docs(readme): honest cost & billing section (within subscription as of 2026-06-27)#38
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…ription as of 2026-06-27) State plainly that bough runs inside the operator's Claude Code subscription with no separate API billing, backed by the audit: no Anthropic SDK / no HTTP model endpoint, claude --print only, API-key env stripped, hooks are pure filesystem, LLM calls only in explicit observer/evolve commands (rate-limited). Caveat that this reflects Claude Code's billing model as of 2026-06-27 and is outside bough's control if Anthropic changes it.
This was referenced Jul 4, 2026
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Adds a Cost & billing section stating plainly that, as of 2026-06-27
with Claude Code's current subscription model, bough runs entirely inside the
operator's Claude Code subscription — no separate Anthropic API billing.
Backed by a 6-dimension audit of the v0.9.4 tree:
claude --print(subscription auth; API-key env vars stripped viaSanitizeAnthropicEnv)observer run-onceenvelope reported"apiKeySource":"none"internal/cli/hook.go) do not importclaudecli— pure filesystem;UserPromptSubmitstdout is ordinary input tokens of the operator's own turnobserver run-once/evolve --generate(+ opt-in daemon), rate-limited 10/session · 30/hour · 3-fail breakerIncludes an explicit caveat that this reflects Claude Code's billing model as
of 2026-06-27 and may change if Anthropic changes Claude Code metering — which
is outside bough's control.