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536221cf7a fix(hooks): dedupe transcript usage by message.id in cost-tracker (~2.5-3x inflation) (#2483)
Claude Code writes one transcript JSONL line per content block, so a
single API response (one message.id) spans multiple assistant lines that
each repeat the same message.usage. sumUsageFromTranscript summed every
line, inflating token totals and estimated_cost_usd roughly 2.5-3x.

Verified on a real session: 704 assistant lines but only 286 unique
message.ids (2.46 lines/response on average); line-summing reported
$866.52 while the deduped total is $332.62. Usage payloads are identical
across lines of the same id (0/286 varied), so counting once per id is
equivalent to taking the last line per id.

Fix: collect usage into a Map keyed by message.id (last line wins) and
sum unique entries. Lines without a message.id (older transcript shapes)
keep the previous per-line behavior via a synthetic key, so existing
tests and old transcripts are unaffected.

Adds a regression test: a response split into 3 content-block lines with
the same message.id is counted exactly once.

Note: rows already written to ~/.claude/metrics/costs.jsonl by the old
code carry inflated token counts and estimates (except rows whose cost
came from the harness-cost cache, where cost is authoritative but token
counts are still inflated). Downstream consumers may want to annotate
history; this change intentionally does not rewrite the raw log.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 11:14:47 -07:00
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