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llm-cost-advisor from ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit/llm-cost-advisor@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit
Path
plugins/agent-toolkit-complete/.github/skills/llm-cost-advisor/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0, committed Aug 31, 2026
Size
2,937 bytes
Repository stars
19
License
MIT

WHAT — Recommend the most cost-effective LLM provider for a given task type. Shows estimated.

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

# LLM Cost Advisor (WHAT)

Recommend the right provider for the task at hand — balancing quality, cost, and privacy.

## When to use

- User asks "which model should I use for X?"
- Before scheduling expensive loops (pr-babysitter, ci-sweeper)
- When dev-companion jobs are unexpectedly expensive
- When choosing between local and cloud providers for sensitive work

## Out of scope

- Does NOT configure providers — that's done via env vars and `loadenv`
- Does NOT run LLM calls — it advises, the runner executes

## Workflow

**Step 1 — Check available providers:**

```bash
devcompanion llm-status
```

**Step 2 — Classify the task:**

| Task type | Recommended tier | Why |
|-----------|-----------------|-----|
| Interactive code review, planning, debugging | Claude Sonnet / GPT-4o | Reasoning quality matters |
| Batch labeling, summarization, triage | Claude Haiku / GPT-4o-mini | High volume, lower stakes |
| Private/sensitive codebase work | Ollama or OpenCode | Stays local, zero cost |
| Loop L1 (observation only) | Haiku / GPT-4o-mini | Low stakes, runs daily |
| Loop L2 (PR creation) | Sonnet | Creates external artifacts |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit/llm-cost-advisor@sha256:a2618beaa3167940

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 31, 2026.

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v1.0 latest2026-08-31 856ee57 2,937 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2937 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

GitHub

ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vjqb4g5sxjbo6lhh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ulises-jeremias/agent-toolkit/llm-cost-advisor
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2618beaa31679402c893c02342d7a1f49086d567464394b1f58dbc15df955f7

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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