[deep-report] Add a soft pre-cap AI-credits guard to heavy aggregator workflows

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Description

The AI-credits cluster is expanding (Day 4, grew from 4 → 6+ workflows) per the Agent Performance Report (#38626) and Daily Workflow Audit (#38444). Heavy aggregators reliably brush the ~1000 daily AIC cap and abort with CAPIError 429 Maximum AI credits exceeded (1003/1000) after retries (e.g. Daily Ambient Context Optimizer, Package Specification Extractor #38576 at 1,023.9 AIC). The audit recommendation rec-ai-credits-soft-cap-guard is still not shipped, and #38624 only raises the cap for one workflow rather than addressing the root cause.

Scope

Before the heaviest aggregation turns, check remaining AI credits and degrade gracefully to partial output + noop/report_incomplete instead of hard-aborting with a 429. Start with the repeat offenders: Daily Ambient Context Optimizer and Package Specification Extractor.

Expected Impact

• Converts hard 429 failures (red runs + [aw] ... failed issue noise) into clean partial completions.
• Especially important for Failure Investigator (6h) [aw] [aw] Failure Investigator (6h) failed #38559 — a credits-exhausted meta-monitor is a ~6h detection blind spot.

Suggested Agent

New Agent or copilot-swe-agent (engine/driver-level change).

Estimated Effort

Medium (1–4 hours).

Data Source

DeepReport run 2026-06-11; Daily Workflow Audit #38444 (rec-ai-credits-soft-cap-guard), Agent Performance Report #38626.

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• expires on Jun 13, 2026, 8:08 AM UTC-08:00

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This issue was automatically closed because it expired on 2026-06-13T16:08:17.814Z.

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