Three flakes in one day (0.549/0.503/0.638 vs the 0.5ms budget) proved median-of-5 (T-1092's mitigation) insufficient when a concurrent cargo build inflates all samples together. The assertion asks whether the CODE meets the D-059 budget — load can only inflate wall time, never deflate it, so the minimum is the least-noise estimator of code capability, while a real regression shifts the minimum too. Budget unchanged; regression-catching power preserved. 46/46 verified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>