cloud-finops-skills

Name: cloud-finops-skills Review
Item: cloud-finops-skills
Rating: 2.0
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Poor

Works inClaude Code

Poor Scanned — metadata only

Uncontrolled cloud AI spending can exceed budgets by 40–60%.

Cloud FinOps Agent Skill — expert guidance on AI cost management, AWS/Azure optimization, tagging governance, and FinOps framework implementation. Built by OptimNow.

Audit LLM token spend across projects and identify top cost drivers
Recommend reservation purchases and spot instance strategies for compute
Design tagging governance to enable unit economics by business line

44 starsFreeQuick setup

Below standard — Significant caveats apply. Not recommended without careful review of the security and evaluation sections.

Why it matters

Uncontrolled cloud AI spending can exceed budgets by 40–60%. This skill identifies cost leaks in LLM usage, reserved capacity mismatches, and tagging gaps that block chargeback accuracy.

Best for

Finance teams, cloud architects, and engineering leads managing AWS or Azure bills with significant AI/LLM workloads.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/OptimNow/cloud-finops-skills

By OptimNow

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

claude plugins install OptimNow/cloud-finops-skills

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

Auto-generated from the tool's public listing — not hands-on verified. Cross-check against the source repo's README before running.

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me audit LLM token spend across projects and identify top cost drivers

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars44Contributors1Last updated2026-07-13Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-07-25 · scanner v1

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3 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 44 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 12d ago; license no license.

Things to check

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

1/5

Versatility

2/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score2.05 / 5.00 PoorEvaluatedJul 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 44 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 12d ago; license no license.

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