feat: cost warning

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
ai, cli

Research direction

Start by tracing the existing cost calculation and warning flow for the --file option when a query is supplied as a CLI parameter. The work is done when exceeding the context-cost threshold prompts for confirmation before the API call, using token count when cost is unavailable.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently there is a scenario when AI CLI can make expensive API call without user confirmation. This happens when user use --file option and asks a query in CLI params. In such case, even when the price threshold is exceeded and user gets a warning, he is not able to prevent this API call.

Describe the solution you'd like
In case file context is used, and user exceeds warning threshold for context and, and there is a query in CLI params: then CLI should ask user to confirm if it should make the API call before making it.

# ai -i --file file.md Some question
Using the provided file will increase conversation costs by $1.1193 per message.
Do you want to continue? [y/N]:

Describe alternatives you've considered
Warning as is, but there is a risk of making expensive API can which user would not want if he knew the costs.

Additional context
We should use current cost calculation features.
In rare case cost is not available, we should refer to token count.

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