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Agent skill

Cost Tracking

by Habitat-Thinking in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Cost Tracking

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cost-tracking -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cost-tracking --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/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cost-tracking .claude/skills/cost-tracking && 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
cost-tracking
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
656 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records…

  • Works in 6 steps: Check Provider Dashboards → Record the Data → Compare to Previous Snapshot → …
  • The user wants to capture AI tool costs
  • SKILL.md covers Why Track Costs, Two actuals records: the…, The Cost Snapshot and Process, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls git; reaches console.anthropic.com and platform.openai.com

What it does

Cost Tracking is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records data in a structured format, and updates MODELROUTING.md with observed cost patterns

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/per-pr-actuals-format.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM cost and token optimization and Model routing and gateways. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to capture AI tool costs
  • Review spending trends
  • Set cost budgets
  • Integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture

Example prompts

  • “/cost-tracking”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Check Provider Dashboards
  2. Record the Data
  3. Compare to Previous Snapshot
  4. Update MODEL_ROUTING.md
  5. Update Health Snapshot
  6. Commit

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

    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:

    • console.anthropic.com
    • platform.openai.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

Cost Tracking loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 656 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~69
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.3k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 656 words (~1,658 tokens).

“Capture, record, and track AI tool costs over time. Cost data feeds into health snapshots and informs model routing decisions.”

— opening of SKILL.md by Habitat-Thinking, Custom licence
name
cost-tracking

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cost-tracking of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/per-pr-actuals-format.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995

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Cost Tracking next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Token OptimizerLeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills2.2k—~5.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Openrouter Context Optimizationjeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace2.8k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Anth Cost Tuningjeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace2.8k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Cost Tracking

What does Cost Tracking do?

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records…. Cost Tracking is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

When should I use Cost Tracking?

Cost Tracking fits situations like: the user wants to capture AI tool costs; review spending trends; set cost budgets; integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture.

How do I install Cost Tracking in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cost-tracking -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cost-tracking in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/cost-tracking in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cost Tracking in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cost-tracking -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cost-tracking in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/cost-tracking in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cost Tracking 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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cost-tracking -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cost-tracking, .gemini/skills/cost-tracking, .github/skills/cost-tracking and .opencode/skills/cost-tracking in your project.

What does Cost Tracking need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Cost Tracking needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Cost Tracking access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: console.anthropic.com and platform.openai.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cost Tracking 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 Cost Tracking use?

Cost Tracking has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Cost Tracking use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Cost Tracking?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cost Tracking: Cost Aware LLM Pipeline (aAAaqwq/AGI-Super-Team, 105 stars), Token Optimizer (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars), Token Optimizer (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars) and Openrouter Context Optimization (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Cost Tracking?

Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

Source: Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.