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cost-guardian

v2.0.0

Zero-setup cost tracking and budget management for Claude Code. Real-time burn rate, budget guardrails, ASCII reports, and pre-task cost estimation — all without external dependencies.

Claude Code4 Skills

By Manavarya SinghLicense: MIT39 GitHub starsUpdated last month

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4 skill or MCP entries
Source updated
Sep 15, 2026
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Install cost-guardian for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install cost-guardian@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/Manavarya09/cost-guardian

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

cost-guardian/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/cost-estimate/SKILL.md
├── skills/cost-guardian/SKILL.md
├── skills/cost-insights/SKILL.md
└── skills/cost-report/SKILL.md

Included Skills4

cost-estimateskills/cost-estimate/SKILL.md

Estimate the cost of a task before starting it. Analyzes task complexity, predicts token usage, and compares cost across all Claude models. Use when user says 'estimate cost', 'how much will this cost', 'cost estimate', or '/cost-estimate'.

cost-guardianskills/cost-guardian/SKILL.md

Real-time cost tracking and budget management for Claude Code sessions. Shows current spend, burn rate, budget status, per-tool and per-model breakdown. Use when user says 'cost', 'budget', 'spending', 'how much', 'token usage', 'export', or '/cost-guardian'. Subcommands: budget, resume, reset, config, export, status.

cost-insightsskills/cost-insights/SKILL.md

Advanced cost intelligence: efficiency scoring, waste detection, ROI metrics, model savings calculator, anomaly detection, and GitHub badge generation. Use when user says 'insights', 'efficiency', 'waste', 'roi', 'savings', 'anomaly', 'badge', or '/cost-insights'.

cost-reportskills/cost-report/SKILL.md

Generate detailed cost reports with charts and breakdowns. Shows daily/weekly/monthly spend, per-tool costs, per-branch costs, and trends. Use when user says 'cost report', 'spending report', 'usage report', 'show costs', 'branch costs', or '/cost-report'.

Plugin manifests1

.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "cost-guardian",
  "description": "Zero-setup cost tracking and budget management for Claude Code. Real-time burn rate, budget guardrails, ASCII reports, and pre-task cost estimation — all without external dependencies.",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Manavarya Singh",
    "url": "https://github.com/Manavarya09"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Manavarya09/cost-guardian",
  "repository": "https://github.com/Manavarya09/cost-guardian",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "cost",
    "budget",
    "tokens",
    "usage",
    "tracking",
    "monitoring",
    "spending",
    "guardrails"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/"
}

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