cost-ec2-usage

cost-ec2-usage is a skill for Claude Code from glassity/agent-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (375 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only report of Amazon EC2 usage, grouped by hours, virtual machine type, region, or time period. EC2 is Amazon Web Services' service for running virtual machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report EC2 usage for a date range, compare instance types or regions, and identify unusually large or idle instance families.
Why use it?
It replaces manual inspection of cloud usage when you need to understand where EC2 time and spending come from.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the glassity plugin — 19 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to report EC2 usage for a date range, compare instance types or regions, and identify unusually large or idle instance families.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/glassity/agent-skills/cost-ec2-usage
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.

Any agent
npx skills add glassity/agent-skills --skill cost-ec2-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glassity/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install glassity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 375 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 $0.00057 $0.00375
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 9d ago against content hash 99d108ce8945, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-ec2-usage 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 9d 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/cost-ec2-usage/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

EC2 usage

When to use

  • "Show my EC2 usage", "what instance types are we running"
  • "Hours by instance type"

Binary check

Run command -v glassity before the first CLI call. If it is missing, stop and tell the user to install it with brew install glassity/tap/glassity or from https://github.com/glassity/cli/releases. No account yet? Sign up at app.glassity.cloud.

Invocation

glassity --output=json cost ec2-usage \
  --start-date YYYY-MM-DD \
  --end-date YYYY-MM-DD \
  [--aws-account-id 123456789012] \
  [--granularity daily|monthly]

--end-date is exclusive — the window ends the day before it. For a full month, pass the first of the next month (a July window is --start-date YYYY-07-01 --end-date YYYY-08-01); an end date of the 31st silently drops that day.

Surface

  • The active tenant, which the CLI prints on stderr
  • Oversized or idle instance families, when the data suggests them
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. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 99d108ce8945

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cost-ec2-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository glassity/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 375 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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