Control costs skill

The Control costs skill helps AI agents optimize Axiom usage and reduce costs:

• 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/skills

Configure Axiom credentials#

All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at ~/.axiom.toml:

[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
edge_url = "AXIOM_DOMAIN"

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: