analyze-costs SKILL.md skillA
analyze-costs from harness/harness-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harness/harness-skills/analyze-costs@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harness/harness-skills
- Path
skills/observability-governance/analyze-costs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 4,845 bytes
- Repository stars
- 122
- License
- Apache-2.0
Analyze cloud costs, find optimization opportunities, and track anomalies using Harness CCM via MCP. Use when user says "cloud costs", "analyze costs", "cost optimization", "reduce spending", "cost report", or asks about cloud bills.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Analyze Costs Analyze cloud costs and identify savings using Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) via MCP. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Get Cost Overview ``` Call MCP tool: harness_get Parameters: resource_type: "cost_account_overview" ``` Returns total spend, provider breakdown, and trend vs previous period. ### Step 2: Get Cost Breakdown ``` Call MCP tool: harness_get Parameters: resource_type: "cost_breakdown" ``` Multi-dimensional breakdown by service, environment, team, region. ### Step 3: Explore Perspectives ``` Call MCP tool: harness_list Parameters: resource_type: "cost_perspective" ``` Then get detailed data for a specific perspective: ``` Call MCP tool: harness_get Parameters: resource_type: "cost_perspective" resource_id: "<perspective_id>" ``` ### Step 4: Get Cost Trends ``` Call MCP tool: harness_get Parameters: resource_type: "cost_timeseries" ``` ### Step 5: Get Optimization Recommendations ``` Call MCP tool: harness_list Parameters: resource_type: "cost_recommendation" ``` For detailed recommendation info: ``` Call MCP tool: harness_get Parameters: resource_type: "cost_recommendation_detail" resource_id: "<recommendation_id>" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harness/harness-skills/analyze-costs@sha256:19308f22591eebabThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.
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Source
harness/harness-skills · 122 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_c4bjksmnyfoeadpi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harness/harness-skills/analyze-costs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/19308f22591eebab2c95d484d3dea37fc3f220ef13d7b6522825fded5e5e49f3
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.