agent-expenditure skillA
agent-expenditure is agent-read markdown (skill) from athola/claude-night-market: Tracks per-agent token usage and flags waste in parallel dispatch. Use when evaluating parallel agent efficiency or after a multi-agent run..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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? …
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How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/agent-expenditure@git:20260826.ccc2bc3mdr add athola/claude-night-market/agent-expenditure@sha256:d5daf7d894e1dca5Pin 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · 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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