teardown-and-cost SKILL.md skillA

teardown-and-cost from nebius/nebius-physical-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nebius/nebius-physical-ai/teardown-and-cost@git:20261029.fe9128e

Pins git:20261029.fe9128e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nebius/nebius-physical-ai
Path
skills/atomic/teardown-and-cost/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261029.fe9128e, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
8,951 bytes
Repository stars
106
License
Apache-2.0

Use to stop spend safely and audit orphaned resources — the mandatory cancel-before-destroy ordering, which npa commands touch cloud versus local state, and how to find leaked clusters, agent VMs, controllers, and buckets.

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

# Teardown and cost hygiene

There is no `npa cost` and no `npa quota` command. Spend control here is
procedural: run things in an order that cannot orphan resources, and audit for
residue afterwards. The single most expensive mistake is destroying
infrastructure while managed jobs are still running, which leaves jobs billing
against resources nothing is tracking any more.

## The ordering is not optional

Cancel workloads, then remove the things that host them, outermost last:

```bash
npa workbench workflow cancel <run-id> --project <alias> --json   # every run
npa agent destroy --project <alias> --name <name> --yes
npa skypilot cleanup-controller --project <alias> --context <context> --yes
npa cluster down --project <alias> --force
npa storage bucket delete --project <alias> --yes --wait
npa storage service-account delete --project <alias> --dry-run
npa storage service-account delete --project <alias> --yes
npa configure --forget-project <alias>
npa cleanup --full --yes --project <alias>
```

Cancel is repeat-safe — a run that never launched is a successful no-op — so
there is no reason to skip it. `cleanup-controller` refuses while managed jobs
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nebius/nebius-physical-ai/teardown-and-cost@sha256:37f76dc3a65c202e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.fe9128e, 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 4 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 24 days.

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git:20261029.fe9128e latest2026-10-29 fe9128e 8,951 BA view · diff
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git:20260917.a8b1c332026-09-17 a8b1c33 7,688 BA view · diff
git:20260817.be3cf062026-08-17 be3cf06 6,837 BA view

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 (8951 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

nebius/nebius-physical-ai · 106 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kj7ur7riwpc3bvt3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nebius/nebius-physical-ai/teardown-and-cost
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/37f76dc3a65c202e9e769d1164b6a2a67cc221696bb7792320990b6b4a94a393

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