# spend-forecast

Turns the daily session trend on the Agent Monitor dashboard into a spend projection for the end of the week or month.

- 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/spend-forecast/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/spend-forecast

## What it does

The skill reads three Agent Monitor endpoints. `GET /api/analytics` supplies `daily_sessions` covering 365 days, `GET /api/pricing/cost` gives the authoritative total and a per-model breakdown, and `GET /api/sessions?limit=200` returns sessions with inline `cost` and `started_at`. There is no native per-day spend field, so the skill assembles one: either session counts multiplied by average cost per session, or — sharper — inline costs summed by start date.

From that series it takes a 7-day mean and a 14-day mean, which tells you whether the pace is climbing or easing. The projection is the average daily spend times the days left, plus what the current period has already cost. When the trend window reaches back past the current period, spend-to-date is narrowed to sessions inside that week or month, so older charges don't inflate the number.

Pass `"week"`, `"month"` or a date as the argument. With nothing passed, the skill uses the calendar month-end and tells you which horizon it picked. Mention a budget and you also get the delta and the date it is projected to be crossed. The math assumes the recent daily pace holds; with fewer than 7 active days the skill flags the horizon as thin on data.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor spend-forecast
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/spend-forecast/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor --skill spend-forecast -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/spend-forecast/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- project this month's spend from the current daily pace
- see whether daily spending is accelerating or cooling
- find the date a budget will be crossed
- compare 7-day and 14-day average spend
- build a per-day cost curve from session records

## Example prompts
- Forecast my spend through the end of the month
- Where will my spend land by Sunday?
- My budget is $200 — when do I cross it?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: spend-forecast
description: >
  Forecast Claude Code spend to the end of the week or month from the daily
  session trend on the Agent Monitor dashboard — moving average of daily spend
  × days remaining, added to spend-to-date. Uses /api/analytics daily_sessions,
  /api/pricing/cost, and /api/sessions for a per-day cost curve.
  Use when projecting cost or asking "where will my spend land".
---

# Spend Forecast

Project where Claude Code spend will end up by the close of the current week or month.

## Input

The user provides: **$ARGUMENTS**

This is the forecast horizon — `"week"`, `"month"`, or a specific date. Default to
**month** (calendar month-end) when nothing is given, and state the horizon you used.

## Data Sources

| Endpoint | Returns |
|----------|---------|
| `GET /api/analytics` | `{ total_cost, tokens (effective totals, baselines pre-summed), daily_sessions (365d: [{ date, count }]), daily_events, overview, ... }` — `daily_sessions` is the trend the forecast extrapolates |
| `GET /api/pricing/cost` | `{ total_cost, breakdown: [{ model, input_tokens, output_tokens, cache_read_tokens, cache_write_tokens, cost, matched_rule }] }` — authoritative spend-to-date and avg cost-per-session input |
| `GET /api/sessions?limit=200` | Session list with inline `cost` and `started_at` — group by day for a sharper daily-spend curve than the count-based approximation |

## Forecast method

Spend has no native per-day field, so build a daily-spend series and extrapolate:

1. **Spend-to-date** = `total_cost` from `/api/pricing/cost`.
2. **Avg cost per session** = `total_cost / total_session_count`.
3. **Daily spend series**: for the trailing window, `daily_spend[d] ≈ daily_sessions[d].count × avg_cost_per_session`. For a sharper curve, instead sum inline session `cost` grouped by `DATE(started_at)`.
4. **Moving average**: `avg_daily_spend = mean(daily_spend over the trailing 7 days)`. Also compute a 14-day average to gauge whether the trend is accelerating (▲) or cooling (▼).
5. **Remaining days**: days left until the end of the chosen horizon (week = through Sunday; month = through the last calendar day).
6. **Projection**: `projected_total = spend_to_date_this_period + (avg_daily_spend × days_remaining)`.
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