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extension_id: trsl:extension:cost-plus-operations@1.0
title: Cost-Plus Operations
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# Cost-Plus Operations

**What the payer receives:** a hosted, operated instance of the software —
compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backup, incident response —
priced at cost plus a surcharge (default 50%).

**Worked narrative:** a customer doesn't want to self-host; they pay for a
managed instance. The bulk of this price recovers real operating cost, not
development investment — per concept §13.4 (already settled), operations
revenue must not be conflated with Development Credit or used to pause
degeneration. By default, **none** of this revenue counts toward the
Phase's Outstanding Target. A Phase may explicitly declare a nonzero
allocation specifically on the surcharge portion (the profit margin above
cost) if the Licensor and Customer agree the hosting relationship itself
also functions as a development investment — but this must be an explicit,
recorded declaration, never inferred from the existence of a hosting fee.

**Default `development_allocation`:** 0% (declarable nonzero on the
surcharge only, by explicit agreement).

**Fixture:** `examples/phase-001/extensions/cost-plus-operations.json`.