price-check

price-check is a skill for Claude Code from indranilbanerjee/socialforge. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that looks up current generation prices from provider pricing pages and estimates the cost of a planned run. It records the source and treats prices as temporary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to price videos or other generated assets, compare providers, check whether extras such as sound cost more, and quote a month's planned work.
Why use it?
Provider prices and model availability change, so remembered or embedded prices can be wrong. This lets you estimate spending before generating content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the socialforge plugin — 20 skills, 25 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to price videos or other generated assets, compare providers, check whether extras such as sound cost more, and quote a month's planned work.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add indranilbanerjee/socialforge
Claude Code
/plugin install socialforge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install socialforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 25 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,595 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 $0.00099 $0.01595
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00160

Measured 12d ago against content hash f1aa59c65675, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

price-check 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 12d 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/price-check/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/socialforge:price-check — What this run will cost, looked up today

Prices here are never remembered. They are looked up, recorded with the URL they came from, and expire after 24 hours.

That is not caution for its own sake. On 2026-07-31 a major video model shipped one day after this plugin's model registry was last reviewed, and the registry never knew. In the same week, a provider already wired into SocialForge was selling video at $0.01/second while the old cost table assumed $0.40. Any price baked into a plugin is wrong on a timetable nobody controls.

The rule

Never state a cost you did not look up in this session or the last 24 hours.

Not from this file. Not from the model registry. Not from what you remember a model costing. If price_book.py says a price is unknown or stale, that is the answer — go and read the provider's page, then record what you read.

Looking a price up

  1. Find where to look:
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/price_book.py" --action providers

That returns each provider's pricing URL and its auth shape. Two things it will tell you that save time:

  • Auth differs per provider. Authorization: Bearer … for WaveSpeed and Kie, Authorization: Key … for fal.ai, application-default credentials for Vertex. Getting this wrong is the most common reason a first call fails.
  • Kie AI blocks automated fetches (measured: HTTP 403). Do not report that as "no price found" — ask the user for the rate instead, and record it with the pricing page as the source.
  1. Fetch the pricing page with your own web tools and read the actual number.

  2. Record it, with the URL you read it from:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/price_book.py" --action record \
  --model "kling-3.0-std" --provider wavespeed \
  --unit second --price 0.084 --source https://wavespeed.ai/pricing

A record without a source URL is rejected. That is deliberate — a price with no provenance is a guess wearing a number's clothes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 12d ago First seen · 156 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A f1aa59c65675

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price-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository indranilbanerjee/socialforge (38 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,595 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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