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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 | $0.00055 | $0.02765 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.01383 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00553 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00277 |
Grade A, and why
finops-expert 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
FinOps Expert
Expert guidance for cloud financial operations, cost optimization, resource management, and cloud economics.
Core Concepts
FinOps Fundamentals
- Cloud cost visibility
- Usage optimization
- Rate optimization
- Architecture optimization
- Cloud unit economics
- Showback and chargeback
Cost Management
- Reserved Instances (RIs)
- Savings Plans
- Spot instances
- Right-sizing resources
- Idle resource cleanup
- Storage lifecycle policies
FinOps Practices
- Tagging strategies
- Budgets and alerts
- Cost allocation
- Forecasting and planning
- Cross-team collaboration
- Continuous optimization
AWS Cost Analysis
import boto3
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from typing import Dict, List
import pandas as pd
class AWSCostAnalyzer:
"""Analyze AWS costs using Cost Explorer API"""
def __init__(self):
self.ce_client = boto3.client('ce')
def get_cost_and_usage(self, start_date: str, end_date: str,
granularity: str = 'DAILY',
metrics: List[str] = None) -> Dict:
"""Get cost and usage data"""
if metrics is None:
metrics = ['UnblendedCost', 'UsageQuantity']
response = self.ce_client.get_cost_and_usage(
TimePeriod={
'Start': start_date,
'End': end_date
},
Granularity=granularity,
Metrics=metrics,
GroupBy=[
{'Type': 'DIMENSION', 'Key': 'SERVICE'}
]
)
return response['ResultsByTime']
def get_top_services_by_cost(self, days: int = 30, top_n: int = 10) -> pd.DataFrame:
"""Get top services by cost"""
end_date = datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
start_date = (datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
results = self.get_cost_and_usage(start_date, end_date, 'MONTHLY')
service_costs = {}
for result in results:
for group in result['Groups']:
service = group['Keys'][0]
cost = float(group['Metrics']['UnblendedCost']['Amount'])
if service in service_costs:
service_costs[service] += cost
else:
service_costs[service] = cost
df = pd.DataFrame(list(service_costs.items()),
columns=['Service', 'Cost'])
return df.nlargest(top_n, 'Cost')
def get_cost_forecast(self, days_ahead: int = 30) -> Dict:
"""Get cost forecast"""
start_date = datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
end_date = (datetime.now() + timedelta(days=days_ahead)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
response = self.ce_client.get_cost_forecast(
TimePeriod={
'Start': start_date,
'End': end_date
},
Metric='UNBLENDED_COST',
Granularity='MONTHLY'
)
return {
'forecasted_cost': float(response['Total']['Amount']),
'mean_value': float(response['ForecastResultsByTime'][0]['MeanValue'])
}
def get_rightsizing_recommendations(self) -> List[Dict]:
"""Get EC2 rightsizing recommendations"""
response = self.ce_client.get_rightsizing_recommendation(
Service='AmazonEC2'
)
recommendations = []
for rec in response['RightsizingRecommendations']:
recommendations.append({
'instance_id': rec['CurrentInstance']['ResourceId'],
'current_type': rec['CurrentInstance']['InstanceType'],
'recommended_type': rec['ModifyRecommendationDetail']['TargetInstances'][0]['InstanceType']
if rec.get('ModifyRecommendationDetail') else None,
'estimated_savings': float(rec['EstimatedMonthlySavings']['Value'])
if rec.get('EstimatedMonthlySavings') else 0
})
return recommendations
class CostOptimizer:
"""Optimize cloud costs"""
def __init__(self):
self.ec2_client = boto3.client('ec2')
self.rds_client = boto3.client('rds')
self.s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
def find_idle_resources(self) -> Dict[str, List]:
"""Find idle/unused resources"""
idle_resources = {
'ec2_instances': [],
'ebs_volumes': [],
'elastic_ips': [],
'load_balancers': []
}
# Idle EC2 instances (stopped for > 7 days)
instances = self.ec2_client.describe_instances(
Filters=[{'Name': 'instance-state-name', 'Values': ['stopped']}]
)
for reservation in instances['Reservations']:
for instance in reservation['Instances']:
idle_resources['ec2_instances'].append({
'id': instance['InstanceId'],
'type': instance['InstanceType'],
'state': instance['State']['Name']
})
# Unattached EBS volumes
volumes = self.ec2_client.describe_volumes(
Filters=[{'Name': 'status', 'Values': ['available']}]
)
for volume in volumes['Volumes']:
idle_resources['ebs_volumes'].append({
'id': volume['VolumeId'],
'size': volume['Size'],
'type': volume['VolumeType']
})
# Unattached Elastic IPs
addresses = self.ec2_client.describe_addresses()
for address in addresses['Addresses']:
if 'InstanceId' not in address:
idle_resources['elastic_ips'].append({
'allocation_id': address['AllocationId'],
'public_ip': address['PublicIp']
})
return idle_resources
def calculate_reserved_instance_savings(self,
instance_type: str,
count: int,
term: int = 1) -> Dict:
"""Calculate RI savings"""
# Simplified calculation (would use actual pricing API)
on_demand_hourly = self._get_on_demand_price(instance_type)
ri_hourly = on_demand_hourly * 0.65 # ~35% discount
hours_per_year = 24 * 365
annual_on_demand = on_demand_hourly * hours_per_year * count
annual_ri = ri_hourly * hours_per_year * count
return {
'instance_type': instance_type,
'count': count,
'annual_on_demand_cost': annual_on_demand,
'annual_ri_cost': annual_ri,
'annual_savings': annual_on_demand - annual_ri,
'savings_percentage': ((annual_on_demand - annual_ri) / annual_on_demand) * 100
}
def _get_on_demand_price(self, instance_type: str) -> float:
"""Get on-demand hourly price (simplified)"""
# In production, use AWS Pricing API
prices = {
't3.micro': 0.0104,
't3.small': 0.0208,
't3.medium': 0.0416,
'm5.large': 0.096,
'm5.xlarge': 0.192
}
return prices.get(instance_type, 0.10)
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +9 lines · +38 tokens per session e91000b253b7
- 6d ago First seen · 401 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 7337d7750965
finops-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,765 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 2026-09-03.
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