guardduty-cost-optimization SKILL.md skillA
guardduty-cost-optimization from aws/tools-for-devops-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aws/tools-for-devops-agent/guardduty-cost-optimization@v1.3.2Pins v1.3.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aws/tools-for-devops-agent
- Path
skills/guardduty-cost-optimization/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.3.2, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 10,400 bytes
- Repository stars
- 137
- License
- Apache-2.0
Identify and quantify Amazon GuardDuty cost optimization opportunities.
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
# Amazon GuardDuty Cost Optimization Identify, quantify, and prioritize Amazon GuardDuty cost optimization opportunities aligned with [Monitoring GuardDuty usage and estimating costs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/monitoring_costs.html) and [GuardDuty pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/pricing/). This skill uses **read-only GuardDuty, CloudWatch, and Organizations APIs only**. It never enables, disables, or reconfigures a detector or protection plan — all remediation is delivered as recommendations for a human to review and apply. It reads usage metrics and findings statistics only; it does not read finding detail content. ## When to Use Activate this skill when the user asks to: - Reduce or optimize Amazon GuardDuty costs - Investigate an unexpected GuardDuty cost increase - Understand which protection plan or data source drives GuardDuty spend - Decide whether a protection plan (S3 Protection, Runtime Monitoring, etc.) is worth its cost - Project GuardDuty spend after the 30-day free trial - Perform a GuardDuty cost review or FinOps assessment ## How GuardDuty Billing Works The pricing model is the foundation of every finding below. The essentials: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aws/tools-for-devops-agent/guardduty-cost-optimization@sha256:baf80e3402c62d86The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3.2, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 7, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| v1.3.2 latest | 2026-10-22 | a961f30 | 10,400 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.1 | 2026-10-21 | 35b9537 | 10,400 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3.0 | 2026-10-07 | 69e1ce4 | 10,418 B | A | view |
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Source
aws/tools-for-devops-agent · 137 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hd4ecujgvpkpvwow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aws/tools-for-devops-agent/guardduty-cost-optimization GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/baf80e3402c62d86ae99c155892868cb7b6a29d149a8180550deec952edbb4c3
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