A tool for recording token usage and API costs for each coding session and task. Tokens are the small pieces of text an AI processes, and an API is the connection used to access an AI service.

Use it to set spending limits, monitor usage, receive budget warnings, and inspect cost breakdowns.

It shows where money is being spent and warns you before a set budget is reached.

cost-guard — Plugin for Claude Code by gowtham012/Claude-plugins

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/gowtham012/Claude-plugins

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 2 skills cost 23 tokens a session between them.

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.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-guard 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 1mo 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.

cost-guard/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 11 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "cost-guard",
  "description": "Tracks token usage and API costs per session and task. Sets spending limits, warns when approaching budget, shows cost breakdown. Stop flying blind on costs.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "author": { "name": "Gowtham" },
  "license": "MIT",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins/tree/main/cost-guard",
  "repository": "https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins",
  "keywords": ["cost", "tokens", "budget", "spending", "usage", "tracking", "limits"]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 2 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 23 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 701 B

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.

1mo ago First seen · 11 lines scan A 8305bfaec0f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cost-guard is a plugin published in the GitHub repository gowtham012/Claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.

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