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Cloud cost awareness for agents. An agent skill from yuanboP/frugal.
Install Frugal
$ npx skills add yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install yuanboP/frugal frugal --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/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .claude/skills/frugal && 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 "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .claude/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugalType 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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install yuanboP/frugal frugal --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .agents/skills/frugal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .agents/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install yuanboP/frugal frugal --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .cursor/skills/frugal && 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 "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .cursor/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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/yuanboP/frugal.git --path skills/frugal--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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install yuanboP/frugal frugal --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .gemini/skills/frugal && 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 "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .gemini/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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 yuanboP/frugal frugalInstalls 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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .github/skills/frugal && 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 "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .github/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install yuanboP/frugal frugal --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/frugal .opencode/skills/frugal && 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 "frugal" agent skill from https://github.com/yuanboP/frugal/tree/main/skills/frugal into .opencode/skills/frugal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "frugal", 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
frugal- GitHub stars
- 198
- Token cost
- ~2.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,008 words
- Files
- 3 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 1
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Cloud cost awareness for agents. An agent skill from yuanboP/frugal.
- The user asks about cloud costs
- SKILL.md covers Rules, Intensity, Free-tier cheat-sheet… and Paid-plan tripwires (fail-open…
- Calls fly, wrangler and vercel
- Why is my bill so high
What it does
Frugal is an agent skill from yuanboP/frugal. Cloud cost awareness for agents. Metered services (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers/R2/KV/D1, Neon, Railway, Fly.io, E2B, Browserbase, GitHub Actions/Codespaces, Supabase, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform/Pulumi) silently bill by usage, and the user may not understand why the bill exploded. Use whenever the user asks about cloud costs, billing, usage, quotas, free tiers, "check the bill", "why is my bill so high", reducing cloud spend, or before deploying/provisioning to any metered service. Scope is normal usage that runs…
Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/indie-services.md` and `references/providers.md`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud cost optimization, Infrastructure as code and Pricing strategy. It works with Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Supabase and Amazon Web Services. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user asks about cloud costs
- Why is my bill so high
- Reducing cloud spend
- Before deploying/provisioning to any metered service
Example prompts
- “check the bill”
- “why is my bill so high”
- “/frugal”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b0f07ea. 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:
flywranglervercelawssupabaseghazherokudoctlclaudemodal
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use wrangler, vercel, aws, supabase, gh and az, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
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
Frugal loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~54k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 188 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,008 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 yuanboP/frugal at commit b0f07ea, republished under its MIT licence (© yuanboP). 1,008 words, ~2,118 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/frugal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- frugal
- description
- Cloud cost awareness for agents. Metered services (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers/R2/KV/D1, Neon, Railway, Fly.io, E2B, Browserbase, GitHub Actions/Codespaces, Supabase, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform/Pulumi) silently bill by usage, and the user may not understand why the bill exploded. Use whenever the user asks about cloud costs, billing, usage, quotas, free tiers, "check the bill", "why is my bill so high", reducing cloud spend, or before deploying/provisioning to any metered service. Scope is normal usage that runs up a bill unnoticed (wrong tier, forgotten resource, loop that hits a paid meter) — not credential leaks or fraud, that's a security concern. Do NOT use for questions about application pricing models or unrelated finance topics.
- license
- MIT
Frugal
You are cost-aware. Agents burn users' money silently on metered cloud services; the user may be non-technical and only discover it on the monthly bill. Every deploy, sandbox, database, and API loop you run can cost real money that is not yours.
Rules
- First touch: one short line on how it bills (hard-pause vs fail-open). Optional dig if a cheap CLI exists — skip if no credentials. Do not lecture.
- Lasting paid resources: one-line notice; prefer free/local first
(
wrangler dev,vercel dev, Neon branch,supabase start). - Ephemeral dies in-session: sandboxes, test resources, idle Codespaces.
- Escalate only for scary spend: unattended loops, no-cap meters,
recursive triggers, open OTP/send, real
apply/provision. One sentence. - Alerts are not brakes; paid plans fail open unless a spend cap
actually stops service — details in
references/providers.md. - Never silently spend for the user. Work first; one-line reminders.
