feat(catalog): add Cost Tracker (cost) community extension by Quratulain-bilal · Pull Request #2448 · github/spec-kit

Quratulain-bilal · 2026-05-04T17:04:58Z

Summary

Adds a new community extension to the catalog: cost — Cost Tracker.

Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports. Token-analyzer counts tokens; this counts dollars, which is what finance, procurement, and engineering leads actually need to greenlight spec-driven development at scale.

Extension at a glance

Repo: https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost
Release: v1.0.0 (tagged)
License: MIT
Commands (5): track, report, budget, compare, export
Hooks: none — purely user-invoked
Network: none — all data stays under .specify/cost/ locally
Compatible with: every integration (claude, copilot, gemini, opencode, …)

Why this is useful

Bundled pricing table covers Claude (Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7, Haiku 4.5), GPT-4o, and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Editable in cost-config.yml for negotiated rates.
Append-only JSONL ledger — diff-friendly, recoverable from a partial last line.
Budgets are versioned in config, so they're reviewed in PRs alongside other constraints.
compare re-prices the same workload across all models, so teams can quantify the savings (or cost) of switching integrations before they switch.

Catalog checklist

JSON valid (python -m json.tool)
Description under 200 chars
Required fields populated (name, id, description, author, version, download_url, repository, license, requires, provides, tags, created_at, updated_at)
HTTPS repository and download URLs
Tag v1.0.0 exists in the source repo
updated_at bumped at the top level
Alphabetical placement (between conduct and critique)

Test plan

Catalog JSON parses
Tag v1.0.0 resolves and the download URL returns 200
extension.yml validates against the extension schema
All five command files render as valid markdown with frontmatter

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Adds a new entry for spec-kit-cost — track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows with per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports. Repo: https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost Release: v1.0.0

kennedy-whytech · 2026-05-04T18:02:52Z

Nice. There are some overlapping features between this and https://github.com/coderandhiker/spec-kit-token-analyzer ?

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Pull request overview

Adds the cost community extension to the extension discovery catalog so users can find the new Cost Tracker entry alongside other community-maintained extensions.

Changes:

Adds a new "cost" entry in extensions/catalog.community.json with metadata, URLs, version, tags, and capability counts.
Places the new entry in the alphabetized catalog near other co* extensions.
Removes trailing whitespace from the final existing entry.

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File	Description
`extensions/catalog.community.json`	Adds the new community extension catalog entry and a small formatting cleanup.

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Comments generated: 2

+    "cost": {
+      "name": "Cost Tracker",
+      "id": "cost",
+      "description": "Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports.",
+      "author": "Quratulain-bilal",


+      "created_at": "2026-05-03T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-05-03T00:00:00Z"


mnriem

Please address Copilot feedback

Address Copilot review feedback: - Add Cost Tracker row to README community extensions table - Bump top-level updated_at per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE.md

Quratulain-bilal · 2026-05-05T02:34:58Z

Both points addressed in 1d2a2f9:

Added Cost Tracker row to the README community extensions table (between Confluence and DocGuard).
Bumped top-level updated_at and the entry updated_at to 2026-05-04T00:00:00Z.

Let me know if anything else needs adjusting.

# Conflicts: # extensions/catalog.community.json

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Comments generated: 2

 | Cleanup Extension | Post-implementation quality gate that reviews changes, fixes small issues (scout rule), creates tasks for medium issues, and generates analysis for large issues | `code` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-cleanup](https://github.com/dsrednicki/spec-kit-cleanup) |
 | Conduct Extension | Orchestrates spec-kit phases via sub-agent delegation to reduce context pollution. | `process` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-conduct-ext](https://github.com/twbrandon7/spec-kit-conduct-ext) |
 | Confluence Extension | Create a doc in Confluence summarizing the specifications and planning files | `integration` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-confluence](https://github.com/aaronrsun/spec-kit-confluence) |
+| Cost Tracker | Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports | `analytics` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-cost](https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost) |


+    "cost": {
+      "name": "Cost Tracker",
+      "id": "cost",
+      "description": "Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports.",
+      "author": "Quratulain-bilal",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-cost/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.8.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 5,
+        "hooks": 0
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "cost",
+        "budget",
+        "tokens",
+        "analytics",
+        "finance"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-05-03T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-05-04T00:00:00Z"
+    },


mnriem · 2026-05-05T16:39:58Z

Please address Copilot feedback. Note the category addition is fine!

- Move cost entry after confluence so the c* block is alphabetized - Bump top-level updated_at to 2026-05-05 per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE - Use documented 'visibility' category in README (not 'analytics'), matching Token Consumption Analyzer's classification - Replace 'analytics' tag with 'visibility' in catalog tags for consistency

# Conflicts: # extensions/catalog.community.json

Quratulain-bilal · 2026-05-05T17:35:35Z

@mnriem! Addressed all four Copilot points in 4d6bd63:

Moved the cost entry after confluence so the c* block is alphabetized.
Bumped top-level updated_at to 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE.md:204-205.
README row uses the documented visibility category (matching Token Consumption Analyzer) instead of
analytics.
Replaced analytics tag with visibility in the catalog tags for consistency.

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+    "cost": {
+      "name": "Cost Tracker",
+      "id": "cost",
+      "description": "Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports.",


mnriem · 2026-05-05T18:30:29Z

Please address Copilot feedback

Address Copilot feedback: the file-level updated_at must be bumped on every catalog change per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE.md:204-205.

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docs(catalog): add Cost Tracker README row, bump updated_at

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Address Copilot review feedback: - Add Cost Tracker row to README community extensions table - Bump top-level updated_at per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE.md

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/catalog-cost

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# Conflicts: # extensions/catalog.community.json

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Quratulain-bilal added 2 commits May 5, 2026 22:29

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/catalog-cost

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"cost": {

"name": "Cost Tracker",

"id": "cost",

"description": "Track real LLM dollar cost across SDD workflows — per-feature budgets, per-integration comparison, and finance-ready exports.",

Quratulain-bilal added 2 commits May 6, 2026 06:20

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/catalog-cost

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fix(catalog): bump top-level updated_at for cost entry addition

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Address Copilot feedback: the file-level updated_at must be bumped on every catalog change per EXTENSION-PUBLISHING-GUIDE.md:204-205.

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