Preflight budget caps that cancel queued work before an adapter starts (master, unreleased)
What this changes for operators
- PR #8347 (merged to master 2026-06-20, NOT in a tagged release) adds heartbeat preflight gates for daily-run and daily-cost caps (
maxDailyRuns,maxDailyCostCents): a capped agent stops before new execution, with the cap re-checked immediately before execution. This moves budget from surfacing to enforced state. - Paperclip operators tracking master can stage a per-agent daily cost cap in a test company and confirm work is refused at claim time, not mid-run; operators running the tagged binary do not yet have it.
Primary sources
Signal metadata
Source findings
- 2026-06-23-paperclip-heartbeat-preflight-budget-caps 2026-06-23-paperclip-heartbeat-preflight-budget-caps
Run: 2026-06-23-weekly-digest-2026-06-16_2026-06-23-frontier-v0
Schema: bitter.frontier_signals.v0 / ID: 2026-06-23-paperclip-budget-enforcement
Research evidence and publication history are open in the repository.