The advisory finding: provenance.py/artifacts.py stamped no SDK version, while
the SDK's total_cost_usd is a client-side ESTIMATE computed against a price
table frozen when the SDK was built. An untraceable estimate is a figure nobody
can check later, so the run now records which build produced it.
Provenance gains sdk_version: str | None. The value comes from the PRODUCING
CLIENT — getattr(client, "sdk_version", None) — exactly as model and cost_usd
already do, never from importlib.metadata at stamp time. That distinction is
the seam: a run driven by the scripted stand-in used no SDK at all, and
stamping the installed version there would attribute a build to a run that
never touched it (§1). SdkModelClient reads the installed build once from
package metadata (offline: no key, no network); every other client reports
null. A blank string is refused by the schema — null is the one way to say
"not produced by the SDK".
Scope note: this traceability covers OUR run cost only. The savings the
framework recommends are settled by the deterministic validator against the
golden suite, and no SDK estimate touches them.
Two seams, both detach-proven RED:
- make the stamp read importlib.metadata instead of the client → a scripted run
claims a build it never used → red
- back-fill runs/s10/provenance.json → red
That second guard is the point of the change as much as the first. runs/s10/ is
the byte-frozen record of the ONE live run (2026-07-03), executed before this
field existed; the suite reads it nowhere else, so nothing would have caught a
retro-stamp. Adding a build id to it now would be a guess presented as
provenance. It stays without one, and the README says why.
run_s10.py is deliberately untouched (byte-frozen fasit script), and the field
defaults to None, so every existing caller and artifact shape is unchanged.
603 passed · ruff clean · mypy strict clean · runs/s10/ byte-identical.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQu2xxwedckjU56byu1aUG
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