budget-impact

budget-impact is a command for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-cookbooks. It costs 18 tokens per session (111 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A financial analysis command for estimating how a decision affects spending, monthly cash use, and the time money will last.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare decisions, calculate budget and runway changes, assess returns where relevant, and receive a final recommendation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a proposed decision into a view of its one-time costs, recurring costs, risks, alternatives, and possible return on investment.

Command for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to compare decisions, calculate budget and runway changes, assess returns where relevant, and receive a final recommendation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/budget-impact
About the project

Claude Cookbooks is a collection of code examples and guides that show developers how to build applications with the Claude API. Users consult its notebooks and recipes to learn techniques such as classification and retrieval-augmented generation. The catalogue add-ons provide commands, skills, agents, hooks, settings, and instructions related to using these examples.

anthropics/claude-cookbooks · 52,594 stars · on GitHub

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/anthropics/claude-cookbooks

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 111 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 $0.00018 $0.00111
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 11d ago against content hash c752c380dfc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

budget-impact 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

claude_agent_sdk/chief_of_staff_agent/.claude/commands/budget-impact.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Use the financial-analyst subagent to analyze the budget impact of: $ARGUMENTS

Provide a comprehensive analysis including:

  1. Total cost (one-time and recurring)
  2. Impact on monthly burn rate
  3. Change in runway (months)
  4. ROI analysis if applicable
  5. Alternative options to consider
  6. Risk factors

Format the response with clear sections and specific numbers. Include a final recommendation.

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. 11d ago First seen · 16 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A c752c380dfc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

budget-impact is a command published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-cookbooks (52,594 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 111 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.