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+import { formatReportRow } from './format';
+import { persistReport } from './store';
+import type { Ledger, ReportOptions, ReportRow } from './types';
+
+/**
+ * Build the monthly report for one ledger.
+ *
+ * Every expense category is accrued in its own block so the finance team can
+ * read the month end-to-end in one place; the shape is deliberately flat.
+ */
+export function buildMonthlyReport(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): ReportRow[] {
+  const rows: ReportRow[] = [];
+  const totals = new Map<string, number>();
+
+  // 1. payroll — accrue the payroll component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'payroll');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('payroll', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('payroll', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 2. benefits — accrue the benefits component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'benefits');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('benefits', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('benefits', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 3. travel — accrue the travel component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'travel');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('travel', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('travel', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 4. equipment — accrue the equipment component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'equipment');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('equipment', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('equipment', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 5. software — accrue the software component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'software');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('software', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('software', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 6. contractors — accrue the contractors component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'contractors');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('contractors', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('contractors', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 7. marketing — accrue the marketing component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'marketing');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('marketing', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('marketing', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 8. training — accrue the training component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'training');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('training', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('training', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 9. utilities — accrue the utilities component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'utilities');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('utilities', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('utilities', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 10. rent — accrue the rent component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'rent');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('rent', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('rent', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 11. insurance — accrue the insurance component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'insurance');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('insurance', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('insurance', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 12. legal — accrue the legal component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'legal');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('legal', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('legal', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 13. shipping — accrue the shipping component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'shipping');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('shipping', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('shipping', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 14. hosting — accrue the hosting component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'hosting');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hosting', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hosting', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 15. support — accrue the support component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'support');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('support', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('support', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 16. recruiting — accrue the recruiting component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'recruiting');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('recruiting', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('recruiting', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 17. licenses — accrue the licenses component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'licenses');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('licenses', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('licenses', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 18. taxes — accrue the taxes component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'taxes');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('taxes', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('taxes', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 19. refunds — accrue the refunds component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'refunds');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('refunds', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('refunds', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 20. discounts — accrue the discounts component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'discounts');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('discounts', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('discounts', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 21. interest — accrue the interest component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'interest');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('interest', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('interest', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 22. depreciation — accrue the depreciation component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'depreciation');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('depreciation', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('depreciation', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 23. maintenance — accrue the maintenance component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'maintenance');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('maintenance', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('maintenance', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 24. subscriptions — accrue the subscriptions component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'subscriptions');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('subscriptions', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('subscriptions', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 25. hardware — accrue the hardware component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'hardware');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hardware', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hardware', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 26. catering — accrue the catering component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'catering');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('catering', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('catering', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 27. conferences — accrue the conferences component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'conferences');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('conferences', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('conferences', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 28. advertising — accrue the advertising component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'advertising');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('advertising', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('advertising', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 29. research — accrue the research component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'research');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('research', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('research', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 30. logistics — accrue the logistics component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'logistics');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('logistics', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('logistics', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 31. warranty — accrue the warranty component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'warranty');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('warranty', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('warranty', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 32. penalties — accrue the penalties component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'penalties');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('penalties', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('penalties', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 33. bonuses — accrue the bonuses component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'bonuses');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('bonuses', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('bonuses', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 34. commissions — accrue the commissions component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'commissions');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('commissions', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('commissions', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 35. relocation — accrue the relocation component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'relocation');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('relocation', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('relocation', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 36. tooling — accrue the tooling component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'tooling');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('tooling', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('tooling', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 37. audit — accrue the audit component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'audit');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('audit', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('audit', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 38. compliance — accrue the compliance component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'compliance');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('compliance', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('compliance', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 39. storage — accrue the storage component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'storage');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('storage', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('storage', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 40. bandwidth — accrue the bandwidth component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'bandwidth');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('bandwidth', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('bandwidth', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const grandTotal = [...totals.values()].reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0);
+  rows.push(formatReportRow('total', grandTotal, options.currency));
+  persistReport(ledger.periodId, rows);
+  return rows;
+}
+
+/** Header line for a rendered monthly report. */
+export function monthlyReportHeader(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): string {
+  return `Monthly report ${ledger.periodId} (${options.currency})`;
+}
+
+/** Footer line for a rendered monthly report. */
+export function monthlyReportFooter(rows: ReportRow[]): string {
+  return `${rows.length} categories reported`;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/quarterly.ts

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+import { formatReportRow } from './format';
+import { persistReport } from './store';
+import type { Ledger, ReportOptions, ReportRow } from './types';
+
+/** Build the quarterly report for one ledger. */
+export function buildQuarterlyReport(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): ReportRow[] {
+  const rows: ReportRow[] = [];
+  const totals = new Map<string, number>();
+
+  // 1. insurance — accrue the insurance component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'insurance');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('insurance', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('insurance', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 2. legal — accrue the legal component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'legal');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('legal', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('legal', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 3. shipping — accrue the shipping component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'shipping');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('shipping', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('shipping', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 4. hosting — accrue the hosting component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'hosting');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hosting', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hosting', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 5. support — accrue the support component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'support');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('support', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('support', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 6. recruiting — accrue the recruiting component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'recruiting');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('recruiting', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('recruiting', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 7. licenses — accrue the licenses component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'licenses');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('licenses', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('licenses', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 8. taxes — accrue the taxes component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'taxes');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('taxes', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('taxes', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 9. refunds — accrue the refunds component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'refunds');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('refunds', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('refunds', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 10. discounts — accrue the discounts component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'discounts');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('discounts', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('discounts', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 11. interest — accrue the interest component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'interest');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('interest', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('interest', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 12. depreciation — accrue the depreciation component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'depreciation');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('depreciation', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('depreciation', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 13. maintenance — accrue the maintenance component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'maintenance');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('maintenance', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('maintenance', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 14. subscriptions — accrue the subscriptions component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'subscriptions');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('subscriptions', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('subscriptions', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 15. hardware — accrue the hardware component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'hardware');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hardware', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hardware', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 16. catering — accrue the catering component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'catering');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('catering', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('catering', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 17. conferences — accrue the conferences component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'conferences');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('conferences', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('conferences', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 18. advertising — accrue the advertising component of the month.
+  {
+    const bucket = ledger.entries.filter((entry) => entry.category === 'advertising');
+    const gross = bucket.reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+    const pending = bucket.filter((entry) => entry.pending).reduce((s, e) => s + e.amountCents, 0);
+    const adjusted = options.includePending ? gross : gross - pending;
+    if (adjusted !== 0 || options.includeEmptyCategories) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('advertising', adjusted, options.currency));
+      totals.set('advertising', adjusted);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const grandTotal = [...totals.values()].reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0);
+  rows.push(formatReportRow('total', grandTotal, options.currency));
+  persistReport(ledger.periodId, rows);
+  return rows;
+}
+
+/** Header line for a rendered quarterly report. */
+export function buildQuarterlyReportHeader(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): string {
+  return `quarterly report ${ledger.periodId} (${options.currency})`;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/store.ts

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+import type { ReportRow } from './types';
+
+const saved = new Map<string, ReportRow[]>();
+
+/** Persist a built report for a period. */
+export function persistReport(periodId: string, rows: ReportRow[]): void {
+  saved.set(periodId, rows);
+}
+
+/** Read back a persisted report. */
+export function loadReport(periodId: string): ReportRow[] {
+  return saved.get(periodId) ?? [];
+}
+
+/** Drop a persisted report. */
+export function clearReport(periodId: string): void {
+  saved.delete(periodId);
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/types.ts

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+/** One posted ledger entry. */
+export interface LedgerEntry {
+  id: string;
+  category: string;
+  amountCents: number;
+  pending: boolean;
+  postedAt: string;
+}
+
+/** A period's ledger. */
+export interface Ledger {
+  periodId: string;
+  entries: LedgerEntry[];
+}
+
+/** How a report should be built. */
+export interface ReportOptions {
+  currency: string;
+  includePending: boolean;
+  includeEmptyCategories: boolean;
+}
+
+/** One rendered report line. */
+export interface ReportRow {
+  category: string;
+  amount: string;
+  currency: string;
+}

__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts/src/report/weekly.ts

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+import { formatReportRow } from './format';
+import { persistReport } from './store';
+import type { Ledger, ReportOptions, ReportRow } from './types';
+
+/** Total the posted entries in one category. */
+function sumOf(ledger: Ledger, category: string): number {
+  return ledger.entries
+    .filter((entry) => entry.category === category && !entry.pending)
+    .reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+}
+
+/** Total the still-pending entries in one category. */
+function pendingOf(ledger: Ledger, category: string): number {
+  return ledger.entries
+    .filter((entry) => entry.category === category && entry.pending)
+    .reduce((sum, entry) => sum + entry.amountCents, 0);
+}
+
+/** Build the weekly report for one ledger. */
+export function buildWeeklyReport(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): ReportRow[] {
+  const rows: ReportRow[] = [];
+  const totals = new Map<string, number>();
+
+  // 1. payroll
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'payroll');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'payroll');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('payroll', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('payroll', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 2. benefits
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'benefits');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'benefits');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('benefits', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('benefits', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 3. travel
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'travel');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'travel');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('travel', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('travel', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 4. equipment
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'equipment');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'equipment');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('equipment', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('equipment', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 5. software
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'software');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'software');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('software', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('software', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 6. contractors
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'contractors');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'contractors');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('contractors', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('contractors', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 7. marketing
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'marketing');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'marketing');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('marketing', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('marketing', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 8. training
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'training');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'training');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('training', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('training', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 9. utilities
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'utilities');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'utilities');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('utilities', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('utilities', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 10. rent
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'rent');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'rent');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('rent', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('rent', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 11. insurance
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'insurance');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'insurance');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('insurance', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('insurance', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 12. legal
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'legal');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'legal');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('legal', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('legal', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 13. shipping
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'shipping');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'shipping');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('shipping', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('shipping', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 14. hosting
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'hosting');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'hosting');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hosting', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hosting', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 15. support
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'support');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'support');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('support', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('support', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 16. recruiting
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'recruiting');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'recruiting');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('recruiting', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('recruiting', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 17. licenses
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'licenses');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'licenses');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('licenses', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('licenses', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 18. taxes
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'taxes');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'taxes');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('taxes', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('taxes', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 19. refunds
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'refunds');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'refunds');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('refunds', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('refunds', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 20. discounts
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'discounts');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'discounts');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('discounts', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('discounts', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 21. interest
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'interest');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'interest');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('interest', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('interest', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 22. depreciation
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'depreciation');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'depreciation');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('depreciation', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('depreciation', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 23. maintenance
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'maintenance');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'maintenance');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('maintenance', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('maintenance', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 24. subscriptions
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'subscriptions');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'subscriptions');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('subscriptions', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('subscriptions', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 25. hardware
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'hardware');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'hardware');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('hardware', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('hardware', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // 26. catering
+  {
+    const gross = sumOf(ledger, 'catering');
+    const held = pendingOf(ledger, 'catering');
+    const net = options.includePending
+      ? gross
+      : gross - held;
+    if (net !== 0) {
+      rows.push(formatReportRow('catering', net, options.currency));
+      totals.set('catering', net);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const grandTotal = [...totals.values()]
+    .reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0);
+  rows.push(formatReportRow('total', grandTotal, options.currency));
+  persistReport(ledger.periodId, rows);
+  return rows;
+}
+
+/** Header line for a rendered weekly report. */
+export function buildWeeklyReportHeader(ledger: Ledger, options: ReportOptions): string {
+  return `weekly report ${ledger.periodId} (${options.currency})`;
+}

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+# Agent A/B — cluster-path displacement guard (task CG-31)
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-06 · **New:** `bugfix/CG-31` · **Baseline:** `bugfix/CG-30` @ `0d014a6` ·
+**Harness:** `scripts/agent-eval/ab-new-vs-baseline.sh`, `--model sonnet --effort high`,
+**both arms codegraph-on**, CLI blocked (0 contamination in every run),
+`CODEGRAPH_NO_PROMPT_HOOK=1`. Every index measured on was **fully rebuilt**, never
+incrementally synced (CG-33).
+
+Baseline is the CG-30 tip, not `main`, so every number here isolates CG-31. CG-30's own A/B
+against `main` is `explore-oversize-member-ab-cg30.md`; read them in sequence for the combined
+picture the two issues asked for.
+
+CG-31 stops a clustered render from spending a reservation still owed to a file the render loop
+has not reached. The whole-file BUY arm has always refused that trade (`owedBelow`); the cluster
+path read what was left before the hard ceiling instead of what was still promised.
+
+**Verdict: no regression, and this one is a straight win on both halves.** Four of six suite
+repos deliver MORE source and one more file each; the other two are byte-identical. The agent
+runs are faster in all three repos measured, with Read at or below baseline.
+
+---
+
+## The two corrections the measurement forced
+
+Worth recording, because the first version of the guard was **wrong in the direction the guard
+itself is about**, and only a suite measurement showed it.
+
+**1. Holding back the full owed sum was too much.** The allocator splits the envelope; the render
+loop spends against a ceiling that also has to hold the response's own prose, so on a saturated
+response the promises are over-subscribed and the tail is going to be dropped whatever happens
+above it. Bytes held for a file that is then dropped are bytes nobody receives. Measured: django
+−2,319 source, tokio −1,298, both handed to a section the ceiling threw away.
+`owedPayableBelow` now holds back only the prefix of what is owed below that the response can
+still pay, in rank order.
+
+**2. The final truncation was eating the guard's work.** It cut at the last file-section header,
+which drops that whole section *and* the trailing notes. Dropping the notes alone is almost
+always enough. The epilogue is a pointer list and two reminders; a section is source the agent
+otherwise has to Read. Cutting the epilogue first is what turned the remaining deficits into
+gains — and it is the same starvation CG-31 is about, arriving one layer below the guard.
+
+A third, smaller fix: `flow.text` is prepended to `lines` to make the final output but was never
+counted in `totalChars`, so the render loop spent against a ceiling it was ~2K under on
+symbol-bag queries.
+
+## Deterministic measurement — the primary evidence
+
+Same clean-rebuilt index, same query, both builds. One `codegraph_explore` per repo.
+
+| repo | base source | new source | Δ | base files | new files |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| django | 20,033 | **20,791** | +758 | 5 (truncated) | **6** |
+| excalidraw | 18,776 | **20,204** | +1,428 | 7 (truncated) | **8** |
+| okhttp | 15,628 | **19,034** | +3,406 | 4 (truncated) | **5** |
+| tokio | 20,340 | **21,521** | +1,181 | 4 (truncated) | **5** |
+| gin | 10,776 | 10,776 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
+| alamofire | 11,662 | 11,662 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
+
+Queries: django "How does a QuerySet turn into SQL and fetch rows from the database?";
+excalidraw "How does updating an element re-render the canvas on screen?"; gin "How does a
+registered route handler get invoked for an incoming HTTP request?"; alamofire "How does a
+request get built and sent through the session?"; okhttp "How does a call go through the
+interceptor chain to the network?"; tokio "How does a spawned task get scheduled and run by a
+worker?".
+
+No repo delivers less. **Four of six stopped truncating**, which is where the extra file comes
+from: each of those responses had been throwing a fully-rendered section away.
+
+**gin and alamofire are byte-identical between the builds** — nothing in them is oversize enough
+for the guard to engage and neither response was truncated. That is what a control should show,
+and it means every gin number in the agent table below is run-to-run variance.
+
+**Fixture** — `__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts`, four pipeline stages competing for one
+envelope, the first a single ~20K function. Padded past 500 indexed files on purpose: the
+displacement only exists on the 24K tier, where the reservations plus the preamble genuinely
+saturate the render ceiling.
+
+| | baseline | new |
+|---|---|---|
+| `ingest.ts` | 9,301 chars on a 6,289 spendable, then **dropped whole** by the ceiling — 0 delivered | 4,851, bounded |
+| `types.ts` / `sink.ts` | skipped `budget-whole-file` | delivered |
+| admitted files delivered | **3 of 6** | **6 of 6** |
+| envelope | 14,908 | 22,066 |
+
+Pinned by `__tests__/explore-displacement-guard.test.ts` (11 tests; 3 fail on the baseline).
+
+**Allocation fixtures** — `scripts/agent-eval/allocation-fixtures.json` flips back to
+**BOTH PASS**. Its `afterCG30` verdict blamed an over-RESERVED incidental file; the reservation
+is identical in both arms — the file was over-SPENDING, which is exactly this defect. Recorded
+honestly in `afterCG31`.
+
+## Agent runs
+
+| | django new | django base | okhttp new | okhttp base | gin new | gin base |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| runs | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
+| duration (s) | **36** [33–51] | 46 [35–49] | **42** [40–44] | 52 [50–53] | **33** [31–35] | 39 |
+| tool calls | 3 [3–4] | 3 [3–4] | **4** [3–4] | 5 [4–5] | **4** [3–4] | 5 [4–5] |
+| Read | 0 [0–1] | 0 | **0** | 1 [0–2] | 1 [0–1] | 1 [0–2] |
+| Grep/Glob | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| codegraph calls | 2 | 2 [2–3] | 3 [2–3] | 3 [2–3] | 2 | 3 [2–3] |
+| occupancy share | **32.1%** [31.1%–36.1%] | 33.8% [28.7%–42.1%] | **40.0%** [36.6%–43.3%] | 40.8% [40.3%–41.4%] | **29.7%** [28.3%–31.1%] | 33.5% [29.8%–37.2%] |
+| allocation efficiency | 96.8% | 98.9% | 88.2% | 97.2% | **91.2%** | 85.0% |
+
+Prompts are the deterministic queries above with "Trace the flow end to end." appended.
+
+**Sufficiency, pooled per call.** okhttp: **0** "Read a file we returned" in 5 against the
+baseline's 1 in 5 — the arm that returns 3,406 more chars needs fewer follow-up Reads, which is
+the mechanism working. django: 1 in 6 against 0 in 7. gin: 1 in 4 against 1 in 5, on a repo where
+the builds emit identical bytes. Neither arm produced a single recall miss (a Read of a file we
+did NOT return, or a Grep) on any repo.
+
+**Where the new arm looks worse, and why it is not read as a regression:**
+
+- *okhttp allocation efficiency, 88.2% vs 97.2%.* The new arm's envelope is 85,197 chars against
+  the baseline's 66,014 — it returns substantially more source, and the metric is the share of
+  returned bytes the answer *cited*. A larger, more complete response with a smaller cited share
+  and Read driven to 0 is the trade this tool exists to make. The metric's own documentation says
+  it is relative and must not be read as waste.
+- *django, 1 allocation miss in 6 answered calls against 0 in 7.* One run, n=3, and django is the
+  repo whose duration range overlaps most (33–51 vs 35–49).
+
+## Residual carried forward — for CG-26
+
+Four repos stopped truncating; **okhttp, django, excalidraw and tokio now land at 24,758–24,998
+chars against a 25,000 hard ceiling.** That is deliberate (the ceiling exists so the host never
+externalizes the result) but it means the render loop's 600-char margin for the epilogue is still
+wrong — the epilogue measures 1,064 (gin), 1,788 (django), 2,231 (excalidraw). The response now
+survives that by dropping the epilogue rather than a section, which is strictly better, but the
+honest fix is for the loop to budget for the epilogue in the first place.
+
+A margin sweep was run and deliberately **not** shipped: at 1,200 django stops truncating on its
+own but tokio loses 286 chars; at 2,400 django loses 1,895. Tuning one constant against the suite
+is the trap CG-30's own record warns about. Sizing the margin from the epilogue the response is
+actually going to emit is the real fix and belongs with the end-to-end reservation invariant.
+
+Second residual: the whole-file BUY arm's fit test (`totalChars + fileContent.length +
+FILE_OVERHEAD <= renderCeiling`) has no `owedBelow` term of its own — its displacement guard is
+source-space only. It was left alone here to keep this change attributable; the epilogue-first cut
+removes the failure mode it would have caused.

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+# Agent A/B — bounded oversize cluster member (task CG-30)
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-06 · **New:** `bugfix/CG-30` · **Baseline:** `main` @ `d6d1728` ·
+**Harness:** `scripts/agent-eval/ab-new-vs-baseline.sh`, `--model sonnet --effort high`,
+**both arms codegraph-on**, CLI blocked (0 contamination in every run),
+`CODEGRAPH_NO_PROMPT_HOOK=1`.
+
+CG-30 bounds how far a cluster's top member may overshoot what its file may spend: past 1.5x it
+is windowed on whole lines instead of emitted whole. The risk the A/B exists to price is the one
+CLAUDE.md names — a section that is no longer sufficient sends the agent to Read, and one or two
+of those teach it to stop calling codegraph at all.
+
+**Verdict: no regression, and the deterministic win is unambiguous.** The behavioural bar holds
+(Read/Grep ~0, no abandonment, allocation efficiency 100% on the repo where the bound engages),
+the cost is a ~10% median duration increase on django inside overlapping ranges, and the one
+allocation-miss call the new arm produced is matched by two recall-miss calls in the baseline.
+
+> **Harness note, recorded because it cost a re-run:** `ab-new-vs-baseline.sh` checks the engine
+> out at the BASELINE ref while its baseline arm runs and restores it on exit. **Do not commit
+> while it is running** — a commit made mid-run captures baseline sources. The first django/gin
+> batches were void for exactly this reason (their `changed:` line listed only
+> `explore-diagnostics.ts`, i.e. both arms ran identical retrieval code) and were re-run. Check
+> that line before believing any A/B in this harness.
+
+---
+
+## Deterministic measurement — where the bound actually engages
+
+Same index, same query, both builds. This is the primary evidence; the agent runs below only
+price the risk.
+
+**django** — `codegraph explore "How does a QuerySet turn into SQL and fetch rows from the
+database?"`
+
+| | baseline | new |
+|---|---|---|
+| `django/db/models/query.py` | 7,784 chars on a 3,669 budget — **2.12x** | 5,464 — **1.49x**, windowed |
+| `django/contrib/admin/filters.py` | 3,633 (inherited 2,271 spendable) | **8,057** (inherited 9,160) |
+| source delivered | 17,929 chars, 5 files | **20,033** chars, 5 files |
+
+The reported CG-30 signature, reproduced on a public repo and then closed: the rank-#1 file took
+2.12x its budget, and the files below it inherited the shortfall. Bounding it hands those bytes
+straight down the rank order — the response carries the same five files and 2,104 more chars of
+actual source.
+
+**gin (control)** — the two builds produce **byte-identical** explore output (13,457 chars) for
+the route-dispatch query. Nothing in gin is oversize enough for the bound to engage (max
+observed 0.94x of spendable), which is exactly what a control should show — and it means every
+gin number in the agent table below is run-to-run variance, not the change.
+
+**Fixture** — `__tests__/fixtures/oversize-member-ts`, three report builders competing for one
+envelope, each a single long function:
+
+| File | baseline | new |
+|---|---|---|
+| `monthly.ts` (24.5K, one ~490-line function) | 12,391 chars on a 3,334 budget — **3.7x** | 4,941 — **1.48x**, windowed |
+| `quarterly.ts` (11.4K, one ~200-line function) | **dropped** — `budget-clusters`, no headroom left | 4,004 delivered |
+| response | 19,223 chars, 3 files | 15,852 chars, 4 files |
+
+The two rows are the same defect from both sides: a member bigger than the file's share eats the
+envelope, and a member bigger than the whole response ceiling makes the file vanish. Pinned by
+`__tests__/explore-oversize-member.test.ts` (9 tests; 4 fail on `main`).
+
+## Agent runs
+
+| | django new | django base | gin new | gin base | excalidraw new | excalidraw base |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| runs | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
+| duration (s) | 39 [36–71] | 35 [35–60] | 39 [37–51] | 34 [28–46] | 52 [43–60] | 41 [40–42] |
+| tool calls | 3 [3–10] | 4 [3–23] | 4 [3–4] | 3 | 4 [3–5] | 4 [3–4] |
+| codegraph calls | 2 [2–3] | 2 [0–3] | 2 [2–3] | 2 | 3 [2–4] | 3 [2–3] |
+| Read | 0 [0–5] | 0 [0–13] | 0 [0–1] | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| Grep/Glob | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| occupancy share | 33.1% [30.7%–49.5%] | 34.4% [29.3%–47.3%] | 28.9% [26.4%–37.3%] | 30.1% [28.6%–31.9%] | 43.0% | 39.3% |
+| allocation efficiency | 100.0% | 98.6% | 88.5% | 98.3% | 85.8% | 90.5% |
+
+django is pooled over two batches (n=2 + n=3). Questions: django "How does a QuerySet turn into
+SQL and fetch rows from the database? Trace the flow end to end."; gin "How does a registered
+route handler get invoked for an incoming HTTP request?…"; excalidraw "How does updating an
+element re-render the canvas on screen?…".
+
+**Sufficiency, pooled per call — the bar that matters.** django: new 1 "Read a file we returned"
+in 10 answered calls (the allocation-miss signal a window would trip first) against the
+baseline's 1 "Read a file we did not return" + 1 Grep in 10 — a shift in miss type, not an
+increase. gin: 1 allocation miss in 7 against 0 in 6, on a repo where the two builds emit
+identical bytes, so it is variance by construction. excalidraw: 0 misses in either arm.
+
+**Where the new arm looks worse, and why it is not read as a regression:**
+
+- *django duration, ~10% slower median.* Ranges overlap (36–71 vs 35–60) at n=5, and one
+  baseline run lost its codegraph attach entirely (0 codegraph calls, 13 Reads, 23 tool calls),
+  which distorts that arm's spread in both directions.
+- *gin allocation efficiency 88.5% vs 98.3%.* The builds are byte-identical on gin. This is the
+  metric's documented relativity — attribution is by citation and the agent's follow-up queries
+  differ per run — not an effect of the change.
+- *excalidraw occupancy/duration.* Call-count noise: one of the two new-arm runs made a 4th
+  explore call where the baseline made 2–3, and duration, envelope and occupancy all follow it.
+  Per-call envelope is flat (20,015 vs 19,446 chars/call), Read/Grep stay 0, tool calls match.
+  CLAUDE.md's own worked example records 3–10 codegraph calls on this prompt.
+
+## Caveat carried forward
+
+The `self-query` probe fixture in `scripts/agent-eval/allocation-fixtures.json` flips to FAIL
+under this change. Allocation is unchanged between arms and `tools.ts` delivers the identical
+8,282 chars in both — what changed is that an over-reserved incidental file now *delivers*
+instead of being cut by the hard-ceiling truncation, which is what its previous PASS depended
+on. Recorded as that fixture's `afterCG30` block. The over-reservation itself is epic CG-24's
+subject; it should not be answered by loosening this bound.

