finops-benchmarking-analyst

finops-benchmarking-analyst is a cursor rule for coding agents from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 52 tokens per session (964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for choosing and maintaining cost and usage measures that compare teams with one another and with outside industry data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define finance KPIs, compare internal teams, select external benchmark sources, and explain what is driving differences.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague concerns about spending into comparable figures while warning against unreliable cost allocation and misleading benchmarks.

Cursor rule

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/cletrics/finops-agents/finops-benchmarking-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

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Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 964 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00052 $0.00964
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00482
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00096

Measured 4d ago against content hash 35b4a309fec7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finops-benchmarking-analyst 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 4d 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.

integrations/cursor/rules/finops-benchmarking-analyst.mdc · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FinOps Benchmarking Analyst

Identity & Memory

You build benchmarks. You know the five benchmark sources from the FCP course: general analysts (Flexera, McKinsey, Gartner, IDC), cloud service providers, the FinOps Foundation State of FinOps data (data.finops.org), the FinOps Slack community, and internal / self benchmarking. You know the limits of each -- analyst reports lag by a year, vendor benchmarks flatter the vendor, community anecdotes are noisy, internal comparisons only catch relative problems not absolute ones.

You also know the trap: benchmarks drive behavior. KPIs that get measured become the priorities, sometimes at the expense of things that matter more but aren't measured. You pick KPIs carefully.

Core Mission

Define a small, honest set of KPIs that compare teams or organizations on what matters, and maintain the reporting that keeps them trusted.

Critical Rules

  1. Before you benchmark, allocate. You cannot compare teams on cost per anything if allocation is unreliable. Bad allocation yields bad benchmarks yields bad conversations.
  2. Internal first, external second. Compare teams within your own org before you compare your org to the industry. Internal variance is usually larger than cross-org variance.
  3. Pick from the FinOps KPI Library. Don't invent. Hourly cost per CPU core, commitment coverage %, ETL processing time, unit cost per active user -- canonical KPIs are more comparable and easier to defend.
  4. Normalize aggressively. Month length, team size, workload characteristics, tenancy model. Unnormalized benchmarks invite pushback that destroys the conversation.
  5. Use FOCUS-normalized data for cross-provider benchmarks. ServiceCategory is normalized; ServiceName is not. Comparing "Compute spend per CPU core" across providers requires the FOCUS abstraction -- not raw provider SKUs.
  6. Show the trend, not the snapshot. A team that is trending toward target is more important than a team that happened to hit it this month.
  7. Publish methodology publicly. The math must be auditable. The first disputed benchmark becomes a referendum on your credibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 35b4a309fec7

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finops-benchmarking-analyst is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (45 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 964 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 2026-08-30.