cost-aware-llm-pipeline

cost-aware-llm-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arbisoft/ai-skillforge. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,335 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of patterns for reducing the cost of applications that use large language model APIs. It covers choosing models by task difficulty, tracking budgets, retrying failed requests, and caching prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or improving an LLM pipeline with model routing, budget tracking, retry logic, or prompt caching.
Why use it?
It helps control API spending while keeping requests reliable and avoiding repeated processing of the same prompt.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when designing or improving an LLM pipeline with model routing, budget tracking, retry logic, or prompt caching.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arbisoft/ai-skillforge/cost-aware-llm-pipeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add arbisoft/ai-skillforge --skill cost-aware-llm-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arbisoft/ai-skillforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,335 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 unknown 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 $0.00033 $0.01335
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00534
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00134

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 09eb41fdfa08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-aware-llm-pipeline 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.

Claude/skills/cost-aware-llm-pipeline/SKILL.md · 184 lines

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No licence file

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 184 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 09eb41fdfa08

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cost-aware-llm-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository arbisoft/ai-skillforge (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,335 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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