cost-estimator

cost-estimator is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team. It costs 32 tokens per session (3,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cost-estimation skill for forecasting infrastructure, development, operations, and total ownership costs for technical projects. Total cost of ownership means the full cost of building and running something over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate infrastructure and engineering effort, compare build-versus-buy choices, project costs at different scales, and prepare a business case.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare options and plan realistic budgets instead of looking only at the initial build price.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the cto-team plugin — 12 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to estimate infrastructure and engineering effort, compare build-versus-buy choices, project costs at different scales, and prepare a business case.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team/cost-estimator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team --skill cost-estimator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,520 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.
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 $0.00032 $0.03520
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01760
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00704
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00352

Measured 12d ago against content hash a71c218966bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-estimator 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 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.

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.

skills/cost-estimator/SKILL.md · 438 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cost Estimator

Provides frameworks for estimating infrastructure costs, development effort, and total cost of ownership (TCO) for technical projects.

When to Use

  • Planning infrastructure budgets
  • Evaluating build vs. buy decisions
  • Projecting costs at different scale points
  • Comparing technology options by cost
  • Creating business cases for technical investments

Cost Categories

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

TCO = Infrastructure + Development + Operations + Opportunity Cost

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP                       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                  │
│  Infrastructure    Development    Operations    Opportunity      │
│  ────────────────  ────────────   ──────────    ────────────     │
│  • Compute         • Engineering  • Support     • What else      │
│  • Storage         • QA           • Monitoring  • could team     │
│  • Network         • DevOps       • On-call     • be building?   │
│  • Third-party     • Management   • Training                     │
│    APIs/SaaS       • Contractors  • Incidents                    │
│                                                                  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Infrastructure Cost Reference

Cloud Compute Pricing (2024-2025)

AWS EC2 On-Demand (US regions)
Instance vCPU RAM Monthly Cost Best For
t3.micro 2 1GB $8 Dev/test
t3.medium 2 4GB $30 Small apps
t3.large 2 8GB $60 Light production
m6i.large 2 8GB $70 General production
m6i.xlarge 4 16GB $140 Medium workloads
m6i.2xlarge 8 32GB $280 Heavy workloads
c6i.2xlarge 8 16GB $250 CPU-intensive
r6i.2xlarge 8 64GB $370 Memory-intensive

Read the full file on GitHub · 438 lines

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 · 438 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a71c218966bd

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cost-estimator is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-cto-team (113 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,520 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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