# recipes

> Claude/Codex skill by [@costory-io](https://omgskills.com/library/costory-io/index.md) · 2 stars · Updated 2026-10-21

Use when a user states a FinOps \*outcome\* rather than a tool. Route to one recipe card, then hand off: bill jump → explain-period-change (DIGEST preview); clicked chart slice / explain this bar → explain-chart-slice; marketplace → marketplace-spend; K8s namespace → namespace-cost; credits runway → provider-credits; GCP spend CUD leftover → gcp-spend-cud; BigQuery warehouse → bigquery; YTD credits → credits-ytd-explore; weekly env+service pulse → service-cost-weekly; tag coverage → untagged-coverage; exec env report → env-costs-cto; explore Prod vs R&D → prod-vs-rnd-explore; build Prod/R&D VDIM → prod-vs-rnd-vdim; reallocate by external metric → reallocate-by-external-metric; budget vs actual daily → budget-vs-actual-dashboard; EC2 +10% alert → ec2-cost-spike-alert; compute drill-down → compute-drilldown-dimension. Skeletons in recipes; HOW in reports/dashboards/virtual-dimensions/query/bigquery.

Tags: agent-skills, aws, azure, claude-code-plugin, claude-plugin, cloud-cost, cost-allocation, cost-optimization, cursor-plugin, finops, finops-agent, finops-mcp, gcp, gemini-cli-extension, kubernetes, llm-cost, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, remote-mcp

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/costory-io/costory-finops-mcp-skills /tmp/costory-finops-mcp-skills && ln -s /tmp/costory-finops-mcp-skills/plugins/costory/skills/recipes ~/.claude/skills/recipes
```

## From README

Recipes A recipe is a ready-made design for a common FinOps tracking goal — scope, split, period, widgets, delivery — as a payload skeleton, then a hand off to the mechanics skill (reports, dashboards, virtual-dimensions, query). Recipes never restate full delivery safety or live schema edge cases; fill placeholders after confirm, then build with the mechanics skill. How to use this skill Match the user's goal using Pick a recipe below (triggers + "not this if"). Read only that one file under plugins/costory/skills/recipes/. Run the card's Tool sequence through confirm gates — do not fire mutation/delivery tools until confirmed. Fill \[PLACEHOLDERS\] from discovery + user answers; keep frozen fields as written. Restate the Brief, then hand off the filled skeleton to the named mechanics skill. If nothing matches → fall through to reports (or the relevant mechanics skill) and design from scratch.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/costory-io/costory-finops-mcp-skills/plugins/costory/skills/recipes/
- GitHub: https://github.com/costory-io/costory-finops-mcp-skills
- Author: [@costory-io](https://omgskills.com/library/costory-io/index.md)

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