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+# Agent A/B — the end-to-end reservation invariant (task CG-26)
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-06 · **New:** `bugfix/CG-26` @ `7cbde95` · **Baseline:** `bugfix/CG-31` @ `c54e008` ·
+**Harness:** `scripts/agent-eval/ab-new-vs-baseline.sh`, `--model sonnet --effort high`,
+**both arms codegraph-on**, CLI blocked (0 contamination in every run),
+`CODEGRAPH_NO_PROMPT_HOOK=1`. Every index measured on was **fully rebuilt**, never
+incrementally synced (CG-33).
+
+Baseline is the CG-31 tip, not `main`, so every number here isolates CG-26. Read the three
+in sequence: `explore-oversize-member-ab-cg30.md` → `explore-displacement-guard-ab-cg31.md` →
+this one.
+
+**The invariant:** every admitted file receives at least its reservation before any file draws
+on carry-forward slack. CG-30 bounded an oversize cluster member; CG-31 gave the cluster path a
+displacement guard. This closes the three holes left over — and each one was starving a file that
+had been admitted, reserved, and in the worst case *rendered*.
+
+**Verdict: no behavioural regression on three repos, and the response is honest about its own
+budget for the first time.** No repo truncates. No repo loses a file; okhttp gains one. Two repos
+trade a few hundred source chars on their LAST-ranked file for the pointer list that names what
+the response could not cover — bytes the CG-31 tip only had because it over-filled a ceiling it
+mis-measured and then discarded the whole epilogue.
+
+---
+
+## The three holes
+
+**1. The whole-file arms had no displacement guard.** The BUY arm's fit test read
+`totalChars + fileContent.length + FILE_OVERHEAD <= renderCeiling` — room before the ceiling,
+which belongs to every file the loop has not reached — while its own source-space sibling
+(`owedBelow`) refused exactly that trade. GRACE was not fit-tested at all. Measured on okhttp:
+`CallServerInterceptor.kt` shipped **8,499 chars against a 5,964 funded ceiling**, and the rank-6
+file below it delivered nothing. Both arms now test the render they actually produce against
+`fundedHeadroom`, and a whole render that does not fit **falls through to clustering** instead of
+skipping the file — a clustered section traded for no section is the trade the funding pool exists
+to refuse.
+
+**2. Section overhead was charged at a flat 200 chars.** A real header — path plus up to
+`maxSymbolsInFileHeader` symbol names — runs 300–500. Everything downstream is expressed in those
+units (`headroom`, `fundedHeadroom`, every fit test), so the under-count was not a rounding error:
+it funded promises out of bytes that did not exist. okhttp allocated **26,601 chars against a
+24,400 ceiling** and the final truncation threw a fully-rendered section away. Sections are
+charged their real cost now; `owedPayableBelow` holds back each pending file's reservation *plus a
+per-file overhead estimated from that file's own symbols*; and a marginal overrun **trims the
+weakest cluster** — or windows the last one into the room that is left — rather than skipping a
+file over a ~300-char accounting difference.
+
+**3. `owedPayableBelow` held all-or-nothing.** CG-31 was right that a promise the ceiling cannot
+reach is not a claim on this file's bytes — but it dropped the *partial* case. When the last
+admitted file's FULL reservation no longer fit, nothing at all was held for it. On the
+precise-query fixture the rank-5 file took 4,134 chars against a 2,948 reservation while rank 6 —
+admitted, reserved 2,539 — was left **4 chars** and skipped. It now holds the remainder, while
+that remainder is still worth a section (`MIN_CHARS`).
+
+## The epilogue, budgeted instead of discarded
+
+CG-31 handed this forward: the loop reserved a flat **600** chars for an epilogue that measures
+1,064 (gin), 1,788 (django), 2,231 (excalidraw), and four of six suite repos survived by
+discarding the epilogue **whole** — shipping with no pointer list and no reminders at all. A
+margin sweep was run and deliberately not shipped, because tuning one constant against the suite
+is the trap CG-30's record warns about.
+
+The fix is not a bigger constant. The epilogue is **two things**:
+
+- a **floor** the render loop reserves, sized from the real strings: the one line that says an
+  uncovered area exists and that another explore — not a Read — reaches it, plus a pointer for
+  every file whose bytes were deliberately WITHHELD (a cliffed file's bytes were traded away on
+  the promise that the agent can still name it — CG-12; if the ceiling eats that name the trade
+  was a silent drop);
+- an **elastic tail** — the rest of the pointer list and the reminders — fitted, in priority
+  order and entry by entry, to the room that is actually left once the loop is done.
+
+So a saturated response now lands with as much of its epilogue as it can pay for, instead of none
+of it, and `renderCeiling` is `hardCeiling − floor` rather than `hardCeiling − 600`.
+
+## Deterministic measurement — the primary evidence
+
+Same clean-rebuilt index, same query, both builds. One `codegraph_explore` per repo.
+Reproduce with `node scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs` (added by this task).
+
+| repo | base source | new source | Δ | base files | new files | ceiling behaviour |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| django | 20,791 | **20,878** | +87 | 6 | 6 | was discarding its epilogue |
+| tokio | 21,521 | **21,607** | +86 | 5 | 5 | was discarding its epilogue |
+| okhttp | 19,034 | 18,870 | −164 | 5 | **6** | +1 file delivered; keeps its pointer list |
+| excalidraw | 20,204 | 19,652 | −552 | 8 | 8 | keeps its pointer list |
+| gin | 10,776 | 10,776 | 0 | 4 | 4 | byte-identical |
+| alamofire | 11,662 | 11,662 | 0 | 2 | 2 | byte-identical |
+
+Queries are the CG-30/CG-31 ones, unchanged.
+
+**Read the two negatives honestly.** They are not starvation — they are the reverse. At the CG-31
+tip both responses were *over-filled*: the loop under-counted its own section overhead, spent past
+the render ceiling, and the hard-ceiling cut then took the epilogue away to pay for it. okhttp
+also had a file rendered and dropped. Now the accounting is exact, so the loop stops where it
+said it would, and the ~500 chars go to the pointer list naming the files the response could not
+cover (2 on excalidraw, both `max-files` skips). No admitted file is starved in either.
+
+**gin and alamofire are byte-identical between the builds** — neither saturates, so neither the
+guard nor the epilogue fit engages. That is what a control should show.
+
+**Fixtures.** `__tests__/explore-reservation-invariant.test.ts` (14 tests; **3 fail on the CG-31
+tip**) pins the invariant on all three render paths and in both directions — the rank-#1 file when
+files below it overspend, and an admitted lower-ranked file when the top one does — plus the two
+things the ceiling must no longer do (allocate past itself; drop a rendered section) and the
+concentration it must not flatten. `__tests__/explore-displacement-guard.test.ts` (CG-31, 11
+tests) still passes unchanged.
+
+**Allocation fixtures** — `scripts/agent-eval/allocation-fixtures.json`: **both PASS**. The
+self-query gate changed shape and the reason is recorded in `afterCG26`: the envelope-denominated
+`answerShareAtLeast` reads 47.5% here against 51.0% at the CG-31 tip while `tools.ts` delivers
+**byte-identical** source in both arms. What moved is the denominator — the response now delivers
+a fifth admitted file (`memory-budget.ts`, rank 4, paid its full 3,123-char reservation; the CG-31
+tip rendered it and let the ceiling drop the section) and keeps epilogue prose it used to discard.
+Both are the improvements this epic exists to make. The gate is now denominated in delivered
+SOURCE, where the answer group reads 55.5%, and it passes on both arms.
+
+## Agent runs
+
+| | django new | django base | excalidraw new | excalidraw base | okhttp new | okhttp base |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| runs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
+| duration (s) | **42** | 43 [36–50] | 53 [45–62] | 45 [37–54] | 49 [39–59] | 42 [32–52] |
+| tool calls | 4 [3–4] | 4 [3–5] | **3** [2–4] | 5 [4–5] | 4 | 4 [3–5] |
+| Read | **0** | 0 | **0** | 0 | **0** | 0 |
+| Grep/Glob | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| codegraph calls | 3 [2–3] | 3 [2–3] | **3** [2–3] | 4 [3–4] | 3 | 3 [2–4] |
+| occupancy share | **36.6%** | 37.6% | **38.2%** | 47.2% | 44.8% | 40.8% |
+| allocation efficiency | **99.2%** | 94.7% | 81.9% | 82.5% | 75.8% | 87.6% |
+
+Prompts are the deterministic queries with "Trace the flow end to end." appended.
+
+**Read is 0 in all 12 runs, in both arms.** Sufficiency, pooled per call: **0 "Read a file we
+returned" and 0 recall misses on every repo in both arms** — the responses that deliver a few
+hundred fewer chars do not send the agent back to the file.
+
+**Where the new arm looks worse, and why it is not read as a regression:**
+
+- *okhttp allocation efficiency, 75.8% vs 87.6%, and occupancy 44.8% vs 40.8%.* The new arm's
+  envelope is 99,411 chars against 89,297 — it returns one more file and more source overall, and
+  the metric is the share of returned bytes the answer *cited*. Same trade the CG-31 record noted
+  on this repo; the metric's own documentation says it is relative and must not be read as waste.
+- *Duration on excalidraw and okhttp.* n=2 with fully overlapping ranges (45–62 vs 37–54;
+  39–59 vs 32–52), on a machine also running the other arm's build. excalidraw's new arm does the
+  same work in **3 tool calls against 5** and holds **9 points less context**.
+
+## Residuals
+
+None from this task. The render-loop budget is now exact end to end: `totalChars` counts
+`flow.text`, the real per-section cost, and the epilogue floor; `allocatedChars ≤ hardCeiling` on
+every suite repo; and the final section-boundary truncation is now unreachable in normal
+operation (it stays as the backstop).
+
+One thing deliberately NOT changed: the pointer list still caps at 10 files. Trimming happens
+from the bottom of the rank order and the "+N more files" tail is rewritten to confess every entry
+dropped, so the count is never silently wrong.

scripts/agent-eval/allocation-fixtures.json

@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
     "explore budget allocation. Run them with `node scripts/agent-eval/probe-allocation.mjs`",
     "against a built dist/.",
     "",
-    "STATUS: BOTH FIXTURES PASS. CG-10 (relevance scoring) closed the RANKING half —",
+    "STATUS: BOTH FIXTURES PASS again as of CG-31. self-query's delivered-share gates",
+    "failed on the CG-30-only build (`afterCG30`) and CG-31 restored them (`afterCG31`):",
+    "the incidental file was not over-RESERVED at all — it was over-SPENDING, drawing on",
+    "the reservations of files the render loop had not reached yet. Bounding that put the",
+    "response back inside the envelope, so nothing truncates and every admitted file",
+    "delivers. Read the two blocks together; the CG-30 verdict's diagnosis was wrong.",
+    "",
+    "CG-10 (relevance scoring) closed the RANKING half —",
     "nothing incidental reaches the envelope any more — and CG-12 (score-proportional",
     "allocation with a relative cliff) closed the BYTE SPLIT: each file's share is reserved",
     "before anything renders, and a file under 15% of the top weight gets no source at all,",
@@ -44,7 +51,9 @@
           "internal/domain/**",
           "cmd/**"
         ],
-        "incidental": ["internal/gen/**"]
+        "incidental": [
+          "internal/gen/**"
+        ]
       },
       "assert": {
         "answerShareAtLeast": 0.55,
@@ -115,14 +124,31 @@
         "The assertions are therefore relative — answer-vs-incidental, not fixed percentages."
       ],
       "groups": {
-        "answer": ["src/mcp/**"],
-        "incidental": ["scripts/**"]
+        "answer": [
+          "src/mcp/**"
+        ],
+        "incidental": [
+          "scripts/**"
+        ]
       },
       "assert": {
-        "answerShareAtLeast": 0.5,
+        "$answerShareComment": [
+          "Denominated in DELIVERED SOURCE, not in the whole envelope (CG-26). The",
+          "envelope-denominated form of this gate moved for reasons that have nothing",
+          "to do with allocation: it fell when the epilogue stopped being discarded,",
+          "and it fell again when a fifth ADMITTED file finally got paid its",
+          "reservation instead of being dropped by the ceiling. Both are the",
+          "improvements this epic exists to make, and a gate that reads them as",
+          "regressions is measuring the denominator. The fixture's own rationale",
+          "already says the assertions are relative, answer-vs-incidental, not fixed",
+          "percentages. 0.5 is unchanged; only what it is a share OF."
+        ],
+        "answerShareOfSourceAtLeast": 0.5,
         "incidentalShareAtMost": 0.25,
         "topFileGroup": "answer",
-        "mustDeliverBytes": ["src/mcp/tools.ts"]
+        "mustDeliverBytes": [
+          "src/mcp/tools.ts"
+        ]
       },
       "baseline": {
         "measuredOn": "2026-08-03",
@@ -153,6 +179,40 @@
           "src/resolution/lru-cache.ts": 0.111
         },
         "verdict": "ALL GATES PASS. tools.ts takes 60.6% of the envelope, up from 18.5% at baseline and 32.9% after CG-10 — past the epic's >50% acceptance bar. The reversal is the whole point: memory-budget.ts no longer wins by being small enough to ship whole (it now clusters within its 3.1K reservation), and tools.ts is no longer clipped at maxCharsPerFile (11K reservation, ~3x the old flat cap). Exception to 'no previously-unclipped file becomes clipped': memory-budget.ts was unclipped-whole at 5,672 and is now clipped to its proportional share. That is the epic's own diagnosis of the bug, not a regression — it scored 18 against tools.ts's 58 and was taking the larger slice."
+      },
+      "afterCG30": {
+        "measuredOn": "2026-08-06",
+        "note": "23,688 delivered of 26,430 allocated, truncated at the 25,000 ceiling. Baseline (main) on the SAME index: 14,851 delivered of 25,221 allocated. tools.ts delivers 8,282 chars in BOTH arms — identical bytes; only the denominator moved.",
+        "delivered": {
+          "scripts/agent-eval/parse-run.mjs": 0.361,
+          "src/mcp/tools.ts": 0.35,
+          "src/mcp/explore-session-state.ts": 0.147,
+          "src/resolution/memory-budget.ts": 0.0
+        },
+        "verdict": "THREE GATES FAIL — and the cause is not the CG-30 bound. Allocation is unchanged between arms (parse-run.mjs 32.3% here vs 33.9% on main); what changed is that it now DELIVERS. On main its whole 8,548-char section was cut by the hard-ceiling truncation, so the incidental group scored 0.0% by luck, not by design, and the fixture passed on that. Bounding the oversize-member overshoot freed enough headroom that the response no longer truncates the same section away. Every file obeys the new bound on this repo (max ratio 1.40x of spendable, against the 1.5x ceiling). What the failure exposes is real and pre-existing: parse-run.mjs scores 18 against tools.ts's 58 yet is reserved a comparable slice — a low-scoring file taking a top-file share, which is epic CG-24's subject. Fix it there; do not tune the CG-30 bound to restore a pass that depended on truncation. SUPERSEDED by afterCG31 — the diagnosis above is wrong on one load-bearing point, see there."
+      },
+      "afterCG31": {
+        "measuredOn": "2026-08-06",
+        "note": "23,083 delivered of 23,080 allocated — inside the envelope, nothing truncated. Both arms measured on the SAME clean FULL REBUILD of this repo's index (CG-33: an incrementally-synced index diverges and shifts ranking). CG-30-only arm on that index: 23,692 delivered of 26,410 allocated, TRUNCATED.",
+        "delivered": {
+          "src/mcp/tools.ts": 0.359,
+          "scripts/agent-eval/parse-run.mjs": 0.187,
+          "src/mcp/explore-session-state.ts": 0.151,
+          "src/resolution/lru-cache.ts": 0.087
+        },
+        "verdict": "ALL FOUR GATES PASS. The afterCG30 verdict called parse-run.mjs over-RESERVED; it was not — its reservation is 4,314 in both arms. It was over-SPENDING: 8,548 chars, drawing on reservations belonging to files the render loop had not reached yet, which is the CG-31 defect. With the displacement guard it renders 4,314, tools.ts's identical 8,282 chars go from 35.0% to 35.9% of a response that no longer overruns, and lru-cache.ts (dropped as memory-budget.ts was on the CG-30 arm) delivers. Note what did NOT change: allocation. This fixture moved because the render loop stopped spending other files' bytes, not because anything was re-ranked."
+      },
+      "afterCG26": {
+        "measuredOn": "2026-08-06",
+        "note": "24,952 delivered of 24,949 allocated, nothing truncated — against the CG-31 tip's 23,083 on the SAME clean full rebuild of this repo's index. tools.ts delivers 8,282 chars in BOTH arms: identical bytes, unchanged reservation, unchanged rank. Total delivered SOURCE 21,228 against 18,105.",
+        "delivered": {
+          "src/mcp/tools.ts": 0.334,
+          "scripts/agent-eval/parse-run.mjs": 0.174,
+          "src/mcp/explore-session-state.ts": 0.141,
+          "src/resolution/memory-budget.ts": 0.126,
+          "src/resolution/lru-cache.ts": 0.081
+        },
+        "verdict": "ALL GATES PASS. The one that changed shape is answerShareAtLeast → answerShareOfSourceAtLeast: on the envelope denominator the answer group reads 47.5% here against 51.0% at the CG-31 tip, and neither number is about allocation. tools.ts's bytes are byte-identical between the arms; what moved is that the response now delivers a FIFTH admitted file (memory-budget.ts, rank 4, paid its full 3,123-char reservation — the CG-31 tip rendered it and then let the hard ceiling drop the whole section) and keeps epilogue prose it used to discard. Answer/incidental separation is unchanged and strong: tools.ts 33.4% against parse-run.mjs's 17.4%, incidental 17.4% (down from 18.7%), top delivered file still tools.ts. Measured in delivered source the answer group is 55.5%."
       }
     }
   ]

