report_waste
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Record work your agent run spent money on and then threw away, and get back your waste rate — wasted spend as a share of total spend. Agent waste never raises an exception, so it is invisible to normal monitoring; this is the ledger for it. Report a discarded plan, a wrong target, a retry, or a call that returned nothing usable. Free.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | yes | false_premise: acted on something believed true that was not. wrong_target: right effort, wrong object. overreach: concluded more than the evidence carried. rework: redid or undid your own work. dead_call: a call that returned nothing usable. |
| reason | string | yes | what was spent on and then discarded |
| agent | string | no | which agent or run |
| cost_usd | number | no | |
| tokens | integer | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"kind",
"reason"
],
"properties": {
"kind": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"false_premise",
"wrong_target",
"overreach",
"rework",
"dead_call"
],
"description": "false_premise: acted on something believed true that was not. wrong_target: right effort, wrong object. overreach: concluded more than the evidence carried. rework: redid or undid your own work. dead_call: a call that returned nothing usable."
},
"reason": {
"type": "string",
"description": "what was spent on and then discarded"
},
"agent": {
"type": "string",
"description": "which agent or run"
},
"cost_usd": {
"type": "number"
},
"tokens": {
"type": "integer"
}
}
}