analyze-usage

A local, read-only reporting skill for analyzing an agent's own usage from Claude Code session transcripts. It counts token use and compares installed skills or servers with the capabilities that were actually used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize token usage for a session or day, identify invoked tools and skills, find unused installed capabilities, and suggest pruning them.
Why use it?
It shows where session context and tokens are being spent and identifies installed capabilities that never contribute. This supports decisions about what to keep or remove.

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/tarekkharsa/agentstack/analyze-usage
Any agent
npx skills add Tarekkharsa/agentstack --skill analyze-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tarekkharsa/agentstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 444 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 $0.00045 $0.00444
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash 94757ec11e3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-usage 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 yesterday.

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.

crates/cli/catalog/skills/analyze-usage/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Analyze usage

Use when you want to understand your own footprint: how many tokens you're burning, and which installed capabilities are actually pulling their weight.

Where the data is

Claude Code writes a JSON-lines transcript per session at:

~/.claude/projects/<project-hash>/<session-id>.jsonl

Each line is one event; assistant turns carry token usage, and tool-use events name the tool or skill invoked. It's local and safe to read.

Token burn

Sum token usage across a session or a day. The fields are nested (message.usage.input_tokens / output_tokens), so use python for anything beyond a trivial count — don't hand-roll it in a shell one-liner.

Dead-weight detection (the useful one)

  1. List what's installed: agentstack more lib list (library skills + servers) and the project's active profile.
  2. Extract which skills/servers were actually invoked, from the transcripts' tool-use / skill-load events.
  3. The set difference — installed but never invoked — is dead weight: it taxes every session's context window for nothing. Propose pruning it.

Rules

  • Read-only and local. Never send transcript content anywhere; report only aggregates — counts, totals, names.
  • Best-effort. The transcript format is undocumented and can change — tolerate unknown lines, don't assume a fixed schema.
  • Coverage is uneven. This is rich for Claude Code; other CLIs expose less (or nothing). Say which agents you could actually see.

Note

agentstack records some of this natively (activation counts, per-server context cost). If agentstack more report calls exists in your version, prefer it — it joins usage to the library for you. This skill is the portable, no-code version.

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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 94757ec11e3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyze-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tarekkharsa/agentstack (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 444 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 2026-08-31.