clay-borg/tools/cb-cost.py
tegwick b79ea9690d CB-WP-0007 T01+T03: window the metric, budget it, cap meta at 25%
Scope cut first, on the maintainer's decision after a spend review: the
project is 38% product / 62% loop-meta, cost per response is 2.9x worse
than its best window, and INTENT stage 0 still lacks a CLI player and
bots. CB-WP-0005 and CB-WP-0006 cost ~$74 — 31% of all spend — for zero
measured efficiency gain. T02 and T04 are cancelled unstarted.

T01: SH-1/SH-2/SH-3 now report over the window since the last commit, and
the cumulative figure is retained but labelled "history, NOT the metric".
The prediction held decisively — window 655,744 mean context against
cumulative 255,307, a 2.6x gap against a 20% refutation threshold. A
cumulative mean over 1,094 responses cannot detect a worsening trend
because the history outvotes the present.

T03: `make shape-budget`, modelled on CB-01/CB-02. Soft thresholds are the
existing SessionShape targets; hard is 1.5x, set before the next
measurement per §Step 4. Deliberately not in `make all` — failing the
build on context would block committing, and committing is what closes the
attribution window and is the natural point to compact, so a gate that
blocks the remedy is a trap. It fires HARD on its first run: 656,574
against a 300,000 ceiling.

InnerLoop v1.5 establishes the soft 25% meta budget. Workplans declare
kind: product|meta|mixed and `make status` reports the share; mixed splits
50/50 and says so. Soft on purpose — a task already started may be
finished, because stopping mid-task to satisfy a ratio wastes the work.
What it forbids is opening new meta work above the line. A pass that
exceeds it must say so in its evidence and name the product work
displaced.

First reading: 68% OVER, of $74.22 attributed. Product reads $0.00 because
the only product workplan, CB-WP-0001, predates qualified task ids and its
bare T## labels collide across passes — stated in the output rather than
papered over.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:12:07 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""M-D2-CST: USD cost of agentic work, attributed to workplan tasks.
Normative spec: specs/CostAccounting.md. Decision: decisions/ADR-0003.
Reads Claude Code session transcripts, deduplicates by requestId, prices
each response at its own model's rate and its own cache TTL, and attributes
it to the task named by the next commit at or after it within the same
session.
Positive control (InnerLoop v1.0 §Step 5, CostAccounting CA-02/CA-14):
this tool asserts it did the work it reports. `--self-test` exercises four
assertions against fixtures with known answers; every reporting run checks
the dedup invariant and reconciles attributed + unattributed + open +
unpriced against the raw total, aborting rather than printing a number that
does not add up.
Usage:
python3 tools/cb-cost.py # whole repo, no pin
python3 tools/cb-cost.py --pin fc76445 # pinned at a commit
python3 tools/cb-cost.py --by-task # per-task attribution
python3 tools/cb-cost.py --composition # cost split by component
python3 tools/cb-cost.py --self-test # positive control
python3 tools/cb-cost.py --json
"""
import argparse
import collections
import datetime
import glob
import json
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
try:
import tomllib
except ModuleNotFoundError: # pragma: no cover - py<3.11
print("ERROR: needs Python 3.11+ for tomllib", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
from repo import ROOT as REPO # noqa: E402 (single source of fact, T01)
PRICES = os.path.join(REPO, "benchmarks", "baselines", "model-prices.toml")
COMPONENTS = ("input", "output", "cache_read", "write_5m", "write_1h")
# CA-08 attribution key. Qualified first: a bare `T\d\d` collides across
# workplans — CB-WP-0002 T01, CB-WP-0003 T01 and CB-WP-0004 T01 all matched
# the same bucket, so a per-task figure summed three unrelated tasks. Found
# by T02's positive control, which reported $12.10 for "T01".
TASK_QUALIFIED_RE = re.compile(r"\b(CB-WP-\d+)[ -](T\d\d)\b")
TASK_RE = re.compile(r"\bT\d\d\b")
def task_label(subject):
"""Attribution label for a commit subject, or None.
Qualified ids (`CB-WP-0004 T01`) become `CB-WP-0004-T01`. Bare ids
(`T01: ...`) stay bare — commits predating this convention did not name
their workplan and must not be retroactively assigned to one.
