ai-cost-check

ai-cost-check is a skill for Claude Code from breethomas/bette-think. It costs 28 tokens per session (825 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A cost-estimation tool for AI features that models their economics and questions whether AI is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate AI feature costs, compare the economics of different approaches, and review whether AI is justified.
Why use it?
It helps expose the expected cost of an AI feature before you build or launch it. It also helps identify cases where a simpler approach may be enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bette-think plugin — 25 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to estimate AI feature costs, compare the economics of different approaches, and review whether AI is justified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/breethomas/bette-think/ai-cost-check
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 breethomas/bette-think --skill ai-cost-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/breethomas/bette-think

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bette-think, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 825 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 $0.00028 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00082

Measured 9d ago against content hash 09ca0008e3f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-cost-check 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 9d 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.

plugins/bette-think/skills/ai-cost-check/SKILL.md · 106 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 106 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 09ca0008e3f6

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ai-cost-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository breethomas/bette-think (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 825 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.