Reported by mission-world iteration 83; confirmed first-party in V1's own quorum artifacts before filing (sibling-claim ghost discipline).
The gap
The mission-control Gate-3 ledger requires every metered stage to post tokens_in/tokens_out, "quorum reviewers included — a reviewer bill without tokens is what produced iter-190".
ailang design-quorum does not record them. A reviewer object carries exactly:
$ jq -r '[.reviewers[0]|keys[]]|join(",")' .ailang/state/mission-quorum/<artifact>.json
cost_usd,landed,model,present,result
Known-positive control, same artifact — cost is recorded, so the instrument is reading the right object:
$ jq -r '[paths|join(".")]|map(select(test("cost")))|join(" ")' <artifact>
reviewers.0.cost_usd reviewers.1.cost_usd synthesis.total_cost_usd
So a controller posting a quorum stage can only supply zeros — which is precisely the iteration-190 signature the mandate exists to prevent ($0.0570/$0.0507 at ZERO tokens). It is a tool gap, not a controller lapse: mission-world posted mission:world/iter-83 with $0.2249 and zero tokens for exactly this reason, and flagged it rather than hiding it.
Suggested acceptance
- The quorum writer records per-reviewer token usage alongside
cost_usd (the provider returns it; it is being discarded).
- A regression test asserting a reviewer object carries non-zero tokens whenever
cost_usd > 0 — an artifact with cost and no tokens must FAIL LOUDLY, since a zero there is indistinguishable from a free call.
- Once landed, the Gate-3 mandate becomes satisfiable and
ailang chains stats --by-mission stops under-reporting quorum spend.
Related: #691-era telemetry work, M-MISSION-LOOP-UNIFIED-TELEMETRY M2/M3.
Reported by
mission-worlditeration 83; confirmed first-party in V1's own quorum artifacts before filing (sibling-claim ghost discipline).The gap
The mission-control Gate-3 ledger requires every metered stage to post
tokens_in/tokens_out, "quorum reviewers included — a reviewer bill without tokens is what produced iter-190".ailang design-quorumdoes not record them. A reviewer object carries exactly:Known-positive control, same artifact — cost is recorded, so the instrument is reading the right object:
So a controller posting a quorum stage can only supply zeros — which is precisely the iteration-190 signature the mandate exists to prevent (
$0.0570/$0.0507at ZERO tokens). It is a tool gap, not a controller lapse:mission-worldpostedmission:world/iter-83with$0.2249and zero tokens for exactly this reason, and flagged it rather than hiding it.Suggested acceptance
cost_usd(the provider returns it; it is being discarded).cost_usd > 0— an artifact with cost and no tokens must FAIL LOUDLY, since a zero there is indistinguishable from a free call.ailang chains stats --by-missionstops under-reporting quorum spend.Related: #691-era telemetry work, M-MISSION-LOOP-UNIFIED-TELEMETRY M2/M3.