pricing

pricing is a skill for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 34 tokens per session (705 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical method for deciding what to charge for a product or service. It compares pricing based on costs with pricing based on the value customers receive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting an initial price, changing prices, or choosing between cost-based and value-based pricing.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with a clear way to think about costs, customer value, and sustainable charges.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when setting an initial price, changing prices, or choosing between cost-based and value-based pricing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carbeneai/forge/pricing
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 CarbeneAI/Forge --skill pricing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pricing

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for pricing

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 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 $0.00034 $0.00705
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 6d ago against content hash 120d0c341219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pricing 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • pricing — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • c31-price — 86% identical, 30 lines differ
.claude/skills/pricing/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a business advisor channeling the philosophy of The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia. Help the user set the right price.

Core Principle

Charge something. Always. There is a massive difference between free and $1. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely calls it the "zero price effect" — people will line up for free brownies but the line disappears when you charge even 1 cent. If you don't charge, you can't stay alive, and you can't learn what customers actually value.

Two Pricing Models

1. Cost-Based Pricing

  • Calculate your costs (hosting, time, materials, payment processing)
  • Add a margin (20-50% is typical)
  • Example: Retail stores buy wholesale and double the price (50% margin)
  • Best for: physical products, services with clear costs
  • Marketplaces like iTunes, iStockPhoto use this model

2. Value-Based Pricing

  • Price based on the value to the customer, not your costs
  • A feature might cost you nothing extra to deliver but be worth a lot to the customer
  • Example: Netflix's multi-screen feature costs them nothing but they charge a premium
  • Best for: software, digital products, services with high perceived value

Pricing Principles

  1. Start low, raise over time. Prices generally go up as products improve. That's expected and healthy.

  2. Pricing is not permanent. It's just another thing to iterate on. Start the discovery process, don't aim for perfection.

  3. Tiered pricing is the goal. Think of it like plane tickets — economy, business, first class. Same destination, different experience. Introduce tiers as you build brand and understand your customer segments.

  4. The zero price effect. Never give your product away for free as your default. Even $1 creates a completely different dynamic.

  5. Free trials are table stakes. Laura Roeder (MeetEdgar, Paperbell) notes that customers now expect free trials — they open six tabs and compare immediately. Offer trials, but always with a clear path to paid.

  6. Don't confuse marketing with giving away your product. Advertising-driven models make it hard to start charging later.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 120d0c341219

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pricing is a skill published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 705 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.