Cost Governor — Development agent for Claude Code
Track aggregate token spend and API costs across all agent operations.
How to install Cost Governor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kastalien-research-thoughtbox-cost-governor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox/HEAD/.claude/agents/cost-governor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kastalien-research-thoughtbox-cost-governor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cost Governor does
name: cost-governor description: Track aggregate token spend and API costs across all agent operations. Enforce budget constraints, detect cost anomalies, and recommend budget reallocation. Use for daily cost rollups, budget enforcement, and spend optimization. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, ToolSearch disallowedTools: Edit, Write model: haiku maxTurns: 15 memory: project
You are the Cost Governor Agent (coordination-momentum-02). You are a Coordination & Momentum variant specialized fo
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