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offpeak-0.1.0/.github/workflows/ci.yml

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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install
+        run: pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Lint
+        run: ruff check src tests
+      - name: Test
+        run: pytest

offpeak-0.1.0/.github/workflows/publish.yml

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+name: Publish to PyPI
+
+# Publishes on every GitHub Release via PyPI Trusted Publishing (OIDC).
+# No API tokens: configure the publisher on pypi.org first — see the repo's
+# release docs. The "pypi" environment below must exist in repo settings.
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Build sdist and wheel
+        run: |
+          pip install build
+          python -m build
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist/
+
+  publish:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: pypi
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write  # required for Trusted Publishing
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: dist
+          path: dist/
+      - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

offpeak-0.1.0/.gitignore

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+# Python
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*.egg-info/
+.eggs/
+build/
+dist/
+.venv/
+venv/
+
+# Tooling
+.pytest_cache/
+.ruff_cache/
+.mypy_cache/
+.coverage
+htmlcov/
+
+# Editors / OS
+.idea/
+.vscode/
+.DS_Store

offpeak-0.1.0/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+Thanks for helping build the deadline standard.
+
+## Dev setup
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak
+cd offpeak
+python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -e ".[dev]"
+```
+
+## Checks
+
+```bash
+ruff check src tests
+pytest
+```
+
+Both run in CI on every PR. Tests are network-free — venue drivers are tested against fakes; never add a test that needs an API key.
+
+## What's welcome
+
+- New venue drivers (implement `offpeak.Venue`; keep provider SDKs behind optional extras).
+- Deadline-form and receipt improvements.
+- Price-sheet corrections (cite the provider's public pricing page in the PR).
+
+## Spec changes
+
+[SPEC.md](SPEC.md) changes start as an issue before a PR, so semantics get discussed ahead of wording.

