# costguard

> costguard — mbanderas-costguard. Use this tool when you need to identify and fix cost leaks in your CI and infrastructure. Costguard audits your repositories and cloud providers to detect unnecessary expenses, providing a CLI interface and MCP server integration for AI coding agents. It helps optimize resource utilization and reduce waste, making it ideal for developers and teams seeking to streamline their workflow and minimize costs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/mbanderas-costguard  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mbanderas-costguard

## Description

Audit your repos and cloud providers for CI and infrastructure cost leaks. CLI + MCP server for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, any MCP host).

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **License:** MIT
- **Updated:** 2026-09-21

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/mbanderas/costguard)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "mbanderas-costguard"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mbanderas-costguard` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mbanderas-costguard/pull`

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