refactor(server): GitHub rate limits read the response headers

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The GraphQL budget was a leftover from gh api graphql, which returned only a body. To see the quota it rewrote every read query to add rateLimit { cost limit remaining resetAt } and then parsed the answer. GitHubApi talks HTTP now, and every answer carries x-ratelimit-limit/remaining/reset/resource. The budget also only covered GraphQL, so REST had no reserve.

• New githubQuota.ts, replacing githubGraphQlBudget.ts. Same rule as before: the last tenth of each quota is kept for interactive requests, and background requests are refused until reset. The balance is GitHub's own count from the latest answer's headers, tracked separately for REST (core) and GraphQL. That count already includes anything else spending the same token, such as an agent's gh commands. Nothing is debited locally, because a 304 or a request that never reached GitHub spends nothing. Interactive requests stop once GitHub reports a quota empty. Queries are sent exactly as written.
• User writes may spend the reserve: creating a pull request or a repository, including the viewer lookup that comes before creating a repository.
• The reactive pause is still host-wide. PullRequestService records its own backoff by host, and the two have to share one key.
• Tracing: github.graphql.cost is gone. The per-request github.ratelimit.* header attributes, which already existed, cover what remains. measure-pr-preview.ts adds rateLimit { cost } to its own queries, so its numbers are unchanged.

The second commit addresses adversarial review findings: the local debit drifting on 304s, the reserve blocking user writes, interactive requests going out against an empty quota, and the per-quota pause key diverging from PullRequestService's.

Tests: new githubQuota.test.ts (reserve, per-quota/host/account isolation, out-of-order answers, a 304 doesn't drain the balance, empty quota), plus GitHubApi.test.ts reserve and pause cases. The GitHubPullRequestApi reserve tests now drive the quota through response headers. apps/server typecheck is clean, and the 1,256 tests across src/sourceControl, src/pullRequest, src/git, VcsProcess, ThreadPullRequestService and PullRequestSyncReactor pass.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	20.9 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	5.0 KiB	—	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	3.8 KiB	—	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	1.2 KiB	—	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	21.2 KiB	—	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	2	—	8	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: b8f42ae · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This replaces GraphQL-only accounting with a shared header-driven quota gate across production GitHub REST and GraphQL traffic, changing background admission and interactive reserve behavior. The cross-resource pause and in-flight/variable-cost availability trade-offs are substantial enough to require human validation.

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GitHub API quota tracking now uses response headers for REST and GraphQL requests. The change adds quota admission by host, resource, and credential scope, updates selected callers to allow reserve capacity, and adjusts preview measurement and tests.

Changes

GitHub quota tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Quota state and resource keys apps/server/src/sourceControl/githubQuota.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/githubQuota.test.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/githubGraphQlBudget.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/githubGraphQlBudget.test.ts	Adds header-based quota snapshots and admission rules. Removes the GraphQL budget service and its tests. New tests cover quota scope, reserve rules, observations, and reset windows.
GitHub API quota integration apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.test.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.test.ts	Admits REST and GraphQL requests against separate quota resources and observes response headers. Selected provider operations allow reserve capacity. Tests cover quota pauses, reserve use, and telemetry.
Preview quota callers and measurement apps/server/scripts/measure-pr-preview.ts, apps/server/src/pullRequest/GitHubPullRequestApi.test.ts	Updates pull request API tests to use quota headers and verify preview pausing until reset. The measurement script adds a rate-limit cost selection to eligible read queries.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubApi
  participant GitHubQuota
  participant GitHub
  GitHubApi->>GitHubQuota: Admit request for core or graphql resource
  GitHubApi->>GitHub: Send admitted request
  GitHub-->>GitHubApi: Return response and quota headers
  GitHubApi->>GitHubQuota: Observe response headers

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubApi.ts:
- Around line 400-404: Reorder the admission flow around `quota.admit` and
`limits.check` so the existing pause is checked before `quota.admit` spends a
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- Line 113: Update quota reconciliation in observe, where the comparison against
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- Around line 402-406: Update the `quota.admit` and `limits.check` flow so
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pause from blocking GraphQL requests with available quota. Preserve host-wide
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/sourceControl/githubQuota.ts:
- Around line 105-109: Update the quota reconciliation condition comparing
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while accepting authoritative higher headers. Update the out-of-order test to
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- Around line 84-87: Update the quota admission check using snapshots so
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