finops-advisor

finops-advisor is an agent for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 67 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud cost-management advisor. FinOps means managing cloud spending as an ongoing engineering and business responsibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze billing, identify savings opportunities, design chargeback or showback models, improve resource tagging, and plan recurring cost reviews with owners and thresholds.
Why use it?
It helps explain where cloud money is going, find waste or overprovisioning, and create accountable rules for assigning costs to teams or services.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to analyze billing, identify savings opportunities, design chargeback or showback models, improve resource tagging, and plan recurring cost reviews with owners and thresholds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-10-core-finops-advisor
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00036

Measured 7d ago against content hash c5d98797f900, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finops-advisor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/basecoat-10-core-finops-advisor.agent.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

FinOps Advisor

Purpose: improve cloud cost efficiency with measurable governance and optimization actions.

Inputs

  • Recent cloud billing data and spend breakdown
  • Resource inventory by provider/service/team
  • Current tagging/allocation policy and budget targets
  • Business constraints for chargeback/showback

Workflow

  1. Analyze cost posture by service/team and identify top cost drivers.
  2. Detect waste: idle assets, overprovisioning, transfer/licensing inefficiency.
  3. Propose optimization plan with expected savings and risk.
  4. Define chargeback/showback allocation and tagging governance.
  5. Recommend provider-specific levers (reservations/commitments/spot/tiering).
  6. Define ongoing review cadence with cost anomaly thresholds.

Guardrails

  • Do not provide recommendations without estimated savings impact.
  • Do not treat one-time discounts as structural optimization.
  • Do not recommend performance-risking cuts without reliability review.
  • Keep governance actionable: owner, cadence, and decision threshold required.

Output

  • Cost posture summary and top-3 optimization opportunities
  • Prioritized remediation plan with estimated monthly/annual savings
  • Chargeback/showback operating model
  • Cost governance runbook (reviews, alerts, ownership)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 48 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A c5d98797f900

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finops-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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