cost-report

A read-only report tool for tracking spending and usage of language models on the Progress Observability Platform. It summarizes costs by date, model, or application and shows quota usage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for seven-day or custom-period cost summaries, model and application comparisons, daily spending trends, quota checks, and identifying cheaper model options.
Why use it?
It helps explain where model spending comes from, whether costs have spiked, and how much quota remains. This avoids piecing together billing data manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the progress-observability plugin — 6 skills, 8 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/observability-oss/progress-observability-plugin/cost-report
Any agent
npx skills add observability-oss/progress-observability-plugin --skill cost-report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/observability-oss/progress-observability-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install progress-observability, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 8 commands, 1 MCP server.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00072 $0.00551
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash acef98bb954a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-report 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.

skills/cost-report/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Cost & usage report

Read references/mcp.md first for the tool contract and limits. This skill uses only metadata tools — no trace content, so no injection surface. If that file isn't present (this skill was lifted out on its own), ask the user for the plugin's references/mcp.md, or fall back to the hard rules: every tool is read-only, and get_cost_breakdown / get_usage_summary are the only tools this skill needs.

Turn the platform's cost and usage data into a short, decision-ready report.

Workflow

  1. Scope. Confirm the date range (get_cost_breakdown takes start_date / end_date) and what the user cares about — total spend, a suspected spike, model mix, or quota headroom. Default to the last 7 days if unspecified.

  2. Pull cost. get_cost_breakdown. Run it more than once when useful: group_by: "model" for model mix, "application" for which app spends, "day" for the trend. Use "all" for a first pass.

  3. Pull usage/quota. get_usage_summary for current billing-period usage and remaining quota.

  4. Report.

    • Headline — total spend for the range and where the billing period stands vs. quota.
    • Top drivers — the models/apps carrying most cost, with shares.
    • Trend — day-over-day movement; call out any spike and which model/app it came from.
    • Quota — projected burn vs. remaining (extrapolate linearly from period-to-date usage — state that assumption), and whether the current rate lands over quota before the period ends.
    • Recommendation (only if the data supports it) — e.g. a high-volume, low- stakes call path that could move to a cheaper model; frame it as a hypothesis to validate, not a certainty.

Keep it tight — a few bullets and one small table, not a wall of numbers.

Never write back to the platform — the server is read-only.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A acef98bb954a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cost-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository observability-oss/progress-observability-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 551 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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