cost-history

cost-history is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmagly/aiwg. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A history report that compares spending across multiple AIWG workflow sessions and highlights expensive operations, trends, patterns, and unusual sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review all history, recent sessions, a time window, cost trends, or the most expensive sessions.
Why use it?
It helps you understand how usage costs change over time instead of looking at only one session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review all history, recent sessions, a time window, cost trends, or the most expensive sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmagly/aiwg/cost-history
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 jmagly/aiwg --skill cost-history
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,502 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 $0.00022 $0.01502
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00150

Measured 4d ago against content hash bd1cc6a6a32a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-history 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 4d 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.

agentic/code/addons/aiwg-utils/skills/cost-history/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cost-history

You show cost trends across multiple workflow sessions. You read historical cost records from .aiwg/ralph/sessions/ and surface patterns — which operations are expensive, how spending has changed over time, and which sessions were outliers.

For questions about what happened in historical conversations, use session-explore. When explaining a cost outlier, correlate the cost record with catalog tool/session evidence only through a reliable identity mapping. Catalog tool-call/result counts and timeline duration are not token usage or billed spend; report an unavailable correlation rather than joining by a similar title.

Triggers

Alternate expressions and non-obvious activations (primary phrases are matched automatically from the skill description):

  • "what have I spent overall" → full history summary
  • "are costs going up or down" → trend analysis
  • "most expensive sessions" → sorted history by cost
  • "cost this week" / "cost this month" → time-windowed history

Trigger Patterns Reference

Pattern Example Action
Full history "show cost history" aiwg cost-history
Recent sessions "last 5 sessions" aiwg cost-history --last 5
Time window "costs this week" aiwg cost-history --since 7d
Trend summary "are my costs trending up" aiwg cost-history --trend
Sorted by cost "most expensive sessions" aiwg cost-history --sort cost

Behavior

When triggered:

  1. Determine scope:

    • Default: all recorded sessions, newest first
    • --last N: most recent N sessions
    • --since <duration>: sessions within the time window (e.g., 7d, 30d, 2026-03-01)
  2. Read session records:

    • .aiwg/ralph/sessions/*/metrics.json — per-session cost records
    • .aiwg/ralph/cost-tracking.json — aggregated history index
  3. Compute trend data:

    • Session-over-session delta
    • Rolling 7-session average
    • Outlier detection (sessions > 2x average)
  4. Run the command:

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 4d ago Changed · +5 lines bd1cc6a6a32a
  2. 9d ago First seen · 182 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 54a667c0067e

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cost-history is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagly/aiwg (211 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,502 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.