ideogram-cost-tuning

Optimize Ideogram costs through model selection, caching, and usage monitoring. Use when analyzing Ideogram billing, reducing API costs, or implementing budget alerts and usage tracking. Trigger with phrases like "ideogram cost", "ideogram billing", "reduce ideogram costs", "ideogram pricing", "ideogram budget", "ideogram credits".

Quality

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Quality

Content

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

Strong, executable cost-optimization guidance with dense code examples, held back by missing validation feedback loops in batch operations and a monolithic single-file structure with a dangling reference.

Suggestions

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the batch and budget workflows (e.g., verify image count returned matches num_images, retry on 402/429, re-check budget after each batch) so the validate->fix->retry loop is visible.

Move the time-sensitive pricing table into a separate reference file (e.g., references/pricing.md) and link to it, keeping the inline note pointing to the live pricing URL.

Resolve the Next Steps pointer to ideogram-reference-architecture by either adding that file to the bundle or removing the dangling reference.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is mostly efficient actionable code, but it runs ~210 lines and embeds time-sensitive pricing figures inline rather than in a deprecated/reference section, so it could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	All five steps provide complete, copy-paste-ready TypeScript (two-phase generation, batching, caching, budget tracking, top-up config) plus concrete model names and cost figures.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Steps 1-5 are clearly sequenced, but batch image generation and budget operations lack explicit validate->fix->retry checkpoints, which caps workflow clarity at 2 per the batch-operations guideline.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well-organized, but everything is inline in one file with no bundle files, and the Next Steps reference to ideogram-reference-architecture is not a clearly signaled, verifiable reference.	2 / 3
	Total	9 / 12 Passed

Description

100%Weight 40%Scale 1-3

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 well-crafted description that concisely states capabilities, usage triggers, and natural keywords in third person, covering both what and when with low conflict risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Optimize Ideogram costs through model selection, caching, and usage monitoring" names multiple specific concrete actions, matching the score-3 anchor better than the single-action score-2 example.	3 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers what ("Optimize Ideogram costs through model selection, caching, and usage monitoring") and when ("Use when analyzing Ideogram billing, reducing API costs, or implementing budget alerts and usage tracking") with explicit triggers, satisfying the score-3 anchor.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Trigger phrases "ideogram cost", "ideogram billing", "reduce ideogram costs", "ideogram pricing", "ideogram budget", "ideogram credits" give good coverage of natural terms a user would say.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The Ideogram cost-optimization niche with ideogram-prefixed trigger phrases is clearly distinguishable and unlikely to fire for the wrong skill.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

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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
Path: plugins/saas-packs/ideogram-pack/skills/ideogram-cost-tuning/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c47e33

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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