The rolling budget now holds without a monotonic clock (it never refills). Quarter-edge tests use seeds 1-3 at 2, 5, 10 and 15 s (no hand-picked seeds). Re-pin comments point at part 6. DECISIONS lists the limits the owner accepted with N=8 on 2026-10-20. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>