tracking-resources

tracking-resources is a skill for Claude Code from iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,145 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A DigitalOcean resource-monitoring guide for checking running cloud resources and their estimated costs. DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting service where resources such as virtual machines and load balancers can continue running and incur charges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list billable resources, calculate spending, find test resources, review billing, and decide what can be cleaned up.
Why use it?
It helps prevent surprise bills by showing the total monthly cost and identifying resources that look temporary, unused or forgotten. It is also useful before cleaning up a test environment.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the digitalocean-skills plugin — 9 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to list billable resources, calculate spending, find test resources, review billing, and decide what can be cleaned up.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills/tracking-resources
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 iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills --skill tracking-resources
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install digitalocean-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,145 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00046 $0.01145
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6b644699cd25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tracking-resources scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_API_TOKEN" \
skills/tracking-resources/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tracking Resources

Monitor DigitalOcean resources and costs to prevent surprise charges.

When to Use

  • User asks "what's running?" or "what do I have?"
  • User asks about costs or billing
  • Before ending a session with test resources
  • When cleaning up after testing
  • User mentions: "resources", "costs", "billing", "spending", "cleanup"

Quick Check Process

1. Get All Billable Resources

GET /v2/droplets      → Droplets with size.price_monthly
GET /v2/load_balancers → Count × $12/mo
GET /v2/databases     → Database clusters with pricing
GET /v2/kubernetes/clusters → K8s with node costs
GET /v2/volumes       → Size × $0.10/GB/mo
GET /v2/reserved_ips  → Unattached × $5/mo

2. Calculate Total Cost

Sum all monthly costs and present clearly:

Current Monthly Cost: $XX.XX

Breakdown:
- Droplets: $XX.XX (N resources)
- Load Balancers: $XX.XX (N resources)
- Databases: $XX.XX (N resources)
- Other: $XX.XX

3. Flag Test Resources

Look for resources that might be forgotten:

  • Tagged with test, temporary, dev, demo
  • Name contains test, temp, demo
  • Created in last 24 hours without production tags
WARNING: TEST RESOURCES STILL RUNNING:
- test-droplet-01 ($6/mo) - created 2 hours ago
- demo-api ($6/mo) - tagged 'test'

Consider cleaning up to avoid charges.

Cleanup Workflow

When user wants to clean up:

  1. List candidates for deletion:

    Resources recommended for cleanup:
    1. test-droplet-01 (Droplet) - $6/mo - tagged 'test'
    2. temp-volume (Volume) - $1/mo - name contains 'temp'
    
  2. Confirm before deleting:

    Delete these 2 resources? This will save $7/mo.
    Type 'yes' to confirm or list specific resources to keep.
    
  3. Delete and verify:

    • Delete each confirmed resource
    • Re-query to confirm deletion
    • Show updated cost

Cost Alerts

Warn the user when:

Condition Alert
Total cost > $50/mo "Monthly cost exceeds $50"
Test resources > 24h old "Test resources still running"
Resources without tags "Untagged resources may be forgotten"
Unattached volumes "Volumes without droplets still bill"
Reserved IPs unused "Floating IPs cost $5/mo when unattached"

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 10d ago First seen · 145 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 6b644699cd25

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tracking-resources is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,145 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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