scripts/agent-eval/probe-allocation.mjs

@@ -150,6 +150,28 @@ function evaluate(fixture, report, text) {
       `answer ${pct(share('answer'))} delivered (${pct(allocated.get('answer') ?? 0)} allocated)`,
     );
   }
+  // Same question against the SOURCE the response delivered rather than the
+  // whole envelope (CG-26). The envelope-denominated gate above moves whenever
+  // the response's prose does — the epilogue surviving instead of being
+  // discarded costs it a point, and every additional admitted file that gets
+  // paid dilutes it further — so it cannot tell "the answer was starved" from
+  // "everything else was also delivered". Allocation is about source bytes;
+  // measure it in source bytes.
+  if (want.answerShareOfSourceAtLeast !== undefined) {
+    const sourceBy = new Map();
+    let totalSource = 0;
+    for (const f of report.files) {
+      const g = groupOf(f.path, groups);
+      sourceBy.set(g, (sourceBy.get(g) ?? 0) + f.finalChars);
+      totalSource += f.finalChars;
+    }
+    const answerSource = totalSource > 0 ? (sourceBy.get('answer') ?? 0) / totalSource : 0;
+    add(
+      `answer group takes >= ${pct(want.answerShareOfSourceAtLeast)} of DELIVERED SOURCE`,
+      answerSource >= want.answerShareOfSourceAtLeast,
+      `answer ${num(sourceBy.get('answer') ?? 0)} of ${num(totalSource)} source chars (${pct(answerSource)})`,
+    );
+  }
   if (want.incidentalShareAtMost !== undefined) {
     add(
       `incidental group takes <= ${pct(want.incidentalShareAtMost)} of the envelope`,

scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Deterministic 6-repo envelope sweep for `codegraph_explore` (CG-26).
+ *
+ * The allocation issues (CG-30 / CG-31 / CG-26) are all decided by how the
+ * render loop divides a fixed byte ceiling, and the agent A/B is far too noisy
+ * to see a 2K byte shift. This runs the SAME six queries the CG-30 and CG-31
+ * benchmark tables use, against the same clean-rebuilt corpus indexes, and
+ * prints the numbers those tables are made of: source chars delivered, files in
+ * the final output, whether the hard ceiling cut anything, and whether the
+ * epilogue survived.
+ *
+ * Numbers come from the CG-4 diagnostic (`CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG`), so this
+ * measures the shipping allocator rather than re-deriving shares from markdown.
+ *
+ * Usage (needs a current `npm run build`, and full-REBUILT indexes — CG-33):
+ *   node scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs
+ *   node scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs --json > /tmp/new.json
+ *   node scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs --baseline /tmp/base.json
+ *   CORPUS=/tmp/codegraph-corpus node scripts/agent-eval/probe-suite-envelope.mjs
+ */
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
+
+const CORPUS = process.env.CORPUS ?? '/tmp/codegraph-corpus';
+
+/** The six suite repos + the exact queries the CG-30/CG-31 tables were measured on. */
+const SUITE = [
+  { id: 'django', q: 'How does a QuerySet turn into SQL and fetch rows from the database?' },
+  { id: 'excalidraw', q: 'How does updating an element re-render the canvas on screen?' },
+  { id: 'okhttp', q: 'How does a call go through the interceptor chain to the network?' },
+  { id: 'tokio', q: 'How does a spawned task get scheduled and run by a worker?' },
+  { id: 'gin', q: 'How does a registered route handler get invoked for an incoming HTTP request?' },
+  { id: 'alamofire', q: 'How does a request get built and sent through the session?' },
+];
+
+const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
+const asJson = argv.includes('--json');
+const baselineAt = argv.includes('--baseline') ? argv[argv.indexOf('--baseline') + 1] : null;
+const only = argv.filter((a) => !a.startsWith('--') && a !== baselineAt);
+
+const say = (s = '') => { if (!asJson) console.log(s); };
+const num = (n) => Math.round(n).toLocaleString('en-US');
+
+const load = (rel) => import(pathToFileURL(resolve(rel)).href);
+const idx = await load('dist/index.js');
+const toolsMod = await load('dist/mcp/tools.js');
+const CodeGraph = idx.default?.default ?? idx.default ?? idx.CodeGraph;
+const ToolHandler = toolsMod.ToolHandler ?? toolsMod.default?.ToolHandler;
+if (typeof CodeGraph?.openSync !== 'function' || typeof ToolHandler !== 'function') {
+  console.error('could not resolve CodeGraph/ToolHandler from dist/ — run `npm run build`');
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+
+const tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'cg-suite-'));
+const results = [];
+try {
+  for (const { id, q } of SUITE) {
+    if (only.length > 0 && !only.includes(id)) continue;
+    const repo = join(CORPUS, id);
+    if (!existsSync(join(repo, '.codegraph', 'codegraph.db'))) {
+      say(`${id}: no index at ${repo} — skipped`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const sidecar = join(tmp, `${id}.jsonl`);
+    process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = sidecar;
+    const cg = CodeGraph.openSync(repo);
+    const h = new ToolHandler(cg);
+    const res = await h.execute('codegraph_explore', { query: q });
+    const text = res.content?.[0]?.text ?? '';
+    try { cg.close?.(); } catch { /* best effort */ }
+    const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(sidecar, 'utf8').trim().split('\n').pop());
+    results.push({
+      repo: id,
+      sourceChars: report.envelope.sourceChars,
+      envelopeChars: report.envelope.chars,
+      allocatedChars: report.envelope.allocatedChars,
+      hardCeiling: report.budget.hardCeiling,
+      truncated: report.envelope.truncated,
+      files: report.selection.filesInFinalOutput,
+      // Did the response keep its trailing pointer list / notes, or did the
+      // hard ceiling spend them? This is CG-26's residual 1.
+      epilogueCut: text.includes('omitted for size'),
+      sectionCut: text.includes('output truncated to budget'),
+      notShown: text.includes('Not shown above'),
+      budgetNote: text.includes('**Explore budget:'),
+    });
+  }
+} finally {
+  rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });
+}
+
+if (asJson) {
+  console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
+} else {
+  const base = baselineAt ? JSON.parse(readFileSync(baselineAt, 'utf8')) : null;
+  const byRepo = new Map((base ?? []).map((r) => [r.repo, r]));
+  say('repo         source     Δ        env      files  cut          epilogue');
+  say('-'.repeat(74));
+  for (const r of results) {
+    const b = byRepo.get(r.repo);
+    const delta = b ? (r.sourceChars - b.sourceChars) : null;
+    const dStr = delta === null ? '' : (delta > 0 ? `+${num(delta)}` : num(delta));
+    const cut = r.sectionCut ? 'section' : r.epilogueCut ? 'epilogue' : '—';
+    const epi = [r.notShown ? 'not-shown' : null, r.budgetNote ? 'budget-note' : null]
+      .filter(Boolean).join('+') || 'none';
+    say(
+      `${r.repo.padEnd(12)} ${num(r.sourceChars).padStart(7)} ${dStr.padStart(8)} `
+      + `${num(r.envelopeChars).padStart(7)} ${String(r.files).padStart(5)}  ${cut.padEnd(12)} ${epi}`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (base) {
+    const lost = results.filter((r) => {
+      const b = byRepo.get(r.repo);
+      return b && (r.sourceChars < b.sourceChars || r.files < b.files);
+    });
+    say('');
+    say(lost.length === 0
+      ? 'No repo delivers less source or fewer files than the baseline.'
+      : `REGRESSION: ${lost.map((r) => r.repo).join(', ')} deliver less than baseline.`);
+  }
+}

src/mcp/explore-diagnostics.ts

@@ -89,9 +89,31 @@ interface FileRecord extends ExploreCandidateMeta {
    * it rendered anything. `0` = cliffed; `null` = never reached the allocator.
    * The gap between this and `emittedChars` is the whole story of a budget bug:
    * reserved-but-unspent means the file had nothing to say, spent-over-reserved
-   * means an oversize first cluster or the whole-file grace overshot.
+   * means an oversize first cluster or the whole-file grace overshot — but read
+   * `spendable` before calling it an overshoot, since inherited slack legitimately
+   * lifts a file above its reservation.
    */
   allowance: number | null;
+  /**
+   * What the file could actually SPEND: its reservation plus the slack the
+   * files above it left on the table (bounded by MAX_SHARE). Every render bound
+   * reads this, not `allowance`, so it — not the reservation — is what an
+   * overshoot is measured against. `null` until the render loop reaches the
+   * file. Reporting only `allowance` makes an ordinary carry-forward look like
+   * a file spending over its reservation.
+   */
+  spendable: number | null;
+  /**
+   * The DISPLACEMENT-GUARDED ceiling (CG-31): the most this file may render
+   * without spending a reservation still owed to a file the loop has not
+   * reached AND can still pay. `spendable` is what the file was promised, this
+   * is what is actually still there to pay it with — every render path is
+   * bounded by it, so `emittedChars` above it is a bug. Sits ABOVE `spendable`
+   * when the room is there (the bounded overshoot a big cluster member may
+   * take) and BELOW it when the files underneath need the bytes. `null` until
+   * the render loop reaches the file.
+   */
+  funded: number | null;
   render?: ExploreRenderMode;
   /**
    * Source chars this call did NOT re-send because an earlier call in the
@@ -139,6 +161,10 @@ interface BudgetShape {
 export interface ExploreDiagnosticFile extends ExploreCandidateMeta {
   path: string;
   allowance: number | null;
+  /** Reservation + inherited slack — the bound the render paths actually use. */
+  spendable: number | null;
+  /** Render ceiling after holding back what is still owed to unreached files. */
+  funded: number | null;
   render: ExploreRenderMode | null;
   skipped: ExploreSkipReason | null;
   clipped: boolean;
@@ -362,7 +388,7 @@ export class ExploreDiagnostics {
   /** Record one ranked candidate's scoring inputs, in final sort order. */
   noteCandidate(path: string, meta: ExploreCandidateMeta): void {
     this.files.set(path, {
-      path, ...meta, allowance: null,
+      path, ...meta, allowance: null, spendable: null, funded: null,
       dedupSavedChars: 0, dedupCovered: [],
       emittedChars: 0, finalChars: 0, share: 0, allocatedShare: 0, clipped: false,
     });
@@ -391,6 +417,24 @@ export class ExploreDiagnostics {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * What the render loop will let this file spend — reservation plus inherited
+   * slack. Called once per file, before any of its render paths run.
+   */
+  recordSpendable(path: string, chars: number): void {
+    const rec = this.files.get(path);
+    if (rec) rec.spendable = chars;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * What the render loop will let this file spend once the reservations still
+   * owed BELOW it are held back (CG-31). Called alongside `recordSpendable`.
+   */
+  recordFunded(path: string, chars: number): void {
+    const rec = this.files.get(path);
+    if (rec) rec.funded = chars;
+  }
+
   /** A candidate rendered source into the response. */
   recordRender(path: string, render: ExploreRenderMode, sourceChars: number, clipped: boolean): void {
     const rec = this.files.get(path);
@@ -538,6 +582,8 @@ export class ExploreDiagnostics {
           penalty: round6(r.penalty),
           kinds: r.kinds,
           allowance: r.allowance,
+          spendable: r.spendable,
+          funded: r.funded,
           render: r.render ?? null,
           skipped: r.skipped ?? null,
           clipped: r.clipped,
@@ -704,6 +750,16 @@ export function renderTable(report: ExploreDiagnosticReport): string {
         f.path,
       );
       out.push('        kinds: ' + (f.kinds || '-'));
+      // Only when it differs: a file that spent over `reserved` but inside
+      // `spendable` took inherited slack, not a budget bug.
+      if (f.spendable !== null && f.allowance !== null && f.spendable !== f.allowance) {
+        out.push(`        spendable: ${num(f.spendable)} (reservation + inherited slack)`);
+      }
+      // Only when the displacement guard actually bit: the gap is the overshoot
+      // this file was refused so the files below it could still be paid.
+      if (f.funded !== null && f.spendable !== null && f.funded < Math.round(f.spendable * 1.5)) {
+        out.push(`        funded: ${num(f.funded)} (held to this so the files below keep their reservations)`);
+      }
       if (f.dedupSavedChars > 0) {
         const spans = f.dedupCovered.slice(0, 6).map(([a, b]) => (a === b ? `${a}` : `${a}-${b}`)).join(',');
         const more = f.dedupCovered.length > 6 ? `,+${f.dedupCovered.length - 6}` : '';

src/mcp/tools.ts

@@ -795,6 +795,34 @@ function fileSectionHeader(filePath: string, suffix: string): string {
     : `${FILE_SECTION_PREFIX}${filePath}\`**`;
 }
 
