Is Cost Guard safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Cost Guard on public evidence — tashan score 26.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk). Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Cost Guard?

Configure it from its source repository — it is a remote / registry server.

Who maintains Cost Guard?

1 GitHub contributors, source: oggeh-dev/claude-cost-guard.

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Cost Guard

plugin

Real-time USD cost enforcement for Claude Code. Halts runaway agentic loops mid-step before they burn through your budget. The plugin enforces real-time USD cost limits in Claude Code. It uses hooks to read the session's the moment any cap is crossed — between tool batches, between turns, or at prompt-submit time. The result: a single greedy turn cannot spiral into a $30+ spend, sessions cannot silently accumulate cost over hours, and runaway burn rates are stopped before they hurt. Five confi

Works with: Claude Code (native)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Category: Security — see all ranked ›

Install (Claude Code):

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install cost-guard@claude-community

tashan score: 26.0
Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 46.0
Freshness: 60.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
GitHub stars: 1
Contributors: 1
License: MIT

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?