Covers the per-run spend gate: no quota-reporting agent means no gate at all (fail open), carrying on before the first reading and on unreadable ones, pausing past the weekly boundary, the run's own model window joining the gate, the half-day cushion for a fresh week, and the spend slider loosening — never tightening — the gate mid-run.

## Before writing SPEC.md files

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