Developer Guide: Summarizing Moderation Reports with Claude API and Per-Tenant Budgets

The article explains how to use the Claude API in Node.js to create short summaries of moderation reports, with each tenant assigned its own token budget. Summaries serve only as a first-pass aid, while the original report is preserved and any unclear or incomplete output is routed to a human reviewer. The author argues that budgets should be tracked alongside tenant IDs rather than in a global dashboard, and that explaining per-tenant usage matters more than choosing a particular model. The example code routes requests through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint so the provider details stay isolated behind an adapter. It checks estimated input size against the remaining budget, retries rate-limited requests, and returns a review-needed status when budgets are exceeded or responses fail.