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Problem

Usage can price a Claude server-side fallback under the declined model and omit the earlier attempt's billed output. After a mid-stream decline, Claude Code's top-level usage can carry the fallback's tokens under the requested model, with cache writes merged across attempts.

Change

Read fallback usage from usage.iterations: the serving fallback_message keeps its own model and tokens, and earlier message attempts with output get separate records. If the serving model is missing, empty or synthetic, keep the top-level model and totals together and do not add attempts already represented there. Existing advisor accounting and turns without fallback stay unchanged. This follows Anthropic's per-attempt billing.

The completed fallback uses a distinct dedupe key and records which provisional message it replaces. Aggregation suppresses that provisional key in either file order, before model filtering. This prevents an earlier stream-start copy or a retained deleted-file copy from restoring the declined model or its cache writes. The replacement link is persisted in the scan cache. Bucket session counts are collected with surviving token contributions, so superseded forked copies cannot inflate a remaining bucket’s session count.

Move the scan cache to v14 and fully reparse pre-v14 Claude entries, including v12 and v13. Resetting their resume positions also repairs cached history when a transcript has only been appended. Saved records for deleted transcripts are retained as originally parsed. A live authoritative fallback supersedes old provisional copies, including retained deleted-file records with that key; history without a surviving authoritative copy cannot be repaired.

Scope and approval

Focused follow-up to #9019, under the bug-fix exception Julius invited. This corrects existing backend accounting; no reporting feature, contract or client changes. The snapshot repair already landed in #20276, and #16922 owns one-hour cache-write pricing.

Verification

All runs used Linux on Boat, with synthetic fixtures.

  • Failing first: the fallback test on the base parser failed with the wrong model and missing earlier attempt (1 failed, 8 passed). The cache regression on the base decoder failed because v12 retained its old size and resume position (1 failed, 11 passed).
  • The new stream-start regression fails on the published first revision in both file orders (2 failed): all 1,150 output tokens are assigned to the declined model, with 40,000 cache-write tokens instead of 30,000. The test exercises parsing, within-file deduplication, cache roundtrip and cross-file aggregation, with unfiltered and per-model summaries. Distinct session IDs on forked and retained deleted copies also reproduced the inflated session count (2 failed); the repaired regression expects one surviving session.
  • Missing, empty and synthetic fallback-model rows failed before their guard (3 failed, 9 passed); all 12 parser cases pass afterward. The cross-file fixture also includes a stale retained deleted-file entry with the old combined cache-write count.
  • Final vp run check:changed against f6433dba45: passed: 89 tests in 5 files, typechecks for 27 affected packages, format, lint, knip twice and graphql. The sandbox tree, changed-file set and file hashes matched the frozen local source, including the session-count repair.
  • Synthetic runtime through UsageAggregator with LiteLLM rates: the early+final streamed fixture reports $0.168024 on base, $0.223036 on the first published revision, and $0.190042 after reconciliation ($0.085030 serving + $0.105012 declined).

A synthetic session-count runtime comparison reports two sessions before the repair and one afterward when the provisional copy arrives first, with token totals unchanged; reverse order remains one.

Before-output declined attempts remain skipped, as on main. Some refusal categories can still be billed before output; the supplied transcript evidence does not establish their categories, so this change does not claim to repair those cases.

Independent review: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code through T3 Code, configured with high effort, reviewed the eight-file tree published in d6ef065, including the bucket-session repair and found no actionable findings. The reviewer inspected the source and supplied logs; no tests were rerun.

No runtime proof was collected for combined advisor/fallback turns or chains with more than two attempts. Cache migration is covered by the decoder regression and service-path source review, rather than an end-to-end v12 Claude upgrade fixture.

Parser implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code; cache migration, stream-copy reconciliation, invalid-model and bucket-session repairs with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex, through T3 Code.

All required GitHub checks are satisfied on d6ef065. Macroscope correctness and approvability passed, with approval at that head; all review threads are resolved. CodeRabbit’s advisory re-review is still running. Freshly fetched main is 12 commits ahead of the integrated base, with no changes to this PR’s eight files.

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Verdict: Approved at d6ef065

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Claude fallback usage is attributed to the models that actually ran, with provisional records replaced across aggregation and cached history. The changes affect usage reporting rather than actual charges or model execution.

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Walkthrough

Claude usage parsing now records usage from the serving fallback iteration and eligible earlier attempts. Aggregation removes contributions superseded by completed fallback records. The scan cache advances to v14, stores supersession keys, and reparses older Claude entries.

