ascend-llm-cost-optimization

ascend-llm-cost-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from binrogithub/1-3-Cloud-Adoption-Skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for measuring and reducing the token cost of running language models on Huawei Ascend 910 NPUs, which are hardware accelerators for AI workloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for benchmarking Qwen3.6-35B-A3B serving with vLLM-Ascend and Mooncake DRAM KV caching, including prefix-cache tiering, session affinity, and concurrency tuning.
Why use it?
It helps identify serving settings that affect throughput, context handling, and inference cost. It covers a 64K-context workload, where each request may contain up to about 64,000 tokens.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for benchmarking Qwen3.6-35B-A3B serving with vLLM-Ascend and Mooncake DRAM KV caching, including prefix-cache tiering, session affinity, and concurrency tuning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/binrogithub/1-3-cloud-adoption-skills/ascend-llm-inference-cost-optimization
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 binrogithub/1-3-Cloud-Adoption-Skills --skill ascend-llm-inference-cost-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/binrogithub/1-3-Cloud-Adoption-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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 $0.00092 $0.01559
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00156

Measured 10d ago against content hash 080c6bfbb7aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ascend-llm-cost-optimization 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (deploy/clean-vllm.sh, deploy/container.sh, deploy/start-apc-mooncake-sync.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

AI/AI-Infrastructure/ascend-llm-inference-cost-optimization/SKILL.md · 114 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 10d ago First seen · 114 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 080c6bfbb7aa

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ascend-llm-cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository binrogithub/1-3-Cloud-Adoption-Skills (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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