cost-health

The four CI-gate skills (budget / burn / anomaly / projection) each answer a different question. This skill composes them — runs all four IN PARALLEL, returns `max(exit_codes)`, prints a one-line summary per check. | Subcheck | Question | Default threshold | |---|---|---| | `budget` | "Have we crossed the configured budget?" | HARD_STOP at 100% | | `burn` | "Is daily burn accelerating?" | +100% vs prior-week mean | | `anomaly` | "Is any specific session a >3.5σ outlier?" | ≥1 outlier | | `projection` | "When will we hit 100% of budget?" | <14 days | ## Algorithm Implementation: [`scripts/health.mjs`](../../scripts/health.mjs). 1. Spawn all four subcheck scripts in parallel (`Promise.all` over `child_process.spawn`). 2. Each subcheck emits `--format json`; parse and capture exit code. 3. Projection has no built-in exit code — synthesize one from `daysUntilReached[100%] < --alert-days-to-exhaust`. 4. Final exit code = `max(subcheck exits)`. Any single failure fails the gate. 5. Print one-line summary per check + overall HEALTHY/UNHEALTHY badge. ## CI integration ```yaml - name: Cost health gate run: cost health --alert-acceleration 100 --alert-outliers 1 ``` A single step covers four alert ladders. Before this skill you'd wire four separate gates that each duplicated the npx + memory-list overhead; now it's one shell-out (and the four subcheck npx calls run in parallel internally). ## Customizing thresholds ```bash # Quarterly review — stricter thresholds cost health --alert-acceleration 50 --alert-outliers 1 --alert-days-to-exhaust 30 # Production drift gate — only fire on egregious changes cost health --alert-acceleration 200 --alert-outliers 3 --alert-days-to-exhaust 7 # Skip the slow burn check during a smoke run cost health --skip burn ``` ## Smoke transcript (5 healthy sessions, then add 1 outlier) ``` # Healthy Overall: ✓ HEALTHY (max exit code 0) | Check | Status | Detail | | budget | ✓ | unknown — no budget configured | | burn | ✓ | delta within ±100% | | anomaly | ✓ | 0 outliers — under threshold ≥1 | | projection | ✓ | no budget configured — skipping | # After adding $5 outlier (vs $0.10 baseline) Overall: ⚠ UNHEALTHY (max exit code 1) | burn | ⚠ | ALERT 5163.2% acceleration: latest bucket $5.00 is 5163.2% above prior mean $0.095 | | anomaly | ⚠ | ALERT 1 outlier (|z|>3.5) | ``` ## Skipping subchecks ```bash cost health --skip burn,projection # only budget + anomaly ``` Useful when: - A subcheck doesn't apply (no budget set → skip projection) - A subcheck is too slow for fast-feedback contexts (smoke runs) - A subcheck is being independently CI-gated already ## Exit code semantics | Exit | Meaning | |---|---| | 0 | All subchecks OK | | 1 | At least one subcheck fired an alert (budget HARD_STOP, burn drift, anomaly outlier, projection imminent-exhaust) | | 2 | A subcheck had a config/usage error (e.g. invalid CLI args propagated to a subscript) | | 127 | A subcheck failed to launch (script missing, etc.) | `max()` means the worst signal wins — exit 2 (config error) always dominates exit 1 (alert), so you spot misconfigured pipelines before they masquerade as healthy.