Feat: Show every abctl money figure in its own billing unit

[huang195]

Summary

Closes #1182. Since #1153, an endpoint can bill in a unit other than dollars
(pricing.endpoints[].unit), and abctl cost refuses to add across units — but every money
cell in the TUI still hard-codes $. Price IBM Bob in credits and the spend band, the AGENTS
pane, the sessions list, the drawer, the usage pane and the events pane all print those credits
as dollars, and the band adds them to the dollar total.

This carries the unit to every surface and formats with it:

• Events — each request's cost record carries its unit (event.Event.Currency, omitempty,
  "" = USD — the ledger's rule), set by pricing.UnitOf, the same rule the ledger writer now
  uses.
• Sessions — SessionSummary.Currencies, folded in Store.Append and shed on trim alongside
  the cost it describes.
• Live ring — tallies units, so ring-backed windows report Currencies and answer
  group=currency instead of downgrading it.
• Breakdowns — Snapshot.SeriesCurrencies names each series' units for the agent, model and
  endpoint axes; usage.ScopeToAgent narrows Currencies to the scoped agent's when present.
• TUI — one formatter in a new cmd/abctl/money package, shared with abctl cost.

Rendering, with a non-dollar unit in play:

LAST 1H $3.21 + 0.01 Bobcoins · TODAY $6.20 + 0.03 Bobcoins · …     band: each unit, never a sum
 bob-shell/2.0.5        11    13.3K   0.03 Bobcoins                  cell
 … 0.03 Bobc…                                                        narrow column

A figure that genuinely spans units reads (mixed); the drawer's tier column and the usage
pane's cost chart are withheld for a mixed window. A non-dollar amount never renders with $.

What does not change

• Dollars-only users see byte-identical TUI output, and the band polls exactly as before — it
  asks for a per-unit split only when a window names two or more units. Every pre-existing TUI
  money test passes with its expected strings unedited.
• Wire: every new field is omitempty. The one addition a dollars-only client sees is
  "currencies":["USD"] on ring-backed /v1/usage responses, which ledger-backed windows
  already carried — so abctl cost --window 1h --json now carries it too.

What changes in abctl cost

Its helpers now delegate to cmd/abctl/money, and two refusals get narrower:

• A unit counts only where a figure exists — a request that was priced, or one that carried
  a saving — on the ring, the ledger and the session store alike. An unpriced call beside another
  unit's spend (a local model next to Bob, say) no longer makes a window refuse its total as
  "2 units", since there is nothing of it to add.
• --agent is judged on the agent's own units when the server sends seriesCurrencies, so
  a single-unit agent in a mixed window prints its figure where it used to refuse, and an agent
  whose own traffic is mixed is not told the mixture is the window's. Against an older server
  it falls back to the window's list, as before.

Pre-existing tests that change:

• The event wire-format pin is extended for the new field (it exists to force that).
• TestSnapshot_TheRingServesGroupCurrencyAsNone, which pinned the ring's inability this PR
  removes, is replaced by one that keeps its concern — the per-unit series must sum to the total.
• TestCurrenciesIn_ReportsDistinctUnitsSorted, TestCurrenciesIn_SingleUnitAndEmpty and
  TestCurrenciesIn_TheOverflowLabelIsNotABillingUnit mark their fixture rows priced, since a
  unit now counts only for a row with a figure; their assertions are unchanged.

Known limits

• abctl cost --by still withholds cost cells in a mixed window rather than using
  SeriesCurrencies, to keep the CLI's output unchanged here.

• Under an agent scope in a mixed window, the usage pane's "attributed to no agent" note drops
  its amount, since that residual belongs to no series and so has no unit.

• The help overlay is at its no-scroll height limit, so the unit explanation lives in the README.

• On a ring window (e.g. --window 1h), abctl cost --by currency lists a USD … — row for
  traffic nothing priced: the currency tally stays unconditional so the series sum to the total.

• No core/sessionapi test pins that the ledger path hands SeriesCurrenciesIn the capped series;
  the capping itself is pinned in core/cost/ledger.

• Under --agent with the agent's own mixed units, the refusal still opens "this window holds …".

• The AGENTS pane and the drawer read a missing seriesCurrencies key as "use the window's list",
  where ScopeToAgent reads it as "no units". Such a row has nothing priced and renders — either
  way.

• Money cells in the events pane and the drawer relabel without a width budget, so a long unit
  name can be cut by the column or misalign a drawer row.

• The ring and the session store key units by their configured spelling, where the ledger
  case-folds: two endpoints spelled credits and Credits read as two units on the ring.