Changes: Claude usage parsing and aggregation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fallback and prior iteration usage
apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/claudeUsage.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/claudeUsage.test.ts, packages/provider-core/src/server/usage.ts
The last fallback iteration with a valid model supplies the executor model and token totals. Eligible earlier iterations receive separate records. The usage record contract adds an optional supersession key.
Supersession during aggregation
apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.test.ts
Aggregation removes an existing contribution when a fallback supersedes its dedupe key and drops later records with that key. Tests cover cache-file order, duplicate and deleted-file records, and model filters.
Cache persistence and refresh
apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.test.ts, apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.test.ts
The cache advances to v14 and persists supersession keys. Claude entries from before v14 are marked for reparsing. Tests cover legacy cache versions and the new filename.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, fixfon, rfrost-xyz

Merge Risk: Low · up to f8b6a

Usage reports can show an inflated session count for a model bucket after a fallback reassigns usage. Token and cost totals are unaffected. This is a small fix that can follow or accompany the merge.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/claudeUsage.ts:
- Line 74: Update the fallback selection around usageTotals so invalid
fallback_message.model values (missing, empty, or synthetic) are handled
together with their totals: use top-level totals without double-counting
attempts already included, and add this invalid-model case to the fallback
table. Preserve correct model-to-usage pairing.

Review comments at @apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.ts:
- Line 297: Update the Claude-version migration path around the pre-v13 check to
preserve whether each record was reparsed or retained from deleted history, and
make deduplication prefer a repaired copy over a pre-v13 copy; retain stale
history only when no repaired copy exists. Add a regression test for a deleted
original and its live fork, verifying the repaired record prevents stale token
totals from being combined.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.ts:
- Line 211: Update finish() to derive keyed session membership from surviving
contributions so deleting a superseded contribution also removes its session
from the original bucket’s count; preserve session membership for unkeyed
records. Extend the existing order test with an unrelated surviving session in
the provisional model’s bucket and verify the final count is independent of
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  • apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.ts
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  • apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.ts
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Head f8b6a36b2d, Linux VM, vp run dev, web client driven with Playwright and Chrome. Data came from real Claude claude-haiku-5-5 turns sent through the composer in a project pointing at a cloned git repo (octocat/Hello-World). The Usage page scans the same ~/.claude/projects transcripts on both runs.

  • Main baseline. I ran two Haiku turns on github/main and opened Usage. Main wrote usage-scan-cache-v12.json, and the Usage page showed claude-haiku-5-5 at 210K tokens and $0.01.
  • Cache migration (v12 to v14). I copied main's state, including the v12 cache, into the PR checkout and started the PR server. Opening Usage replaced it with usage-scan-cache-v14.json and removed the v12 file. The Claude transcripts were fully reparsed: the reparsed Haiku records are identical to the v12 ones (same 7 message keys, token counts and timestamps), and Haiku still shows 210K tokens and $0.01. The claude-opus-5-5 row is a live session that kept growing between captures, so only the Haiku row is comparable.
  • New turns after migration. I sent a follow-up Haiku turn on the PR server ("Run git log --oneline -3…"). It completed in about 10s with the correct answer. Usage then showed Haiku at 272K tokens. An independent sum over the raw transcripts gives 271,976 processed tokens across 9 Haiku messages.
  • Non-fallback turns are unchanged. Claude Code writes "iterations":[] on normal turns. The executor model and totals match main.
  • CI is green on this head. CodeRabbit is still pending.

Usage tokens on main after two Haiku turns: claude-haiku-5-5 210K

Usage tokens on the PR after the v12 to v14 migration: claude-haiku-5-5 still 210K

Follow-up Claude Haiku 5.5 turn completing on the PR dev server

Usage tokens on the PR after the follow-up turn: claude-haiku-5-5 272K

Not verified

  • The fallback accounting itself. I could not test pricing the fallback_message iteration under its serving model, splitting out a declined message attempt that produced output, or replacing provisional copies across files. These paths need a transcript from a real Anthropic server-side refusal fallback. Normal Haiku turns never produce one, and none of my real turns contained a fallback_message iteration. I did not try to provoke a model refusal. This means the original bug was not reproduced on main either. These paths are covered only by the PR's unit tests.
  • A v12 cache that already holds a real provisional fallback copy. My migration run had only normal turns.

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