aws-cost-estimator

aws-cost-estimator is a skill for Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 33 tokens per session (205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for estimating the cost of proposed Amazon Web Services resources, based on services such as compute, storage, databases, and data transfer. It requires usage assumptions and labels the result as approximate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate AWS bills, compare resource choices, and identify options such as right-sizing, reserved capacity, or cheaper storage classes.
Why use it?
It helps reveal likely monthly or yearly spending before an architecture is deployed and highlights services that may cost the most.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to estimate AWS bills, compare resource choices, and identify options such as right-sizing, reserved capacity, or cheaper storage classes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/aws-cost-estimator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add girijashankarj/cursor-handbook --skill aws-cost-estimator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 205 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 $0.00033 $0.00205
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4cb6d7ecd474, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cost-estimator 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.

.cursor/skills/cloud/aws-cost-estimator/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Skill: AWS cost estimator

Trigger

When the user asks for cost estimate, cost optimization, or "how much will this architecture cost."

Steps

  1. Gather — List resources (e.g. Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway) and expected usage (requests/month, GB, duration).
  2. Estimate — Use AWS Pricing Calculator assumptions or public pricing; state assumptions clearly.
  3. Summarize — Break down by service and total monthly/yearly; highlight high-cost items.
  4. Suggest — Offer 1–2 optimizations (reserved capacity, right-sizing, storage class) if relevant.

Rules

  • Use placeholder regions and account references; never real account IDs.
  • Clearly label estimates as approximate and state pricing date/region if known.
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 · 21 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4cb6d7ecd474

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aws-cost-estimator is a skill published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 205 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 2026-09-03.

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