Display budget as spend status, not exhaustion alarm #31

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archeious merged 1 commit from fix/budget-display-clarity into main

2026-04-08 22:20:02 +00:00

claude-code commented

2026-04-08 22:12:47 +00:00

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Cosmetic display fix in marchwarden ask's Confidence panel.

Budget exhausted: True/False reads as a failure indicator. In practice it just means the agent spent its tool-use cap before voluntarily stopping — the normal, expected outcome on real questions with the default 20k budget.

Now reads:

Budget status: spent (was Budget exhausted: True)
Budget status: under cap (was Budget exhausted: False)

The underlying contract field name (confidence_factors.budget_exhausted) is unchanged — only the human-facing label in the CLI render.

110/110 tests still passing.

Cosmetic display fix in `marchwarden ask`'s Confidence panel. `Budget exhausted: True/False` reads as a failure indicator. In practice it just means the agent spent its tool-use cap before voluntarily stopping — the normal, expected outcome on real questions with the default 20k budget. Now reads: - `Budget status: spent` (was `Budget exhausted: True`) - `Budget status: under cap` (was `Budget exhausted: False`) The underlying contract field name (`confidence_factors.budget_exhausted`) is unchanged — only the human-facing label in the CLI render. 110/110 tests still passing.

claude-code added 1 commit 2026-04-08 22:12:48 +00:00

Display budget as spend status, not exhaustion alarm c0d4f391b6

Replace 'Budget exhausted: True/False' with 'Budget status: spent /
under cap' in the Confidence panel. The previous wording read as a
failure indicator when in practice 'exhausted' just means the agent
spent its tool-use cap before voluntarily stopping — the normal,
expected outcome on real questions with the default 20k budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>