token-estimation

token-estimation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench. It costs 16 tokens per session (218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guidance tool for estimating how many tokens a task or response uses. Tokens are the small pieces of text that language models process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate tokens from character or word counts and account for text read during file-heavy tasks.
Why use it?
It provides an approximate usage figure when no direct token counter is available. This helps judge the likely size of a task or response.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to estimate tokens from character or word counts and account for text read during file-heavy tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cxcscmu/skilllearnbench/token-estimation
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 cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill token-estimation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 218 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 $0.00016 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 3d ago against content hash 93f0c419f0da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

token-estimation 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.

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/b1-one-shot-gemini-3-flash-preview/enterprise-information-search/token-estimation/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Token Estimation Skill

This skill provides a way to estimate token usage for a task in the absence of a direct token counting tool.

Estimation Formulas

  1. By Characters: num_characters / 4 is a common estimate for English text.
  2. By Words: num_words / 0.75 is another standard approximation.

Application

  • For each question answered, calculate the estimated tokens based on the length of the research and the response.
  • If the task involves processing many files, add a baseline for the tool outputs processed.
  • The user requires tokens as a positive numeric value in the final JSON.

Example

If an answer contains 100 characters, the estimated tokens would be 100 / 4 = 25. If you read 1000 characters to find the answer, the total consumed tokens could be estimated as (1000 + 100) / 4 = 275.

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 · 22 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 93f0c419f0da

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token-estimation is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (83 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 218 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 2026-09-03.

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