spend-gate

No credit is spent before the human's yes in this conversation. Money is always a credit number exactly as GooseWorks gives it — never dollars, never your own total presented as a price. Never name tools, endpoints or vendors to the marketer: describe the work in plain words ("Reddit threads about dog allergies, newest first").

Pick the branch by the tool:

A. Engine-quoted work (ads, photos, video, any tool with a dry run or a price check)

Managed marketing data: marketing_data_describe is free. marketing_data_lookup defaults to quote_only: true. Read the returned maximum credits and expiry, then request approval for that exact bounded work. Submit the same request with its quote token, the approved ceiling and the user’s words. A new request or expired quote needs a fresh quote. An existing approval may cover later calls only when it explicitly named that same bounded plan and total ceiling: quote each call, preserve the original approval words, and set its maximum no higher than the remaining approved credits. Ask again only for changed scope or more budget. Log every returned charge and deduct it before the next call; the tool’s per-call cap is not a cumulative plan limit. Free continuation pages inside that approved plan need no second spending approval. A capped quote is a maximum, not a claim about final usage. Never treat discovery, a successful quote or a fixture as proof that a paid data read ran.

Ask the tool for its quote (its dry run, quote_only, or gooseworks:data_price_provider for fal and ElevenLabs calls).
Show each quote exactly as given. Several quotes are shown one by one, never added up by you.
Ask for a yes to that quote. Submit only after it; a changed plan needs a new quote and a new yes.
If an answer comes back as a card waiting for a press, follow the server's card rule and wait for the human.

B. Proxy data reads (no price check exists) — one yes

Covers gooseworks:data_call_provider / gooseworks:data_post_provider with ScrapeCreators, gooseworks:competitor_research with mentions, and capped imports (gooseworks:knowledge_sync, gooseworks:knowledge_import with a source, gooseworks:ads_library_scrape for Google). Endpoint paths, query keys and recency options: proxy-endpoints.md in this folder.