Cloud Cost Optimization
wshobson/agents
Cuts cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI with cost tagging, rightsizing, commitment and spot pricing models, and architecture changes.
Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena…
Install AWS Billing And Cost Management
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .claude/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .claude/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-managementType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .agents/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .agents/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .cursor/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .cursor/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .gemini/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .gemini/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-managementInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .github/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .github/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management .opencode/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aws-billing-and-cost-management" agent skill from https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/main/skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management into .opencode/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aws-billing-and-cost-management", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
aws-billing-and-cost-management- GitHub stars
- 2.8k
- Token cost
- ~2.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 874 words
- Files
- 16 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 138
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena…
- Reserved instance
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Usage, Core Concepts and Critical Rule: Always Check…, plus 6 more sections
- Calls aws
- Cost optimization
What it does
AWS Billing And Cost Management is an agent skill from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage. Triggers on: AWS bill, cost analysis, reduce spend, savings plan, reserved instance, right-size, budget alert, cost optimization, pricing, free tier, cost anomaly, CUR, cost audit, billing view, billing view ARN.
Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 16 other files, including reference files (for example `references/budgets.md`, `references/cost-audit.md` and `references/cost-explorer.md`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud cost optimization. It works with Amazon Web Services. The repository describes itself as: Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Reserved instance
- Cost optimization
- Billing view ARN
Example prompts
- “/aws-billing-and-cost-management”
Requirements
- Python 3
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2cb0fa1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
aws
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
docs.aws.amazon.comcalculator.aws
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
AWS Billing And Cost Management loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~16k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 131 tokens; SKILL.md has 874 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws at commit 2cb0fa1, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© aws). 874 words, ~2,269 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 15 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- aws-billing-and-cost-management
- description
- Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage. Triggers on: AWS bill, cost analysis, reduce spend, savings plan, reserved instance, right-size, budget alert, cost optimization, pricing, free tier, cost anomaly, CUR, cost audit, billing view, billing view ARN.
- metadata.version
- 1
Billing and Cost Management
Overview
Analyze, optimize, and manage AWS costs. This skill encodes domain expertise from AWS's cost management products — gotchas, correct API usage patterns, and optimization workflows that models frequently get wrong.
Usage
Use this skill when:
- Analyzing AWS spending, cost trends, or cost breakdowns
- Setting up or managing budget alerts
- Evaluating Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases
- Right-sizing EC2, Lambda, RDS, or EBS resources
- Looking up AWS service pricing
- Running cost audits or investigating cost spikes
- Querying CUR data with Athena
- Scoping cost analysis to a specific billing view
- Checking Free Tier usage
Core Concepts
- Cost Explorer — query cost/usage data by service, account, tag, or time range
- Budgets — set spending thresholds with alerts; supports billing view scoping
- Billing Views — scope cost data to a subset of billing (custom view, billing group, or primary)
- Compute Optimizer — right-sizing recommendations for EC2, Lambda, EBS, RDS
- Cost Optimization Hub — aggregated savings recommendations across services
- Savings Plans / Reserved Instances — commitment-based discounts
- CUR 2.0 — detailed line-item billing data queryable via Athena
Recommended setup: Use the AWS MCP server for sandboxed execution, audit logging, and enterprise controls. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-mcp/
Without AWS MCP: All commands use standard AWS CLI syntax and work with any agent that has CLI access.
Critical Rule: Always Check the Current Date
Before making ANY Cost Explorer, Budgets, or Savings Plans API call, you MUST determine the current date. Use a tool to get the current date and time — do NOT assume or guess the year. LLMs frequently default to dates from their training data instead of the actual current date, producing analyses of stale data that appear correct but are completely wrong.
Critical Rule: Deterministic Calculations
You MUST NEVER perform numerical calculations (sums, averages, percentages, comparisons, counts, min/max) by reasoning in your response. LLM arithmetic is unreliable and produces wrong answers on cost data.
You MUST ALWAYS use a script or calculator tool for any math on data returned from API calls. Write a Python script that performs the calculation and prints the result. If the AWS MCP server's run_script tool is available, use it. Otherwise, run the script locally.
Read references/deterministic-calculations.md for patterns and examples.
Decision Guide
| Question | Tool | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| What am I spending? Where are costs going up? | Cost Explorer | references/cost-explorer.md |
| How much does a service cost? | Price List API | references/pricing-lookup.md |
| Where can I save money? (start here) | Cost Optimization Hub | references/cost-optimization-hub.md |
| Should I buy Savings Plans? | CE SP Recommendations | references/savings-plans.md |
| Should I buy Reserved Instances? | CE RI Recommendations | references/reserved-instances.md |
| Deep-dive on a specific EC2/Lambda/EBS/RDS rec? | Compute Optimizer | references/ec2-rightsizing.md, references/lambda-optimization.md, references/rds-optimization.md, references/ebs-optimization.md |
| How do I set up budget alerts? | Budgets | references/budgets.md |
| What's causing a cost spike? | Cost Anomaly Detection | references/cost-explorer.md |
| Am I within Free Tier? | Free Tier API | references/free-tier.md |
| How do I reduce my bill? | Cost Audit workflow | references/cost-audit.md |
| How do I query detailed billing data? | CUR 2.0 + Athena | references/cur-athena.md |
| How do I optimize specific services? | Per-service patterns | references/service-optimization.md |
| How do I scope costs to a billing view? | Billing Views | See Billing Views below |
Common Tasks
Analyze costs by service
aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
--time-period Start=2026-03-01,End=2026-04-01 \
--granularity MONTHLY \
--metrics UnblendedCost \
--group-by Type=DIMENSION,Key=SERVICEDefault to UnblendedCost. Exclude Credits/Refunds with --filter '{"Not":{"Dimensions":{"Key":"RECORD_TYPE","Values":["Credit","Refund"]}}}'. End date is exclusive.
