Vercel Optimize Audit
vercel-labs/agent-skills
Runs a metrics-first audit of a deployed Vercel project, gating investigations on real signals to produce ranked, citation-backed cost and performance recommendations.
Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas.
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills gke-cost-optimization --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/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .claude/skills/gke-cost-optimization && 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 "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .claude/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimizationType 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 google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills gke-cost-optimization --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .agents/skills/gke-cost-optimization && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .agents/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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 google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills gke-cost-optimization --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .cursor/skills/gke-cost-optimization && 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 "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .cursor/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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/google/skills.git --path skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization--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 google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills gke-cost-optimization --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .gemini/skills/gke-cost-optimization && 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 "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .gemini/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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 google/skills gke-cost-optimizationInstalls 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 google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .github/skills/gke-cost-optimization && 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 "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .github/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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 google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills gke-cost-optimization --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization .opencode/skills/gke-cost-optimization && 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 "gke-cost-optimization" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization into .opencode/skills/gke-cost-optimization/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "gke-cost-optimization", 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.
gke-cost-optimizationOptimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas.
Gke Cost Optimization is an agent skill from google/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas. Use when optimizing GKE cluster or workload costs, configuring GKE cost allocation or quotas, rightsizing CPU/memory requests, or selecting Spot VMs and machine types. Don't use for general compute class provisioning or GPU Selection (use gke-compute-classes instead).
Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including assets (for example `assets/resource-quota-example.yaml`, `assets/spot-deployment-example.yaml` and `assets/vpa-recommendation-mode.yaml`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud cost optimization. It works with Google Kubernetes Engine. The repository describes itself as: Agent Skills for Google products and technologies. The licence is Apache-2.0.
7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8a1ac05. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
kubectlgcloudbqFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use kubectl and gcloud, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Gke Cost Optimization loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 812 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.
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.
The full file from google/skills at commit 8a1ac05, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© google). 812 words, ~2,084 tokens.
.claude/skills/gke-cost-optimization/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.This reference covers strategies and workflows for reducing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) costs while maintaining a secure and reliable posture.
To enable GKE cost allocation (--enable-cost-allocation) for billing tracking
across namespaces and labels, inspect live cluster utilization (kubectl top),
or run historical cost breakdown queries in BigQuery (bq), use the
gke-cost-analysis skill. Once tracking is active and waste is diagnosed,
apply the optimization workflows below.
Resource quotas restrict total resource consumption across tenants in
multi-tenant clusters, preventing runaway costs. Template:
assets/resource-quota-example.yaml
(set namespace + hard limits, then kubectl apply -f).
Adjust pod resource requests to match actual utilization. Over-provisioned requests are one of the largest sources of waste.
updateMode: "Off" — recommends
without evicting):# 1. Deploy VPA in recommendation mode (template: assets/vpa-recommendation-mode.yaml)
kubectl apply -f assets/vpa-recommendation-mode.yaml
# 2. Wait 24+ hours for data collection, then read recommendations
kubectl get vpa {deployment_name}-vpa -o jsonpath='{.status.recommendation}'| Condition | Action | Savings |
|---|---|---|
| CPU request >5x P95 actual | Reduce to P95 * 1.2 | High |
| Memory request >3x P95 actual | Reduce to P95 * 1.2 | High |
| CPU request >2x P95 actual | Reduce to P95 * 1.2 | Medium |
| No resource requests set | Add requests (enables bin-packing) | Medium |
Cost Management > GKE Cost Optimization) for built-in rightsizing suggestions.Use Spot VMs for fault-tolerant workloads to achieve 60-90% cost reduction.
For a Spot-first ComputeClass with On-Demand fallback (priority ordering,
activeMigration, machine family selection), use the gke-compute-classes
skill — ComputeClass YAML generation and priority configuration are its domain,
not this skill's.
nodeSelector)For stateless or batch workloads in GKE Autopilot, target Spot capacity directly
using nodeSelector:
[!WARNING] Preemption Warning: Spot VMs are interruptible and can be preempted at any time with a 30-second notice. Workloads must be fault-tolerant and run with at least 2 replicas for high availability. Always explicitly warn users about this preemption risk when recommending Spot VMs.
The exact Pod-level selector is:
nodeSelector:
cloud.google.com/gke-spot: "true"Full worked Deployment (replicas >= 2, terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 25,
preStop hook): assets/spot-deployment-example.yaml.
