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Surface workflow for billing in Grida — Stripe (subscriptions) + Metronome (AI credit ledger). The stable contracts: `grida_billing.*` is not REST-exposed (views/RPCs only), `fn_billing_apply_*` are the single mutation points, webhook receivers are `GRIDA-SEC-001`, BYOK is the `GRIDA-SEC-003` carve-out. Use when touching `editor/lib/billing/`, `editor/scripts/billing/`, the `grida_billing` schema, the webhook receivers, or the entitlement gate. Companion to `ee`.

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ee-billing

This is the surface skill for billing — the workflow once the ee anchor has placed billing on the EE side and the contributor setup is done. Setup itself is documented; cite it, don't restate it:

Stable surface (the contract)

These shapes are locked. A change that breaks any of them must be intentional and called out in the PR description.

  • grida_billing.* schema — not REST-exposed. Public reads go through v_billing_* views; writes only through fn_billing_* RPCs. Don't add a new direct-access surface; add a view or an RPC. Schema discipline lives in database / supabase/AGENTS.md.
  • public.fn_billing_apply_stripe_event — the only place Stripe-driven subscription state mutates. Mutating from a new direction (UI form, ad-hoc RPC, hand-written migration) corrupts the projector model.
  • public.fn_billing_apply_metronome_event — same role for Metronome credit / alert / payment_gate events.
  • Webhook receivers — /webhooks/stripe and /webhooks/metronome are the only billing ingress; both are signature-verified per GRIDA-SEC-001.
  • editor/lib/billing/metronome.ts — the service module surface: provisionOrg, addStripeChargedCommit, setAutoReload, getEntitlement, ingestUsageEvent. New billing actions go through this module, not adjacent to it.

Substrates

Two external clouds; both use per-contributor sandbox accounts. Credentials are never shared. Live keys are refused at boot.

  • Stripe — subscriptions + payment processing. Provision via pnpm tsx editor/scripts/billing/cli.ts setup:stripe. Idempotent; re-run after every supabase db reset (writes price IDs into the catalog).
  • Metronome — AI credit ledger. Provision via pnpm tsx editor/scripts/billing/cli.ts setup:metronome. Same idempotency / re-run rule.

editor/scripts/billing/cli.ts is the single entry point for every billing script; run without arguments for the full subcommand list. See editor/scripts/billing/README.md.

The seam: how OSS reads entitlement

OSS code that needs to gate on a paid plan, AI credit balance, or org entitlement does not import billing internals. The seam is getEntitlement (from editor/lib/billing/metronome.ts) and its typed wrappers. New gates go through this function so fail-closed and BYOK behavior stay centralized.

BYOK carve-out — GRIDA-SEC-003

If BYOK_OPENROUTER_API_KEY or BYOK_AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY is set in editor/.env.local, the AI-SDK text path routes through the contributor's provider and bypasses billing.

  • Auth is never bypassed. A resolvable org is still required.
  • Text/chat only. Image and audio still go through Replicate and still bill, even under BYOK.
  • Never set BYOK_* on a hosted or preview deploy. It disables billing and the org-id sanity gate for every org. See SECURITY.md (GRIDA-SEC-003).

Working on billing

  1. Read docs/contributing/billing for setup before the first change. Don't skip cloudflared if you need Metronome — webhook delivery requires public HTTPS.
  2. Tag every billing file with GRIDA-EE: billing per the ee skill.
  3. Webhook receivers also carry GRIDA-SEC-001 — the security review runs first.
  4. Don't mutate grida_billing.* outside fn_billing_apply_* or the migration that creates it.
  5. Run the E2E suite before opening the PR (refuses to start unless every channel is demonstrably test-mode): pnpm --filter editor vitest run lib/billing/__tests__/e2e.
  6. For schema changes, the database skill governs — grida_billing is a regular grida_* schema under that discipline.

Known issues

docs/wg/platform/billing/known-issues is the living register (KI-BILL-NNN). Add to it when you mitigate or accept an issue; don't quietly bake the mitigation into a PR without registering it.

See also: ee (the EE anchor), security (GRIDA-SEC-001, GRIDA-SEC-003), database (schema discipline for grida_billing).