Budget Reviewer Minutes Before Generating Docs With a Contract-Driven Queue

AI documentation pipelines are often limited by scarce human review time rather than by model output, which is nearly free. The article proposes a per-section contract that decides before generation whether a section can be model-drafted and how many review minutes it will cost. Sections are split by who can be held responsible: claims verifiable against existing artifacts can go to a model, while intent, tradeoffs, security, and unverifiable claims must stay with a human owner. The contract is kept as a flat CSV with lane, owner, review cost, and claim-count columns, and a standard-library Python script sorts draftable sections by rising review cost and exits non-zero on invalid entries. A sample fixture shows one valid section admitted and others refused for lacking an owner, being human-lane, or exceeding a single review sitting.