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Closes #306.

Summary

Adds budget: FlowHeader field with syntax "$N/day" | "$N/run" or {tokens, dollars, wallclock}. Preflight validates; kernel spend_tracker accrues per step; run refuses budget_exceeded when cumulative spend exceeds header.

Design decisions

  • Adding to exhaustive refusal test approved. Two new taxonomy cases (budget_syntax_invalid, budget_missing_price) extend, not replace, existing coverage.
  • Legacy ladder envelopes preserved. maxTokens* / maxDollars with synthetic models keep their worker-price contract; frozen-price lookup enforced for new header forms.
  • Model pricing table is hard-coded first pass at packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts. Dynamic lookup / per-user budgets / spend forecasting deferred.

Written by codex agent spec-G-budget on finn-mini; head at 54792d2.

Test plan

  • linux-x64-artifact green
  • packed-consumer green

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High Risk
Changes kernel admission, decimal/token accounting, and worker completion paths that directly control when runs start or stop; mistakes could admit over-budget work or refuse valid runs.

Overview
Enforces optional flow budget headers end-to-end: surface/SDK accept "$N/run", "$N/day", or { tokens, dollars, wallclock }, compile them with pricing: "frozen", and refuse bad syntax (budget_syntax_invalid) or unpriced models (budget_missing_price) at preflight.

Spend is journaled and gated in the kernel. Each step.completed gains a spend block (tokens, dollars as a JSON number, measured wallclock_ms). Run state tracks cumulative tokens, dollars, and wall time (including UTC day windows and prior_spend for chained runs). Before admitting another attempt, the scheduler checks limits; crossing a ceiling keeps the triggering completion valid but ends the run with budget_exceeded and blocks further step starts (in-flight peers may still finish).

Workers and the authored TS runner participate in accounting. A frozen MODEL_PRICING table drives microdollar costs; Claude/Codex structured output and an optional wrapper result envelope supply token usage. LLM/agent workers attach usage on completion; the internal authored executor serializes budgeted steps and rolls journaled spend into the next kernel run. Legacy explicit maxTokens* / maxDollars envelopes keep worker-supplied pricing.

Docs (docs/BUDGET.md), testdata/budget-guarded.flow.yaml, and kernel/SDK budget tests document and lock the behavior.

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Review swarm: maintainability

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Review swarm: history

PR #315 — history review

Reviewed head: 83de496fcc550749a5e0c92b048c0c05e34cbcf6.
Base: 0daf55b8d80e738329f94baa28628844119d40a8.
Lens: does this change fit the story of the code?

Changes requested: two history/contract findings. Budget authoring and kernel admission fit the RFC's direction, but the implementation reverses the segment boundary and the follow-up loses known usage.

H1 — P1: preserve current-segment resume instead of depending on closed epochs

Location: kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs:323-324 (also the new completion-time scan at line 342).

Every budgeted state load now selects scan_all() instead of scan_segment(current_segment). The old behavior is present both at the PR base and in bootstrap commit 46315715 (#1). RFC-0001 settled decision #8 explicitly requires resume to read only the current segment, whose opening summary carries everything still live. This changes an established boundary, not merely an internal accounting detail.

The drive log's 2026-09-09 entry “went to implement D2, found my own D2 text was wrong” already records this exact mistake for wake context: resolving across retained segments only appears correct while the engine does not roll and old segments are never pruned. The new budget code repeats that dependency to reconstruct daily and duration counters, without adding those counters to the epoch summary. Reading retained historical entries cannot supply the contract once those entries are archived; a current-segment-only fold cannot reconstruct these new counters from the present summary. It also makes each budgeted state load depend on the growing historical journal. The new completion timestamp lookup similarly searches every epoch.

Keep state reconstruction within the current segment and carry the necessary accounting and active-attempt timing facts in its summary, with an explicit compatibility policy for old summaries. If that producer is deferred, state the limitation and sequence the feature accordingly rather than replace the read boundary. This finding is a direct contract conflict and static source comparison; it does not claim an archival failure was executed or that production engine rollover already exists.

H2 — P1: the unpriced-model repair discards known tokens and defeats token admission

Location: packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts:28-29; completion consumers at packages/sdk/src/llm-worker.ts:78 and packages/sdk/src/worker.ts:127.

Commit cd32c541 avoids an after-execution pricing exception by returning undefined for the whole usage record whenever there is no table price, including when no model was declared. Before that follow-up, the undefined-model path retained input/output counts and represented dollars as zero. The new path loses even token counts already decoded successfully.

The captured helper reproduction uses an allowed token-only envelope (pricing: frozen, maxTokens: 1) and an LLM step with a CLI but no declared model. budgetDiagnostics returns no refusals. A successful worker result containing 100 input and 50 output tokens then produces undefined completion usage. The worker omits usage, StepCompleteParams defaults omitted usage to Budget::default(), and the server forwards those zero counters into the completion. Thus the kernel cannot apply the one-token limit to this known 150-token spend. The helper result is executed evidence; the final wire/default/admission consequence is a source-level trace, not a live daemon reproduction.

