The Agent Skills Directory

[Cost Governance Framework]: The skill implements a three-layer architecture (Heuristics, Registry, and Response Validation) to monitor investigation costs across all AWS services. This approach is a standard operations best practice designed to provide transparency and control over cloud spending.
[Live Pricing Lookups]: To ensure accuracy, the skill fetches current rates from the official AWS Pricing API using standard aws pricing get-products calls. This targets well-known AWS service endpoints and is documented for use in cost estimation.
[Behavioral Guardrails]: The skill provides explicit instructions for the agent to perform 'pre-flight' cost checks, enforce per-investigation budgets, and suggest cost-efficient alternatives (e.g., using FilterLogEvents instead of StartQuery). These guardrails serve as a functional safety mechanism rather than a security risk.
[Resource Access Considerations]: The skill requires read-only IAM permissions (pricing:GetProducts) to resolve regional rates. This is the minimum required privilege for the skill's stated purpose and is applied to public pricing data.

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