[vchamarthi]

Adds --out FILE to repo budget, matching repo scan and repo inspect, so a CI job can keep the inventory without parsing stdout.

Evidence

• base: 61e0355 (vchamarthi/dokimi main, synced from intel/dokimi)
• command: experiment_safe.py running check.py (parses repo budget <dir> --out <file>, runs it, reads the file) against a copy of the tree
• before: dokimi: error: unrecognized arguments: --out ..., exit 2
• after: the table prints and the file holds {'start': 1, 'lazy': 0, 'on demand': 0, 'off': 0} totals
• not claimed: the new pytest test_cli_out_writes_the_inventory was not run green. The sandbox denies /dev/null, so every test that calls git fails there, before and after (4 of 4 CLI tests in that file). make ci-local was not run. The check script stubbed the git tree listing.

Blast radius

repo budget only: one optional flag, default off. Output without --out is unchanged. Docs usage line and a changelog fragment updated. A write failure exits 1 with cannot write.

Overlap

• checked: intel/dokimi
• intel/dokimi open: 19
• vchamarthi/dokimi open: 6
• feat(repo): skill/skill-catalog arms, cache tokens, MCP config when repo ships one intel/dokimi#137 not the same: arms and cache tokens; shares only the contract doc.
• feat(repos): built-in review graders dokimi:review_seeds and dokimi:review_replay intel/dokimi#120 not the same: review graders; shares only the contract doc.
• feat(repo): Codex and Copilot CLI harness profiles, native review mode intel/dokimi#116 not the same: harness profiles; shares only the contract doc.
• repo scan: L0 rules for parity with oneDAL static_check (D6) intel/dokimi#115 not the same: scan L0 rules; shares only the contract doc.
• feat(repo): compare flags comparisons with no headroom intel/dokimi#114 not the same: compare headroom flag; shares only the contract doc.
• ci: reusable repo-eval workflow (validate, scan, tasks check) with dokimi pinned intel/dokimi#113 not the same: CI workflow; shares only the contract doc.
• feat(repo): --delegation and an execution id for repo run cells intel/dokimi#107 not the same: repo run delegation; shares only the contract doc.
• ci(docs): flag docs pages whose depends_on code a PR changes intel/dokimi#92 not the same: docs CI check; shares only the contract doc.
• feat(repo): repo fetch --json prints the pinned sha as JSON #8 not the same: repo fetch --json; different subcommand, same file repo.py and contract doc, no conflicting hunk expected.

Created with claude-sonnet-5-5.

[vchamarthi]

Superseded by intel#149 and intel#150.