output-dev-workflow-cost

output-dev-workflow-cost is a skill for Claude Code from growthxai/output. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,447 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for calculating the cost of one completed Output SDK workflow run. It includes language-model token usage and costs from external services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the correct workflow run, calculating its model and service costs, and presenting the total for a review or demonstration.
Why use it?
It shows where money was spent during a run instead of leaving costs spread across separate services. This helps compare executions and review spending.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Pricing values are illustrative — the model and per-token rates shown below were current as of 2026-05-04. Live pricing comes from [models.dev](https://models.d.

Part of the outputai plugin — 50 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Finding the correct workflow run, calculating its model and service costs, and presenting the total for a review or demonstration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/growthxai/output
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/growthxai/output/output-dev-workflow-cost

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install outputai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,447 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 34
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 76
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 154
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00040 $0.01447
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured 3d ago against content hash e4e37018c96e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

output-dev-workflow-cost 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.

coding_assistants/claude/plugins/outputai/skills/output-dev-workflow-cost/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Run Cost

Overview

This skill helps you calculate the cost of a completed workflow execution using the Output CLI. It breaks down costs by LLM model (token usage) and external API service calls.

When to Use This Skill

  • Checking how much a workflow run cost in LLM tokens
  • Analyzing API service spend per workflow execution
  • Comparing costs between workflow runs
  • Presenting cost data during a demo or review

Step 1: Get a Workflow Run ID

The workflow cost command requires a workflow run ID — not the workflow name.

A run ID looks like: process_transcripts_2026-03-23T19:35:17.000Z_c2biRk_F9rYktF-wagBf5

If you already have a run ID, skip to Step 2.

If you don't have a run ID:

Option A — List recent runs (use skill: output-workflow-runs-list):

npx output workflow runs list <workflowName> --limit 5

Copy the run ID from the most recent completed run.

Option B — Run the workflow now and capture the ID:

If you know the input, run it synchronously and the run ID will be in the output:

npx output workflow run <workflowName> --input '{"key": "value"}'

Or asynchronously (use skill: output-workflow-start):

npx output workflow start <workflowName> --input '{"key": "value"}'
# Returns: Workflow ID: <runId>

If you don't know the input, check for a scenario file (use skill: output-dev-scenario-file) or the workflow's inputSchema in its types.ts.

Note: The workflow name (e.g. process_transcripts) identifies the workflow type. The workflow run ID (e.g. process_transcripts_2026-03-23T19:35:17.000Z_abc123) identifies a specific execution. workflow cost requires the run ID.


Step 2: Calculate the Cost

Basic usage (text output):

npx output workflow cost <runId>

With a local trace file:

npx output workflow cost <runId> path/to/trace.json

JSON output (for programmatic use or display):

npx output workflow cost <runId> --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines e4e37018c96e
  2. 8d ago First seen · 169 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 5ea0c492d9a7

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output-dev-workflow-cost is a skill published in the GitHub repository growthxai/output (435 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,447 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 2026-08-30.

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