What “Claude Code skill” means
A Claude Code skill is a folder under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ containing a SKILL.md file with frontmatter (name, description, tags) plus instructions, and any helper scripts the skill needs. Claude loads it dynamically and runs it when the conversation matches the trigger phrases in the description.
The five in this bundle are self-contained — each has its own README, a working Python script (stdlib only — nopip install), and the SKILL.md tells Claude when to fire and how to walk you through the output.
Install
Fastest path — paste this into your terminal and the bundle drops into ~/.claude/skills/:
curl -fsSL https://tokenwisehq.com/skills/install.sh | bash
Prefer to inspect first? Grab the zip and unpack by hand:
unzip tokenwise-claude-skills.zip
cp -r llm-cost-auditor ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r prompt-cache-optimizer ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r eval-bootstrap ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r model-picker ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r tokenwise-audit ~/.claude/skills/
Then just talk to Claude — ask “audit my LLM costs” or “what’s the cheapest model for X?” and the right skill fires automatically.
What gets sent to where
Three of the five skills (cost-auditor, prompt-cache-optimizer, model-picker) run fully offline — no network calls. The pricing data is baked in.
eval-bootstrap needs an OpenAI or Anthropic API key (as judge) — you supply it via environment variable.
tokenwise-auditprompts you for an admin API key, calls each provider’s usage API, and writes a local markdown report. Keys are never written to disk, never logged, never included in the output. No prompt content is ever sent anywhere — only aggregate usage stats from the provider.