aws-cost-operations

aws-cost-operations is a skill for Claude Code from 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,026 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of aws-cost-operations, MIT.

An AWS operations guide for analyzing spending, monitoring systems, examining logs, and reviewing activity and security settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study bills, find spending trends, estimate costs, set CloudWatch alarms, query logs, review CloudTrail activity, and assess security posture.
Why use it?
It brings cost, performance, monitoring, and operational checks into one workflow when managing AWS environments.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to study bills, find spending trends, estimate costs, set CloudWatch alarms, query logs, review CloudTrail activity, and assess security posture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26bb/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp/aws-cost-operations
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp --skill aws-cost-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,026 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00055 $0.02026
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01013
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00203

Measured 8d ago against content hash 464cf04ca332, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cost-operations 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to aws-cost-operations — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-cost-operations/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Cost & Operations

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for AWS cost optimization, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence with integrated MCP servers.

AWS Documentation Requirement

Always verify AWS facts using MCP tools (mcp__aws-mcp__* or mcp__*awsdocs*__*) before answering. The aws-mcp-setup dependency is auto-loaded — if MCP tools are unavailable, guide the user through that skill's setup flow.

Integrated MCP Servers

This plugin provides 3 MCP servers:

Bundled Servers

1. AWS Pricing MCP Server (pricing)

Purpose: Pre-deployment cost estimation and optimization

  • Estimate costs before deploying resources
  • Compare pricing across regions
  • Calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Evaluate different service options for cost efficiency
2. AWS Cost Explorer MCP Server (costexp)

Purpose: Detailed cost analysis and reporting

  • Analyze historical spending patterns
  • Identify cost anomalies and trends
  • Forecast future costs
  • Analyze cost by service, region, or tag
3. Amazon CloudWatch MCP Server (cw)

Purpose: Metrics, alarms, and logs analysis

  • Query CloudWatch metrics and logs
  • Create and manage CloudWatch alarms
  • Troubleshoot operational issues
  • Monitor resource utilization

Note: The following servers are available separately via the Full AWS MCP Server (see aws-mcp-setup skill) and are not bundled with this plugin:

  • AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP — Real-time billing details
  • CloudWatch Application Signals MCP — APM and SLOs
  • AWS Managed Prometheus MCP — PromQL queries for containers
  • AWS CloudTrail MCP — API activity audit
  • AWS Well-Architected Security Assessment MCP — Security posture assessment

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Optimizing AWS costs and reducing spending
  • Estimating costs before deployment
  • Monitoring application and infrastructure performance
  • Setting up observability and alerting
  • Analyzing spending patterns and trends
  • Investigating operational issues
  • Auditing AWS activity and changes
  • Assessing security posture
  • Implementing operational excellence

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 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. 8d ago First seen · 274 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 464cf04ca332

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-cost-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26BB/agentic-awesome-skills-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,026 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to aws-cost-operations, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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