Skills

Meter Estimate

Pre-flight token and cost estimation for a planned action.

Install

npx skills add Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus --skill meter-estimate -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
1mo ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 779 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Pre-flight token and cost estimation for a planned action. Analyzes the current plan or a described action and estimates token consumption, Snowflake credit usage, and whether it exceeds configured thresholds.

Your objective is to estimate token and cost impact before executing an action.

Before proceeding, verify that .cocoplus/ exists. If not: output "CocoPlus not initialized in this directory. Run $pod init to begin." Then stop.

If no argument provided: read .cocoplus/flow.json to estimate the full pipeline. If argument provided (e.g., $meter estimate "run 3-stage pipeline"): estimate the described action.

Estimation Approach

For pipeline estimation:

  • Count stages in flow.json
  • For each stage, estimate based on persona and typical workload:
    • data-engineer: ~8,000 tokens/stage (SQL-heavy)
    • analytics-engineer: ~6,000 tokens/stage (semantic modeling)
    • data-scientist: ~12,000 tokens/stage (notebook + analysis)
    • data-analyst: ~4,000 tokens/stage (queries + reporting)
    • bi-analyst: ~3,000 tokens/stage (visualization spec)
    • data-product-manager: ~2,000 tokens/stage (documentation)
    • data-steward: ~3,000 tokens/stage (governance)
    • chief-data-officer: ~2,000 tokens/stage (review)

Apply Accuracy Learning Calibration

Read .cocoplus/meter/adjustment-factor.json if it exists:

{ "factor": N, "sample_size": N, "computed_at": "..." }

If the file exists and sample_size >= 2:

  • calibrated_total = raw_total × factor
  • Calibration label: (baseline: [raw_total], calibration factor: [factor]x from [sample_size] prior sessions) Else:
  • calibrated_total = raw_total
  • No calibration label

Write estimate to .cocoplus/meter/preflight-log.jsonl:

{ "session_id": "[current-session-id]", "estimated_tokens": [calibrated_total], "estimated_credits": [estimated_credits], "timestamp": "[ISO 8601]" }

Output:

# Pre-flight Estimate

Action: [described action or "Full pipeline execution"]
Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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