economic-dispatch

economic-dispatch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,436 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for choosing generator output so that electricity demand is met at the lowest operating cost while respecting generator limits. Economic dispatch is a standard power-system calculation for dividing load among generators.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to minimize generation costs, calculate operating margins, and evaluate generator outputs and cost curves.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a constrained cost calculation and helps prevent invalid generator setpoints or incorrect cost totals.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to minimize generation costs, calculate operating margins, and evaluate generator outputs and cost curves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/economic-dispatch
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill economic-dispatch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,436 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
  • 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 $0.00037 $0.01436
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 6d ago against content hash 907586a8ab5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

economic-dispatch 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/energy-market-pricing/environment/skills/economic-dispatch/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Economic Dispatch

Economic dispatch minimizes total generation cost while meeting load demand and respecting generator limits.

Generator Data Indices

MATPOWER generator array columns (0-indexed):

Index Field Description
0 GEN_BUS Bus number (1-indexed)
8 PMAX Maximum real power (MW)
9 PMIN Minimum real power (MW)
# Use bus number mapping (handles non-contiguous bus numbers)
bus_num_to_idx = {int(buses[i, 0]): i for i in range(n_bus)}
gen_bus = [bus_num_to_idx[int(g[0])] for g in gens]

pmax_MW = gen[8]
pmin_MW = gen[9]

Cost Function Format

MATPOWER gencost array (polynomial type 2):

Index Field Description
0 MODEL 2 = polynomial
1 STARTUP Startup cost ($)
2 SHUTDOWN Shutdown cost ($)
3 NCOST Number of coefficients
4+ coeffs Cost coefficients (highest order first)

For quadratic (NCOST=3): coefficients are [c2, c1, c0] at indices 4, 5, 6 For linear (NCOST=2): coefficients are [c1, c0] at indices 4, 5

Cost = c₂·P² + c₁·P + c₀ ($/hr) where P is in MW.

Optimization Formulation

import cvxpy as cp

Pg = cp.Variable(n_gen)  # Generator outputs in per-unit

# Objective: minimize total cost (handles variable NCOST)
cost = 0
for i in range(n_gen):
    ncost = int(gencost[i, 3])
    Pg_MW = Pg[i] * baseMVA

    if ncost >= 3:
        # Quadratic: c2*P^2 + c1*P + c0
        c2, c1, c0 = gencost[i, 4], gencost[i, 5], gencost[i, 6]
        cost += c2 * cp.square(Pg_MW) + c1 * Pg_MW + c0
    elif ncost == 2:
        # Linear: c1*P + c0
        c1, c0 = gencost[i, 4], gencost[i, 5]
        cost += c1 * Pg_MW + c0
    else:
        # Constant cost
        cost += gencost[i, 4] if ncost >= 1 else 0

# Generator limits (convert MW to per-unit)
constraints = []
for i in range(n_gen):
    pmin = gens[i, 9] / baseMVA
    pmax = gens[i, 8] / baseMVA
    constraints.append(Pg[i] >= pmin)
    constraints.append(Pg[i] <= pmax)

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 6d ago First seen · 174 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 907586a8ab5d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

economic-dispatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,757 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,436 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 2026-09-03.