cost-benefit
Cost-benefit analysis. Produces economic NPV and financial NPV side by side, with BCR, optimism bias (with mitigation), Marginal Excess Tax Burden, real-terms rebasing, WELLBY / QALY / VPF wellbeing valuation, sensitivity, switching values, EANC for unequal-life options, validation gate, and a one-l…
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cost-benefitInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
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Our assessment of cost-benefit
cost-benefit scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 95th of 172 Customer Support skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so cost-benefit is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
cost-benefit compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than cost-benefit; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cost-benefit (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| algorithmic-artby anthropics | 100 | 177.9k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
| pptxby anthropics | 100 | 177.9k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
| designby nextlevelbuilder | 100 | 130.2k | 6d ago | SKILL.md |
| ui-ux-pro-maxby nextlevelbuilder | 100 | 130.2k | 6d ago | SKILL.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install cost-benefit?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill cost-benefit. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does cost-benefit work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is cost-benefit safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is cost-benefit still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so cost-benefit is actively maintained.
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