`PGW_TELEMETRY_TEXT_CAP` now reaches the emitter on every assembly path.
Unset means no truncation, which stays the default: a truncated row is
no longer audit evidence and cannot be replayed, and downstreams rely on
that today. The flip side — contracts and bids sitting in `llm_calls`
indefinitely, multi-tenant — is spelled out in `.env.example` so readers
can weigh both.
All three `from_settings` paths are wired (chat, embedding, OCR): they
write the same table, so capping only chat would leave half of it
uncontrolled. `TelemetryEmitter.__init__` now rejects `text_cap <= 0`;
it is the single point where the three clients converge, so the direct
construction path — a public assembly route the settings guard never
sees — is covered too. `0` would otherwise reduce every body to a bare
elision marker.
_validate_stall still guards stall_window_s >= max ttft_timeout_s, but its
stated reason no longer holds: TTFT waiting is productive time and never
reaches the stall account. The check is harmless and stays, so the
docstring now says why it is kept rather than implying a live hazard.
.env.example dropped the "must be >= max TTFT" advice for what the window
actually measures.
AIMD ceiling now respects per-source max_concurrency and the pacer is
assembled explicitly in the client; MIN_CALLS parses as strict int;
acceptance doc corrects source-5 attempt count to 549; design and
migration notes aligned with implemented 429/stall/suppression
semantics and AIMD constants documented.
Round 5 left three residual failure classes; ladder exhaustion (3.2%
of structured calls with a single re-ask) and 429 leakage (5.8%, AIMD
oscillating above the sustainable point) are addressable: re-ask
default goes 1 to 2 (conservative vs instructor's 3) and the AIMD cut
factor drops to 0.5.
Includes config aggregation for multi-source env keys, from_env and
from_settings factories with explicit shared-backend injection,
gather_bounded, top-level exports, tightened import-linter layers with
the gate removed from the Makefile, and the finalized .env.example.
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