This contradicts gate 1's journal-based exact accounting, central since the bootstrap and reinforced by 6394a2e9 (#221), “journal step-declared packs with exact resume accounting.” It also defeats the PR's stated per-completion token attribution. Preserve known token usage independently of dollar-price availability, and refuse any budget that cannot be accounted for before execution. Avoid making “unknown price” mean “no tokens spent.”

Story, scope, and commit-message assessment

  • The main feature subject accurately names the three layers changed. Parsing at the SDK/surface boundary and admission in the Rust state machine follow RFC §4 and decision regressions: red/green flows for the 2026-08-27 platform bugs (dormant until gates 2+6) #5. The diff does not introduce provider SDKs or tenancy into the kernel.
  • The 83de496f subject and body describe the new CompileError wrapper and diagnostic kind accurately. The cd32c541 subject accurately describes its return-value change, but “makes the runtime path match” preflight overlooks the token-only/no-model case in H2. Its reference to clamped usage in the surrounding helper/test documentation also no longer describes an emitted usage record: the fallback calls pricedUsage(undefined, ...), which now returns undefined.
  • The new docs/BUDGET.md explicitly discloses that the authored executor remains separate per-step runs with no durable TypeScript root. I am not treating that existing limitation, the final-step overrun policy, or the local smoke's lack of cloud observation as newly introduced history findings.
  • ops/NEXT.md is the completed Track D review-swarm brief: its own “Files in scope: Nothing” and historical out-of-scope list are not an active prohibition on this separate budget PR. ops/DIRECTIVES.md contains no active directive. No RFC, standing-rule, or review-swarm gate file is changed by the supplied PR diff. The two added refusal scenarios in the existing preflight test retain its assertion; the submitted evidence documents lead approval, which I did not independently authenticate.
  • The drive log records both false behavioral claims (fix(kernel): stop swallowing a journal scan error into wake_context: None (D1) #252) and reviews against stale revisions (docs(schema): the legacy workflow schema is a fork, not a stale file #238). This review pins the supplied metadata SHA and compares the supplied patch byte-for-byte with the recovered Git diff. I found a reversal of the old segment read in H1; I am not claiming this resurrects a previously deleted module.
  • The author-provided evidence admits its full SDK suite was not green. I did not rerun or certify those logs, CI, crash-injection tests, or live provider acceptance. No mutation-verification claim is made.

Input recovery and verification limits

The initial git log --oneline -40 failed with fatal: not a git repository: /home/daytona/.project-git; /tmp/pr-315.diff was absent. The supplied .review-target/pr.diff and .review-target/pr.json were available. I recovered the real repository metadata by cloning the remote into the missing gitdir, fetching refs/pull/315/head into a local review branch, and loading that head into the index without checking out tracked files. The evidence below records the recovered 40-commit history, exact SHA, and diff identity. This avoids both sandbox failure modes documented in the final drive-log entries.

The sandbox has pre-existing executable-mode differences after metadata recovery; no tracked content differences were present before writing this review. Only this review is to be staged. No source, test, gate, or operating brief was edited, and no commit or external message was created.

This is a history review with source comparison and a focused SDK helper reproduction, not a full correctness or CI signoff.

Captured evidence

All commands below ran from the repository root. Their output is literal; (no output) explicitly denotes empty output.

Exact target and supplied diff identity

Command:

python3 -c 'import subprocess,json,pathlib
m=json.loads(pathlib.Path('"'"'.review-target/pr.json'"'"').read_text())
head=subprocess.check_output(['"'"'git'"'"','"'"'rev-parse'"'"','"'"'HEAD'"'"'],text=True).strip()
base=subprocess.check_output(['"'"'git'"'"','"'"'merge-base'"'"','"'"'main'"'"','"'"'HEAD'"'"'],text=True).strip()
diff=subprocess.check_output(['"'"'git'"'"','"'"'diff'"'"',base,'"'"'HEAD'"'"'])
print('"'"'metadata head:'"'"',m['"'"'headRefOid'"'"']); print('"'"'HEAD:'"'"',head); print('"'"'merge base:'"'"',base)
print('"'"'supplied diff matches git diff:'"'"',diff==pathlib.Path('"'"'.review-target/pr.diff'"'"').read_bytes())
assert head==m['"'"'headRefOid'"'"']; assert diff==pathlib.Path('"'"'.review-target/pr.diff'"'"').read_bytes()
p=subprocess.run(['"'"'git'"'"','"'"'diff'"'"','"'"'--numstat'"'"'],capture_output=True,text=True,check=True)
rows=p.stdout.splitlines(); print('"'"'tracked working-tree differences:'"'"',len(rows)); print('"'"'all have zero content additions/deletions:'"'"',all(r.startswith('"'"'0\t0\t'"'"') for r in rows))
'

Captured output (exit 0):

metadata head: 83de496fcc550749a5e0c92b048c0c05e34cbcf6
HEAD: 83de496fcc550749a5e0c92b048c0c05e34cbcf6
merge base: 0daf55b8d80e738329f94baa28628844119d40a8
supplied diff matches git diff: True
tracked working-tree differences: 35
all have zero content additions/deletions: True

Required recent history

Command:

git log --oneline -40

Captured output (exit 0):

83de496f fix(sdk): wrap parseBudget throws as CompileError with kind
cd32c541 fix(sdk): unpriced models return undefined usage instead of throwing after CLI decode
f624b2c5 feat(surface,sdk,kernel): budget header and spend attribution
0daf55b8 feat(kernel,sdk): content-addressed step memoization across spec edits (#321) (#325)
86a2ec20 feat(surface,sdk): f.slack helper namespace (#299) (#314)
5cd2969c feat(sdk): flows replay verb — journal time-travel (#309) (#312)
673e2561 feat(surface,sdk): expose cli/model on Ctx.agent options (#310) (#311)
9bd8c809 feat(sdk): lower f.llm in the TS surface + declarative output binding (#273 #275) (#296)
6e376d86 fix(drive-local): declare acceptance inputs as immutable (#284) (#294)
5af9c20f fix(cli): accept --local-agent on YAML agent runs (#274) (#293)
3ae6c24e feat(testdata): promote shakedown scenarios into testdata/shakedown/ (#288)
ff2f23c5 fix(review-swarm): emit safe terminal diagnostics (#290)
1d153070 fix(review-swarm): wrapper guard + rebased #285 with Bugbot fixes (#289)
4d08f9ae fix(review-swarm): validate candidate without self-judging (#265)
f72e2bad fix(observer-link): split mint and dashboard hosts; grace to 5s (#286)
1aad3e81 feat(cli): emit Observer: URL on run start when a workspace key is present (#264) (#269)
90edeb04 fix(drive-local): enforce scope and selected package acceptance (#244)
19cc188d spec(rfc-0001): specify the wake-time context contract (gate 2) (#251)
028aa490 docs(scoreboard): gate 7 is AMBER — #227 landed the suite it was waiting on (#240)
5f17b62f fix(docs): clarify inline model behavior without project config (#280)
53396750 fix(cli): make help and single-step summaries readable (#279)
7f45f572 fix(daemon): bind the unix socket outside the data dir at a short hashed path (#262) (#268)
a42ca161 fix(preflight): skip model_unknown for inline named agents when no flows.json is present (#263) (#266)
78ae4b8e fix(review-swarm): make the wait step's timed_out sentinel reachable (#258)
4dd9277e fix(review-swarm): give the lens retry budget a delay that can span a 60s backoff (#259)
d9377d17 ops(drive-log): -0910 online; closed relayfile#492, re-ran flows#258
8790e002 ops(drive-log): corrected flows#260 -- I truncated the quote that disproved it
ecaf6b86 ops(drive-log): lenses never received the diff; filed flows#260
3cfbd061 ops(drive-log): recovered lens transcripts; two lenses passed #259
5fd56fbe ops(drive-log): opened cloud#3527 -- run export 400s for every caller
ec014740 ops(drive-log): gate failure moved off infrastructure onto the agent step
f5f97e53 ops(drive-log): quiet tick, nothing moved
17c413ec ops(drive-log): #259 cannot be validated by its own gate; audit complete
069789bd ops(drive-log): audited remaining PRs -- all three still valid
4c2b0ab1 ops(drive-log): closed cloud#3517 as obsolete -- main deleted what it extended
fb73faf3 ops(drive-log): verified the #3516 classifier claim against three literal inputs
a32dc6d3 ops(drive-log): mount fault CONFIRMED FIXED; two corrections
8ab1ab2b ops(drive-log): the in-flight run shows the wedge signature, not progress
7999b28e ops(drive-log): re-ran the gate to test v0.10.56; in flight past 16 minutes
3bb84add ops(drive-log): v0.10.56 promoted; Khaliq had fixed the transport 3h before I filed

PR commit messages

Command:

git log --format=fuller 0daf55b8..HEAD

Captured output (exit 0):

commit 83de496fcc550749a5e0c92b048c0c05e34cbcf6
Author:     kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 11 12:42:34 2026 +0200
Commit:     kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
CommitDate: Fri Sep 11 12:42:34 2026 +0200

    fix(sdk): wrap parseBudget throws as CompileError with kind
    
    compileSpec's own JSDoc claims 'Throws CompileError on validation
    failure,' but a bare BudgetSyntaxError from parseBudget escaped that
    contract and surfaced as an uncaught exception in callers that only
    catch CompileError. Preserve the diagnostic classification by adding
    an optional kind to CompileError and threading budget_syntax_invalid
    through it; preflight's existing BudgetSyntaxError instanceof branch
    stays as a fallback for callers that reach parseBudget outside
    compileSpec.
    
    Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

commit cd32c541d052f455a0db34716dd53a3c79a89222
Author:     kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 11 11:59:35 2026 +0200
Commit:     kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
CommitDate: Fri Sep 11 11:59:35 2026 +0200

    fix(sdk): unpriced models return undefined usage instead of throwing after CLI decode
    
    Cursor Bugbot HIGH: "Unlisted models fail after usage decode" — the runtime
    `pricedUsage` threw `budget_missing_price` after the CLI had already spent
    tokens, wasting the exact CLI invocation that preflight was meant to
    prevent.
    
    Preflight's `budgetDiagnostics` already refuses declared dollar budgets
    against unpriced models before any CLI dispatches. This makes the runtime
    path match that: `pricedUsage` returns `undefined` for unpriced models,
    callers (`worker`, `llm-worker`) omit `usage` from the step-complete
    payload rather than sending `dollars: null` (which would break the kernel
    wire schema). No new kernel field, no wire change.
    
    Adds `packages/sdk/tests/model-pricing.test.ts` (8 assertions) covering:
    - priced/unpriced/undefined-model returns
    - invalid token counts still journal as `worker_error`
    - `workerSpend` returns undefined usage for unpriced models without
      failing the step
    
    Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

commit f624b2c5800c06cd0b03c5b0e2d68bb1626adbdc
Author:     Miya <khaliqgant+miya@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 11 10:36:14 2026 +0200
Commit:     kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
CommitDate: Fri Sep 11 11:54:28 2026 +0200

    feat(surface,sdk,kernel): budget header and spend attribution
    
    Session-Id: 01a08f7f-7b46-78c3-84c7-097476f69e4a
    
    Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

H1: the old current-segment read and the new all-segment read

Command:

git diff 0daf55b8 HEAD -- kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs

Captured output (exit 0):

diff --git a/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs b/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs
index 8b62721c..a005306c 100644
--- a/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs
+++ b/kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs
@@ -318,9 +318,15 @@ impl<C: Clock> Engine<C> {
 
     fn load_state(&self, journal: &SqliteJournal, spec: RunSpec) -> Result<RunState> {
         let segment = journal.current_segment().map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?;
-        let entries = journal
-            .scan_segment(segment)
-            .map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?;
+        // Window and elapsed-time counters are reconstructed from completion
+        // facts across epochs, including facts predating this SDK version.
+        let entries = if spec.budget.is_some() {
+            journal.scan_all().map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?
+        } else {
+            journal
+                .scan_segment(segment)
+                .map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?
+        };
         RunState::fold(journal.run_id(), spec, &entries).context("fold run journal")
     }
 
@@ -332,6 +338,17 @@ impl<C: Clock> Engine<C> {
         self.ensure_journal_mutable(journal)?;
         let mut entry = entry.clone();
         self.stamp_completion(journal, &mut entry)?;
+        if entry.entry_type == EntryType::StepCompleted {
+            let start = journal.scan_all()?.into_iter().rev().find(|e| {
+                e.entry_type == EntryType::StepAttemptStarted
+                    && e.step_id == entry.step_id
+                    && e.attempt == entry.attempt
+            });
+            if let Some(start) = start {
+                entry.payload["spend"]["wallclock_ms"] =
+                    serde_json::json!(entry.at_ms.saturating_sub(start.at_ms).max(0));
+            }
+        }
         let persisted = journal.append(&entry).map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?;
         if let Some(observer) = &self.observer {
             observer.appended(&persisted);

H1: bootstrap already used current-segment state reconstruction

Command:

bash -c 'git show 46315715:kernel/relayflowd/src/engine.rs | sed -n '"'"'211,217p'"'"''

Captured output (exit 0):

    fn load_state(&self, journal: &SqliteJournal, spec: RunSpec) -> Result<RunState> {
        let segment = journal.current_segment().map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?;
        let entries = journal
            .scan_segment(segment)
            .map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?;
        RunState::fold(journal.run_id(), spec, &entries).context("fold run journal")
    }

H1: settled segment rule

Command:

sed -n 207,211p docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md

Captured output (exit 0):