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Run a cost audit
Read references/cost-audit.md for the full 7-step workflow: top cost drivers → month-over-month comparison → optimization recommendations → idle resources → commitment coverage → per-service quick wins → report.
Get right-sizing recommendations
Compute Optimizer requires opt-in first: aws compute-optimizer update-enrollment-status --status Active. Then read references/ec2-rightsizing.md for EC2 or the relevant resource-specific reference.
Look up service pricing
Read references/pricing-lookup.md for service codes and attribute filters. Common trap: Price List API service codes differ from Cost Explorer service names.
Billing Views
A billing view scopes cost and usage data to a specific slice of an account's billing (e.g., a billing group, custom view, or the default primary view). When the user wants to analyze costs through a particular billing view, add --billing-view-arn to supported API calls.
Discover available billing views
aws billing list-billing-views \
--billing-view-types PRIMARY CUSTOM BILLING_GROUPRequires billing:ListBillingViews permission.
Use a billing view with Cost Explorer
aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
--time-period Start=2026-03-01,End=2026-04-01 \
--granularity MONTHLY \
--metrics UnblendedCost \
--group-by Type=DIMENSION,Key=SERVICE \
--billing-view-arn arn:aws:billing::ACCOUNT_ID:billingview/BILLING_VIEW_IDCreate a budget scoped to a billing view
In the --budget JSON, include the BillingViewArn field:
aws budgets create-budget --account-id ACCOUNT_ID \
--budget '{
"BudgetName": "TeamX-Monthly",
"BudgetLimit": {"Amount": "1000", "Unit": "USD"},
"TimeUnit": "MONTHLY",
"BudgetType": "COST",
"BillingViewArn": "arn:aws:billing::ACCOUNT_ID:billingview/BILLING_VIEW_ID"
}'API support for --billing-view-arn
Supports --billing-view-arn | Does NOT support it |
|---|---|
ce get-cost-and-usage | ce get-reservation-coverage |
ce get-cost-and-usage-with-resources | ce get-reservation-utilization |
ce get-cost-forecast | ce get-savings-plans-coverage |
ce get-usage-forecast | ce get-savings-plans-utilization |
ce get-dimension-values | |
ce get-tags | |
ce get-cost-comparison-drivers | |
budgets create-budget (in budget JSON) |
Troubleshooting
| Error | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
ValidationException on Cost Explorer | Wrong dimension key (e.g., CHARGE_TYPE instead of RECORD_TYPE) | Use RECORD_TYPE for charge type filtering |
| Empty results with filter | Filter value doesn't match exactly | Call GetDimensionValues first to get valid values |
AccessDeniedException on hourly data | Hourly granularity not enabled | Enable in Cost Explorer preferences |
Account not registered on Compute Optimizer | Not opted in | Run update-enrollment-status --status Active |
| Budgets API fails outside us-east-1 | Budgets requires us-east-1 | Set --region us-east-1 |
Cost Explorer Total empty with GroupBy | By design — totals excluded when grouping | Make separate call without GroupBy, or sum grouped results using a script |
AccessDeniedException on list-billing-views | Missing permission | User needs billing:ListBillingViews permissions |
ValidationException with --billing-view-arn | API doesn't support billing views, or malformed ARN | Check the API support table above; ARN format is arn:aws:billing::ACCOUNT_ID:billingview/VIEW_ID |
Budget shows UNHEALTHY health status | Billing view access revoked or view deleted | Check HealthStatus.StatusReason in describe-budget output; ensure billing:GetBillingViewData is granted |
Additional Resources
- AWS Cost Management User Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/
- AWS Pricing Calculator: https://calculator.aws/
- Compute Optimizer User Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/
- Well-Architected Cost Optimization Pillar: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/cost-optimization-pillar/
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Files
SKILL.md and 15 other files (references) in skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management of aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.
- SKILL.md
- references/budgets.md
- references/cost-audit.md
- references/cost-explorer.md
- references/cost-optimization-hub.md
- references/cur-athena.md
- references/deterministic-calculations.md
- references/ebs-optimization.md
- references/ec2-rightsizing.md
- references/free-tier.md
- references/lambda-optimization.md
- references/pricing-lookup.md
- references/rds-optimization.md
- references/reserved-instances.md
- references/savings-plans.md
- references/service-optimization.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2cb0fa1
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Questions about AWS Billing And Cost Management
What does AWS Billing And Cost Management do?
Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena…. AWS Billing And Cost Management is an agent skill from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage.
When should I use AWS Billing And Cost Management?
AWS Billing And Cost Management fits situations like: reserved instance; cost optimization; billing view ARN.
How do I install AWS Billing And Cost Management in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management in aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws) into .claude/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install AWS Billing And Cost Management in Codex?
Run `npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/core-skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management in aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws) into .agents/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use AWS Billing And Cost Management in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management, .gemini/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management, .github/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management and .opencode/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management in your project.
What does AWS Billing And Cost Management need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, AWS Billing And Cost Management needs the command-line tools its instructions call (aws). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does AWS Billing And Cost Management access the network?
SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.aws.amazon.com and calculator.aws. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is AWS Billing And Cost Management safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does AWS Billing And Cost Management use?
AWS Billing And Cost Management is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does AWS Billing And Cost Management use?
About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 14k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to AWS Billing And Cost Management?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with AWS Billing And Cost Management: Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars), Spotinfo (alexei-led/spotinfo, 164 stars), Frugal (yuanboP/frugal, 198 stars) and AWS Lambda Managed Instances (awslabs/agent-plugins, 916 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains AWS Billing And Cost Management?
aws (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, which has 2,835 GitHub stars. The repository holds 138 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.