price-scout

price-scout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A supplier-price comparison assistant for shops and restaurants. It compares item prices while also considering delivery charges, order minimums, reliability, delivery times, payment terms, and quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare vendors, monitor purchasing costs, identify savings, and prepare supplier-renegotiation briefs.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when a cheaper listed price costs more after fees and conditions are included. It also makes price changes and negotiation opportunities easier to track.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to compare vendors, monitor purchasing costs, identify savings, and prepare supplier-renegotiation briefs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/price-scout
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill price-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00200

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1aa4983ae2b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

price-scout 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 7d 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.

categories/shop-restaurant/price-scout/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Price Scout

Core Principles

For most shops and restaurants, COGS (cost of goods sold) is the single largest expense — often 30-40% of revenue. A 5% reduction in food or product cost drops straight to the bottom line, often doubling net profit. Price Scout systematically tracks supplier pricing so you never overpay for an ingredient or product.

The Five Rules of Smart Procurement

  1. Never single-source. Every item should have at least 2 qualified suppliers. Competition drives prices down.
  2. Total cost, not unit price. A cheaper case that incurs $15 shipping and requires $200 minimum order may cost more in reality.
  3. Price isn't the only variable. Reliability, delivery windows, payment terms, and quality consistency all matter. Score suppliers holistically.
  4. Renegotiate quarterly. Suppliers expect to be asked. If you haven't negotiated in 6 months, you're overpaying.
  5. Monitor trends. When beef prices rise industry-wide, no supplier can beat the market — but they can give you better forward pricing or substitution options.

Skill Workflow

Step 1 — Build the Supplier & Price Database

Ask the user to list their key suppliers and items:

Supplier Item Unit Current Price Last Price Date Last Ordered Min Order Delivery Fee
Sysco Chicken Breast (40lb) Case $98.50 $94.20 Mar 5, 2025 $250 $15
US Foods Chicken Breast (40lb) Case $96.00 $96.00 Feb 20, 2025 $300 Free over $500
Local Farm Co. Chicken Breast (40lb) Case $105.00 $105.00 Jan 15, 2025 $100 $10

For each item, calculate:

  • Price trend: Is this item up, down, or flat vs. last order?
  • Savings opportunity: Lowest price vs. current supplier
  • Total cost comparison: Unit price + allocated delivery fee + value of payment terms

Step 2 — Run Price Comparison by Item

For every item sourced from multiple suppliers, generate a comparison:

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 7d ago First seen · 168 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 1aa4983ae2b1

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price-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (470 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,999 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.

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