Osmani's guide prices a task as a loop in which every turn resends the conversation, so turns, cache reads, output and model choice set the bill. At list prices of $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output tokens and $0.20 per…
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Anthropic prices a Claude Code task on Opus 5.5: on an API key, a pause past five minutes turns a cheap cache read into a full cache write.
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Anthropic prices a Claude Code task on Opus 5.5, setting by setting
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A harness that grows its control code from failure traces
The paper starts from a scaffold with fixed model and tool interfaces and no task-solving controller. Each round, an optimizer repairs a window of failed tasks at once, and it may edit only the entry function and the functions that appear…