+/** Header of `codegraph_explore`'s trailing pointer list. */
+const POINTER_HEADER = '**Not shown above — explore these names for their source**';
+/** Most files the pointer list ever names one-per-line; the rest are a count. */
+const POINTER_MAX_FILES = 10;
+/**
+ * One pointer line: the file plus enough symbol names to make it NAMEABLE in a
+ * follow-up explore. Capped — an un-capped list ran to ~1.9K on the #1500
+ * fixture (12 generated CRUD symbols on one line), meta-text bought at the
+ * price of the source bytes this section exists to point away from.
+ */
+function pointerLineFor(filePath: string, nodes: readonly Node[]): string {
+  const POINTER_SYMBOLS = 6;
+  const named = nodes.filter((n) => n.kind !== 'import' && n.kind !== 'export');
+  const pool = named.length > 0 ? named : nodes;
+  const shown = pool.slice(0, POINTER_SYMBOLS);
+  const more = pool.length - shown.length;
+  const symbols = shown.map((n) => `${n.name}:${n.startLine}`).join(', ')
+    + (more > 0 ? `, +${more} more` : '');
+  return `- ${filePath}: ${symbols}`;
+}
+/**
+ * Emitted when the response was too full to carry ANY of its pointer list. It
+ * is the one line the epilogue floor is reserved for: the list itself can be
+ * traded away, but the agent must still be told that an uncovered area exists
+ * and that another explore — not a Read — is how to reach it.
+ */
+const EPILOGUE_LOST_NOTE = '> (Trailing pointer list omitted for size. The source above is complete and verbatim — treat it as already Read. For anything this call did not cover, run another codegraph_explore with the specific names rather than reading those files.)';
+
 /**
  * Per-file staleness banner emitted at the top of a tool response when the
  * file watcher has pending events for files referenced by the response.
@@ -3989,14 +4017,48 @@ export class ToolHandler {
     lines.push('> The code below is the **verbatim, current on-disk source** of these files — re-read from disk on this call and line-numbered, byte-for-byte identical to what the Read tool returns. It is NOT a summary, outline, or stale cache. Treat each block as a Read you have already performed: do not Read a file shown here.');
     lines.push('');
 
+    // The response's absolute cap. It MUST stay under the host's inline
+    // tool-result limit (~25K chars): above it the result is externalized to a
+    // file the agent Reads back (a 35K vscode explore did exactly this in the
+    // n=4 A/B).
+    const hardCeiling = Math.min(Math.round(budget.maxOutputChars * 1.5), 25000);
+    // What the epilogue is OWED — the part of it the loop must not spend (CG-26).
+    // Not a flat margin: the old 600 was neither the epilogue's size (1,064 on
+    // gin, 2,231 on excalidraw) nor a bound on it, so the loop budgeted for a
+    // thing that did not exist and the response then discarded the whole
+    // epilogue to fit. The floor is what the epilogue owes the AGENT rather
+    // than what it costs us:
+    //   - the one-line note that says an uncovered area exists (always), and
+    //   - a pointer for every file whose source was deliberately WITHHELD.
+    //     A cliffed file's bytes were traded away on the promise that the agent
+    //     can still name it in a follow-up call (CG-12); if the ceiling then
+    //     eats that name the trade was a silent drop.
+    // Everything above the floor — the rest of the pointer list, the reminders
+    // — is elastic and fitted to the room that is actually left, at the end of
+    // this method. Sized from the REAL strings, never tuned: a constant swept
+    // against the suite is what CG-30's record warns about.
+    const cliffPointerFloor = [...cliffedFiles]
+      .slice(0, POINTER_MAX_FILES)
+      .reduce((n, fp) => {
+        const g = fileGroups.get(fp);
+        return g ? n + pointerLineFor(fp, g.nodes).length + 1 : n;
+      }, cliffedFiles.size > 0 ? POINTER_HEADER.length + 2 : 0);
+    const epilogueFloor = EPILOGUE_LOST_NOTE.length + 2 + cliffPointerFloor;
     // Absolute stop for the render loop. Reservations already fit the envelope, so
     // this only catches their bounded overshoot (the whole-file grace, an oversize
     // first cluster) — and catches it HERE, where a file can be skipped cleanly and
     // a later one still render, instead of at the final truncation, which lops off
-    // whichever section happened to land last. Kept in sync with `hardCeiling`
-    // below; the margin covers the drift epilogue and the trailing notes.
-    const renderCeiling = Math.min(Math.round(budget.maxOutputChars * 1.5), 25000) - 600;
-    let totalChars = lines.join('\n').length;
+    // whichever section happened to land last.
+    const renderCeiling = hardCeiling - epilogueFloor;
+    // `flow.text` is PART of the response — it is prepended to `lines` to make
+    // the final output — so the render loop has to spend against it, and it
+    // never did. Counting it is what makes `renderCeiling` the ceiling it
+    // claims to be: without it the loop believed it had room for a trailing
+    // section the final truncation then threw away whole, and (CG-31) the
+    // displacement guard dutifully held bytes back to pay for that section —
+    // taking them off a file the agent DOES receive and handing them to one it
+    // never sees.
+    let totalChars = flow.text.length + lines.join('\n').length;
     let filesIncluded = 0;
     // Paths we actually render source for below. Drives the curated header count
     // (#1046) — it must reflect what we show, not the raw candidate gather.
@@ -4058,8 +4120,80 @@ export class ToolHandler {
     const sourceCeiling = reservedTotal + Math.round(
       budget.maxOutputChars * EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.WHOLE_FILE_BUY_OVERSHOOT_FRACTION,
     );
+    /**
+     * What a file's section costs BESIDES its source, in render space: the
+     * header (path + up to `maxSymbolsInFileHeader` symbol names) plus the code
+     * fence and the blank lines around them (CG-26).
+     *
+     * `EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.FILE_OVERHEAD` is the ALLOCATOR's constant — the flat
+     * 200 it charges each admitted file when it splits the envelope — and using
+     * it here too was a category error worth ~250 chars per pending file: the
+     * render loop then held back a file's reservation but not the header that
+     * reservation has to arrive under, so the last admitted file was left just
+     * short of the room it needed and skipped whole. Estimated from the file's
+     * own candidate symbols, which is what the header is actually built from.
+     */
+    const overheadCache = new Map<string, number>();
+    const sectionOverhead = (filePath: string, nodes: readonly Node[]): number => {
+      const hit = overheadCache.get(filePath);
+      if (hit !== undefined) return hit;
+      const names = [...new Set(
+        nodes.filter((n) => n.kind !== 'import' && n.kind !== 'export')
+          .map((n) => `${n.name}(${n.kind})`),
+      )].slice(0, budget.maxSymbolsInFileHeader);
+      // header + blank, then ```lang / body / ``` / blank around the source.
+      const cost = fileSectionHeader(filePath, names.join(', ')).length + 2
+        + (nodes[0]?.language?.length ?? 0) + 11;
+      overheadCache.set(filePath, cost);
+      return cost;
+    };
+    /**
+     * How much of what is still owed BELOW `fileIndex` the response can actually
+     * still PAY, in render-space chars (CG-31).
+     *
+     * Not the same as the sum of those reservations. The allocator splits the
+     * envelope; the render loop spends against a ceiling that also has to hold
+     * the response's own prose, so on a saturated response the promises are
+     * OVER-SUBSCRIBED and the tail is going to be dropped whatever happens
+     * above it. Bytes held back for a file that then gets dropped are bytes
+     * nobody ever receives — measured on django, holding the full owed sum cost
+     * the rank-#1 file 2,126 chars and handed them to a rank-#6 section the
+     * hard ceiling threw away. So walk the remaining files in RANK order and
+     * hold back only the prefix that fits `budgetLeft`; the first one that does
+     * not fit ends it, because everything after it is further out of reach.
+     *
+     * Conservative and self-correcting: it assumes each file below spends its
+     * whole reservation, and when they do not, the carry-forward hands the
+     * difference to whoever comes next anyway.
+     */
+    const owedPayableBelow = (fileIndex: number, budgetLeft: number): number => {
+      let held = 0;
+      for (let j = fileIndex + 1; j < sortedFiles.length; j++) {
+        const path = sortedFiles[j]![0];
+        const r = allocation.allowances.get(path);
+        if (r === undefined) continue;
+        const overhead = sectionOverhead(path, sortedFiles[j]![1].nodes);
+        const need = r + overhead;
+        if (held + need > budgetLeft) {
+          // PART of a reservation is still a delivered file (CG-26). Holding
+          // all-or-nothing zeroed the last admitted file whenever its full
+          // reservation no longer fit: on the precise-query fixture the rank-5
+          // file took 4,134 chars against a 2,948 reservation while rank 6 —
+          // admitted, reserved 2,539 — was left 4 chars and skipped. Hold the
+          // remainder instead, but only while it is still worth a section:
+          // under MIN_CHARS a slice cannot hold one complete method, and a
+          // fragment forces the Read this tool exists to prevent.
+          const partial = budgetLeft - held;
+          if (partial >= EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.MIN_CHARS + overhead) held += partial;
+          break;
+        }
+        held += need;
+      }
+      return held;
+    };
 
