Is the Analyze Costs skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from harness/harness-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Analyze Costs SkillProof Score?

9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Analyze Costs?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Analyze Costs with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Analyze Costs

Cloud cost analysis and savings via Harness CCM, plus anomaly and commitment checks.

by harness · harness/harness-skills

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.2/10
Tested: Jul 14, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Jul 18, 2026 · 863114d

Best-documented skill in this batch: frontmatter states upfront it needs harness-mcp-v2, and the body ships a troubleshooting section covering '24-48h initial sync' and 'no recommendations' edge cases most MCP-bound skills never mention.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Analyze Costs does

Walks Harness Cloud Cost Management through MCP tool calls: account overview, multi-dimensional cost breakdown, custom perspectives, trend timeseries, optimization recommendations, anomaly detection with feedback dismissal, and reserved-instance commitment utilization, finishing in a fixed leadership-ready report template. Triggers on requests to analyze cloud costs, find optimization opportunities, explain a cost spike, or produce a cost report. Frontmatter explicitly declares its dependency on the harness-mcp-v2 server and the body includes a troubleshooting section for no-data and no-recommendation cases, which is more upfront disclosure than most MCP-bound skills provide.

How to install Analyze Costs

git clone https://github.com/harness/harness-skills
cd harness-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/analyze-costs ~/.claude/skills/analyze-costs

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Analyze Costs

/analyze-costs Cloud cost analysis and savings via Harness CCM, plus anomaly and commitment checks.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Can you analyze our cloud spend and find optimization opportunities in Harness
Explain why our cloud costs spiked this month using our CCM data
Pull a cost breakdown and give me a leadership-ready cloud spend report

Frequently asked questions

Is the Analyze Costs skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from harness/harness-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Analyze Costs work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 14, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Best-documented skill in this batch: frontmatter states upfront it needs harness-mcp-v2, and the body ships a troubleshooting section covering '24-48h initial sync' and 'no recommendations' edge cases most MCP-bound skills never mention.
What is the Analyze Costs SkillProof Score?: 9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Analyze Costs?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Analyze Costs with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.