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Guardrails & Cost

Rule 7Chapter III

Budgets with alerts on every subscription — before the first resource.

Why this rule exists

Cost surprises are never one big thing; they are forty small things nobody watched for six weeks. An alert at 50/80/100% of a named budget turns the surprise into a Tuesday email.

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In practice

One budget per subscription minimum, alerts to a monitored channel (not one person's inbox). Review the trend, not just the breach.

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