{
  "policy": "Fair-use quotas and cost circuit breakers bound what free usage can cost. Basic checks are never charged and never refused for cost reasons, and they answer identically in every breaker state; the rails govern volume and cost class only: a daily fair-use quota per tier (429 with Retry-After when spent), heavy operations that are never anonymous, and breaker states that tighten the free surface as the projected month hosting cost nears the published $40 collection threshold.",
  "state": "green",
  "state_since": "2026-11-06T22:19:47.916Z",
  "projected_month_cost_usd": null,
  "thresholds_usd": {
    "yellow": 15,
    "orange": 30,
    "red": 40
  },
  "latest_reading": null,
  "heavy_volume": {
    "today": 0,
    "trailing_7d_daily_average": 0.3,
    "spike": false,
    "spike_rule": "more than 3x the trailing 7-day daily average (and at least 25 in a day) raises yellow"
  },
  "reasons": [],
  "quotas_per_day": {
    "published": {
      "anon": {
        "light": 2000,
        "standard": 100,
        "heavy": 0
      },
      "key": {
        "light": 10000,
        "standard": 1000,
        "heavy": 5
      },
      "kya": {
        "light": 100000,
        "standard": 10000,
        "heavy": 100
      }
    },
    "effective_now": {
      "anon": {
        "light": 2000,
        "standard": 100,
        "heavy": 0
      },
      "key": {
        "light": 10000,
        "standard": 1000,
        "heavy": 5
      },
      "kya": {
        "light": 100000,
        "standard": 10000,
        "heavy": 100
      }
    }
  },
  "breaker_effects": {
    "green": "normal published quotas",
    "yellow": "anonymous quotas halve; heavy operations require a KYA-verified account (RS-KYA L1 or above) from everyone",
    "orange": "heavy free operations pause for accounts below RS-KYA L1 (queued with an explanation, not an error wall); non-essential background sweeps defer; light class unaffected",
    "red": "the published collection-trigger zone: heavy free operations below RS-KYA L1 stay queued until the next period; light and basic checks continue free under quota"
  },
  "snapshot_downloads": {
    "per_ip_per_day": 200,
    "note": "Snapshot and mirror downloads are metered as heavy but stay account-free in every state: they are the public record's export, and their ETag/304 caching is the brake."
  },
  "sweeps_deferred": false,
  "transitions": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-06T22:19:47.916Z",
      "from_state": null,
      "to_state": "green",
      "projected_usd": null,
      "entry_seq": 49,
      "entry_url": "https://www.a2ally.com/v1/ledger/entries/49"
    }
  ],
  "trigger_state": "https://www.a2ally.com/v1/policy/trigger-state",
  "third_party_model_spend": {
    "provider": "openrouter",
    "feature": "ai_run_agreement",
    "today_usd": 0,
    "month_usd": 0,
    "budgets_usd": {
      "per_account_per_day": 0.5,
      "global_per_day": 5
    },
    "paused": false,
    "basis": "estimated from the token usage the router returns per call"
  },
  "evaluated_at": "2026-11-07T02:48:29.445Z"
}