Update READMEs to reflect social cost proxy capabilities

Fix stale compute cost estimate ($500-1000 → $50-100), update toolkit
descriptions to mention social cost proxies, aggregate dashboard, and
review delta tool.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Why ## Why
A single long conversation with a frontier LLM consumes on the order of A single long conversation with a frontier LLM consumes on the order of
100-250 Wh of energy, emits 30-80g of CO2, and costs $500-1000 in 100-250 Wh of energy, emits 30-80g of CO2, and costs $50-100 in
compute. Most of this cost is invisible to the user. This project makes compute. Most of this cost is invisible to the user. This project makes
it visible. it visible.
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- **[impact-toolkit/](impact-toolkit/)** — A ready-to-install toolkit - **[impact-toolkit/](impact-toolkit/)** — A ready-to-install toolkit
for [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/claude-code) that automatically for [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/claude-code) that automatically
tracks token usage, energy, CO2, and cost on each context compaction. tracks environmental, financial, and social cost proxies on each
Includes a manual annotation tool for recording positive impact. context compaction. Includes aggregate dashboards and a review delta
tool for measuring human oversight of AI-generated code.
- **[CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md)** — Instructions for an AI assistant to - **[CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md)** — Instructions for an AI assistant to
pursue net-positive impact: estimate costs before acting, maximize pursue net-positive impact: estimate costs before acting, maximize

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# Claude Code Impact Toolkit # Claude Code Impact Toolkit
Track the environmental and financial cost of your Claude Code Track the environmental, financial, and social cost of your Claude Code
conversations. conversations.
## What it does ## What it does