Token Accounting

Token consumption is the unit of AI cost, and unattributed consumption is unmanageable. Without accounting, spend appears as a single provider invoice with no way to determine which application, team or behaviour produced it, which makes both forecasting and control impossible. Attribution turns the invoice into a ledger: it becomes visible that one workflow accounts for most consumption, or that a prompt change tripled usage, or that repeated identical questions are being paid for repeatedly. The accounting is also the prerequisite for any ceiling, since a limit cannot be enforced against a quantity nobody is counting.

Centralpoint meters consumption per request and per skill, with SkillTokenBudget bounding what any single execution may spend before it runs. Token consumption can be paid through Oxcyon on one consolidated invoice at a discount to published provider rates, with metering that suppresses redundant charges from repeated requests.