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".
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Quality
Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a well-structured skill description with strong completeness and distinctiveness. It explicitly provides both 'what' and 'when' clauses along with specific trigger phrases. The main area for improvement is slightly more concrete action descriptions beyond the somewhat generic 'caching' and 'usage monitoring'.
Suggestions
Make the capability list more concrete—e.g., 'compare model tier pricing, implement response caching to reduce duplicate calls, set up budget alerts and track daily/monthly spend' instead of the more abstract 'model selection, caching, and usage monitoring'.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (Ideogram cost optimization) and some actions (model selection, caching, usage monitoring), but the actions are somewhat high-level and not fully concrete—e.g., 'caching' and 'usage monitoring' could be more specific about what exactly is done. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (optimize Ideogram costs through model selection, caching, and usage monitoring) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause with triggers and a 'Trigger with phrases like' section). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would say: 'ideogram cost', 'ideogram billing', 'reduce ideogram costs', 'ideogram pricing', 'ideogram budget', 'ideogram credits'. These are realistic phrases a user would type. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive—focuses specifically on Ideogram API cost optimization, which is a very narrow niche. The trigger terms are all Ideogram-specific, making conflicts with other skills very unlikely. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong, actionable skill with executable code examples covering multiple cost optimization strategies. The workflow is well-sequenced with validation checkpoints in the budget tracker. The main weakness is that the content is somewhat long for a single file—the detailed code implementations could benefit from being split into referenced files—and there's minor redundancy between the pricing table and the in-code cost constants.
Suggestions
Consider extracting the full cache implementation and budget tracker code into separate bundle files (e.g., cache.ts, budget-tracker.ts) and referencing them from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.
Consolidate the pricing information—either keep the table or the MODEL_COSTS object, and reference one from the other to avoid redundancy and reduce maintenance burden.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is mostly efficient with good use of tables and code, but includes some unnecessary verbosity like inline cost calculations in comments (e.g., '// Cost: 5 x $0.05 = $0.25') and the Output section which just restates what was already covered. The pricing table is useful but some model entries overlap with the MODEL_COSTS object in code, creating redundancy. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | Provides fully executable TypeScript code for each optimization strategy—two-phase generation, batching, caching with hash keys, and budget tracking with alerts. The code is copy-paste ready with concrete API calls, data structures, and error handling patterns. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps are clearly sequenced from cheap drafting through batching, caching, budget tracking, and billing configuration. The budget tracker includes explicit validation checkpoints (80% warning threshold, hard stop at budget limit), and the checklist provides a clear verification summary. The error handling table adds a feedback loop for common failure modes. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is well-structured with clear sections, but it's quite long for a single file with no bundle files to offload detail into. The full cache implementation and budget tracker code could be in separate referenced files. The reference to 'ideogram-reference-architecture' at the end is a good signal but there are no other bundle files to support progressive disclosure. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 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 | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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