Feat: Carry a billing unit through pricing and refuse to add across units

[huang195]

Summary

Makes a billing unit data rather than a suffix on an identifier name, and refuses to add
figures across units.

Bob bills in credits at a flat rate. Until now Cortex had nowhere to record that, so configuring
its rate meant adding credits to dollars and printing the sum behind a $ — a number that is
neither, and one that looks correct because it is merely larger. Measured on one real day:
$146.3616 of Claude Code spend would have silently absorbed 0.0774 credits of Bob spend.

pricing:
  endpoints:
    - hosts: ["api.us-east.bob.ibm.com"]
      unit: credits          # absent means USD

COST — today
  2 units        1057 requests   298M tokens
  ! this window holds USD and credits, which cannot be added — no combined figure is shown
    use --by currency for a figure per unit; tokens and requests above are unit-free

Three decisions worth checking

The unit sits on the endpoint, because that is where a gateway's billing is decided — and it is
what makes "never sum across units" expressible at all. It covers every request to that endpoint,
so nothing downstream guesses.

Absent means USD, in three places that must agree: a config with no unit:, a ledger row
written before the field existed, and a bundled vendor-list rate. One constant, pricing.CurrencyUSD,
so they cannot drift.

The unit is the endpoint's, whatever the model. Only rows in an endpoint's unit may price its
traffic, so neither a dollar catch-all nor a bundled row prices a credits gateway, and a charge the
gateway reports itself carries the gateway's unit. A unit: on a multiplier-only block, and two
blocks naming one host in different units, fail startup.

No threading through settle or the event wire

That's the find that kept this small. The ledger writer already holds a pricing.Resolver for the
tier split, and the unit is a property of the endpoint that same resolver answers for — so
Resolver gains CurrencyFor and the writer asks it directly.

It is on the interface rather than an optional one type-asserted for. An optional interface
degrades silently to USD when an implementer forgets it, and "silently labelled dollars" is the
exact defect this prevents. The compiler asks every implementer instead.

The durable half

Row.Currency is part of the row key, which is what makes the separation fall out of folding
the ledger already does rather than needing arithmetic that checks.

The key normalises where the stored field does not:

• defaulted, or a row written before the field existed buckets apart from one saying USD, and
  every endpoint's history splits in two the day a unit is first configured;
• case-folded, because the config preserves an operator's spelling on purpose, so one unit can
  arrive spelled two ways.

Written only when it is not the default, so a single-currency deployment — every deployment
today — produces byte-identical files.

The test that matters most asserts the decode of bytes carrying no currency key, not a
hand-built struct with the field set to "". The round trip is the property, and it protects the
whole retention window rather than the current process.

The refusal, and why it withholds rather than annotates

usage.Snapshot.Currencies reports which units a window's rows carry, computed from the same rows
Fold summed. More than one and the headline is withheld — a caveat under a wrong figure
leaves the wrong figure on screen, and this is the one disclosure here where the number cannot be
salvaged.

Two or more, never one and never zero: an absent list is the in-memory ring, which does not compute
it, and one unit is every deployment today. Either read as a refusal would break traffic that is
perfectly summable — and that direction is tested, because it is the one that breaks existing users.

group=currency is served by the ledger so the flag that message points at actually exists. A key
that does nothing is a failure this repo has been bitten by more than once. The in-memory ring does
not track units: it answers group=currency with group: "none", and its totals can span units,
which docs/pricing.md states.

abctl pricing stopped claiming dollars

Its per-Mtok sub-header was the literal "$/Mtok", four times. A rendering while every endpoint
billed in dollars; a false claim the moment one can declare unit: credits. It now says
$/Mtok while every row is USD — character for character, which is what keeps this from costing
existing readers the label they had — and per Mtok as soon as one row is not, with the unit
riding on that row beside its provenance.

Testing

cd core && go test ./...
cd cmd/abctl && env -u SSL_CERT_FILE -u REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE go test ./... && go vet ./...

The env -u is not incidental: TestRunExec_* inherits a real SSL_CERT_FILE from the
developer's shell and fails on it. Unrelated to this change.

