# daily-budget-check

Compare today’s agent-session costs with a daily budget and see where the current spending pace points. Handy for a morning or evening budget check.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1121
- Author: hoangsonww
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-cost-guard/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/daily-budget-check

## What it does

The skill totals costs from sessions started today, then compares that figure with the daily budget you provide. Its report covers the amount spent, the expected spend by this point in the day, and a straight-line estimate for the end of the day. It also ranks today’s costliest sessions and suggests a budget adjustment when the estimate runs over.

It reads `/api/pricing/cost` and `/api/sessions?limit=200`. When a session has no inline `cost`, the skill estimates its value from the average session cost and marks the total as approximate. Pass a daily budget as an argument. If you leave it out, the skill asks for one or derives it from a monthly budget, stating that assumption.

The projection follows the spending pace so far. Early in the day, that can be a shaky basis: when less than ~0.1 of the day has elapsed, the report labels the estimate low-confidence. Treat that early figure accordingly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill daily-budget-check -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/daily-budget-check/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill daily-budget-check -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill daily-budget-check -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor daily-budget-check
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill daily-budget-check -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --path plugins/ccam-cost-guard/skills/daily-budget-check
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill daily-budget-check -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/HEAD/plugins/ccam-cost-guard/skills/daily-budget-check/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compare today's session costs with a daily budget
- check spending pace against the time elapsed
- project total spend through the end of the day
- rank the costliest sessions started today
- see the remaining daily allowance

## Example prompts
- Check today's spend against a daily budget of $5.
- Compare today's costs with $5/day and estimate the end-of-day total.
- List today's most expensive sessions and show the remaining daily allowance.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: daily-budget-check
description: >
  Run a daily spend check-in against a daily budget on the Agent Monitor
  dashboard — today's spend vs the daily target, pace through the day, and the
  projected overage if the current pace holds. Uses /api/pricing/cost and
  /api/sessions (grouped by started_at = today). Use for a quick daily spend
  check-in or a morning/evening budget pulse.
---

# Daily Budget Check

A fast daily pulse: are you on pace against today's budget?

## Input

The user provides: **$ARGUMENTS**

This is the **daily budget in dollars** — e.g. `"5"` or `"$5/day"`. If omitted, ask
for one or derive it from a monthly budget (`monthly / days_in_month`) and state the
assumption.

## Data Sources

| Endpoint | Returns |
|----------|---------|
| `GET /api/pricing/cost` | `{ total_cost, breakdown: [{ model, input_tokens, output_tokens, cache_read_tokens, cache_write_tokens, cost, matched_rule }] }` — fleet-wide spend and the avg cost-per-session used to value today's sessions |
| `GET /api/sessions?limit=200` | Session list with inline `cost` and `started_at` — filter to today (`DATE(started_at) = today`) to isolate today's spend |

## Method

Spend has no per-day field, so isolate **today** from the session list:

1. **Today's sessions** = sessions whose `started_at` is today (local date).
2. **Today's spend** = sum of inline `cost` over today's sessions. If inline `cost` is absent for some rows, fall back to `today_session_count × (total_cost / total_session_count)` and flag it as approximate.
3. **Pace**: `fraction_of_day_elapsed = hours_since_midnight / 24`. `expected_by_now = daily_budget × fraction_of_day_elapsed`.
4. **Pace delta** = `today_spend − expected_by_now` (▲ ahead of budget / ▼ behind).
5. **End-of-day projection**: `projected_today = today_spend / fraction_of_day_elapsed` (linear extrapolation of the current pace). Guard against tiny `fraction_of_day_elapsed` early in the day — if under ~0.1, label the projection low-confidence.
6. **Projected overage** = `projected_today − daily_budget` (positive = over).

## Report Sections

### 1. Today vs budget
One headline line: **today's spend / daily budget**, and the percent consumed. Verdict: **under** / **on pace** / **over**.

### 2. Pace
`expected_by_now` vs actual `today_spend`, the ▲/▼ pace delta, and the fraction of the day elapsed.

### 3. End-of-day projection
`projected_today` and the projected overage/headroom vs the daily budget. Note the confidence (low early in the day).

### 4. Today's drivers
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