The measured-cost run left 99 taint requests unasked to keep time for
arbitration and reported them as `query_failed` -- an engine that could not
answer -- because they were simply missing from the answer. They are now
`query_budget_reserved`, both as a degradation and as each question's outcome
reason, and are no longer double counted when nothing answered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo