cloud-finops

FinOps guidance for managing spending on cloud services, AI systems, software subscriptions, and related technology. FinOps means making technology costs visible and connecting them to business use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review costs for services such as AWS, Azure, AI models, coding tools, and SaaS products, and to plan capacity, commitments, and cost allocation.
Why use it?
It helps teams understand and control technology bills that can grow across many providers and usage patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/viktorbezdek/skillstack/cloud-finops
Any agent
npx skills add viktorbezdek/skillstack --skill cloud-finops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viktorbezdek/skillstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 275 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,226 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00275 $0.03226
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.01613
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00323

Measured 2d ago against content hash a4bebeb5c73b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-finops 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 2d 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.

cloud-finops/skills/cloud-finops/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FinOps - Expert Guidance

Built by OptimNow (James Barney) and Viktor Bezdek. Grounded in hands-on enterprise delivery, not abstract frameworks.


How to use this skill

This skill covers cloud, AI, SaaS, and adjacent technology spend domains. Read references/optimnow-methodology.md first on every query - it defines the reasoning philosophy applied to all responses. Then load the domain reference that matches the query.

Domain routing

Query topic Load reference
AI & GenAI
AI costs, LLM inference, token economics, agentic cost patterns, AI ROI, AI cost allocation, GPU cost attribution, RAG harness costs references/finops-for-ai.md
AI investment governance, AI Investment Council, stage gates, incremental funding, AI value management, AI practice operations references/finops-ai-value-management.md
GenAI capacity planning, provisioned vs shared capacity, traffic shape, spillover, throughput units references/finops-genai-capacity.md
AI coding tools, Cursor costs, Claude Code costs, Copilot costs, Windsurf costs, Codex costs, dev tool FinOps, seat + usage billing, BYOK coding agents, LiteLLM proxy references/finops-ai-dev-tools.md
AI-powered FinOps, FinOps automation, agentic FinOps tools, anomaly detection with AI, natural language cost querying references/finops-ai-automation.md
Cloud Providers
AWS billing, EC2 rightsizing, RIs, Savings Plans, commitment strategy, portfolio liquidity, phased purchasing, CUR, Cost Explorer, EDP negotiation, RDS cost management, database commitments references/finops-aws.md
AWS Bedrock billing, Bedrock provisioned throughput, model unit pricing, Bedrock batch inference references/finops-bedrock.md
Azure cost management, reservations, Savings Plans, AHB, commitment strategy, portfolio liquidity, phased purchasing, Azure Advisor, MACC, EA-to-MCA transition, database commitments references/finops-azure.md
Azure OpenAI Service, PTU reservations, GPT-4o / GPT-5 pricing, AOAI spillover, fine-tuning costs references/finops-azure-openai.md
Anthropic billing, Claude API costs, Claude Code costs, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku pricing, Fast mode, prompt caching, Batch API, long-context pricing references/finops-anthropic.md
GCP billing, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GCS, BigQuery optimisation references/finops-gcp.md
GCP Vertex AI billing, Vertex provisioned throughput, Gemini pricing, Vertex batch prediction references/finops-vertexai.md
OCI compute, storage, networking optimisation references/finops-oci.md
Infrastructure & Platforms
Kubernetes, containers, pod cost attribution, OpenCost, Kubecost, namespace allocation, GPU on K8s, node pool optimization references/finops-kubernetes.md
Serverless, Lambda costs, Azure Functions, Cloud Run, GB-seconds, memory rightsizing, cold starts, invocation optimization references/finops-serverless.md
Kafka, MSK, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Redis, Valkey, event streaming costs, search cluster costs, in-memory data store costs references/finops-data-platforms.md
Databricks clusters, jobs, Spark optimisation, Unity Catalog costs references/finops-databricks.md
Snowflake warehouses, query optimisation, storage, credits references/finops-snowflake.md
Cross-Cutting
Multi-cloud strategy, cross-cloud comparison, commitment normalization, unified cost management references/finops-multi-cloud.md
FOCUS specification, billing data normalization, cost data standardization, multi-cloud data layer references/finops-focus.md
Tagging strategy, naming conventions, IaC enforcement, MCP governance references/finops-tagging.md
FinOps framework (2026), maturity model, phases, capabilities, personas, scopes, technology categories references/finops-framework.md
GreenOps, cloud carbon, sustainability, carbon-aware workloads references/greenops-cloud-carbon.md
SaaS & Licensing
SaaS management, licence optimisation, shadow IT, SaaS sprawl, renewal governance, SMP, SAM references/finops-sam.md
ITAM, IT asset management, BYOL, marketplace channel governance, licence compliance, vendor negotiation, FinOps-ITAM collaboration, entitlement management, consumption-based SaaS overages references/finops-itam.md
Multi-domain query Load all relevant references, synthesize

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 2d ago First seen · 188 lines · 275 tokens per session scan A a4bebeb5c73b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-finops is a skill published in the GitHub repository viktorbezdek/skillstack (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 275 tokens to every session and 3,226 once invoked, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.

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