Every guard was mutation-checked, including both directions of the refusal — never firing, and
firing on a single unit. Also: a row key that ignores currency, and an absent currency that stops
reading as USD. Each turns its test red.

golangci-lint findings match the base commit exactly; the two in config.go are pre-existing
QF1008s whose line numbers shifted.

What is not here

Nothing converts between units, and that is deliberate rather than pending — a unit partitions
figures, it is never an operand.

The TUI is not unit-aware, and it mislabels rather than understates. An earlier draft of this
section claimed the opposite. cmd/abctl/tui has zero references to Snapshot.Currencies, and five
of its money sites hard-code $ — prune_saving.go:95, sessions_pane.go:806,818,
usage_render.go:763,767 — so a credits-only deployment reads dollars in the spend strip, the
sessions COST cell and the Usage pane. Labelling them needs the field threaded through the pane
state, which is a separate change; abctl cost is the surface that refuses today. Filed as a
follow-up.

Review rounds

Review rounds landed on top of the three feature commits, each in the history rather than
squashed, because several fix the one before. SHAs below are post-rebase — the branch was rebased
onto main once #1150 and #1152 merged, so every earlier SHA in this thread is stale.

• b30f71e0 — the refusal was implemented on one of the four surfaces that print a figure.
  --by currency stamped $ on a credits row (on the exact surface the refusal message points
  at), --json emitted the cross-unit sum with no field naming the conflict, and the no-agent
  residual and the prune saving took the dollar formatter too. One costIn(v, unit) and one
  windowUnit(snap) reading of Currencies now serve all four. It also found a case no review
  named: a window in a single non-USD unit is not "mixed", so it printed $ over credits with
  nothing to contradict it. USD is canonicalised at normaliseUnit and currencyOrDefault, so
  unit: usd stops reading as a foreign unit. The producer side of the wire gained the round-trip
  test it never had. symbol: was dropped rather than wired — zero readers, and it is deleted
  above.
• d1ba1c7c — that fix made each --by currency cell take its row's label as the unit, which
  is wrong for the one row the ledger does not keep as itself: a capped minute's row carries
  (other) on every axis, so a USD-only window with one overflowed minute rendered
  0.08 (other) where it used to render $0.08. The cell now asks whether the label is one of the
  units the window actually reported, which reuses the CurrenciesIn fix instead of restating it.
• 2b7a9f0a — a test that could no longer fail for the reason it named, found by a mutant that
  flipped from killed to surviving between rounds.
• e54d8438 — the same defect once more, in the second of the two assertions that commit added:
  the phrase it chose is also printed by the summary, which runs first. Stopped picking strings and
  scoped the assertions to the breakdown's own output instead.
• 4e8a15f3 — the first round whose finding was not self-inflicted. docs/pricing.md's
  "Your setup" table still told operators a non-dollar gateway was "Not yet supported" — true before
  this PR, false because of it. Swept the claim repo-wide: 5 instances, 3 fixed here, 2 in
  cmd/abctl/tui/ recorded on abctl TUI: money cells claim dollars for a non-USD deployment #1182 (as a comment — they are a false reason, not the $ glyph that issue enumerates).
• 80348bfc — where the peer review found a figure losing its unit on the way to a sum. The
  overflow row kept (other) as its unit and CurrenciesIn skipped it, so a unit seen only past the
  cap was folded into dollars; the overflow key now keeps the unit. The ring echoed
  group=currency over an empty series; it now serves it as none. unit: reached only the
  models its block named; it is now the endpoint's, which also closes pricing: an authoritative figure is labelled from the row that would have priced it, not from its endpoint #1183. On a multiplier-only
  block, where it reached nothing, it is refused.

Deferred, with issues

The review rounds above found more than they fixed here; the rest is filed rather than dropped.
Some exist only because of the review rounds themselves, which each such issue says on its face.

