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 | A18 | Docs push | Save-a-answer-as-doc: server-side draft (`doc_drafts`, long body never in a URL — unguessable `uuid4` token is the URL credential) pushed to a **generic git remote** (`BOR_DOCS_REPO`, URL or local path; no `gh`) on a dedicated branch, `--ff-only`, re-cut per push; **no PR tooling**; inert (hidden + 409) while the repo is unset |
 | A19 | Deploys & caching | HTML pages `Cache-Control: no-cache` (no etag/last-modified); `/assets/*` versioned (`?v=<token>`) + `immutable, max-age=1y`; **the token is the deploy** (git `HEAD` short SHA; content-hash fallback) — a deploy is a commit the browser sees without a hard refresh |
 | A20 | Security headers | Every response: `Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'` (+ the theme's inline-`<style>` hash on themed pages), `frame-ancestors 'none'`, `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`; login rate-limited 10 attempts / 15 min (in-memory, A12) |
+| A21 | LLM call economics | **ALL LLM calls are free** (chat, vision, embed, `lite` — self-hosted aipi): the sync/import path may burn as many LLM/vision calls as quality requires — e.g. render + describe **every** sparse page of a pictorial PDF, no page caps, no call budgets (owner 2026-09-30). Latency targets bind the **interactive** path only (retrieval, inference, tool calling — the inference engine's job, not ours to micro-optimize): never cap, throttle, or skip work to save calls; a slower sync is acceptable, a lower-quality KB is not |
 
 **UI/theming anchors (B):**
 
@@ -70,8 +71,13 @@ accounts (one admin + hand-out tokens is the model).
 | B5 | Admin-only nav views (Sources, Git sources, Tuning, History, Tokens, Theme) are hidden from non-admins; a monochrome theme must keep every state **text** label ("text + color, never color alone") |
 
 **Key recent revisions (full log in the previous plan revision / phase
-records):** A10 — single-admin cookie auth, saved chats + shares +
-staleness, client history budgets, access tokens.
+records):** A21 — ALL LLM calls (chat, vision, embed, lite) are free for
+this project (owner 2026-09-30): import/sync may burn unlimited
+LLM/vision calls for quality (e.g. every page of a 500+ page pictorial
+PDF, rendered + described); sync duration is not an optimization target,
+interactive-path speed is the inference engine's job. A10 — single-admin
+cookie auth, saved chats + shares + staleness, client history budgets,
+access tokens.
 A15 — `thinking`, `tool`, unlimited tool rounds under
 `BOR_AGENT_MAX_ROUNDS`, `retry`, harness-aligned
 `ls`/`read`/`grep` surface. A7 — the **retrieval** path's