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feat: notify admins when a user crosses an AI budget threshold - #27415

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Implements: https://linear.app/codercom/issue/AIGOV-289/notify-users-and-admins-on-budget-warning-and-limit-reached

Notify admins when a user crosses an AI budget threshold, complementing the user-facing notifications from #27346

When a priced interception pushes a user's period spend across the warning (85%) or limit (100%) threshold, the Owners and User Admins now receive an admin notification naming the affected user, alongside the user's own notification. The affected user is excluded from the admin recipients since they already get the user-facing copy. Delivery is best-effort: a failure to enqueue is logged and never blocks recording the interception.

The admin templates always show the effective group the spend is attributed to, and note when the limit comes from a per-user override rather than the group budget.

Depends on #27346

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AIGOV-289

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Requested: 2026-07-25 19:22 UTC by @evgeniy-scherbina
Spend: $22.34 / $100.00

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  • R1 (2026-07-25): 16 reviewers, 2 Nit, 3 Note, 1 P2, 5 P3, COMMENT. Review

deep-review v0.9.0 | Round 1 | 7eeb49a..7d59b2d

Last posted: Round 1, 11 findings (1 P2, 5 P3, 2 Nit, 3 Note), COMMENT. Review

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Finding inventory - PR #27415

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# Sev Status Location Summary Round Reviewer Posted
CRF-1 Note Open notifications.go:191 Suspended owners/user admins still receive admin notifications (no status filter); consistent with sibling sites R1 Netero Yes
CRF-2 Note Open notifications.go:189 GetUsers(RbacRole)+filter idiom duplicated across 3 packages; no shared helper R1 Netero Yes
CRF-3 P2 Open notifications.go:144 Admin-only lookups (GetUserByID, budgetNotificationAdmins) gate the user's own notification; a transient failure permanently drops it for the period R1 Hisoka P2, Pariston P2, Chopper P2, Mafuuu P3 Yes
CRF-4 P3 Open notifications.go:174 Delivery/partial-failure isolation untested: FakeEnqueuer cannot fail, no admin-lookup-failure case R1 Bisky P3, Chopper Yes
CRF-5 P3 Open notifications.go:106 Single interception crossing both 85% and 100% sends contradictory warning+limit notifications, now amplified to every admin R1 Luffy P3, Meruem Note Yes
CRF-6 P3 Open notifications.go:189 Admin fan-out has no digest/cap: one mail per user per threshold to every owner/user-admin; needs product decision at scale R1 Luffy P3, Hisoka Note Yes
CRF-7 P3 Open notifications.go:133 notifyBudgetThresholdCrossings derives user/group/admins from crossings[0]; homogeneity enforced only by comment, latent trap for future batching R1 Meruem P3 Yes
CRF-8 P3 Open 000553...up.sql:1 limit_source label now supplied to user templates but override note not backfilled there; a user on a personal override sees no signal; needs product decision R1 Mafu-san P3 Yes
CRF-9 Nit Open 000553...up.sql:15 Admin subject lines start with bare lowercase username; diverges from codebase convention and own body (lines 15 and 46) R1 Leorio Nit Yes
CRF-10 Nit Open notifications.go:167 Two comments restate the code; the :173 "naming the affected user" comment is slightly wrong about the mechanism R1 Gon (P2, downgraded) Yes
CRF-11 Note Open 000553...up.sql:19 Template "user_override" literal not pinned to codersdk constant by any test; future rename silently drops override note R1 Gon, Knuckle, Zoro (Melody confirms correct today) Yes

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Netero first pass: 2 Notes (CRF-1, CRF-2), no P0-P3; mechanical floor clean, panel proceeded. Panel of 16 (Bisky, Hisoka, Mafu-san, Mafuuu, Pariston, Gon, Leorio, Chopper, ging-go, Knuckle, Komugi, Kurapika, Luffy, Melody + wildcards Meruem, Zoro). ging-go, Komugi, Melody, Kurapika: no actionable findings (confirmations only). Marquee: CRF-3 (P2) user-notification gating, converged by 4 reviewers. 1 P2, 5 P3, 2 Nit, 3 Note. Event COMMENT (no P0-P1). Reviewed against 7eeb49a..7d59b2d.

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Solid, well-scoped addition. The admin fan-out is grafted onto the existing detection point outside the spend transaction, best-effort, with the affected user excluded from the admin copy and still receiving the user-facing one. The refactor from per-crossing to per-interception resolution (group/user/admins once) is the right shape, the migration mirrors 000552 exactly, the two template UUIDs match events.go byte for byte, golden files split the override branch cleanly, and the self-exclusion is genuinely tested. Authz checks out: the notify path runs under AsAIBridged, whose subject already grants site-wide ResourceUser read, so the new GetUsers/GetUserByID reads are authorized in production, not just in the mock.

Severity count: 1 P2, 5 P3, 2 Nit, 3 Note.

