AI chat
Two currencies, never summed: weekly free credits on the cheap models, and prepaid AI Balance for everything else. The floating bubble can also route the dashboard.
Two currencies, never summed
AI chat has a weekly free-credit bucket and a prepaid AI Balance. They sit side by side. Free credits count up toward a weekly cap on the cheaper models. AI Balance counts down in USD and works on every catalogue model. There is no automatic fallthrough from one to the other — you pick the payer.
Top up AI Balance on Purchase → AI Balance ($1–$1000) or convert from wallet USD when that path is on. A run that stops because money ran out is different from one that hit the model’s output cap — the UI says which.
The dedicated tab is /dashboard/ai. The floating bubble is the same meter, available on every dashboard route.
The dashboard bubble
The bubble can see the page you are on and, on Accounts, filter / sort / total the list by any dotted stat path. It can also route you to another dashboard page, and it can run operator reads (vault, shares, inbox, quarantine, wallet balances). It does not apply a proposed dashboard edit. Bot AI, on a bot’s settings, uses the same models and the same two payers, and it can apply a change when you set tools to Always.
Tool mode is Always, Ask, or Auto. Auto runs reads and pauses writes. Ask pauses every tool except navigation. Free credits stop after fewer turns than AI Balance.
Module Builder
The Workshop assistant is agentic and metered per turn on the same hold/settle path. Worst case for one request is turns × per-turn hold. The legacy grok / gpt aliases on the older bot assistant stay unmetered on purpose. Anything else must be a catalogue id or it fails closed — never a silent downgrade.