eks-cost-intelligence SKILL.md skillA

eks-cost-intelligence from aws-samples/sample-apex-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add aws-samples/sample-apex-skills/eks-cost-intelligence@git:20261107.2f8c104

Pins git:20261107.2f8c104 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
aws-samples/sample-apex-skills
Path
devops-agent/eks-cost-intelligence/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261107.2f8c104, committed Nov 7, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 4, 2026
Size
21,292 bytes
Repository stars
95
License
MIT-0

EKS cost efficiency assessment — 6-dimension analysis, weighted 0-100 Cost Score, and dollar-quantified remediation report.

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

# EKS Cost Intelligence — DevOps Agent Port

## Overview

This skill performs a live cost efficiency assessment of an EKS cluster. It connects via AWS APIs and the Kubernetes API, analyzes cost signals across 6 dimensions, calculates a weighted Cost Score (0-100), and produces a detailed report with dollar-quantified findings, prioritized recommendations, and pre-filled remediation snippets.

This skill is focused on **live cost assessment** — answering the question: "Where is this cluster wasting money, and how much can I save?"

## Start Here — Verify the Assessment Connection

Before delegating any audit work, the agent receiving the request must verify the connection and list nodes, namespaces, pods and deployments itself. For native reads, use the Agent Space’s read-only Kubernetes capability on its AWS association, even when no MCP association is listed. If the user selects MCP, keep all Kubernetes calls on that connection. Verify the executing role and bind each call to the account, region and cluster confirmed by DescribeCluster. **If any of the four reads fails, is denied or cannot be confirmed, return Assessment Error without a numeric score, including a provisional…
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add aws-samples/sample-apex-skills/eks-cost-intelligence@sha256:131b888d388396fe

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.2f8c104, 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 5 versions of this file, between Nov 4, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, more than one a day.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21292 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

aws-samples/sample-apex-skills · 95 stars · license MIT-0 · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hkcmvp2fkqcr7ggb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aws-samples/sample-apex-skills/eks-cost-intelligence
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/131b888d388396fe8eadd30fbfecb3f102d2a7b714a95360851d4e64f66fd45f

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