• Rows are still ranked by raw cost across units in the drawer, the AGENTS pane, --by and the
  events pane, which also decides what folds into (other).

• The band's per-unit split is a second request. A unit the first poll named but the split lacks
  reads (mixed); a unit that appears only in the split is left out of the cell until the next
  poll.

Context

Second of three PRs that finish separating Bob from Claude Code in abctl (first: #1194). Bob
pricing (a flat 2 Bobcoins per million tokens) cannot be switched on until this lands. Related:
#943, #1153.

Test plan

• go test ./... per module: core, cmd/abctl, cmd/authbridge-proxy; every workspace module
  builds and vets (cmd/authbridge-cpex with -tags cpex)
• golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=upstream/main on the changed packages: no new issues
• Each new guard mutation-checked against its own assertion message

Assisted-By: Claude Code

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Cost and usage views now display configured billing units, with labels adapted to available space. USD figures retain their existing dollar formatting.
  • Mixed-currency totals are not combined: views show separate amounts where available and mark mixed rows or withhold totals when a single figure cannot be determined.
  • Session summaries and cost records can identify non-USD billing units.
• Documentation
  • Updated pricing and command-line guidance to explain currency labels, mixed-unit displays, and cost-chart behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change adds billing-unit metadata to cost records, usage snapshots, and session summaries. abctl uses that metadata to label cost figures, separate mixed-unit amounts, and withhold some mixed-unit totals and charts.

Changes

Billing unit tracking and display

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and retain billing units core/cost/event/event.go, core/cost/pricing/describe.go, core/cost/settle/settle.go, core/cost/ledger/*, core/session/store.go, core/session/currencies_test.go	Cost events and ledger rows carry non-default billing units. Session summaries track units represented by retained priced or avoided-cost events and omit currencies for USD-only totals.
Aggregate units in usage snapshots core/cost/usage/*, core/cost/ledger/query.go, core/sessionapi/usage.go	Ledger and ring snapshots report currencies represented in totals and supported series. Agent-scoped snapshots use the selected agent’s currencies when the per-series data is available.
Shared formatting and cost cells cmd/abctl/money/*, cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go, cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go, cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/cost_event.go, cmd/abctl/tui/events_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/sessions_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/money_units_test.go	Shared helpers select and format units, including width-limited labels. CLI summaries and TUI session, agent, and event cost cells use unit-aware formatting.
Spend spans and breakdowns cmd/abctl/tui/spend.go, cmd/abctl/tui/spend_band.go, cmd/abctl/tui/spend_drawer.go, cmd/abctl/tui/spend_tiers.go, cmd/abctl/tui/money_units_test.go	Mixed-unit spend spans request a currency-grouped breakdown when applicable. Spend bands show per-unit values when available; drawer rows and tier figures use unit-aware labels or a mixed-unit marker.
Usage charts and display documentation cmd/abctl/tui/usage_pane.go, cmd/abctl/tui/usage_render.go, cmd/abctl/tui/usage_stacked.go, cmd/abctl/tui/money_units_test.go, cmd/abctl/README.md, docs/pricing.md	Usage charts label cost values and captions with the selected unit. Cost charts are withheld for mixed-unit windows. The documentation describes the currency labels and mixed-unit display behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UsagePane
  participant SessionAPI
  participant Ledger
  participant UsageRenderer
  UsagePane->>SessionAPI: Request usage snapshot
  SessionAPI->>Ledger: Build snapshot with currency series
  Ledger-->>SessionAPI: Return totals and unit metadata
  SessionAPI-->>UsagePane: Return usage snapshot
  UsagePane->>UsageRenderer: Render cost values using selected unit

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Suggested reviewers: esnible

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 59415

With an agent scope selected in a window that mixes USD and another billing unit, the unattributed-cost residual can be shown as a dollar amount even though it may be in another unit. This is a narrow display error, and it is worth fixing before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 59415

