ai-operating-economics

ai-operating-economics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (3,931 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding whether an AI-supported workflow should be adopted, expanded, limited, redesigned, or stopped. It considers business results, effects on workers or users, quality, risk, full cost, measurement, and accountability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate a proposed AI workflow, assess a pilot, decide whether to expand it, define safeguards and measurements, or record why an AI initiative should continue or end.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based only on whether a model makes work faster or on a simple return-on-investment calculation. It connects outcomes, side effects, operating costs, evidence, and governance in one decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to evaluate a proposed AI workflow, assess a pilot, decide whether to expand it, define safeguards and measurements, or record why an AI initiative should continue or end.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/ai-operating-economics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill ai-operating-economics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin ai-operating-economics/plugin install ai-operating-economics after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,931 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 $0.00091 $0.03931
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01965
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00786
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00393

Measured 13d ago against content hash c99e03600cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-operating-economics 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.

ai-operating-economics/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Operating Economics

Overview

AI initiatives are operating interventions, not merely model purchases or ROI spreadsheets. Their value depends on what work changes, who benefits, what quality or risk changes with it, what the complete intervention costs, and whether the organization can observe and govern those changes.

This skill provides the cross-domain decision spine for evaluating an AI-enabled workflow. It does not replace financial modeling, product measurement, statistical inference, agent evaluation, runtime operations, or AI governance. It makes those inputs meet in one accountable decision record.

The core question is not “Did the model make people faster?” It is: “What changed in this workflow, for whom, at what full cost, with what outcome and countermetric evidence, and what authority should the organization grant next?”

Entry Points

Starting state Start with Primary artifact or route
Idea or proposed AI workflow Steps 1–2 templates/ai-initiative-evidence-record.md
Existing pilot or outcome data Steps 3–7 references/evidence-method.md plus the evidence record
Request for broader population or side-effect authority Steps 7–8; load references/evidence-method.md section 7a for the governance packet Governance evidence packet plus the evidence record
Executive, portfolio, launch, or lifecycle review Steps 8–9 templates/ai-economics-review.md; route launch/runtime details onward
Standalone financial, statistical, telemetry, runtime, or governance implementation task When Not to Use Named adjacent specialist skill

When to Use

Load this skill when the user needs to:

  • Build an evidence-backed business case for an AI use case or agentic workflow.
  • Decide whether an AI pilot should scale, remain bounded, be redesigned, or stop.
  • Review claimed AI productivity, savings, adoption, or transformation results.
  • Design an AI value-realization or post-launch outcome review.
  • Connect model and tool spend to workflow outcomes and worker or customer effects.
  • Compare AI options while accounting for measurement uncertainty and non-comparable evidence.
  • Prepare an executive, product, portfolio, or lifecycle decision about an AI-enabled intervention.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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 · 261 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A c99e03600cd5

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ai-operating-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,931 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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