cost-anomaly-detection

cost-anomaly-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cloudzero/cloudzero-claude-marketplace. It costs 36 tokens per session (4,488 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for finding unusual changes in spending or charges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during regular cost reviews, after an incident, or whenever cloud spending looks unusual.
Why use it?
It helps you spot possible billing mistakes, waste, or incidents without checking every cost manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cost-analyst plugin — 12 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it during regular cost reviews, after an incident, or whenever cloud spending looks unusual.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Cloudzero/cloudzero-claude-marketplace
Claude Code
/plugin install cost-analyst

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cost-analyst, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 MCP server.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00036 $0.04488
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02244
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00898
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00449

Measured 8d ago against content hash e1f297aa3fda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-anomaly-detection scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**Security:** Only use Python's stdlib `statistics`, `math`, and `decimal` for math operations. Do not import `os`, `subprocess`, `socket`, `urllib`, `requests`, or `pickle`. Bind API values to Python variables (`cost =
plugins/cost-analyst/skills/cost-anomaly-detection/SKILL.md · 622 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. 8d ago First seen · 622 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e1f297aa3fda

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cost-anomaly-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cloudzero/cloudzero-claude-marketplace (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,488 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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