estimate-economics

estimate-economics is a skill for Claude Code from Borda/vision-delivery. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cost-analysis workflow for computer-vision projects, covering annotation, model training, deployment, and ongoing operation. Annotation means labeling images or video so a model can learn from them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate labeling and training work, compare managed and self-hosted approaches, assess when costs change as usage grows, and support a build-versus-buy decision.
Why use it?
It makes one-time work, monthly costs, scaling limits, and uncertainty explicit before choosing between a managed service and running the system yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python /absolute/plugin/root/scripts/cost_model.py \.

Part of the sentinel plugin — 13 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to estimate labeling and training work, compare managed and self-hosted approaches, assess when costs change as usage grows, and support a build-versus-buy decision.

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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/Borda/vision-delivery
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borda/vision-delivery/estimate-economics

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sentinel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,258 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 $0.00137 $0.01258
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00126

Measured 11d ago against content hash ac575347b1ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estimate-economics 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 11d 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/estimate-economics/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Give a sourced, editable economic view of the CV decision: one-time effort, monthly run-rate, scaling cliffs, uncertainty, and a managed-vs-DIY recommendation only when comparable inputs exist. This is a decision aid, not a provider sales argument.

Platform execution boundary. Read ../../resources/roboflow-platform-lookup.md before any provider-specific plan, credit, quote, deployment, or runtime lookup. Delegate exact current pricing and product capabilities to the installed official Roboflow skill or current MCP resource. Sentinel owns normalization, provenance, sensitivity, and the recommendation.

1. Establish decision readiness

Read the frozen acceptance artifact, its SHA-256 digest, measured evidence, workload, existing hardware/staff, data volume, and deployment constraints. A measured proof is the preferred basis. If it is absent and the user still wants a rough estimate, label every model/runtime figure as an assumption, retain proof.status: unbound, and do not imply technical feasibility or emit go.

Collect only missing inputs:

  • cameras/streams, FPS per stream, hours/month, region, and retention;
  • measured model/runtime class and throughput on representative hardware;
  • existing hardware and staff ownership;
  • annotation/review volume and loaded hourly rates;
  • managed quote amount, scope, currency, taxes, and quote date;
  • cost of downtime, misses, false alarms, and review labor.

Do not infer architecture, parameter count, or throughput from the task description. Ask upstream for current product facts and use user benchmarks for capacity.

2. Separate costs and sources

Report at least:

  • one-time: data preparation/annotation, engineering, integration, validation;
  • recurring: compute/service, monitoring/on-call, review labor, storage/egress, drift/retraining;
  • scaling cliffs: added instance/service tier, operator load, and availability needs;
  • excluded costs and uncertainty ranges.

Every price gets a source and as_of date. A user-supplied quote keeps its own quote date; never stamp it with the repository snapshot date. Do not compare a public plan floor or credit bundle to a fully loaded production quote as if scopes were equivalent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 11d ago First seen · 98 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A ac575347b1ec

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estimate-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Borda/vision-delivery (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,258 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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