TestReadOwedHonoursDeadline (internal/core/autonomy/owedread_test.go:1198) failed in a preflight on a loaded machine on 2026-10-24 (load near 20, other preflights running): the read it cut short came back with incomplete false while its notes said 'the local branches could not be listed | the pull requests were not read (the forge did not answer within 10s), so the check judged from disk', so either a read cut short under load does not mark itself incomplete, or the test's deadline races the machine. A test that fails under load blocks every preflight that meets it, whatever the branch changed.

TestReadOwedHonoursDeadline (internal/core/autonomy/owedread_test.go:1198) failed in a preflight on a loaded machine on 2026-10-24 (load near 20, other preflights running): the read it cut short came back with incomplete false while its notes said 'the local branches could not be listed | the pull requests were not read (the forge did not answer within 10s), so the check judged from disk', so either a read cut short under load does not mark itself incomplete, or the test's deadline races the machine. A test that fails under load blocks every preflight that meets it, whatever the branch changed.

Grounds

• declined: the same failure as iss-2610241911001655, which branch chore/capture-holdups-3fee diagnoses and fixes (a git read failing past the deadline now marks the owed-work reading incomplete); it is followed there