agentic-resources/session_memory/catalog/sp-problem-budget_overrun-tokens.json

{
  "created_at": "2026-06-07T09:13:20Z",
  "distribution_ready": true,
  "id": "sp-problem-budget_overrun-tokens",
  "name": "Budget overrun: token cost above peers",
  "polarity": "problem",
  "problem": "A session's token cost lands well above its peers (>p90). Usually driven by re-reading large files or tool outputs, carrying redundant context, or long exploratory loops without checkpoints.",
  "provenance": {
    "detected_at": null,
    "evidence": {
      "cost_impact": 10.667,
      "cross_flavor": false,
      "flavors": [
        "claude"
      ],
      "frequency": 3,
      "key": "problem:budget_overrun:tokens",
      "locus": "tokens",
      "polarity": "problem",
      "repos": [
        "artifact-store",
        "citation-evidence",
        "infospace-bench"
      ],
      "score": 32.001,
      "sessions": [
        "claude:0ef1b45c-5c27-4e20-88b3-37daeaa24eca",
        "claude:6e0d3d68-872b-4d93-bb09-0691e091314b",
        "claude:8fabd5ce-6a20-4412-9a8b-0f0763394a78"
      ],
      "signal_type": "budget_overrun",
      "title": "problem: budget overrun"
    },
    "promoted_at": "2026-06-07T09:13:20Z",
    "source_key": "problem:budget_overrun:tokens"
  },
  "rendering_hints": {
    "claude": {
      "target": "CLAUDE.md"
    }
  },
  "resolutions": [
    {
      "detail": "Use offset/limit; don't re-Read a file already in the transcript.",
      "steps": [
        "Locate with grep/glob first",
        "Read only the relevant span"
      ],
      "summary": "Read narrowly \u2014 target the region you need, not whole large files"
    },
    {
      "detail": "Summarize progress; avoid re-pulling outputs already shown.",
      "steps": [],
      "summary": "Checkpoint and prune context instead of re-fetching it"
    },
    {
      "detail": "grep/glob narrows scope far cheaper than reading whole trees.",
      "steps": [],
      "summary": "Prefer targeted search over broad reads to locate code"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": 1,
  "scope": {
    "domains": [],
    "flavors": [
      "claude"
    ],
    "repos": [
      "artifact-store",
      "citation-evidence",
      "infospace-bench"
    ]
  },
  "status": "approved",
  "updated_at": "2026-06-07T14:21:06Z",
  "version": "1.0.1"
}