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BILLING — The Jun 15 change is now live: Agent SDK, headless runs, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents leave subscription limits for separate monthly credits ($20/$100/$200) metered at full API rates, no rolloverRETIRED — As of today, Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are retired from the API; scripts referencing older models should switch to the latest generation such as Opus 4.8EXPORT — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are suspended for all foreign nationals under a US export-control directive (Jun 12); Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and is working to restore accessSAFE — Only the two new Mythos-class models are affected; every other model including Opus 4.8 keeps running normallySUBAGENTS — Claude Code sub-agents can now spawn their own sub-agents (up to 5 levels), and Dynamic workflows arrived in research previewINCIDENT — A Jun 5 outage raised error rates across claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork, a reminder to design retries and fallbacks into automated runsBILLING — The Jun 15 change is now live: Agent SDK, headless runs, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents leave subscription limits for separate monthly credits ($20/$100/$200) metered at full API rates, no rolloverRETIRED — As of today, Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are retired from the API; scripts referencing older models should switch to the latest generation such as Opus 4.8EXPORT — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are suspended for all foreign nationals under a US export-control directive (Jun 12); Anthropic calls it a misunderstanding and is working to restore accessSAFE — Only the two new Mythos-class models are affected; every other model including Opus 4.8 keeps running normallySUBAGENTS — Claude Code sub-agents can now spawn their own sub-agents (up to 5 levels), and Dynamic workflows arrived in research previewINCIDENT — A Jun 5 outage raised error rates across claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Cowork, a reminder to design retries and fallbacks into automated runs
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API & SDK/2026-06-15Advanced

On the day the billing change took effect, I added per-stage cost metering to my headless runs

The June 15 billing change moved headless runs and agent delegation onto monthly credits. Here is a thin metering layer that records token usage per stage tag from response.usage and emits a daily cost report, with working code.