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Agent skill

Mindtickle Cost Tuning

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

Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes.

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Install Mindtickle Cost Tuning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace mindtickle-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/mindtickle-cost-tuning .claude/skills/mindtickle-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
mindtickle-cost-tuning
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
384 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes.

  • Works in 8 steps: Freeze the contract baseline: term,… → Map each paid capability to an… → Reconcile licensed, provisioned, active,… → …
  • Preparing a renewal
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Tool Discipline and Current Contract, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Mindtickle Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes. Use when preparing a renewal or portfolio review. Trigger with "optimize Mindtickle cost".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; contract, seat, package, support, and renewal changes require commercial and business-owner approval

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

  • Preparing a renewal
  • Portfolio review
  • With optimize Mindtickle cost

Example prompts

  • “optimize Mindtickle cost”
  • “/mindtickle-cost-tuning”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; contract, seat, package, support, and renewal changes require commercial and business-owner approval
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

  1. Freeze the contract baseline: term, packages, licensed units, support, services, commitments, renewal windows, and termination obligations.
  2. Map each paid capability to an accountable owner, intended population, workflow, adoption measure, and business outcome.
  3. Reconcile licensed, provisioned, active, disabled, duplicate, and exception populations using their systems of record.
  4. Separate subscription spend from customer engineering, administration, content, identity, support, and change-management costs.
  5. Identify unused entitlements, overlapping tools, inactive access, avoidable custom work, and unsupported savings assumptions.
  6. Model keep, right-size, consolidate, and expand scenarios with one-time costs, risks, evidence confidence, and decision dates.
  7. Present all seat, package, or support changes for business, finance, identity, and commercial approval.
  8. Record the decision and validate realized outcomes against the baseline after implementation.

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
    • WebFetch
    • 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • mindtickle.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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; contract, seat, package, support, and renewal changes require commercial and business-owner approval

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Mindtickle Cost Tuning loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 384 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 384 words, ~1,055 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/mindtickle-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
mindtickle-cost-tuning
description
Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes. Use when preparing a renewal or portfolio review. Trigger with "optimize Mindtickle cost".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; contract, seat, package, support, and renewal changes require commercial and business-owner approval
argument-hint
[review-period] [contract-summary]
version
1.8.0
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
license
MIT
tags
saas, mindtickle, cost-governance, licensing, adoption
model
inherit
effort
medium

Mindtickle Commercial and Adoption Review

Overview

Connect contracted spend to licensed population, package use, integration effort, support needs, and measured outcomes without inventing public pricing or consumption meters.

Prerequisites

  • Current order, renewal date, packages, licensed populations, services, support tier, and owners
  • Approved aggregate adoption and outcome evidence for the review period
  • Finance rules for allocation, savings claims, and renewal decisions

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect contract summaries and aggregate reports, WebFetch for current public service descriptions, and Write or Edit for a sanitized cost model and decision record.

Current Contract

Mindtickle publicly describes package-dependent modules, standard and premium support, implementation services, and separately scoped custom work. Public pages do not establish a universal seat price or API-consumption charge; signed commercial terms control.

Authentication

Use approved aggregate reports and contract summaries. Restrict learner-level adoption, invoices, pricing, and negotiated terms to authorized reviewers and exclude them from public artifacts.

Instructions

  1. Freeze the contract baseline: term, packages, licensed units, support, services, commitments, renewal windows, and termination obligations.
  2. Map each paid capability to an accountable owner, intended population, workflow, adoption measure, and business outcome.
  3. Reconcile licensed, provisioned, active, disabled, duplicate, and exception populations using their systems of record.
  4. Separate subscription spend from customer engineering, administration, content, identity, support, and change-management costs.
  5. Identify unused entitlements, overlapping tools, inactive access, avoidable custom work, and unsupported savings assumptions.
  6. Model keep, right-size, consolidate, and expand scenarios with one-time costs, risks, evidence confidence, and decision dates.
  7. Present all seat, package, or support changes for business, finance, identity, and commercial approval.
  8. Record the decision and validate realized outcomes against the baseline after implementation.
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Approval Boundaries

Do not remove access, change packages, disclose negotiated pricing, or count forecast savings as realized without the authorized owners.

Output

Return the contract baseline, entitlement-to-outcome map, population reconciliation, total-cost view, scenarios, confidence, approvals, decision, and realization review.

Error Handling

ConditionResponse
Contract units cannot be reconciledMark savings unknown and resolve the source-of-record mismatch.
Adoption metric exposes individualsAggregate or suppress it according to policy.
A reduction breaks a workflowQuantify migration and business impact before recommending it.

Example

text
period=fy26; packages=contract-confirmed; population=reconciled; scenarios=3; negotiated-rates=restricted; decision=right-size-at-renewal

Resources

Next Steps

Assign owners and dates for approved changes and measure realized value after the next full operating cycle.

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/mindtickle-cost-tuning of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Mindtickle Cost Tuning

What does Mindtickle Cost Tuning do?

Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes. Mindtickle Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Govern Mindtickle subscription, seat, package, integration, support, and operating costs from contract evidence and adoption outcomes.

When should I use Mindtickle Cost Tuning?

Mindtickle Cost Tuning fits situations like: preparing a renewal; portfolio review; with optimize Mindtickle cost.

How do I install Mindtickle Cost Tuning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Mindtickle Cost Tuning in Codex?

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

Can I use Mindtickle 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 mindtickle-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/mindtickle-cost-tuning, .gemini/skills/mindtickle-cost-tuning, .github/skills/mindtickle-cost-tuning and .opencode/skills/mindtickle-cost-tuning in your project.

What does Mindtickle Cost Tuning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Mindtickle Cost Tuning is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; contract, seat, package, support, and renewal changes require commercial and business-owner approval.

Does Mindtickle Cost Tuning access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: mindtickle.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Mindtickle 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 Mindtickle Cost Tuning use?

Mindtickle 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 Mindtickle Cost Tuning use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k 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 Mindtickle Cost Tuning?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Mindtickle Cost Tuning: AWS Cost Operations (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), Cost Tracking (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Cost Conversation (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars) and Cost Report (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Mindtickle 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.