break-even-analysis

break-even-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (747 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A decision method that calculates the point where an option covers its costs. Break-even means revenue, savings, or another benefit equals the costs involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine fixed and variable costs, unit economics, price or benefit per unit, time horizon, assumptions, and the threshold for viability.
Why use it?
It clarifies the minimum volume, price, or benefit needed for an option to become financially viable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine fixed and variable costs, unit economics, price or benefit per unit, time horizon, assumptions, and the threshold for viability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/break-even-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill break-even-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 747 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 $0.00049 $0.00747
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash 990ff452811d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

break-even-analysis 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 9d 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/break-even-analysis/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Break Even Analysis

Use this skill to run Break Even Analysis as a practical consulting method, not as a generic framework explanation.

Method Notes

  • Separate fixed cost, variable cost, unit economics, and time horizon.
  • State the exact threshold that makes the option viable.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • fixed costs
  • variable costs
  • price or benefit per unit
  • time horizon
  • constraints

If an input is missing, do not block automatically. Mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use when fixed costs, variable costs, unit revenue, and the relevant time horizon cannot be estimated. Break-even analysis tests an economic threshold; it does not establish overall strategic fit.

Adjacent Methods

  • cost-benefit-analysis: compare broader benefits, costs, timing, and risk.
  • pricing-strategy-check: test price metric, willingness to pay, margin, and discount risk.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Define break-even unit Decision, economics, unit of value. Choose unit, revenue, margin, savings, or time as the threshold. Break-even definition.
Separate cost types Fixed cost, variable cost, recurring cost, one-off cost. Classify costs so the formula is clear. Cost structure.
Estimate unit economics Price, margin, savings, utilization, adoption. Calculate contribution or benefit per unit. Unit economics.
Calculate threshold Cost structure and unit economics. Compute break-even quantity, revenue, savings, or months. Break-even threshold.
Test realism Market size, capacity, adoption, timeline. Assess whether reaching the threshold is plausible. Viability interpretation.

Output Template

### 1. Decision And Unit
Decision:
Unit of analysis:
Time horizon:
Currency / tax treatment:

### 2. Economics
| Input | Value | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### 3. Break-Even Result
Contribution margin per unit:
Break-even volume / time:
Formula:
Capacity check:

### 4. Sensitivity And Decision
| Variable change | New threshold | Decision implication | Validation action |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### Evidence And Next Decision
- Confirmed facts:
- Assumptions:
- Missing evidence:
- Next action, owner, and timing:
- Expected signal and decision threshold:

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 990ff452811d

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break-even-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 747 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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