Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Navan Cost Tuning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace navan-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/navan-cost-tuning .claude/skills/navan-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
navan-cost-tuning
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~938 tokens
SKILL.md length
387 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices.

  • Works in 6 steps: Define the business period, entities,… → Separate vendor fees, travel spend,… → Capture current agreement terms and… → …
  • Setting budgets
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Current Contract and Authentication, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Navan Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices. Use when setting budgets or evaluating workflow tradeoffs. Trigger with "reduce Navan cost", "Navan budget", or "control travel spend".

Its SKILL.md is about 940 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; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval

It sits in Business, Finance & HR. 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

  • Setting budgets
  • Evaluating workflow tradeoffs
  • With reduce Navan cost
  • Control travel spend

Example prompts

  • “reduce Navan cost”
  • “Navan budget”
  • “control travel spend”
  • “/navan-cost-tuning”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

  1. Define the business period, entities, currencies, and decision owner.
  2. Separate vendor fees, travel spend, expense spend, payment costs, integration operations, and exception handling.
  3. Capture current agreement terms and account reports as dated evidence.
  4. Normalize currencies and distinguish forecast, authorized, booked, incurred, reimbursed, and settled amounts.
  5. Model savings options with traveler impact, control risk, and implementation cost.
  6. Approve changes separately and measure realized outcomes against the baseline.

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

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Navan Cost Tuning loads about 938 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 387 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~938
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.2k

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). 387 words, ~938 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/navan-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
navan-cost-tuning
description
Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices. Use when setting budgets or evaluating workflow tradeoffs. Trigger with "reduce Navan cost", "Navan budget", or "control travel spend".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval
argument-hint
<program> <period> <budget-owner>
version
1.9.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, navan, cost
model
inherit
effort
high

Navan T&E Cost Control

Overview

Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices. This workflow produces an auditable decision or artifact before any live action.

Prerequisites

  • Access to the selected tenant's current Navan Help Center and contracted integration documentation.
  • A named business owner and data owner for the travel or expense workflow.
  • A non-production evidence set with secrets and traveler data removed.

Current Contract

Navan publicly describes policy controls, real-time spend visibility, analytics, travel, expense, and enterprise offerings. Actual fees, savings definitions, program terms, and tenant entitlements come from the current agreement and account.

Authentication

Use read-only reporting access for analysis. Policy, card, reimbursement, booking, contract, or budget changes remain separate privileged actions.

Instructions

  1. Define the business period, entities, currencies, and decision owner.
  2. Separate vendor fees, travel spend, expense spend, payment costs, integration operations, and exception handling.
  3. Capture current agreement terms and account reports as dated evidence.
  4. Normalize currencies and distinguish forecast, authorized, booked, incurred, reimbursed, and settled amounts.
  5. Model savings options with traveler impact, control risk, and implementation cost.
  6. Approve changes separately and measure realized outcomes against the baseline.

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect documentation, schemas, configuration, code, fixtures, and evidence. Use Write and Edit only for approved repository artifacts. Invocation alone does not authorize network access, credentials, traveler or expense data, bookings, payments, policy or identity changes, file transfers, deployments, or deletion.

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Approval Boundaries

Pricing negotiations, policy changes, booking restrictions, card controls, reimbursement rules, or production architecture changes require authorized owners.

Error Handling

  • Do not treat marketing savings claims as tenant results.
  • Never mix booked, incurred, and settled amounts.
  • A cheaper control that harms duty of care or compliance is not an optimization.

Output

Return the cost model, evidence dates, currency method, options, risks, approvals, and measurement plan. Identify assumptions, owners, expirations, and evidence gaps explicitly.

Examples

  • Compare integration operating cost with manual exception handling.
  • Measure policy changes using approved aggregate analytics.

Validation

Reconcile totals to authoritative reports and test currency, cancellations, refunds, late charges, and incomplete periods. Record expected and observed results, including fail-closed behavior.

Resources

  • Current first-party evidence map — recheck dated sources and the selected tenant's in-account contract before relying on mutable endpoints, fields, entitlements, limits, or delivery behavior.
  • Record tenant observations as environment-specific evidence, never universal Navan guarantees.

© 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/navan-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 Navan Cost Tuning

What does Navan Cost Tuning do?

Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices. Navan Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Analyze Navan travel, expense, integration, and operating costs without freezing mutable prices.

When should I use Navan Cost Tuning?

Navan Cost Tuning fits situations like: setting budgets; evaluating workflow tradeoffs; with reduce Navan cost; control travel spend.

How do I install Navan Cost Tuning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Navan Cost Tuning in Codex?

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

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

What does Navan Cost Tuning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Navan Cost Tuning is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval.

Does Navan Cost Tuning 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 Navan 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 Navan Cost Tuning use?

Navan 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 Navan Cost Tuning use?

About 938 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k 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 293 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Navan Cost Tuning?

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Who maintains Navan 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.