-    for (const [filePath, group] of sortedFiles) {
+    for (let fileIndex = 0; fileIndex < sortedFiles.length; fileIndex++) {
+      const [filePath, group] = sortedFiles[fileIndex]!;
       if (filesIncluded >= maxFiles) {
         if (diag) for (const [fp] of sortedFiles) diag.recordSkip(fp, 'max-files');
         break;
@@ -4093,6 +4227,35 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         Math.max(reserved, Math.round(budget.maxOutputChars * EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.MAX_SHARE)),
       );
       reservedSoFar += reserved;
+      diag?.recordSpendable(filePath, allowance);
+      // DISPLACEMENT GUARD, in render space (CG-31). `allowance` says what this
+      // file MAY spend; it does not say the bytes are still there to spend. The
+      // hard ceiling is shared with every file the loop has not reached yet, and
+      // their reservations are promises the allocator already made — so what is
+      // left before the ceiling is not all ours. Holding that back is the same
+      // inequality the whole-file BUY arm enforces with `owedBelow` (see below),
+      // moved into the units the cluster path actually spends in: source PLUS
+      // the per-section overhead each pending file will charge.
+      //
+      // Held back only where it can be PAID — see `owedPayableBelow`. A promise
+      // the ceiling cannot reach is not a claim on this file's bytes; honouring
+      // it anyway just moves source from a file the agent gets to one it does
+      // not.
+      //
+      // Floored at this file's OWN reservation, never below: a kept promise is
+      // not a displacement, and cutting a file under what it earned is the
+      // failure this whole allocation layer exists to prevent.
+      //
+      // Slack still reaches the file: a file above that under-spends leaves
+      // `totalChars` lower, which raises `headroom` one-for-one, so the
+      // carry-forward the `allowance` line grants is exactly the carry-forward
+      // this bound funds.
+      const headroom = Math.max(0, renderCeiling - totalChars - sectionOverhead(filePath, group.nodes));
+      const fundedHeadroom = Math.max(
+        Math.min(reserved, headroom),
+        headroom - owedPayableBelow(fileIndex, Math.max(0, headroom - reserved)),
+      );
+      diag?.recordFunded(filePath, fundedHeadroom);
       const absPath = validatePathWithinRoot(projectRoot, filePath);
       if (!absPath || !existsSync(absPath)) {
         diag?.recordSkip(filePath, 'unreadable');
@@ -4176,7 +4339,11 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         ranges: ExploreLineRange[];
         /** Spans replaced by the back-reference. */
         covered: ExploreLineRange[];
-        /** Chars charged to `totalChars` on top of the body (fences, header). */
+        /**
+         * Chars charged on top of the body by the ANTI-ABANDONMENT RESTORE path
+         * only (it re-splices a section after the loop and needs one number for
+         * it). The loop itself charges the real cost — see `sectionCost`.
+         */
         overhead: number;
         mode: 'whole' | 'clusters' | 'focused' | 'skeleton';
         clipped: boolean;
@@ -4192,6 +4359,16 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         const ranges = folded ? [] : opts.ranges;
         const at = lines.length;
         lines.push(opts.header, '');
+        // Charge what the section ACTUALLY costs, not a flat 200 (CG-26). A
+        // header carries the path plus up to `maxSymbolsInFileHeader` symbol
+        // names and routinely runs 300–500 chars, so the flat charge made the
+        // loop believe it had room it did not have: okhttp rendered 26,601
+        // chars against a 24,400 ceiling and the final truncation threw a
+        // fully-rendered section away. Everything downstream is expressed in
+        // these units — `headroom`, `fundedHeadroom`, every fit test — so an
+        // under-count is not a rounding error, it funds a promise out of bytes
+        // that do not exist and starves whoever the loop reaches last.
+        totalChars += opts.header.length + 2;
         if (opts.covered.length > 0) {
           const pointer = formatBackReference(
             filePath,
@@ -4205,7 +4382,8 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         }
         if (body.length > 0) {
           lines.push('```' + lang, body, '```', '');
-          totalChars += body.length + opts.overhead;
+          // ```lang \n body \n ``` \n '' \n — exact, same as the header above.
+          totalChars += body.length + lang.length + 11;
           sourceSpent += body.length;
           newSourceChars += body.length;
           diag?.recordRender(filePath, opts.mode, body.length, opts.clipped || opts.covered.length > 0);
@@ -4220,7 +4398,8 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         // bytes) because the record means "source the agent HAS", not "bytes
         // this call spent" — refreshing them keeps a long session from ageing
         // them out of the retained window and re-serving them for nothing.
-        totalChars += opts.overhead;
+        // (The header is already charged above; a fully-held section is the
+        // header plus the pointer and nothing else.)
         diag?.recordRender(filePath, 'backref', 0, false);
         diag?.recordDedup(filePath, coveredChars(opts.covered), opts.covered);
         noteEmitted(filePath, opts.covered, 0, fingerprint);
@@ -4305,7 +4484,13 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         // response and starve the co-flow file (harness.rs's poll). The native agent
         // windows such a file too (~190 lines at a time), so this mimics, not
         // truncates. Always emit ≥1 (never an empty section).
-        const bodyCap = allowance;
+        //
+        // Held to `fundedHeadroom` as well (CG-31) so this path cannot spend a
+        // reservation still owed below it either. It never exceeds `allowance`
+        // today, so the bound only bites once the ceiling is genuinely tight —
+        // but "every render path" has to mean every one, or the guard is just a
+        // detour the next god-file takes.
+        const bodyCap = Math.min(allowance, fundedHeadroom);
         const bodyIds = new Set<string>();
         let bodyChars = 0;
         for (const n of syms.filter(n => prio(n) < 99 && n.endLine >= n.startLine).sort((a, b) => prio(a) - prio(b))) {
@@ -4433,30 +4618,43 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       // rather than a size cap — a buy that fits the line only by spending a
       // lower-ranked file's reservation is the trade that dropped
       // `payslip_builder.go`, and it is refused here. Self-limiting: each buy
-      // grows `sourceSpent`, so the pool cannot be spent twice.
+      // grows `sourceSpent`, so the pool cannot be spent twice. The cluster path
+      // below enforces the same inequality in render space — see
+      // `fundedHeadroom` / `owedPayableBelow` (CG-31).
       const owedBelow = Math.max(0, reservedTotal - reservedSoFar);
       // Third condition on the BUY arm only: it must also FIT. A whole render
-      // that overruns `renderCeiling` is skipped ENTIRELY a few lines below (the
-      // branch refuses to slice a file mid-method), so attempting a buy that
-      // cannot fit trades a clustered section for NO section — the same trade
-      // the funding pool exists to refuse, arriving by a different route.
-      // Failing the test here instead drops through to the cluster path, which
-      // is bounded by `headroom` and always renders something.
+      // that overruns the ceiling is skipped ENTIRELY (the branch refuses to
+      // slice a file mid-method), so attempting a buy that cannot fit trades a
+      // clustered section for NO section — the same trade the funding pool
+      // exists to refuse, arriving by a different route. Failing the test here
+      // instead drops through to the cluster path, which is bounded by
+      // `fundedHeadroom` and always renders something.
       //
-      // Only reachable on the 24K tiers, which is why the small-tier fixtures
-      // cannot see it: the funding line is `reservedTotal + 0.15 * envelope`
-      // (~27.2K when a medium repo saturates) while `renderCeiling` is
-      // `min(1.5 * envelope, 25000) - 600` = 24.4K — so funding can approve
-      // ~2.8K that the ceiling then refuses. At 13K the line is ~14.4K against a
-      // ceiling of 18.9K and the two cannot cross.
+      // Measured against `fundedHeadroom`, not against `renderCeiling - totalChars`
+      // (CG-26). The two differ by exactly the displacement term: room before
+      // the ceiling belongs to every file the loop has not reached yet, and
+      // this arm used to read the raw room while its source-space sibling
+      // (`owedBelow`, above) refused the same trade. Source-space alone was not
+      // enough — the funding line is `reservedTotal + 0.15 * envelope` (~27.2K
+      // when a medium repo saturates) while the render ceiling is ~24.2K, so a
+      // buy can clear `sourceCeiling` and still take its bytes out of a
+      // lower-ranked file's reservation on the way to the ceiling. Now both
+      // arms enforce the same inequality in their own units, and the invariant
+      // holds on every path.
       //
-      // The GRACE arm is deliberately left alone: a file within a sliver of its
-      // reservation that still does not fit is genuinely at the end of a full
-      // response, and that behaviour predates this fix.
+      // The GRACE arm keeps its own bound (a file within a sliver of its
+      // reservation) but is fit-tested on the render it actually produces, at
+      // the emission site below, so it cannot displace either.
       const buysWhole = fileContent.length <= graceBound
         || (reserved >= fileContent.length * EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.WHOLE_FILE_BUY_FRACTION
             && sourceSpent + fileContent.length + owedBelow <= sourceCeiling
-            && totalChars + fileContent.length + EXPLORE_ALLOCATION.FILE_OVERHEAD <= renderCeiling);
+            && fileContent.length <= fundedHeadroom);
+      // Set by the whole-file arm when it actually emits. A whole render that
+      // does not FIT no longer ends the file's turn (CG-26) — it falls through
+      // to the cluster path below, which is bounded by `fundedHeadroom` and
+      // renders something. Skipping outright was the trade the funding pool
+      // exists to refuse: a clustered section traded for no section at all.
+      let renderedWhole = false;
       if (fileLines.length <= WHOLE_FILE_MAX_LINES && buysWhole) {
         const body = fileContent.replace(/\n+$/, '');
         const wholeRange: ExploreLineRange = { start: 1, end: body.split('\n').length };
@@ -4480,28 +4678,41 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         const staleSuffix = fileStale ? ' · ⚠ changed since last index sync — source below is current; the symbol list may be outdated' : '';
         const wholeHeader = fileSectionHeader(filePath, (omitted > 0 ? `${headerNames.join(', ')}, +${omitted} more` : headerNames.join(', ')) + staleSuffix);
 
-        if (totalChars + wholeSection.length + 200 > renderCeiling) {
-          // Don't slice a whole file mid-method — a file that doesn't fit is
-          // skipped whole. Half a file forces the Read this is meant to prevent.
+        // The fit test, on the bytes this render ACTUALLY costs (the numbered
+        // body, after dedup) rather than on the raw file — and against
+        // `fundedHeadroom`, so a whole render can no more spend a pending
+        // file's reservation than a clustered one can (CG-26). Both whole-file
+        // arms come through here, which is what closes the invariant on the
+        // GRACE path: grace is measured against this file's own allowance and
+        // says nothing about whether the bytes are still there to spend.
+        // Two tests, and they are different questions. `fundedHeadroom` is the
+        // DISPLACEMENT bound — may these bytes be spent without taking a
+        // pending file's reservation. `sectionCost` is the CEILING bound — do
+        // the header, fences and body actually fit what is left. The second one
+        // is exact now that the loop charges real section costs.
+        const wholeCost = wholeHeader.length + 2 + wholeSection.length + lang.length + 11;
+        if (wholeSection.length <= fundedHeadroom && totalChars + wholeCost <= renderCeiling) {
+          emitFileSection({
+            header: wholeHeader,
+            body: wholeSection,
+            // The whole file, minus any trailing blank lines the render trimmed.
+            ranges: ddWhole.parts.map((p) => p.range),
+            covered: ddWhole.covered,
+            overhead: 200,
+            mode: 'whole',
+            clipped: false,
+            fullBody: fullSection,
+            fullRanges: [wholeRange],
+          });
+          if (fileStale) staleRendered.push(filePath);
+          renderedWhole = true;
+        } else {
+          // Doesn't fit whole — don't slice a whole file mid-method here; fall
+          // through and let the cluster path pick body-shaped pieces of it.
           anyFileTrimmed = true;
-          diag?.recordSkip(filePath, 'budget-whole-file');
-          continue;
         }
-        emitFileSection({
-          header: wholeHeader,
-          body: wholeSection,
-          // The whole file, minus any trailing blank lines the render trimmed.
-          ranges: ddWhole.parts.map((p) => p.range),
-          covered: ddWhole.covered,
-          overhead: 200,
-          mode: 'whole',
-          clipped: false,
-          fullBody: fullSection,
-          fullRanges: [wholeRange],
-        });
-        if (fileStale) staleRendered.push(filePath);
-        continue;
       }
+      if (renderedWhole) continue;
 
       // Drifted file too big for the whole-file window (#1474): the cluster /
       // skeleton renders below would slice current bytes at indexed ranges —
@@ -4510,11 +4721,9 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       // never render a possibly-wrong slice.
       if (fileStale) {
         staleOmitted.push(filePath);
-        lines.push(
-          fileSectionHeader(filePath, '⚠ changed on disk after the last index sync — source omitted (indexed line ranges no longer match, so a slice could show the wrong code). Read this file directly for current content; the change is picked up on that project\'s next index sync.'),
-          '',
-        );
-        totalChars += 260;
+        const staleHeader = fileSectionHeader(filePath, '⚠ changed on disk after the last index sync — source omitted (indexed line ranges no longer match, so a slice could show the wrong code). Read this file directly for current content; the change is picked up on that project\'s next index sync.');
+        lines.push(staleHeader, '');
+        totalChars += staleHeader.length + 2;
         diag?.recordRender(filePath, 'stale-omitted', 0, true);
         continue;
       }
@@ -4731,7 +4940,9 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         for (const r of byImportance) {
           const sz = sizeOf(r) + GAP_MARKER.length;
           // Always keep the most important range, even if it alone is oversize —
-          // an empty section sends the agent to Read, which costs far more.
+          // an empty section sends the agent to Read, which costs far more. How
+          // far it may overshoot is bounded by the caller's ceiling (CG-30), which
+          // windows a runaway member instead of dropping it.
           if (keep.length > 0 && kept + sz > cap) continue;
           keep.push(r);
           kept += sz;
@@ -4749,6 +4960,117 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         return merged.flatMap((m) => buildSection(m));
       };
 
