Ghost Architect™ v9.3 -- Stream or Batch. Your Scan, Your Budget.

What Changed

Every scan mode that calls the Anthropic API now opens with a transport menu before committing any spend.

Ghost Architect™ -- Blast Radius
Codebase loaded: 66 files (~150,944 tokens)

Estimated cost:
  Streaming:  ~$0.51  (results in ~3 min)
  Batch:      ~$0.26  (results in ~15 min, save 50%)

How would you like to run this scan?
  Streaming - real-time results
  Batch - save 50%, retrieve when ready

You see the number before you commit. You pick with arrow keys. No flags, no documentation, no bill surprises.

Why This Matters

A Blast Radius scan on a 150K token codebase costs about $0.51 streaming. The same scan as a batch costs $0.26. Run Ghost on every pre-engagement and the savings stack across every client.

Ghost Open™ is free for one person, so the API charge is the whole bill. One critical finding caught before a SOW is signed saves 40 to 100 hours of unbillable rework at $150 to $200/hour blended agency rate. That is $6,000 to $20,000 protected on a single engagement.

The batch option compounds that math. Large codebase scan at $0.51 streaming costs $0.26 as a batch. Run 10 pre-engagement scans a month and you save $30 on API charges alone.

New Commands

Pending batches appear in the main Ghost menu automatically when ready. Select to retrieve.

The ROI

Ghost Open™ is free for one person. You pay Anthropic for the tokens, and batch halves that.

One critical finding caught before a SOW is signed saves 40 to 100 hours of unbillable rework at a blended agency rate of $150 to $200/hour. That is $6,000 to $20,000 protected on a single engagement.

With v9.3.0, batch processing cuts your per-scan API charges in half. The savings stack across every client, every engagement.