engineering-budget

engineering-budget is a skill for Claude Code from camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for engineering budgets, hiring forecasts, infrastructure costs, and return-on-investment analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for annual or quarterly budgets, headcount plans, cloud and infrastructure estimates, investment proposals, and cost-versus-value comparisons.
Why use it?
It gives technical work a cost model, making it easier to plan staffing and explain engineering spending to business stakeholders.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cto-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for annual or quarterly budgets, headcount plans, cloud and infrastructure estimates, investment proposals, and cost-versus-value comparisons.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/engineering-budget
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 camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit --skill engineering-budget
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,284 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 $0.00017 $0.01284
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00128

Measured 8d ago against content hash a4a3edf95940, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-budget 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 8d 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.

engineering-budget/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engineering Budget & Resource Planning

When to Use

  • Annual/quarterly budget planning for engineering
  • Headcount forecasting and hiring plans
  • Infrastructure cost modeling and optimization
  • Calculating ROI for technical projects/initiatives
  • Justifying technical investments to stakeholders

Budget Categories

1. People Costs (typically 60-75% of eng budget)

Headcount Plan:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Role          │ Current │ Q+1 │ Q+2 │ Q+3 │ Q+4    │
│ Sr Engineer   │    5    │  6  │  7  │  7  │   8    │
│ Mid Engineer  │    3    │  4  │  4  │  5  │   5    │
│ Jr Engineer   │    2    │  2  │  3  │  3  │   3    │
│ Tech Lead     │    1    │  1  │  2  │  2  │   2    │
│ DevOps/SRE    │    1    │  1  │  1  │  2  │   2    │
│ QA            │    1    │  1  │  2  │  2  │   2    │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Total         │   13    │ 15  │ 19  │ 21  │  22    │
│ Cost/month    │  XXk    │ XXk │ XXk │ XXk │  XXk   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2. Infrastructure (typically 15-25%)

  • Cloud hosting (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Database services (RDS, Atlas)
  • CDN, storage, bandwidth
  • Monitoring & observability (Datadog, New Relic)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
  • Security tools (Snyk, SonarQube)

3. Tools & Services (typically 5-15%)

  • IDE licenses (JetBrains, GitHub Copilot)
  • SaaS integrations (Stripe, SendGrid, Twilio)
  • Design tools (Figma)
  • Project management (Jira, Linear)
  • Communication (Slack)

ROI Calculation Framework

ROI = (Net Benefit / Cost) × 100

Where:
  Net Benefit = Revenue Gain + Cost Savings - Implementation Cost
  
Example — Implementing caching layer:
  Revenue Gain:     R$0 (não gera receita direta)
  Cost Savings:     R$15k/mês (redução de 40% na conta AWS)
  Implementation:   R$30k (2 engineers × 2 weeks)
  
  Payback Period:   30k / 15k = 2 meses
  Annual ROI:       ((15k × 12) - 30k) / 30k × 100 = 500%

ROI Template for Technical Projects

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 8d ago First seen · 156 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A a4a3edf95940

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engineering-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,284 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 2026-08-31.

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