mastermind-budgets

mastermind-budgets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monoes/monomind. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for setting and checking spending limits for agents and their organisation. It tracks limits in dollars or model-use tokens and can reload changes while the organisation is running.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view, set, and monitor per-agent or organisation-wide budgets, and to apply budget changes to a running organisation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from using more paid model capacity than intended. It also lets you compare configured limits with recorded spending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to view, set, and monitor per-agent or organisation-wide budgets, and to apply budget changes to a running organisation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/monoes/monomind/mastermind-budgets
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add monoes/monomind --skill mastermind-budgets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monoes/monomind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 3,504 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 $0.00040 $0.03504
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01402
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00350

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5b6bb1ae1faf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mastermind-budgets 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/mastermind-budgets/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mastermind Budgets

This skill is invoked directly via /mastermind-budgets.

The Org Runtime enforces exactly three caps, all in the org definition .monomind/orgs/<org>.json (schemas: packages/@monomind/cli/src/orgrt/types-role.ts and types.ts; enforcement: orgrt/budget-closure.ts):

Field Scope What happens at the cap
roles[].budget_usd one role, USD its session closes and its tasks are blocked. Unset = no USD cap for that role
roles[].budget_tokens one role, tokens same; replaces the role's even split of run_config.budget_tokens
run_config.budget_tokens whole org, tokens every role's session closes (default 1000000)

A role's policy.maxUsd / policy.maxTokens, when set, win over budget_usd / budget_tokens.

A budget_usd cap only counts costs the runtime reports. On a runtime with reports_cost: false in monomind agent scan --json (codex, kimicode, hermes, vercel, …) the role's cost is unknown — cost_usd: null in org costs --json — so its budget_usd never fires. Cap those roles with budget_tokens instead. Caps are per run: a new monomind org run starts at zero spend, --resume keeps it. The coordinator is warned once when a role or the org passes 80% of a cap.

There is no org-wide USD cap. monomind org run --budget-usd N only refuses to start a run whose upfront cost estimate exceeds N; it does not stop a run that overspends. To cap an org in dollars, give every session role its own budget_usd. Never store budgets in a side-car file such as .monomind/orgs/<org>-budgets.json — the runtime does not read it, so a limit written there is not enforced.


Inputs

  • brain_context: BRAIN CONTEXT block (injected by command, or loaded below if standalone)
  • org_name: org to manage budgets for (required)
  • action: show | set | clear | alert
  • agent_id: role id to scope to (optional — omit for the org-wide run_config.budget_tokens)
  • limit_tokens: token cap to set (for set) — roles[].budget_tokens, or run_config.budget_tokens without agent_id
  • limit_usd: USD cap to set (for set, requires agent_id) — roles[].budget_usd
  • run: run id to read spend from (optional — defaults to the latest run)
  • caller: command | master

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 2d ago First seen · 231 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 5b6bb1ae1faf

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mastermind-budgets is a skill published in the GitHub repository monoes/monomind (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,504 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

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