The reviewed behavior improves billing-unit visibility and filters displayed unit labels. No new privileged action or terminal-injection path was demonstrated. Risk is low rather than minimal because older-consumer compatibility and pricing changes during in-flight requests remain partly unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The reviewed propagation scope is cost telemetry, per-pod session/usage summaries, and command-line or terminal presentation. The inspected formatting consumers do not turn unit metadata into execution authority; this conclusion does not cover every external consumer or service boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Stored or producer-supplied unit labels pass through a printable-character filter before non-dollar rendering. Mixed-unit summaries use a fixed marker or an additional label sanitizer. Observed Relabel callers provide numeric formatting output for its amount argument.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Ring updates hold the write lock while folding amounts and currency metadata. Reusing a stale time slot resets the whole bucket. Snapshot reads hold the read lock and copy series maps, while unit sets follow labels into overflow series, preserving attribution through response caps.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider binding a published amount to its recorded currency, and obtaining fallback amount and unit from one pricing snapshot. This would make the unit-identity guarantee explicit across pricing reloads; a failing production transition was not verified in this review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1182 requires unit-aware TUI money labels for the spend strip, sessions COST cell, and Usage pane. The changes carry currency data through events, session summaries, usage snapshots, and TUI mo…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain connected to issue #1182. Core event, ledger, session, and usage changes provide the currency data required by the TUI. The shared money package, abctl cost integration, tests, …
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 90.32% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 124 functions across 32 files. (2 skipped: …
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: displaying each abctl money figure in its applicable billing unit.

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Review comments at @cmd/abctl/tui/usage_pane.go:
- Around line 450-454: Capture the original unscoped snap.Currencies before
usage.ScopeToAgent narrows it, then use that list to determine residual
formatting in costUngroupedRow and writeCostSummary. Update the residual note at
cmd/abctl/tui/usage_pane.go lines 450-454 and the summary at
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UngroupedCostMicros based only on the selected agent’s currencies.

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• cmd/abctl/README.md
• cmd/abctl/cmd_cost.go
• cmd/abctl/cmd_cost_test.go
• cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go
• cmd/abctl/money/money.go
• cmd/abctl/money/money_test.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/agents_pane.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/cost_event.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/events_pane.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/money_units_test.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/sessions_pane.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/spend.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/spend_band.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/spend_drawer.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/spend_tiers.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/usage_pane.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/usage_render.go
• cmd/abctl/tui/usage_stacked.go
• core/cost/event/event.go
• core/cost/event/event_test.go
• core/cost/ledger/currency_test.go
• core/cost/ledger/query.go
• core/cost/ledger/unit_agreement_test.go
• core/cost/ledger/writer.go
• core/cost/pricing/describe.go
• core/cost/settle/settle.go
• core/cost/usage/currency_test.go
• core/cost/usage/scope.go
• core/cost/usage/snapshot.go
• core/cost/usage/snapshot_test.go
• core/cost/usage/usage.go
• core/session/currencies_test.go
• core/session/store.go
• core/sessionapi/usage.go
• docs/pricing.md

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• core/cost/usage/snapshot_test.go

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[mrsabath]

The design is sound, and the money package is a genuinely good consolidation — one formatter, dollars byte-identical, and printable() reducing a wire-supplied unit name to the configured charset before it reaches a terminal is the right instinct (with a test for the escape-sequence case). pricing.UnitOf as the single rule shared by settle and the ledger writer is the correct fix for the drift risk that motivated it.

All core/cost, core/session, core/sessionapi and cmd/abctl/tui tests pass locally; CI is green across 26 checks; 15/15 commits signed off.

One must-fix, at exactly the seam the last three fix: commits were circling.

71dd5ba and 5941565 established that a unit counts wherever a figure was priced or saved. The ring honours that (if ec.priced == 0 && avoided == 0 { unit = "" }), and so does the session store (money.priced || money.avoided > 0). unitCosts does not — it gates only on PricedRequests > 0. Details inline.

The upshot is that the spend band is the one surface that prints an unqualified dollar total for a window its own Currencies declares mixed. Verified against this head:

Currencies = [Bobcoins, USD]      // window is mixed
Bobcoins: {Requests: 1, AvoidedMicros: 500_000}
USD:      {Requests: 3, PricedRequests: 3, CostMicros: 6_200_000}

unitCosts -> map[USD:6200000]
bandValue -> "$6.20"              <- no (mixed), no "+ ... Bobcoins"

On that same input the other two surfaces refuse correctly — the drawer renders saved (mixed), the AGENTS pane —. So this is a single-surface inconsistency rather than an architectural problem, but it is the precise failure mode the PR exists to eliminate, and it is invisible because it reads like an ordinary figure.

Notes, not findings

Two things your Known limits already own, which I checked rather than re-raised:

• The SeriesCurrencies-nil asymmetry after ScopeToAgent: I verified the AGENTS-pane half of the claim. agentCostCell returns emptyCell on PricedRequests == 0 before units are consulted, so "renders — either way" holds.
• --by withholding cost cells in a mixed window rather than using SeriesCurrencies.

