{
  "schema": "varexis-public-evidence-record/0.3",
  "generated_at_utc": "2026-10-28T23:55:00.000Z",
  "record_id": "VXI-EXT-ICE04-CLAUDE-THREAD-SESSION-COST-RECONCILIATION-01-v1",
  "record_kind": "external_reference",
  "title": "Claude thread totals and session runtime cost",
  "system": "Claude Managed Agents",
  "evidence_family": "vendor_evidence_review",
  "index_status": "PUBLIC_SAFE_SOURCE_REVIEW",
  "evidence_state": "PRIMARY_DOCUMENTATION_REVIEW_ONLY",
  "canonical_question": "Should summed Claude Managed Agents thread costs equal the session list cost exactly?",
  "near_questions": [
    "Why do Claude thread costs not add exactly to session cost?",
    "Is overlapping Managed Agents runtime counted once at session level?",
    "Which cost figure governs a session budget?",
    "What separates rounding differences from a billing discrepancy?"
  ],
  "supported_claims": [
    {
      "claim": "Claude documents independently rounded thread figures that exclude the session running-time cost. Session active_seconds counts overlapping thread activity once, and the session figure governs its budget. Differences between summed thread costs and session cost therefore require scope and rounding reconciliation rather than an automatic double-billing conclusion.",
      "reliance": "DOCUMENTED_CAPABILITY_ONLY"
    }
  ],
  "not_demonstrated_claims": [
    "Documented aggregation differences neither prove nor disprove an actual invoice error.",
    "Buyer implementation, live runtime enforcement, settled payment, certification or permission to act are not established.",
    "No expanded capabilities or licences for existing INDEX executables."
  ],
  "public_summary": "Claude documents independently rounded thread figures that exclude the session running-time cost. Session active_seconds counts overlapping thread activity once, and the session figure governs its budget. Differences between summed thread costs and session cost therefore require scope and rounding reconciliation rather than an automatic double-billing conclusion.",
  "related_record_ids": [],
  "source_review": {
    "source_type": "official_external_documentation",
    "source_title": "Claude Managed Agents: Budgets",
    "source_url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/budgets.md",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-28",
    "candidate_record_id": "VXI-EXT-ICE04-CLAUDE-THREAD-SESSION-COST-RECONCILIATION-01-v1",
    "candidate_record_sha256": "1a76f5a443eba9021b0022b9c6c6fa671b1b2b867bafca765a1f51dca045dc89",
    "method": "Primary documentation reviewed for the published bounded statement.",
    "deployment_tested_by_varexis": false,
    "revalidation": "The delivered snapshot preserves the review date shown. Recheck current primary documentation and deployment context before relying on present applicability; payment does not trigger fresh research."
  },
  "answer_policy": {
    "classification": "DOCUMENTED_WITH_DEPLOYMENT_BOUNDARY",
    "bounded_answer": "Claude documents independently rounded thread figures that exclude the session running-time cost. Session active_seconds counts overlapping thread activity once, and the session figure governs its budget. Differences between summed thread costs and session cost therefore require scope and rounding reconciliation rather than an automatic double-billing conclusion.",
    "required_buyer_context": "Session and thread usage snapshots; Overlapping activity intervals; Rounding basis and runtime charge; Invoice and applicable rates. Buyer deployment not inspected.",
    "missing_evidence": "A broader claim needs evidence matching the intended use. Payment does not upgrade the evidence state."
  },
  "private_boundary": "Raw logs, thresholds, private paths, source code, protected mechanisms and reconstruction-level details are excluded from public and paid delivery.",
  "decision_profile": {
    "schema": "varexis-vendor-evidence-review/1",
    "review_status": "documentation_review_only",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-28",
    "claim_to_check": "Should summed Claude Managed Agents thread costs equal the session list cost exactly?",
    "documented_statement": {
      "status": "documented",
      "statement": "Claude documents independently rounded thread figures that exclude the session running-time cost. Session active_seconds counts overlapping thread activity once, and the session figure governs its budget. Differences between summed thread costs and session cost therefore require scope and rounding reconciliation rather than an automatic double-billing conclusion.",
      "source_ids": [
        "claude-budget"
      ]
    },
    "review_inference": {
      "status": "review_inference",
      "statement": "Review claude thread totals and session runtime cost before accepting the buyer claim. Concurrent runtime aggregation and thread cost scope are distinct from spend-limit configuration. This is a documentation-review judgment, not an observed deployment outcome.",
      "source_ids": [
        "claude-budget"
      ]
    },
    "buyer_evidence_required": [
      "Session and thread usage snapshots",
      "Overlapping activity intervals",
      "Rounding basis and runtime charge",
      "Invoice and applicable rates"
    ],
    "review_condition": {
      "status": "varexis_review_policy",
      "statement": "Documented aggregation differences neither prove nor disprove an actual invoice error."
