exa-cost-tuning

Optimize Exa costs through search type selection, caching, and usage monitoring. Use when analyzing Exa billing, reducing API costs, or implementing budget controls and usage alerts. Trigger with phrases like "exa cost", "exa billing", "reduce exa costs", "exa pricing", "exa expensive", "exa budget".

Quality

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Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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No eval scenarios have been run

Securityby

Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

Quality

Content

80%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable and token-efficient, with executable code and clear cost-driver tables. It is weaker on workflow clarity and progressive disclosure: batch operations lack explicit feedback loops, and all reusable code is inline in a single monolithic file rather than split into bundled scripts.

Suggestions

Add explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loops around the batch deduplication and caching steps (e.g., verify cache hit rates, re-run on miss) to lift workflow clarity above 2.

Move reusable code (SEARCH_PROFILES, ExaBudgetTracker, cachedSearch) into ./scripts/ files referenced one level deep from SKILL.md so the overview stays lean and progressive disclosure improves.

Trim the Overview sentence, which restates the Cost Drivers table, to further tighten conciseness.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is code-heavy with brief comments, compact tables, and a checklist; it assumes Claude's competence and avoids explaining what Exa or caching concepts are. Most tokens earn their place, though the Overview slightly restates the cost-drivers table.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides complete, executable TypeScript (with imports and real Exa calls) and a bash monitoring script, plus concrete checklists and an error table — copy-paste ready rather than pseudocode. Not score 2 because the examples are fully runnable, not partial.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Steps 1–5 are clearly sequenced and supported by a checklist and error-handling table, but batch operations (query dedup, caching) lack explicit validate→fix→retry feedback loops, which the rubric caps at 2. Not score 1 because a real sequence and a budget-enforcement checkpoint exist.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	No bundle files exist, and the ~190-line SKILL.md is monolithic with all code (SEARCH_PROFILES, ExaBudgetTracker, cache) inline rather than split into ./scripts/. Sections are well organized, but content that could be separated is not. Not score 3 because there are no one-level-deep references or file splits despite substantial inline code.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: it names specific cost-reduction actions, includes an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause, and supplies natural keyword triggers users would actually say. It is clearly distinguishable as an Exa-specific cost skill.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'search type selection, caching, and usage monitoring' plus 'analyzing Exa billing, reducing API costs... budget controls and usage alerts' — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor. Uses third person throughout, so no specificity penalty applies.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both: what ('Optimize Exa costs through search type selection, caching, and usage monitoring') and when ('Use when analyzing Exa billing, reducing API costs, or implementing budget controls and usage alerts'). Score 2 is excluded because an explicit 'Use when' trigger clause is present.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Provides natural trigger phrases a user would actually say — 'exa cost', 'exa billing', 'reduce exa costs', 'exa pricing', 'exa expensive', 'exa budget' — giving good coverage rather than technical jargon.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Has a clear niche (Exa API cost optimization) with distinct Exa-specific triggers, making it unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Commit: 6e3a65f

Reviewed: about 9 hours ago

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