This appendix provides lightweight worksheets for quantum cost planning, reservation preparation, and result-level cost attribution.
O.1 Cost envelope worksheet
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Envelope[Cost envelope] --> Scope[Workload scope]
Envelope --> Limits[Execution limits]
Envelope --> Approval[Approval threshold]
Envelope --> Stop[Stopping rule]
Envelope --> Owner[Owner and budget]| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| project | |
| workload family | |
| target candidates | |
| execution mode | job, batch, session, reservation, simulator |
| maximum shots | |
| maximum tasks | |
| maximum active time | |
| maximum simulator cost | |
| maximum mitigation overhead | |
| retry limit | |
| stopping rule | |
| approving owner |
O.2 Experiment cost record
cost_record:
schema_version: v1
project: ""
workload_id: ""
evidence_package_id: ""
provider: ""
target: ""
execution_mode: ""
planned:
max_shots: 0
max_tasks: 0
max_active_minutes: 0
max_cost_usd: 0
observed:
shots: 0
tasks: 0
active_minutes: 0
simulator_minutes: 0
storage_gb_month: 0
reviewer_hours: 0
estimated_cost_usd: 0
variance:
cost_delta_usd: 0
reason: ""O.3 Reservation readiness checklist
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Queue[Prepared workload queue] --> Operators[Operators scheduled]
Operators --> Budget[Budget approved]
Budget --> Monitoring[Monitoring ready]
Monitoring --> Fallback[Fallback tasks ready]
Fallback --> Go[Reservation go]- Workloads staged and validated on simulator
- Fallback workloads prepared
- Target-specific constraints reviewed
- Operators assigned for the full reservation
- Cost monitor active
- Stop rules approved
- Evidence store ready
- Post-reservation review scheduled
O.4 Waste review template
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Waste[Waste event] --> Cause[Cause]
Cause --> Prevent[Preventive control]
Prevent --> Owner[Owner]
Owner --> Review[Follow-up review]| Waste type | Evidence | Root cause | Preventive control | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| overshot sampling | ||||
| invalid workload | ||||
| drift ignored | ||||
| idle reservation | ||||
| missing evidence |
O.5 Cost dashboard minimum fields
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Dashboard[Cost dashboard] --> Cost[Cost]
Dashboard --> Confidence[Confidence]
Dashboard --> Throughput[Throughput]
Dashboard --> Waste[Waste]
Dashboard --> Claims[Claims supported]Minimum dashboard fields:
- cost by project
- cost by target
- cost by execution mode
- cost per evidence package
- failed spend
- retried spend
- reservation utilization
- marginal cost of confidence improvement
- claims supported by spend class