vercel-cost-optimization

vercel-cost-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for reducing costs and avoiding common performance problems when deploying Next.js applications on Vercel, a cloud hosting platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a Vercel bill is high, a new Vercel project is being set up, or an app has issues with ISR, dynamic rendering, caching, or builds.
Why use it?
It helps identify rendering, caching, function, and build choices that can increase hosting bills or break expected caching.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when a Vercel bill is high, a new Vercel project is being set up, or an app has issues with ISR, dynamic rendering, caching, or builds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills/vercel-cost-optimization
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 dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills --skill vercel-cost-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 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 $0.00117 $0.02294
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00918
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00229

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 778269573d52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vercel-cost-optimization 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 2mo 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.

curl -sI https://your-site.com/ | grep -i 'cache-control\|x-vercel-cache'
skills/devenv/vercel-cost-optimization/SKILL.md · 280 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 280 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 778269573d52

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vercel-cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository dongzhuoyao/tao-research-skills (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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