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: offpeak
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Deadline-priced inference: give AI jobs a deadline and run them on the cheapest venue — provider batch tiers (−50%) today. Same model, same tokens, a different hour.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/issues
+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/releases
+Author: Offpeak
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+Keywords: anthropic,batch,batch-api,cost-optimization,deadline,finops,inference,llm,openai,scheduling
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
+Classifier: Topic :: System :: Distributed Computing
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Provides-Extra: all
+Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.40; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: openai>=1.50; extra == 'all'
+Provides-Extra: anthropic
+Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.40; extra == 'anthropic'
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: build; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.6; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: twine; extra == 'dev'
+Provides-Extra: openai
+Requires-Dist: openai>=1.50; extra == 'openai'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# offpeak
+
+**Deadline-priced inference.** Same model, same tokens, a different hour — for half the price.
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/offpeak)](https://pypi.org/project/offpeak/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all sell batch inference at **50% off list price**. Almost nobody uses it, because no API lets work say it can wait: every token runs "now" by default, and the batch workflow — build a file, upload, poll, download, match results back up — is enough friction that urgency gets bought by accident.
+
+`offpeak` gives your code one new argument.
+
+```python
+import offpeak
+
+jobs = [offpeak.job("claude-haiku-4-5", f"Summarize:\n\n{doc}") for doc in docs]
+
+results = offpeak.run(jobs, deadline="06:00")   # done by 6am, at batch prices
+
+print(offpeak.receipt(results))
+```
+
+```
+OFFPEAK SETTLEMENT ────────────────────────────
+jobs      1,000 (1,000 ok, 2 sync fallback)
+sla       1,000/1,000 met
+venues    anthropic:batch 1,000
+tokens    12,410,332 in · 3,104,551 out
+list      $27.93
+paid      $14.02
+captured  $13.91 (49.8%)
+prices    snapshot 2026-08 — override via offpeak.prices
+───────────────────────────────────────────────
+```
+
+## What it does
+
+- **One argument, not a workflow.** `run(jobs, deadline=...)` handles batching, submission, polling, collection, and result matching across providers.
+- **Deadlines are guarded, not hoped for.** If a batch hasn't landed by the time the remaining window shrinks to a risk buffer, `offpeak` cancels and re-runs the stragglers synchronously at list price. You state the deadline; it gets met.
+- **Every run settles a receipt.** List cost, paid cost, captured spread — arithmetic against public price sheets, not estimates.
+- **Your keys, your perimeter.** `offpeak` talks directly to the providers with your own API keys. There is no proxy and no third party in the data path.
+- **Zero-dependency core.** Provider SDKs load only via extras.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install "offpeak[all]"        # OpenAI + Anthropic venues
+pip install "offpeak[anthropic]"  # or one provider
+pip install "offpeak[openai]"
+```
+
+Venues use the standard environment variables (`OPENAI_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`), or pass a configured client: `OpenAIBatch(client=my_client)`.
+
+## Deadlines
+
+Deadlines are how software says "this can wait" — the full semantics live in [SPEC.md](SPEC.md).
+
+| Form | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `"06:00"` | the next 6am, local time (the canonical overnight form) |
+| `"4h"`, `"90m"`, `"2d"` | relative to now |
+| `"2026-08-21T06:00:00-07:00"` | ISO 8601, absolute |
+| `datetime` / `timedelta` / seconds | native Python forms |
+
+## How a run works
+
+1. Jobs are grouped by venue (`claude-*` → Anthropic Message Batches, `gpt-*`/`o*` → OpenAI Batch) and submitted at the batch tier — 50% of list.
+2. `offpeak` polls the venues, backing off while the window is long.
+3. When remaining time reaches the **risk buffer** (default: 15% of the window, clamped to 1–10 minutes), unfinished jobs are cancelled and re-run synchronously so the deadline holds. Set `fallback="none"` to report them instead.
+4. Results come back in input order, each with a per-job `Receipt`; `offpeak.receipt(results)` settles the run.
+
+```python
+results = offpeak.run(
+    jobs,
+    deadline="06:00",
+    fallback="sync",       # meet the deadline at list price if the batch is at risk
+    risk_buffer=600,       # seconds held in reserve (optional)
+)
+```
+
+## Receipts and prices
+
+Receipts are computed against a bundled snapshot of public list prices (batch = 50% of list, as published). Providers change prices — verify and override at runtime:
+
+```python
+import offpeak
+
+offpeak.prices.register_price("my-fine-tune", input_per_m=4.0, output_per_m=16.0)
+```
+
+Unknown models settle with `cost = None` rather than a guess.
+
+## What this is (and the roadmap)
+
+`offpeak` is the open client and spec for a simple claim: **intelligence has a time value**. A large share of AI work — embeddings, evals, backfills, report generation, overnight agents — has no human waiting on it, and the venues already price that patience at −50%. This library is the missing workflow.
+
+The roadmap follows the same interface upward: more venues (Google batch, spot capacity, off-peak windows on your own GPUs), queue-latency forecasting instead of a fixed risk buffer, portfolio placement across venues, energy- and carbon-aware scheduling with per-job receipts. The venue interface (`offpeak.Venue`) is deliberately the extension point — a venue is anywhere deferred work can run.
+
+A hosted desk that does the forecasting, cross-venue portfolio scheduling, and SLA insurance at fleet scale — payloads never leaving your perimeter — is being built by the same team. The SDK and the deadline spec stay open, Apache-2.0.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Issues and PRs welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Spec changes start as issues against [SPEC.md](SPEC.md).
+
+## License
+
+Apache-2.0 © Offpeak

