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Budgetary: estimate token spend for Claude Code

io.github.thriftell/budgetary

Pre-flight token-spend estimate (range, scenario, confidence) for a coding task, or an abstention.

client:Claude Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Budgetary: estimate token spend in Claude Code

run in your project directory

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen.

claude mcp add budgetary -e BUDGETARY_API_KEY=<BUDGETARY_API_KEY> -e BUDGETARY_HOST=<BUDGETARY_HOST> -- npx -y @budgetary/mcp

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

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