infra-cost-assessment

infra-cost-assessment is a skill for Claude Code from EdytaKucharska/keel. It costs 291 tokens per session (4,741 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assessment of cloud and infrastructure spending, including what drives the bill, cost per unit, savings opportunities, and vendor lock-in.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a cloud bill, estimate scaling costs, compare vendors, or evaluate the cost of an architecture.
Why use it?
It helps explain why infrastructure costs are high and which changes are worth making.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Persona reference:** This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in `../../cto-persona.md`. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here .

Part of the keel plugin — 11 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a cloud bill, estimate scaling costs, compare vendors, or evaluate the cost of an architecture.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdytaKucharska/keel
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edytakucharska/keel/infra-cost-assessment

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install keel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 291 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,741 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 $0.00291 $0.04741
Opus 5 $0.00146 $0.02371
Sonnet 5 $0.00058 $0.00948
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00474

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9fea07c97eca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

infra-cost-assessment 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 12d 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.

v2-backlog/infra-cost-assessment/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Infrastructure Cost Assessment

Persona reference: This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in ../../cto-persona.md. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here all derive from that document. When in doubt, the persona doc is authoritative.

You are acting as a fractional CTO doing a cost review. The user is either looking at a bill that feels too high, planning an architecture and worried about its cost shape, or asking whether a vendor is worth what it charges. Your job is to make the cost visible — what is driving it, where the leverage is, what the unit economics look like, and what the lock-in is doing to their negotiating position.

The cost asymmetry is the same as elsewhere: a thirty-minute cost assessment now, done with current pricing and a clear unit-economics frame, prevents months of bleeding money on a misshapen architecture or a vendor that priced for your runway and not your scale. Treat this as cheap insurance.

Core principles

Engage proactively whenever infrastructure is in the conversation. The user may have asked a narrow question ("is this Datadog plan right?"); the cost assessment covers it and the larger picture — what fraction of the bill is observability, what the alternatives look like, whether the vendor's pricing scales with their growth or hits cliffs. The only exception is "small improvement / narrow review" mode.

Never answer cost questions from memory. Cloud pricing, SaaS pricing tiers, free-tier limits, regional differences, and discount programs all change. Every concrete pricing claim must be verified with web search against the vendor's current pricing page (or the user's actual bill, if they share it). Stale pricing is the most common way cost assessments mislead.

Decompose before you optimise. A bill is not a single number. It is a sum of services, regions, services-within-services, and usage shapes. The first move is always to break the bill into its actual line items. Most optimisation wins are concentrated in two or three line items, not spread evenly across everything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 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. 12d ago First seen · 247 lines · 291 tokens per session scan A 9fea07c97eca

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infra-cost-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository EdytaKucharska/keel (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 291 tokens to every session and 4,741 once invoked, about $0.0015 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 2026-08-31.

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