Replay proof: creativesage · $4,676

Target: creativesage

Original incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378065

Incident date: 2025-12-24

Reported amount: $4,676 · merchant/service: google-cloud-run

Gemini CLI-guided Cloud Run config: over-provisioned CPU/memory, autoscaling + revision sprawl left billable resources with zero traffic; $4,676 Nov 2-Dec 14.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:14.947172+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-006-1788104174",
  "amount": 4676.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "google-cloud-run",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($4,676, 2025-12-24) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378065"
}

Exact response:

{
  "decision": "BLOCKED",
  "reason": "Block any single transaction over $500",
  "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
  "triggered": [
    {
      "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
      "rule_type": "per_transaction",
      "action": "BLOCKED",
      "label": "Block any single transaction over $500"
    }
  ],
  "transaction_id": "txn_0917562a6021",
  "amount": 4676.0,
  "merchant": "google-cloud-run",
  "category": ""
}

For this replayed transaction proposal, the live sipi.bot endpoint returned BLOCKED with the rule shown above.

Limitations

This is a replay of a publicly reported amount, not a claim about avoided losses. The decision shown is a timestamped observation of the public demo decision API for this single replayed proposal, not a statement about the historical incident or any party's account.

Source checked live at 2026-08-30T15:36:14.947172+00:00.