cost-guardrails

What problem does it solve?

This Skill proactively manages and minimizes API credit consumption and prevents costly rate-limit failures across all AI agents and models.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Credit Budget Protection: Implements rules to stay within defined credit limits.
• Rate-Limit Handling: Gracefully manages API rate limits (429, 503 errors) with backoff and model downgrades.
• Spawn Thresholds: Controls the number of agents spawned based on task complexity.
• Model Tiering: Selects the most cost-effective model (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) for each task phase.
• Optimization Rules: Enforces best practices like using grep before read and scripting deterministic operations.

Quick Start

Use the cost-guardrails skill to enforce budget limits and prevent rate-limiting during agent execution.