+      /**
+       * Bounded overshoot for one cluster's render (CG-30).
+       *
+       * `shrinkCluster` keeps the highest-importance member whole even when that
+       * member alone is oversize — an empty file section sends the agent to Read,
+       * which is exactly what explore exists to prevent. But "never empty" is not
+       * "any size": with nothing bounding it, one 22K member rendered against a
+       * 9K reservation (2.4x), which collapses the headroom every file ranked
+       * below it draws from. Past the ceiling the member is WINDOWED rather than
+       * dropped — a leading window (signature + head of the body), plus a window
+       * on the spine's call site when the head misses it, since on a flow cluster
+       * the call path IS the answer.
+       */
+      const MIN_WINDOW_LINES = 12;
+      /** Rendered cost of one source line, line numbering included. */
+      const lineCost = (ln: number): number =>
+        (fileLines[ln - 1] ?? '').length + 1 + (withLineNumbers ? String(ln).length + 1 : 0);
+      /**
+       * Longest prefix of `r` that fits `room`. `minLines` is the never-empty
+       * floor — it may overrun `room`, so it is only ever asked for when nothing
+       * else has been emitted and the alternative is an empty section.
+       */
+      const headWindowOf = (
+        r: ExploreLineRange, room: number, minLines = 0,
+      ): ExploreLineRange | null => {
+        let end = r.start - 1;
+        let chars = 0;
+        for (let ln = r.start; ln <= r.end; ln++) {
+          const cost = lineCost(ln);
+          if (chars + cost > room && end - r.start + 1 >= minLines) break;
+          chars += cost;
+          end = ln;
+        }
+        return end >= r.start ? { start: r.start, end } : null;
+      };
+      /** Widest window around `line` inside [lo, hi] that fits `room`. */
+      const centeredWindowOf = (
+        line: number, lo: number, hi: number, room: number,
+      ): ExploreLineRange | null => {
+        if (line < lo || line > hi) return null;
+        let start = line, end = line, chars = lineCost(line);
+        for (let grown = true; grown;) {
+          grown = false;
+          if (end + 1 <= hi && chars + lineCost(end + 1) <= room) { end += 1; chars += lineCost(end); grown = true; }
+          if (start - 1 >= lo && chars + lineCost(start - 1) <= room) { start -= 1; chars += lineCost(start); grown = true; }
+        }
+        return { start, end };
+      };
+      /**
+       * Reduce rendered parts to fit `ceiling`, never to nothing. Whole parts are
+       * kept while they fit; the first part that overruns is cut to a leading
+       * window on whole lines (a body is never cut mid-line), and everything past
+       * it is dropped. The GAP_MARKER between surviving parts — and the line-number
+       * jump — is what tells the agent the cut happened.
+       *
+       * A partial window shorter than MIN_WINDOW_LINES is not worth emitting, and
+       * emitting one is actively harmful: the session record then claims a 4-line
+       * sliver, and the NEXT call's dedup has to either shred a whole block around
+       * it or re-send it. Below that floor the part is simply dropped — unless
+       * nothing has been emitted at all, where the floor wins over the ceiling
+       * because an empty section is the one outcome worse than an oversize one.
+       */
+      const windowToCeiling = (
+        parts: ReadonlyArray<SectionPart>,
+        ceiling: number,
+        focusLine?: number,
+      ): SectionPart[] => {
+        const emit: ExploreLineRange[] = [];
+        const inParts = (line: number) =>
+          parts.some((p) => line >= p.range.start && line <= p.range.end);
+        const needFocus = typeof focusLine === 'number' && focusLine > 0 && inParts(focusLine);
+        // Hold room back for the call site so the head window can't eat all of it.
+        const headRoom = needFocus ? Math.floor(ceiling * 0.6) : ceiling;
+        let used = 0;
+        for (const p of parts) {
+          const join = emit.length > 0 ? GAP_MARKER.length : 0;
+          if (used + join + p.text.length <= headRoom) {
+            emit.push(p.range);
+            used += join + p.text.length;
+            continue;
+          }
+          const first = emit.length === 0;
+          const win = headWindowOf(
+            p.range, Math.max(0, headRoom - used - join), first ? MIN_WINDOW_LINES : 0);
+          if (win && (first || win.end - win.start + 1 >= MIN_WINDOW_LINES)) {
+            emit.push(win);
+            used += join + renderSpan(win).length;
+          }
+          break;
+        }
+        const last = emit[emit.length - 1];
+        if (needFocus && (!last || focusLine! > last.end)) {
+          const host = parts.find((p) => focusLine! >= p.range.start && focusLine! <= p.range.end)!;
+          const lo = Math.max(host.range.start, focusLine! - SPINE_WINDOW, last ? last.end + 1 : 0);
+          const hi = Math.min(host.range.end, focusLine! + SPINE_WINDOW);
+          const win = centeredWindowOf(
+            focusLine!, lo, hi, Math.max(0, ceiling - used - GAP_MARKER.length));
+          // Same sliver floor as the head window — a two-line peek at the call
+          // site teaches the next call's dedup to shred the block around it.
+          if (win && win.end - win.start + 1 >= MIN_WINDOW_LINES) emit.push(win);
+        }
+        // Never empty: a section with no source sends the agent to Read.
+        if (emit.length === 0 && parts.length > 0) {
+          const first = headWindowOf(parts[0]!.range, ceiling, MIN_WINDOW_LINES);
+          if (first) emit.push(first);
+        }
+        return emit
+          .sort((a, b) => a.start - b.start)
+          .map((r) => ({ range: r, text: renderSpan(r) }));
+      };
+
       /**
        * One cluster's final parts: built, shrunk if it overruns `cap`, then
        * passed through the session history (CG-18).
@@ -4761,15 +5083,33 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       const renderCluster = (
         c: ExploreCluster,
         cap: number,
+        /**
+         * Hard bound on the rendered result (CG-30). `cap` is what selection asks
+         * for; this is how far a single oversize member is allowed to overshoot it
+         * before being windowed. Always >= `cap`, so a cluster that already fits is
+         * never touched.
+         */
+        ceiling: number = Infinity,
       ): { parts: SectionPart[]; covered: ExploreLineRange[]; shrunk: boolean } => {
         const base = dedupeSpans(buildSection(c));
+        const bound = (
+          r: { parts: SectionPart[]; covered: ExploreLineRange[]; shrunk: boolean },
+        ) => {
+          if (!Number.isFinite(ceiling) || sectionText(r.parts).length <= ceiling) return r;
+          // Windows are subsets of spans dedupeSpans already cleared, so the record
+          // still only ever claims source that was actually sent.
+          const parts = windowToCeiling(r.parts, ceiling, c.spineCallLine);
+          return { parts, covered: r.covered, shrunk: true };
+        };
         if (sectionText(base.parts).length <= cap) {
           return { parts: base.parts, covered: base.covered, shrunk: false };
         }
         const shrunk = shrinkCluster(c, cap);
-        if (shrunk === null) return { parts: base.parts, covered: base.covered, shrunk: false };
+        if (shrunk === null) {
+          return bound({ parts: base.parts, covered: base.covered, shrunk: false });
+        }
         const dd = dedupeSpans(shrunk);
-        return { parts: dd.parts, covered: dd.covered, shrunk: true };
+        return bound({ parts: dd.parts, covered: dd.covered, shrunk: true });
       };
 
       // Rank clusters for inclusion under the per-file cap. Entry-point
@@ -4808,13 +5148,20 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       // top-scoring file at the same 3,800 as the weakest one, while the whole-file
       // branch above handed a small file 3x that. The reservation is the whole point
       // of CG-12 — bytes follow relevance, not file size.
-      const headroom = Math.max(0, renderCeiling - totalChars - 200);
-      const fileBudget = Math.min(allowance, headroom);
+      //
+      // `fundedHeadroom`, not `headroom` (CG-31): what is left before the hard
+      // ceiling includes every unreached file's reservation, and spending that
+      // is how one clustered file zeroed five admitted peers. It is ≤ `headroom`
+      // by construction, so it is the only bound these three lines need.
+      const fileBudget = Math.min(allowance, fundedHeadroom);
       // Spine ceiling: a flow-path cluster may exceed the reservation (the call path
       // IS the answer and clipping it forces the Read), but bounded — 1.5x the
       // reservation and never past the ceiling — so a pathological long in-file
-      // spine can't run away or starve co-flow files entirely.
-      const SPINE_CEILING = Math.min(Math.round(allowance * 1.5), headroom);
+      // spine can't run away or starve co-flow files entirely. The 1.5x is drawn
+      // from the shared envelope, so it is exactly the overshoot the displacement
+      // guard has to fund: past `fundedHeadroom` the extra half-reservation is
+      // another file's, not spare room.
+      const SPINE_CEILING = Math.min(Math.round(allowance * 1.5), fundedHeadroom);
       const chosenIndices = new Set<number>();
       // Final renders (deduped, shrunk where oversize) by cluster index. Computed
       // during selection and reused at emission so the two never disagree.
@@ -4830,7 +5177,13 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         // clusters are never shrunk — they either fit or wait for another call.
         const first = chosenIndices.size === 0;
         const cap = rc.c.hasSpine ? SPINE_CEILING : fileBudget;
-        const section = renderCluster(rc.c, first ? cap : Infinity);
+        // CG-30: shrinking keeps the top member whole however big it is, so bound
+        // how far that member may overshoot — the same 1.5x-of-reservation bound
+        // SPINE_CEILING already draws, never below `cap` (a cluster that fits its
+        // cap is never windowed). A spine cluster's cap already IS that bound, so
+        // this holds it to it rather than letting the member rule walk past it.
+        const ceiling = Math.max(cap, SPINE_CEILING);
+        const section = renderCluster(rc.c, first ? cap : Infinity, first ? ceiling : Infinity);
         const text = sectionText(section.parts);
         const sectionLen = text.length + (!first && text.length > 0 ? GAP_MARKER.length : 0);
         if (first) {
@@ -4852,30 +5205,38 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       }
 
       // Emit chosen clusters in source order so the file reads top-to-bottom.
-      let fileSection = '';
-      const allSymbols: string[] = [];
-      const sectionRanges: ExploreLineRange[] = [];
-      const coveredRanges: ExploreLineRange[] = [];
-      for (let i = 0; i < clusters.length; i++) {
-        if (!chosenIndices.has(i)) continue;
-        const cluster = clusters[i]!;
-        const section = renderedClusters.get(i)!;
-        const text = sectionText(section.parts);
-        if (text.length > 0) {
-          if (fileSection.length > 0) fileSection += GAP_MARKER;
-          fileSection += text;
+      // Assembled through a function because it may have to run more than once:
+      // the fit test below trims the weakest cluster and re-assembles rather
+      // than skipping the file (CG-26).
+      const assembleSection = (chosen: ReadonlySet<number>) => {
+        let text = '';
+        const symbols: string[] = [];
+        const ranges: ExploreLineRange[] = [];
+        const covered: ExploreLineRange[] = [];
+        for (let i = 0; i < clusters.length; i++) {
+          if (!chosen.has(i)) continue;
+          const cluster = clusters[i]!;
+          const section = renderedClusters.get(i)!;
+          const part = sectionText(section.parts);
+          if (part.length > 0) {
+            if (text.length > 0) text += GAP_MARKER;
+            text += part;
+          }
+          ranges.push(...section.parts.map((p) => p.range));
+          covered.push(...section.covered);
+          symbols.push(...cluster.symbols);
         }
-        sectionRanges.push(...section.parts.map((p) => p.range));
-        coveredRanges.push(...section.covered);
-        allSymbols.push(...cluster.symbols);
-      }
+        return { text, symbols, ranges, covered };
+      };
+      let assembled = assembleSection(chosenIndices);
 
       // A chosen cluster is a COMPLETE method-range — we never cut through a body,
       // and a shrunk cluster drops WHOLE members for the same reason. An oversize
-      // single MEMBER (one long monolithic function) still renders in full: half a
-      // method is useless (the agent just Reads the rest for the other half), which
-      // is the very fallback explore exists to prevent. A pathological file is
-      // bounded by the cluster SELECTION above + the total hard ceiling.
+      // single MEMBER (one long monolithic function) is kept whole for as long as
+      // it fits the bounded overshoot (half a method is useless — the agent just
+      // Reads the rest, the fallback explore exists to prevent); past that bound it
+      // is WINDOWED on whole lines rather than dropped (CG-30), so a god-method
+      // can neither be silently lost nor spend the response's whole envelope.
       if (chosenIndices.size < clusters.length || anyClusterShrunk) {
         anyFileTrimmed = true;
       }
@@ -4884,42 +5245,86 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       // files (Session.swift in Alamofire) produced 3.4KB symbol lists
       // from cluster scoring + edge-source lines, dwarfing the per-file
       // body cap. Show top names by frequency, with a "+N more" tail.
-      const symbolCounts = new Map<string, number>();
-      for (const s of allSymbols) {
-        symbolCounts.set(s, (symbolCounts.get(s) ?? 0) + 1);
-      }
-      const sortedSymbols = [...symbolCounts.entries()]
-        .sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1])
-        .map(([name]) => name);
-      const headerCap = budget.maxSymbolsInFileHeader;
-      const headerSymbols = sortedSymbols.slice(0, headerCap);
-      const omittedCount = sortedSymbols.length - headerSymbols.length;
-      const headerSuffix = omittedCount > 0
-        ? `${headerSymbols.join(', ')}, +${omittedCount} more`
-        : headerSymbols.join(', ');
-      const fileHeader = fileSectionHeader(filePath, headerSuffix);
+      const headerFor = (symbols: readonly string[]): string => {
+        const symbolCounts = new Map<string, number>();
+        for (const s of symbols) symbolCounts.set(s, (symbolCounts.get(s) ?? 0) + 1);
+        const sortedSymbols = [...symbolCounts.entries()]
+          .sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1])
+          .map(([name]) => name);
+        const headerSymbols = sortedSymbols.slice(0, budget.maxSymbolsInFileHeader);
+        const omittedCount = sortedSymbols.length - headerSymbols.length;
+        return fileSectionHeader(filePath, omittedCount > 0
+          ? `${headerSymbols.join(', ')}, +${omittedCount} more`
+          : headerSymbols.join(', '));
+      };
 
       // Last stop before the hard ceiling. The reservation already bounded cluster
       // selection above, so reaching this means the bounded overshoot (an oversize
       // first cluster, taken whole rather than sliced mid-method) ran the response
-      // out of room. Skip the file whole and keep scanning — never slice mid-method.
-      // This used to compare against `maxOutputChars` and exempt "necessary" files,
-      // which is how arrival order decided the answer: whichever files ranked first
-      // spent the envelope, and everything after them was dropped on a cap they had
-      // no say in. Reservations replace that exemption — a file that earned bytes
-      // was already given them.
-      if (totalChars + fileSection.length + 200 > renderCeiling) {
+      // out of room.
+      //
+      // Exact, like the whole-file arm above (CG-26): header + fences + body,
+      // not body + a flat 200. The displacement half of the invariant is
+      // already enforced on the body itself (`bodyCap` / `SPINE_CEILING` read
+      // `fundedHeadroom`); this is the ceiling half. And because it is exact it
+      // now bites at the margin — a header runs 300–500 chars where the body
+      // budget assumed 200 — so an overrun TRIMS the weakest cluster and
+      // re-assembles instead of skipping the file whole. Skipping a file over a
+      // ~300-char accounting difference is starvation by rounding: the file was
+      // admitted, reserved and rendered, and would have delivered nothing.
+      // Only when the top-ranked cluster alone cannot fit is the file skipped —
+      // that one is never sliced mid-method.
+      let fileHeader = headerFor(assembled.symbols);
+      let chosenNow = chosenIndices;
+      const costOfSection = (header: string, body: string) =>
+        header.length + 2 + (body.length > 0 ? body.length + lang.length + 11 : 0);
+      while (totalChars + costOfSection(fileHeader, assembled.text) > renderCeiling
+             && chosenNow.size > 1) {
+        // Weakest first: `rankedClusters` is best-first, so walk it backwards.
+        const trimmed = new Set(chosenNow);
+        for (let i = rankedClusters.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+          const idx = rankedClusters[i]!.idx;
+          if (trimmed.has(idx)) { trimmed.delete(idx); break; }
+        }
+        chosenNow = trimmed;
+        assembled = assembleSection(chosenNow);
+        fileHeader = headerFor(assembled.symbols);
+        anyFileTrimmed = true;
+      }
+      // One cluster left and still over — by the header estimate's error, at
+      // most a few hundred chars. Re-render it INTO the room that is actually
+      // left rather than skip the file: the same whole-line windowing an
+      // oversize cluster already gets (CG-30), just against an exact bound.
+      // The header is built from the cluster's symbols, not its text, so
+      // re-rendering cannot move the target.
+      if (totalChars + costOfSection(fileHeader, assembled.text) > renderCeiling
+          && chosenNow.size === 1) {
+        const idx = [...chosenNow][0]!;
+        const room = renderCeiling - totalChars
+          - (fileHeader.length + 2 + lang.length + 11);
+        if (room > 0) {
+          const reshrunk = renderCluster(clusters[idx]!, room, room);
+          renderedClusters.set(idx, reshrunk);
+          anyClusterShrunk = anyClusterShrunk || reshrunk.shrunk;
+          assembled = assembleSection(chosenNow);
+          anyFileTrimmed = true;
+        }
+      }
+      if (totalChars + costOfSection(fileHeader, assembled.text) > renderCeiling) {
         anyFileTrimmed = true;
         diag?.recordSkip(filePath, 'budget-clusters');
         continue;
       }
+      const fileSection = assembled.text;
+      const sectionRanges = assembled.ranges;
+      const coveredRanges = assembled.covered;
 
