📖About & Usage

About

Cost Intelligence is a forward‑looking estimator that gives Midas the cost projections he needs to decide whether the organization can afford a new project. When an initiative plan is proposed, this droid reads historical spending data from past droid runs, counts the steps in the plan, and predicts the likely cost by blending historical averages with patterns like retries and review cycles. It delivers its estimate through an API that the planning system consumes, always showing its assumptions so people can validate the reasoning.

It is owned by Midas and is one of a larger family of 25 intelligence droids used across agents such as Albus, Archon, Athena, Carol, and others. Although the Cost Intelligence name is unique to Midas, the underlying archetype is shared — each intelligence droid serves its owner with a specific analytical lens, in this case forward‑looking cost estimation rather than post‑hoc tracking.

Cost Intelligence runs as pure software with no calls to Claude. It relies entirely on algorithmic analysis of historical cost data from the Carol planner, never invoking a language model for its estimates. It does not track actual spending or enforce budgets; that work falls to the paired droid ES‑S1, which handles post‑hoc variance.

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📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.