Omar SobhandClaude Opus 5
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Measured on prod: 7 of 9 verdicts ran to the 12-check cap. Every round resends the whole history, and each check's output is bounded at 12 KB — so by the last round the judge was paying for ~144 KB of outputs it had already read, on top of up to 120 KB of evidence, and it paid that on every round. That is the quadratic term in a verdict's cost, and the reason a single blocked phase could empty a weekly plan. Before this round's results go in, every earlier tool result compacts to an 800-byte head plus a marker saying the rest was shown when the check ran. The round that just ran stays whole; a result already carrying the marker is left alone. The budget of checks is unchanged — each one is cheaper to remember, not fewer to run. Also: docs/NEXT-SESSION.md rewritten for the state as of today. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZb5A2kfVfjpdwSochkuHz