       // The undeduped render of the same clusters, needed only if this file ends
       // up fully back-referenced AND the whole call finds nothing new to say —
       // see `suppressedFallback`. Built lazily: on every other call it is dead
       // weight.
       const fullClusterParts = fileSection.length === 0
-        ? clusters.flatMap((c, i) => (chosenIndices.has(i) ? buildSection(c) : []))
+        ? clusters.flatMap((c, i) => (chosenNow.has(i) ? buildSection(c) : []))
         : [];
       emitFileSection({
         header: fileHeader,
@@ -4928,7 +5333,9 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         covered: mergeRanges(coveredRanges),
         overhead: 200,
         mode: 'clusters',
-        clipped: chosenIndices.size < clusters.length,
+        // Windowing an oversize member elides source too — reporting it as
+        // unclipped would hide exactly the cut the diagnostic exists to show.
+        clipped: chosenNow.size < clusters.length || anyClusterShrunk,
         fullBody: sectionText(fullClusterParts),
         fullRanges: fullClusterParts.map((p) => p.range),
       });
@@ -4988,6 +5395,19 @@ export class ToolHandler {
       );
     }
 
+    // Everything pushed from here on is EPILOGUE — meta-text ABOUT the response
+    // rather than part of it. Marked so the hard-ceiling cut at the end can
+    // spend it before it spends a rendered file section (CG-31): 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 their instruction.
+    //
+    // Drawn AFTER the drift warning on purpose — that one is an honesty claim
+    // about source we did render, not a note about the response, so it is never
+    // the thing we drop. Lines already in `lines` are only MUTATED from here on
+    // (the verbatim header, the summary sentinel), never re-ordered, so the
+    // index stays valid.
+    const epilogueStart = lines.length;
+
     // The curated header count is computed from the files that SURVIVE the final
     // truncation (see end of method) — `filesIncluded` can over-count when the
     // hard ceiling drops trailing sections — so leave a sentinel here and fill it
@@ -5000,6 +5420,14 @@ export class ToolHandler {
     // CLIFFED file is source we deliberately withheld, so the list is forced on
     // whenever there is one: withholding a file's bytes is only cheap if the agent
     // can still name it in a follow-up call (CG-12).
+    // The epilogue's three blocks are BUILT here and FITTED below (CG-26) —
+    // they are not pushed straight into `lines` any more. The render loop
+    // budgets for the epilogue floor it committed to (`EPILOGUE_FLOOR`); what
+    // the response can afford above that floor is only known now, so the
+    // blocks are assembled against the room that actually remains, in priority
+    // order, instead of being emitted whole and then discarded whole.
+    const pointerEntries: string[] = [];
+    let pointerOmitted = 0;
     if (budget.includeAdditionalFiles || cliffedFiles.size > 0) {
       // Everything ranked that didn't render, in rank order — cliffed files first,
       // since they outrank whatever the file cap cut. (Indexing by `filesIncluded`
@@ -5015,68 +5443,111 @@ export class ToolHandler {
         .filter(([fp, group]) => group.score < scoreFloor && !rankedPaths.has(fp))
         .sort((a, b) => b[1].score - a[1].score);
       const remainingFiles = [...remainingRelevant, ...peripheralFiles];
-      if (remainingFiles.length > 0) {
-        lines.push('**Not shown above — explore these names for their source**');
-        lines.push('');
-        // A pointer only has to make the file NAMEABLE in a follow-up call, so cap
-        // the symbols per line: an un-capped list ran to ~1.9K on the #1500 fixture
-        // (12 generated CRUD symbols on one line), meta-text bought at the price of
-        // the source bytes this section exists to point away from.
-        const POINTER_SYMBOLS = 6;
-        for (const [filePath, group] of remainingFiles.slice(0, 10)) {
-          const named = group.nodes.filter(n => n.kind !== 'import' && n.kind !== 'export');
-          const shown = (named.length > 0 ? named : group.nodes).slice(0, POINTER_SYMBOLS);
-          const more = (named.length > 0 ? named : group.nodes).length - shown.length;
-          const symbols = shown.map(n => `${n.name}:${n.startLine}`).join(', ')
-            + (more > 0 ? `, +${more} more` : '');
-          lines.push(`- ${filePath}: ${symbols}`);
-        }
-        if (remainingFiles.length > 10) {
-          lines.push(`- ... and ${remainingFiles.length - 10} more files`);
-        }
+      for (const [filePath, group] of remainingFiles.slice(0, POINTER_MAX_FILES)) {
+        pointerEntries.push(pointerLineFor(filePath, group.nodes));
       }
+      pointerOmitted = Math.max(0, remainingFiles.length - pointerEntries.length);
     }
 
-    // Add completeness signal so agents know they don't need to re-read these files.
+    // Completeness signal so agents know they don't need to re-read these files.
     // On small projects the budget gates this off — but if we actually had to
     // trim or drop clusters, surface a brief note so the agent knows it can
     // still Read for more detail.
-    if (budget.includeCompletenessSignal) {
-      lines.push('');
-      lines.push('---');
-      lines.push(`> **Complete source for ${filesIncluded} files is included above — do NOT re-read them.** If your question also needs files/symbols listed under "Not shown above" (or any area this call didn't cover), make ANOTHER codegraph_explore targeting those names — it returns the same source with line numbers and is cheaper and more complete than reading. Reserve Read for a single specific line range explore can't surface.`);
-    } else if (anyFileTrimmed) {
-      lines.push('');
-      lines.push(`> Some file sections were trimmed for size. For a specific symbol you still need, run another \`codegraph_explore\` (or \`codegraph_node\`) with its exact name — line-numbered source, cheaper and more complete than Read.`);
-    }
+    const completenessBlock: string[] = budget.includeCompletenessSignal
+      ? ['', '---', `> **Complete source for ${filesIncluded} files is included above — do NOT re-read them.** If your question also needs files/symbols listed under "Not shown above" (or any area this call didn't cover), make ANOTHER codegraph_explore targeting those names — it returns the same source with line numbers and is cheaper and more complete than reading. Reserve Read for a single specific line range explore can't surface.`]
+      : anyFileTrimmed
+        ? ['', `> Some file sections were trimmed for size. For a specific symbol you still need, run another \`codegraph_explore\` (or \`codegraph_node\`) with its exact name — line-numbered source, cheaper and more complete than Read.`]
+        : [];
 
-    // Add explore budget note based on project size
+    // Explore budget note based on project size.
+    let budgetBlock: string[] = [];
     if (budget.includeBudgetNote) {
       try {
         const stats = cg.getStats();
         const callBudget = getExploreBudget(stats.fileCount);
-        lines.push('');
-        lines.push(`> **Explore budget: ${callBudget} calls for this project (${stats.fileCount.toLocaleString()} files indexed).** Each call covers ~6 files; if your question spans more, spend your remaining calls on the uncovered area BEFORE falling back to Read — another explore is cheaper and more complete than reading those files. Synthesize once you've used ${callBudget}.`);
+        budgetBlock = ['', `> **Explore budget: ${callBudget} calls for this project (${stats.fileCount.toLocaleString()} files indexed).** Each call covers ~6 files; if your question spans more, spend your remaining calls on the uncovered area BEFORE falling back to Read — another explore is cheaper and more complete than reading those files. Synthesize once you've used ${callBudget}.`];
       } catch {
         // Stats unavailable — skip budget note
       }
     }
 
-    // Final ceiling — an ABSOLUTE inline cap, not a multiple of the budget. The
-    // render loop renders necessary (named/spine) files even a bit past
-    // maxOutputChars and caps only incidental ones, so this is the last safety.
-    // It MUST stay under the host's inline tool-result limit (~25K chars): above
-    // that the result is externalized to a file the agent Reads back (a 35K
-    // vscode explore did exactly this in the n=4 A/B). So allow a little
-    // necessary overflow above the 24K budget, but hard-stop at 25K — never into
-    // externalize territory.
-    const output = flow.text + lines.join('\n');
+    // FIT THE EPILOGUE (CG-26). Before this, the epilogue was emitted whole and
+    // then, on a saturated response, discarded whole by the hard ceiling — four
+    // of six suite repos shipped with no pointer list and no reminders at all,
+    // and the render loop had "budgeted" 600 chars for something that measures
+    // 1,064–2,231. Neither number was the real one, because the epilogue is not
+    // one thing: a fixed floor the loop reserves for (the cut note, plus a
+    // pointer for every file whose bytes were deliberately WITHHELD — CG-12
+    // makes those names load-bearing) and an elastic tail that takes what is
+    // left. Assembled in priority order — the do-not-re-read reminder first,
+    // then pointers in rank order, then the budget note — and emitted in
+    // document order.
+    const roomFor = (block: readonly string[]): number =>
+      block.reduce((n, s) => n + s.length + 1, 0);
+    let room = hardCeiling - (flow.text.length + lines.join('\n').length);
+
+    const keepCompleteness = completenessBlock.length > 0
+      && roomFor(completenessBlock) <= room;
+    if (keepCompleteness) room -= roomFor(completenessBlock);
+
+    const pointerBlock: string[] = [];
+    if (pointerEntries.length > 0) {
+      const head = [POINTER_HEADER, ''];
+      let left = room - roomFor(head);
+      if (left >= 0) {
+        let taken = 0;
+        for (const entry of pointerEntries) {
+          // Every entry we do NOT take has to be confessed by the tail line, so
+          // the tail's cost is part of taking one less than all of them.
+          const dropped = pointerEntries.length - taken - 1 + pointerOmitted;
+          const tail = dropped > 0 ? roomFor([`- ... and ${dropped} more files`]) : 0;
+          if (entry.length + 1 + tail > left) break;
+          left -= entry.length + 1;
+          taken++;
+        }
+        if (taken > 0) {
+          pointerBlock.push(...head, ...pointerEntries.slice(0, taken));
+          const dropped = pointerEntries.length - taken + pointerOmitted;
+          if (dropped > 0) pointerBlock.push(`- ... and ${dropped} more files`);
+          room -= roomFor(pointerBlock);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    // Nothing of the pointer list survived, but there WAS one — say so, in the
+    // one line that carries its instruction forward.
+    const pointersLost = pointerEntries.length > 0 && pointerBlock.length === 0;
 
-    const hardCeiling = Math.min(Math.round(budget.maxOutputChars * 1.5), 25000);
+    const keepBudgetNote = budgetBlock.length > 0 && roomFor(budgetBlock) <= room;
+    if (keepBudgetNote) room -= roomFor(budgetBlock);
+
+    lines.push(...pointerBlock);
+    if (keepCompleteness) lines.push(...completenessBlock);
+    if (keepBudgetNote) lines.push(...budgetBlock);
+    if (pointersLost && roomFor([EPILOGUE_LOST_NOTE, '']) <= room) {
+      lines.push('', EPILOGUE_LOST_NOTE);
+    }
+
+    const output = flow.text + lines.join('\n');
     let finalText: string;
-    if (output.length > hardCeiling) {
-      // Cut at a FILE-SECTION boundary (the last ``**` `` file header before the
-      // ceiling) so we drop whole trailing file-sections rather than slicing
+    // The epilogue costs less than a file section, so it is cut FIRST (CG-31).
+    // Dropping a trailing section throws away source the render loop had already
+    // set that file's reservation aside for — the exact starvation the
+    // displacement guard exists to prevent, arriving after the guard has done
+    // its work. The epilogue is a pointer list and two reminders; its own
+    // "explore these names" instruction survives in the note below.
+    const epilogueOnlyCut = epilogueStart < lines.length
+      ? flow.text + lines.slice(0, epilogueStart).join('\n')
+      : null;
+    const EPILOGUE_CUT_NOTE = '\n\n> (Trailing notes omitted for size. The source above is complete and verbatim — treat it as already Read. For anything this call did not cover, run another codegraph_explore with the specific names rather than reading those files.)';
+
+    if (output.length > hardCeiling
+        && epilogueOnlyCut !== null
+        && epilogueOnlyCut.length + EPILOGUE_CUT_NOTE.length <= hardCeiling) {
+      finalText = epilogueOnlyCut + EPILOGUE_CUT_NOTE;
+    } else if (output.length > hardCeiling) {
+      // Still over with the epilogue gone: cut at a FILE-SECTION boundary (the
+      // last ``**` `` file header before the ceiling) so we drop whole trailing
+      // file-sections rather than slicing
       // through a method body — a half-rendered method just forces the Read this
       // tool exists to prevent. Fall back to a line boundary only if no section
       // header sits in the back half (degenerate single-giant-section case).