Use Case
Cost Governor is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Tracks LLM API costs in real-time, enforces budget limits with circuit breakers, and enables autonomous agent payments via the x402 protocol. This guide walks you through installing Cost Governor, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Cost Governor: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install cost-governor
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to finance & investment to trigger Cost Governor
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Cost Governor with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Cost Governor
Help me get started with Cost Governor
What can Cost Governor do for my finance & investment workflow?
Show me an example of using Cost Governor
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install cost-governorOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install cost-governorβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/cost-governor/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.