cost-optimization-auditor

cost-optimization-auditor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (402 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud-cost audit skill that examines infrastructure and related services for unnecessary spending. Cloud infrastructure means hosted computing resources such as servers, storage, databases, networks, and Kubernetes clusters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and SaaS costs, identify right-sizing or cleanup opportunities, and estimate possible monthly savings.
Why use it?
It helps find idle or oversized resources, expensive data transfers, unsuitable storage settings, and unused commitment discounts that can increase bills.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/cost-optimization-auditor
Any agent
npx skills add codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill cost-optimization-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 402 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00402
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 5d ago against content hash e68013005c78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-optimization-auditor 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 5d 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.

skills/architecture/cost-optimization-auditor/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Audit cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, SaaS dependencies) to uncover idle resources, over-provisioned instances, unattached disks, sub-optimal storage tiers, and high data-transfer egress costs.

When to Use

  • Monthly cloud bills are growing faster than business revenue.
  • Pre-planning infrastructure budget reviews or FinOps initiatives.
  • Right-sizing Kubernetes pod CPU/memory requests and limits based on actual utilization.

What to Analyze

  1. Compute Right-Sizing: Underutilized EC2/GCE VMs (CPU < 15%), idle dev/staging clusters, ARM (Graviton) migration.
  2. Storage Tiering & Cleanup: Unattached EBS volumes, old disk snapshots, S3 Intelligent-Tiering and lifecycle expiration rules.
  3. Data Egress & Networking: Cross-AZ traffic, NAT Gateway data processing fees, lack of VPC endpoints for S3/DynamoDB.
  4. Database & Cache Provisioning: Idle replica nodes, over-provisioned IOPS, un-sharded memory clusters.
  5. Commitment Discounts: Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot instances for stateless batch workers.

Output Format

  • Estimated Savings Summary: Projected monthly cost reduction in $ and %.
  • Immediate Quick-Wins (Day 1): Deleting orphaned disks, snapshots, idle test environments.
  • Medium-Term Architectural Changes: Graviton migration, VPC Endpoints, Spot workers.
  • FinOps Guardrails: Infracost integration, budget alerts, and tagging policies.

Avoid

  • Aggressively down-sizing production database CPU to the point of risking latency spikes.
  • Overlooking NAT Gateway data transfer charges (often the #1 hidden AWS bill surprise).
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 35 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A e68013005c78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cost-optimization-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (24 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 402 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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