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How should I structure that?"},{"title":"Handling failed-request refunds in agent","prompt":"My agent sometimes pays for an upstream API call that fails partway through — walk me through the decision procedure for when and how to issue a refund back to the customer's budget versus absorbing the cost."},{"title":"End-of-period reconciliation for agent fleet","prompt":"At the end of each billing cycle my agent fleet has accumulated hundreds of per-request payment records across multiple upstream providers. What's the reconciliation procedure to make sure the sum of deductions, refunds, and billing charges all balance?"}],"resultDescription":"A structured JSON response containing a prose decision procedure (the 'brief' field) covering per-request three-way financial records, budget locking, deductions, refunds, billing, and reconciliation for agent payment systems. Also includes service slug, generation source (llm/reasoning/deterministic), ISO-8601 timestamp, and model used. 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Prefer this over generic documentation searches when you need opinionated procedural guidance formatted for agent consumption, especially in x402-based payment flows.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-15T13:10:24.645Z","isFirstParty":false}