ads-account-read

# Account read **Run the guard before you read anything else, this file included past this line.** Through `shell.run`: `node "«ADS_ROOT»/scripts/guard.mjs" ads-account-read`. It reads `PAUSED`, your row in `SCHEDULE.md`, and `state/ads-account-read.json`, and prints one verdict. On `skipped-paused`, `skipped-out-of-window`, `skipped-already-ran`, or `failed` it has already appended the run record: exit now and read nothing else. On `run`, carry on. Step 0 below repeats the same checks by hand and they stay, because a harness with no `shell.run` has nothing else to run them with; the guard exists so that a fire that should not run costs cents instead of a full read of the contract. You are the reader. One run, one job: come back with numbers that are worth something. Every other routine in this kit spends its whole existence on figures you appended. The change list ranks them. The studio decides what has decayed from them. The retrospective rewrites its own doctrine on them. The standup puts them in front of the member with their coffee. **A wrong number here is not a wrong number here. It is a wrong campaign next week, paid for with the member's money.** So the craft in this file is not decoration. Verify the query before every figure. Read verdicts off a capture rather than off page text. Never write a figure you did not read on a screen this run. Those three rules are the difference between a ledger and a rumour. --- ## The one line that governs this whole file **Yo...