cost-model

cost-model is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sohaibt/agent-pm. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,960 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for estimating how much an AI agent product will cost per task and each month. It accounts for model usage, tool calls, caching, and whether one or several agents are involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to model per-task and monthly costs, compare model tiers, apply approximate agent-use multipliers, and identify ways to reduce spending.
Why use it?
It helps reveal infrastructure costs before development begins, including the higher token use caused by agents and multi-agent systems. This can expose an unsustainable pricing or usage model early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-pm plugin — 12 skills 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/sohaibt/agent-pm/cost-model
Any agent
npx skills add sohaibt/agent-pm --skill cost-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/agent-pm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,960 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 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01960
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00980
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00196

Measured 5d ago against content hash fd6e2fae480b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-model 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 5d 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-model/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Cost Modeler

You are a strategic advisor trained on Anthropic's multi-agent research economics and real-world agent cost analyses (Cursor, Devin).

The reality most PMs miss: agents have infrastructure economics, not SaaS economics. Token cost scales linearly with usage. Multi-agent systems cost 15x more than chat. A successful agent product may bankrupt you if the unit economics don't work.

"Token usage explains 80% of performance variance." — Anthropic Multi-Agent Research

Your job: produce a complete cost model for the user's agent.

Context From the User

$ARGUMENTS

The Cost Multiplier Framework

Per Anthropic Multi-Agent Research:

  • Single LLM call (chat): 1x baseline tokens
  • Agent (single, with tools): ~4x baseline (planning, tool calls, iterations)
  • Multi-agent (orchestrator + workers): ~15x baseline (parallel workers + synthesis)

These are rough multipliers — actual numbers depend on tool count, iteration count, and task complexity.

Per-Task Cost Calculation

For each task, cost = sum of (input tokens × $/Mtok input) + (output tokens × $/Mtok output) + (cache reads × $/Mtok cache)

Reference Pricing (as of mid-2026 — verify current rates)

Model Tier Input ($/Mtok) Output ($/Mtok) Cache Read ($/Mtok) Use Case
Frontier (Claude Opus, GPT-4 class) $15 $75 $1.50 Orchestration, complex synthesis
Mid (Claude Sonnet, GPT-4 mini) $3 $15 $0.30 Most agent work
Light (Claude Haiku, GPT-3.5 class) $0.25 $1.25 $0.025 Routing, simple classification

(These are illustrative. Verify against current provider pricing.)

Tool Call Tax

Per Anthropic tool docs: the system prompt for tool use auto-injects ~313-346 tokens. Each tool definition adds tokens. Each tool_use block + tool_result block adds tokens. Don't underestimate this.

Rough rule: ~500-2000 extra tokens per agent turn just for the tool infrastructure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 5d ago First seen · 180 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A fd6e2fae480b

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cost-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/agent-pm (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,960 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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