aws-cost-ops

aws-cost-ops is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for examining AWS spending, where AWS is Amazon’s cloud platform, by service, account, region, tag, or time period.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review service costs, investigate network charges such as NAT Gateway or VPN costs, compare regional spending, detect anomalies, and forecast next month’s bill.
Why use it?
It helps explain where cloud costs come from, spot unusual increases, and estimate future spending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to review service costs, investigate network charges such as NAT Gateway or VPN costs, compare regional spending, detect anomalies, and forecast next month’s bill.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill aws-cost-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,038 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 13
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.01038
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00104

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2cbaf9b1cef4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cost-ops 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 10d 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.

workspace/skills/aws-cost-ops/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Cost Operations

MCP Server

  • Command: uvx awslabs.cost-explorer-mcp-server@latest (stdio transport)
  • Requires: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_REGION (or AWS_PROFILE)
  • Note: Cost Explorer API charges $0.01 per request — be mindful of query volume

Key Capabilities

  • Cost breakdown: Spending by service, account, region, or tag
  • Time series: Daily, monthly, or custom date range cost trends
  • Forecasts: Predicted spend based on historical patterns
  • Anomaly detection: Unusual spending spikes
  • Filtering: Narrow by service (EC2, VPC, TGW, NAT GW, VPN, etc.)

Workflow: Network Cost Analysis

When a user asks "how much is our AWS network costing?":

  1. Total network spend: Cost breakdown for VPC, Transit Gateway, NAT Gateway, VPN, ELB, Direct Connect
  2. Trend: Monthly trend for network services over last 6 months
  3. Top services: Rank network services by spend (NAT GW data processing is often #1)
  4. Per-region: Break down network costs by region
  5. Forecast: Projected network spend for next month
  6. Report: Network cost dashboard with optimization recommendations

Workflow: Cost Anomaly Investigation

When investigating unexpected charges:

  1. Daily breakdown: Get daily costs for the spike period
  2. Service drill-down: Which service caused the spike?
  3. Region check: Was the spike in a specific region?
  4. Correlate: Cross-reference with CloudTrail for resource creation events
  5. Report: Root cause and recommended action

Workflow: Monthly Cost Review

For regular FinOps review:

  1. Month-over-month: Compare current vs previous month spending
  2. Service breakdown: Top 10 services by cost
  3. Network focus: VPC, TGW, NAT GW, VPN, ELB, Direct Connect costs
  4. Growth rate: Percentage change per service
  5. Forecast: Next month projection
  6. Report: Executive cost summary with trends

Common AWS Network Cost Drivers

Service Cost Component Typical Driver
NAT Gateway Data processing $0.045/GB — largest network cost for most
NAT Gateway Hourly charge $0.045/hr per NAT GW
Transit Gateway Data processing $0.02/GB per attachment
Transit Gateway Hourly charge $0.05/hr per attachment
VPN Hourly charge $0.05/hr per VPN connection
VPN Data transfer $0.09/GB outbound
ELB (ALB) Hourly + LCU $0.0225/hr + LCU charges
ELB (NLB) Hourly + NLCU $0.0225/hr + NLCU charges
Direct Connect Port hours $0.03-$0.30/hr depending on speed
Data Transfer Cross-AZ $0.01/GB each direction
Data Transfer Cross-Region $0.02/GB
Data Transfer Internet out $0.09/GB (first 10TB)

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 10d ago First seen · 95 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 2cbaf9b1cef4

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aws-cost-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (652 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,038 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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