Development record

The away-mode owed-work reader treats a local-branch listing cut short by its time budget as a plain listing failure: when the budget runs out during git for-each-ref, it notes that the local branches could not be listed but never marks the reading incomplete, so the stop judgement reads it as no own branches and nothing owed instead of failing open on an incomplete reading. A pull-request listing cut short the same way is noted as judged from disk alone. Seen as a failure of TestReadOwedHonoursDeadline in a make preflight run under load on 2026-10-23, and reproduced every time with a context spent before the read.