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Additive v1 contract change: cost.estimateBasis: 'contract' | 'list' says whether an estimated amount came from a transcribed contract price table or from vendor list/catalog belief (including contract-window fallbacks). Old producers simply omit the field.

  • contracts package: type + doc comment; dist rebuilt.
  • event schema + valid attempt-terminal fixture carry the field.
  • ops snapshot aggregates a per-window basis mix over costed terminal attempts (totals.costEstimateBasis).
  • live cockpit Reported cost metric detail shows estimate basis N contract / M list[/ K unspecified] when the window has cost evidence; legacy materialized snapshots read as zero.
    Producer side (nuxt-flux) sends the field in a follow-up PR.

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  • pnpm build:packages, pnpm typecheck clean.
  • test:ops:v1, test:contract:v1 (7 valid / 25 invalid fixtures), test:live-cockpit:v1 all pass.

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  • New Features
    • The operations cockpit now breaks down spend by currency, showing costs for successful, failed, and cancelled operations, retry costs, and cost per successful operation.
    • Reported costs now distinguish contract-based and list-based estimates, with unspecified estimates shown when present.
    • SLO policies now include cost-evidence coverage and billing reconciliation delta objectives, including low-sample states.

Two new versioned objectives make silent spend lies pageable:
- cost_evidence_coverage (gte 0.95 / 0.9 / 0.75): the share of operations that
  carry cost evidence. A cockpit total computed from partial evidence now
  breaches an SLO instead of sitting there looking complete.
- reconciliation_delta_ratio (lte 0.15 / 0.25 / 0.5 over 7d): absolute gap
  between provider-billed money and attempt-level estimates as a share of
  billed, over reconciliation periods inside the window. Breaches mean our
  cost evidence no longer describes what providers charge.
Both join incidents under the generic slo:<metric> path; the DB metric CHECK is
extended name-independently and the ratio-bounds CHECK covers the new ratio
metrics. validatePolicy treats *-ratio metrics as ratios.

New projection block spendEfficiency attributes every dollar of cost evidence
to the outcome that consumed it: succeeded cost, wasted cost (failed/expired/
abandoned operations), cancelled cost, and retry tax (attempts numbered 2+
inside succeeded operations), per currency, plus cost per succeeded operation.
The cockpit gains a Spend efficiency panel; stale materialized snapshots are
rejected so caches rebuild.
…LO migration

The 20260928 migration only added a CHECK constraint listing the SLO metric
names, but policy metrics are a closed TS union and the single write path
(updateSignalOpsSloPolicyV1 via /v1/slos) patches thresholds of registry-derived
policies only. An out-of-registry metric cannot be stored through the
application, so the constraint enforced nothing the app can violate while
requiring a manual database change to deploy. Remove it and document the spend
evidence lens, the two spend objectives, and the fal price watch in the
platform spec instead.
…and cockpit

Estimated cost carried only its source (catalog_estimate), so the cockpit
could not say WHY an estimate was what it is - contract table or list
fallback. Adds optional cost.estimateBasis ('contract' | 'list') to the
v1 contract and schema (additive; old producers omit it), aggregates a
basis mix over costed attempts in the ops snapshot, and shows it in the
Reported cost metric detail. Legacy materialized snapshots read as zero
via optional chaining.
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The change adds cost-estimate provenance to telemetry, calculates and displays spend efficiency by currency, and adds cost-evidence coverage and reconciliation-delta ratio SLO metrics. The specification also describes a daily provider-price watch and policy-write constraints.

