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Add burnd — local-first Claude Code cost-leak detector#49

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Adding burnd to Monitoring & Analytics.

What it is

burnd is a local-first CLI that reads your ~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl session files and finds 8 specific cost-leak patterns with dollar-denominated fixes:

  • Opus on routine work (Sonnet costs 80% less for short-output sessions)
  • Project cost outliers (one project burning 3-10x your median)
  • Retry storms / tool error storms
  • Repeated reads (same file read 3+ times)
  • Tool overuse (one tool >70% of calls)
  • Late-night coding tax (00:00-05:00 sessions cost 2.5x)
  • Over-firing skills (one skill >25% of tool calls)

Differs from existing entries in the section (ccusage, sniffly, claude-code-costs) by focusing on cross-session pattern detection with specific fixes vs current-usage display.

How it works

100% local. Reads your jsonl files, computes HMAC-based license keys (no database), prints top leaks with savings estimates. MIT, zero telemetry (optional anonymous install ping with opt-out env var).

Install

npx -y getburnd

Already merged in rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit#283 and jqueryscript/awesome-claude-code#219 for cross-reference.

Thanks for maintaining this list!

burnd is a local-first cost-leak detector that reads Claude Code
~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl session files and identifies 8 specific
patterns wasting spend (Opus on routine work, retry storms, context
thrash, repeated reads, project outliers, late-night coding, tool
overuse, over-firing skills). Outputs dollar-denominated fixes per leak.

https://github.com/garvitsurana271/burnd
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