5. **New (this RFC): the composable unit is the spec + journal protocol, not any language.** The kernel/control plane is Rust (§4); TypeScript is the first SDK; relayhistory (Rust) and Skip (Swift) speak the same contract.
6. **New: no gate may be editable by the agents it judges** — learned from the sandbox-program integrity incident.
7. **New: relaycast is a projection, not a source of truth.** Today the runner coordinates over relaycast as a chat bus (`send_dm` / `check_inbox` / `post_message`) — at-most-once, no offsets, no replay. That is not durable enough to be a core unit against Temporal/Inngest. In the rewrite, **channels are kernel streams**: append-only, journaled by `relayflowd`, consumed by offset. **Settled 2026-08-27: agents move to a new stream API; relaycast becomes pure UX** — a client of kernel streams for delivery, presence, inboxes, and the human-facing workspace, with no execution semantics of its own. The chat-verb MCP surface is not re-pointed; it is retired for agents. Execution-relevant facts (approvals, gate verdicts, step handoffs, agent spawn/remove) are real only when journaled; a chat message may carry a pointer to a fact, never be the fact. Soft state (presence, typing, read receipts) stays soft on purpose.
8. **New: journal compaction is segment-per-epoch.** A resident run periodically closes its current journal segment and opens a new one whose first entry is an epoch summary — everything still live (open slots, active waits, stream offsets, pinned revisions). Resume reads only the current segment; closed segments are never rewritten and are archived to relayhistory, where they become memory (gate 5) instead of garbage. Append-only is preserved everywhere.
9. **New: the persona interface is compiled.** `persona.ts` is the flexible authoring surface at the edge (CLI and sage compile it); the **compiled persona spec (`persona.json`) is the contract at the kernel boundary** — data, schema-validated, diffable, signable (gate 8), and emittable by a step (gate 9's self-authoring). Same pattern as every other surface: TS in, spec at the boundary.

H1: previously recorded cross-segment mistake

Command:

sed -n 7466,7506p ops/DRIVE-LOG.md

Captured output (exit 0):

Disk **5.8Gi** (down 1.1Gi — my cargo build; the toolchain target is the growth).
Drain: 3 pending, newest 1 min old, normal window.

Backfilled last tick's `.chief-inbox` entry, which I had missed — only the flows
log went out.

**Starting D2 disproved my own published claim about D2.** I had written that it
is masked because "`drive.rs` scans from sequence 1 of a single segment; it
becomes live the moment segmentation does." Both halves are wrong:

- `scan_from` is `SELECT ... FROM entries WHERE seq >= ?1` — **no segment
  filter**. Resolution already reads across every segment in the file.
- Segmentation is **not** pending: `rollover()` exists in `relayflowd-journal`
  with its own tests (`lib.rs:487-508`, asserting `SegmentClosed` then
  `EpochSummary`).

What actually hides it, both verified:

1. **The engine never rolls** — nothing in `relayflowd` calls `rollover()`, so a
   run has one segment in practice.
2. **Closed segments are never pruned** — no archival removes them from the file.

**The corrected consequence is sharper than my original.** The implementation
satisfies rule 9 *by violating decision #8*: it resolves across segment
boundaries instead of from the current segment. Invisible while there is one
segment. D2 becomes live data loss the moment the engine rolls **or** archival
prunes, and the cross-segment read is a correctness violation as soon as either
lands.

That also sharpens H1: the reviewer flagged rule 9 as conflicting with decision
#8, and it turns out the *implementation* already carries the same conflict,
latent behind never rolling.

Corrected in `bb4adbc` and explained on #251 rather than quietly amended.

**Did not implement D2.** `EpochSummaryPayload` (`entry.rs:373-394`) has no
`wake_context` field, so the carry-forward is a **journal-format change** — that
belongs in its own PR with a format-version story, not slipped into a spec PR
or bolted onto D1.

Also parked the CI fixture: `relayfile-mount` is not installed locally, and

H2: direct execution of head pricing and budget diagnostic helpers

Command:

/home/daytona/node_modules/.bin/tsx -e 'import {workerSpend} from "./packages/sdk/src/worker-spend.ts"; import {budgetDiagnostics} from "./packages/sdk/src/budget-preflight.ts"; const flow = {version:"0.1.0",budget:{pricing:"frozen",maxTokens:1},steps:[{id:"s",type:"llm",prompt:"p",cli:"claude"}]}; console.log("token-only budget diagnostics:", JSON.stringify(budgetDiagnostics(flow as any))); const spent=workerSpend({exit_code:0,stdout_tail:"answer",stderr_tail:"",tokens_input:100,tokens_output:50}); console.log("decoded tokens:",spent.result.tokens_input,spent.result.tokens_output); console.log("completion usage:",JSON.stringify(spent.usage) ?? "undefined"); console.log("completion exit_code:",spent.result.exit_code);'

Captured output (exit 0):

token-only budget diagnostics: []
decoded tokens: 100 50
completion usage: undefined
completion exit_code: 0

H2: follow-up drops previously retained tokens for undefined model

Command:

git show cd32c541 -- packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts

Captured output (exit 0):

commit cd32c541d052f455a0db34716dd53a3c79a89222
Author: kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>
Date:   Fri Sep 11 11:59:35 2026 +0200

    fix(sdk): unpriced models return undefined usage instead of throwing after CLI decode
    
    Cursor Bugbot HIGH: "Unlisted models fail after usage decode" — the runtime
    `pricedUsage` threw `budget_missing_price` after the CLI had already spent
    tokens, wasting the exact CLI invocation that preflight was meant to
    prevent.
    
