Off-Trace Token Counts Cannot Gate a Run
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A usage number that never becomes a span attribute cannot fail a build. It is a caption on a chat UI, and captions do not belong in CI. Agent runs hide cost in three places at once: the model call, the tool payload, and the retries the panel collapses into one turn. Dashboards mix those numbers aft…
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- 2026-09-16 04:52 · DEV Community — AI
Off-Trace Token Counts Cannot Gate a Run