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  • Explore repo and understand current cost-management.md content
  • Fix skip-if-match snippet: move to correct position inside on: block
  • Fix skip-if-no-match snippet: move to correct position inside on: block
  • Add "Monitoring costs with gh aw logs" section showing how to inspect Actions minutes consumption
  • Add concrete meta-agent workflow snippet to the Agentic Cost Optimization section
  • Build docs and verify no errors (129 pages, all links valid)

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Pull request overview

Updates the Cost Management reference docs to better support cost monitoring and improve correctness of trigger cost-avoidance examples.

Changes:

  • Added a new “Monitoring Costs with gh aw logs” section with CLI and JSON export examples.
  • Fixed skip-if-match / skip-if-no-match examples to be correctly positioned under the on: block.
  • Refined the existing tip to focus gh aw audit on single-run deep dives (and removed redundant gh aw logs mention).

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# List per-run duration, tokens, and cost across all workflows
gh aw logs --start-date -30d --json | \
jq '.runs[] | {workflow: .workflow_name, duration: .duration, cost: .estimated_cost}'
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In the JSON export example, the comment says it will list per-run duration, tokens, and cost, but the jq filter only outputs workflow, duration, and cost. Either include token_usage in the jq output or update the surrounding text so it matches the actual fields being shown.

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jq '.runs[] | {workflow: .workflow_name, duration: .duration, cost: .estimated_cost}'
jq '.runs[] | {workflow: .workflow_name, duration: .duration, tokens: .token_usage, cost: .estimated_cost}'

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# Total cost grouped by workflow over the past 30 days
gh aw logs --start-date -30d --json | \
jq '[.runs[]] | group_by(.workflow_name) |
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The jq example that uses group_by(.workflow_name) will produce incorrect totals unless the input array is sorted by workflow_name first (jq groups only adjacent equal keys). Consider adding sort_by(.workflow_name) before group_by, or use a reduce-based aggregation.

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jq '[.runs[]] | group_by(.workflow_name) |
jq '[.runs[]] | sort_by(.workflow_name) | group_by(.workflow_name) |

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## Monitoring Costs with `gh aw logs`

The `gh aw logs` command downloads workflow run data and surfaces per-run metrics including elapsed duration, token usage, and estimated inference cost. Use it to see exactly what your workflows are consuming before deciding what to optimize.
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The PR description checklist mentions adding a concrete meta-agent workflow snippet to the “Agentic Cost Optimization” section, but this file still contains only narrative text in that section (no snippet/example workflow). Either add the promised snippet or update the PR description to match the actual changes.

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