    Preflight's `budgetDiagnostics` already refuses declared dollar budgets
    against unpriced models before any CLI dispatches. This makes the runtime
    path match that: `pricedUsage` returns `undefined` for unpriced models,
    callers (`worker`, `llm-worker`) omit `usage` from the step-complete
    payload rather than sending `dollars: null` (which would break the kernel
    wire schema). No new kernel field, no wire change.
    
    Adds `packages/sdk/tests/model-pricing.test.ts` (8 assertions) covering:
    - priced/unpriced/undefined-model returns
    - invalid token counts still journal as `worker_error`
    - `workerSpend` returns undefined usage for unpriced models without
      failing the step
    
    Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

diff --git a/packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts b/packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts
index d828b6fd..04672fe9 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/src/model-pricing.ts
@@ -6,10 +6,27 @@ export const MODEL_PRICING: Readonly<Record<string, Readonly<{ input: number; ou
   'codex-large': Object.freeze({ input: 5, output: 20 }),
 });
 
-export function pricedUsage(model: string | undefined, input = 0, output = 0) {
+export function hasPricing(model: string | undefined): boolean {
+  return model !== undefined && Object.hasOwn(MODEL_PRICING, model);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Cost accounting for a step's declared model.
+ *
+ * Returns `undefined` for unpriced models — callers should omit `usage`
+ * from the journal payload rather than sending nulls that break the kernel
+ * wire schema. The refusal for a declared dollar budget against an unpriced
+ * model is `budgetDiagnostics` at preflight (before any CLI dispatches).
+ * Throwing here after usage decode would waste the CLI invocation that
+ * preflight was meant to prevent.
+ */
+export function pricedUsage(model: string | undefined, input = 0, output = 0):
+  | { tokens_in: number; tokens_out: number; dollars: string }
+  | undefined
+{
   if (![input, output].every(n => Number.isSafeInteger(n) && n >= 0)) throw new Error('Invalid token usage');
   const price = model === undefined || !Object.hasOwn(MODEL_PRICING, model) ? undefined : MODEL_PRICING[model];
-  if (model !== undefined && price === undefined && input + output > 0) throw new Error(`budget_missing_price: ${model}`);
-  const micro = BigInt(input) * BigInt(price?.input ?? 0) + BigInt(output) * BigInt(price?.output ?? 0);
+  if (price === undefined) return undefined;
+  const micro = BigInt(input) * BigInt(price.input) + BigInt(output) * BigInt(price.output);
   return { tokens_in: input, tokens_out: output, dollars: `${micro / 1_000_000n}.${String(micro % 1_000_000n).padStart(6, '0')}` };
 }

H2: worker omits missing usage

Command:

sed -n 70,83p packages/sdk/src/llm-worker.ts

Captured output (exit 0):

        detail = 'LLM output is not valid JSON.';
      }
    }
    // Never submit schema-invalid JSON as a successful completion. The kernel
    // also runs its own gate before making output available to dependents.
    await this.client.stepComplete(dispatch.run_id, dispatch.step_id, dispatch.attempt,
      dispatch.idempotency_key, reason, {
        output,
        ...(usage !== undefined ? { usage } : {}),
        ...(reason === 'success' ? {} : { trajectory_tail: { error: detail } }),
      });
  }
}

H2: missing wire usage defaults to Budget

Command:

sed -n 75,88p kernel/relayflowd/src/server/wire.rs

Captured output (exit 0):

#[derive(Deserialize)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
pub(super) struct StepCompleteParams {
    pub run_id: String,
    pub step_id: String,
    pub attempt: u32,
    pub idempotency_key: String,
    #[serde(rename = "completionReason")]
    pub completion_reason: CompletionReason,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub output: Value,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub usage: Budget,
    #[serde(default)]

H2: Budget default is zero

Command:

sed -n 310,322p kernel/relayflowd-core/src/entry.rs

Captured output (exit 0):

impl Default for Budget {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            tokens_in: 0,
            tokens_out: 0,
            dollars: zero_dollars(),
        }
    }
}

fn zero_dollars() -> String {
    "0".to_owned()
}

H2: wire usage becomes completion budget

Command:

sed -n 359,370p kernel/relayflowd/src/server.rs

Captured output (exit 0):

            let outcome = engine
                .complete_out_of_band(
                    &params.run_id,
                    &params.step_id,
                    OutOfBandCompletion {
                        attempt: params.attempt,
                        idempotency_key: params.idempotency_key,
                        completion_reason: params.completion_reason,
                        output: params.output,
                        budget: params.usage,
                        completed_by: worker_id,
                        started_pins: params.started_pins,

Original exact-accounting commitment

Command:

sed -n 95,101p docs/RFC-0001-everything-is-a-relayflow.md

Captured output (exit 0):


**Proves:** the kernel. Journal + memoization, resume without re-execution of completed steps, deterministic and agent steps, verification as control flow.

