fix(usage): price Claude 1-hour cache writes at the 1-hour rate

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What Changed

• parseClaudeLine reads usage.cache_creation.ephemeral_1h_input_tokens into a new UsageRecord.cacheCreation1hTokens, capped at cache_creation_input_tokens. It's server-only, like fast, so no contract changes.
• parseRateTable reads LiteLLM's cache_creation_input_token_cost_above_1hr into ModelRate.cacheCreation1hCostPerToken. It falls back to the 5-minute rate when a model doesn't publish one.
• priceUsage prices the 1-hour share of cache writes at that rate and the rest at the 5-minute rate.
• Custom model prices have a single cache-write rate, which now applies to both TTLs. docs/user/usage.md says so in one sentence.
• The scan cache stores the new field as a trailing column and moves to v5, so cached v4 rows trigger one cold re-parse instead of being served without the split.

Why

Claude Code writes most prompt-cache entries with a 1-hour TTL. Anthropic bills those at 2× input, against 1.25× for the 5-minute default. Every cache write was priced at the 5-minute rate, so the "API-equivalent" cost for Claude Code usage came out too low.

Both inputs were already available and just weren't read. Claude Code transcripts record the per-TTL split under usage.cache_creation, and the two parts add up exactly to cache_creation_input_tokens. LiteLLM also publishes the 1-hour rate for every Claude entry. On one real Claude Code workload, almost all cache writes were 1-hour, and correct pricing raised the total by about 15%.

Tests cover 5-minute-only, 1-hour-only, and mixed writes; the fallback when no 1-hour rate exists or a custom price is set; transcript parsing, including the cap; and the scan-cache round trip.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• No UI changes

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• New Features
  • Usage costs now account for Claude’s 1-hour cache writes, applying a separate rate when one is available and falling back to the standard cache-write rate otherwise.
  • Usage records include 1-hour cache-write token counts. When a record includes both 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes, each portion is priced at its applicable rate.
  • Custom cache-write pricing applies the same rate to both cache-write durations.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes production usage-cost calculations by splitting Claude cache writes into 5-minute and 1-hour billing rates and invalidating persisted scan data to recalculate them. Because it affects metering and billing-related reporting, the change warrants human review despite its focused scope and test coverage.

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Walkthrough

Claude usage records now include one-hour cache-write token counts. Scan-cache format version 5 stores those counts. Usage pricing applies separate rates to one-hour and other cache-creation tokens.

Changes

Claude cache-write usage and pricing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture and persist 1-hour token counts apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscripts.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscripts.test.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.test.ts	UsageRecord and Claude transcript parsing include the 1-hour cache-write count, capped at total cache-creation tokens. Scan-cache format version 5 serializes and validates the count. Tests cover parsing, cache round-trips, malformed entries, and rejection of the previous version.
Price cache writes by TTL apps/server/src/usage/usagePricing.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usagePricing.test.ts, apps/server/src/usage/usageAggregation.test.ts, docs/user/usage.md	Model rates distinguish default and 1-hour cache writes. LiteLLM rates and custom overrides populate both rates, and pricing applies the 1-hour rate to the corresponding tokens. Tests cover rate selection, fallback, mixed writes, and overrides. The custom model pricing paragraph was reflowed without wording changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0e414

The invalid cached-token count is rejected and the affected transcript is parsed again. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5609c

The new pricing split is bounded, but the cache upgrade can make previously retained usage disappear when its original transcript is no longer available. That can understate usage during an upgrade or rollback. No new privilege path was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Rejecting all version-4 cache entries removes the service's retained-history fallback. If a transcript has been cleaned up or cannot be reread, its previously cached records no longer contribute to usage; an unreadable listed file can be skipped without a partial-source status. Rollback also cannot read a newly written version-5 cache.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated impact is inaccurate valuation of affected scanned usage sources, not a demonstrated expansion of privileges or service-to-service authority. Tenant-wide or remote exposure cannot be determined from the available runtime evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Transcript input is parsed before valuation, the new token portion is capped to total writes, and persisted counts are checked again on decoding. Explicit configured overrides retain their existing precedence over provider-reported cost.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Cache-version invalidation weakens failure containment: a cleaned-up source cannot be reconstructed, while an unreadable listed transcript can yield no records and be counted as skipped rather than reported as partial.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Preserve usable older cached history during the transition where source transcripts are gone, or explicitly report incomplete valuation when cold reparsing cannot recover records.

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Reject 1-hour token counts above total cache-creation tokens.

A finite cacheCreation1h value greater than cacheCreation passes decoding, is restored in the cached record, and can produce an incorrect cost on an unchanged-file warm scan. A negative value is not used because decoding omits it. Reject values outside the range [0, cacheCreation] so the file is parsed again.

🐛 Suggested fix

-        !Number.isFinite(cacheCreation1h)
+        !Number.isFinite(cacheCreation1h) ||
+        cacheCreation1h < 0 ||
+        cacheCreation1h > cacheCreation

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	!Number.isFinite(cacheCreation1h)
	!Number.isFinite(cacheCreation1h) ||
	cacheCreation1h < 0 ||
	cacheCreation1h > cacheCreation

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In `@apps/server/src/usage/usageScanCache.ts` at line 201, Update the
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