"""
m = TASK_QUALIFIED_RE.search(subject)
if m:
return f"{m.group(1)}-{m.group(2)}"
m = TASK_RE.search(subject)
return m.group(0) if m else None
UNATTRIBUTED = "UNATTRIBUTED"
OPEN_REMAINDER = "OPEN (uncommitted)"
class Abort(Exception):
"""A positive-control failure. Never degrades to a printed number."""
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- pricing
def load_prices(path=PRICES):
with open(path, "rb") as fh:
return tomllib.load(fh)
def components(usage):
"""Token counts per billable component (CA-04: writes split by TTL)."""
cc = usage.get("cache_creation") or {}
return {
"input": usage.get("input_tokens", 0),
"output": usage.get("output_tokens", 0),
"cache_read": usage.get("cache_read_input_tokens", 0),
"write_5m": cc.get("ephemeral_5m_input_tokens", 0),
"write_1h": cc.get("ephemeral_1h_input_tokens", 0),
}
def rates_at(prices, model, when=None):
"""Input/output rate in force for `model` at ISO instant `when` (CA-16).
Promotional rates are data, not comments. A response is priced at the
promo rate when its timestamp falls on or before `promo_until`.
"""
pr = prices.get(model)
if not pr:
return None
if "promo_until" in pr and when:
until = pr["promo_until"]
# tomllib returns a datetime.date for a bare TOML date.
if str(when)[:10] <= str(until)[:10]:
return pr["promo_input"], pr["promo_output"]
return pr["input"], pr["output"]
def check_price_sheet_age(prices, today=None):
"""CA-17: a stale sheet invalidates verdicts, so it fails a command."""
import datetime as _dt
recorded = prices.get("recorded")
if recorded is None:
return "price sheet has no `recorded` date"
max_age = prices.get("max_age_days", 90)
today = today or _dt.date.today()
if isinstance(recorded, _dt.datetime):
recorded = recorded.date()
age = (today - recorded).days
if age > max_age:
return (f"price sheet is {age} days old (max {max_age}); refresh "
f"benchmarks/baselines/model-prices.toml or new M-D2-CST "
f"`better` verdicts are invalid")
return None
def price_of(prices, model, toks, when=None):
"""USD for one response. Returns None when the model is unpriced (CA-05)."""
pr = prices.get(model)
if not pr:
return None
rin, rout = rates_at(prices, model, when)
cache = prices["cache"]
unit = rin / 1e6
return (
toks["input"] * unit
+ toks["output"] * rout / 1e6
+ toks["cache_read"] * unit * cache["read"]
+ toks["write_5m"] * unit * cache["write_5m"]
+ toks["write_1h"] * unit * cache["write_1h"]
)
# ------------------------------------------------------------- transcripts
def transcript_paths(slug):
"""Every transcript for the repo, including the subagent tree (CA-06)."""
base = os.path.expanduser(f"~/.claude/projects/{slug}")
return sorted(glob.glob(f"{base}/*.jsonl")) + sorted(
glob.glob(f"{base}/*/subagents/agent-*.jsonl")
)
def read_responses(path, pin=None):
"""Deduplicate one transcript by requestId, asserting CA-02."""
groups = collections.defaultdict(list)
for line in open(path):
try:
d = json.loads(line)
except json.JSONDecodeError:
continue
if d.get("type") != "assistant":
continue
usage = (d.get("message") or {}).get("usage")
if usage is None:
continue
ts = d.get("timestamp") or ""
if pin and ts > pin:
continue
groups[d.get("requestId")].append(d)
out = []
for rid, rows in groups.items():
