ops-cost

ops-cost is a command for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 0 tokens per session (469 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cost-tracking and optimisation command for AI usage and cloud infrastructure. FinOps means managing cloud spending as carefully as other operating costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure AI token consumption, review cloud spending, and produce a practical cost-reduction plan.
Why use it?
It helps reveal where token and cloud costs come from, so you can reduce waste without harming performance or availability.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to measure AI token consumption, review cloud spending, and produce a practical cost-reduction plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/christopherlouet/claude-base/ops-cost
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 469 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 $0.00000 $0.00469
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00047

Measured 6d ago against content hash fe3bd654b79d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ops-cost 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 6d 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.

.claude/commands/ops/ops-cost.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OPS-COST Agent

Track and optimize costs: Claude Code token consumption and cloud infrastructure (FinOps).

Context

$ARGUMENTS

Objective

Two complementary cost angles:

  1. Claude Code tokens — analyze and display token consumption metrics to reduce usage cost.
  2. Cloud infrastructure (FinOps) — identify opportunities to cut cloud spend without impacting performance or availability, with an actionable report.

Measurement tools

ccusage (recommended)

# Installation
pip install ccusage

# Total consumption
ccusage

# Per project
ccusage --project

# Per day
ccusage --daily

# Specific period
ccusage --since 2026-03-01 --until 2026-03-23

Reduction strategies

Strategy Savings How
/compact between phases 20-40% Reduce accumulated context
Haiku agents for simple tasks 50-70% Exploration, reading, search
Focused session scope 30-50% 1-5 tasks per session max
Lightweight CLAUDE.md files 10-20% Less context loaded at startup

Cloud infrastructure cost optimization (FinOps)

For the cloud-spend angle:

  • Establish cost visibility (tags, per-provider tools).
  • Right-size (CPU, memory, disk, network); schedule auto-stop for non-prod environments.
  • Analyze commitments (Reserved, Savings Plans, Spot); spot orphan resources, CDN, ARM.
  • Produce a report: current spend, identified savings, required effort — split into quick wins (< 1 week), medium- and long-term actions; define FinOps metrics to track.
  • IMPORTANT: never optimize at the expense of availability or security; set budget alerts BEFORE optimizing; never delete resources without verifying actual usage.

Expected output

  1. Token metrics: tokens consumed (input/output), estimated cost, trends per day/week
  2. Cloud FinOps report: current spend, savings, quick wins + medium/long-term actions
  3. Recommendations: applicable optimization strategies (both angles)

IMPORTANT: ccusage reads Claude Code local logs, no data is sent externally.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 6d ago First seen · 66 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fe3bd654b79d

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ops-cost is a command published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 469 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.