token-usage

token-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from citedy/skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for reviewing an agent-work loop, meaning the process that plans, implements, checks, and records coding work, against a defined control framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing the loop architecture, assessing its maturity and coverage, running adversarial reviews, writing a scored report, and optionally fixing serious findings on a separate branch.
Why use it?
It looks for missing safeguards and ways the process could falsely appear compliant, such as bypassable checks or approvals that do not prove anything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/citedy/skills/token-usage
Any agent
npx skills add citedy/skills --skill token-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citedy/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.00725
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 763d01134c2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-usage 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyze.py), 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.

skills/token-usage/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Token Usage Analyzer

Analyze token consumption patterns and estimate costs from Claude Code session files (~/.claude/projects/).

What It Does

  • Parses all JSONL session files to extract token metrics (input, cache creation, cache read, output)
  • Groups usage by project and session
  • Estimates costs based on Claude model pricing
  • Identifies most expensive sessions and subagent usage
  • Supports time range filtering (today, week, month, N days, specific date)
  • Generates a detailed markdown report

Usage

Run the analyzer with a time range argument:

python3 .claude/skills/token-usage/scripts/analyze.py $ARGUMENTS

Arguments

Argument Example Description
(empty) All time
today today Since midnight UTC
week week Last 7 days
month month Last 30 days
N (number) 3 Last N days
Date 2026-04-01 Since that date
Datetime 2026-04-01 11:00 Since that datetime

Additional flags

  • --compare — show current period vs previous period of same length

Example: --compare week shows this week vs last week.

Output

The script prints a summary to stdout and saves a detailed report to:

~/.claude/token-usage-reports/token_report.md

Cost Estimation

Prices are per million tokens, detected automatically per model:

Model Input Cache Create Cache Read Output
Opus $15.00 $18.75 $1.50 $75.00
Sonnet $3.00 $3.75 $0.30 $15.00
Haiku $0.80 $1.00 $0.08 $4.00

The analyzer reads the model field from each assistant message and applies correct pricing automatically.

What the Report Includes

  1. Grand totals — tokens, estimated cost, session count
  2. Model breakdown — cost split by opus/sonnet/haiku with percentages
  3. Per-project breakdown — tokens, cost, subagent count per project
  4. Period comparison — current vs previous period (with --compare)
  5. Most costly sessions — ranked by estimated cost with first prompt preview

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 84 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 763d01134c2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

token-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository citedy/skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 725 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 2026-08-31.

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