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.
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill cloud-cost-managementgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-promptsWrote 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/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cloud-cost-management)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cloud-cost-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cloud-cost-management/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cloud-cost-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cloud-cost-management.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
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 | $0.00029 | $0.00682 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00341 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
cloud-cost-management 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 12d 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 — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cloud Cost Management
Table of Contents
Overview
Cloud cost management involves monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing cloud spending. Implement strategies using reserved instances, spot pricing, proper sizing, and cost allocation to maximize ROI and prevent budget overruns.
When to Use
- Reducing cloud infrastructure costs
- Optimizing compute spending
- Managing database costs
- Storage optimization
- Data transfer cost reduction
- Reserved capacity planning
- Chargeback and cost allocation
- Budget forecasting and alerts
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
# Enable Cost Explorer
aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
--time-period Start=2024-01-01,End=2024-01-31 \
--granularity MONTHLY \
--metrics "UnblendedCost" \
--group-by Type=DIMENSION,Key=SERVICE
# List EC2 instances for right-sizing
aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId,InstanceType,State.Name,LaunchTime,Tag]' \
--output table
# Find unattached EBS volumes
aws ec2 describe-volumes \
--filters Name=status,Values=available \
--query 'Volumes[*].[VolumeId,Size,State,CreateTime]'
# Identify unattached Elastic IPs
aws ec2 describe-addresses \
--query 'Addresses[?AssociationId==null]'
# Get RDS instance costs
aws rds describe-db-instances \
--query 'DBInstances[*].[DBInstanceIdentifier,DBInstanceClass,StorageType,AllocatedStorage]'
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| AWS Cost Optimization with AWS CLI | AWS Cost Optimization with AWS CLI |
| Terraform Cost Management Configuration | Terraform Cost Management Configuration |
| Azure Cost Management | Azure Cost Management |
| GCP Cost Optimization | GCP Cost Optimization |
| Cost Monitoring Dashboard | Cost Monitoring Dashboard |
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/aws-cost-optimization-with-aws-cli.md 1.4 KB
- references/azure-cost-management.md 1000 B
- references/cost-monitoring-dashboard.md 4.7 KB
- references/gcp-cost-optimization.md 880 B
- references/terraform-cost-management-configuration.md 3.6 KB
- scripts/validate-config.sh 427 B runs code
- templates/config-starter.yaml 453 B
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 3bcd881fdf7c
cloud-cost-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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