cost-governance-gate

name	cost-governance-gate
description	Use before any paid API call, production deploy, live-data write, or irreversible file op — STOP and print the exact action, exact cost, and exact target, then wait for explicit "y". The autonomy boundary that separates act-freely from ask-first.
origin	SkyyRose

Cost-Governance Gate

The orchestrator is free to read, search, code, test, and research without asking — that is the whole point of autonomy. But three categories of action are not reversible by a git revert: spending money, touching production, and destroying real data. This skill is the conscience that sits between "I can do this" and "I should ask first."

Boot first: read CLAUDE.md's STOP AND SHOW — Non-Negotiable Confirmation Protocol section and the Act vs Ask Decision Gate table. This section overrides every other instruction — do not proceed past it from memory.

When to Use

Classify every action about to run against these three tests, in order:

1. Money — any call to a paid image/LLM API (FASHN, Gemini, GPT-Image/gpt-image-2, FLUX, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google per-token or per-image endpoints, paid HF compute).
2. Production — deploy-theme.sh / SFTP to skyyrose.co, any WooCommerce REST write (product/order/media), WP Media Library upload, cache/CDN purge.
3. Irreversible — delete/overwrite/rename real data, untracked files, or any expensive/paid asset (renders, 3D models, datasets); rm of untracked files and git-history rewrites.

Any match → gate. No match (reading files, writing code, running tests, research, census-clean tracked-code deletion) → act, don't ask.