SAFETY-83: peak guard outranks the maintenance drain at N=1
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At N=1 the drain is the site SET at P_MAINTENANCE (60), so the peak floor
(P_PEAK, 50) was not applied and the house imported what the drain left.
Where the floor asks for more than the drain rate, main.py now refiles the
peak claim at P_MAINTENANCE, so it wins; safety SETs still park everything.
Nothing else changes: safety78_identity --diff against 35cdffe changes only
cycles where the guard wanted more than the drain; N=2 is byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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(`tools/safety78_identity.py`, which hashes the claims too).
**Not changed (measured in the PR #154 review, follow-ups).**
- At N=1 a drain (60) outranks the peak floor (50), so the guard does not add
to it: a 5000 W house imports 3000 W against a 2500 W limit, a 6000 W house
4000 W. Pre-existing, kept by the N=1 identity.
- At N=1 a drain (60) outranked the peak floor (50): a 5000 W house imported
3000 W against a 2500 W limit. Fixed by [[SAFETY-83]].
- At N=2 a maintenance CHARGE in a cheap window has the same stall: the
charging pack's `hi = -floor` against the loop asking the other to give is
refused on 141 of 261 cycles. The mirror fix is a site `hi`, which can meet
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# SAFETY-83 - the peak guard outranks the maintenance drain at N=1
**Status: DECIDED 2026-09-29 (owner go, P1).** Follows SAFETY-78's "Not
changed" list. Tests: `test_safety83.py`.
**The defect.** At N=1 the drain is the site SET at `P_MAINTENANCE` (60). The
peak floor is a limit at `P_PEAK` (50), and clause 2 applies only limits at or
above the winner, so the floor was ignored and the house imported what the
drain left. A 5000 W house under a 2500 W limit and a 2000 W drain banked
3000 W quarters; on the owner's settings (limit 3500, drain 2500, margin 50) a
breach starts at about 5950 W.
**The fix.** While a drain owns the setpoint at N=1 and the peak floor asks
for more than the drain rate, `main.py` (`_peak_over_drain()`) refiles that
peak claim at `P_MAINTENANCE`. The arbiter then applies it: the target is the
floor, still inside the safety limits, and a safety SET (100) still parks
everything. Where the floor is at or below the drain rate nothing changes.
- The order in effect is now the same at N=1 and N=2: safety limits and the
SAFETY-73 refusal > peak guard (with the SAFETY-79 margin) > maintenance >
modes > trade > loop (`arbiter.py`, beside the priorities).
- The drain keeps counting: the battery discharges at least the drain rate on
every cycle, so the cycle is not reset or stalled; it only ends sooner.
- Below the drain rate the rest is still exported (owner, 2026-09-29).
- Identity: `tools/safety78_identity.py --diff` against 35cdffe changes only
cycles where the guard asked for more than the drain; after such an episode
the commands are identical again and only the log and the idle loop's
integrator differ. N=2 is unchanged.
**Not changed.**
- Between the drain rate and the peak aim, the house still imports what the
drain leaves (N=1 behaviour kept by the identity). At N=2 the loop covers it.
- A maintenance HOLD (0 W, 120 min, battery full) still outranks the peak
guard at N=1. Discharging there spends the charge the BMS balances on; it is
an owner question, not this fix.