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SIGN-OFF: budget raise DECLINED (hollis 2026-10-28, co-signed in spirit by roerick: 'a sign that we have not designed things well').

factory/todos-budget-1028 proposed raising the per-eval step budget 400k -> 2M for the prod /todos regression. DECLINED. The branch's own note named the durable fix - server-side type-filtered scans - and that fix landed (factory/todos-scan-1028, merged to PP master). The regression should clear at the conservative 400k.

THE PRINCIPLE: a step budget is a tripwire, not a knob. It exists to fail LOUDLY when work lands in the wrong layer. Raising it to fit an unop

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