Reviewers ignored the tool call budget in their prompt, and the budget was a
poor stand-in for what matters anyway: per-call latency varied from 25 to
85 seconds between lenses, so the same count meant 7 minutes for one and 20
for another. Two lenses hit the timeout and lost everything they had found.
Enforce the deadline itself. run_claude exports it per invocation and a
PreToolUse hook denies further tool calls once it has passed, telling the
model to return what it has. The structured output call stays allowed, so
a slow lens still produces findings. The timeout, three minutes later, only
catches a hang. Give reviewers 22 minutes and the validator 12.
Daan De Meyer
109d01bfb0