budgetary

A plugin that estimates the expected token spend of a coding task before it starts. It gives a range, scenario, and confidence level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-task token-cost estimates and for recording actual usage at the end of a session.
Why use it?
It helps you assess likely AI usage before committing to a task, when the final amount is uncertain.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add thriftell/budgetary-clients
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/thriftell/budgetary-clients/claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thriftell/budgetary-clients

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 1 hook, 1 MCP server cost 39 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

budgetary 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.

clients/claude-code/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "budgetary",
  "displayName": "Budgetary",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "Pre-flight, probabilistic token-spend estimate (range, scenario, confidence) for a coding task.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Thriftell",
    "url": "https://github.com/thriftell"
  },
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "homepage": "https://api.budgetary.tools",
  "repository": "https://github.com/thriftell/budgetary-clients",
  "userConfig": {
    "api_key": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Budgetary API key",
      "description": "API key used to authenticate the Budgetary estimate tool and the session-end actuals submission. Starts with bg_live_ or bg_test_.",
      "sensitive": true
    }
  }
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 hook, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 39 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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 · 22 lines scan A 3f45605dd40e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

budgetary is a plugin published in the GitHub repository thriftell/budgetary-clients (0 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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.