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Cost

Know what a call cost, and stay inside a budget.

4 SKILL.md files Every developer skill

Cost
Read a Lobstack receipt
Read the receipt Lobstack returns on every model call — cost_usd, savings_usd, baseline_reason — and report cost from it instead of estimating.
SKILL.md · MIT
Cost
Pick a model tier, not a flagship
Choose the cheapest model tier that can actually do the task instead of defaulting to a flagship, and verify the choice before spending on it.
SKILL.md · MIT
Cost
Keep an agent inside a budget
Hold an agent, job or run inside a hard dollar budget using the per-call cost the Gateway returns, and handle the 402 when an allowance runs out.
SKILL.md · MIT
Cost
Write a cost-aware system prompt
Write or review a system prompt that does not quietly multiply the bill — bounded output, no re-sent bulk, tool schemas counted as the input tokens they are.
SKILL.md · MIT

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