cost-model

cost-model is a skill for Claude Code from VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cost-estimation framework for product and project initiatives. It compares language-model costs, infrastructure changes, delivery time, and the cost of doing equivalent work without the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate AI pipeline costs, infrastructure changes, time to launch, and human-work comparisons.
Why use it?
It makes the expected cost of an initiative explicit instead of leaving important expenses hidden. This supports more grounded decisions about whether and how to proceed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Part of the great-pm plugin — 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to estimate AI pipeline costs, infrastructure changes, time to launch, and human-work comparisons.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/cost-model
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 VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm --skill cost-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,491 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.
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 $0.00065 $0.02491
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00996
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00249

Measured 25d ago against content hash a3516c06a27b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 25d 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.

plugins/great-pm/skills/cost-model/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex host binding

  • Treat references to Claude slash workflows as the equivalently named Codex skill.
  • Before delegating to any specialist, read the great-pm-runtime skill and the selected packaged role file.
  • Treat "invoke", "assign", "delegate", "spawn", and source Agent-tool instructions as a required Codex spawn_agent call with that role and a bounded assignment.
  • For the spawn tool's task_name or agent_name identifier, replace canonical role-name hyphens with underscores (query-refiner-pm → query_refiner_pm). Keep canonical names unchanged in prompts, filenames, verdict logs, and user-facing output; this is an internal identifier mapping, not a role rename.
  • Store every returned agent identifier. Never call a wait tool until a spawn has returned an identifier, and wait only on identifiers returned by successful spawns.
  • If spawn_agent is unavailable or a spawn fails, report BLOCKED; do not impersonate the specialist or wait on an empty agent set.
  • Resolve bundled paths from the installed GreatPM plugin root.
  • Ignore Claude-only model aliases, colors, turn limits, and tool allowlists.
  • Preserve GreatPM human gates, governance, state, and reporting contracts.

Cost model — make great-pm cost claims defensible

great-pm reports cost numbers on the board (via $pm-cost, $pm-burn, $pm-digest). Those numbers MUST be auditable. The classic mistake: a shiny "1000× human equivalent" claim that doesn't survive scrutiny. This skill defines the format and the discipline.

The 4-line cost section

Every great-pm initiative's cost section follows this exact template:

## Cost estimate

**LLM**: $<low>–<high> (<N> agent invocations × $<per-call avg>)
**Human equiv**: $<low>–<high> (<hours> × $<rate>/h)
**Infra delta**: $<low>–<high>/month
**Time to ship**: <hours> agent-time, <hours/days> wall-clock

> Methodology: <one-sentence rationale for each range>

Why this exact format?

Board parsers anchor on line-start "LLM" and "Human" labels. Mid-line references are ignored. Stick to the template — drift breaks the board.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 25d ago First seen · 220 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A a3516c06a27b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cost-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,491 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-21.

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