# CA-02 positive control. Input-side counters are charged once per
# response and MUST be identical across the group; a divergence means
# the format changed underneath us and dedup would mis-bill.
#
# output_tokens is different: in streamed transcripts (observed in the
# subagents/ tree) early lines carry a PARTIAL count and only the last
# line carries the final total — 5, 5, 195 for one response. Taking
# the first row silently under-reports output, which is why this is a
# max() and not a first-wins.
seen_model = {r["message"].get("model") for r in rows}
if len(seen_model) != 1:
raise Abort(
f"{os.path.basename(path)}: requestId {rid} spans {len(rows)} lines "
f"with {len(seen_model)} distinct models — CA-02 violated"
)
per_row = [components(r["message"]["usage"]) for r in rows]
toks = dict(per_row[0])
for field in ("input", "cache_read", "write_5m", "write_1h"):
distinct = {t[field] for t in per_row}
if len(distinct) != 1:
raise Abort(
f"{os.path.basename(path)}: requestId {rid} has {len(distinct)} "
f"distinct values for {field} across {len(rows)} lines "
f"({sorted(distinct)}) — CA-02 violated; input-side counters "
f"are charged once per response and must not vary"
)
toks["output"] = max(t["output"] for t in per_row)
head = rows[0]
# Tool calls are spread across the group's lines, so they are counted
# over the whole group — one response may carry several (SS-05).
blocks = [c for r in rows for c in (r["message"].get("content") or [])
if c.get("type") == "tool_use"]
tool_calls = len(blocks)
cats = sorted({
c for c in (classify_tool(b.get("name"), b.get("input") or {})
for b in blocks) if c
})
out.append(
{
"request_id": rid,
"model": head["message"].get("model"),
"timestamp": head.get("timestamp") or "",
"session": head.get("sessionId") or os.path.basename(path),
"toks": toks,
"tool_calls": tool_calls,
"categories": cats,
"subagent": "/subagents/" in path,
}
)
return out
# CB-RES-0003: which turns are mechanical (a deterministic tool could do
# them) versus judgment (only an agent can). The baseline for measuring
# whether automation actually removes turns rather than relocating them.
def classify_tool(name, inp):
if name == "mcp__dev-hub__update_task_status":
return "hub task status"
if name.startswith("mcp__dev-hub__"):
return "hub other"
if name != "Bash":
return None
cmd = (inp.get("command") or "").strip()
if not cmd:
return None
if "python3 - <<" in cmd:
if "status: todo" in cmd or "status: done" in cmd:
return "workplan status edit"
if "jsonl" in cmd or "requestId" in cmd or "usage" in cmd:
return "ad-hoc transcript analysis"
return "ad-hoc text patching"
if cmd.startswith(("cd ", "export ")):
return "environment setup"
if cmd.split()[0] in ("grep", "ls", "wc", "sed", "head", "tail", "cat", "find"):
return "orientation / inspect"
if cmd.startswith("git "):
return "git"
if "make " in cmd:
return "make (gates)"
return None
# Categories a deterministic tool could plausibly own. Judgment-bearing
# categories (git commit messages, make gates) are excluded deliberately.
MECHANICAL = frozenset({
"environment setup", "ad-hoc text patching", "orientation / inspect",
"ad-hoc transcript analysis", "hub task status", "workplan status edit",
})
def session_shape(responses):
"""SH-1..SH-3 from specs/SessionShape.md."""
import statistics
ctx = sorted(r["toks"]["cache_read"] for r in responses)
with_tools = [r for r in responses if r["tool_calls"] > 0]
batched = [r for r in with_tools if r["tool_calls"] > 1]
calls = sum(r["tool_calls"] for r in with_tools)
pct = statistics.quantiles(ctx, n=100) if len(ctx) > 1 else [ctx[0]] * 99
return {
"SH-1_mean_context": statistics.mean(ctx) if ctx else 0,
"SH-2_p90_context": pct[89],
"SH-3_batching_rate": (len(batched) / len(with_tools)) if with_tools else 0.0,
"p50_context": pct[49],
"responses_with_tools": len(with_tools),
"tool_calls": calls,
"calls_in_batched_turns": calls - (len(with_tools) - len(batched)),
}
# ------------------------------------------------------------- attribution
def commit_index(pin=None):
"""(utc_time, subject) for each commit, oldest first (CA-09)."""
fmt = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", REPO, "log", "--format=%cI|%s", "--reverse"],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
check=True,
).stdout.splitlines()
rows = []
for line in fmt:
iso, _, subject = line.partition("|")
# CA-09: convert, never subtract a fixed offset — this repo has two.
utc = (
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(iso)
.astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
.isoformat()
.replace("+00:00", "Z")
)
rows.append((utc, subject))
if pin:
rows = [r for r in rows if r[0] <= pin]
return rows
def resolve_pin(ref):
"""A commit-ish pin becomes the UTC instant of that commit."""
if not ref:
return None
if ref.endswith("Z"):
return ref
iso = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", REPO, "log", "-1", "--format=%cI", ref],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
check=True,
).stdout.strip()
return (
datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(iso)
.astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
.isoformat()
.replace("+00:00", "Z")
)
def attribute(responses, commits):
"""Assign each response a bucket per CA-08/CA-10/CA-11.
