Budget Optimization

A camp-cost planning helper for comparing prices and building budgets for children's camps. It can present cost summaries as tables or spreadsheets and account for care, meals, materials, and Ontario savings options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate camp costs, compare providers, track expenses, optimize spending, and create a camp budget.
Why use it?
It gathers the different parts of camp costs so families can compare choices and estimate total spending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/reggiechan74/cc-plugins/budget-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add reggiechan74/cc-plugins --skill budget-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reggiechan74/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,849 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 $0.00093 $0.01849
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00185

Measured 2d ago against content hash 204da48dc62a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Budget Optimization 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/budget_calculator.py, scripts/test_budget_calculator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

kids-camp-planner/skills/budget-optimization/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Budget Optimization

Overview

Locate research directory: Read .claude/kids-camp-planner.local.md to get the research_dir path (default: camp-research). All user data paths below are relative to this directory. The family profile is at <research_dir>/family-profile.md.

Calculate, compare, and optimize camp costs across children, time periods, and providers. Generate budget summaries as markdown tables (default) or Excel spreadsheets. Apply Ontario-specific cost-saving strategies including tax deductions, subsidies, and discount timing.

Budget Generation Workflow

Step 1: Gather Cost Data

Read the family profile from <research_dir>/family-profile.md for budget constraints. Collect per-provider costs from <research_dir>/providers/*.md files if they exist. For each camp option, ensure the following cost components are captured:

Component Weekly Rate Daily Rate
Base camp fee $300/week $60/day
Before-care (if needed) $50/week $10/day
After-care (if needed) $50/week $10/day
Lunch program (if not packing) $35/week $7/day
Materials/equipment fee $25 one-time $25 one-time
Registration fee $50 one-time $50 one-time
Sibling discount -10% second child -10% second child
Early-bird discount -$25/week if registered by deadline -$25/week equivalent
Multi-week discount -5% for 4+ weeks -5% for 20+ days

Step 2: Calculate Using Budget Script

Run the budget calculator script to compute totals:

Weekly rate mode:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/budget-optimization/scripts/budget_calculator.py \
  --kids 2 \
  --weeks 8 \
  --base-cost 300 \
  --before-care 50 \
  --after-care 50 \
  --lunch 35 \
  --sibling-discount 10 \
  --format markdown

Daily rate mode:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/budget-optimization/scripts/budget_calculator.py \
  --kids 2 \
  --days 40 \
  --daily-rate 60 \
  --before-care-daily 10 \
  --after-care-daily 10 \
  --lunch-daily 7 \
  --sibling-discount 10 \
  --format markdown

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 204da48dc62a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Budget Optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository reggiechan74/cc-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,849 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 2026-08-31.