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Problem

quest gate admitted whenever the 1-minute load average was at or below the host's CPU count, checking only once, at admission. A build or test run's load lulls between phases, so a second whole-host command got in during the first one's lull. On a 24-CPU desktop, two cargo mutants runs were admitted this way, and the load reached 95–107 with 63% CPU pressure stall. Every runnable thread on the host but two was inside a gate scope, so the load came entirely from gated work, not agents. The other half of that overload, each mutants job running a test thread per CPU, is fixed in moq-dev/rind#574.

Behavior

• Measurement: where a systemd scope owns the gated command (scope, or bound inside a Quest scope), the gate samples the scope's cpu.stat every SETTLE_MS. It records in its admission cores: the most CPUs the command kept busy over one sample in the last RECENT_MS, rounded. It republishes only when that value changes.
• Admission: while gated commands run, the load counts as at least the sum of their cores, and nothing is admitted while that sum fills every CPU. Priority callers still ignore load. Their commands' cores still count against everyone else.
• Other platforms: macOS, Windows, and Linux without a systemd user manager have no scope to measure, so the load average alone decides there, as before. This is decided when the owner is picked.
• No configuration: there is no flag and no declared size, so nothing for a caller to guess wrong. The removed --host was used by single-threaded benchmarks; nothing here relies on callers declaring their size.

Public API and wire impact

• Ledger entries gain an optional cores (non-negative integer). There are no migrations: older gates ignore the field and keep it.
• Host gains usage(unit). admit resolves with the admission's id. measure and supervise's scopeGroup are exported.
• owner() returns { run, unit? }. scope(unit) and bound(unit, enclosing) now take the unit name the gate picks, so the gate knows which cgroup to measure.
• The CLI's surface is unchanged. Its help and the README describe the new rule.

Validation

• A new test reproduces the incident on a mocked host: a running command recorded at every CPU, with the load average lulling below the limit. It fails on the old rule, which admits at once, and passes now.
• measure is tested with a mocked clock: no rate before the scope exists, the peak held for exactly a minute, publishes only on change.
• An earlier local round (codex gpt-6.1-sol, session 01a1c6da) found that a burst in the first 5 s went unrecorded, since the first reading only set the baseline. Fixed in 49bcb89 with a zero-usage baseline at launch, and tested.
• fileHost.usage is tested against a real systemd scope, through to its removal.
• The in-scope owner test now checks the gate's scope is BindsTo= the enclosing one, which the old identity check implied.
• just check and just test pass (1,197 tests, plus the lifecycle and installer checks). just check itself ran through this branch's gate.
• After moq-dev/quest#585 landed, main was merged in; git diff origin/main now matches 8b1c658 exactly, and just check and just test pass again on the merged head.

Limitations

• A burst on an idle host still starts together, as before. A new command counts as one unit until its first rate sample, 5 s in, which measures from its launch so an opening burst still counts.

Decisions

• When measuring a command's CPU use fails, the gate: ✅ fails loud, exiting nonzero (rejected: warn and keep the command's result). A broken measurement is a bug in the accounting every other gate relies on, and a partial failure fails the whole. A cancelled command still reports its cancellation.

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• Session: 01a1c6e7-aae4-7d82-9d94-018a10f1db9b, round 2
• Head: f356b6e
• Base: origin/main at 7be1cd2
• Score: 9/10, The incremental changes preserve cancellation reporting and clarify the help text, with no actionable regressions found; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Reviewed head: 49bcb89

No actionable findings in the reviewed changes. The admission floor sums measured peaks only for running admissions, preserves priority and quick-call exceptions, and keeps FIFO accounting separate. Sampling starts from zero CPU use before launching the scope, covering the opening burst identified in the local review. Scope ownership passes the same unique unit to execution and measurement, and measurement is stopped when execution ends. Tests cover peak expiry, the opening burst, admission during a load lull, and real-scope usage/removal.

Overall direction: consistent with the stated goal of retaining recent CPU demand across phase lulls. Simultaneous initial admissions and non-systemd platforms retain the explicitly documented limits.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the diff and cgroup lookup helper. No builds, tests, load experiments, platform runs or live cgroup sampling executed; neither the reported incident nor claimed performance improvement was independently reproduced.

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Walkthrough

The gate now samples CPU use for commands owned by systemd scopes and records recent peak CPU use in admission entries. Admission checks account for recorded peaks alongside host load. Systemd ownership returns the selected runner and, when applicable, its scope unit. Tests cover CPU sampling, admission decisions, scope ownership, and cleanup. The README and CLI description document the updated load accounting.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 49bcb

If CPU measurement fails while a gated command runs, the command's result can be replaced by an error exit. This is rare and easy to fix, so the change is mergeable with a small follow-up.

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Reviewed head: f356b6e

Compared with 49bcb89; base unchanged. The cancellation fix in src/cli/gate.ts:825–827 now returns the signal-derived status before propagating a captured measurement failure. Non-cancelled measurement failures still surface. The revised help correctly describes summed peak CPU use and the full-capacity admission threshold. No new actionable findings in these incremental changes.

Direction: the fix preserves cancellation semantics without hiding ordinary accounting errors. Verification limits: GitHub-only static comparison; no tests or signal/systemd experiment run. This increment adds no regression test for simultaneous cancellation and measurement failure.

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