Topic · DevOps & Cloud
Best cloud cost optimization skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Cloud cost optimization skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Runs a metrics-first audit of a deployed Vercel project, gating investigations on real signals to produce ranked, citation-backed cost and performance recommendations. | vercel-labs/ | 32k | 8 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 2 | Cuts cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI with cost tagging, rightsizing, commitment and spot pricing models, and architecture changes. | wshobson/ | 40k | 13 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 3 | Audits Trigger.dev tasks, schedules and run history for wasteful machine sizes, retries, polling and cron frequency to cut spend. | papermark/ | 9.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Detects and diagnoses chunk-evaluation timing bugs in the Vite/rolldown production build of react-ui (works-in-dev / broken-in-build i18n regressions, missing UI labels, module-scope t()… | openops-cloud/ | 1.1k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 5 | Creates and checks Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, RBAC and network policies, and helps debug pod problems, with kubectl checks and rollback steps. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 6 | Finds unused data in Axiom by analyzing query patterns, then deploys a cost dashboard and ingest monitors to keep spend under the contract limit. | openclaw/ | 9.5k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 7 | 7.Spotinfo Query Spot/preemptible VM prices, savings and interruption risk across AWS, GCP and Azure with the spotinfo CLI. | alexei-led/ | 164 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 8 | 8.React A skill your agent uses when creating or editing frontend React code in react-ui or ui-components packages. | openops-cloud/ | 1.1k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 9 | AWS cost optimization, monitoring, and operational excellence expert. | zxkane/ | 367 | 1 repo | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 10 | 10.Frugal Cloud cost awareness for agents. An agent skill from yuanboP/frugal. | yuanboP/ | 198 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 11 | Evaluate, configure, and migrate workloads to AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI). | awslabs/ | 912 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 12 | Runs ML training and batch jobs across clouds with SkyPilot, using spot instances, automatic region selection and managed recovery to cut GPU cost. | Orchestra-Research/ | 13k | 4 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 13 | Analyzes BigQuery slot use, query costs and execution bottlenecks from INFORMATION_SCHEMA to diagnose slow queries, slot contention and unpartitioned scans. | google/ | 21k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 14 | 14.Dt Obs AWS AWS cloud resource monitoring including EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC networking, load balancers, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, and cost optimization. | Dynatrace/ | 161 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 15 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks to "check data usage", "list TCO policies", "reduce Coralogix costs", "optimize observability spend", "lower our logging bill", "data budget exceeded"… | coralogix/ | 121 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 16 | Analyze Trigger.dev tasks, schedules, and runs for cost optimization opportunities. | VladSez/ | 1.1k | — | ~621 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| 17 | Analyze Langfuse Cloud infrastructure cost structure using Metabase cost marts. | langfuse/ | 35k | — | ~672 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 18 | 18.Pier Cloud This skill should be used when the user needs to consume the Pier Cloud (Lighthouse) API for cloud cost management — including JWT authentication, listing contexts, workspaces, workspace groups, and… | fabricioctelles/ | 105 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 19 | Looks up live Azure retail prices by SKU, service or region through the Azure MCP pricing tool, estimates template costs and compares regions, price types and savings plans. | thomast1906/ | 202 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 20 | Expert cloud architect specializing in AWS/Azure/GCP multi-cloud infrastructure design, advanced IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu/CDK), FinOps cost optimization, and modern architectural patterns. | davila7/ | 32k | 7 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Designs cloud architectures, migration plans, cost optimization recommendations and disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure and GCP. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 22 | Ranks the costliest, slowest or heaviest-scanning Snowflake queries from query history and suggests how to optimize them. | AltimateAI/ | 127 | — | ~662 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 23 | Reference guidance for Azure Advisor work: recommendations, alerts and digests, workbooks, RBAC access and sovereign-cloud limits, fetched from Microsoft Learn. | MicrosoftDocs/ | 775 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | yesterday |
