Cost Forecaster — Design agent for Claude Code
Forecasts GDD spend over the next N design cycles.
How to install Cost Forecaster
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/hegemonart-ultimate-design-cost-forecaster.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hegemonart/ultimate-design/HEAD/agents/cost-forecaster.md -o ~/.claude/agents/hegemonart-ultimate-design-cost-forecaster.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cost Forecaster does
name: cost-forecaster description: Forecasts GDD spend over the next N design cycles. Reads .design/telemetry/costs.jsonl (grouping est_cost_usd by cycle) plus the configured .design/budget.json caps, runs the pure scripts/lib/budget/cost-forecast.cjs model (best/typical/worst from the variance of historical per-cycle rates), and reports "at the current rate you'll hit your project_cap in Y cycles." Supports --scenario best|typical|worst. Report-only - it never writes budget.json, never spen
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