offpeak-0.1.0/README.md

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+# offpeak
+
+**Deadline-priced inference.** Same model, same tokens, a different hour — for half the price.
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/offpeak)](https://pypi.org/project/offpeak/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all sell batch inference at **50% off list price**. Almost nobody uses it, because no API lets work say it can wait: every token runs "now" by default, and the batch workflow — build a file, upload, poll, download, match results back up — is enough friction that urgency gets bought by accident.
+
+`offpeak` gives your code one new argument.
+
+```python
+import offpeak
+
+jobs = [offpeak.job("claude-haiku-4-5", f"Summarize:\n\n{doc}") for doc in docs]
+
+results = offpeak.run(jobs, deadline="06:00")   # done by 6am, at batch prices
+
+print(offpeak.receipt(results))
+```
+
+```
+OFFPEAK SETTLEMENT ────────────────────────────
+jobs      1,000 (1,000 ok, 2 sync fallback)
+sla       1,000/1,000 met
+venues    anthropic:batch 1,000
+tokens    12,410,332 in · 3,104,551 out
+list      $27.93
+paid      $14.02
+captured  $13.91 (49.8%)
+prices    snapshot 2026-08 — override via offpeak.prices
+───────────────────────────────────────────────
+```
+
+## What it does
+
+- **One argument, not a workflow.** `run(jobs, deadline=...)` handles batching, submission, polling, collection, and result matching across providers.
+- **Deadlines are guarded, not hoped for.** If a batch hasn't landed by the time the remaining window shrinks to a risk buffer, `offpeak` cancels and re-runs the stragglers synchronously at list price. You state the deadline; it gets met.
+- **Every run settles a receipt.** List cost, paid cost, captured spread — arithmetic against public price sheets, not estimates.
+- **Your keys, your perimeter.** `offpeak` talks directly to the providers with your own API keys. There is no proxy and no third party in the data path.
+- **Zero-dependency core.** Provider SDKs load only via extras.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install "offpeak[all]"        # OpenAI + Anthropic venues
+pip install "offpeak[anthropic]"  # or one provider
+pip install "offpeak[openai]"
+```
+
+Venues use the standard environment variables (`OPENAI_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`), or pass a configured client: `OpenAIBatch(client=my_client)`.
+
+## Deadlines
+
+Deadlines are how software says "this can wait" — the full semantics live in [SPEC.md](SPEC.md).
+
+| Form | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `"06:00"` | the next 6am, local time (the canonical overnight form) |
+| `"4h"`, `"90m"`, `"2d"` | relative to now |
+| `"2026-08-21T06:00:00-07:00"` | ISO 8601, absolute |
+| `datetime` / `timedelta` / seconds | native Python forms |
+
+## How a run works
+
+1. Jobs are grouped by venue (`claude-*` → Anthropic Message Batches, `gpt-*`/`o*` → OpenAI Batch) and submitted at the batch tier — 50% of list.
+2. `offpeak` polls the venues, backing off while the window is long.
+3. When remaining time reaches the **risk buffer** (default: 15% of the window, clamped to 1–10 minutes), unfinished jobs are cancelled and re-run synchronously so the deadline holds. Set `fallback="none"` to report them instead.
+4. Results come back in input order, each with a per-job `Receipt`; `offpeak.receipt(results)` settles the run.
+
+```python
+results = offpeak.run(
+    jobs,
+    deadline="06:00",
+    fallback="sync",       # meet the deadline at list price if the batch is at risk
+    risk_buffer=600,       # seconds held in reserve (optional)
+)
+```
+
+## Receipts and prices
+
+Receipts are computed against a bundled snapshot of public list prices (batch = 50% of list, as published). Providers change prices — verify and override at runtime:
+
+```python
+import offpeak
+
+offpeak.prices.register_price("my-fine-tune", input_per_m=4.0, output_per_m=16.0)
+```
+
+Unknown models settle with `cost = None` rather than a guess.
+
+## What this is (and the roadmap)
+
+`offpeak` is the open client and spec for a simple claim: **intelligence has a time value**. A large share of AI work — embeddings, evals, backfills, report generation, overnight agents — has no human waiting on it, and the venues already price that patience at −50%. This library is the missing workflow.
+
+The roadmap follows the same interface upward: more venues (Google batch, spot capacity, off-peak windows on your own GPUs), queue-latency forecasting instead of a fixed risk buffer, portfolio placement across venues, energy- and carbon-aware scheduling with per-job receipts. The venue interface (`offpeak.Venue`) is deliberately the extension point — a venue is anywhere deferred work can run.
+
+A hosted desk that does the forecasting, cross-venue portfolio scheduling, and SLA insurance at fleet scale — payloads never leaving your perimeter — is being built by the same team. The SDK and the deadline spec stay open, Apache-2.0.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Issues and PRs welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Spec changes start as issues against [SPEC.md](SPEC.md).
+
+## License
+
+Apache-2.0 © Offpeak