I also confirmed the ordering in Aggregator.Snapshot is right: capSeriesAcrossWindow runs before seriesUnits, so a capped label's units fold into (other) rather than keeping an entry that labels nothing; and fold only ever unions series keys in time, so the present check stays a safe superset.

Areas reviewed: Go (TUI, core/cost, core/session, sessionapi), tests, docs, security, commit conventions
Commits: 15, all signed off
CI status: passing (26 checks; Spellcheck skipped)

[mrsabath]

must-fix — this gate disagrees with the rule 71dd5ba/5941565 established, and the spend band asserts a dollar total for a mixed window as a result.

Snapshot.Currencies now names a unit wherever a figure was priced or saved — your own TestSnapshot_ASavingOnAnUnpricedRequestNamesItsUnit pins exactly that. This gate only admits PricedRequests > 0, so a unit whose traffic carried only a saving is in Currencies (making the window mixed) but absent from ByUnit. bandAmount then continues past any unit missing from ByUnit, silently, and bandValue never reaches money.Mixed because bandAmount returned ok == true.

Verified against this head:

snap := &usage.Snapshot{Group: usage.GroupCurrency, Currencies: []string{"Bobcoins", "USD"},
    Buckets: []usage.Bucket{{Series: map[string]usage.Counts{
        "Bobcoins": {Requests: 1, AvoidedMicros: 500_000},
        "USD":      {Requests: 3, PricedRequests: 3, CostMicros: 6_200_000},
    }}}}

// unitCosts -> map[USD:6200000]
// bandValue -> "$6.20"

A plain $6.20, with no (mixed) and no + ... Bobcoins, for a window holding Bobcoins. On identical input the drawer gives saved (mixed) and the AGENTS pane gives —, so the band is the outlier.

TestBandValue_AUnitNothingPricedIsNotAFigure does not catch it: its USD series carries neither cost nor saving, so dropping that unit is correct there. The saving-only case is the uncovered one.

Worth saying that the obvious widening is not the fix — I tried it. Adding || series[u].AvoidedMicros > 0 yields "$6.20 + 0.00 Bobcoins", which is worse: the saving is not a cost, so 0.00 misreports it.

The real decision is which refusal you want:

1. Have the band return money.Mixed when a unit in Currencies has no entry in ByUnit — safe, and consistent with the drawer and the AGENTS pane. Cheapest place is bandAmount: treat a missing unit as a failure rather than continue.
2. Keep dropping saving-only units, but deliberately and with a comment saying why a unit in Currencies may legitimately have no figure here.

Either is fine; right now the code does (2) by accident rather than by decision, which is why the band's output does not match its own godoc ("several are printed side by side ... never added").

[mrsabath]

Retracting my must-fix — you were right, and I was overstating it. I went after your counter-argument rather than my own claim, and the claim does not survive.

TestBandValue_SkipsOnlyAUnitTheSplitShowsSpentNothing uses precisely the repro I posted and asserts the band should read $6.20+. Checking that end to end:

• Saving-only traffic is by definition unpriced, so it raises Unpriced, and the cell renders $6.20+ — the partial marker is there. My original repro hand-built a spanReading without the coverage fields spanReadings actually populates, so it printed a bare $6.20 and looked worse than reality. That was my error, and it is what made the finding look like a silent mislabel rather than a disclosed one.
• The band's column is spend. A saving is not spend, so leaving out a unit that spent nothing is correct — and including it produces exactly the misleading 0.00 Bobcoins I had already flagged as the wrong answer. I should have followed that observation to its conclusion instead of handing the question back.

So the behaviour is deliberate, documented by a test, and defensible. I also confirmed the new !ok guard is not dead code: it fires when a group=currency split omits a unit the ungrouped response named, which is reachable across a poll race or a server-version skew. That is the genuinely untrustworthy case, and (mixed) is the right answer for it.

The residual half of the commit is a real catch of your own that I missed: capturing windowUnits before ScopeToAgent narrows Currencies stops a whole-window residual from being labelled with the scoped agent's unit. In a mixed window under --agent that could read as dollars, which is the same class of bug this PR exists to end — nice find.

Verification at bda068d

• core/cost/..., core/session, core/sessionapi, cmd/abctl/tui, cmd/abctl/money: all pass
• 26 CI checks green (Spellcheck skipped); 16/16 commits signed off
• Three cmd/abctl service/exec tests fail in my sandbox on launchd domains, a CA bundle path and a loopback socket — environment artifacts, unrelated to this PR, green in CI

One nit, not worth acting on

This commit's subject is 88 characters against the 72-char convention (71dd5ba is 79). Not worth rewriting merged history; flagging only for the next one.

LGTM.