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Budgetary: estimate token spend for Gemini CLI

io.github.thriftell/budgetary

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

client:Gemini CLI transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Budgetary: estimate token spend in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "budgetary": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@budgetary/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BUDGETARY_API_KEY": "<BUDGETARY_API_KEY>",
        "BUDGETARY_HOST": "<BUDGETARY_HOST>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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