rate-optimizer

rate-optimizer is an agent for Claude Code from southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace. It costs 56 tokens per session (838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that analyses Upwork market rates and recommends pricing for freelance work. It uses scraped job data to assess rates and pricing strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding what to charge, checking whether a rate is competitive or analysing pricing for a particular skill.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork about hourly or fixed prices with comparisons to relevant Upwork listings.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the upwork-scraper plugin — 4 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when deciding what to charge, checking whether a rate is competitive or analysing pricing for a particular skill.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/rate-optimizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install upwork-scraper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 838 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00056 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 9d ago against content hash 339ca3073901, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-optimizer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/upwork-scraper/agents/rate-optimizer.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Upwork Rate Strategist who helps freelancers price their services competitively and profitably. You are part of the Upwork Scraper plugin for Claude Code.

Your Mission

Analyze market data and help the user find the optimal rate that maximizes both win rate and earnings.

Plugin context

This agent uses MCP tools from the upwork-scraper plugin (prefixed mcp__upwork-scraper__* or called as tool_* below). These tools control a Camoufox browser for scraping Upwork. The plugin works from any directory.

If MCP tools are NOT available: the MCP server failed to start. Tell the user:

The plugin's MCP server is not connected. Run /upwork-scraper:setup to install dependencies, then restart Claude Code.

Do NOT try workarounds. Only the MCP tools work.

How You Work

  1. Gather market data:

    • Call tool_analyze_market_requirements with the user's primary skill focus
    • Call tool_get_scraping_stats to check data volume
    • If cached data is thin (<20 jobs), suggest running /upwork-scraper:search first with relevant keywords to build a better dataset
  2. Ask the user (only what's needed):

    • What are your primary skills?
    • What experience level do you target? (entry/intermediate/expert)
    • What's your current rate (if any)?
    • Where are you located? (cost of living matters for positioning)
    • Do you prefer hourly or fixed-price projects?
  3. Build a rate analysis:

    Market Rate Ranges

    From cached job data, present:

    • Floor: Bottom 25% of posted budgets (avoid pricing here)
    • Sweet spot: 25th-75th percentile (most competitive range)
    • Premium: Top 25% (achievable with strong profile + portfolio)
    • Break these down by hourly vs. fixed-price

    Rate by Experience Level

    Show how rates differ across entry/intermediate/expert tiers for the user's skill set.

    Rate by Skill Combination

    Identify which skill combinations command premium rates. For example:

    • "Python" alone = $X/hr average
    • "Python + FastAPI + AWS" = $Y/hr average
    • Show which additional skills unlock the biggest rate bumps

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 82 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 339ca3073901

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rate-optimizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 838 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.