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Budget Gate

Budget Gate

Droid Gates next-task spawn by budget + cycle caps (stub, Gap 14)
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📖About & Usage

Owner agent — accountability this droid serves

Elrond must keep every initiative within its budget envelope and prevent endless review cycles. Specifically, he must control whether the next task can start. BG-S1 is his automated enforcer for that checkpoint.

Droid responsibility

BG-S1 watches the budget and review-cycle meters for Elrond. Before the next task can start, the droid checks whether there's still budget room and available review slots. If yes, it opens the gate. If no, it escalates to Orion. This keeps Elrond from needing to manually verify every task start.

What the droid actually does

  • Reads initiative budget and review-cycle limits
  • Sums up all spending and counts completed review phases
  • Decides if gate is open (proceed) or closed (limits hit)
  • Escalates to Orion when gate closes
  • Logs gate status to the activity log

Boundaries

  • Does not decide to continue, re-sequence, or close the initiative; only gates task spawning
  • Does not modify budget or cycle limits; only enforces them
  • Does not spawn tasks itself or handle task replanning (Merlin's domain)
  • Escalates to Orion after 3 database read failures

👤Owner

Elrond · Head of Engineering

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.

CAROL-INI-0020-02: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice. SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 01:11
CAROL-INI-0020-01: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice. SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-03 20:55
CAROL-INI-0020-00: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice. SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-30 13:14
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