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cloud-finops from optimnow/cloud-finops-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add optimnow/cloud-finops-skills/cloud-finops@git:20261104.063f5c2

Pins git:20261104.063f5c2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: optimnow/cloud-finops-skills
Path: plugins/cloud-finops/skills/cloud-finops/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 17
Latest version: git:20261104.063f5c2, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 30, 2026
Size: 21,856 bytes
Repository stars: 66
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Expert FinOps guidance for cloud, AI, and SaaS technology spend. Covers AI cost management, agentic FinOps, GenAI capacity planning, self-hosted vs managed inference, Anthropic billing, open-weight vendor APIs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM), AWS (EC2, Bedrock, SageMaker, Savings Plans, CUR), Azure (reservations, AHB, OpenAI PTUs), GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery), OCI, on-prem and hybrid, Kubernetes cost allocation, data platforms (Databricks, Fabric F-SKUs, Snowflake), tagging governance, SaaS…

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

# FinOps - Expert Guidance

> Built by OptimNow from hands-on enterprise FinOps delivery.

---

## How to use this skill

This skill covers cloud, AI, SaaS, and adjacent technology spend domains. Apply the
OptimNow lens to every answer: diagnose before prescribing, connect cost to value,
recommend progressively. Then load the domain reference(s) matching the query. Load
`references/optimnow-methodology.md` in full only for strategy, engagement-design, or
methodology questions - not for routine billing-mechanics queries.

### Domain routing

| Query topic | Load reference |
|---|---|
| OptimNow methodology, engagement approach, four pillars, FinOps strategy design, practice positioning | `references/optimnow-methodology.md` |
| AI costs, LLM inference, token economics, agentic cost patterns, AI ROI, AI cost allocation, GPU cost attribution, GPU telemetry, DCGM metrics, "GPU utilization is misleading", tensor core activity, GPU memory bandwidth, RAG harness costs | `references/finops-for-ai.md` |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add optimnow/cloud-finops-skills/cloud-finops@sha256:79b5aa6568f49013

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.063f5c2, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_paunm2wtgtmldgam.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_paunm2wtgtmldgam)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 17 versions of this file, between Sep 30, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 2 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261104.063f5c2 latest	2026-11-04	063f5c2	21,856 B	A	view · diff
git:20261030.324f321	2026-10-30	324f321	21,841 B	A	view · diff
git:20261027.4936941	2026-10-27	4936941	21,840 B	A	view · diff
git:20261025.fb8f160	2026-10-25	fb8f160	21,792 B	A	view · diff
git:20261024.4823492	2026-10-24	4823492	21,209 B	A	view · diff
git:20261022.260b493	2026-10-22	260b493	20,898 B	A	view · diff
git:20261022.0892ca2	2026-10-22	0892ca2	20,474 B	A	view · diff
git:20261021.b1eb9f9	2026-10-21	b1eb9f9	19,682 B	A	view · diff
git:20261020.1a14a49	2026-10-20	1a14a49	19,559 B	A	view · diff
git:20261019.9ad3e34	2026-10-19	9ad3e34	19,013 B	A	view · diff
git:20261016.dd82d0e	2026-10-16	dd82d0e	18,324 B	A	view · diff
git:20261015.6bf6287	2026-10-15	6bf6287	17,752 B	A	view · diff
git:20261013.e1f6285	2026-10-13	e1f6285	17,383 B	A	view · diff
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git:20261011.e52ea31	2026-10-11	e52ea31	17,225 B	A	view · diff
git:20260930.d317b49	2026-09-30	d317b49	16,584 B	A	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 (21856 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

optimnow/cloud-finops-skills · 66 stars · license CC-BY-SA-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_paunm2wtgtmldgam
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=optimnow/cloud-finops-skills/cloud-finops
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/79b5aa6568f490133aabf5ab608bc75ae1628ffe62b26e59aa00f5a82cd0c903

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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