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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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.

A highly actionable, token-efficient skill body anchored in executable Exa-specific code. Its weaknesses are workflow sequencing — batch operations lack explicit validation checkpoints — and a monolithic structure with no progressive file-based disclosure.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the batch workflow (e.g., 'verify dedup rate and cache hit rate before scaling the batch; only proceed when savings are confirmed') to lift workflow clarity.

Move the detailed SEARCH_PROFILES and ExaBudgetTracker implementation into a references/ file (e.g. REFERENCES.md), keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview that links one level deep.

Add a verify/retry feedback loop in Step 5 so a budget-exceeded or 402 error triggers a defined fallback (cache-only mode) rather than just throwing.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense Exa-specific guidance with executable code and brief, useful comments; avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows, so nearly every token earns its place.	3 / 3
Actionability	Provides fully executable TypeScript (SEARCH_PROFILES, costAwareSearch, cachedSearch, budget tracker) and a copy-paste bash usage check — concrete and ready to run.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The five steps are sequenced and supported by a checklist and error-handling table, but batch operations (Step 3) lack explicit validate-then-proceed checkpoints, capping clarity at 2.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well organized, but the 190-line body is monolithic with no bundle files; advanced material (budget tracker, detailed profiles) that could be split into references stays inline.	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.

A strong, well-structured description that concretely states capabilities, gives explicit 'Use when' triggers, and lists natural trigger phrases tied to a distinct niche. Third-person imperative voice is used correctly with no first/second person.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names multiple concrete actions — 'search type selection, caching, and usage monitoring' plus 'analyzing Exa billing... budget controls and usage alerts' — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly states what it does ('Optimize Exa costs through...') and when to use it ('Use when analyzing Exa billing...'), satisfying both halves with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural phrases a user would say ('exa cost', 'exa billing', 'reduce exa costs', 'exa pricing', 'exa expensive', 'exa budget') give good coverage of common variations.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear niche (Exa cost optimization) with distinct Exa-prefixed triggers, making conflict with other skills unlikely.	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: 02d6341

Reviewed: 2 days ago

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