signals-scout-ai-cost

signals-scout-ai-cost is a skill for Claude Code from PostHog/posthog.com. It costs 44 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A monitor for the cost of AI feature conversations. It reports when the cost per conversation moves away from its recent normal while conversation volume stays steady, and attributes the change to a model, prompt, cache, or retry cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch AI conversation costs and investigate whether model, prompt, caching, or retry changes caused a deviation.
Why use it?
AI costs can rise even when usage volume does not. This helps identify changes in the system that may be responsible for unexpected spending.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to watch AI conversation costs and investigate whether model, prompt, caching, or retry changes caused a deviation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/posthog/posthog.com/ai-spend-that-jumps
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 PostHog/posthog.com --skill ai-spend-that-jumps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PostHog/posthog.com

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 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 $0.00044 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 9d ago against content hash 221de4a75ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

signals-scout-ai-cost 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 9d 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.

contents/pocket-guides/self-driving/ai-spend-that-jumps/SKILL.md · 73 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.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 73 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 221de4a75ce7

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signals-scout-ai-cost is a skill published in the GitHub repository PostHog/posthog.com (1,136 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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