// GLOSSARY -- AGENTIC FINANCE
What is Agent Metering?
Ledger-grade tracking of an AI agent's resource consumption — tokens processed, tools called, payments made — at granularities traditional billing systems were not designed for.
WHY IT MATTERS
Traditional billing counts API calls per month. Agent metering needs to track individual tool invocations, token consumption per call, latency, success rates, and costs — at the level of individual agent sessions.
This granularity is necessary for budget enforcement, cost optimisation, and compliance reporting.
HOW POLICYLAYER USES THIS
Intercept's stateful engine meters every tool invocation, providing the granular usage data that budget policies and cost attribution depend on.