cost-tracking skillA
cost-tracking is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records data in a structured format, and updates MODEL_ROUTING.md with observed cost patterns.
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What the file says
# Cost Tracking Capture, record, and track AI tool costs over time. Cost data feeds into health snapshots and informs model routing decisions. This skill does not access billing APIs directly — it guides the user through checking their provider dashboards and recording the data in a structured format that the plugin can read. ## Why Track Costs Without cost data: - MODEL_ROUTING.md routing rules are theoretical - The break-even calculation for self-hosting is impossible - Cost per PR/feature is unknown — no way to optimise - Budget conversations happen without evidence With cost data: - Routing rules are validated against actual spend - Self-hosting decisions are grounded in real numbers - Cost trends reveal whether AI adoption is efficient - Budget conversations have receipts ## Two actuals records: the quarterly snapshot and the per-PR record This skill owns **two** actuals formats under `observability/costs/`: - **The quarterly snapshot** (below) — a **provider-level aggregate** of spend and tokens across all work for a billing period, captured by `/cost-capture`. - **The per-PR actuals record** — a **single-task** structural footprint (which …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cost-tracking@git:20260615.5cbd528mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cost-tracking@sha256:7f24b23632ddda90Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260615.5cbd528 latest | 2026-06-15 | 5cbd528 | 6,662 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.4978c71 | 2026-06-12 | 4978c71 | 5,458 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260410.022a390 | 2026-04-10 | 022a390 | 4,677 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6662 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6iqsamzpgqsc2hrh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/cost-tracking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7f24b23632ddda90de9d0434840ae4b18ff87a32840cd505f134169e67b1b1ae
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