FINOPS

Claude Code now reports prompt cache hit ratio and miss causes in /usage. How to read it, script a status line, and set 5m or 1h TTLs.

Cloudflare's Billable Usage API returns usage and cost per product from one FOCUS-aligned endpoint, so agent-created spend is visible without the dashboard.

A trending Codex SQLite WAL bug is a useful warning for every local coding agent: logs, disks, background processes, and telemetry paths need budgets too.

AI model routing and orchestration decide which model handles which task. How routing differs from orchestration, and practical ways to cut your model spend.

Enterprise AI coding budget lessons: Uber spent its 2026 AI tools budget by April and Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses. Spend controls that work.

AI infrastructure agents need hard cloud-spend guardrails before touching real accounts. What the DN42 AWS story teaches, from dry runs to circuit breakers.

AI agent PMF turns cost into the bottleneck. How cost attribution, budget gates and workflow design keep agent fleets from causing surprise spend.

Claude Agent SDK credits split programmatic agent usage from subscription usage on June 15. What changed and how to budget agent work in separate lanes.

Claude Code token burn is an observability problem. Why coding agents need cache-hit telemetry, spend ceilings and repro-grade usage logs, not a quota bar.

Two quality-of-life tools we built this week for Claude Code daily drivers: a SKILL.md linter and a VS Code status bar that shows live LLM spend.

Five managed-agent providers, five pricing models, zero unified cost attribution. If you're running agents overnight, you need FinOps you don't have yet.