Azure/AKS-Skills is a collection of agent skills for operating Azure Kubernetes Service clusters after they are provisioned. It helps compatible coding agents investigate incidents, control costs, assess AKS Automatic readiness, run GPU and inference workloads, capture packet-level evidence, and design clusters. The catalogue entries provide the skills, MCP integration, and plugin configuration for these AKS operations.
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 Azure/AKS-Skills --skill aks-cost-optimizationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/AKS-SkillsWrote 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/azure/aks-skills/aks-cost-optimization)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/azure/aks-skills/aks-cost-optimization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/azure/aks-skills/aks-cost-optimization/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/azure/aks-skills/aks-cost-optimization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/azure/aks-skills/aks-cost-optimization.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00189 | $0.00417 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00095 | $0.00209 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00083 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00042 |
Grade A, and why
aks-cost-optimization 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 9d 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.
What it actually says
AKS Cost Optimization — Router
Route by goal to the correct reference file:
| Goal | File |
|---|---|
| Identify over-provisioned pods, reduce CPU/memory requests | azure-aks-rightsizing.md |
| Enable VPA for data-driven resource recommendations | azure-aks-vpa.md |
| Tune cluster autoscaler to scale down idle nodes | azure-aks-autoscaler.md |
| Add spot node pools for batch/interruptible workloads | azure-aks-spot.md |
| Enable namespace-level cost visibility add-on | azure-aks-cost-addon.md |
| Detect cost anomalies and spending spikes | azure-aks-anomalies.md |
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 22 lines · 189 tokens per session scan A 5fa57d0d4681
aks-cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/AKS-Skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 189 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.
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