Kept off the cloud

What it shows#

Every token Reeve reads on this PC is one your AI assistant didn't have to: it got a short answer instead of the whole log, the files or the docs. Reeve's page shows the total as Kept off the cloud: this month, last month and all time, about how many tokens and about what they'd have cost, with what each tool read.

Your assistant's status tool ends with the same totals in one line.

The price is what your assistant's model costs per million input tokens: $3.00 unless you set another in Reeve's settings. On a plan rather than paying per token, you save usage limits rather than money: the tokens are the same.

How it counts#

The numbers are estimates, kept low on purpose, and always shown as "about":

• A token is 4 characters, rounded up, for everything. That's fewer tokens than models count.
• Per call, Reeve counts what it read on your assistant's behalf and what it sent back. What's kept is the difference, never below zero, so a call that answered at length takes nothing off another's.
• Only what came from this PC's disk counts. Text your assistant passed in the call itself was already in its context, so it saves nothing.
• Caps: one input (a file, a log) counts for at most 25,000 tokens, and one call for at most 100,000. Faced with more, an assistant would search it rather than read it all.
• Failures and repeats: a call that fails counts nothing. The same call, reading the same amount, within an hour in the same session, counts once.

What each tool counts as read#

Not counted: ask (your assistant writes its input); status, digest, repos, manor and docs_list (Reeve's own records); commands, errors and sessions (history an assistant wouldn't read whole); lint_docs and upgrades (code checks and release notes with no fair comparison); and screens (pictures).

What's stored#

Counts only, in kept.json in Reeve's data folder: per day and tool, the calls, and the tokens read, returned and kept. Never an input, an answer, a path or a prompt. Days older than 90 are rolled into their month, so the file stays small.