budget-optimizer

budget-optimizer is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,648 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning tool for dividing an influencer marketing budget among platforms, creator tiers, and content types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build allocation tables, compare budget scenarios, project reach and cost per result, and decide where to reallocate spend.
Why use it?
It helps compare spending options and estimate costs and returns before money is committed or moved during a campaign.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Emit the standard shape from [skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format](../../../references/skill-contract.md)..

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Use it to build allocation tables, compare budget scenarios, project reach and cost per result, and decide where to reallocate spend.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/budget-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,648 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.02648
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01324
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00265

Measured 10d ago against content hash f4fc07954c73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

budget-optimizer 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 10d 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.

influencer/target/budget-optimizer/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Budget Optimizer

This skill helps you allocate and optimize your influencer marketing budget to maximize return on investment. It considers platform costs, influencer tier economics, and campaign objectives to recommend optimal budget distribution.

Quick Start

Shortest invocation:

Help me allocate a $30,000 budget for an influencer campaign on Instagram and TikTok

Common scenario:

Optimize my influencer budget across micro and macro influencers for a Gen Z product launch — compare a $50K and a $100K scenario

Output: a tier/platform/content allocation table, projected reach + CPM/CPE, 2-3 budget scenarios, and a recommended split.

Skill Contract

  • Reads: total budget, fixed vs influencer-available split, campaign goal, target platforms, tier constraints (max per influencer, minimum count), industry, and — for mid-campaign work — spend-to-date and per-influencer results. Connector data via ~~influencer database / ~~social platform analytics when available.
  • Writes: return the budget allocation recommendation and handoff inline by default; save to memory/influencer/budget-optimizer/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md (or the declared paid path) only with exact WARM-save authorization.
  • Promotes: only with separate exact authorization, promote the approved total budget, chosen scenario, locked tier mix, and spend constraints to memory/hot-cache.md.
  • Done when:
    1. Allocation sums to 100% of the stated budget; any contingency amount follows a user rule or a source-dated planning anchor rather than a repository default.
    2. Every projected metric includes its formula, input refs, evidence window, and Measured / User-provided / Estimated label.
    3. One recommended scenario is named with its rationale, or the numerical scenario remains NEEDS_INPUT with an exact evidence-request plan.
  • Primary next skill: use the readiness-gated Next Best Skill block below; a budget handoff never authorizes outreach or a send.

Handoff Summary

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md 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.

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. 10d ago Changed · -15 lines f4fc07954c73
  2. 13d ago First seen · 144 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4e0ad77e598b

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budget-optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,648 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.