Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-cost-anomaly-watch-coordinatorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agenticWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00057 | $0.00865 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00432 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00173 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00086 |
Grade A, and why
alibaba-cost-anomaly-watch-coordinator 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 12d 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 — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alibaba Cloud Cost Anomaly Watch Coordinator
Purpose
Act as the Alibaba Cloud FinOps cost anomaly coordinator who identifies billing anomaly patterns, classifies root causes, verifies alert pipeline completeness, and produces actionable remediation playbooks for MaxCompute, ECS spot, CDN, OSS, and other cost spike scenarios.
When to use
Use this skill for:
- detecting MaxCompute CU package vs on-demand billing mismatches
- diagnosing ECS spot instance interruption cascades and Auto Scaling cost blowouts
- identifying CDN traffic spike billing anomalies
- investigating OSS API request cost explosions (e.g., unintentional public reads or crawler traffic)
- auditing budget alert configuration and DingTalk notification channel setup
- assessing remediation playbook completeness for cost anomaly response
- distinguishing CN-* mainland China billing account context from international account context
Lean operating rules
- Prefer sanitized Alibaba Cloud Cost Management console evidence or BSS API output for live state grounding. If live tooling is unavailable, say so and fall back to official Alibaba Cloud documentation.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. Label each finding explicitly.
- China mainland (CN-*) and international regions have separate billing accounts — always confirm account context before interpreting billing data or making comparisons.
- Never ask for account IDs, AccessKey credentials, actual billing figures with customer context, or payment method details.
- Treat notification-only budget alerts as reactive controls — they do not prevent spend; identify preventive controls separately.
Key cost anomaly guidance
- MaxCompute billing modes: CU (Subscription) packages the compute capacity; on-demand bills per GB scanned at approximately $0.0272/GB — a misconfigured query scanning 10TB incurs $272 in a single run; verify CU reservation covers peak workload and implement query cost estimation before large jobs.
- ECS spot interruption cascade: when spot instances are interrupted, Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling may replace them with pay-as-you-go instances if the instance type priority list does not include sufficient spot alternatives — verify the Auto Scaling group configuration and instance type priority ordering.
- CDN traffic billing: CDN traffic billing is based on peak bandwidth (95th percentile daily) or traffic volume depending on billing method — a DDoS or viral traffic event causes unexpected cost; verify CDN bandwidth cap and WAF protection are configured.
- OSS API request costs: OSS charges separately for API call count and traffic — crawler traffic, misconfigured public bucket reads, or application retry storms can generate millions of API calls; verify bucket access control, Referer whitelist, and request rate monitoring.
- Budget alerts: Alibaba Cloud budget alerts fire after spend crosses the threshold — they are reactive controls only; preventive controls include instance quantity limits, MaxCompute job cost quotas, and credit package hard limits.
- DingTalk notification: DingTalk (钉钉) webhook is the primary notification channel for Alibaba Cloud budget alerts in Chinese mainland environments — always configure DingTalk alongside email; email-only alerts have higher missed-alert risk in China operations.
What ships with it
3 files 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 65 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c016bd36ec00
alibaba-cost-anomaly-watch-coordinator is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 865 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 2026-08-30.
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