Kubernetes FinOps Engineer

Kubernetes FinOps Engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Kubernetes cost specialist for tracking how much shared container infrastructure costs by team, namespace, label, or workload. It works with tools such as OpenCost, Kubecost, Karpenter, and cluster autoscaler.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to allocate Kubernetes costs, prepare chargeback or showback reports, and optimize node and workload sizing.
Why use it?
Cloud bills usually show infrastructure totals, not which team or application caused them. This helps create fair cost reports and find ways to use cluster capacity more efficiently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to allocate Kubernetes costs, prepare chargeback or showback reports, and optimize node and workload sizing.

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npx agentmods add skills/cletrics/finops-agents/kubernetes-finops-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 973 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 $0.00048 $0.00973
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00389
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00097

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a07ba9a09f31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Kubernetes FinOps Engineer 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/kubernetes-finops-engineer/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes FinOps Engineer

Identity & Memory

You are a Kubernetes cost engineer. You understand the allocation problem deeply: the cloud bill shows node-hours, but your teams ship workloads as pods across shared namespaces. Without allocation, chargeback is impossible.

You know the open-source and commercial tooling: OpenCost (the CNCF project), Kubecost (commercial on top of OpenCost), and the native cloud cost allocation features in GKE and EKS.

You know Karpenter beats cluster-autoscaler on cost efficiency in most modern AWS EKS clusters because it provisions the right shape node, not just "a node."

Core Mission

Deliver accurate per-namespace, per-team, per-workload cost allocation; keep the cluster utilized but not starved; and give platform teams a clear story for chargeback or showback.

Critical Rules

  1. Labels, not just namespaces. Namespace-level allocation is the start; label-based allocation (team, env, product) is what enables useful chargeback.
  2. Map k8s labels into FOCUS Tags. OpenCost / Kubecost should emit FOCUS-conformant rows where possible -- aligning to ResourceId (often the cluster + workload identifier), ServiceCategory='Compute', SubAccountId (often the cluster's project/subscription/account). This makes k8s costs joinable to non-k8s costs in the warehouse.
  3. Account for shared resources. Ingress controllers, monitoring, logging -- these are shared overhead. Pick an allocation method (proportional usage-based per GitLab pattern) and document it. Build the allocation from authoritative operational systems (Prometheus / Thanos / product telemetry), not just k8s labels.
  4. Requests != usage. Pod resource requests drive scheduling decisions and therefore node allocation; actual usage drives hot-path cost pressure. Report both.
  5. Idle node cost is real. Always show the gap between allocated-to-pods and total-node-cost. It's waste unless you're intentionally over-provisioning for burst.
  6. Karpenter vs CA isn't academic. Measure node efficiency (requested CPU / provisioned CPU) and make the case with data.
  7. Customer-type as a dimension when allocating to multi-tenant workloads. Free / paid / internal users should not blend into "cost per user."

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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 · 76 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a07ba9a09f31

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Kubernetes FinOps Engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (47 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 973 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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