cost-optimization

cost-optimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RudyCity/superagent. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,664 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cost-optimization, MIT.

A set of methods for reducing spending on cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. It covers visibility into costs, resource sizing, pricing choices, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review cloud spending, size resources, set budgets and cost tags, choose reserved or discounted capacity, and manage costs across several cloud providers.
Why use it?
Cloud bills can grow because resources are oversized, idle, poorly tagged, or billed at avoidable rates. These methods help identify and address those sources of waste.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/rudycity/superagent/cost-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add RudyCity/superagent --skill cost-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RudyCity/superagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,664 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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.01664
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00832
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 6d ago against content hash ee0bd8b8054a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 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, GCP, and OCI.

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 · 314 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 314 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A ee0bd8b8054a

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cost-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository RudyCity/superagent (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,664 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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