Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today.

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Install Gas

skills CLI
$ npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gas -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install austintgriffith/ethskills gas --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/austintgriffith/ethskills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/gas .claude/skills/gas && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
gas
GitHub stars
294
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
567 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
22
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today.

  • Works in 4 steps: EIP-4844 (Dencun, March 2024): Blob… → Activity migration to L2s: Mainnet… → Pectra (May 2025): Doubled blob capacity… → …
  • Estimating costs
  • SKILL.md covers What You Probably Got Wrong, What Things Actually Cost…, Mainnet vs L2 Costs (Early 2026) and Why Gas Dropped 95%+, plus 7 more sections
  • Reaches eth.llamarpc.com

What it does

Gas is an agent skill from austintgriffith/ethskills. Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today. Use when estimating costs, choosing between mainnet and L2s, or when a user asks about Ethereum being expensive. Counters the

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It works with Ethereum. The repository describes itself as: The missing knowledge between AI agents and production Ethereum.

When your agent uses it

  • Estimating costs
  • Choosing between mainnet and L2s
  • A user asks about Ethereum being expensive

Example prompts

  • “/gas”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. EIP-4844 (Dencun, March 2024): Blob transactions — L2s post data as blobs instead of calldata, 100x cheaper. L2 batch cost went from…
  2. Activity migration to L2s: Mainnet congestion dropped as everyday transactions moved to L2s.
  3. Pectra (May 2025): Doubled blob capacity (3→6 target blobs).
  4. Fusaka (Dec 2025): PeerDAS (nodes sample 1/8 of data) + 2x gas limit (30M→60M).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 06ea4ef. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are javascript and bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • eth.llamarpc.com

    Also links to:

    • data.chain.link
    • etherscan.io
    • ultrasound.money
    • ethskills.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Gas loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 567 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 567 words (~1,340 tokens).

“Your gas estimate is 100-600x too high. Most LLMs confidently state gas is 10-30 gwei. Post-Fusaka (Dec 2025), typical base fee is under 1 gwei — usually 0.1-0.5 gwei. Verify: cast base-fee --rpc-url https://eth.llamarpc.com”

— opening of SKILL.md by austintgriffith
name
gas

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in gas of austintgriffith/ethskills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 06ea4ef

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Works with

Questions about Gas

What does Gas do?

Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today. Gas is an agent skill from austintgriffith/ethskills. Current Ethereum gas prices, transaction costs, and the real economics of building on Ethereum today.

When should I use Gas?

Gas fits situations like: estimating costs; choosing between mainnet and L2s; A user asks about Ethereum being expensive.

How do I install Gas in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gas -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (gas in austintgriffith/ethskills) into .claude/skills/gas in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Gas in Codex?

Run `npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gas -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (gas in austintgriffith/ethskills) into .agents/skills/gas in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Gas in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill gas -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/gas, .gemini/skills/gas, .github/skills/gas and .opencode/skills/gas in your project.

What does Gas need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Gas is instructions for the agent only.

Does Gas access the network?

SKILL.md names 5 domains. In commands or code: eth.llamarpc.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: data.chain.link, etherscan.io, ultrasound.money and ethskills.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Gas safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Gas use?

No licence was found for Gas or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Gas use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Gas?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Gas: Wagmi Feature Development (wevm/wagmi, 6.8k stars), Minara Crypto Trading and Wallet (Minara-AI/minara-skills, 358 stars), Release Round (ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo, 2.8k stars) and NEAR Intents Swap Integration (internet-court/internet-court-skill, 6.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Gas?

austintgriffith (a GitHub user) maintains it in austintgriffith/ethskills, which has 294 GitHub stars. The repository holds 22 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 20, 2026.

Source: austintgriffith/ethskills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.