Spot-Suitable Workloads:
| Workload | Spot-Suitable? |
|---|---|
| Batch / data processing | Yes |
| Dev / test environments | Yes |
| Stateless web/API (replicas >= 2) | Yes (with PDBs) |
| Jobs with checkpointing | Yes |
| Stateful workloads (databases) | No |
| Single-replica critical services | No |
When choosing node shapes or configuring ComputeClasses:
| Family | Use Case | Relative Cost |
|---|---|---|
| e2 | General purpose, burstable | Lowest |
| t2a / t2d | Scale-out (Arm/AMD), price-performance optimized | Low |
| n4a | Axion Arm-based, general-purpose price-performance | Low |
| n4 / n4d | General purpose (Intel/AMD), flexible shapes | Low-Medium |
| c4a | Axion Arm-based, general-purpose, high efficiency | Medium |
| c3 / c4 | Compute-optimized (Intel) | Medium-High |
| c3d / c4d | Compute-optimized (AMD), high throughput | Medium-High |
| ek-standard | Autopilot enhanced | Medium |
| m3 / x4 | Memory-optimized, SAP HANA, large databases | High |
| g2 (L4 GPU) | AI inference | High |
| a3 (H100 GPU) | AI training | Highest |
| a4 / a4x | Ultra-scale AI (Blackwell GPUs) | Highest |
For steady-state workloads with predictable baseline usage, purchase 1-year or 3-year CUDs:
Size the commitment to the steady-state baseline only. A commitment bills for the full term whether or not you use it, so over-committing to peak usage converts a discount into waste. Measure the floor of actual usage over a representative period, commit to that, and cover everything above it with the elastic options already in this skill:
When recommending CUDs, state the split explicitly rather than implying the whole footprint should be committed.
gcloud container clusters resize {cluster_name} --node-pool {pool_name} --num-nodes 0) or delete and recreate the cluster
via IaC (Terraform/Config Connector).gke-cluster-autoscaler skill.To inspect live node/pod utilization (kubectl top nodes/pods), view cluster
cost budgets (gcloud billing budgets list), or query detailed billing reports
in BigQuery (bq query), refer to the gke-cost-analysis skill.
© google, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 3 other files (assets) in skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization of google/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8a1ac05
Gke Cost Optimization next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gke Cost Optimization this skillgoogle/skills | 21k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Vercel Optimize Auditvercel-labs/agent-skills | 32k | 8 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Cloud Cost Optimizationwshobson/agents | 40k | 13 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Trigger.dev Cost Savings Auditpapermark/papermark | 9.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Kubernetes SpecialistJeffallan/claude-skills | 12k | 1 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Axiom Cost Controlopenclaw/clawhub | 9.5k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
vercel-labs/agent-skills
Runs a metrics-first audit of a deployed Vercel project, gating investigations on real signals to produce ranked, citation-backed cost and performance recommendations.
wshobson/agents
Cuts cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI with cost tagging, rightsizing, commitment and spot pricing models, and architecture changes.
papermark/papermark
Audits Trigger.dev tasks, schedules and run history for wasteful machine sizes, retries, polling and cron frequency to cut spend.
Jeffallan/claude-skills
Creates and checks Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, RBAC and network policies, and helps debug pod problems, with kubectl checks and rollback steps.
openclaw/clawhub
Finds unused data in Axiom by analyzing query patterns, then deploys a cost dashboard and ingest monitors to keep spend under the contract limit.
nicepkg/auto-company
Deploy to Cloudflare (Workers, R2, D1), Docker, GCP (Cloud Run, GKE), Kubernetes (kubectl, Helm).
google/skills
Manages Google Cloud Privileged Access Manager entitlements and grants: create and edit entitlements, request temporary access, and approve or deny pending grants.
google/skills
Writes Terraform alerting policies for AI agents that emit OpenTelemetry metrics, covering reliability, cost, safety, security and quality signals on Google Cloud.
google/skills
Deploys open models or custom weights from Model Garden to Agent Platform endpoints, checks deployment status and cleans up endpoints, confirming before any change.
google/skills
Searches, manages and scaffolds skills in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Skill Registry using bundled Python scripts and Google Cloud credentials.
google/skills
Designs GCP infrastructure as local Terraform, validates and scans it against best practices, then imports it to Application Design Center for deployment and troubleshooting.
google/skills
Analyzes BigQuery slot use, query costs and execution bottlenecks from INFORMATION_SCHEMA to diagnose slow queries, slot contention and unpartitioned scans.
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Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas. Gke Cost Optimization is an agent skill from google/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas.
Gke Cost Optimization fits situations like: optimizing GKE cluster; configuring GKE cost allocation; rightsizing CPU/memory requests; selecting Spot VMs and machine types.
Run `npx skills add google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization in google/skills) into .claude/skills/gke-cost-optimization in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud/gke-cost-optimization in google/skills) into .agents/skills/gke-cost-optimization in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add google/skills --skill gke-cost-optimization -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/gke-cost-optimization, .gemini/skills/gke-cost-optimization, .github/skills/gke-cost-optimization and .opencode/skills/gke-cost-optimization in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Gke Cost Optimization needs the command-line tools its instructions call (kubectl, gcloud and bq).
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
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.
Gke Cost Optimization 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.
About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Gke Cost Optimization: Vercel Optimize Audit (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars), Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars), Trigger.dev Cost Savings Audit (papermark/papermark, 9.2k stars) and Kubernetes Specialist (Jeffallan/claude-skills, 12k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
google (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in google/skills, which has 20,994 GitHub stars. The repository holds 145 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: google/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.