Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Cost Management is a skill for Claude Code from WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill that reviews cloud infrastructure spending to find unexpected increases and resources that are still costing money without being used. It covers platforms such as Azure and DigitalOcean.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate rising cloud bills, find reclaimable spending, and review costs for compute, storage, databases, and networking.
Why use it?
It helps separate normal cloud spending from anomalies and identifies idle or orphaned resources that can continue generating charges.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the cloudops-pack plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate rising cloud bills, find reclaimable spending, and review costs for compute, storage, databases, and networking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyre-ai/msp-claude-plugins/cloud-cost-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins --skill cloud-cost-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloudops-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,841 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00103 $0.01841
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00184

Measured 6d ago against content hash 80ab0ce742c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Cloud Cost Management 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 6d 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.

msp-claude-plugins/cloudops-pack/skills/cloud-cost-management/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Cost Management

Overview

Cloud cost management here means two things: catching spend that changed unexpectedly, and finding spend that shouldn't exist at all (a resource nobody is using but that's still billing). Both are about protecting margin on infrastructure that's easy to lose track of once it's provisioned — this skill treats "the bill went up" and "we're paying for something idle" as related but distinct findings, and reports them separately.

This is spend on the infrastructure substrate itself (compute, storage, managed databases, networking). It is not PSA/contract billing reconciliation (see finance-pack) — this skill is about what the cloud platform itself is charging, not what the MSP bills the client for it.

Anti-triggers

  • Azure retail pricing and inventory lookups — meter rates, quota headroom, and subscription/resource-group listings are the connector's own read-only surface; use azure-mcp-cost-and-capacity. This skill consumes those numbers to find anomalies and reclaimable spend.
  • The raw metric or log query behind a spend signal — use azure-mcp-observability for the monitor and log surface itself.

Discovering available tools first

Never assume which cloud platform is connected:

  1. Call conduit__search_tools with a query like "cost", "pricing", "billing", or "list droplets" to discover which cloud platform connector(s) are live and their actual tool names (e.g. azure-mcp__pricing, azure-mcp__monitor, azure-mcp__group_resource_list, digitalocean__list_droplets, digitalocean__list_databases, digitalocean__list_volumes, digitalocean__list_load_balancers).
  2. More than one cloud platform can be connected — cover all of them.
  3. Only call concrete tools that discovery actually returned. Not every connected platform exposes a first-class billing API through its MCP surface — where cost data isn't directly available, build the cost view from resource inventory and known pricing (azure-mcp__pricing) instead, and say explicitly that it's a derived estimate, not a billed figure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 6d ago First seen · 166 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 80ab0ce742c6

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Cloud Cost Management is a skill published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins (45 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,841 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-04.

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