cloud-cost-analysis

cloud-cost-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of cloud spending across services and providers, looking at usage, pricing options, and planned growth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify savings opportunities, resize resources, compare reserved and on-demand pricing, and create a cost-saving plan.
Why use it?
It helps find waste and avoid paying for more computing, storage, or reservations than the workload needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to identify savings opportunities, resize resources, compare reserved and on-demand pricing, and create a cost-saving plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/cloud-cost-analysis
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 The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill cloud-cost-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,655 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00034 $0.01655
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00166

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9321a9455c00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-cost-analysis 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 9d 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.

skills/cloud-cost-analysis/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Cost Analysis

Before you start

Gather the following from the user:

  1. Which cloud provider(s)? (AWS, GCP, Azure, or multi-cloud)
  2. Current monthly spend (total and by service if available)
  3. Cost breakdown access (billing console exports, Cost Explorer data, or CSV dumps)
  4. Growth trajectory (expected traffic or workload changes over 6-12 months)
  5. Commitment constraints (existing reserved instances, savings plans, or enterprise agreements)

If the user says "our cloud bill is too high," push back: "What's your current monthly spend, which services make up the top 80%, and do you have any existing reservations or savings plans?"

Cost analysis template

1. Spend Summary

Break down current spend into the top cost categories. Cover at least 80% of total spend.

| Service          | Monthly Cost | % of Total | Trend (3mo) |
|------------------|-------------|------------|-------------|
| EC2 / Compute    | $42,300     | 38%        | +12%        |
| RDS / Databases  | $28,100     | 25%        | +5%         |
| S3 / Storage     | $15,200     | 14%        | +8%         |
| Data Transfer    | $9,800      | 9%         | +22%        |
| Other            | $15,600     | 14%        | flat        |
| **Total**        | **$111,000**| **100%**   | **+11%**    |

2. Waste Identification

Audit each category for idle, oversized, or orphaned resources. Use this checklist:

  • Idle resources: Instances, load balancers, or databases with <5% average utilization over 14 days
  • Orphaned storage: Unattached EBS volumes, old snapshots, unused S3 buckets
  • Oversized instances: CPU/memory utilization consistently below 30% — candidates for right-sizing
  • Zombie environments: Dev/staging environments running 24/7 that could use scheduling
  • Unused reservations: Reserved capacity for instance types no longer in use

For each finding, document the resource, its current cost, and the estimated savings.

3. Right-Sizing Recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 9321a9455c00

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cloud-cost-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,655 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 2026-09-03.

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