ai-cost-guardlisted

## When to invoke Use when: "ai cost guard", "cap llm spend", "unbounded llm loop", "token budget", "runaway api cost", "bedrock spend limit", "why was the Anthropic/OpenAI bill so high", or before merging a change that adds a call to a paid model API. ## Preamble ```bash eval "$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-slug 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null || SLUG="unknown" _LEARN_FILE="${VIBESTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.vibestack}/projects/${SLUG:-unknown}/learnings.jsonl" if [ -f "$_LEARN_FILE" ]; then _LEARN_COUNT=$(wc -l < "$_LEARN_FILE" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ') echo "LEARNINGS: $_LEARN_COUNT entries loaded" if [ "$_LEARN_COUNT" -gt 5 ] 2>/dev/null; then ~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-learnings-search --limit 5 2>/dev/null || true fi else echo "LEARNINGS: none yet" fi ``` {{include lib/snippets/session-host.md}} {{include lib/snippets/decision-brief.md}} {{include lib/snippets/working-protocols.md}} {{include lib/snippets/state-protocols.md}} ## User-invocable When the user types `/ai-cost-guard`, run this skill. --- ## Step 1: Inventory paid-API call sites Every call to a metered model API is a place where money leaves the account. Find all of them before judging any of them. ```bash grep -rniE \ 'anthropic|@anthropic-ai/sdk|openai|bedrock-runtime|invoke_?model|converse|boto3.*bedrock|google\.generativeai|replicate|elevenlabs|deepgram|fal\.ai|fal_client|@fal-ai|messages\.create|chat\.completions\.create|responses\.create|generate_content|replicate\.run|\.transcribe|\.subscribe' \ --in