ai-spend-tripwire

ai-spend-tripwire is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xipher-Labs/walter-os. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A cost tracker for LLM APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. It estimates daily and monthly spending, warns when the spending rate passes a limit, and can stop agent loops before costs grow significantly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps monitor AI spending, estimate future costs, set burn-rate warnings, and protect long agent sessions from excessive API charges.
Why use it?
It makes usage costs visible during long-running AI work and helps prevent unexpected bills. Spending limits can also interrupt loops that are using more tokens than planned.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps monitor AI spending, estimate future costs, set burn-rate warnings, and protect long agent sessions from excessive API charges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xipher-labs/walter-os/ai-spend-tripwire
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 Xipher-Labs/walter-os --skill ai-spend-tripwire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xipher-Labs/walter-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,223 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 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 $0.00115 $0.01223
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00122

Measured 10d ago against content hash 82ccd2922978, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-spend-tripwire 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 10d 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/ai-spend-tripwire/SKILL.md · 127 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 127 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 82ccd2922978

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ai-spend-tripwire is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xipher-Labs/walter-os (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,223 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.