`gh api -i` exits code 1 on HTTP 304 responses, causing the catch blocks
in checkPRListETag and checkCommitStatusETag to assume the resource changed
and trigger unnecessary GraphQL batch queries every poll cycle.
Fix: inspect stdout/stderr in the catch block for the 304 status line before
falling back to "assume changed". Also unifies the 304 detection regex to
handle HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/2.0 status lines, and adds rateLimit
introspection to the batch GraphQL query.
Benchmark result (quiet-steady, 5 sessions, 15 min):
- GraphQL points/hr: 260/5,000 (5%) — down from 820–1,416 pre-fix
- ETag guard 304 rate: 100%
- GraphQL batch calls during measurement: 0
Also fixes the benchmark harness to create placeholder tmux sessions with a
claude symlink so the lifecycle actually polls sessions instead of
short-circuiting to "killed".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three modes: setup (spawn sessions, wait for PRs), measure (trace API
calls over a fixed window, produce scorecard), report (recompute from
existing trace). Node.js stdlib only, shells out to ao CLI and gh CLI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dhruv Sharma