budget

budget is a command for Claude Code from hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor. It costs 9 tokens per session (296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that compares Claude Code spending with a monthly dollar budget. Claude Code spending is read from a local Agent Monitor dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check spend-to-date, budget consumption, pace against the calendar, and the three most expensive models.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to see whether current usage is below, near, or above the expected pace for the month. It also identifies which models account for the most cost.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ccam-cost-guard plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to check spend-to-date, budget consumption, pace against the calendar, and the three most expensive models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/hoangsonww/claude-code-agent-monitor/budget
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/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ccam-cost-guard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 296 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00009 $0.00296
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4e617e213b35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

budget scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://localhost:4820/api/pricing/cost
plugins/ccam-cost-guard/commands/budget.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Show current Claude Code spend against the budget $ARGUMENTS (a monthly dollar figure, e.g. 50). If $ARGUMENTS is empty, just report spend-to-date and ask for a budget.

  1. Fetch current spend:

    curl -s http://localhost:4820/api/pricing/cost
    

    Read total_cost (spend-to-date) and the per-model breakdown.

  2. Print a concise budget status:

    • Spend to date: total_cost as USD to 4 decimals.
    • Budget: $ARGUMENTS/month.
    • Consumed: total_cost / budget × 100% — with a ▲/▼ vs. the linear pace expected for today's day-of-month (budget × day_of_month / days_in_month).
    • Verdict: under budget / on pace / over budget.
    • Top 3 models by cost from the breakdown (model, cost, % of total).

If the dashboard is unreachable (curl fails / empty), tell the user to start it with npm start from the repo root. Keep the output to a few lines plus one small table. Currency as USD to 4 decimal places. Read-only — do not modify anything.

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. 12d ago First seen · 25 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 4e617e213b35

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budget is a command published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor (989 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 296 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.