optimizing-cloud-costs

Quick Review

This skill is essentially a generic template that has been superficially labeled for cloud cost optimization. The description mentions 'cost analysis and optimization' but the actual content provides no cloud cost-specific guidance, tools, or methodologies. The 5-step process (Assess, Design, Implement, Validate, Deploy) is entirely generic and could apply to any DevOps task. There are no cost-specific commands, no AWS/GCP/Azure cost analysis tools, no budget threshold recommendations, no rightsizing strategies, no reserved instance analysis, or any domain-specific knowledge that would actually help with cloud cost optimization. While the structure is clean and the allowed-tools include cloud CLIs (aws, gcloud, az), the skill provides no actual instructions on how to use these for cost optimization. A CLI agent would struggle to perform meaningful cost optimization with only this generic guidance, as it lacks the specialized knowledge (e.g., identifying underutilized resources, analyzing cost anomalies, recommending instance types) that would justify this as a distinct skill. The novelty is low because this doesn't reduce the work a general-purpose agent would need to do—it still requires the agent to figure out all cost optimization specifics from scratch.