| 24 | Analyze Kubernetes workload metrics and produce policy-constrained CPU/memory rightsizing recommendations with optional patch generation and rollback-safe apply. | initializ/ | 223 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 25 | AWS cost optimization and FinOps workflows. An agent skill from ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills. | ahmedasmar/ | 203 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 26 | Expert in building products that wrap AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) into focused tools people will pay for. | davila7/ | 32k | 3 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 27 | Reduce AWS spend with rightsizing, autoscaling, commitment planning, and storage lifecycle policies. | sickn33/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | A skill your agent uses when adding or changing background work in gram — a Temporal workflow, activity, schedule, signal, or ContinueAsNew loop; anything reacting to chat messages, tool calls, MCP… | speakeasy-api/ | 272 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 29 | 29.Aegisops AI Autonomous DevSecOps & FinOps Guardrails. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. | sickn33/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 30 | Run a live EKS cluster cost efficiency assessment — analyze spending across 6 dimensions (compute efficiency, Spot/Graviton adoption, networking, storage, observability, idle resources), calculate a… | aws-samples/ | 113 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT-0 | today |
| 31 | Apply and enforce cloud resource tagging strategies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes for cost allocation, ownership tracking, compliance, and automation. | ancoleman/ | 526 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 mo ago |
| 32 | Codified expertise for electricity and gas procurement, tariff optimisation, demand charge management, renewable PPA evaluation, and multi-facility energy cost management. | sickn33/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~7.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 33 | Configure and optimize .geminiignore files for AI context window efficiency and token cost reduction (FinOps). | sickn33/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | Answer natural language questions and perform analysis on GKE cluster and workload costs using BigQuery billing exports, cost allocation data, and live cluster monitoring metrics. | google/ | 21k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 35 | Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps practices, commitment discounts, right-sizing, and automated cost management. | ancoleman/ | 526 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 mo ago |
| 36 | Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas. | google/ | 21k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 37 | Plans and configures multi-tenancy on GKE. An agent skill from google/skills. | google/ | 21k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 38 | Audit and reduce infrastructure and tooling costs without sacrificing reliability or velocity. | rampstackco/ | 935 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 39 | Cut your Grafana Cloud bill by attributing spend to teams and reducing telemetry volume. | grafana/ | 278 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 40 | Plan, create, and configure production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. | microsoft/ | 255 | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Anti-surge recycle and coordinated minimum-speed recycle control for centrifugal compressors in NeqSim: chart generation, anti-surge calculation, MinimumSpeedRecycleControllerStructure split-range… | equinor/ | 156 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 42 | Evaluates Google Cloud workloads for cost efficiency and FinOps alignment using the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization pillar. | google/ | 21k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 43 | You are a cloud cost optimization expert specializing in reducing infrastructure expenses while maintaining performance and reliability. | aiskillstore/ | 430 | 6 repos | ~559 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 44 | 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/ | 2.8k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 45 | Generates cost optimization guidance for Google Cloud workloads based on the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework (WAF). | davila7/ | 32k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 46 | Manage AWS accounts, organizations, IAM, and billing. An agent skill from hoodini/ai-agents-skills. | hoodini/ | 282 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 47 | Expert in building products that wrap AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. | aiskillstore/ | 430 | 3 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 48 | Comprehensive AWS cost analysis and optimization recommendations using AWS CLI and Cost Explorer | aiskillstore/ | 430 | 3 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best cloud cost optimization skill?
Vercel Optimize Audit (official) from vercel-labs/agent-skills ranks first of the 93 cloud cost optimization skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 32k GitHub stars, 8 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 4.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Cloud Cost Optimization and Trigger.dev Cost Savings Audit.
Which cloud cost optimization skills are official?
23 of the 93 cloud cost optimization skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Vercel Optimize Audit, AWS Lambda Managed Instances, BigQuery Slot and Cost Optimizer, Azure Advisor Guidance, Eks Cost Intelligence and 18 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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