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name: costs description: View cost dashboard and spending analytics (project)

Cost Dashboard Skill

Display Devflow cost tracking and spending analytics by reading session data directly.

Usage

/costs [options]

Options

Option	Description
--period day	Show today's costs only
--period week	Show this week's costs
--period month	Show this month's costs (default)
--history N	Show last N sessions
--story KEY	Filter by story key

Prompt

You are displaying the Devflow cost dashboard.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Read Configuration

Read the configuration file:

• Path: tooling/.automation/costs/config.json

This contains:

• budget_dev: Development budget (USD)
• subscription_plan: Current plan (free/pro)
• subscription_token_limit: Monthly token limit
• subscription_billing_period_days: Days in billing period
• display_currencies: Currencies to show
• currency_rates: Exchange rates

Step 2: Find Session Files

Find all session files:

• Path pattern: tooling/.automation/costs/sessions/*.json

Step 3: Read and Aggregate Session Data

For each session file, extract:

• session_id: Session identifier
• start_time / end_time: Timestamps
• story_key: Associated story (if any)
• entries[]: Array of cost entries with model, input_tokens, output_tokens, cost_usd
• totals: Aggregated totals for the session

Identify the most recent session as the "current session".

Step 4: Calculate Metrics

Calculate:

1. Current session tokens/cost: From the most recent session
2. Cumulative tokens: Sum of all tokens across ALL sessions this billing period
3. Cumulative cost: Sum of all cost_usd across ALL sessions
4. Cost by model: Group costs by model (opus, sonnet, haiku)
5. Cost by story: Group costs by story_key
6. Budget usage: (cumulative_cost / budget_dev) * 100
7. Subscription usage: (cumulative_tokens / subscription_token_limit) * 100
8. Average cost per session: cumulative_cost / session_count
9. Average tokens per session: cumulative_tokens / session_count
10. Input/output ratio: total_input_tokens / total_output_tokens
11. Days remaining: Calculate from billing period start
12. Projected monthly cost: (cumulative_cost / days_elapsed) * 30
13. Projected token usage: (cumulative_tokens / days_elapsed) * 30

Step 5: Apply Filters

Based on $ARGUMENTS:

• --period day: Filter sessions from today only
• --period week: Filter sessions from last 7 days
• --period month: Filter sessions from last 30 days (default)
• --history N: Show only last N sessions
• --story KEY: Filter sessions matching story_key

Step 6: Format Output

Display the dashboard using this format:

=================================================================
                    DEVFLOW COST DASHBOARD
=================================================================
Plan: [plan] | Tokens: [cumulative]/[limit] ([%]%) | [days] days left
This Session: $[current_cost] | Cumulative: $[total_cost]
=================================================================

PERIOD: [period]                        SESSIONS: [count]

--- TOKEN USAGE ---------------------------------------------
                   This Session         Cumulative
Input:             [current_in]         [total_in]
Output:            [current_out]        [total_out]
Total:             [current_total]      [total_total]

I/O Ratio:         [ratio]:1 (higher = more input-heavy conversations)

--- COST BY MODEL -------------------------------------------
[model]            $[cost]  ([%]%)  [bar]

--- COST BY STORY -------------------------------------------
[story-key]        $[cost]  ([%]%)
(no story)         $[cost]  ([%]%)

--- BUDGET STATUS -------------------------------------------
Spent:     $[total]  /  $[budget]  ([%]%)
[================================--------------------] [%]%

[WARNING] if > 75%: "Approaching budget limit!"
[CRITICAL] if > 90%: "Near budget limit - consider pausing"

--- PROJECTIONS (based on current usage rate) ---------------
Monthly token projection:    [projected] / [limit] ([%]%)
Monthly cost projection:     $[projected_cost]
Avg cost per session:        $[avg_cost]
Avg tokens per session:      [avg_tokens]

--- RECENT SESSIONS -----------------------------------------
[session_id]  [date]  [tokens]  $[cost]  [story or "-"]
[session_id]  [date]  [tokens]  $[cost]  [story or "-"]
[session_id]  [date]  [tokens]  $[cost]  [story or "-"]
(show last 5 sessions)

--- CURRENCIES ----------------------------------------------
$[USD] | E[EUR] | L[GBP] | R$[BRL]
=================================================================

Budget Warnings

Display warnings based on config thresholds:

• If budget usage > warning_percent (75%): Show [WARNING]
• If budget usage > critical_percent (90%): Show [CRITICAL]
• If subscription usage > 80%: Show token limit warning

Notes

• Format large numbers with K/M suffixes (e.g., 1.5K, 2.3M)
• Round costs to 2 decimal places
• Show percentages to 1 decimal place
• Use text-based progress bars with = and - characters
• Current session = most recent session file by timestamp
• Cumulative = sum of ALL sessions in the billing period
• If no sessions found, display a message indicating no cost data available
• Calculate days remaining: billing_period_days - days since first session of period