aws-cost-operations

A guide and tool set for managing AWS costs, monitoring services, improving operations, and checking security.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for AWS cost analysis, estimates, observability, operational best practices, and security assessments.
Why use it?
It helps investigate cloud spending and operational concerns using current AWS information and regional availability data.

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/commandcodeai/agent-skills/aws-cost-operations
Any agent
npx skills add CommandCodeAI/agent-skills --skill aws-cost-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CommandCodeAI/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,253 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 $0.00036 $0.02253
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01126
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00451
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00225

Measured 2d ago against content hash a5aa7b6019fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cost-operations 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 2d 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/aws-cost-operations/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Cost & Operations

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for AWS cost optimization, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence with integrated MCP servers.

AWS Documentation Requirement

CRITICAL: This skill requires AWS MCP tools for accurate, up-to-date AWS information.

Before Answering AWS Questions

  1. Always verify using AWS MCP tools (if available):

    • mcp__aws-mcp__aws___search_documentation or mcp__*awsdocs*__aws___search_documentation - Search AWS docs
    • mcp__aws-mcp__aws___read_documentation or mcp__*awsdocs*__aws___read_documentation - Read specific pages
    • mcp__aws-mcp__aws___get_regional_availability - Check service availability
  2. If AWS MCP tools are unavailable:

    • Guide user to configure AWS MCP: See AWS MCP Setup Guide
    • Help determine which option fits their environment:
      • Has uvx + AWS credentials → Full AWS MCP Server
      • No Python/credentials → AWS Documentation MCP (no auth)
    • If cannot determine → Ask user which option to use

Integrated MCP Servers

This skill includes 8 MCP servers automatically configured with the plugin:

Cost Management Servers

1. AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP Server

Purpose: Real-time billing and cost management

  • View current AWS spending and trends
  • Analyze billing details across services
  • Track budget utilization
  • Monitor cost allocation tags
  • Review consolidated billing for organizations
2. AWS Pricing MCP Server

Purpose: Pre-deployment cost estimation and optimization

  • Estimate costs before deploying resources
  • Compare pricing across regions
  • Calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Evaluate different service options for cost efficiency
  • Get current pricing information for AWS services
3. AWS Cost Explorer MCP Server

Purpose: Detailed cost analysis and reporting

  • Analyze historical spending patterns
  • Create custom cost reports
  • Identify cost anomalies and trends
  • Forecast future costs
  • Analyze cost by service, region, or tag
  • Generate cost optimization recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 318 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a5aa7b6019fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-cost-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository CommandCodeAI/agent-skills (120 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,253 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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