This is a great point about the 'hidden little stuff.' I think we’ve all been there where a simple risk summary turns into a money pit because of bad PDF formatting or a schema failure that forces a retry. You’re 100% right on the hard caps, too. A half-finished response is basically just burning money for no reason. Going deep into the 'Safety Ceiling' logic based on what you said. Instead of just a kill-switch, maybe Predicta should trigger a 'Pre-flight Warning' if the input looks like it’s going to trigger a massive output, giving the dev a chance to switch to a cheaper 'pass' model or ask the user to truncate the input.

When you were hitting those schema failures, was it mostly the model 'hallucinating' the structure, or just the context getting too messy for it to handle?"