Issue	What	Why not here
#1177	a withheld (mixed) cell is unexplained on --by currency	introduced by round 2's own fix; its candidate remedy is unguarded, so it needs an assertion of its own
#1179	the casefold breakdown test's negative assertion is unreachable on its own fixture	the test's live assertion already pins the property that matters
#1180	isReportedUnit reads Currencies' presence as authority over a row's value	unreachable: no producer serves group=currency without also computing Currencies
#1182	the TUI's money cells hard-code $	needs Currencies threaded through the pane state; none of those files is in this PR's set
#1188	the in-memory ring adds figures across units	the ring has no unit series; this PR makes it say so rather than track units
#1189	two host globs of equal rank let a model name decide an endpoint's unit	a ranking change in the endpoint-unit lookup; deferred by the author after review
#1190	a non-USD unit: on a hostless or "*" block unprices the bundled table everywhere	a new startup refusal; deferred by the author after review

Refs #943
Closes #1178
Closes #1181
Closes #1183

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Pricing supports endpoint-specific billing units, with USD as the default.
  • Cost reports can group by currency. Single-unit totals show their unit; mixed-unit totals and savings are withheld when they cannot be meaningfully combined.
  • JSON cost snapshots include the currencies represented in the reporting window.
  • Pricing output labels non-USD rates with their configured unit.
• Documentation
  • Updated pricing guidance to cover billing units, validation, and mixed-unit reporting.

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Walkthrough

Endpoint pricing now accepts billing units and carries them through ledger rows and usage snapshots. Pricing and cost commands display unit-labelled amounts, support currency breakdowns, and withhold combined amounts when a window contains multiple currencies.

Changes

Cost reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pricing unit configuration and display core/cost/pricing/*, cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing_test.go	Endpoint units are validated and included in pricing entries. Currency lookups expose the selected unit, and pricing output labels non-USD units. Tests cover unit defaults, validation, and display.
Ledger currency and usage snapshots core/cost/ledger/*, core/cost/usage/snapshot.go, core/sessionapi/usage.go	Ledger rows store non-default currencies, group rows by currency, and derive distinct currency lists for usage snapshots.
Cost output and currency breakdowns cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go, docs/pricing.md	Cost output labels single-unit amounts and suppresses combined amounts for mixed-unit windows. The command supports --by currency, preserves reported currencies in JSON, and clarifies mixed-window behavior in agent-scoped output.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: esnible

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to abf0a

Some cost figures can still be combined or labelled in the wrong billing unit, so the PR should not merge without fixing or explicitly accepting those reporting risks. The invalid-group guidance also needs a small correction.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 20cc0

Most ledger-backed reports now identify billing units and withhold mixed-unit totals. Under a ledger cardinality cap, however, a second unit can disappear from the reported unit list while its amount remains in the total, allowing an invalid combined figure to appear as one unit.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Ledger overflow can erase the only evidence of a second billing unit while retaining its amount, defeating the mixed-unit refusal in cost reports.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated consequence is billing-report integrity within an affected deployment’s ledger window. Reaching the overflow condition requires enough distinct priced rows in a minute; the inspected writer identifies request-chosen model strings as a source of row cardinality. Broader tenant or credential exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If USD remains in ordinary rows while another configured unit occurs only in capped rows, ledger folding retains both amounts, CurrenciesIn reports only USD, and the CLI can display their combined amount as dollars. When both units remain visible, its mixed-unit refusal applies instead.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — A duration request reaches the in-memory usage ring. Its priced event is folded without a currency in eventCost, its snapshot does not populate Currencies, and the CLI maps omission to USD. This reporting gap remains on the ring path; the earlier cost display also used an unconditional dollar label, so a material expansion over the prior exposure is not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The ledger’s normal currency key and mixed-window output guard contain the error unless unit identity is lost in an overflow row. The cardinality cap and the unit-integrity control therefore need compatible representations of capped traffic.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Preserve at least the set of units represented by capped ledger rows, or mark their monetary aggregate as unit-unknown and withhold it from single-unit figures.
• proposed — Give ring-backed priced totals unit metadata, or distinguish unknown-unit ring snapshots from confirmed USD before displaying a currency-labelled amount.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go:
- Around line 1558-1563: Update the output assertions in the test around
`plainCount`: check for the unseparated count `1049` when detecting leaked
figures, and match the request count as ` 8 requests` rather than the ambiguous
single digit `8`.
- Line 1910: Update the refusal assertion using strings.Contains(got) to check
for the output’s actual refusal text, such as “ units” and “cannot be added,” so
the test fails if the refusal message is missing.

