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+# US07-06 — Validate Performance and Resource Bounds
+
+Epic: [E07](../E07-hardening-release.md)
+
+As an operator, I want measured performance and bounded resource use so large libraries
+remain responsive and do not exhaust memory, disk, handles, or queues.
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Agreed budgets cover API latency, throughput, RSS, open files, WAL, queues, cache,
+  disk reserve, and event delivery at 25k, 100k, and 500k synthetic assets.
+- Duplicate clusters with thousands of members remain usable and paged.
+- Multi-hour work plus browsing, cancellation, retry, backup, and cache eviction shows
+  no unbounded growth or starvation.
+- Budget exceptions are measured, documented, and approved before release.
+
+## Automated tests
+
+- Repeatable load/soak commands export machine-readable metrics and fail budget breaches.
+- CI runs a short profile; scheduled infrastructure runs the full soak matrix.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+- US07-04, US07-05