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Review Costs

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: devops  ·  Last updated:
tool:terraformtype:review
[pr-review-focus-area: Cloud Costs] Flag cost hotspots in Terraform plans and live cloud inventory - oversized instances, orphaned volumes, idle load balancers, untagged resources, NAT egress.
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About this skill (catalog notes)

Review Costs includes pricing or quota commentary; at least one code block. The SKILL.md runs to about 1,037 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.

License
MIT
Original author
brenthaertlein
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
Engineering · devops
Indexed related skills
10

How Review Costs fits the catalog

Review Costs sits in the Engineering category under the devops sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Surface cost hotspots across Terraform plans and live cloud inventory, rank them by certainty of waste, and estimate monthly spend where pricing data is available. This skill is read-only — it never modifies resources, attaches/detaches anything, or runs mutating CLI commands.

What this skill does

Review Costs is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/review-costs/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Review Costs Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 146,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/review-costs
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/review-costs/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/review-costs/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/review-costs/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/review-costs/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\review-costs\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Review Costs Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/review-costs/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Review Costs skill do?
[pr-review-focus-area: Cloud Costs] Flag cost hotspots in Terraform plans and live cloud inventory - oversized instances, orphaned volumes, idle load balancers, untagged resources, NAT egress.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Review Costs skill?
Use Review Costs when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the devops area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Review Costs" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/engineering/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Review Costs skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Review Costs is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA
brenthaertlein. (2026). Review Costs [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/review-costs/
BibTeX
@misc{review-costs-2026,
  author    = {brenthaertlein},
  title     = {Review Costs [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/review-costs/}
}

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