The OAuth revocation is the week's root cause for nearly everything. Six of the eight over-budget runs trace directly to extra attempts after re-queue. This is the first time the account was revoked mid-run; if it happens again the same cascade recurs. Worth investigating whether there's a way to detect and alert on revocation before it kills sessions.

App_ready: 88 minutes, three attempts, $15.28 — third week running with escalation. The step completed but the cost pattern is consistent: sessions restart mid-narration, each new session has no context from the last, so the work repeats. The retro records this as the most expensive single step. A pre-check that confirms all record fields before starting a narration session would likely cut this to one attempt most weeks.

The run cost $75 for the second week in a row. The median is $39.53 over four prior weeks. The Sep 27 OAuth outage and Sep 20 podcast loop are different root causes — but the $75 output is the same. Without the OAuth hit, the estimate from the retro budget table is roughly $45–50. The gap between that and median is largely app_ready.

Six completion tests failed; eight steps needed a hand. videos_publish, site_push, podcast, schedule_social, social_drop, and app_ready all failed their tests on first run. Most cleared after Jeff intervened or retried. Completion tests that consistently fail are worth investigating whether the test is wrong or the step is.