**Forces into existence:** `@relayflows/kernel` (charter phase 4 + 5): append-only fsync'd journal that *fails the step* when the write fails (fail-closed, no `homeFallback` silently leaving the relayfile mount), idempotency keys, leases, durable timers, `completionReason`, **out-of-band step completion** — a step an external worker finishes asynchronously (Native's render workers), journaled with the same `completionReason` discipline as in-process steps — and **durable channels**: an inter-agent message is a journal append with consumer offsets, at-least-once and replayable, so coordination in flight survives `kill -9` like every other kind of state.

**Done when:** the canonical hello *ladder* — (a) a pure deterministic flow with zero agents (legalizing what today's validator rejects), (b) the same flow plus a bare `llm` step with a verification gate, (c) the same flow plus an `agent` step — each survives `kill -9` at every step boundary and between them, resumes completing only unfinished work, and its journal replays *results, not code*. Budget accounting is exact: the resumed run's token spend equals one execution of each step. **Preflight holds (covenant 2):** `flows check` refuses the ladder flows when a declared CLI is missing or unauthenticated or a trigger has no executor, warns on unprovable assumptions before starting, and the failure taxonomy is closed — every failed run's journal terminates in a declared failure kind, never a raw error.

Prior exact-accounting work

Command:

git log -1 --format=fuller 6394a2e9

Captured output (exit 0):

commit 6394a2e9d69b43ac0488b40b096674fc2819174a
Author:     KJGBot <khaliqgant+kjgbot@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Sep 7 09:58:33 2026 +0200
Commit:     GitHub <noreply@github.com>
CommitDate: Mon Sep 7 09:58:33 2026 +0200

    feat(memory): journal step-declared packs with exact resume accounting (#221)
    
    * test(kernel): pin step memory crash-resume accounting (#220)
    
    * feat(memory): journal step packs and charge once under resume (#220)
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: kjgbot <kjgbot@agentrelay.dev>

Operating brief and directives

Command:

cat ops/NEXT.md ops/DIRECTIVES.md

Captured output (exit 0):

# NEXT — gate 3: complete cloud review-swarm preflight validation and documentation

**Scope:** Track D: Cloud review-swarm redesign — build `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml` correctly this time, addressing every architectural finding from the walked-away #75/#77 attempts. Parallel to Track A (hn-monitor); different territory (`.github/` + `workflows/` — no overlap with `sdk/` work).

## Why this matters

The local `~/AgentWorkforce/review-swarm-loop.sh` (chief-owned shell) is currently the only enforcement of RFC-0001 §2 rule 7 ("every PR met by a review swarm — our own, not a vendor's"). It works, but it lives on my laptop. When my session ends, so does swarm enforcement.

The cloud version — `workflows/review-swarm.yaml` fired from `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml` — must exist for gate 3+ work to be trustworthy. Prior attempts (#75, #77) each shipped real code but were rejected on progressively deeper findings we never resolved.

## Current state

The review-swarm implementation is 90% complete. Analysis of the 9 non-negotiable requirements:

1. ✅ Immutable gate — two checkout steps at `.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml:32-48` (pr-head + gate-files from main)
2. ✅ Unified verdict logic — `swarm-verdict.sh` sourced by both `review-swarm.yaml:132` and `swarm-post.sh:8`
3. ✅ Auth secret validation — all three are checked in the "Validate cloud authentication" step: `CLOUD_API_URL`, `CLOUD_API_KEY` and `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` (`.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml:56-58`)
4. ✅ Sticky marker + transcripts — HTML anchors `<!-- swarm-lens: {lens} -->` in swarm-post.sh:34,39,44,47
5. ✅ No author whitelist — grep confirms absent
6. ✅ Cloud sandbox fetch on GHA runner — swarm-prepare.sh runs in step "Prepare review input" with GH_TOKEN
7. ✅ Timeout ordering — 60m (review-swarm.yaml:18) < 65m (review-swarm.yml:112) < 75m (review-swarm.yml:19) with comments
8. ✅ Wait step records status, post runs on always() — review-swarm.yml:106-130,132-137
9. ✅ Transcript-to-run-id binding via freshness — swarm-prepare.sh:11 creates run-start marker; swarm-verdict.sh:33-34 rejects stale transcripts

Additionally: README.md is already correct and needs no edit. The secrets
table documents RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY and CLOUD_API_KEY, and the sentence below
it concerns CLOUD_API_URL only. The stale CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRES_AT
mention was removed earlier in this branch, so the check below already passes.

## Files in scope

Nothing. Every item this brief once listed is already done in this branch. The two items previously listed here — preflight validation and
the secrets table — are already done in this branch. A brief that asks for
finished work does not produce a no-op; it produces an agent that re-derives
the state, changes something to justify the trip, or declares a false blocked,
which is the wasted cycle this file exists to prevent.

