Is tested-and-green work waiting past budget anywhere in the estate.
The workflow runs Gate A across the estate: it asks whether any tested-and-green change has waited more than 48 hours without being parked, and reports the ranked list of what is waiting and why it matters.
It runs on a schedule because staleness is a function of time, not of pushes — the founding failure was a branch nobody touched, which no push-triggered workflow would ever have looked at.
It refuses to declare a partial universe clear: if part of the estate was unreadable, the gate goes red rather than green, exactly as it did during an Actions billing outage. A gate that can see only one repository would fail its own unreadable-universe rule, so it needs a token covering the repositories it judges.
That green means the whole estate was seen and nothing is stuck, not that the part it could reach looked fine. A red run names the change and the budget it blew, or names the unreadable universe it refused to pass — the gate never averages the gap away.