token-budget-gate SKILL.md skillA
token-budget-gate from chrono-meta/forge-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/token-budget-gate@git:20260811.52c0a42Pins git:20260811.52c0a42 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrono-meta/forge-harness
- Path
plugins/fh-commons/skills/token-budget-gate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260811.52c0a42, committed Aug 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 28, 2026
- Size
- 8,139 bytes
- Repository stars
- 30
- License
- MIT
Estimates token cost before a multi-step task and outputs a 4-tier Green/Yellow/Orange/Red gate verdict. Records actual vs. estimated after completion when a mechanical usage source exists. Triggers on "token budget", "how much will this cost", "will this be expensive", "estimate tokens", before long multi-agent tasks.
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
# token-budget-gate — Pre-Task Token Cost Gate Multi-step and multi-agent tasks can silently consume large token budgets. This skill estimates cost before execution, outputs a gate verdict, and calibrates estimates against actual usage after completion — preventing surprise overruns without blocking legitimate work. > **FH context**: FH default execution tier is `standard` (~15K tokens). This skill gates against accidental `full` (~30K) or `max` (~60K+) consumption on tasks that could be handled lighter. --- ## Triggers - `/token-budget-gate` - "token budget", "token cost", "how expensive", "will this use a lot of tokens" - "estimate tokens", "token estimate before we start" - Before invoking: `agent-composer`, `sim-conductor`, `steel-quench` (max-tier skills) - Automatically proposed when task description contains: multi-agent, parallel dispatch, full suite, all files, entire codebase --- ## Gate Thresholds (defaults — user-configurable) | Signal | Verdict | Action | |---|---|---| | Estimated < 10K tokens | 🟢 **GREEN** | Proceed without comment | | 10K–30K tokens | 🟡 **YELLOW** | Proceed with notice — suggest lighter approach if one exists | …
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How to install
mdr add chrono-meta/forge-harness/token-budget-gate@sha256:b2ea38cb7648f355The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260811.52c0a42, 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 3 versions of this file, between May 28, 2026 and Aug 11, 2026, about one every 37 days.
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| git:20260811.52c0a42 latest | 2026-08-11 | 52c0a42 | 8,139 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.a6d421d | 2026-06-27 | a6d421d | 6,316 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260528.cedc413 | 2026-05-28 | cedc413 | 5,637 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8139 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
chrono-meta/forge-harness · 30 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pfe6c5scfhnk6bvr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrono-meta/forge-harness/token-budget-gate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b2ea38cb7648f3550099a748b20d05004829f66c5b6c2e317a9c3f8656db5236
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