Review comments at @cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go:
- Around line 1118-1121: Update cost formatting in writeCostBreakdown so
currency-grouped rows use the unit named by each label, and rows on other axes
omit the dollar sign when snap.Currencies contains multiple currencies. Apply
the same unit-aware formatting rule to the --agent residual notes; preserve USD
formatting when the amount is unambiguous.

Review comments at @cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane.go:
- Around line 222-230: Update enterAgentsOrRefuse so it only saves m.pane to
m.previousPane when the current pane is not paneAgents; preserve the existing
previousPane when handling entry while already on the Agents pane.
- Around line 207-215: Update fetchAgentRowsCmd, agentRowsFromBuckets, and
agentCostCell so agent totals retain enough currency metadata to avoid
displaying non-USD or mixed-currency values as USD; render those costs as —
unless explicit per-agent currency metadata supports correct formatting. Ensure
SortSeriesLabels does not compare raw CostMicros across different currency
units.

Review comments at @core/cost/ledger/row.go:
- Around line 363-371: Update overflow and overflowKey so overflow rows retain
their normalized currency and are grouped by unit rather than merging different
currencies. Update the overflowKey call sites in the writer and revise
TestOverflow_ResetsCurrencyToo to assert the preserved currency behavior.

Review comments at @core/cost/ledger/writer.go:
- Around line 491-506: Update the empty-model currency resolution in the
`w.rates` block so it uses a host-only lookup that selects the unit from the
most specific configured row matching `e.Host`, rather than relying on
`CurrencyFor` with an empty model. Preserve the existing non-empty-model lookup
and default-USD behavior, and correct the nearby comment to describe the actual
fallback.

Review comments at @core/cost/pricing/config.go:
- Around line 249-252: In the endpoint validation flow around normaliseUnit,
reject a non-USD unit when an endpoint has a multiplier but no models, returning
an error that says the unit needs a models block. Perform the check before the
multiplier-only branch continues, so the unit cannot be silently ignored.

Review comments at @core/cost/usage/snapshot.go:
- Around line 99-100: Update the unknown-group error in ParseGroup to include
currency in its list of accepted axes, keeping the existing alias guidance and
other entries unchanged.

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• core/cost/usage/fold_test.go
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Do not format non-USD agent totals as USD.

fetchAgentRowsCmd drops snap.Currencies and passes only snap.Buckets to agentRowsFromBuckets. The fold stores one usage.Counts value per agent, without currency metadata. agentCostCell then formats every priced value as USD.

GroupAgent snapshots carry an aggregate currency list, not per-agent currency. Rows for one agent can therefore combine currencies, and SortSeriesLabels compares their raw CostMicros values as if they used the same unit.

When the snapshot reports a non-USD or mixed currency, render the cost as — or add explicit per-series currency metadata before formatting it.

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Review comment at @cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane.go around lines 207 - 215:
Update fetchAgentRowsCmd, agentRowsFromBuckets, and agentCostCell so agent
totals retain enough currency metadata to avoid displaying non-USD or
mixed-currency values as USD; render those costs as — unless explicit per-agent
currency metadata supports correct formatting. Ensure SortSeriesLabels does not
compare raw CostMicros across different currency units.

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Do not record paneAgents as its own return pane.

The A handler in keys.go accepts the key on paneAgents. When the reply arrives, enterAgentsOrRefuse sets m.previousPane = paneAgents. This overwrites the pane the user originally came from. The first esc then goes back to Agents. The second esc goes to Sessions, not to the original caller.

