What problem does it solve? Metered accounts hit their weekly cap at the worst moment: routine jobs silently burn the allowance early in the week, the jobs that matter fail later, and no record shows which job spent what. This Skill reads the usage surface before expensive work runs and decides go, degrade, or stop. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Allowance gating: Reads used, limit, reset time, and reading age, then classifies the account into green, amber, or red bands against stated thresholds. - Fail-closed metering: Treats errored, null, or stale readings as red and reports them as unmeasured rather than permitting work to continue. - Spend attribution: Appends every decision to a shared run ledger naming the job, Bot, band, estimate, and actual cost. - Use Case: Before fanning out a nightly research chain across subordinate Bots, run the guard; if the reading shows 0.93 of the weekly limit, it stops the fan-out, reports what would have run and its cost, and logs the stop so Thursday's postmortem has a trace. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to check whether there is budget left this week before starting the next scheduled job, and to stop the job if the allowance reading is red or unreadable.
