The remote-read defect survived because every test path used a local
corpus, and so did the API in production. This is the only test that runs
the package the way a new user does: no USCOGDATA_URL, no option, no
fixture -- just install and call a verb.
Gated on USCOGDATA_LIVE_TEST so offline CI skips rather than fails.
Measured against the live corpus while writing this: cog_spending for one
government is 3.9s for a single year and 5.9s across 2000-2022. Well above
the 1.5-2.8s raw parquet scan, because the verbs also join crosswalks,
resolve categories and assemble provenance.
jared
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