Intensity
| Level | Inject |
|---|---|
| quiet | Free-tier / key quota numbers only |
| normal (default) | Numbers + one trap; dig optional |
| strict | + real-bill dollar context; confirm scary actions |
/frugal quiet|normal|strict|off · /frugal default <level> · FRUGAL_MODE
Free-tier cheat-sheet (researched 2026-07)
Numbers below are the free-tier walls agent-built apps hit — check which
plan the user is actually on before applying them. Paid plan tables, overage
prices, and sources: references/providers.md (core cloud) and
references/indie-services.md (Firebase, PaaS, email, auth, maps, AI APIs,
GPU, observability) in this skill.
| Provider | Free tier key numbers | What blows first | Check usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 1M edge reqs, 1M invocations, 360 GB-hr memory, 100 GB transfer, 100 deploys/day; non-commercial only | deploy cap in agent loops; memory GB-hrs — bills through I/O waits, so LLM streaming/polling burns it with zero CPU | vercel usage |
| Cloudflare | per-DAY quotas, hard-fail: 100k Worker reqs + 10ms CPU; KV 1k writes; D1 100k writes; R2 10 GB storage + $0 egress | KV's 1k writes/day — minutes under load | dashboard Billable Usage; wrangler d1 info |
| Neon | 100 CU-hr/mo/project, 0.5 GB storage, 5 GB egress | compute hours: polling defeats autosuspend → DB SUSPENDS until next month at ~day 17 | console / consumption API |
| Railway | $1/mo credit (Hobby: $5) | the credit — RAM is $10/GB-mo; always-on app+DB ≈ $15-25/mo | railway.com/workspace/usage |
| Fly.io | NO free tier; trial = 2 VM-hours total | trial gone in 2h always-on; fly launch silently creates 2 machines | fly machine list + dashboard |
| E2B | $100 one-time credit, 1h session cap, 20 concurrent | leaked sandboxes: ~$2.6-4/day each while running | e2b sandbox list --state running |
| Browserbase | 1 browser-hr/MONTH, 15-min max session, 3 concurrent | that single hour, in one afternoon of dev | API /projects/{id}/usage |
| GitHub | 2,000 private Actions min/mo (public unlimited), 120 Codespaces core-hr, 500 MB storage | Actions minutes in 2-3 weeks of auto-deploys — then workflows SILENTLY fail at the $0 default limit | gh api /users/{u}/settings/billing/usage |
| Supabase | 2 active projects, 500 MB DB, 5 GB egress, 50k MAU | 7-day idle AUTO-PAUSE kills deploy-and-forget apps; Pro: each extra project/branch bills ~$10/mo uncapped by Spend Cap | dashboard org usage |
| AWS/GCP/Azure | Lambda/Az Functions 1M req + 400K GB-s/mo; Cloud Run 2M req but 1 GB egress; AWS $200 credit / 6-mo auto-close | NAT gateway (~$33/mo idle), forgotten instances, egress | aws ce get-cost-and-usage / az consumption usage list |
| Firebase | Spark: 50K Firestore reads + 20K writes/day, hard stop (but no Functions/Storage); Blaze: NO cap | unbounded onSnapshot loops, recursive triggers, unset maxInstances | console usage pages; no CLI spend command |
| Heroku / Render | Heroku: NO free tier, NO cap; Render Hobby: 5 GB/mo bandwidth | zombie add-ons billing 24/7; AI-crawler bandwidth | heroku addons / Render dashboard |
| Netlify / DigitalOcean | Netlify: 300 credits/mo, hard-pauses; DO: NO cap, non-static component $5+/mo | prod deploy = 15 credits (~20/mo); orphan droplets/DBs | doctl balance get |
| MongoDB Atlas / PlanetScale | M0 free 512 MB throttled; Flex caps $30/mo; Dedicated UNCAPPED; PlanetScale: no free tier | autoscale up-in-10min-down-after-24h; $0.09/GB egress | atlas api invoices |
| Email (Resend/SendGrid/Mailgun) | SendGrid free DEAD (60-day trial); others 100/day hard stop | contact-storage overage recurs monthly; Mailgun cap OFF by default | provider dashboards |
| Auth (Clerk/Auth0/Firebase) | 50K MRU / 25K MAU (bots COUNT) / 50K MAU | phone-OTP is a second, easy-to-miss meter — SMS bills per message on top of MAU | provider dashboards |
| Maps (Google/Mapbox) | per-SKU free calls (10K/5K/1K, NOT pooled); Mapbox 50K loads | unrestricted client keys, map remounts; NO caps on either | GCP console / Mapbox stats |
| AI APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic/Replicate) | Anthropic: tier ceiling (real cap); OpenAI: alerts only; Replicate: credit | env API key flips agent CLIs to per-token billing without warning | claude /status; console usage pages |
| GPU (RunPod/Modal/Vast) | prepaid balance = de facto cap UNTIL auto-top-up; Modal $30/mo credit | idle pods, warm min_containers, stop != destroy | runpodctl get pod / modal app list / vastai show instances |
| Observability (Datadog/CloudWatch/Sentry) | DD/CW: NO caps (alerts only); Sentry 5K errors/mo | tracesSampleRate 1.0, ID metric tags, Never-Expire retention | DD usage monitors / CW billing |
| Media/vector (Cloudinary/Pinecone/Upstash) | 25 credits / 2 GB + 1M RU / 500K cmds | legacy Pinecone pods $81+/mo idle; Upstash hard cap exists but OFF | dashboards; cld admin usage |
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Paid-plan tripwires (fail-open walls)
When the user IS on a paid plan, these are the researched danger spots:
- Vercel Pro: Spend Management defaults to a $200 notification, not a stop; auto-pause is opt-in and paused projects never auto-unpause. Builds bill by default (Elastic machines) — every agent push costs CPU-minutes.
- Neon Launch/Scale: pure pay-as-you-go, $0 base. The free-tier suspend becomes a silent bill: one always-on 1 CU compute ≈ $77/mo (Launch); egress past 500 GB bills $0.10/GB; autosuspend CAN be disabled — make sure it isn't, and set Neon's spend limit (alerts at ~80%/100%).
- Cloudflare Workers Paid: $5/mo floor, then open-ended — KV writes $5/M, Durable Objects duration $12.50/M GB-s, D1 writes $1/M.
- Supabase Pro: Spend Cap exists but does not cover per-project compute — each extra project/branch bills ~$10/mo regardless.
- GitHub: raising the $0 Actions spending limit opens unbounded per-minute billing; macOS runners ~10x Linux.
- E2B Pro: $150/mo raises concurrency/session limits only — sandbox seconds still bill on top.
- Fly.io: pure PAYG with no billing alerts at all — inventory
machines/volumes regularly (
fly machine list,fly volumes list). - AWS/GCP/Azure: no default caps — set
aws budgets/gcloud billing budgets/ Azure cost alerts before provisioning anything (and remember they only email, on lagged data). - Firebase Blaze: NO hard cap exists; Firestore read loops and recursive triggers bill unbounded — set functions maxInstances before going live.
- No-cap vendors: Mapbox (and several metered SaaS) offer no spend cap at all — viral traffic means unbounded exposure; prefer cappable or self-hostable alternatives for public pages.
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Files
SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/frugal of yuanboP/frugal.
- SKILL.md
- references/indie-services.md
- references/providers.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit b0f07ea
Compare with similar skills
Frugal 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frugal this skillyuanboP/frugal | 198 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cloud Architectdavila7/claude-code-templates | 33k | 8 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cloud Cost Optimizationwshobson/agents | 40k | 14 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Terravision Cloud Diagramspatrickchugh/terravision | 1.6k | — | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | AGPL-3.0-only | |
| TerrasharkLukasNiessen/terrashark | 716 | — | ~843 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Spotinfoalexei-led/spotinfo | 164 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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Questions about Frugal
What does Frugal do?
Cloud cost awareness for agents. An agent skill from yuanboP/frugal. Frugal is an agent skill from yuanboP/frugal. Cloud cost awareness for agents.
When should I use Frugal?
Frugal fits situations like: the user asks about cloud costs; why is my bill so high; reducing cloud spend; before deploying/provisioning to any metered service.
How do I install Frugal in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/frugal in yuanboP/frugal) into .claude/skills/frugal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Frugal in Codex?
Run `npx skills add yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/frugal in yuanboP/frugal) into .agents/skills/frugal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Frugal 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 yuanboP/frugal --skill frugal -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/frugal, .gemini/skills/frugal, .github/skills/frugal and .opencode/skills/frugal in your project.
What does Frugal need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Frugal needs the command-line tools its instructions call (fly, wrangler, vercel, aws, supabase and gh).
Does Frugal access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Frugal 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 Frugal use?
Frugal is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Frugal use?
About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.5k 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 52k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Frugal?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Frugal: Cloud Architect (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars), Terravision Cloud Diagrams (patrickchugh/terravision, 1.6k stars) and Terrashark (LukasNiessen/terrashark, 716 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Frugal?
yuanboP (a GitHub user) maintains it in yuanboP/frugal, which has 198 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on July 19, 2026.
Source: yuanboP/frugal on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.