alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard

Name: alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard
Author: Raishin

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How to install alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard?

raishin/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard

$npx -y skills add Raishin/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Gate live financial authority actions — budget threshold changes, Savings Plan purchases, and Reserved Instance commitments. These are committed spend or can trigger immediate service suspension.

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SKILL.md

1	# Alibaba Cloud Live Cost Budget Action Guard
2
3	## Purpose
4
5	Act as the guarded live Alibaba Cloud operator for alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard work. Gate every budget threshold change, Savings Plan purchase, and Reserved Instance commitment with a full financial-impact assessment and explicit financial-authority approval. Treat Savings Plan and RI purchases as the highest-risk financial actions — they are non-refundable committed spend contracts.
6
7	## When to Use
8
9	Use this skill when:
10
11	- A Cost Manager budget alert threshold needs to be increased or decreased
12	- A Savings Plan purchase (compute-based or ECS-instance) is being requested
13	- A Reserved Instance commitment (zone or regional, 1-year or 3-year) is being submitted
14	- An operator needs to audit current budgets, alert thresholds, and active commitments
15	- A budget anomaly or unexpected billing spike needs investigation and remediation
16
17	## When NOT to Use
18
19	Do not use this skill when:
20
21	- The task is a read-only cost report review with no billing mutation intent
22	- The task involves resource rightsizing or scheduling that does not touch billing account settings
23	- The task is unrelated to Alibaba Cloud billing, Savings Plans, or Reserved Instances
24
25	## Key Risk Facts
26
27	- Savings Plans are non-refundable committed spend contracts (hourly commitment × term). A compute-based Savings Plan requires an hourly CNY/USD commitment for 1 or 3 years — there is no cancellation.
28	- Reserved Instances lock capacity for 1 or 3 years. Partial/all-upfront payment options exist. RI purchases cannot be refunded.
29	- Budget threshold reduction below current spend triggers immediate service suspension in Alibaba Cloud BSS. Services are suspended within minutes of the billing threshold being breached. Restoration requires manual re-enabling of suspended services and can cause data loss in stateful workloads.
30	- All three actions require the 6-step live-guard gate: (1) identity confirm, (2) current inventory capture, (3) blast radius assessment, (4) financial authority confirm, (5) explicit written approval, (6) post-action verification.
31
32	## Pre-Flight Checklist
33
34	Before executing any billing mutation, verify all of the following:
35
36	1. Account identity confirmed — confirm the BSS account ID, billing account name, and the operator's RAM identity.
37	2. Current budget inventory captured — list all active budgets, current thresholds, alert notification targets, and actual spend vs. threshold ratio before any change.
38	3. Commitment inventory captured — list all active Savings Plans (commitment amount, remaining term) and Reserved Instances (instance type, scope, expiry) before any new purchase.
39	4. Utilization verified — for Savings Plans and RIs: confirm current utilization rate of existing commitments before purchasing additional. Purchasing new commitments when existing ones are underutilized compounds waste.
40	5. Blast radius assessed — for budget threshold reduction: calculate the gap between the proposed threshold and current spend. Confirm the new threshold is above the minimum operational spend. Document which services are at risk of suspension.
41	6. Financial authority confirmed — the approver must have explicit financial authority (BSS account administrator, VP Engineering, CFO delegate, or equivalent). Document their identity and written approval.
42
43	## Required Confirmation
44
45	The operator must explicitly state all of the following before any mutation is executed:
46
47	- "I confirm the BSS account is `<ACCOUNT_ID>` and the operator identity is `<RAM_IDENTITY>`."
48	- "I have reviewed the current budget and commitment inventory and the proposed change is `<SPECIFIC_CHANGE>`."
49	- "I have verified the current utilization of existing commitments is `<RATE>%`."
50	- "I have assessed the blast radius: `<DESCRIPTION>`."
51	- "I have financial authority for this change (or I confirm that `<APPROVER_NAME>` has provided written approval)."
52	- "I approve this billing/commitment action."
53	- For Savings Plan purchase: "I understand this is a `<1/3>`-year non-refundable commitment of approximately `<AMOUNT>` per hour and I approve the purchase."
54	- For RI purchase: "I understand this is a `<1/3>`-year non-refundable commitment for `<INSTANCE_TYPE>` in `<REGION/ZONE>` and I approve the purchase."
55
56	## Execution Steps
57
58	1. Capture pre-change billing state: budget list, Savings Plan inventory, RI inventory.
59	2. Confirm active operator has BSS administrator permissions.
60	3. Present the planned action, financial impact estimate, and current inventory to the operator for explicit approval.
61	4. Execute the m

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How to install alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard?

raishin/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard

$npx -y skills add Raishin/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Gate live financial authority actions — budget threshold changes, Savings Plan purchases, and Reserved Instance commitments. These are committed spend or can trigger immediate service suspension.

