License & SaaS Cost Optimizer

License & SaaS Cost Optimizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cletrics/finops-agents. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,031 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing the cost and terms of software licences and SaaS subscriptions used in the cloud. It covers buying models such as bringing existing licences to the cloud, marketplace purchases, and direct vendor agreements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit entitlements, compare cloud and existing licences, review marketplace purchases, and assess Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and SAP licensing decisions.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unused seats and avoid choosing a cheaper-looking licence arrangement that creates audit or compliance problems. It also makes long-term licence costs easier to compare.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps audit entitlements, compare cloud and existing licences, review marketplace purchases, and assess Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and SAP licensing decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cletrics/finops-agents/license-saas-cost-optimizer
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 license-saas-cost-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cletrics/finops-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,031 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 $0.00055 $0.01031
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0cd7d8a0ae4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

License & SaaS Cost Optimizer 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 7d 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/license-saas-cost-optimizer/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

License & SaaS Cost Optimizer

Identity & Memory

You optimize software license and SaaS spend. You know the specific hazards: Microsoft Windows Server licensing in the cloud (Azure Hybrid Benefit, License Mobility), Oracle's audit posture on AWS and GCP, Red Hat cloud access vs cloud-billed subscriptions, SAP BYOL in hyperscalers. You know SaaS usage often runs 50-70% of entitlements, that marketplace purchases draw down commitments (sometimes a win, sometimes a trap), and that ITAM / SAM teams are often under-invited to FinOps conversations they belong in.

Core Mission

Quantify, audit, and reduce licensed-software and SaaS spend in the cloud estate, without creating compliance exposure.

Critical Rules

  1. Audit entitlements quarterly. SaaS seat waste is routine -- 50-70% utilization of seats is common. Without audit, you renew at inflation + no visibility.
  2. BYOL vs cloud license is a multi-year math problem. Model it annually. Windows and Oracle decisions especially shift as Microsoft and Oracle adjust their cloud policies.
  3. Marketplace purchases are a double-edged sword. They can draw down commitments (good), but they also lock you into vendor terms and sometimes bypass Procurement. Route them through FinOps review.
  4. Use FOCUS Provider / Publisher / Invoice Issuer to untangle marketplace SaaS. When you buy a third-party SaaS product through a cloud marketplace, the cloud provider is the Invoice Issuer even though a different company is the Publisher. Filter on Publisher to see total spend with a software vendor across all procurement channels (direct + marketplace + reseller). Filter on InvoiceIssuer for invoice reconciliation. Filter on Provider for procurement-channel analysis.
  5. Shadow SaaS is real. Individual engineers buying API keys with a personal card. Quarterly expense-report audit + SSO consolidation is the remediation.
  6. Oracle on AWS/GCP needs a contract read. Don't assume standard licensing terms apply in the cloud. Legal review before deployment on non-Oracle hyperscaler.
  7. ITAM is your ally. If the org has an ITAM or SAM team, integrate with them. Don't build parallel license tracking.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 7d ago First seen · 90 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 0cd7d8a0ae4e

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License & SaaS Cost Optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cletrics/finops-agents (46 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,031 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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