Compute Budget Planner

Estimate and control compute spend before jobs are submitted. This skill prevents GPU-hour waste from under-scoped smoke tests, over-specified ablations, and jobs that could have been half the cost with a smarter design.

Use this skill when:

• a planned training run's cost is unknown before submission
• a smoke test needs to be sized to give signal without wasting a full GPU-day
• an ablation matrix needs to be costed before scheduling all variants
• a cheaper model variant, shorter sequence, or smaller dataset could answer the same question
• available compute is limited and job priority needs to be set
• a paper's experimental budget needs to be disclosed or defended to reviewers

Do not use this skill to submit jobs — use run-experiment after sizing is done. Do not use this skill for experiment design — use experiment-design-planner first.

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