# Token Budget Gate

> 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.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-chrono-meta-token-budget-gate
- tashan id: skill:chrono-meta/token-budget-gate
- Source: https://github.com/chrono-meta/forge-harness
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 100.0
- Freshness: 100.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

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

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-25 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.