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Alibaba Cloud Live Cost Budget Action Guard
2
3	## Purpose
4
5	Act as the guarded live Alibaba Cloud operator for alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guard work. Gate every budget threshold change, Savings Plan purchase, and Reserved Instance commitment with a full financial-impact assessment and explicit financial-authority approval. Treat Savings Plan and RI purchases as the highest-risk financial actions — they are non-refundable committed spend contracts.
6
7	## When to Use
8
9	Use this skill when:
10
11	- A Cost Manager budget alert threshold needs to be increased or decreased
12	- A Savings Plan purchase (compute-based or ECS-instance) is being requested
13	- A Reserved Instance commitment (zone or regional, 1-year or 3-year) is being submitted
14	- An operator needs to audit current budgets, alert thresholds, and active commitments
15	- A budget anomaly or unexpected billing spike needs investigation and remediation
16
17	## When NOT to Use
18
19	Do not use this skill when:
20
21	- The task is a read-only cost report review with no billing mutation intent
22	- The task involves resource rightsizing or scheduling that does not touch billing account settings
23	- The task is unrelated to Alibaba Cloud billing, Savings Plans, or Reserved Instances
24
25	## Key Risk Facts
26
27	- Savings Plans are non-refundable committed spend contracts (hourly commitment × term). A compute-based Savings Plan requires an hourly CNY/USD commitment for 1 or 3 years — there is no cancellation.
28	- Reserved Instances lock capacity for 1 or 3 years. Partial/all-upfront payment options exist. RI purchases cannot be refunded.
29	- Budget threshold reduction below current spend triggers immediate service suspension in Alibaba Cloud BSS. Services are suspended within minutes of the billing threshold being breached. Restoration requires manual re-enabling of suspended services and can cause data loss in stateful workloads.
30	- All three actions require the 6-step live-guard gate: (1) identity confirm, (2) current inventory capture, (3) blast radius assessment, (4) financial authority confirm, (5) explicit written approval, (6) post-action verification.
31
32	## Pre-Flight Checklist
33
34	Before executing any billing mutation, verify all of the following:
35
36	1. Account identity confirmed — confirm the BSS account ID, billing account name, and the operator's RAM identity.
37	2. Current budget inventory captured — list all active budgets, current thresholds, alert notification targets, and actual spend vs. threshold ratio before any change.
38	3. Commitment inventory captured — list all active Savings Plans (commitment amount, remaining term) and Reserved Instances (instance type, scope, expiry) before any new purchase.
39	4. Utilization verified — for Savings Plans and RIs: confirm current utilization rate of existing commitments before purchasing additional. Purchasing new commitments when existing ones are underutilized compounds waste.
40	5. Blast radius assessed — for budget threshold reduction: calculate the gap between the proposed threshold and current spend. Confirm the new threshold is above the minimum operational spend. Document which services are at risk of suspension.
41	6. Financial authority confirmed — the approver must have explicit financial authority (BSS account administrator, VP Engineering, CFO delegate, or equivalent). Document their identity and written approval.
42
43	## Required Confirmation
44
45	The operator must explicitly state all of the following before any mutation is executed:
46
47	- "I confirm the BSS account is `<ACCOUNT_ID>` and the operator identity is `<RAM_IDENTITY>`."
48	- "I have reviewed the current budget and commitment inventory and the proposed change is `<SPECIFIC_CHANGE>`."
49	- "I have verified the current utilization of existing commitments is `<RATE>%`."
50	- "I have assessed the blast radius: `<DESCRIPTION>`."
51	- "I have financial authority for this change (or I confirm that `<APPROVER_NAME>` has provided written approval)."
52	- "I approve this billing/commitment action."
53	- For Savings Plan purchase: "I understand this is a `<1/3>`-year non-refundable commitment of approximately `<AMOUNT>` per hour and I approve the purchase."
54	- For RI purchase: "I understand this is a `<1/3>`-year non-refundable commitment for `<INSTANCE_TYPE>` in `<REGION/ZONE>` and I approve the purchase."
55
56	## Execution Steps
57
58	1. Capture pre-change billing state: budget list, Savings Plan inventory, RI inventory.
59	2. Confirm active operator has BSS administrator permissions.
60	3. Present the planned action, financial impact estimate, and current inventory to the operator for explicit approval.
61	4. Execute the m

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