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Docs answer "what will this cost me" with a real number

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Eric's clean run put a price on the pipeline's only paid step:
65 shelf photos, 136 games, under a dollar on the default model. The
README's vision requirement and the guide's config section both now
say so, plus the shape of the cost — one-time, since per-photo reads
are cached and re-runs are free — and that the BGG side costs nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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## Requirements
- Python 3.12+ and [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), on macOS, Linux, or Windows. (Development happens on macOS; Windows is untested but nothing is platform-specific. One caveat: the owner-only file permissions bggpipe sets on `.env` and browser session state are POSIX-only — on Windows, keep those files in a directory protected by your account.)
- A vision model for extraction — an [Anthropic API key](https://console.anthropic.com/) by default, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including a free local [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) model.
- A vision model for extraction — an [Anthropic API key](https://console.anthropic.com/) by default, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including a free local [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) model. **Cost expectation:** extracting the author's whole collection — 65 shelf photos, 136 games — cost under a dollar with the default model (Claude Sonnet), one-time. Re-runs are free: every photo's read is cached, and only new or replaced photos go back to the model.
- A BoardGameGeek account **and a registered BGG application** — as of BGG's [2025 API policy](https://boardgamegeek.com/using_the_xml_api), the XML API requires a Bearer token from a registered app. Register a free non-commercial application at [boardgamegeek.com/applications](https://boardgamegeek.com/applications) (approval can take a week or more, so **apply on day one**), then create a token. Each user needs their own; tokens must not be shared. ([You can start before it arrives.](docs/guide.md#running-before-your-bgg-token-arrives))
### Why it asks for your BGG password — and where your credentials go