    },
    "unknowns": "Buyer configuration, effective authority, complete usage and final business outcomes were not inspected.",
    "unknown_finding": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "statement": "Buyer configuration, effective authority, complete usage and final business outcomes were not inspected."
    },
    "evidence_sources": [
      {
        "source_id": "claude-budget",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/budgets.md",
        "final_url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/budgets.md",
        "status": 200,
        "captured_at_utc": "2026-10-28T23:49:42.510295+00:00",
        "sha256": "90245eadd5c551c9a01408a9004071e7cde78a4f4e051066056d94a32e034a72",
        "bytes": 28561,
        "content_type": "text/markdown; charset=utf-8",
        "title": "Claude Managed Agents: Budgets",
        "hash_basis": "SHA-256 of captured HTTP response body bytes",
        "checked_on": "2026-10-28",
        "capture_status": 200,
        "claim_review_completed": true,
        "reviewed_sections": [
          "When a session reaches its budget",
          "Monitor spend"
        ],
        "version_context": "Rolling official documentation captured 2026-10-28; exact response hash is pinned, not a stable vendor release. Verify the deployed API/version and account feature availability. Managed Agents beta API; required headers and supported surfaces are defined in the captured Availability section.",
        "rights_review": "Original factual paraphrase and attributed source metadata only. Captured documentation and code remain private; no source prose, examples, images or vendor marks are redistributed. No licence to vendor software or buyer assurance is granted."
      }
    ],
    "observed_deployment": false,
    "commercial_reliance_boundary": "Source documentation supports only the stated boundary. Existing licensed checkers analyse supported supplied declarations; they do not query these providers, verify live systems, settle payments or certify compliance.",
    "paid_value": {
      "decision_context": "Review claude thread totals and session runtime cost before accepting the buyer claim. Concurrent runtime aggregation and thread cost scope are distinct from spend-limit configuration.",
      "free": "Complete review, practical questions, source references and limitations; freely accessible and locally saveable.",
      "single_request": "Unavailable for this publication-only record; historical saved retrieval remains unchanged.",
      "evidence_receipt": "Unavailable for this publication-only record; no new paid retrieval entitlement.",
      "excluded": [
        "Fresh vendor research",
        "Live provider inspection",
        "Runtime enforcement or certification",
        "Expanded executable schemas or licences",
        "Executable AI cost reconciliation"
      ],
      "integrity": "Hashes identify content versions; they do not prove truth or provide a signature."
    },
    "revalidation": {
      "trigger": "Recheck the source and applicable API, account and configuration before current reliance. No monitoring or fresh research is included.",
      "specific_watch": "Monitor spend"
    },
    "buyer_relevance": "Review claude thread totals and session runtime cost before accepting the buyer claim. Concurrent runtime aggregation and thread cost scope are distinct from spend-limit configuration.",
    "refusal_conditions": [
      "Documented aggregation differences neither prove nor disprove an actual invoice error.",
      "Do not infer buyer deployment conformance or successful business outcomes from source documentation."
    ]
  },
  "niche": {
    "niche_id": "ice04-ai-cost-usage-invoice-assurance",
    "label": "AI Cost, Usage & Invoice Assurance",
    "classification_id": "ai-cost-usage-invoice-assurance",
    "classification_label": "AI Cost, Usage & Invoice Assurance",
    "topic_id": "ai-cost-usage-invoice-assurance",
    "buyer_intent": "Review claude thread totals and session runtime cost before accepting the buyer claim. Concurrent runtime aggregation and thread cost scope are distinct from spend-limit configuration.",
    "comparison_role": "supplementary_discovery"
  },
  "paid_access_note": "The full published answer and boundaries are free. Paid access saves the selected route and source versions, with an unsigned receipt when purchased. Preview coverage before paying. Fresh research, bespoke assessment and protected evidence are excluded.",
  "service_route": {
    "request_guide": "/varexis-index/request.html",
    "request_workflow": "/varexis-index/request-workflow.json",
    "service_id": "single_request",
    "service_routes_url": "/varexis-index/service-routes.json",
    "payment_required": true,
    "availability_endpoint": "/api/index/capabilities",
    "operational_status": "AUTOMATIC_SERVICE_CAPABILITIES_GATED",
    "checkout_url": "/index-access"
  },
  "authority_boundary": "VAREXIS-INDEX informs evidence reliance. It does not provide advice, certification, deployment authority, security assurance, production approval, or guarantee.",
  "human_page": "/varexis-index/catalog.html#claude-thread-session-cost-reconciliation",
  "machine_readable_record": "/varexis-index/records/claude-thread-session-cost-reconciliation.json"
}