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Cloud Cost Optimization

Guides an agent through cutting cloud spend on AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI.

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Repository
wshobson/agents
Stars
42,095
Licence
MIT
Files
2 files

What it does

When installed, this skill gives the agent a reference playbook for reducing cloud bills across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud. The agent can then suggest right-sizing resources, applying cost-allocation tags, choosing reserved or spot/preemptible capacity, adding lifecycle rules to storage, and setting budget alerts, with example Terraform snippets. It is guidance and sample code; it does not connect to your cloud account or change anything on its own.

Great for

  • Engineers or platform teams reviewing a multi-cloud or single-cloud bill
  • Teams that want a checklist of common savings levers and governance practices
  • People writing Terraform for tagging, budgets or S3 lifecycle rules who want a starting template

Skip it if

  • Exact savings forecasts: the discount percentages are generic figures copied from vendor marketing and may be outdated or not match your contract, region or usage
  • Production changes made without review: the Terraform examples use placeholder values (such as a hard-coded AMI ID, a fixed 2024 budget start date and example email addresses) and would need checking before use, and automated resizing or shutdown could cause outages

Try asking

  • “Review this Terraform repo and suggest where we can cut AWS spend without hurting reliability”
  • “Draft a tagging policy for cost allocation across our Azure subscriptions”
  • “Create a monthly budget alert in Terraform with an 80% email threshold”
  • “Compare reserved instances, savings plans and spot for our batch workloads on GCP”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Cloud Cost OptimizationInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    cost-optimization.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip cost-optimization.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip cost-optimization.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent your actual usage data or billing export so its suggestions are based on your workloads rather than the generic percentages in the skill
  • Review every generated Terraform block for placeholder values, regions and naming before running terraform plan or apply
  • Ask for a list of recommendations with risks listed for each, so savings are weighed against performance and reliability

What's inside

  • references/tagging-standards.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from wshobson/agents under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.