Logistics: Bill Of Lading Audit with Claude Code: Cost Controls
A production playbook for bill of lading audit in logistics operations using Claude Code: cost controls, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Freight audit teams
The problem
Freight audit teams need bill of lading audit to run repeatedly against BOLs, shipment records, carrier invoices, accessorial charges, and rate cards. In logistics operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Set explicit limits for bill of lading audit: input size, run time, tool calls, artifacts, retries, and concurrent runs per organization.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Limits reject pathological runs, but they keep one workflow from turning into an unbounded infrastructure bill. For bill of lading audit, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run limits
max_run_seconds=1800
max_input_bytes=104857600
max_artifact_bytes=104857600
max_tool_calls=120
retry_after_seconds=60
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