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An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops. An agent skill from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.
Install Budget Negotiator
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiator --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .claude/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .claude/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiatorType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiator --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .agents/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .agents/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiator --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .cursor/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .cursor/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git --path skills/budget-negotiator--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiator --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .gemini/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .gemini/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiatorInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .github/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .github/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install cobusgreyling/loop-engineering budget-negotiator --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/budget-negotiator .opencode/skills/budget-negotiator && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "budget-negotiator" agent skill from https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/tree/main/skills/budget-negotiator into .opencode/skills/budget-negotiator/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "budget-negotiator", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
budget-negotiator- GitHub stars
- 11k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~864 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 433 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 21
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops. An agent skill from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.
- Works in 4 steps: Calculate ROI → Draft Justification → Escalate to Humans → …
- Tasks that involve Autonomous loops
- SKILL.md covers Goal, Rules & Precedence and Negotiation Protocol
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Budget Negotiator is an agent skill from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering. An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops. When the token budget nears exhaustion, the agent analyzes its ROI and autonomously drafts a negotiation request for a budget increase rather than silently failing.
Its SKILL.md is about 860 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Autonomous loops and LLM cost and token optimization. The repository describes itself as: Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny)… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Autonomous loops
- Tasks that involve LLM cost and token optimization
Example prompts
- “/budget-negotiator”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Calculate ROI
- Draft Justification
- Escalate to Humans
- Resume
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f914d15. 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.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
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
Budget Negotiator loads about 864 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 56 tokens; SKILL.md has 433 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
The full file from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering at commit f914d15, republished under its MIT licence (© cobusgreyling). 433 words, ~864 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/budget-negotiator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- budget-negotiator
- description
- An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops. When the token budget nears exhaustion, the agent analyzes its ROI and autonomously drafts a negotiation request for a budget increase rather than silently failing.
<!--
NOTE: This template is a mirror of skills/budget-negotiator/SKILL.md.
Any changes made here must be kept byte-identical to the source skill.
-->Budget Negotiator
When you detect that you are nearing your daily token cap (e.g., ≥90% spend) via the loop-budget skill, DO NOT just exit silently. You must negotiate for an extension based on your Return on Investment (ROI).
Goal
Ensure that critical work is not arbitrarily blocked by token budgets if the loop has demonstrated a high success rate and the remaining work is critical.
Rules & Precedence
- Precedence:
budget-negotiatorONLY activates whenloop-budgetwould otherwise hard-exit (i.e. ≥90% spend), and ONLY when there areHigh Priorityitems remaining. If work is not High Priority, yield to the standardloop-budgetexit sequence. - Safety: This skill touches L3 (unattended) safety boundaries. See Safety Boundaries for threat models.
- Strict Cap Limitation: You are strictly forbidden from self-raising the caps in
loop-budget.md. A human MUST explicitly editloop-budget.mdto increase the cap before you can resume. - Human Decline: If a human declines the negotiation by removing the
[BUDGET NEGOTIATION]tag without increasing the budget, you must revert to report-only mode and NOT ask again today. - Cap the Ask: You may only request a maximum of +20% or +50k tokens per negotiation. You may only negotiate a maximum of one time per day.
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Negotiation Protocol
Calculate ROI:
- Read
loop-run-log.mdand sum up theactions_taken,outcome(specifically successes), andtokens_estimatefields for today. - Read
STATE.mdto identify the severity of the remaining actionable items in theWatch ListorHigh Prioritysections.
- Read
Draft Justification:
- If the remaining items are High Priority (e.g., CI is red, P0 bugs, security vulnerabilities), draft a concise business justification.
- The justification must include:
- The current spend vs the limit.
- The exact
actions_takencount and successful outcomes you've completed today based on the JSON log. - The specific critical issue(s) remaining.
- A precise request for an extension tied to the specific
loop-budget.mdfield (e.g., "Requesting +50k tokens for the 'Validate/Audit (CI)' max tokens/day").
Escalate to Humans:
- Append your request to the High Priority section of
STATE.mdwith the tag[BUDGET NEGOTIATION]. - Ensure the request is formatted clearly so a human maintainer can make a quick yes/no decision.
- Example:
[BUDGET NEGOTIATION] I have burned 95k/100k tokens for the 'Daily Triage' loop today. However, I have successfully executed 4 actions with a 'fix-proposed' outcome. There is 1 critical CI failure remaining on the main branch. I request a temporary bump of 'Daily Triage' max tokens/day by +50k to resolve it. - Set your internal state to
WAITING_FOR_BUDGETand safely suspend execution.
- Append your request to the High Priority section of
Resume:
- Do not spawn further sub-agents until you read
loop-budget.mdon a subsequent run and verify that the human has increased your token cap.
- Do not spawn further sub-agents until you read
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/budget-negotiator of cobusgreyling/loop-engineering.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit f914d15
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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| Context Compressionguanyang/open-agent-hub | 977 | 2 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Amazon Bedrockaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | 2.8k | — | ~8.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Show Me Your Work Decision Logcursor/plugins | 11k | 8 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Budget Negotiator
What does Budget Negotiator do?
An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops. An agent skill from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering. Budget Negotiator is an agent skill from cobusgreyling/loop-engineering. An advanced skill for L3 autonomous loops.
When should I use Budget Negotiator?
Budget Negotiator fits situations like: tasks that involve Autonomous loops; tasks that involve LLM cost and token optimization.
How do I install Budget Negotiator in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/budget-negotiator in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering) into .claude/skills/budget-negotiator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Budget Negotiator in Codex?
Run `npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/budget-negotiator in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering) into .agents/skills/budget-negotiator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Budget Negotiator 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 cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill budget-negotiator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/budget-negotiator, .gemini/skills/budget-negotiator, .github/skills/budget-negotiator and .opencode/skills/budget-negotiator in your project.
What does Budget Negotiator need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Budget Negotiator is instructions for the agent only.
Does Budget Negotiator access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Budget Negotiator 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 Budget Negotiator use?
Budget Negotiator is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Budget Negotiator use?
About 864 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.5k 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 Budget Negotiator?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Budget Negotiator: Long Horizon Prompting (guanyang/open-agent-hub, 977 stars), Agents Best Practices (DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices, 2.4k stars), Context Compression (guanyang/open-agent-hub, 977 stars) and Amazon Bedrock (aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Budget Negotiator?
cobusgreyling (a GitHub user) maintains it in cobusgreyling/loop-engineering, which has 11,486 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.
Source: cobusgreyling/loop-engineering on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.