# Exact fixed-slot cost assignment

Build-time release reference. Runtime readiness, deployment, payment settlement and external indexing are not evaluated here. Prices are proposed; this file cannot authorize execution or payment.

Choose an exact minimum-cost complete one-job-per-slot assignment over caller-declared nonoverlapping slots and admissible edges, with lexical ties and a verifiable optimum or Hall-deficiency certificate. No live availability check, reservation or job dispatch.

Release: 0.29.0. Built: 2026-10-06T15:38:00Z.

## Choose for
- Caller declares all admissible edges and pairwise nonoverlapping slots in one time coordinate system

## Outside this profile
- General precedence or resource scheduling, overlapping slots, travel-time or skill inference
- Live calendar availability, slot reservation, real job dispatch, payments or currency conversion

Proposed nominal USD 0.01 per successful call; payer fees excluded. No verified runtime availability.

- [Exact release contract](/reference/services/assignment-cost-optimize.json)
- [Input schema](/reference/schemas/assignment-cost-optimize.input.json)
- [Output schema](/reference/schemas/assignment-cost-optimize.output.json)
- [Fixed example](/reference/examples/assignment-cost-optimize.json)
- [Complete HTML reference](/discover/tools/assignment-cost-optimize)