Costs — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Show cost breakdown by provider and workflow for the current session.
How to install Costs
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/nyldn-claude-octopus-costs.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nyldn/claude-octopus/HEAD/.claude/commands/costs.md -o ~/.claude/commands/nyldn-claude-octopus-costs.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Costs does
command: costs description: Show cost breakdown by provider and workflow for the current session allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Glob, Grep
Cost Dashboard (/octo:costs)
**Your first output line MUST be:** `🐙 Octopus Cost Dashboard`
Display a cost breakdown by provider and workflow for the current session (and cumulative history).
EXECUTION CONTRACT (Mandatory)
When the user invokes `/octo:costs`, you MUST follow these steps in order.
STEP 1: Locate Usage Data
Search for sessi
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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