Keep the existing previousPane when the model is already on the agents pane:

Proposed fix

-	m.previousPane = m.pane
+	if m.pane != paneAgents {
+		m.previousPane = m.pane
+	}
 	m.pane = paneAgents

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	func (m *model) enterAgentsOrRefuse() (entered bool, refusal string) {
	if why := agentsPaneRefusal(m.agents); why != "" {
	return false, why
	}
	m.previousPane = m.pane
	m.pane = paneAgents
	m.rebuildAgentsTable()
	return true, ""
	}
	func (m *model) enterAgentsOrRefuse() (entered bool, refusal string) {
	if why := agentsPaneRefusal(m.agents); why != "" {
	return false, why
	}
	if m.pane != paneAgents {
	m.previousPane = m.pane
	}
	m.pane = paneAgents
	m.rebuildAgentsTable()
	return true, ""
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Update enterAgentsOrRefuse so it only saves m.pane to m.previousPane when the
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core/cost/pricing/config.go (1)

277-282: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject unit on an endpoint that has only a multiplier.

normaliseUnit validates ep.Unit for every endpoint. After that, the endpoint block runs continue when it has a multiplier and no models. That endpoint produces no Entry, so its unit reaches no row. CurrencyFor then returns the unit of the matching bundled row, which is USD. If an operator writes hosts: [gw], multiplier: 0.76, unit: credits, the config loads, and every figure from gw is labelled USD.

Proposed fix

 		if len(ep.Models) == 0 {
 			if ep.Multiplier != nil {
+				if unit != CurrencyUSD {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: unit %q needs a models block; a multiplier scales rows priced in their own unit and cannot relabel them", where, ep.Unit)
+				}
 				continue
 			}

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Review comment at @core/cost/pricing/config.go around lines 277 - 282:
Update the endpoint handling after unit normalization so a multiplier-only
endpoint rejects any non-USD unit before continuing without creating entries.
Keep multiplier-only endpoints with the default USD unit valid, and report the
endpoint location and configured unit in the error.

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Review comments at @core/cost/pricing/config.go:
- Around line 277-282: Update the endpoint handling after unit normalization so
a multiplier-only endpoint rejects any non-USD unit before continuing without
creating entries. Keep multiplier-only endpoints with the default USD unit
valid, and report the endpoint location and configured unit in the error.

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• cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go
• cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go
• cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go
• core/cost/pricing/config.go
• core/cost/pricing/config_test.go
• core/cost/pricing/table.go
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[pdettori]

The core design is sound: CurrencyFor follows the same bestRow as Resolve, and key normalisation is consistent (old rows, "" and any spelling of USD share one bucket). Three gaps still let credits be summed into a dollar figure:

1. the overflow row drops the currency,
2. the in-memory ring path (duration windows, TUI, no-ledger deployments) never separates units,
3. unit: is silently discarded on multiplier-only blocks and for models the block doesn't name.

Missing tests: ledgerSnapshot filling in Currencies; unit on a multiplier-only block or an unnamed model; the ring with group=currency.

Assisted-By: Claude Code

[pdettori]

must-fix — Overflow collapses currency: r.Currency = overflowLabel, and CurrenciesIn (query.go:569) skips overflow rows. If a minute's only credits traffic lands in overflow (63 distinct USD rows, then Bob traffic), the window reports [USD] and prints $X with credits folded in. TestCurrenciesIn_SkippingOverflowStillSeesTheRealUnits always has a real credits row alongside, so it doesn't cover this. Suggest keeping the real currency in the overflow key (units are few, so the bound still holds), or treating an overflow row as "unknown unit" and refusing the headline total.

[pdettori]

must-fix — Reader side of the overflow issue on row.go:371: skipping overflow here hides a unit that exists only in overflow, so the multi-unit guard never trips.

[pdettori]

must-fix — ParseGroup now accepts currency, but the in-memory ring (duration windows like --window 1h, the TUI, and no-ledger deployments) has no currency series, sums cost across units, and never sets Currencies. --window 1h --by currency prints "(no currency breakdown for this window)" and then a no-agent residual that is the cross-unit sum under $. This contradicts docs/pricing.md ("Figures in different units are never added"). Minimum fix: have the ring downgrade group=currency to none, and scope the docs claim to ledger windows.

