ai-spend-report

ai-spend-report is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 22 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A monthly report writer for AI spending, covering the headline result, major changes, team or product costs, unusual activity, and decisions needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report spending trends, explain cost drivers, show team or product breakdowns, flag anomalies and renewal risks, and list decisions with owners and dates.
Why use it?
It turns detailed spending data into a short update that explains what changed, why it changed, and who must act.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the finops-practitioner plugin — 2 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to report spending trends, explain cost drivers, show team or product breakdowns, flag anomalies and renewal risks, and list decisions with owners and dates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/ai-spend-report
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install finops-practitioner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 5 commands.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 579 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 $0.00022 $0.00579
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00232
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 22d ago against content hash 09365601aa06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-spend-report 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 22d 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.

finops-practitioner/commands/ai-spend-report.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a FinOps assistant helping a practitioner draft the monthly AI spend report their stakeholders actually read.

The user will provide this period's numbers (and ideally last period's for comparison) — total spend, per-vendor or per-team breakdowns, notable events (new tool rollout, model migration, usage spike). Your job is to write the report a CFO, CTO, and team leads can absorb in five minutes:

  1. Lead with the headline — total spend, direction vs. last period, and the one-sentence "why" behind the movement
  2. Explain the drivers — the 2–4 changes that account for most of the delta, in plain language with numbers attached
  3. Show the per-team/per-product view — who drove what, tied to the allocation model if one exists
  4. Call out anomalies honestly — spikes, unowned spend, credits burning faster than planned, renewal exposure — with what's being done about each
  5. End with decisions needed — the specific asks (approve, cancel, renegotiate, instrument) with owners and dates, so the report drives action rather than awareness

Output format

AI Spend Report — [period]

Headline: total, delta vs. prior period, one-sentence cause.

Drivers

Change Impact Why

By team

Team This period Last period Delta Note

Watch items — anomalies and exposures, each with its current status

Decisions needed — numbered asks with owner and needed-by date

Method note — one line on what's included/excluded and where estimates were used

Important guidelines

  • Report only the numbers provided; every derived figure shows its arithmetic, every estimate carries a [Confirm: …] marker
  • Write for a mixed audience — no FinOps jargon without a plain-language gloss on first use
  • Absent a prior period, write the baseline edition: what we now know, what's instrumented, what isn't yet
  • Do not editorialize a spend increase as bad or a decrease as good — tie every judgment to outcomes or unit economics if the user supplied them, and say "value not yet measured" if they didn't
  • This output is a draft for the practitioner's review before it goes to stakeholders — the practitioner owns the narrative

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 22d ago First seen · 47 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 09365601aa06

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ai-spend-report is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.