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AoA tracks model spend and enforces budget policies so agents cannot quietly run past configured limits. Budget is managed from Settings -> Budget & caps. The legacy /budget, /costs, and /activity routes redirect into Settings tabs.

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Spend Views

The Budget section supports date ranges:
  • Month to date
  • Last 7 days
  • Last 30 days
  • Year to date
  • All time
  • Custom
Summary cards show total spend, Commander monthly spend, budget limit or unlimited status, utilization, and progress color.

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Budget Policies

Policies can be company-scoped or agent-scoped. A policy defines:
  • Monthly limit
  • Warning threshold
  • Whether hard stop is enabled
At the warning threshold, operators get visibility into rising spend. At the hard-stop threshold, governed runs are blocked or paused according to the policy.

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Incidents

Open budget incidents appear in the Budget section. Review them before raising limits so you know whether spend came from expected work or a runaway loop.

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Provider Quotas and Subscriptions

The Budget section also shows provider quota windows and subscription panels when data exists, including Claude/Codex subscription context and per-model spend breakdowns. Use Settings -> Providers, Settings -> Secrets, and Settings -> Environments to fix missing credentials or execution target issues. Memory embeddings use the Memory OpenAI key; extraction is CLI-only and does not use a hosted extraction key.

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API Reference

Common cost and budget routes:
See docs/api/costs.md for the full API contract.