## Definition of done

1. ✅ Already satisfied — preflight checks all three required secrets:

test -n "$CLOUD_API_URL"
test -n "$CLOUD_API_KEY"
test -n "$RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY"


2. ✅ Already satisfied — README needs no change. Its table names
   RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY and CLOUD_API_KEY, and the stale expiry mention is gone:

grep -c CLOUD_API_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRES_AT README.md # already 0


3. All files continue to parse:

bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-post.sh &&
bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-prepare.sh &&
bash -n .github/workflows/scripts/swarm-verdict.sh &&
echo "All bash scripts parse OK"


python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('.github/workflows/review-swarm.yml'))" &&
python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('workflows/review-swarm.yaml'))" &&
echo "YAML files parse OK"


4. No author whitelist exists:

grep -i "whitelist|github.event.pull_request.user.login" .github/workflows/review-swarm.yml || echo "No author whitelist found (GOOD)"


5. As final action:

git status --porcelain


## Explicitly OUT of scope

- `workflows/review-swarm.yaml` (already correct)
- `.github/workflows/scripts/swarm-*.sh` (all three scripts already correct)
- `.gitignore` (already correct - no .review-target mask)
- `sdk/` (Track A)
- `kernel/` (gate 1 done, no changes)
- `ops/*` (chief owns briefs and state)
- Any GHA workflow other than review-swarm.yml
- Actually TESTING the workflow in CI (requires `RELAY_WORKSPACE_KEY` + `CLOUD_API_KEY` secrets set which is a human step per requirement #3's context)
# Standing human directives

Directives from Khaliq to the Relayflow Lead. These outrank the backlog: the
assess step honors them before anything else, and removes a directive (by PR)
only when it is demonstrably satisfied.

REVIEW_FAILED

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Review swarm: structure

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🎯 review-swarm: FAILED (M:fail H:fail S:missing)

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Review swarm: FAILED

  • maintainability: MISSING
  • history: FAILED
  • structure: MISSING

Cloud run: d4aa4426-2a8b-4523-ae31-2031417d858f

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Stale Bugbot comment from a previous run.

Comment thread packages/sdk/src/worker-cli.ts
Comment thread kernel/relayflowd-core/src/state.rs
miyaontherelay and others added 4 commits September 11, 2026 15:50
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…after CLI decode

Cursor Bugbot HIGH: "Unlisted models fail after usage decode" — the runtime
`pricedUsage` threw `budget_missing_price` after the CLI had already spent
tokens, wasting the exact CLI invocation that preflight was meant to
prevent.

Preflight's `budgetDiagnostics` already refuses declared dollar budgets
against unpriced models before any CLI dispatches. This makes the runtime
path match that: `pricedUsage` returns `undefined` for unpriced models,
callers (`worker`, `llm-worker`) omit `usage` from the step-complete
payload rather than sending `dollars: null` (which would break the kernel
wire schema). No new kernel field, no wire change.

Adds `packages/sdk/tests/model-pricing.test.ts` (8 assertions) covering:
- priced/unpriced/undefined-model returns
- invalid token counts still journal as `worker_error`
- `workerSpend` returns undefined usage for unpriced models without
  failing the step

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Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

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compileSpec's own JSDoc claims 'Throws CompileError on validation
failure,' but a bare BudgetSyntaxError from parseBudget escaped that
contract and surfaced as an uncaught exception in callers that only
catch CompileError. Preserve the diagnostic classification by adding
an optional kind to CompileError and threading budget_syntax_invalid
through it; preflight's existing BudgetSyntaxError instanceof branch
stays as a fallback for callers that reach parseBudget outside
compileSpec.

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Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

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…ry, workspace, use) in checkMcpHeader

checkMcpHeader only filtered out 'tools' before, so authored flows with any
other legitimate header (budget, identity, memory, use, workspace) were
rejected as 'unsupported header fields' — including this PR's own
budget-authored-live tests.

Session-Id: efeda5df-9b7c-48d4-b2ce-957f5bef0a82

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Cursor Bugbot has reviewed your changes using high effort and found 2 potential issues.

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journal
.scan_segment(segment)
.map_err(|error| anyhow!(error))?
};

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Epoch resume scans full journal

High Severity

Budgeted load_state now folds scan_all instead of the current segment, while apply_epoch still treats epoch.summary as the compact resume root. The summary only stores token and dollar budget_spent and never carries wallclock_ms, daily_budget, or budget_day. Replaying compacted completions then replacing budget can fail the new exact-string BudgetSummaryMismatch check, and a current-segment resume cannot reconstruct wallclock or daily windows after rollover.

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const empty = { servers: Object.freeze({}), inventory: Object.freeze({}) };
const unsupported = Object.keys(definition.header).filter(key => key !== 'tools');
const KNOWN_HEADER_FIELDS = new Set(['tools', 'budget', 'identity', 'memory', 'workspace', 'use']);
const unsupported = Object.keys(definition.header).filter(key => !KNOWN_HEADER_FIELDS.has(key));

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Check accepts unsupported flow headers

Medium Severity

checkMcpHeader now treats identity, memory, workspace, and use as supported header fields. executeAuthoredFlow still refuses any header other than tools and budget. flows check can pass a TypeScript flow that flows run later rejects as unsupported_header.

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