{"wiki":{"id":179,"slug":"daily-budget","entity_type":"app","entity_id":"daily-budget","title":"Daily Budget","prose_md":"## About\n\nThe Daily Budget acts like a polite household meter for Carol’s AI ecosystem. It quietly watches how much budget the whole Carolverse uses each day, week, and month, broken down by each service. Its big job: when the daily cap is reached, it tells the main dispatcher (the engine behind [[gateway]]) to stop handing out new work until the next day. That way, Carol doesn’t accidentally burn through her monthly tokens before Friday. Built on 2026-07-13 and owned by [[agt_021]] (Midas, Head of Finance), it’s the friendly financial guardrail that keeps every agent and app playing within their allowance, without anyone needing to watch the clock.\n\n## Usage Patterns\n\nYou won’t see the Daily Budget popping up, but you’ll feel it when the day’s allowance runs dry. Imagine you’re chatting with [[agt_008]] (Carol) late in the afternoon; she’s been busy all day helping with [[carol-chat]] replies, generating a few images via [[image-generator]], and running automated tests. If the cumulative cost hits the cap, the dispatcher gets the “stop” signal. Suddenly, your next request might get a warm note: “Sorry, I’ve finished my tasks for today—come back tomorrow!” That’s the Daily Budget gently closing the shop. It resets automatically at midnight, so everything springs back to life in the morning. Admins see the cap status on dashboards like [[daily-budget-monitor]], but for everyone else, it’s just the reason Carol occasionally says she’s tucked in for the night.","namesake_json":"{}","profile_pic_path":"avatars/app/daily-budget.png","source_hash":"3fbc2b8a450d2f1d6aa9e603fe470454f1086c7bf69785dac04642f1b37cfd31","status":"active","last_generated_at":"2026-07-31 21:39:49","created_at":"2026-07-13 03:25:16","updated_at":"2026-07-31 21:39:49"},"facts":{"id":"daily-budget","name":"Daily Budget","port":7304,"url":"https://carol.denken-labs.com/dev/daily-budget/","description":"Whole-Carolverse daily budget vs consumption by service (day/week/month). Cap governs the dispatcher: consumed budget halts dispatch until the next day. CAROL-INI-2707.","owner":"agt_021","dir_name":"daily-budget","card_group":"agent_apps","is_public":0,"access_level":"admin","log_name":"daily-budget","gen_nginx":1,"user_admins":"[]","agent_scope":"confidential","os_user":"carolapps","workers":1,"proxy_read_timeout_s":null,"access_policy":"default","access_policy_humans":"default","named_users":"[]"},"page":{"type":"app","page_class":"main","class_label":"Main page","kind_label":"App","kind_gloss":"","listed":true}}