Intervals are ending-at-commit: (prev_commit, this_commit]. Subagent
responses inherit the interval of their timestamp like any other.
"""
label_for = []
prev = ""
for ts, subject in commits:
label_for.append((prev, ts, task_label(subject) or UNATTRIBUTED))
prev = ts
last = commits[-1][0] if commits else ""
for r in responses:
ts = r["timestamp"]
if last and ts > last:
r["task"] = OPEN_REMAINDER # CA-11
continue
r["task"] = UNATTRIBUTED
for lo, hi, label in label_for:
if lo < ts <= hi:
r["task"] = label
break
return responses
# ----------------------------------------------------------------- report
def collect(slug, pin_ref=None, since_ref=None):
"""Report over (since_ref, pin_ref]. Both ends optional.
`since` exists for CB-WP-0004 T05: comparing a pass against the pass
that measured it needs two disjoint windows over the same transcripts,
not two whole-corpus totals. Attribution and reconciliation are
unchanged — the window only selects which responses are counted.
"""
prices = load_prices()
pin = resolve_pin(pin_ref)
since = resolve_pin(since_ref)
paths = transcript_paths(slug)
if not paths:
raise Abort(f"no transcripts found for {slug}")
responses = []
for p in paths:
responses.extend(read_responses(p, pin))
if since:
responses = [r for r in responses if r["timestamp"] > since]
if not responses:
# Positive control: a run that measured nothing must not report $0.00
# as though it were an answer.
raise Abort(f"no responses in {len(paths)} transcript(s) — refusing to report")
stale = check_price_sheet_age(prices)
if stale:
raise Abort(stale)
for r in responses:
r["cost"] = price_of(prices, r["model"], r["toks"], r["timestamp"])
commits = commit_index(pin)
attribute(responses, commits)
by_task = collections.defaultdict(float)
# T02: per-task token detail, so a task close can report *measured*
# tokens. Every update_task_status in this project before T02 carried
# hand-typed estimates — in a repo whose finding is that estimated
# token counts are worthless.
task_detail = collections.defaultdict(
lambda: {"cost": 0.0, "responses": 0, "models": collections.Counter(),
"toks": collections.Counter()})
by_component = collections.Counter()
by_component_cost = collections.defaultdict(float)
by_model = collections.defaultdict(float)
unpriced = []
cache = prices["cache"]
for r in responses:
if r["cost"] is None:
unpriced.append(r)
continue
by_task[r["task"]] += r["cost"]
d = task_detail[r["task"]]
d["cost"] += r["cost"]
d["responses"] += 1
d["models"][r["model"]] += 1
d["toks"].update(r["toks"])
by_model[r["model"]] += r["cost"]
rin, rout = rates_at(prices, r["model"], r["timestamp"])
unit = rin / 1e6
rates = {
"input": unit,
"output": rout / 1e6,
"cache_read": unit * cache["read"],
"write_5m": unit * cache["write_5m"],
"write_1h": unit * cache["write_1h"],
}
for k, n in r["toks"].items():
by_component[k] += n
by_component_cost[k] += n * rates[k]
total = sum(by_task.values())
# CA-14: reconciliation is asserted, not assumed.
residual = total - sum(by_component_cost.values())
if abs(residual) > 0.005:
raise Abort(
f"reconciliation failed: task total ${total:,.4f} vs component total "
f"${sum(by_component_cost.values()):,.4f} (residual ${residual:,.4f})"
)
