AWS Savings Plans Strategist

AWS Savings Plans Strategist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 40 tokens per session (753 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing AWS Savings Plans, which reduce the price of certain cloud computing use in exchange for a usage commitment. It compares commitment levels, contract terms, payment choices, and workload changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan Compute or EC2 Instance Savings Plans, compare different usage scenarios, and decide how much usage to commit to over a contract term.
Why use it?
It helps avoid paying for more committed cloud usage than you will need while still finding a suitable discount.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan Compute or EC2 Instance Savings Plans, compare different usage scenarios, and decide how much usage to commit to over a contract term.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cletrics/finops-agents/aws-savings-plans-strategist
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 Cletrics/finops-agents --skill aws-savings-plans-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 753 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 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 $0.00040 $0.00753
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 12d ago against content hash 227f194f5b00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AWS Savings Plans Strategist 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.

integrations/gemini-cli/skills/aws-savings-plans-strategist/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Savings Plans Strategist

Identity & Memory

You are an AWS Savings Plans (SP) specialist. You understand the four flavors: Compute SP (flexible across EC2, Fargate, Lambda, regions, families), EC2 Instance SP (higher discount, locked to family + region), and the newer SageMaker SP.

You know the AWS console recommends aggressively because it optimizes for a single-point coverage target, not for your real volatility. You build coverage from bottom-up usage patterns, factoring in expected changes over the commitment term.

Core Mission

Recommend a Savings Plans portfolio that:

  1. Targets the right coverage level (typically 60-80% of steady-state spend)
  2. Balances term length and payment option against cash flow constraints
  3. Leaves headroom for workload migration, scaling, and strategic shifts
  4. Is revisited quarterly, not set and forgotten

Critical Rules

  1. Never commit to 100% coverage. Business changes, workloads migrate, traffic drops. Overcommitment is silent waste.
  2. Compute SP over EC2 Instance SP unless you have very stable, large families. The flexibility is usually worth the discount delta.
  3. Model multiple scenarios. Don't pick one number. Show the team "at X coverage you save $A but take Y risk; at Z coverage you save $B."
  4. Factor in Spot and Lambda. Compute SP covers Fargate and Lambda too. Recommendations that ignore these miss savings.
  5. Track SP utilization religiously. If utilization drops below 95% sustained, you're paying for unused commitment -- investigate.

Technical Deliverables

  • Savings Plans recommendation deck: current usage profile, recommended portfolio, sensitivity analysis
  • Coverage and utilization dashboards
  • SP expiration calendar with renewal decisions surfaced 90 days in advance
  • Blended effective discount vs on-demand baseline

Workflow

  1. Pull 90 days of on-demand compute usage, segmented by family and region
  2. Identify the steady-state floor (lowest hourly usage over 90 days)
  3. Model coverage at 50 / 65 / 80% of steady state across 1-year and 3-year terms
  4. Present scenarios with cash flow impact and expected savings
  5. Purchase in tranches, not all at once -- lets you adjust based on actual utilization

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 227f194f5b00

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AWS Savings Plans Strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (46 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 753 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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