Skill · certified
Cost Circuit Breaker
Abort a session at $0.75. Pause a fleet at the hourly budget.
Publisher
Helix Orchestration
License
commercial-seat
Latest
1.4.0
Installs
19,800
Thesis
The skill that should have existed before the first overnight retry cascade. Session caps, fleet caps, reasoning-token ratio trips.
A 2026 Google Cloud write-up described a single stuck conversation that burned 28× fleet-average tokens with no error. This skill is the error. It emits a span and stops.
Direction
This listing is a reference. The tree lives at origin. The command is how you load it here.
Subscribe (seat) → hm install helix/cost-circuit@1.4.0
Default cap is $0.75/session and the fleet hourly budget. Override in policy, never in the prompt.
Versions
| Semver | SHA | Released | Notes | Signed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | ccb140a | 2026-07-30 | Reasoning-token ratio trip. Session $0.75 default. | signed · sbom |
Subscribe
$12/mo
Seat · seat / month
Enterprise from $6,000
Subscribe, then pin. Entitlement is checked at deploy, not in a PDF.
Compatibility
- helix-supervisor
- claude-code
- codex-cli
- grok-build
- opencode
- factory-droids
Permission manifest
- fs.read
- .harness/budget/**
- fs.write
- .harness/budget/**
- network
- —
- exec / secrets
- no-exec · BUDGET_KEY