claude-code-autoconfig: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/cost-compare.md

cost-compare is a command for Claude Code from design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig. It costs 0 tokens per session (452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that compares the expected cost of continuing the current coding session with starting a new one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view current-session and fresh-session cost estimates and a recommendation based on the repository's token meter.
Why use it?
It helps you decide whether keeping the current context or restarting will use fewer tokens. It leaves already-spent session cost out of the comparison.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-autoconfig itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-code-autoconfig configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig/main/.claude/commands/cost-compare.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig

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 452 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 $0.00452
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 78385d587041, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-compare 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 8d 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/cost-compare.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Cost Compare

Print the session-vs-fresh cost readout: live context (the per-turn re-read), fresh-session cold-start cost, and a verdict. Only the forward-looking figures appear — session total is sunk cost and deliberately omitted (/usage-report owns spend detail). All figures come deterministically from the repo's token-guard meter — no analysis of your own.

Step 1: Run the report

node "$HOME/.claude/hooks/statusline-cost.js" --report "$HOME/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/<session_id>.jsonl"

Pass your OWN session's transcript when you know your session id (it appears in paths given to you at session start, e.g. the terminal-title file name). If you don't know it, run without the argument — the script picks the newest transcript for the current project. With parallel sessions on one repo the newest may belong to a sibling; the report's first line names the session id it metered, so a mismatch is visible.

Step 2: Display

Relay the output verbatim as markdown, NOT in a code block — a code block would suppress the bold. Keep every line's text exactly as printed, with one formatting touch: render each bullet's leading label in bold — **current session**, **new session**, **verdict**, **rationale** — and let the * bullet lines render as list items as-is. Add nothing — the verdict + rationale pair is the interpretation. If it reports the repo has no token-guard meter, relay that one line as-is.

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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 78385d587041

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cost-compare is a command published in the GitHub repository design-and-deliver/claude-code-autoconfig (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 452 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 2026-08-31.