[pdettori]

must-fix — unit: is validated here but then discarded on multiplier-only blocks (the continue below), and it is never attached to models the block doesn't name. CurrencyFor then falls back to the bundled Host:"*" row, which is USD. Example: hosts:[bob], unit: credits, models:{premium-ide}; a claude-* request through Bob, or an authoritative gateway charge on a multiplier-only Bob block, is written as USD. Suggest rejecting unit without models, or making the unit host-wide.

[pdettori]

suggestion — The model-less host fallback ranks configured rows above bundled ones, so a configured hosts:["*"], unit: credits block would label any unmatched or model-less response as credits, even from api.anthropic.com. Nothing checks that two blocks for the same host agree on the unit either, so this fallback's answer depends on block order. Consider validating unit consistency per host.

[pdettori]

suggestion — labelFor fills in the USD default but doesn't case-fold, while CurrenciesIn does. So credits and Credits appear as two --by currency rows while Currencies reports one unit, and the promise that the table reconciles with the total only holds for USD.

[pdettori]

nit — CurrencyFor is asked with the cleaned-up rowLabel model name, while settle priced the request with the raw one. They can resolve different rows only for model names over 96 bytes or containing replaced characters, but asking with the same name settle used would remove the gap.

[pdettori]

nit — "Both per-tier units" reuses "unit" for per_million vs per_token, right after a section defining unit as currency. Maybe "Per-tier rate forms".

[mrsabath]

Reviewed at a66911e. The design here is genuinely good, and I want to be specific about which parts: CurrencyFor following the same bestRow as Resolve (so a figure cannot be priced at one row's rate and labelled with another's), the unit living in the row key so separation falls out of folding rather than needing arithmetic that checks, Resolver gaining a required method rather than an optional type-asserted one, and the decode-side test for rows written before the field existed. The abctl pricing $/Mtok fix is the right shape too — keeping the literal character-for-character for USD rather than making every existing reader's output worse to avoid a lie in the rare case.

@pdettori's four must-fixes from their 2026-09-29 review are all still live at this commit. I verified each independently and I'm not going to restate them — that review stands on its own, and a second block would just be noise. This is a COMMENT for one thing neither that review nor CodeRabbit named.

The ring publishes a residual equal to the entire window

usage.Group.Reconcilable() returns true for GroupCurrency — only GroupNone and GroupPlugin are false — while bucket.series (core/cost/usage/snapshot.go:1442-1463) has no GroupCurrency case and falls to default: return nil. On the ring path reconcilable is therefore true with a nil series, so the loop at snapshot.go:1336-1338 runs ungrouped.Add(b.CostMicros); ungrouped.Sub(0) for every bucket, and UngroupedCostMicros comes out equal to the whole window's cost.

Reconcilable's own godoc predicts this, verbatim:

NOT SUFFICIENT ON ITS OWN — treated as such, it publishes a residual equal to an entire total. [...] ledger.Groupable answers it there

The ring never consults ledger.Groupable; that check lives only on the ledger branch at core/sessionapi/usage.go:331. So the guard the comment points at is the one that isn't applied here.

What a reader sees. --json gets group:"currency", an empty series, no currencies key, and ungroupedCostMicros equal to the window total — which decodes as "100% of this spend is attributed to no currency" rather than "this source has no currency axis". The human path prints (no currency breakdown for this window), and that line's own comment asserts "the axis WAS served, and had nothing in it" — which is not what happened. A window with real mixed-unit spend is indistinguishable from an idle one, on the surface writeCostSummary's refusal explicitly sends the reader to.

And the ring stamps $ on mixed windows

Separately from the above: windowUnit maps len(Currencies) == 0 to (USD, true), and the ring never sets Currencies. So on a ring-served window every axis is treated as USD-labelled — a mixed-unit deployment gets $ figures on --by agent and never reaches the ! these rows hold ... cannot be added disclosure, which is gated on !labelled. The zero case is doing double duty: "producer doesn't compute this" and "producer says USD" are different facts, and the PR body's own argument for why absent must not read as a refusal is also the reason it cannot safely read as USD on a surface that adds across rows.

This is the same class as the defect b30f71e0 fixed on the ledger path, on the path that commit didn't reach.

