codegobrrrr9

Cheapskate — Development skill for Claude Code

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How to install Cheapskate

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/codegobrrrr9-cheapskate-cheapskate/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/codegobrrrr9-cheapskate-cheapskate && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codegobrrrr9/cheapskate/HEAD/commands/cheapskate.md -o ~/.claude/skills/codegobrrrr9-cheapskate-cheapskate/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Cheapskate does

description: Where did my tokens go? Runs the cheapskate meter on this project's newest Claude Code session and reports the biggest line items and one thing to change. allowed-tools: Bash(node:*), Read

Run the cheapskate meter on the current project.

Run node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/cheapskate/scripts/meter.js $ARGUMENTS from the project root (if that path does not exist, find meter.js under the installed cheapskate skill directory). Pass through any arguments the use

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