One allowance for automatic AI work, set in Settings
Work Bandicot starts on its own, such as grading a session, now draws from one account allowance of $5 by default, which you can raise, lower or turn off.
Shared by every session
Settings → AI usage shows what automatic work has spent and reserved so far, and lets you change the allowance or turn automatic work off. Every session on the account draws from the same allowance, so no session can quietly spend past it.
Each call reserves its most expensive possible cost before it starts and settles to the measured cost when it ends. A call whose cost cannot be measured keeps its full reservation, and a reservation left behind by a crash is released at that same bound after 11 minutes. Turning automatic work off stops jobs that are already running.