Two untested spots worth naming

TestCurrenciesIn_SkippingOverflowStillSeesTheRealUnits keeps a real credits row alongside the overflowed one, so it passes while the unit-only-in-overflow case is broken — @pdettori's reading of that test is right. And there is no test anywhere for unit: on a multiplier-only block; the continue path that discards it is uncovered.

Given how much of this PR's own case is made by mutation-checking its guards, those two are the gaps where a mutant survives.

CI is green across all 26 checks (Spellcheck skipped), and DCO passes on all 12 commits.

[mrsabath]

must-fix — ParseGroup now accepts currency, but nothing stops the ring being asked for it, and the ring cannot answer.

bucket.series has no GroupCurrency case, so it returns nil. Group.Reconcilable() returns true for GroupCurrency (only GroupNone/GroupPlugin are false). Those two together mean the ring's residual loop subtracts an empty series from every bucket's cost, and UngroupedCostMicros ends up equal to the entire window.

That is exactly the failure Reconcilable's godoc warns about — "treated as such, it publishes a residual equal to an entire total ... ledger.Groupable answers it there" — and the ring path never calls ledger.Groupable (only core/sessionapi/usage.go:331 does, on the ledger branch).

Downstream: abctl cost --window 1h --by currency prints (no currency breakdown for this window), whose own comment claims "the axis WAS served, and had nothing in it". A window with real mixed-unit spend reads as idle. --json is worse — empty series plus a residual equal to the total.

And independently of the residual: windowUnit reads len(Currencies) == 0 as (USD, true), so every ring-served window is $-labelled on every axis. A mixed-unit deployment served from the ring prints $ on --by agent and never emits the cross-unit caveat, because that is gated on !labelled. The zero case is carrying two incompatible meanings: "the producer does not compute this" and "the producer says USD".

Smallest fix that closes both: give the ring a Groupable-style guard so group=currency downgrades to none there (making the downgrade notice fire, which is the honest message), and distinguish "not computed" from "one unit" at windowUnit rather than defaulting the former to USD.

[mrsabath]

nit — windowUnit's doc comment is attached to isReportedUnit.

The block starting // windowUnit reports the unit every figure on this snapshot is denominated in runs through its three bullets and then continues straight into // isReportedUnit reports whether... with no declaration between them — so godoc reads the whole thing as isReportedUnit's doc, and windowUnit at line 1190 is undocumented. Given how much of the reasoning in this PR lives in these comments, the one explaining why len == 0 means USD is the one worth not losing.

Also, the trailing FOLDED paragraph says labelFor "answers with the folded row's own spelling" — labelFor returns r.currencyOrUSD() with no folding at all (that's key(), and it's the mismatch @pdettori flagged at query.go:499). The comment describes the behaviour the code would need for the case-fold gap not to exist.

[mrsabath]

suggestion — "Figures in different units are never added." is unqualified, and it is only true of ledger-backed windows.

A duration window (--window 1h), the TUI, and any no-ledger deployment are served from the in-memory ring, which never sets Currencies and has no currency series — so cost really is summed across units there, and windowUnit's USD default means the sum prints behind a $. The PR body is candid about the TUI half of this; the docs claim is the one an operator reads as a guarantee.

Worth scoping to the windows that keep the promise (today, 7d, month with a ledger configured), so the sentence stays true rather than becoming true later.

[pdettori]

All seven comments from my earlier review are addressed at 42ad323, along with the whole-window-unattributed issue @mrsabath raised:

• Overflow rows now keep their unit.
• unit: on a multiplier-only block, or two blocks giving one host different units, now fails at startup.
• The unit covers the whole host.
• The in-memory path now treats --by currency as no grouping, and the docs now say "never added" only for ledger windows.
• The new tests cover each case.

Non-blocking suggestion: windowUnit (cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go:1184) still treats "no units reported" as dollars. A mixed window on the in-memory path therefore prints $ figures with no caveat. That's consistent with the documented "absent means not computed" rule, but the CLI output is what users see, not the docs. A one-line note on those windows would close the gap, something like "units not checked on this window (in-memory); see --window with a ledger range for per-unit figures". Fine as a follow-up.

Assisted-By: Claude Code