Cost bugs are design bugs. They are cheapest to fix before the first dollar is spent. This skill teaches design-time discipline — choosing the right tier, topology, and access pattern — not post-billing cost reduction tactics.
Principle Cost Awareness is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the automation sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/principle-cost-awareness/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
The Principle Cost Awareness Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/principle-cost-awareness curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/principle-cost-awareness/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/principle-cost-awareness/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/principle-cost-awareness/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/principle-cost-awareness/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\principle-cost-awareness\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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