Crawler Summary
Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage. --- name: cost-guardian description: "Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage." user-invocable: true --- Cost Guardian Recommends cost-saving defaults for cron schedules, model selection, and polling patterns. **Th Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. Last updated 2/25/2026.
Freshness
Last checked 2/25/2026
Best For
cost-guardian is best for be workflows where OpenClaw compatibility matters.
Not Ideal For
Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.
Evidence Sources Checked
editorial-content, GITHUB OPENCLEW, runtime-metrics, public facts pack
Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage. --- name: cost-guardian description: "Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage." user-invocable: true --- Cost Guardian Recommends cost-saving defaults for cron schedules, model selection, and polling patterns. **Th
Public facts
4
Change events
1
Artifacts
0
Freshness
Feb 25, 2026
Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. Last updated 2/25/2026.
Trust score
Unknown
Compatibility
OpenClaw
Freshness
Feb 25, 2026
Vendor
Vnakhate
Artifacts
0
Benchmarks
0
Last release
Unpublished
Key links, install path, and a quick operational read before the deeper crawl record.
Summary
Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. Last updated 2/25/2026.
Setup snapshot
git clone https://github.com/vnakhate/openclaw-cost-guardian.gitSetup complexity is LOW. This package is likely designed for quick installation with minimal external side-effects.
Final validation: Expose the agent to a mock request payload inside a sandbox and trace the network egress before allowing access to real customer data.
Everything public we have scraped or crawled about this agent, grouped by evidence type with provenance.
Vendor
Vnakhate
Protocol compatibility
OpenClaw
Handshake status
UNKNOWN
Crawlable docs
6 indexed pages on the official domain
Merged public release, docs, artifact, benchmark, pricing, and trust refresh events.
Extracted files, examples, snippets, parameters, dependencies, permissions, and artifact metadata.
Extracted files
0
Examples
1
Snippets
0
Languages
typescript
Parameters
text
Estimated cost:
Calls/day: {24 * 60 / interval_minutes}
~tokens/call: {estimate based on payload size}
Model rate: {input + output per M tokens}
Daily cost: ${calls * tokens * rate}
Monthly cost: ${daily * 30}Full documentation captured from public sources, including the complete README when available.
Docs source
GITHUB OPENCLEW
Editorial quality
ready
Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage. --- name: cost-guardian description: "Prevents wasteful token spend. Reviews cron jobs, polling intervals, and model selection before they go live. Recommends cost-saving changes and flags expensive patterns. Invoke when creating cron jobs, workflows, or when asked about costs/usage." user-invocable: true --- Cost Guardian Recommends cost-saving defaults for cron schedules, model selection, and polling patterns. **Th
Recommends cost-saving defaults for cron schedules, model selection, and polling patterns. This skill is advisory only — it never executes commands or modifies files.
This skill only provides recommendations. It will:
It will not:
All actions are the user's responsibility.
Before the user creates or modifies ANY cron job, recommend these minimum intervals:
| Task Type | Recommended Minimum | Rationale | |-----------|---------------------|-----------| | Daily workflow (job hunt, reports, digests) | 4 hours | Work is created once/day, no need to poll constantly | | Monitoring/alerting | 15 minutes | Reasonable for non-critical monitoring | | Real-time chat/response | No cron needed | Use event-driven, not polling | | Heartbeat/health check | 1 hour | Just checking if things are alive | | Antfarm workflow agents | 2 hours | Steps complete in minutes, polling can be lazy |
Flag any polling interval under 5 minutes as expensive. Show the cost estimate and let the user decide.
Recommend that cron jobs which just check for work (peek/heartbeat) use the cheapest available model, not the primary.
| Task | Recommended Model | |------|------------------| | Heartbeat / peek for work | Cheapest available (e.g., a free or flash-tier model) | | Actual work execution | Primary model is fine | | Daily scheduled tasks | Primary model is fine |
Flag expensive models used for heartbeat polling. If a cron payload contains "peek", "NO_WORK", or "HEARTBEAT_OK", recommend switching to a cheap model.
Before the user creates any cron job, present an estimated daily/monthly cost:
Estimated cost:
Calls/day: {24 * 60 / interval_minutes}
~tokens/call: {estimate based on payload size}
Model rate: {input + output per M tokens}
Daily cost: ${calls * tokens * rate}
Monthly cost: ${daily * 30}
Recommend user confirmation if the monthly estimate exceeds $5.
Recommend the user check their LLM provider's usage dashboard or billing API regularly.
Suggested alert thresholds:
When the user sets up antfarm workflows, recommend:
7200000 ms) instead of the 5-minute defaultWhen the user asks to audit costs, suggest they:
User says: "Set up a cron to check for new emails every minute"
Cost Guardian response:
Checking every minute with a premium model would cost ~$8-15/day (~$250-450/month).
Recommended: Every 15 minutes with a free/flash-tier model. That's $0/day and you'll still catch emails within 15 min.
Would you like to use those settings instead?
Machine endpoints, protocol fit, contract coverage, invocation examples, and guardrails for agent-to-agent use.
