devops-agent-cost-insights
Overview
This skill provides the methodology for gathering and calculating AWS DevOps Agent cost data. It intentionally does NOT prescribe a fixed output format. The consuming agent (chat, custom agent, etc.) decides its own presentation (plain text, multi-space tables, single-space visual dashboard with charts, etc.) based on its own prompt/output spec. Follow the steps below to gather and compute correct numbers; format them however the calling context requires.
Execution visibility
The consuming agent's output contract controls visibility. When it requires silent, final-only execution:
- Perform skill/reference reads, planning, tool calls, pagination, distillation, calculations, retries, and Step 7 validation without assistant-authored progress messages.
- Keep checklist state, intermediate values, query IDs, raw records, arithmetic, and rejected records internal.
- Do not announce file reads or tool calls, react to results, or narrate what happens next.
- Return only the consuming agent's single final response after its artifact operation. A compact validation result table is allowed only when its final template explicitly requires one.
This skill must add exactly $0.00 to the bill. Never
StartQuery,StartQueryExecution, orGetMetricData— and never any other operation the zero-cost rule names below. Each is a paid API, so issuing one bills the account this report is about. If a figure is only reachable through a paid call, it is unavailable; say so. This is the zero-cost rule, restated at Step 1 and attested in Step 7."Read-only" is not the safety test.
GetMetricDatareads only your own metrics and is billed per metric anyway. Before using any call not already named in the steps below, classify it per Operation classification in Step 3; an operation you cannot confirm as free is unclassified, not free.