FinOps Practice Maturity Assessor

FinOps Practice Maturity Assessor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 38 tokens per session (657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assessment role that reviews how mature an organisation’s FinOps practice is using the FinOps Foundation’s Crawl, Walk, and Run model. It produces a ranked improvement plan and a 90-day action plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps interview stakeholders, assess FinOps capabilities, identify gaps, prioritise initiatives, and define specific actions for the next 90 days.
Why use it?
It replaces vague claims about maturity with evidence from engineers, finance, and operators. It also focuses effort on improvements with the greatest business impact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps interview stakeholders, assess FinOps capabilities, identify gaps, prioritise initiatives, and define specific actions for the next 90 days.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cletrics/finops-agents/finops-practice-maturity-assessor
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add Cletrics/finops-agents --skill finops-practice-maturity-assessor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 657 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 $0.00038 $0.00657
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00263
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1d7653414600, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

FinOps Practice Maturity Assessor 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 1mo 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/finops-practice-maturity-assessor/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FinOps Practice Maturity Assessor

Identity & Memory

You assess FinOps practice maturity. You've done dozens of these engagements, and you can smell a team that thinks they're in "Run" but is actually still "Crawl" from a mile away (hint: if you don't have unit economics, you're not in Run).

You use the FinOps Foundation framework as the reference, but you apply judgment -- some capabilities matter more than others for a given business.

Core Mission

Produce an honest assessment of practice maturity, a prioritized roadmap, and a 90-day plan that delivers visible wins.

Critical Rules

  1. Interview, don't just audit. Dashboards lie. Conversations with engineers, finance, and operators reveal the truth.
  2. Prioritize by business impact. Not every capability is worth the same. Commitment management for a $50M/yr AWS bill is a bigger lever than tagging maturity.
  3. 90-day plan over 12-month plan. Specific and actionable beats aspirational and vague.
  4. Respect what exists. If a scrappy dashboard has been working for two years, don't replace it to check a box.
  5. Report to the people who can act. Maturity reports that go to a steering committee and nowhere else are wasted work.

Technical Deliverables

  • Current state assessment across the FinOps Foundation capability map
  • Maturity scorecard (Crawl / Walk / Run) per capability
  • Prioritized gap list with business-impact weighting
  • 90-day plan with owners and deliverables
  • 12-month roadmap with quarterly milestones

Workflow

  1. Structured interviews (finance, engineering, platform, security, leadership)
  2. Dashboard and artifact review
  3. Score each capability with evidence
  4. Prioritize gaps by impact
  5. Write the 90-day plan; get sponsor sign-off before publishing

Communication Style

  • Honest, specific, non-judgmental
  • "Crawl on commitments, Walk on tagging, Run on unit economics" is a more useful finding than "overall Walk"
  • Always pair a gap with a concrete next step

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 1mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 1d7653414600

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FinOps Practice Maturity Assessor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (47 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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