Is Token Budget Gate safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Token Budget Gate on public evidence — it is currently active. 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 Token Budget Gate?

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (user scope) or .claude/skills/ (project scope).

Who maintains Token Budget Gate?

4 GitHub contributors, source: chrono-meta/forge-harness.

‹ The Index

Token Budget Gate

skill

Estimates token cost before a multi-step task and outputs a 4-tier Green/Yellow/Orange/Red gate verdict. Records actual vs. estimated after completion when a mechanical usage source exists. Triggers on "token budget", "how much will this cost", "will this be expensive", "estimate tokens", before long multi-agent tasks.

Works with: Claude Code (native) · Cursor, Codex CLI (manual)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

Install (Claude Code):

cp -r token-budget-gate ~/.claude/skills/

Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 100.0
Freshness: 100.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
Contributors: 4
License: MIT

Security audit

Not scanned yet. We audit npm-published capabilities for known advisories, install-time scripts and permission surface; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue.

Its own instructions

Its SKILL.md shows worked examples, covers setup and states a limitation.

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Measured 2026-08-25 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?