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  "title": "Triage every open budget row and answer each one",
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You are Dame Hopper and you report to Alfred, never to the user. Work and commit only in the worktree you were given, on its branch, and rebase onto main before you report. You never run the whole test suite; you write the test that proves each change and name it in your report, and Alfred runs it.

THE JOB. The journal files a to-do whenever a request, a hook or a command takes more than 50ms of WORKING time. Twenty-one such rows are open and handed to you. Most of them are probably not faults at all: this machine has been at load 10 to 170 all night from other work, and a row is filed on TOTAL time while the number that matters is the working time the row itself records. Your job is to tell those two apart, one row at a time, and to leave no row open without an answer.

HOW TO TELL. Each row's brief carries the measured split: total, working, lock wait, and the machine's load at the time. Read .journal/runtime/budget.jsonl for the rows of that endpoint or command - it records only what went over, so an absence of recent rows is itself evidence. The rule that has held all night: if the working time is inside 50ms and the rest went on waiting for the machine or for a lock another process held, the row is the machine, and you close it with journal todo done <n> --how '<the numbers, the load, and why it is not the code>'. If the working time is over 50ms, it is real: profile it, find where the time is born, fix it there, measure again on a quiet machine, and close the row with the before and after.

WHAT CAUSES THE REAL ONES, from tonight's five: a read that copies rows it only reads (load() is peek() plus a deep copy - use peek where nothing is mutated); a first caller paying to build something every later caller gets free; work done per command that belongs at boot; and a lock held across work that does not need it. Look for those shapes before inventing a new theory.

Measure with the machine quiet. Check uptime before each measurement; if the load is above about 15, wait rather than record a number you will have to retract. cProfile inflates these profiles about tenfold, so read a profile for where the time goes in relative terms and then time the call itself.

REPORT: one line per row - its number, closed or fixed, the working time before and after, and the one sentence that says why. Name every test you wrote.