az-cost-optimize

az-cost-optimize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,963 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Azure cost-review workflow for checking cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code files, which describe how resources are created and configured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Azure resources or IaC, apply Azure cost-optimization guidance, and create GitHub issues for individual recommendations and an overall coordination issue.
Why use it?
It helps identify where an Azure application may be spending more than necessary and organizes each suggested improvement for tracking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review Azure resources or IaC, apply Azure cost-optimization guidance, and create GitHub issues for individual recommendations and an overall coordination issue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshi-xixixi/traeskill/az-cost-optimize
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 boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill az-cost-optimize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,963 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00037 $0.02963
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01482
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00296

Measured 8d ago against content hash d27f8311b57d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

az-cost-optimize 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/az-cost-optimize/SKILL.md · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Cost Optimize

This workflow analyzes Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) files and Azure resources to generate cost optimization recommendations. It creates individual GitHub issues for each optimization opportunity plus one EPIC issue to coordinate implementation, enabling efficient tracking and execution of cost savings initiatives.

Prerequisites

  • Azure MCP server configured and authenticated
  • GitHub MCP server configured and authenticated
  • Target GitHub repository identified
  • Azure resources deployed (IaC files optional but helpful)
  • Prefer Azure MCP tools (azmcp-*) over direct Azure CLI when available

Workflow Steps

Step 1: Get Azure Best Practices

Action: Retrieve cost optimization best practices before analysis Tools: Azure MCP best practices tool Process:

  1. Load Best Practices:
    • Execute azmcp-bestpractices-get to get some of the latest Azure optimization guidelines. This may not cover all scenarios but provides a foundation.
    • Use these practices to inform subsequent analysis and recommendations as much as possible
    • Reference best practices in optimization recommendations, either from the MCP tool output or general Azure documentation

Step 2: Discover Azure Infrastructure

Action: Dynamically discover and analyze Azure resources and configurations Tools: Azure MCP tools + Azure CLI fallback + Local file system access Process:

  1. Resource Discovery:
    • Execute azmcp-subscription-list to find available subscriptions
    • Execute azmcp-group-list --subscription <subscription-id> to find resource groups
    • Get a list of all resources in the relevant group(s):
      • Use az resource list --subscription <id> --resource-group <name>
    • For each resource type, use MCP tools first if possible, then CLI fallback:
      • azmcp-cosmos-account-list --subscription <id> - Cosmos DB accounts
      • azmcp-storage-account-list --subscription <id> - Storage accounts
      • azmcp-monitor-workspace-list --subscription <id> - Log Analytics workspaces
      • azmcp-keyvault-key-list - Key Vaults
      • az webapp list - Web Apps (fallback - no MCP tool available)
      • az appservice plan list - App Service Plans (fallback)
      • az functionapp list - Function Apps (fallback)
      • az sql server list - SQL Servers (fallback)
      • az redis list - Redis Cache (fallback)
      • ... and so on for other resource types

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 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 · 306 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d27f8311b57d

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az-cost-optimize is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (261 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,963 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.