# Tool mix: a turn's whole cost is charged to each category it touched,
# so columns may overlap and must not be summed as if disjoint.
mix_turns, mix_cost = collections.Counter(), collections.defaultdict(float)
for r in responses:
for c in r.get("categories") or []:
mix_turns[c] += 1
mix_cost[c] += r["cost"] or 0.0
mech = [r for r in responses
if set(r.get("categories") or []) & MECHANICAL]
# The window the SH-* targets compare against: responses since the
# last commit when unpinned, or the whole pinned range when pinned
# (a pin is already a window someone chose deliberately).
if pin or since:
window_responses, window_label = responses, "the pinned/--since range"
else:
last = commits[-1][0] if commits else ""
window_responses = [r for r in responses if last and r["timestamp"] > last]
window_label = "since the last commit"
sub = sum(r["cost"] or 0 for r in responses if r["subagent"])
return {
"session_shape": session_shape(responses),
# CB-WP-0007 T01. SH-1/SH-2 as a cumulative mean over every
# response ever recorded cannot detect a worsening trend: the
# history outvotes the present. CB-WP-0006 ran at 503,464 mean
# context and the cumulative figure still printed 206,952.
# Both are reported; only the window is the metric.
"session_shape_window": session_shape(window_responses)
if window_responses else None,
"window_responses": len(window_responses),
"window_label": window_label,
"tool_mix": {
"turns": dict(mix_turns),
"cost": dict(mix_cost),
"mechanical_turns": len(mech),
"mechanical_cost": sum(r["cost"] or 0 for r in mech),
},
"slug": slug,
"pin": pin,
"since": since,
"responses": len(responses),
"transcripts": len(paths),
"total": total,
"subagent_total": sub,
"main_total": total - sub,
"by_task": dict(by_task),
"by_task_detail": {
k: {
"cost": v["cost"],
"responses": v["responses"],
# The model that ran the most responses for this task. The
# hub schema has one model field per event; a task split
# across models cannot be represented faithfully, so the
# full count travels in the note.
"model": v["models"].most_common(1)[0][0],
"models": dict(v["models"]),
"toks": dict(v["toks"]),
# CA-03/CA-04: the hub has no cache fields. tokens_in is
# the honest sum of everything billed on the input side.
"tokens_in": (v["toks"].get("input", 0)
+ v["toks"].get("cache_read", 0)
+ v["toks"].get("write_5m", 0)
+ v["toks"].get("write_1h", 0)),
"tokens_out": v["toks"].get("output", 0),
}
for k, v in task_detail.items()
},
"by_model": dict(by_model),
"tokens": dict(by_component),
"cost_by_component": dict(by_component_cost),
"unpriced": [
{"model": r["model"], "tokens": r["toks"]} for r in unpriced
],
"reconciled": True,
"residual": residual,
}
def render(rep, by_task=False, composition=False):
print(f"M-D2-CST cost report — {rep['slug']}")
print(f" pin {rep['pin'] or '(none — live file, not reproducible)'}")
if rep.get("since"):
print(f" since {rep['since']} (window is exclusive of this instant)")
print(f" transcripts {rep['transcripts']} responses {rep['responses']}")
print(f" main ${rep['main_total']:>10,.2f}")
print(f" subagent tree ${rep['subagent_total']:>10,.2f}")
print(f" TOTAL ${rep['total']:>10,.2f}")
if composition:
print("\n composition")
tot = rep["total"] or 1
for k in COMPONENTS:
c = rep["cost_by_component"].get(k, 0.0)
print(
f" {k:<12}{rep['tokens'].get(k,0):>14,} tok "
f"${c:>9,.2f} {100*c/tot:>5.1f}%"
)
if by_task:
print("\n by task")
rows = sorted(rep["by_task"].items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])
tot = rep["total"] or 1
for task, c in rows:
print(f" {task:<20}${c:>9,.2f} {100*c/tot:>5.1f}%")
# CA-10: the limit is reported with the number, every time.
un = rep["by_task"].get(UNATTRIBUTED, 0.0)
print(
f"\n NOTE: {100*un/tot:.0f}% of cost is UNATTRIBUTED — commits whose "
f"subject carries no T## tag.\n"
f" A per-task table is a view over {100*(1-un/tot):.0f}% of spend."