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Cost observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cost estimate provenance contract
packages/contracts/src/v1.ts, schemas/ai-telemetry/v1/event.schema.json, schemas/ai-telemetry/v1/fixtures/valid/attempt-terminal.json
The cost contract and schema accept an optional estimate basis of contract or list. The terminal-event fixture includes list.
Spend-efficiency snapshot and cockpit
src/lib/signalops/v1/ops-snapshot.ts, src/lib/signalops/v1/projection-repository.ts, src/components/live-cockpit.tsx, scripts/test-signalops-ops-v1.mjs, scripts/test-live-cockpit-v1.mjs, docs/specs/signalops-observability-platform.md
The snapshot counts estimate bases and aggregates terminal-operation costs by currency and outcome. The cockpit displays provenance and spend-efficiency data. Tests cover outcome totals, retry cost, and cost per succeeded operation.
Spend SLOs and platform specification
src/lib/signalops/v1/slo.ts, scripts/test-signalops-incidents-v1.mjs, docs/specs/signalops-observability-platform.md
The SLO metric set adds cost-evidence coverage and reconciliation-delta ratio, with default policies and observation calculations. Incident tests cover both metrics. The specification also describes the provider-price watch and policy-write constraints.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CostedAttempts
  participant OpsSnapshot
  participant LiveCockpit
  CostedAttempts->>OpsSnapshot: Provide cost evidence and terminal outcomes
  OpsSnapshot->>LiveCockpit: Return provenance counts and spend-efficiency rows
  LiveCockpit->>LiveCockpit: Display cost and operation totals by currency
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to afb0a

The new reconciliation alerts can report misleading drift because estimates may cover only part of a billing period and different currencies are combined. Correct both calculations before merging.

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Review comments at @src/lib/signalops/v1/slo.ts:
- Around line 397-398: In the reconciliation calculation around `period.billed`
and `period.delta`, stop combining raw amounts across currencies. Calculate each
currency’s ratio independently and apply an explicit currency-level evaluation
rule without weighting currencies by their amounts; follow the cross-currency
aggregation restriction in the observability specification.
- Line 395: Update the reconciliation period filter around endMs and
rangeStartMs to exclude periods whose estimate coverage is incomplete within the
snapshot range, so a full billing period is never compared with a partial
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let periods = 0;
for (const period of snapshot.reconciliation.periods) {
const endMs = Date.parse(period.end);
if (!Number.isFinite(endMs) || endMs <= rangeStartMs) continue;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use complete-period estimates before evaluating reconciliation drift.

This filter accepts a period that starts before the snapshot range and ends inside it. However, src/lib/signalops/v1/ops-snapshot.ts, Lines 736–742, excludes attempts outside the range before collecting reconciliation estimates.

For a 24-hour snapshot, a daily billing period that crosses the range boundary therefore compares a full bill with a partial estimate. Matching billing and execution costs can produce a false breach once the minimum sample is met.

Build reconciliation estimates from all terminal cost evidence for each qualifying period, independently of the display range. Alternatively, exclude periods whose estimate coverage is incomplete.

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Review comment at @src/lib/signalops/v1/slo.ts at line 395:
Update the reconciliation period filter around endMs and rangeStartMs to exclude
periods whose estimate coverage is incomplete within the snapshot range, so a
full billing period is never compared with a partial estimate.

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Comment on lines +397 to +398
billed += period.billed;
absoluteDelta += Math.abs(period.delta);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep reconciliation ratios separate by currency.

These sums combine billed amounts and deltas from different currencies. For example, USD 100 with no delta and JPY 10,000 with a JPY 5,000 delta produce one 49.5% observation. Changing the monetary unit changes that observation without changing the underlying drift.

Calculate the ratio per currency and apply an explicit currency-level evaluation rule. Do not weight currencies by their raw amounts. This also violates the cross-currency aggregation restriction in docs/specs/signalops-observability-platform.md, Line 126.

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Review comment at @src/lib/signalops/v1/slo.ts around lines 397 - 398:
In the reconciliation calculation around `period.billed` and `period.delta`,
stop combining raw amounts across currencies. Calculate each currency’s ratio
independently and apply an explicit currency-level evaluation rule without
weighting currencies by their amounts; follow the cross-currency aggregation
restriction in the observability specification.

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