diff --git a/docs/reading-cost.md b/docs/reading-cost.md
index f2b20c9..e63b9bf 100644
--- a/docs/reading-cost.md
+++ b/docs/reading-cost.md
@@ -457,3 +457,20 @@ Read most (opens and searches):
 - `src/auth/gate.ts` 1
 - `src/auth/jwt.ts` 1
 - `src/server.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk ac2b7411e145, finished 2026-11-08T20:50:21Z
+
+105677 new input tokens before the first commit.
+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `README.md` 15
+- `src/http/app-admin.test.ts` 7
+- `todo.md` 5
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 3
+- `ci.sh` 3
+- `examples/README.md` 3
+- `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-shared.test.ts` 3
+- `src/plugin-host/conflicts.ts` 3
+- `AGENTS.md` 2
+- `compose.yml` 2
diff --git a/src/http/app.test.ts b/src/http/app.test.ts
index 9ec296f..cff1dbe 100644
--- a/src/http/app.test.ts
+++ b/src/http/app.test.ts
@@ -169,14 +169,19 @@ test("ctx.log after a client abort doesn't throw: the request log is ended only
   // deferred until the handler settles (regression for the abort race).
   let afterCloseOk = false;
   let afterCloseErr: string | undefined;
+  const started = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+  const closed = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+  const logged = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
   const plugin: Plugin = {
     apiVersion: "1.0.0",
     id: "slow",
     routes: [{
       handler: async (ctx) => {
-        await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 120)); // outlasts the client abort below
+        started.resolve();
+        await closed.promise;
         try { ctx.log.info("after abort", {}); afterCloseOk = true; } // would throw if end() already ran
         catch (e) { afterCloseErr = String(e); }
+        logged.resolve();
         return { json: { ok: true } };
       },
       method: "GET",
@@ -184,16 +189,20 @@ test("ctx.log after a client abort doesn't throw: the request log is ended only
     }],
   };
   const app = createApp({ log: createLogger({ level: "none" }), plugins: [plugin] });
+  // Added after the host's request listener, so this "close" listener fires after the host's.
+  app.once("request", (_req, res) => res.on("close", () => closed.resolve()));
   await new Promise<void>((r) => app.listen(0, r));
   t.after(() => app.close());
   const base = `http://localhost:${(app.address() as AddressInfo).port}`;
 
-  // Abort the request mid-handler (well before the 120ms), forcing res "close" while it still runs.
+  // Abort the request mid-handler.
   const ac = new AbortController();
-  setTimeout(() => ac.abort(), 20);
-  await assert.rejects(fetch(base + "/slow/go", { signal: ac.signal })); // the client sees the abort
+  const aborted = assert.rejects(fetch(base + "/slow/go", { signal: ac.signal })); // the client sees the abort
+  await started.promise;
+  ac.abort();
+  await aborted;
 
-  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 200)); // let the handler finish post-abort
+  await logged.promise;
   assert.equal(afterCloseErr, undefined, "ctx.log did not throw after the client disconnected");
   assert.ok(afterCloseOk, "the handler logged successfully after close");
 
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index d83f794..755276f 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 
 | ID | Release | Blocked by | Exempt | Item | L | E | I | R | S | Moves | Score |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 61 | 0.5.0 |  |  | **Make the client-abort log test in `src/http/app.test.ts` wait on the handler, not on fixed sleeps.** | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | code health by 2 | 12.0 |
 | 5 | 0.5.0 |  |  | **List grants that no installed plugin declares, with a remove action.** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 by 3 | 2.1 |
 | 41 | 0.5.0 |  |  | **Apply a permission save as one Keto call, so it cannot stop part-way.** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 by 2 | 2.1 |
 | 19 | 0.6.0 |  | question | **Run the documented Docker commands on macOS and fix whatever misbehaves.** | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 by 3 | 3.3 |
@@ -26,12 +25,6 @@
 
 ## Details
 
-### 61. Make the client-abort log test in `src/http/app.test.ts` wait on the handler, not on fixed sleeps.
-
-"ctx.log after a client abort doesn't throw" aborts at 20 ms, lets the handler log at 120 ms and asserts
-at 200 ms. On a loaded CI runner the handler hadn't logged by then (PR #226, run 5739), so the gate went
-red on unrelated work. Await a promise the handler resolves after it logs instead.
-
 ### 5. List grants that no installed plugin declares, with a remove action.
 
 `grantDiff` never revokes an undeclared name, and nothing shows one either, so it can't be audited or