budget

A command for changing advisor settings such as the operating mode, weekly budget percentage, or forced model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view settings, switch modes, choose a model, set a weekly budget percentage, or reset the configuration.
Why use it?
It avoids editing the advisor configuration file manually and confirms the setting after a change.

Command for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mnott/pai/budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI

Made for: Claude Code.

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 218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash d29d84fcf125, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

budget 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 2d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to advisor — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/budget.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Parse the advisor command arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Execute exactly ONE of these based on the arguments:

  • No args → Read ~/.claude/advisor-mode.json and display current mode, budget percentage, and active constraints
  • auto → Write {"weeklyBudgetPercent":CURRENT,"mode":"auto"} to ~/.claude/advisor-mode.json (preserve current weeklyBudgetPercent, set mode to auto)
  • mode normal|conservative|strict|critical → Write the mode to ~/.claude/advisor-mode.json (preserve weeklyBudgetPercent)
  • force haiku|sonnet|opus → Write forceModel to ~/.claude/advisor-mode.json (preserve weeklyBudgetPercent and mode)
  • set <number> → Write the number as weeklyBudgetPercent, set mode to auto
  • reset → Delete ~/.claude/advisor-mode.json

After writing, read the file back and confirm what changed. Changes take effect on the next prompt.

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. 2d ago First seen · 13 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d29d84fcf125

Subscribe to this mod's changes

budget is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 218 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to advisor, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.