model-savings

model-savings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor. It costs 88 tokens per session (995 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cost-analysis tool for Claude Code work that compares current model spending with the cost of using a cheaper model family. A model family is a group of related AI models with different prices and capabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare routes such as Opus to Sonnet or simple work to Haiku, review model-by-model costs, and identify lower-complexity work for cheaper routing.
Why use it?
It shows which work might be moved to a cheaper model and estimates the resulting savings from actual token use and session data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: $ARGUMENTS substitution, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ccam-cost-guard plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare routes such as Opus to Sonnet or simple work to Haiku, review model-by-model costs, and identify lower-complexity work for cheaper routing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangsonww/claude-code-agent-monitor/model-savings
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 hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill model-savings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ccam-cost-guard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 995 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00088 $0.00995
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00100

Measured 13d ago against content hash e026d2681777, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-savings 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 13d 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.

plugins/ccam-cost-guard/skills/model-savings/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Model Savings

Quantify how much spend you would recover by moving eligible work to a cheaper model.

Input

The user provides: $ARGUMENTS

This is the routing question — e.g. "Opus → Sonnet", "move simple work to Haiku", or empty (analyze every premium model against the next tier down). If no target family is named, default to proposing the next-cheaper tier per model and say so.

Data Sources

Endpoint Returns
GET /api/pricing { pricing: [{ model_pattern, display_name, input_per_mtok, output_per_mtok, cache_read_per_mtok, cache_write_per_mtok }] } — the rate card for every family
GET /api/pricing/cost { total_cost, breakdown: [{ model, input_tokens, output_tokens, cache_read_tokens, cache_write_tokens, cost, matched_rule }] } — current spend and the exact token mix per model
GET /api/sessions?limit=200 Sessions with model, inline cost, and metadata (turn_count, thinking_blocks) — used to judge which work is eligible to downshift
GET /api/analytics agent_types, tool_usage, total_subagents — corroborate which task types are low-complexity and safe to route cheaper

Savings method

For each candidate model in the cost breakdown, re-price its exact token mix at the target family's rates:

cost_at_target = (input_tokens      / 1M) × target.input_per_mtok
               + (output_tokens     / 1M) × target.output_per_mtok
               + (cache_read_tokens / 1M) × target.cache_read_per_mtok
               + (cache_write_tokens/ 1M) × target.cache_write_per_mtok

savings = current_model_cost − cost_at_target

Pull target.*_per_mtok from /api/pricing (longest model_pattern match wins). Default rates ($/Mtok in/out/cacheRead/cacheWrite): Opus $5/$25/$0.50/$6.25, Sonnet $3/$15/$0.30/$3.75, Haiku $1/$5/$0.10/$1.25.

Eligibility — don't promise savings on work that needs the big model

Re-pricing the full token mix is the theoretical ceiling. Scope it to eligible work:

  • Low-turn sessions (metadata.turn_count small) and simple subagent/tool work are safe to downshift.
  • Heavy-reasoning sessions (many thinking_blocks, high turn counts) likely need the premium model — exclude or discount them.
  • Report both the full re-price (ceiling) and an eligible-only estimate, and state the eligibility rule you applied.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 13d ago First seen · 74 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A e026d2681777

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model-savings is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor (991 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 995 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.