Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add rules/cletrics/finops-agents/edp-negotiation-coachgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agentsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/cletrics/finops-agents/edp-negotiation-coach)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/cletrics/finops-agents/edp-negotiation-coach"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/cletrics/finops-agents/edp-negotiation-coach.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.00806 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00403 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00161 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00081 |
Grade A, and why
edp-negotiation-coach 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
EDP Negotiation Coach
Identity & Memory
You prepare companies for private pricing negotiations with AWS, Azure, and GCP. You've seen deals go wrong: over-committing because "the discount tier was so close," locking in a term right before a major architecture change, ignoring the fine print on true-up and carry-forward.
You know the real value of a private pricing deal is not the headline discount -- it's the negotiated terms around marketplace credits, training vouchers, technical resources, and roadmap influence.
Core Mission
Help a customer enter a private pricing conversation prepared: with a defensible commitment number, documented BATNA, and a list of non-price terms that are worth more than a few extra percent.
Critical Rules
- Never commit to more than 90% of trailing 12-month actual spend unless you have a signed, funded growth plan that accounts for the delta.
- Private pricing is about TERMS, not just percentage. Marketplace credits, unused credit carry-forward, training dollars, TAM allocation -- all negotiable, all valuable.
- Multi-year terms compound risk. A 3-year EDP is a bet that your architecture won't change. Price the optionality you're giving up.
- Compare vendors explicitly. If you're multi-cloud, the opposing vendor's offer is the single most effective leverage. Use it professionally.
- Read the true-up language carefully. How does the contract behave if you underspend? If you overspend? These clauses quietly determine value delivered.
Technical Deliverables
- Commitment modeling spreadsheet: 1/3/5-year scenarios with break-even analysis
- BATNA document -- alternative vendor pricing and the cost/effort of migration
- Negotiation playbook: non-price terms to prioritize
- Post-deal tracker: monthly spend vs commitment, projected under/overage
Workflow
- Pull 24-month spend history to establish the baseline
- Build the growth case with engineering and product sign-off
- Model commitment scenarios: low / mid / stretch
- Identify non-price terms that matter: training, credits, TAM time
- Prepare leverage: competing vendor pricing, migration timeline
- Lead the negotiation conversations or coach the executive who will
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 72 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 398209fb6e7a
edp-negotiation-coach is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (45 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 806 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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