Agent skill

Ideogram Cost Tuning

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Ideogram Cost Tuning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill ideogram-cost-tuning -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace ideogram-cost-tuning --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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/ideogram-cost-tuning .claude/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning && 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
ideogram-cost-tuning
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
516 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup.

  • Works in 7 steps: Retrieve current first-party pricing and… → Inventory demand by tenant, use case,… → Define request, tenant, daily, campaign,… → …
  • Designing billing controls
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Current Contract and Authentication, plus 8 more sections
  • Reaches api.ideogram.ai; needs IDEOGRAM_API_KEY

What it does

Ideogram Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup. Use when reducing cost or designing billing controls. Trigger with "cut Ideogram spend", "budget Ideogram generations", or "audit Ideogram API cost".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; current prices must be checked at decision time

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Designing billing controls
  • With cut Ideogram spend
  • Budget Ideogram generations
  • Audit Ideogram API cost

Example prompts

  • “cut Ideogram spend”
  • “budget Ideogram generations”
  • “audit Ideogram API cost”
  • “/ideogram-cost-tuning”

Requirements

  • A credential in IDEOGRAM_API_KEY
  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; current prices must be checked at decision time
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

  1. Retrieve current first-party pricing and balance behavior, recording date, currency, unit, and owner.
  2. Inventory demand by tenant, use case, route, rendering option, output count, retry class, safety result, and durable-storage result.
  3. Define request, tenant, daily, campaign, and incident ceilings with fail-closed admission.
  4. Choose the least costly route that still meets model, quality, transparency, edit, or tool requirements.
  5. Prevent duplicate paid work by persisting async identifiers, bounding retries, expiring stale queue items, and deduplicating callers.
  6. Attribute spend to useful safe assets that reached durable storage; surface unsafe, failed, abandoned, and expired-URL waste separately.
  7. Canary each tuning change and retain a quality, safety, latency, and rollback comparison.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • Write
    • Edit

    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

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

    • api.ideogram.ai

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

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • IDEOGRAM_API_KEY

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

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; current prices must be checked at decision time

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Ideogram Cost Tuning loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 516 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~74
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.8k

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 516 words, ~1,144 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
ideogram-cost-tuning
description
Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup. Use when reducing cost or designing billing controls. Trigger with "cut Ideogram spend", "budget Ideogram generations", or "audit Ideogram API cost".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; current prices must be checked at decision time
argument-hint
<workload> <budget-window> <quality-floor>
version
1.11.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, ideogram, cost
model
inherit
effort
high

Ideogram Cost Governance

Overview

Control prepaid Ideogram consumption without embedding prices that can drift. Tie admission to an accountable budget, choose the narrowest route, bound outputs and retries, and measure durable safe results rather than HTTP success or generated candidates.

Prerequisites

  • Team billing owner, current balance source, budget period, workload owner, and quality floor.
  • Request volume, endpoint and rendering mix, output count, retry rate, unsafe rate, and storage failures.
  • A current pricing review from the first-party API pricing page.

Current Contract

Ideogram API billing is separate from the web application, requires positive prepaid credit, and can use auto-recharge. Keys in one team share credits and billing, so per-key usage is not a separate vendor balance. Prices and recharge choices are time-sensitive and must be verified rather than copied into this skill.

Authentication

Workers use server-side IDEOGRAM_API_KEY as Api-Key to https://api.ideogram.ai. Cost evidence may include team, endpoint, request, and opaque generation identifiers, but not the key, prompts, images, or URLs.

Instructions

  1. Retrieve current first-party pricing and balance behavior, recording date, currency, unit, and owner.
  2. Inventory demand by tenant, use case, route, rendering option, output count, retry class, safety result, and durable-storage result.
  3. Define request, tenant, daily, campaign, and incident ceilings with fail-closed admission.
  4. Choose the least costly route that still meets model, quality, transparency, edit, or tool requirements.
  5. Prevent duplicate paid work by persisting async identifiers, bounding retries, expiring stale queue items, and deduplicating callers.
  6. Attribute spend to useful safe assets that reached durable storage; surface unsafe, failed, abandoned, and expired-URL waste separately.
  7. Canary each tuning change and retain a quality, safety, latency, and rollback comparison.

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep for billing adapters, queues, metrics, and fixtures. Use Write and Edit for approved budgets, tests, or documentation. Do not add credit, enable auto-recharge, change prices, or run paid experiments by invocation alone.

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Approval Boundaries

Require owners for balance additions, recharge settings, budget changes, lower-quality routes, deleted queued work, paid benchmarks, and production rollout. Cost reduction cannot override safety, rights, or retention policy.

Error Handling

  • Stop admission before balance exhaustion; repeated failures are not a budget strategy.
  • Do not retry validation, auth, unsafe, or already accepted async work automatically.
  • An image that was never durably stored is waste even if generation succeeded.

Output

Return pricing review date, budget model, demand and waste breakdown, selected controls, expected and measured impact, quality and safety guardrails, owner, canary, and rollback. Avoid hard-coded future price claims.

Examples

  • Cap a campaign by useful stored assets and expire queued requests when the publication deadline passes.
  • Report submitted=100; safe=92; stored=90; duplicates=0; expired_before_submit=14; budget=within-limit.

Validation

Reconcile application counts with vendor billing evidence, inject budget exhaustion, retry ambiguity, unsafe output, and storage failure, then verify admission closes. Recheck pricing immediately before approving a financial decision.

Resources

  • Current first-party evidence map — use the dated endpoint, webhook, billing, team, and training links as the contract index for this workflow.
  • Recheck the endpoint-specific page and current OpenAPI description before relying on an enum, limit, beta feature, or lifecycle claim.
  • Record live observations as environment-specific evidence, not as universal vendor guarantees.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/ideogram-cost-tuning of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Ideogram Cost Tuning

What does Ideogram Cost Tuning do?

Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup. Ideogram Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Govern Ideogram prepaid spend through admission budgets, route choice, output bounds, useful-result accounting, and cleanup.

When should I use Ideogram Cost Tuning?

Ideogram Cost Tuning fits situations like: designing billing controls; with cut Ideogram spend; budget Ideogram generations; audit Ideogram API cost.

How do I install Ideogram Cost Tuning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill ideogram-cost-tuning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/ideogram-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ideogram Cost Tuning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill ideogram-cost-tuning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/ideogram-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ideogram Cost Tuning 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill ideogram-cost-tuning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning, .gemini/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning, .github/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning and .opencode/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning in your project.

What does Ideogram Cost Tuning need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Ideogram Cost Tuning needs credentials named IDEOGRAM_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in IDEOGRAM_API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; current prices must be checked at decision time.

Does Ideogram Cost Tuning access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: api.ideogram.ai; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ideogram Cost Tuning 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 Ideogram Cost Tuning use?

Ideogram Cost Tuning is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ideogram Cost Tuning use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 625 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Ideogram Cost Tuning?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.