FinOps — Development skill for Claude Code
Cut a cloud bill via guided intake - provider, current architecture, monthly spend, suspected waste.
How to install FinOps
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-finops/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-finops && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrismccoy/forge/HEAD/commands/finops.md -o ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-finops/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What FinOps does
description: Cut a cloud bill via guided intake - provider, current architecture, monthly spend, suspected waste. argument-hint: [optional one-line cost problem] disable-model-invocation: true
**Load first.** Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/finops/SKILL.md` in full before anything else - intake, tool calls, or output. That file is the authoritative procedure for this command; every mention of "the `finops` procedure" below refers to it. It is not auto-loaded, so this read is man
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