offpeak-0.1.0/SPEC.md

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+# The Deadline Spec — v0.1 (draft)
+
+How software says **"this can wait."**
+
+Status: draft. The spec is versioned with the library; breaking changes bump the minor version while in 0.x. Changes start as issues on this repository.
+
+## 1. Why a spec
+
+Every inference API today has exactly one urgency: now. Venues already price patience (public batch tiers at 50% of list), but no annotation exists for a caller to express it. This spec defines that annotation — the *deadline* — so that any client, gateway, queue, or scheduler can carry it, and any venue can honor it.
+
+## 2. The deadline
+
+A **deadline** is the instant by which a job's result must be available to the caller. It is a property of the *job*, not of the venue or transport.
+
+### 2.1 Forms
+
+Producers MAY express a deadline in any of these forms; consumers MUST resolve them to an absolute, timezone-aware instant at ingestion time:
+
+| Form | Example | Resolution rule |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Wall-clock | `"06:00"` | the next occurrence in the producer's timezone: today if still ahead, else tomorrow |
+| Relative | `"4h"`, `"90m"`, `"45s"`, `"2d"` | added to the ingestion instant |
+| Absolute | `"2026-08-21T06:00:00-07:00"` | ISO 8601; a naive timestamp is interpreted in the producer's timezone |
+
+Resolved deadlines MUST be in the future at ingestion; a past deadline is an error, never a silent "run now".
+
+### 2.2 Wire form
+
+In JSON, a resolved deadline is carried as an ISO 8601 string with offset:
+
+```json
+{ "deadline": "2026-08-21T06:00:00-07:00" }
+```
+
+Over HTTP (for gateways and proxies), the request header:
+
+```
+Offpeak-Deadline: 2026-08-21T06:00:00-07:00
+```
+
+A gateway that receives the header and cannot honor it MUST ignore it and serve the request at standard urgency, never fail it.
+
+## 3. Scheduling semantics
+
+- A job with a deadline MAY be executed at any time up to the deadline, on any venue that can deliver the result by then. Where it runs and when are the scheduler's choice; *whether* it lands on time is not.
+- A scheduler MUST hold a **fallback path** whose completion time is reliably known (e.g. synchronous execution at list price) and MUST invoke it when the primary venue's completion becomes doubtful within a risk buffer.
+- Work without a deadline is **urgent** and MUST be untouched: never delayed, never re-routed, never repriced.
+
+## 4. Outcomes
+
+Each job settles in exactly one terminal state:
+
+| State | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `succeeded` | completed on the chosen deferred venue, by the deadline |
+| `fell_back` | completed by the deadline via the fallback path (SLA met, spread not captured) |
+| `failed` | not completed by the deadline, or errored |
+
+`sla_met` is true iff the result was available at or before the deadline.
+
+## 5. The receipt
+
+A settlement receipt makes the trade auditable. Per job, a receipt SHOULD carry: venue, model, submission and completion instants, the resolved deadline, token counts, cost paid, equivalent list cost, and the captured spread. Costs MUST be computed against citable public price sheets; where no price is known, the receipt carries `null`, never an estimate presented as fact.
+
+Future fields (reserved, optional): `energy_wh`, `co2e_g`, `grid_intensity_gco2_kwh` — measured or cited, labeled as such.
+
+## 6. Conformance
+
+A **producer** conforms if every deadline it emits resolves per §2. A **scheduler** conforms if it honors §3 and settles §4 states truthfully. A **venue driver** conforms if it reports completion and token usage accurately and supports best-effort cancellation.
+
+---
+
+*Maintained at [github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak](https://github.com/offpeak-ai/offpeak). Apache-2.0.*