Contract coverage
Status
missing
Auth
None
Streaming
No
Data region
Unspecified
Protocol support
Requires: none
Forbidden: none
Guardrails
Operational confidence: low
curl -s "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/snapshot"
curl -s "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/contract"
curl -s "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/trust"
Trust and runtime signals, benchmark suites, failure patterns, and practical risk constraints.
Trust signals
Handshake
UNKNOWN
Confidence
unknown
Attempts 30d
unknown
Fallback rate
unknown
Runtime metrics
Observed P50
unknown
Observed P95
unknown
Rate limit
unknown
Estimated cost
unknown
Do not use if
Every public screenshot, visual asset, demo link, and owner-provided destination tied to this agent.
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Rank
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Contract JSON
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"authModes": [],
"requires": [],
"forbidden": [],
"supportsMcp": false,
"supportsA2a": false,
"supportsStreaming": false,
"inputSchemaRef": null,
"outputSchemaRef": null,
"dataRegion": null,
"contractUpdatedAt": null,
"sourceUpdatedAt": null,
"freshnessSeconds": null
}Invocation Guide
{
"preferredApi": {
"snapshotUrl": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/snapshot",
"contractUrl": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/contract",
"trustUrl": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/trust"
},
"curlExamples": [
"curl -s \"https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/snapshot\"",
"curl -s \"https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/contract\"",
"curl -s \"https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/trust\""
],
"jsonRequestTemplate": {
"query": "summarize this repo",
"constraints": {
"maxLatencyMs": 2000,
"protocolPreference": [
"OPENCLEW"
]
}
},
"jsonResponseTemplate": {
"ok": true,
"result": {
"summary": "...",
"confidence": 0.9
},
"meta": {
"source": "GITHUB_OPENCLEW",
"generatedAt": "2026-04-17T05:14:54.000Z"
}
},
"retryPolicy": {
"maxAttempts": 3,
"backoffMs": [
500,
1500,
3500
],
"retryableConditions": [
"HTTP_429",
"HTTP_503",
"NETWORK_TIMEOUT"
]
}
}Trust JSON
{
"status": "unavailable",
"handshakeStatus": "UNKNOWN",
"verificationFreshnessHours": null,
"reputationScore": null,
"p95LatencyMs": null,
"successRate30d": null,
"fallbackRate": null,
"attempts30d": null,
"trustUpdatedAt": null,
"trustConfidence": "unknown",
"sourceUpdatedAt": null,
"freshnessSeconds": null
}Capability Matrix
{
"rows": [
{
"key": "OPENCLEW",
"type": "protocol",
"support": "unknown",
"confidenceSource": "profile",
"notes": "Listed on profile"
},
{
"key": "be",
"type": "capability",
"support": "supported",
"confidenceSource": "profile",
"notes": "Declared in agent profile metadata"
}
],
"flattenedTokens": "protocol:OPENCLEW|unknown|profile capability:be|supported|profile"
}Facts JSON
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{
"factKey": "docs_crawl",
"category": "integration",
"label": "Crawlable docs",
"value": "6 indexed pages on the official domain",
"href": "https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fopenclaw%2Fskills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fskills%2Fasleep123%2Fcaldav-calendar",
"sourceUrl": "https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fopenclaw%2Fskills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fskills%2Fasleep123%2Fcaldav-calendar",
"sourceType": "search_document",
"confidence": "medium",
"observedAt": "2026-04-15T05:03:46.393Z",
"isPublic": true
},
{
"factKey": "vendor",
"category": "vendor",
"label": "Vendor",
"value": "Vnakhate",
"href": "https://github.com/vnakhate/openclaw-cost-guardian",
"sourceUrl": "https://github.com/vnakhate/openclaw-cost-guardian",
"sourceType": "profile",
"confidence": "medium",
"observedAt": "2026-02-25T01:46:54.639Z",
"isPublic": true
},
{
"factKey": "protocols",
"category": "compatibility",
"label": "Protocol compatibility",
"value": "OpenClaw",
"href": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/contract",
"sourceUrl": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/contract",
"sourceType": "contract",
"confidence": "medium",
"observedAt": "2026-02-25T01:46:54.639Z",
"isPublic": true
},
{
"factKey": "handshake_status",
"category": "security",
"label": "Handshake status",
"value": "UNKNOWN",
"href": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/trust",
"sourceUrl": "https://xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/vnakhate-openclaw-cost-guardian/trust",
"sourceType": "trust",
"confidence": "medium",
"observedAt": null,
"isPublic": true
}
]Change Events JSON
[
{
"eventType": "docs_update",
"title": "Docs refreshed: Sign in to GitHub · GitHub",
"description": "Fresh crawlable documentation was indexed for the official domain.",
"href": "https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fopenclaw%2Fskills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fskills%2Fasleep123%2Fcaldav-calendar",
"sourceUrl": "https://github.com/login?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fopenclaw%2Fskills%2Ftree%2Fmain%2Fskills%2Fasleep123%2Fcaldav-calendar",
"sourceType": "search_document",
"confidence": "medium",
"observedAt": "2026-04-15T05:03:46.393Z",
"isPublic": true
}
]Sponsored
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