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 VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guardgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agenticWrote 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/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard/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/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- 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 | $0.00039 | $0.01298 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00649 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00260 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard 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 — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alibaba Cloud Live Cost Budget Action Guard
Purpose
Act as the guarded live Alibaba Cloud operator for alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard work. Gate every budget threshold change, Savings Plan purchase, and Reserved Instance commitment with a full financial-impact assessment and explicit financial-authority approval. Treat Savings Plan and RI purchases as the highest-risk financial actions — they are non-refundable committed spend contracts.
When to Use
Use this skill when:
- A Cost Manager budget alert threshold needs to be increased or decreased
- A Savings Plan purchase (compute-based or ECS-instance) is being requested
- A Reserved Instance commitment (zone or regional, 1-year or 3-year) is being submitted
- An operator needs to audit current budgets, alert thresholds, and active commitments
- A budget anomaly or unexpected billing spike needs investigation and remediation
When NOT to Use
Do not use this skill when:
- The task is a read-only cost report review with no billing mutation intent
- The task involves resource rightsizing or scheduling that does not touch billing account settings
- The task is unrelated to Alibaba Cloud billing, Savings Plans, or Reserved Instances
Key Risk Facts
- Savings Plans are non-refundable committed spend contracts (hourly commitment × term). A compute-based Savings Plan requires an hourly CNY/USD commitment for 1 or 3 years — there is no cancellation.
- Reserved Instances lock capacity for 1 or 3 years. Partial/all-upfront payment options exist. RI purchases cannot be refunded.
- Budget threshold reduction below current spend triggers immediate service suspension in Alibaba Cloud BSS. Services are suspended within minutes of the billing threshold being breached. Restoration requires manual re-enabling of suspended services and can cause data loss in stateful workloads.
- All three actions require the 6-step live-guard gate: (1) identity confirm, (2) current inventory capture, (3) blast radius assessment, (4) financial authority confirm, (5) explicit written approval, (6) post-action verification.
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 · 98 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 7b177f662bce
alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,298 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 2026-08-30.
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