AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.
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.
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill aws-cost-operationsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-cost-operations)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-cost-operations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-cost-operations/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-cost-operations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-cost-operations.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00044 | $0.02016 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.01008 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00403 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00202 |
Grade A, and why
aws-cost-operations 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.
Copies of this mod
7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- aws-cost-operations — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 100% identical, 2 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 97% identical, 4 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 97% identical, 4 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 89% identical, 35 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 89% identical, 35 lines differ
- aws-cost-operations — 89% identical, 35 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AWS Cost & Operations
This skill provides comprehensive guidance for AWS cost optimization, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence with integrated MCP servers.
AWS Documentation Requirement
Always verify AWS facts using MCP tools (mcp__aws-mcp__* or mcp__*awsdocs*__*) before answering. The aws-mcp-setup dependency is auto-loaded — if MCP tools are unavailable, guide the user through that skill's setup flow.
Integrated MCP Servers
This plugin provides 3 MCP servers:
Bundled Servers
1. AWS Pricing MCP Server (pricing)
Purpose: Pre-deployment cost estimation and optimization
- Estimate costs before deploying resources
- Compare pricing across regions
- Calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Evaluate different service options for cost efficiency
2. AWS Cost Explorer MCP Server (costexp)
Purpose: Detailed cost analysis and reporting
- Analyze historical spending patterns
- Identify cost anomalies and trends
- Forecast future costs
- Analyze cost by service, region, or tag
3. Amazon CloudWatch MCP Server (cw)
Purpose: Metrics, alarms, and logs analysis
- Query CloudWatch metrics and logs
- Create and manage CloudWatch alarms
- Troubleshoot operational issues
- Monitor resource utilization
Note: The following servers are available separately via the Full AWS MCP Server (see
aws-mcp-setupskill) and are not bundled with this plugin:
- AWS Billing and Cost Management MCP — Real-time billing details
- CloudWatch Application Signals MCP — APM and SLOs
- AWS Managed Prometheus MCP — PromQL queries for containers
- AWS CloudTrail MCP — API activity audit
- AWS Well-Architected Security Assessment MCP — Security posture assessment
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- Optimizing AWS costs and reducing spending
- Estimating costs before deployment
- Monitoring application and infrastructure performance
- Setting up observability and alerting
- Analyzing spending patterns and trends
- Investigating operational issues
- Auditing AWS activity and changes
- Assessing security posture
- Implementing operational excellence
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 · -11 tokens per session df22c35e55fa
- 6d ago First seen · 274 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 464cf04ca332
aws-cost-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,016 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.
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