Control costs skill
- Waste identification: Find unused columns, never-queried datasets, and high-volume low-value data
- Query analysis: Analyze query patterns to identify optimization opportunities
- Dashboard deployment: Deploy cost control dashboards with ingest trends, burn rate, and projections
- Monitor creation: Set up monitors for contract limits, spike detection, and reduction glidepaths
- Analysis workflow: Systematic approach to prioritize and analyze datasets by impact
Prerequisites#
- Create an Axiom account.
- Create a dataset in Axiom where you send your data.
- Create an API token in Axiom with permissions to ingest data to the dataset you have created.
Install Axiom Skills#
Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:
npx skills add axiomhq/skillsConfigure Axiom credentials#
All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at ~/.axiom.toml:
~/.axiom.toml
[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
edge_url = "AXIOM_DOMAIN"Replace API_TOKEN with the Axiom API token you have generated. For added security, store the API token in an environment variable.
Replace ORGANIZATION_ID with your organization ID. For more information, see Determine organization ID.
Replace AXIOM_DOMAIN with the base domain of your edge deployment. For more information, see Edge deployments.
For token creation and scoping guidance, see Token hygiene for AI agents.
Use Control costs skill#
The Control costs skill activates automatically when you ask your AI agent to:
- Reduce Axiom costs or find waste
- Set up cost control dashboards and monitors
- Analyze query coverage and unused data
- Track ingest spend and burn rate
Example prompts:
- "Help reduce Axiom costs"
- "Find unused columns in the datasets"
- "Set up cost control monitoring for the organization"
- "Which datasets are being paid for but never queried?"
Cost control workflow#
The Control costs skill follows a phased approach:
| Phase | Description |
|---|---|
| Discovery | Capture baseline ingest statistics and build analysis queue |
| Dashboard | Deploy cost control dashboard with trends and projections |
| Monitors | Create monitors for contract limits and spike detection |
| Optimization | Analyze datasets to find waste and recommend actions |
| Glidepath | Track reduction progress with weekly threshold updates |