Budgets ?

Daily image-gen budget (USD) ? Hard cap on image-gen spend per UTC day. Once exceeded, concept_render and final_render raise BudgetExceededError. Non-image stages (brief synth, hook divergence, copy polish) keep running. spent_today = SUM(pipeline_cost_events.cost_usd) WHERE node IN (visual_direction, concept_render, final_render, vision_judge) AND created_at >= today_utc