The one blocker to weigh: CRF-3. Four reviewers independently traced that the admin-only lookups (GetUserByID for the username label, budgetNotificationAdmins for recipients) sit upstream of the user's own enqueue and early-return on any error. The user templates don't even reference username, so a transient failure resolving admin data now silently and permanently drops the affected user's own budget notification for the entire period, because the crossing is edge-triggered and never re-fires. As Hisoka put it, the coupling "hides behind three innocent-looking lookups and only bites when the least important of them fails." Enqueue the user notification first (it needs only the group lookup), then resolve admins and fold that failure into errs. That also makes the failure path testable (CRF-4).

Two P3s are product calls a human should make explicitly rather than inherit: the double warning+limit send on a single boundary-jumping interception (CRF-5), now amplified to every admin, and the uncapped per-user fan-out with no digest (CRF-6). Neither is a correctness bug; both are volume decisions worth a conscious yes/no before this ships broadly.

Process note (not inline): the consolidated failure log dropped from Error with structured group_id/threshold_percent fields to a single Warn with those details folded into the joined error string (aibridgedserver.go:439). Defensible for a best-effort path, but any alerting keyed on Error for this path will no longer fire, and operators lose the ability to filter/aggregate by threshold or group. Worth a conscious choice.

Two more observations, both consistent with existing conventions rather than regressions: recipients are site-wide owner/user-admin roles only, so org-scoped user admins are not notified and, in a multi-org deployment, every site user admin sees usernames from every org; and the down migration's DELETE cascades into notification_messages, inbox_notifications, and notification_preferences for these two templates (limited to this feature's own data, but a rollback also erases any admin's preference toggle).

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Comment thread coderd/aibridgedserver/notifications.go
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// Notify admins, naming the affected user.
for _, admin := range admins {

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P3 [CRF-4] The best-effort delivery and partial-failure isolation are genuine logic with zero coverage, and the test double can't exercise them. (Bisky P3, Chopper)

Under coverage, every uncovered block in notifyBudgetThresholdCrossings is the delivery-failure path: the user-enqueue error append, the admin-enqueue error append, and errors.Join on a non-empty slice. FakeEnqueuer.enqueueWithDataLock always returns (id, nil) (notificationstest/fake_enqueuer.go:78), so the behavior the PR description sells ("a failure to enqueue is logged and never blocks recording") is asserted nowhere. If append(errs, ...); continue ever regressed to return err, one admin's failed enqueue would silently drop every later admin and, for a multi-crossing interception, the remaining user notification.

Give FakeEnqueuer an error hook (or wrap it to fail one specific admin ID), then assert the surviving recipients still received their notifications and RecordTokenUsage returned no error. The same test double gap blocks proving the CRF-3 fix: add a case where GetUsers errors and the user notification still fires.

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We already have TestRecordTokenUsageBudgetNotificationBestEffort, which covers similar scenario. That said, your suggestion is interesting—I’ll consider adding another test for it in a follow-up PR.

Comment thread coderd/aibridgedserver/notifications.go
Comment thread coderd/aibridgedserver/notifications.go
// (e.g. December 1, 2026 - January 1, 2027) is unambiguous.
"period_start": crossing.periodStart.UTC().Format("January 2, 2006"),
"period_end": crossing.periodEnd.UTC().Format("January 2, 2006"),
userID := crossings[0].userID

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P3 [CRF-7] notifyBudgetThresholdCrossings accepts a []budgetThresholdCrossing but derives the notified user, group, and admin recipients from crossings[0] alone, silently assuming every element shares the same user and group. (Meruem)

The homogeneity contract lives only in a doc comment and in detectBudgetThresholdCrossings building all crossings from one intc.InitiatorID/cost.effectiveGroupID. Nothing in the signature enforces it. A future caller that batches crossings across interceptions or users (the natural next step if crossings are ever accumulated before flushing) would resolve user/group/admins from element 0 and then mail every admin a notification naming crossings[0].userID while carrying another user's threshold, silently. Not a live bug; the sole caller passes homogeneous crossings. Make the shared identity visible in the type instead of position 0: notifyBudgetThresholdCrossings(ctx, userID, effectiveGroupID uuid.UUID, thresholds []crossedThreshold), where the slice carries only the per-threshold varying data. Then a mixed-user batch cannot be expressed.

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Sounds reasonable. I'll try to refactor it in a follow-up PR.

VALUES (
'2a7b0ac1-00e1-4625-9cd5-1e5933972c77',
'AI Budget Warning (Admin)',
E'{{.Labels.username}} is approaching their {{.Labels.period}} AI budget limit',

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Nit [CRF-9] Admin subject lines start with a bare lowercase username: "alice is approaching their monthly AI budget limit" (and the same at line 46, "alice has reached..."). (Leorio)

The rendered subject opens an email with a lowercase word. Every other admin/entity notification in this migration tree capitalizes and quotes the name (User account "..." created, Workspace "..." deleted), and your own body two lines down already writes User **{{.Labels.username}}** has used more than.... The title diverges from both the codebase convention and its own body. Fix both templates: E'User {{.Labels.username}} is approaching their {{.Labels.period}} AI budget limit' and E'User {{.Labels.username}} has reached their {{.Labels.period}} AI budget limit'.

