cost-optimization SKILL.md skillA
cost-optimization from rampstackco/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/cost-optimization@git:20260810.e5bc675Pins git:20260810.e5bc675 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rampstackco/claude-skills
- Path
skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.e5bc675, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 28, 2026
- Size
- 12,217 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,037
- License
- MIT
Audit and reduce infrastructure and tooling costs without sacrificing reliability or velocity. Use this skill when reviewing monthly cloud or SaaS spend, finding unused resources, rightsizing infrastructure, negotiating vendor contracts, deciding what to consolidate, or planning for budget cuts. Triggers on cost optimization, cloud spend, SaaS spend, rightsizing, unused resources, FinOps, infrastructure audit, vendor consolidation, budget cut, cost review. Also triggers when finance flags…
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
# Cost Optimization Audit cloud, SaaS, and infrastructure spend. Cut what's not earning its keep. Rightsize what's oversized. Negotiate what's negotiable. Without breaking what works. --- ## When to use - Quarterly or annual cost review - Finance flags rising spend - Vendor contract renewal coming up - Budget cut required - New leadership wants the numbers - Migrating between providers (cost is part of the case) - Audit before scaling significantly (catch waste before it scales) ## When NOT to use - Active incident response (use `incident-response`) - Performance issues that happen to involve infrastructure (use `performance-optimization`) - Vendor evaluation for a new purchase (use `vendor-evaluation`) - Personnel or org costs (out of scope for this skill) --- ## Required inputs - Current cost (monthly, ideally for the last 12 months) - Cost broken down by service or vendor - Inventory of cloud resources (instances, databases, storage, etc.) - Inventory of SaaS subscriptions - Owners per cost line (who decided to spend this, who uses it) - Constraints (compliance, performance, contract terms) --- ## The framework: 5 levers …
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How to install
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/cost-optimization@sha256:5589fd8d9c40abb4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.e5bc675, 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 Apr 28, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 26 days.
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| git:20260810.e5bc675 latest | 2026-08-10 | e5bc675 | 12,217 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260507.ac2b078 | 2026-05-07 | ac2b078 | 11,694 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260505.c80b896 | 2026-05-05 | c80b896 | 11,655 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.c2be03d | 2026-04-29 | c2be03d | 11,532 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.f066ffe | 2026-04-28 | f066ffe | 11,529 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12217 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
rampstackco/claude-skills · 1,037 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xymlux7fb7zr6flb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rampstackco/claude-skills/cost-optimization GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5589fd8d9c40abb40ca62a9bfba2b67a9e7f5d64d37ca7ca444bc8e1cfb00fb0
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