cost-optimization

cost-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HermeticOrmus/claude-code-game-development. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,560 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cost-optimization, MIT.

A set of practices for reducing spending on cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while keeping needed performance and reliability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect spending, add cost-allocation tags, resize resources, remove idle services, choose reserved or spot capacity, and set budget alerts.
Why use it?
It helps reveal waste from oversized, idle, or poorly priced resources and creates clearer control over cloud budgets.

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/hermeticormus/claude-code-game-development/cost-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add HermeticOrmus/claude-code-game-development --skill cost-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/claude-code-game-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,560 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00038 $0.01560
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00780
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00156

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2a56b05ee1e0, 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cost-optimization — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/cloud-infrastructure/skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Cost Optimization

Strategies and patterns for optimizing cloud costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Purpose

Implement systematic cost optimization strategies to reduce cloud spending while maintaining performance and reliability.

When to Use

  • Reduce cloud spending
  • Right-size resources
  • Implement cost governance
  • Optimize multi-cloud costs
  • Meet budget constraints

Cost Optimization Framework

1. Visibility

  • Implement cost allocation tags
  • Use cloud cost management tools
  • Set up budget alerts
  • Create cost dashboards

2. Right-Sizing

  • Analyze resource utilization
  • Downsize over-provisioned resources
  • Use auto-scaling
  • Remove idle resources

3. Pricing Models

  • Use reserved capacity
  • Leverage spot/preemptible instances
  • Implement savings plans
  • Use committed use discounts

4. Architecture Optimization

  • Use managed services
  • Implement caching
  • Optimize data transfer
  • Use lifecycle policies

AWS Cost Optimization

Reserved Instances

Savings: 30-72% vs On-Demand
Term: 1 or 3 years
Payment: All/Partial/No upfront
Flexibility: Standard or Convertible

Savings Plans

Compute Savings Plans: 66% savings
EC2 Instance Savings Plans: 72% savings
Applies to: EC2, Fargate, Lambda
Flexible across: Instance families, regions, OS

Spot Instances

Savings: Up to 90% vs On-Demand
Best for: Batch jobs, CI/CD, stateless workloads
Risk: 2-minute interruption notice
Strategy: Mix with On-Demand for resilience

S3 Cost Optimization

resource "aws_s3_bucket_lifecycle_configuration" "example" {
  bucket = aws_s3_bucket.example.id

  rule {
    id     = "transition-to-ia"
    status = "Enabled"

    transition {
      days          = 30
      storage_class = "STANDARD_IA"
    }

    transition {
      days          = 90
      storage_class = "GLACIER"
    }

    expiration {
      days = 365
    }
  }
}

Azure Cost Optimization

Reserved VM Instances

  • 1 or 3 year terms
  • Up to 72% savings
  • Flexible sizing
  • Exchangeable

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. 3d ago First seen · 275 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 2a56b05ee1e0

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cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/claude-code-game-development (59 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,560 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cost-optimization, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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