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"period_end": c.periodEnd.UTC().Format("January 2, 2006"),
}

// Notify the user who crossed the threshold.

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Nit [CRF-10] Two comments restate what the code already shows, and one is slightly wrong about the mechanism. (Gon)

// Notify the user who crossed the threshold. above EnqueueWithData(notifCtx, userID, c.userNotificationTemplate, ...) carries no invariant the target and template don't already state. The // Notify admins, naming the affected user. comment (line 173) is worse: "naming the affected user" implies the trailing userID argument names the user, but the name reaches the template through the shared "username": user.Username label; the trailing userID is the notification target/dedup key. An imprecise comment about the mechanism is worse than none. Delete both.

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admins, err := s.store.GetUsers(ctx, database.GetUsersParams{
RbacRole: []string{codersdk.RoleOwner, codersdk.RoleUserAdmin},
})
if err != nil {

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Note [CRF-1] budgetNotificationAdmins selects recipients via GetUsers filtered only by RbacRole, so suspended owners and user admins still receive the admin email/inbox notification. (Netero)

GetUsers applies no status filter unless Status is set. This matches the two existing admin-notification call sites (reports/generator.go:299, provisionerdserver.go:1447), which also pass only RbacRole, so it is consistent with the codebase, not a regression. Flagging because the affected user must be active to generate spend while the admin recipients are not status-checked. If suspended admins should not be notified, add Status: []database.UserStatus{database.UserStatusActive} here and fix the sibling sites too.

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// user, who receives the user-facing notification instead.
func (s *Server) budgetNotificationAdmins(ctx context.Context, excludeUserID uuid.UUID) ([]database.GetUsersRow, error) {
admins, err := s.store.GetUsers(ctx, database.GetUsersParams{
RbacRole: []string{codersdk.RoleOwner, codersdk.RoleUserAdmin},

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Note [CRF-2] Admin-recipient lookup repeats the GetUsers(RbacRole: ...) + build-recipient-slice idiom found in two other packages. (Netero)

reports/generator.go and provisionerdserver.go build the same "fetch users by role, filter into a recipient slice" shape with different roles. No shared helper exists and the role sets and exclusion logic differ, so extracting one now is not clearly warranted. Recording it so the pattern is visible if a fourth site appears.

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$$User **{{.Labels.username}}** has used more than {{.Labels.threshold}}% of their {{.Labels.period}} AI budget ({{.Labels.limit}}).

Effective group: **{{.Labels.effective_group_name}}**
{{- if eq .Labels.limit_source "user_override"}}

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Note [CRF-11] The template literal "user_override" duplicates codersdk.AIBudgetLimitSourceUserOverride with no test pinning them together. (Gon, Knuckle, Zoro; Melody confirmed they agree today)

The template branches on {{- if eq .Labels.limit_source "user_override"}}, while the producer emits string(c.limitSource) from the Go constant (codersdk/aibridge.go:24). The wire chain is intact today (Melody verified end to end), but if the constant's value is ever renamed, cost.go emits the new string, the template's eq fails, and the override line silently vanishes from admin mail with no crash. The golden test feeds a hardcoded "user_override" label rather than the constant, so it would still pass while production drifts. Cheap insurance: source the golden test's label value from string(codersdk.AIBudgetLimitSourceUserOverride) so a rename breaks the test instead of production.

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Another obligatory reminder to check migration number before merge

evgeniy-scherbina added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2026
Implements:
https://linear.app/codercom/issue/AIGOV-289/notify-users-and-admins-on-budget-warning-and-limit-reached

Notify users when their AI spend crosses a budget threshold for their
effective group. Two thresholds are covered: a warning at 85%, and a
limit-reached notification at 100%.

Detection runs on the post-response path, right after the interception's
cost is added to the user's daily spend. It reads the user's AI spend on
the same transaction where token usage is recorded and AI daily spend is
incremented, and derives the pre-interception total by subtracting this
interception's cost. In case of `oldSpend < threshold && newSpend >=
threshold` - notification is sent. A single interception that crosses
both thresholds enqueues both notifications.

Detection and delivery are best-effort: a failure is logged and never
fails usage recording. The payload uses only stable values (the
threshold percentage and the spend limit, not the exact spend), so
duplicate enqueues are deduplicated by the notification system.

The two templates are added via migration and appear in each user's
notification settings under the "AI Budget" group.

Admin notifications (owners and user admins) are a follow-up: #27415.

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Co-authored-by: Cian Johnston <[email protected]>
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