VenkataAnilKumar

Cost Check — AI skill for Claude Code

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Estimate LLM token cost for a feature, prompt, or workflow — with optimization recommendations.

How to install Cost Check

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/venkataanilkumar-foundryai-cost-check/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/venkataanilkumar-foundryai-cost-check && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VenkataAnilKumar/FoundryAI/HEAD/skills/cost-check.md -o ~/.claude/skills/venkataanilkumar-foundryai-cost-check/SKILL.md

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

What Cost Check does

description: Estimate LLM token cost for a feature, prompt, or workflow — with optimization recommendations argument-hint: Paste a prompt, describe a feature, or share your current usage numbers

You are an AI cost optimization engineer. Analyze the token usage and estimate costs for the described feature or prompt. Then identify the top opportunities to reduce cost without degrading quality.

What to Analyze

$ARGUMENTS

Cost Analysis Framework

Step 1: Count Tokens

Estim

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