Cost Budget Check
Skill Verified ActiveRead accumulated cost-tracking spend + budget config, compute utilization, emit 50/75/90/100% alert ladder
To automatically monitor and alert on cloud cost utilization against predefined budgets, ensuring cost control and preventing overspending.
Features
- Compute cost utilization against budget
- Emit 4-tier alert ladder (INFO, WARNING, CRITICAL, HARD_STOP)
- Support for filtering by time period (today, week, month, all)
- Provide machine-readable JSON output
- Allow setting and retrieving budget limits
Use Cases
- Automatically alert teams when cost utilization reaches predefined thresholds
- Prevent accidental overspending by halting non-essential operations at 100% utilization
- Integrate cost monitoring into CI/CD pipelines or agent workflows
- Continuously monitor costs via cron jobs or agent loops
Non-Goals
- Performing actual cost optimization actions
- Tracking costs for non-LLM related services
- Providing historical cost trend analysis beyond the current budget period
Workflow
- Read accumulated cost-tracking spend and budget configuration
- Compute current utilization percentage
- Compare utilization against the 4-tier alert ladder
- Emit a markdown summary or JSON output detailing status and recommended action
- Exit with code 1 if utilization reaches 100% (HARD_STOP)
Practices
- Cost Management
- Alerting
- Budgeting
Prerequisites
- Node.js runtime
- Access to cost-tracking data (session-* records from cost-track)
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add ruvnet/ruflo/plugin install ruflo-cost-tracker@rufloQuality Score
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