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Fire Cost — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Track context usage, estimate session costs, and trigger strategic compaction.

How to install Fire Cost

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/thierryn-fire-flow-fire-cost/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/thierryn-fire-flow-fire-cost && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThierryN/fire-flow/HEAD/commands/fire-cost.md -o ~/.claude/skills/thierryn-fire-flow-fire-cost/SKILL.md

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

What Fire Cost does

description: Track context usage, estimate session costs, and trigger strategic compaction

/fire-cost — Token & Cost Intelligence

Track context usage, estimate session costs, and trigger strategic compaction before hitting limits.

Purpose

Provide real-time visibility into context window consumption and session costs. Prevents the silent failure mode where agents hit context limits mid-task with no recovery path.

Arguments

Alternatives in Development

Claude Usage — A local dashboard for tracking your Claude Code token usage, costs, and session history 864 ★
Cost Xray — See what Claude Code and Codex actually send to the API — and what each part costs 586 ★
Claude Code Otel — A comprehensive observability solution for monitoring Claude Code usage, performance, and costs 306 ★