Cost per Conversation

cost-report and cost-optimize aggregate by agent and model. This skill aggregates by conversation (session) — a different lens that surfaces which conversations cost the most. Useful for retrospectives ("which sessions ran long on Opus?") and for evaluating whether a given project's session pattern is sustainable.

When to use

• After multiple sessions, to see total spend per conversation.
• Before scoping a long session, to understand typical cost-per-conversation.
• For per-project rollups via CONV_NAMESPACE=cost-tracking-<project>.

Steps

1. Run the script from anywhere:

   node plugins/ruflo-cost-tracker/scripts/conversation.mjs
   

   Optional env:

   • CONV_FORMAT=json — emit JSON instead of markdown
   • CONV_LIMIT=20 — show only the most recent N conversations
   • CONV_NAMESPACE=cost-tracking — override target namespace

2. Inspect the markdown table — total cost across all conversations, per-tier rollup, then a per-session table (started-at, sessionId prefix, message count, top model, cost).

Cross-references

• cost-track — the producer that populates cost-tracking:session-*
• cost-report — same data, per-agent / per-model lens
• cost-trend — drift across bench runs (different axis: corpus runs vs conversations)
• cost-budget-check — sums across conversations to evaluate the budget threshold