agent-expenditure SKILL.md skillA
agent-expenditure from athola/claude-night-market is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/agent-expenditure@git:20260826.ccc2bc3Pins git:20260826.ccc2bc3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- athola/claude-night-market
- Path
plugins/conserve/skills/agent-expenditure/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260826.ccc2bc3, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,797 bytes
- Repository stars
- 348
- License
- MIT
Tracks per-agent token usage and flags waste in parallel dispatch. Use when evaluating parallel agent efficiency or after a multi-agent run.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Agent Token Waste Monitoring ## When To Use - After parallel agent dispatch completes - When evaluating whether to increase agent count - During retrospectives on agent-heavy workflows - When plan-before-large-dispatch rule triggers ## When NOT To Use - Single-agent workflows (no coordination overhead) - During active agent execution (post-hoc analysis) - For token budgeting (use token-conservation instead) ## Brooks's Law for Agents Dispatching more agents does not always help. Coordination overhead grows with agent count: | Agent Count | Expected Overhead | Guidance | |-------------|-------------------|----------| | 1-3 | Negligible | Dispatch freely | | 4-5 | 10-15% | Acceptable; plan first | | 6-8 | 20-30% | Monitor closely | | 9+ | 30%+ | Likely counterproductive | Coordination overhead is measured as shared-file conflicts: concurrent Read/Write operations on the same file by different agents, as a percentage of total agent runtime. ## Post-Dispatch Review Checklist After parallel agent runs, evaluate: 1. Did each agent produce unique findings? 2. Was total token expenditure proportional to value? 3. Did any agent duplicate another's work? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/agent-expenditure@sha256:d5daf7d894e1dca5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.ccc2bc3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 8, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260826.ccc2bc3 latest | 2026-08-26 | ccc2bc3 | 2,797 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.bd2ea8f | 2026-08-16 | bd2ea8f | 2,720 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.c7c8f6f | 2026-06-22 | c7c8f6f | 2,717 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.6f5c7d9 | 2026-05-21 | 6f5c7d9 | 2,131 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260508.c09f147 | 2026-05-08 | c09f147 | 2,057 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 (2797 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
athola/claude-night-market · 348 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oeyabk2ruhzs5nx6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=athola/claude-night-market/agent-expenditure GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5daf7d894e1dca57a2fa3adb6f7afb1941196161e1e97091c92f4374cf26f0c
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.