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The token bill is an identity problem

calendar_today June 22, 2026 domain workos

Organizations are discovering that AI agent costs are invisible by design, with no clear way to attribute token spend back to the user, team, or agent that incurred it. The piece argues that controlling AI agent token bills is fundamentally a problem of identity and attribution rather than billing.

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