)
mix = rep["tool_mix"]
if mix["turns"]:
print("\n tool mix — a turn's cost is charged to every category it")
print(" touched, so columns overlap and must not be summed")
for k in sorted(mix["turns"], key=lambda x: -mix["cost"][x]):
tag = "mech" if k in MECHANICAL else " "
print(f" {tag} {k:<28}{mix['turns'][k]:>5} turns "
f"${mix['cost'][k]:>8,.2f}")
print(f" MECHANICAL (deduplicated) "
f"{mix['mechanical_turns']:>5} turns ${mix['mechanical_cost']:>8,.2f}"
f" = {100*mix['mechanical_cost']/(rep['total'] or 1):.0f}% of pass")
def _shape_lines(sh, indent=" "):
print(f"{indent}SH-1 mean context {sh['SH-1_mean_context']:>12,.0f} tok "
f"[{'ok ' if sh['SH-1_mean_context']<=200_000 else 'FAIL'} target 200,000]")
print(f"{indent}SH-2 p90 context {sh['SH-2_p90_context']:>12,.0f} tok "
f"[{'ok ' if sh['SH-2_p90_context']<=300_000 else 'FAIL'} target 300,000]")
print(f"{indent}SH-3 batching rate {100*sh['SH-3_batching_rate']:>11.1f}% "
f"[{'ok ' if sh['SH-3_batching_rate']>=0.20 else 'FAIL'} target 20.0%]")
print(f"{indent} {sh['tool_calls']} tool calls in "
f"{sh['responses_with_tools']} responses; "
f"{sh['calls_in_batched_turns']} in batched turns")
win = rep.get("session_shape_window")
print(f"\n session shape (specs/SessionShape.md) — window: "
f"{rep.get('window_label', '?')}")
if win:
print(f" THE METRIC — {rep['window_responses']} response(s)")
_shape_lines(win)
else:
print(" THE METRIC — no responses in the window "
"(nothing since the last commit)")
sh = rep["session_shape"]
print(f"\n history, {rep['responses']} responses — context only, NOT the "
f"metric.")
print(" A cumulative mean cannot detect a worsening trend; the history")
print(" outvotes the present (CB-RES-0005 §1).")
_shape_lines(sh)
if rep["unpriced"]:
print(f"\n UNPRICED ({len(rep['unpriced'])} responses, model not in sheet):")
for u in rep["unpriced"]:
print(f" {u['model']} {u['tokens']}")
print(f"\n reconciled: ok (residual ${rep['residual']:.6f})")
# -------------------------------------------------------------- self-test
def self_test():
"""AC-5..AC-8. Each asserts a failure mode is actually detected."""
prices = load_prices()
checks = []
def check(name, ok, detail=""):
checks.append((name, ok, detail))
# AC-8: per-TTL cache pricing. 5m must not be priced at the 1h rate.
toks = {"input": 0, "output": 0, "cache_read": 0, "write_5m": 100_000, "write_1h": 0}
got = price_of(prices, "claude-fable-5", toks)
want = 100_000 * (10.0 / 1e6) * 1.25
wrong = 100_000 * (10.0 / 1e6) * 2.0
check("AC-8 5m cache priced at write_5m", abs(got - want) < 1e-9 and got != wrong,
f"${got:.4f} (1h would be ${wrong:.4f})")
# AC-5: dedup invariant is enforced.
import tempfile
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w", suffix=".jsonl", delete=False) as fh:
u1 = {"input_tokens": 1, "output_tokens": 2, "cache_read_input_tokens": 3,
"cache_creation": {"ephemeral_5m_input_tokens": 0,
"ephemeral_1h_input_tokens": 0}}
u2 = dict(u1)
# Diverging cache_read is a real violation (input-side, charged once).
u2["cache_read_input_tokens"] = 999
for u in (u1, u2):
fh.write(json.dumps({"type": "assistant", "requestId": "r1",
"timestamp": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"message": {"model": "claude-opus-5", "usage": u}}) + "\n")
bad = fh.name
try:
read_responses(bad)
check("AC-5 dedup violation aborts", False, "no Abort raised")
except Abort:
check("AC-5 dedup violation aborts", True)
finally:
os.unlink(bad)
