route-cheap-escalate-hard

route-cheap-escalate-hard is a skill for Claude Code from Neeeophytee/ai-cost-cutter-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A two-level model-routing setup that sends routine work to a cheaper AI model and difficult requests to a more expensive one.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps configure and use cheaper and premium models together, with harder turns sent to the premium model.
Why use it?
It reduces the cost of everyday AI work while keeping a higher-quality option for tasks that need it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cost-cutter plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps configure and use cheaper and premium models together, with harder turns sent to the premium model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neeeophytee/ai-cost-cutter-skills/route-cheap-escalate-hard
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 Neeeophytee/ai-cost-cutter-skills --skill route-cheap-escalate-hard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Neeeophytee/ai-cost-cutter-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cost-cutter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 unknown 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 $0.00065 $0.00998
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00499
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 12d ago against content hash 66b5b0693346, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

route-cheap-escalate-hard 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/route-cheap-escalate-hard/SKILL.md · 51 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 51 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 66b5b0693346

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route-cheap-escalate-hard is a skill published in the GitHub repository Neeeophytee/ai-cost-cutter-skills (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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