Agent Cost Monitor
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This instruction-only skill is coherent for cost monitoring, but users should deliberately configure its cross-agent status checks, scheduled reports, and persistent budget settings.
Before installing, decide whether this agent should be allowed to view usage and cost metadata across all agents. If you enable the cron example or memory settings, review them periodically and confirm any recommended configuration changes before applying them.
Findings (3)
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A monitoring agent using this skill may report token usage, model use, and estimated costs across multiple agents.
The skill instructs the agent to inspect session status across all agents, which is expected for cost monitoring but gives the monitoring agent broad visibility into usage metadata.
Checks `session_status` for each agent
Use it only with an agent that should have cross-agent monitoring visibility, and review reports before applying any optimization changes.
If configured, the agent can run recurring cost reports without a new manual prompt each day.
The skill documents an optional daily cron report, which is persistent scheduled activity but is clearly disclosed and user-configured.
"schedule": { "kind": "cron", "expr": "0 20 * * *", "tz": "Europe/Berlin" }Only add the cron job if you want recurring reports, and keep track of where it is configured so you can disable or edit it later.
Budget limits and alert preferences may persist and be reused in future agent sessions.
The skill suggests storing budget thresholds and alert-routing preferences in persistent agent memory, which can influence later monitoring behavior.
Configure in your monitoring agent's memory: ... Daily budget: $5.00 ... Alert channel: Telegram DM
Store only information you are comfortable keeping in agent memory, and periodically review or remove outdated budget and alert settings.