Official agent skill

Meeting Cost Calculator

by microsoft in microsoft/work-iq

Calculate time spent in meetings per week or month — total hours, percentage of work time, attendee‑hours, and identify your most expensive recurring meetings.

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Install Meeting Cost Calculator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill meeting-cost-calculator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install microsoft/work-iq meeting-cost-calculator --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/microsoft/work-iq.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/meeting-cost-calculator .claude/skills/meeting-cost-calculator && 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
meeting-cost-calculator
GitHub stars
1k
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
981 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
18
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Calculate time spent in meetings per week or month — total hours, percentage of work time, attendee‑hours, and identify your most expensive recurring meetings.

  • Works in 6 steps: Get User Profile, Timezone, and Working… → Pull Calendar Data for the Period → Compute Core Metrics → …
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Instructions, Output Format and Parameters, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Meeting Cost Calculator is an agent skill from microsoft/work-iq, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Calculate time spent in meetings per week or month — total hours, percentage of work time, attendee‑hours, and identify your most expensive recurring meetings.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: MCP Server and CLI for accessing Work IQ.

Example prompts

  • “/meeting-cost-calculator”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Get User Profile, Timezone, and Working Hours
  2. Pull Calendar Data for the Period
  3. Compute Core Metrics
  4. Break Down by Day
  5. Identify Most Expensive Recurring Meetings
  6. Generate Cost Insights

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1060873. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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.

Context cost

Meeting Cost Calculator loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 981 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~46
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 981 words (~2,415 tokens).

“Analyzes your calendar to compute exactly how much time you spend in meetings over a given period. Breaks down total hours, percentage of your work week consumed, average meeting duration, attendee-hours (a proxy for organizational cost), and ranks your most…”

— opening of SKILL.md by microsoft, Custom licence
name
meeting-cost-calculator

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/meeting-cost-calculator of microsoft/work-iq.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1060873

Compare with similar skills

Meeting Cost Calculator 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.

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Cost Conversationruvnet/ruflo74k—~407Automated safety check: NotesMIT
Cost Openrouterruvnet/ruflo74k—~336Automated safety check: NotesMIT
Cost Reportruvnet/ruflo74k—~830Automated safety check: NotesMIT

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Questions about Meeting Cost Calculator

What does Meeting Cost Calculator do?

Calculate time spent in meetings per week or month — total hours, percentage of work time, attendee‑hours, and identify your most expensive recurring meetings. Meeting Cost Calculator is an agent skill from microsoft/work-iq, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Calculate time spent in meetings per week or month — total hours, percentage of work time, attendee‑hours, and identify your most expensive recurring meetings.

How do I install Meeting Cost Calculator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill meeting-cost-calculator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/meeting-cost-calculator in microsoft/work-iq) into .claude/skills/meeting-cost-calculator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Meeting Cost Calculator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill meeting-cost-calculator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/meeting-cost-calculator in microsoft/work-iq) into .agents/skills/meeting-cost-calculator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Meeting Cost Calculator 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 microsoft/work-iq --skill meeting-cost-calculator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/meeting-cost-calculator, .gemini/skills/meeting-cost-calculator, .github/skills/meeting-cost-calculator and .opencode/skills/meeting-cost-calculator in your project.

What does Meeting Cost Calculator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Meeting Cost Calculator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Meeting Cost Calculator 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 Meeting Cost Calculator 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 Meeting Cost Calculator use?

Meeting Cost Calculator has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Meeting Cost Calculator use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.7k 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 Meeting Cost Calculator?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Meeting Cost Calculator: Meetings (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Cost Tracking (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Cost Conversation (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars) and Cost Openrouter (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 Meeting Cost Calculator?

microsoft (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in microsoft/work-iq, which has 1,030 GitHub stars. The repository holds 18 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: microsoft/work-iq on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.