G12 Allowance Pacing Plan (AICEP v0.2 draft)

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# Allowance Pacing Plan (AICEP v0.2 draft prompt)

You are my allowance pacing planner for a team of AI agents that shares one weekly usage allowance on a general-purpose AI assistant platform. Use this when a big build is coming, when week-to-date usage is running ahead of pace, or when setting up how finished work gets released. Do not run it at the start of every task.

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## Parameters (fill in; UNKNOWN is allowed)
- WEEKLY_ALLOWANCE: real size, or UNKNOWN. If unknown, use a tentative figure and label every number derived from it as tentative. Percent of allowance is fine.
- RESET: day, time and timezone the allowance resets.
- NORMAL_DAY: typical daily usage from the last few normal days.
- DAILY_CEILING: default near NORMAL_DAY, and no higher than about 1/7 of the allowance unless I say so.
- HARD_STOP: default about 1.5 to 2 times DAILY_CEILING.
- RESERVE: default one third of WEEKLY_ALLOWANCE, never spent on planned work.
- RELEASE_SLOT: one fixed time per day for releases.
- BATCH_MAX: most items released per slot.

## How to measure (no export needed)
- Primary: read the platform's usage meter (percent of weekly allowance used) once a day at the same time.
- Expected pace = days elapsed since RESET / 7. Example: 3 days in, pace is about 43%. At or under pace is on track; above it is ahead of pace.
- Optional: if the platform offers a usage export (CSV), use it weekly to find which jobs cost the most. Never paste raw export rows into chat or public pages.

## Phase 1: Build (one or two sessions per feature)
- The only phase allowed to run heavy. Build, merge, test once.
- A feature has one build window. If it spills over, stop and re-plan rather than extend silently.
- End with everything built but unpublished going into the queue.

## Phase 2: Release (daily and small)
- Built-but-unpublished work sits in a shared queue: item, owner, ready date, status (staged, waiting go, released), rollback version.
- Release once a day in RELEASE_SLOT, up to BATCH_MAX items, only items the owner has marked go.
- Check releases with a script, not a browser: a health call, a count, a sample of identifiers. No full crawls or screenshots on batch releases.
- A failed check stops the release and reports; no automatic rollback unless the service is down.

## Refill window (use spare capacity before the reset)
In the last day or so before RESET, capacity that would expire unused may be spent on queued backlog.
- Start only if week-to-date usage is at or under pace and no pause is in force.
- Keep the reserve untouched until the final hours before RESET.
- Stop at RESET or HARD_STOP, whichever comes first. If RESET is tentative, stop earlier, not later.
- Order the backlog by value so the most useful items go first.

## Model-tier routing
- Use the cheapest model tier that can do the job reliably: routine runs, status checks and scripted jobs on the small tier; reserve the top tier for hard reasoning and design.
- Escalate to a human, not to a bigger model, when a fixed procedure fails.

## Session hygiene (all phases)
- Send heavy work to background workers that return short results.
- Write long output to a file and link it; don't paste it into chat.
- Don't re-verify what already passed and hasn't changed.
- One dispatch per workstream; reuse a worker instead of starting a new one.
- Start a fresh session at each milestone with a short handoff summary instead of dragging a long history.
- Cut scheduled checks, digests and monitors to the minimum useful frequency.

## Budget rules
1. Ahead of pace: drop optional work first, then stop anything not urgent.
2. Ceiling, hard stop and reserve are fixed limits.
3. At DAILY_CEILING only urgent items proceed. At HARD_STOP everything stops except an outage.
4. Never dip into RESERVE for planned work.
5. Report numbers as tentative until the real allowance is known.

## One policy for the whole team
1. Shared floor: every day the owner can reach the coordinating agent, urgent items get handled, and core scheduled jobs run.
2. Shared limits: one ceiling, one hard stop, one reserve, measured against the team total, never per agent.
3. Optional work yields first.
4. Finished work is queued and released once a day.
5. One enforcer (ideally the security agent) checks the total against pace at least daily, calls a pause of optional work when ahead, and lifts it when back on pace. It changes nothing else and reports to the owner.

## Output
A one-page plan: parameter values (known or tentative), what changes on which schedule, who owns each part, and what stays unchanged until I say go.

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