Agent skill

Windsurf Cost Tuning

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

Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis.

MITAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Windsurf Cost Tuning

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

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

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

At a glance

Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis.

  • Works in 6 steps: Establish current terms → Classify members → Model seat allocation → …
  • Right-sizing a team
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Tool Use and Instructions, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Windsurf Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis. Use when right-sizing a team, forecasting usage, or reducing spend. Trigger with "windsurf cost", "windsurf billing", "seat audit", "extra usage", or "windsurf budget".

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

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Forecasting and time series. 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

  • Right-sizing a team
  • Forecasting usage
  • With windsurf cost
  • Windsurf billing

Example prompts

  • “windsurf cost”
  • “windsurf billing”
  • “seat audit”
  • “/windsurf-cost-tuning”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep

Workflow steps

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

  1. Establish current terms
  2. Classify members
  3. Model seat allocation
  4. Control variable usage
  5. Calculate scenarios
  6. Pilot and verify

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
    • Grep

    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):

    • docs.devin.ai
    • windsurf.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

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Windsurf Cost Tuning loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
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
~1.2k

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). 507 words, ~1,135 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/windsurf-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
windsurf-cost-tuning
description
Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis. Use when right-sizing a team, forecasting usage, or reducing spend. Trigger with "windsurf cost", "windsurf billing", "seat audit", "extra usage", or "windsurf budget".
allowed-tools
Read, Grep
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code
argument-hint
[team size, plan, and usage period]
version
1.12.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, windsurf, cost-optimization, licensing, teams

Devin Desktop Cost Tuning

Overview

Devin Desktop is the current name for Windsurf. Optimize the combined Devin subscription using current plan terms, full and flex seats, included daily or weekly quota, and approved on-demand or extra usage.

Prerequisites

  • Current plan and invoice period
  • Member roster with full or flex seat assignment
  • Usage observations for a representative four-week period
  • Billing-owner approval for any plan, seat, or spending-limit change

Tool Use

  • Use Read to inspect only the repository files and configuration needed for the request.
  • Use Grep to locate relevant settings, rules, logs, or code without broad collection.

Instructions

Step 1: Establish current terms

Open the current plan page and record the observation date. Do not copy a static price table into durable policy; grandfathered and enterprise contracts can differ from public self-serve plans.

Step 2: Classify members

For each member, capture role, eligible surfaces, active days, included-quota use, on-demand use, and business-critical workflows. Avoid judging value from prompt volume alone.

Step 3: Model seat allocation
  • Use a full seat for regular users who need Devin Desktop and included quota.
  • Use a flex seat only where current plan terms support the required surfaces and occasional usage.
  • Remove or reassign seats for departed or persistently inactive members through the documented admin workflow.
  • Preserve minimum commitments and contract constraints in the calculation.
Step 4: Control variable usage
  1. Set approved on-demand or extra-usage limits.
  2. Use lower-cost SWE-family models for routine work.
  3. Start focused sessions instead of carrying irrelevant context.
  4. Reserve frontier and fast variants for work whose value justifies their cost.
  5. Review exceptions with the billing owner rather than silently disabling productive users.
Step 5: Calculate scenarios

Compare the status quo with at least two alternatives. For each scenario include recurring seats, plan minimums, expected variable usage, migration cost, productivity risk, and confidence level.

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Step 6: Pilot and verify

Apply changes to a small cohort for one billing cycle. Compare delivery, incident, and satisfaction signals alongside usage; roll back allocations that create operational harm.

Output

Deliver a dated cost-and-usage brief with current plan assumptions, full and flex seat allocation, included quota utilization, on-demand or extra-usage exposure, scenario totals, confidence, and prioritized actions. Link current pricing instead of freezing mutable amounts.

Error Handling

ProblemResponse
Invoice and public pricing disagreeTreat the invoice or contract as authoritative and note grandfathering
Usage data is incompleteReport coverage and avoid annualizing a partial period without a range
Member appears inactiveConfirm role, leave, and alternate surfaces before changing access
Savings reduce delivery qualityRestore the prior allocation and document the failed hypothesis

Never expose member-level activity outside the authorized audience.

Examples

Recommendation: "Keep 18 full seats for daily users, test flex seats for 6 occasional users, cap shared on-demand usage, and review after one full billing cycle. Expected savings are a range because enterprise terms were not supplied."

Resources

Use windsurf-observability to define trustworthy adoption, latency, quota, and outcome evidence for the next recurring cost review.

© 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/windsurf-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 Windsurf Cost Tuning

What does Windsurf Cost Tuning do?

Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis. Windsurf Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Optimize Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) licensing through current plan, seat, quota, and extra-usage analysis.

When should I use Windsurf Cost Tuning?

Windsurf Cost Tuning fits situations like: right-sizing a team; forecasting usage; with windsurf cost; windsurf billing.

How do I install Windsurf Cost Tuning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Windsurf Cost Tuning in Codex?

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

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

What does Windsurf Cost Tuning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Windsurf Cost Tuning is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.

Does Windsurf Cost Tuning access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.devin.ai and windsurf.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Windsurf 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 Windsurf Cost Tuning use?

Windsurf 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 Windsurf Cost Tuning use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 81 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Windsurf 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.