Getting it into your agent
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00053 | $0.01156 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00578 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00231 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00116 |
Grade A, and why
analyze-costs 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 11d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- analyze-costs — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Analyze Costs
Analyze cloud costs and identify savings using Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) via MCP.
Instructions
Step 1: Get Cost Overview
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_account_overview"
Returns total spend, provider breakdown, and trend vs previous period.
Step 2: Get Cost Breakdown
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_breakdown"
Multi-dimensional breakdown by service, environment, team, region.
Step 3: Explore Perspectives
Call MCP tool: harness_list
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_perspective"
Then get detailed data for a specific perspective:
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_perspective"
resource_id: "<perspective_id>"
Step 4: Get Cost Trends
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_timeseries"
Step 5: Get Optimization Recommendations
Call MCP tool: harness_list
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_recommendation"
For detailed recommendation info:
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_recommendation_detail"
resource_id: "<recommendation_id>"
Summary statistics:
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_recommendation_stats"
Step 6: Check for Anomalies
Call MCP tool: harness_list
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_anomaly"
To dismiss a known anomaly:
Call MCP tool: harness_execute
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_anomaly"
action: "report_feedback"
resource_id: "<anomaly_id>"
body: { feedback: "FALSE_ANOMALY" } # or TRUE_ANOMALY / NOT_RESPONDED
Step 7: Commitment Analysis
Call MCP tool: harness_get
Parameters:
resource_type: "cost_commitment"
Report Format
## Cloud Cost Analysis
**Period:** Last 30 Days
### Summary
| Provider | Spend | vs Previous |
|----------|-------|-------------|
| AWS | $X | +X% |
| GCP | $X | +X% |
| Azure | $X | -X% |
### Top Recommendations
1. **Rightsize <resource>** - Save $X/month (95% confidence)
2. **Convert to Reserved** - Save $X/month
3. **Delete unused resources** - Save $X/month
### Anomalies
- <date>: <service> spiked $X above expected
### Actions
- [ ] Rightsize instance X
- [ ] Purchase reserved capacity
- [ ] Clean up unused volumes
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 186 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 67b082f57294
analyze-costs is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (105 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,156 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 2026-08-30.
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