Optimize Windsurf costs through tier selection, sampling, and usage monitoring. Use when analyzing Windsurf billing, reducing API costs, or implementing usage monitoring and budget alerts. Trigger with phrases like "windsurf cost", "windsurf billing", "reduce windsurf costs", "windsurf pricing", "windsurf expensive", "windsurf budget".
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DevOps & Infrastructure
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This skill provides clear structure and reasonable description coverage for cost optimization concepts, but suffers from a critical flaw: 'Windsurf' appears to be the AI coding editor/IDE (Codeium Windsurf), not an API service with request-based pricing tiers. The skill treats it as if it were a cloud API with per-request billing, pricing tiers ($0/Free, $99/Pro), and batch endpoints—none of which align with Windsurf's actual subscription model. The code examples (TypeScript request tracking, SQL queries, batch APIs) and strategies (sampling, batching, compression) are generic cloud API cost optimization patterns misapplied to an IDE product. While the structure is clean and the description adequately covers what the skill claims to do, the fundamental premise is incorrect. Novelty scores 0 because a CLI agent could provide generic cost optimization advice without this skill, and the skill doesn't address Windsurf's actual cost model (subscription tiers, usage limits for the IDE features). The task knowledge is partially useful as general API cost optimization guidance but doesn't actually help with real Windsurf cost tuning.
jeremylongshore
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