cost-benefit-analysis

cost-benefit-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (749 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for comparing whether an action or investment is worth its costs, time, risks, and tradeoffs. It compares the option with a clear baseline, meaning the current or alternative situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess projects, purchases, investments, or other options where benefits and costs can be compared over the same period.
Why use it?
It makes the reasoning behind a choice explicit, including uncertainty, delayed results, opportunity cost, and possible downsides.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess projects, purchases, investments, or other options where benefits and costs can be compared over the same period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/cost-benefit-analysis
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 fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill cost-benefit-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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 749 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 $0.00052 $0.00749
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 11d ago against content hash 38e6beda2708, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-benefit-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 11d 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/cost-benefit-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.

Cost Benefit Analysis

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

Method Notes

  • Compare against a clear baseline.
  • Include timing, confidence, opportunity cost, and downside case.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • option or investment
  • benefit estimates
  • cost estimates
  • time horizon
  • risk assumptions

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 material costs and benefits cannot be compared over a common time horizon. Treat non-negotiable legal, safety, or policy constraints as gates rather than averaging them into a financial total.

Adjacent Methods

  • break-even-analysis: calculate the threshold volume, price, or time.
  • decision-matrix: compare options across non-financial criteria as well as economics.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Define baseline Current state, proposed option, time horizon. State what the option is compared against. Baseline and option definition.
Estimate benefits Revenue, savings, risk reduction, learning, strategic value. List benefits by type, owner, timing, and confidence. Benefit estimate table.
Estimate costs Fixed cost, variable cost, time, coordination, opportunity cost. List costs and timing, including hidden effort. Cost estimate table.
Compare scenarios Benefits, costs, assumptions. Calculate or reason through base, upside, and downside cases. Scenario comparison.
Recommend threshold Scenario comparison and constraints. Recommend go/no-go/test-first and assumptions to validate. Cost-benefit recommendation.

Output Template

### 1. Decision Baseline
Decision:
Baseline / do-nothing case:
Time horizon:
Discount / timing assumption:

### 2. Benefits And Costs
| Item | Type | Amount / range | Timing | Evidence | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |  |  |

### 3. Scenarios
| Scenario | Net value | Key assumption | Downside |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### 4. Recommendation And Threshold
Recommendation:
Break condition:
Owner:
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. 11d ago First seen · 88 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 38e6beda2708

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cost-benefit-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 749 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.