Reduce SerpAPI search consumption through measured demand, exact-query caching, admission budgets, and current account pricing evidence.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuning --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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .claude/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && 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 "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .claude/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuningType 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuning --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .agents/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .agents/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuning --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .cursor/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && 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 "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .cursor/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git --path skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning--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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuning --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .gemini/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && 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 "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .gemini/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuningInstalls 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .github/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && 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 "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .github/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace serpapi-cost-tuning --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning .opencode/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning && 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 "serpapi-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning into .opencode/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "serpapi-cost-tuning", 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.
serpapi-cost-tuningReduce SerpAPI search consumption through measured demand, exact-query caching, admission budgets, and current account pricing evidence.
Serpapi Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Reduce SerpAPI search consumption through measured demand, exact-query caching, admission budgets, and current account pricing evidence. Use when forecasting or controlling search spend. Trigger with "optimize SerpAPI cost".
Its SKILL.md is about 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; plan changes and production admission/cache changes require finance, product, and account-owner approval
It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Forecasting and time series and Caching. It works with SerpApi. 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.
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
ReadGlobGrepWebFetchWriteEditFrom allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
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.
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
serpapi.comFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
SERPAPI_KEYFrom names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Designed for Claude Code; plan changes and production admission/cache changes require finance, product, and account-owner approval
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Serpapi Cost Tuning loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 392 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.
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.
The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 392 words, ~1,001 tokens.
.claude/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Forecast from observed search demand and the account's current contract, then reduce waste without inventing static plan economics.
Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inventory callers, cache behavior, and retry amplification, WebFetch to verify current public pricing and cache rules, and Write or Edit for forecasts, budgets, dashboards, and safe optimizations.
Plans, prices, included searches, and hourly throughput can change. Account API exposes the subscribed plan, searches left, usage, renewal date, and throughput. Exactly matching cached searches can be served from SerpAPI's one-hour cache for free; no_cache=true opts out and can increase consumption.
Read account facts with the server-side SERPAPI_KEY, but do not expose the key, account identity, or commercial details in public dashboards or receipts.
Return dated account/pricing evidence, producer ledger, demand forecast, waste analysis, prioritized controls, scenario assumptions, approval decisions, and forecast-versus-actual owner.
| Condition | Response |
|---|---|
| Pricing differs from the model | Refresh evidence and invalidate the stale scenario. |
| Usage exceeds events recorded | Audit retries, pagination, hidden producers, and no_cache. |
| Cache lowers search quality | Restore the freshness contract and evaluate narrower reuse. |
| Renewal date is absent | Confirm whether the account uses a non-monthly or cancelled arrangement. |
window=to-renewal; demand=observed; waste=duplicate-plus-retry; pricing=evidence-dated; scenarios=base/expected/peak; headroom=approved; action=normalize-cache-keysReconcile the forecast weekly and reopen the plan decision before renewal or a material demand change.
© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287
Serpapi Cost Tuning 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.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serpapi Cost Tuning this skilljeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | 2.8k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Data Collectionbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~975 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| AWS Databaseaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | 2.8k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Time Series Analytics Useropen-edge-platform/edge-ai-libraries | 171 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Meihua Divinationtradecatlabs/fatecat | 201 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Bio Reporting Quarto ReportsGPTomics/bioSkills | 1.2k | 1 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Execute proactive auto-loading: automatically detects and loads agents.md files.
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Reduce SerpAPI search consumption through measured demand, exact-query caching, admission budgets, and current account pricing evidence. Serpapi Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Reduce SerpAPI search consumption through measured demand, exact-query caching, admission budgets, and current account pricing evidence.
Serpapi Cost Tuning fits situations like: controlling search spend; with optimize SerpAPI cost.
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill serpapi-cost-tuning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/serpapi-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 serpapi-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/serpapi-cost-tuning, .gemini/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning, .github/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning and .opencode/skills/serpapi-cost-tuning in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Serpapi Cost Tuning needs credentials named SERPAPI_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in SERPAPI_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; plan changes and production admission/cache changes require finance, product, and account-owner approval.
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: serpapi.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
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.
Serpapi 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.
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Serpapi Cost Tuning: Data Collection (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars), AWS Database (aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, 2.8k stars), Time Series Analytics User (open-edge-platform/edge-ai-libraries, 171 stars) and Meihua Divination (tradecatlabs/fatecat, 201 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.
