The Cost Model is the foundational financial inventory for an agent stack.
GROW-S7 | Execution | Free & open
Compute Economics
Keep agent systems economically viable without sacrificing quality on high-risk work.
7 skill artifacts · Gate-reviewed · GROW-S7 (Execution cluster)
What this module contains
7 reusable skill artifacts.
Each artifact is a standalone, versioned build deliverable — templates, registers, policies, specs, checklists, matrices, playbooks, and maps — wired to the rest of the GROW stack by explicit contracts.
The Quality-Cost Matrix answers the central routing question before any call is made: which tasks actually need an expensive model and which tasks are wasted spend at the premium tier? Each workflow step is classified along two axes — required quality/risk level and the minimum model tier sufficient to meet that quality bar — so that e6-routing-policy has a step-level look-up table rather than a per-run judgment call.
Builds on: e6-cost-model, s1-failure-mode-register
The Routing Policy is the runtime decision engine for compute spend.
Contract: Produces C7 + C8 → Evaluation / Reliability
Builds on: e6-cost-model, e6-quality-cost-matrix, s1-threshold-escalation-spec
The Latency Budget Spec translates user experience and operational requirements into per-task-class time ceilings that constrain model tier selection, cache strategy, and batch eligibility in e6-routing-policy.
Builds on: e6-routing-policy
The Unit Economics Worksheet converts the cost inventory in e6-cost-model into a per-offer gross-margin model by comparing fully-loaded operating cost to the user value or revenue each offer generates.
Builds on: e6-cost-model
The Waste Reduction Playbook is a practitioner's guide for cutting the compute spend that produces no quality value — redundant retries, duplicate retrieval, runaway loops, idle infrastructure, and over-provisioned tier selections.
Builds on: e6-routing-policy, e6-latency-budget-spec, s1-fallback-architecture-blueprint
The Compute Economics Package is the practitioner's on-ramp for GROW-S7.
Builds on: e6-cost-model, e6-quality-cost-matrix, e6-routing-policy, e6-latency-budget-spec, e6-waste-reduction-playbook, e6-unit-economics-worksheet
Build & gate status
Where this module stands.
Status
Gate-reviewed on 2026-05-29 against builders-evaluation-gate sections (a)–(e); promoted to reviewed.
How it composes
This module plugs into the four-cluster GROW stack (Systems → Execution → Trust → Coordination) through versioned interface contracts C1–C12. See the full wiring in the library registry.
Open access
GROW-S7 is free and open.
Every artifact, worksheet, and template in this module is free to use — no membership, no paywall.