# AC-9: streamed partial output_tokens must resolve to the final total,
# not the first line. Regression pin on a real defect: first-wins scored
# a measured subagent response at 5 output tokens instead of 195.
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w", suffix=".jsonl", delete=False) as fh:
for out_tok in (5, 5, 195):
u = {"input_tokens": 2, "output_tokens": out_tok,
"cache_read_input_tokens": 0,
"cache_creation": {"ephemeral_5m_input_tokens": 19008,
"ephemeral_1h_input_tokens": 0}}
fh.write(json.dumps({"type": "assistant", "requestId": "r2",
"timestamp": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"message": {"model": "claude-fable-5",
"usage": u}}) + "\n")
partial = fh.name
try:
rows = read_responses(partial)
got = rows[0]["toks"]["output"] if rows else None
check("AC-9 streamed partial output resolves to final", got == 195,
f"got {got}, first-wins would give 5")
finally:
os.unlink(partial)
# CA-08 label collision (found by T02's positive control): three
# workplans each had a T01, and a bare-label bucket summed all three
# into one figure — $12.10 for a task that cost $2.33. Qualified
# subjects must produce distinct buckets.
check("CA-08 qualified task ids do not collide across workplans",
task_label("CB-WP-0004 T01: fix env") == "CB-WP-0004-T01"
and task_label("CB-WP-0002 T01: survey") == "CB-WP-0002-T01"
and task_label("CB-WP-0004-T01: hyphenated") == "CB-WP-0004-T01")
check("CA-08 unqualified subjects stay bare, not retro-assigned",
task_label("T01: cost-accounting survey") == "T01"
and task_label("chore: no task here") is None)
# CA-16: a dated promo rate must apply before its expiry and lapse after.
pr = prices
before = rates_at(pr, "claude-sonnet-5", "2026-07-31T00:00:00Z")
after = rates_at(pr, "claude-sonnet-5", "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z")
check("CA-16 promo rate applies before expiry and lapses after",
before == (2.0, 10.0) and after == (3.0, 15.0),
f"{before} -> {after}")
# CA-17: staleness must actually trip, or the rule is decorative again.
import datetime as _dt
fresh = check_price_sheet_age(pr, _dt.date(2026, 8, 1))
stale = check_price_sheet_age(pr, _dt.date(2026, 11, 10))
check("CA-17 staleness detected past max_age_days",
fresh is None and stale is not None, "fresh ok, 102d trips")
# CB-02: thresholds must be ordered, or the budget silently never fires.
ap_defaults = {"soft": 10.00, "hard": 22.00}
check("CB-02 budget thresholds ordered and positive",
0 < ap_defaults["soft"] < ap_defaults["hard"],
f"soft ${ap_defaults['soft']:.2f} < hard ${ap_defaults['hard']:.2f}")
# AC-6: zero responses must not report $0.00 as an answer.
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w", suffix=".jsonl", delete=False) as fh:
fh.write(json.dumps({"type": "user", "message": {}}) + "\n")
empty = fh.name
try:
got = read_responses(empty)
check("AC-6 empty transcript yields no responses", got == [], f"{len(got)} rows")
finally:
os.unlink(empty)
# AC-7: the subagent tree is discovered by the path globs.
slug = "-home-worsch-clay-borg"
paths = transcript_paths(slug)
subs = [p for p in paths if "/subagents/" in p]
check("AC-7 subagent tree enumerated", len(subs) > 0,
f"{len(subs)} subagent transcript(s) of {len(paths)} total")
print("cb-cost self-test (positive control)")
ok = True
for name, passed, detail in checks:
print(f" [{'ok ' if passed else 'FAIL'}] {name}" + (f"{detail}" if detail else ""))
ok &= passed
return 0 if ok else 1
# CB-WP-0007 T03 / CB-RES-0005 D2. Soft = the SessionShape target; hard is
# 1.5x, set here BEFORE the next measurement per InnerLoop §Step 4.
# Reported, never in `make all`: failing the build on context would block
# committing, and committing is what closes the attribution window and is
# the natural point to compact. A gate that blocks the remedy is a trap.
SHAPE_SOFT = {"SH-1": 200_000, "SH-2": 300_000}
SHAPE_HARD = {"SH-1": 300_000, "SH-2": 450_000}
def shape_budget(slug):
"""SH-* for the window since the last commit, with soft/hard verdicts."""
try:
rep = collect(slug, None)
except Abort as e:
print(f"ABORT — {e}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
win = rep.get("session_shape_window")
head = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", REPO, "log", "-1", "--format=%h %s"],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout.strip()
print("session-shape budget — the window since the last commit")
print(f" last commit {head}")
# Positive control: a budget that reports ok because it measured
# nothing is the harness-does-nothing shape, in a reporting tool.
if not win or rep["window_responses"] == 0:
print(" no responses since the last commit — nothing to report",
file=sys.stderr)
return 1
print(f" window {rep['window_responses']} response(s)")
breach = 0
for key, label, val in (
("SH-1", "mean context", win["SH-1_mean_context"]),
("SH-2", "p90 context ", win["SH-2_p90_context"]),
):
soft, hard = SHAPE_SOFT[key], SHAPE_HARD[key]
mark = "ok " if val <= soft else ("SOFT" if val <= hard else "HARD")
print(f" {key} {label} {val:>10,.0f} tok [{mark}] "
f"soft {soft:,} / hard {hard:,}")
breach = max(breach, 0 if val <= soft else (1 if val <= hard else 2))
rate = win["SH-3_batching_rate"]
print(f" SH-3 batching {100*rate:>9.1f}% "
f"[{'ok ' if rate >= 0.20 else 'SOFT'}] floor 20.0%")
if breach >= 2:
print("\n HARD — compact before continuing. Context this size costs "
"~10x per turn\n against a compacted session "
"(specs/SessionShape.md §2).", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if breach == 1:
print("\n SOFT — over target. Compaction is the remedy and it is free.")
else:
print("\n within budget")
return 0
def budget(slug, soft, hard):
"""Live cost budget (specs/CostAccounting.md §7).
The per-task figure needs the commit that closes the task, so it can
only ever be retrospective. What IS observable mid-task is spend since
the LAST commit — the open remainder — because the transcript is an
append-live file. That is the number a budget can actually fire on.
"""
try:
rep = collect(slug, None)
except Abort as e:
print(f"ABORT — {e}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
open_spend = rep["by_task"].get(OPEN_REMAINDER, 0.0)
head = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", REPO, "log", "-1", "--format=%h %s"],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout.strip()
print("cost budget — spend since the last commit")
print(f" last commit {head}")
print(f" open spend ${open_spend:,.2f}")
print(f" soft / hard ${soft:,.2f} / ${hard:,.2f}")
if open_spend > hard:
print(f"\n HARD BREACH — ${open_spend:,.2f} > ${hard:,.2f}. Commit what "
f"works, or stop and decompose. Uncommitted work is also "
f"unattributable.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if open_spend > soft:
print(f"\n soft breach — ${open_spend:,.2f} > ${soft:,.2f}. State progress "
f"as a percentage and decide: continue, or commit and decompose.")
return 0
print("\n within budget")
return 0
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--slug", default="-home-worsch-clay-borg")
ap.add_argument("--pin", help="commit-ish or ISO Z instant (CA-07)")
ap.add_argument("--since", help="window start, exclusive: commit-ish or ISO Z")
ap.add_argument("--by-task", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--composition", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--session-shape", action="store_true",
help="SH-1..SH-3 (always shown in the default report)")
ap.add_argument("--shape-budget", action="store_true",
help="SH-1/SH-2/SH-3 for the window since the last commit")
ap.add_argument("--budget", action="store_true",
help="CB-01/CB-02: spend since the last commit, live")
ap.add_argument("--soft", type=float, default=10.00)
ap.add_argument("--hard", type=float, default=22.00)
ap.add_argument("--self-test", action="store_true")
ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true")
args = ap.parse_args()
if args.self_test:
return self_test()
if args.shape_budget:
return shape_budget(args.slug)
if args.budget:
return budget(args.slug, args.soft, args.hard)
try:
rep = collect(args.slug, args.pin, args.since)
except Abort as e:
print(f"ABORT — {e}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(rep, indent=2))
else:
render(rep, by_task=args.by_task, composition=args.composition)
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())