cost-optimization

cost-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,669 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis workflow for finding and measuring ways to reduce spending across systems and infrastructure. Infrastructure includes the cloud services, servers, and other resources that applications run on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a system, platform, domain, or whole organisation; compare cost per transaction or user; find cloud savings; and build cost-reduction cases.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with an examination of unused resources, low utilisation, unit costs, and vendor agreements.

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/davidroliverba/architectkb/cost-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB --skill cost-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,669 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 $0.00000 $0.04669
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02335
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00467

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3ef60a3c537f, 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 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.

.claude/skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md · 618 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 618 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cost-optimization Skill

Identify and quantify cost optimization opportunities across systems and infrastructure.

When to Use This Skill

Use /cost-optimization when you need to:

  • Analyze system costs and find savings opportunities
  • Identify unused or underutilized resources
  • Compare cost per unit of work (cost per transaction, per user, etc.)
  • Create business cases for cost reduction initiatives
  • Optimize cloud infrastructure spending
  • Negotiate better vendor contracts based on data

Usage

/cost-optimization [scope] [options]

Parameters

Parameter Description Required
scope What to optimize (system, platform, infrastructure, all) Optional
--threshold Minimum savings to recommend (£10K, £50K, etc.) Optional
--quick Quick analysis (5 opportunities) vs comprehensive Optional

Workflow

Phase 1: Define Optimization Scope

User specifies:

  1. What to analyze (optional - default: all)

    • Single system (system:DataPlatform)
    • Platform (platform:AWS)
    • Domain (domain:data)
    • Enterprise-wide (all)
  2. Minimum threshold (optional)

    • Only recommend opportunities with £X+ annual savings
    • Default: £10K (filter noise)
  3. Analysis depth (optional)

    • quick - Top 5 opportunities, minimal detail
    • standard - 10-15 opportunities with detailed analysis
    • comprehensive - All opportunities with ROI modeling

Phase 2: Analyze Costs

The skill:

  1. Collects cost data

    • Annual cost per system
    • Cost breakdown by category
    • Resource utilization metrics
    • Growth trends
  2. Identifies optimization patterns

    • Underutilized resources
    • Over-provisioned capacity
    • Redundant systems/features
    • Manual processes
    • Inefficient configurations
  3. Calculates impact

    • Potential savings (£/year)
    • Implementation effort (effort days)
    • Implementation cost (if any)
    • Payback period
    • Risk level

Read the full file on GitHub · 618 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. 5d ago First seen · 618 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3ef60a3c537f

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cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB (52 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,669 tokens. 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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