infracost
Cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD 💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!
Infracost agent skills integrate cloud cost estimation and FinOps policy enforcement into AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor. The skills enable agents to generate infrastructure-as-code that complies with tagging, region, and budget policies, scan existing projects for cost and policy violations, and look up cloud resource pricing without existing code. These agent skills are part of the broader Infracost toolkit that provides cost intelligence for Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK across the development lifecycle.
Key Features
Use Cases
- 01Generate Terraform or CloudFormation templates through AI assistants while automatically adhering to company tagging and budget policies
- 02Ask an AI coding agent for pricing estimates (e.g., 'how much is an m7i.xlarge in us-east-1?') during architecture discussions
- 03Scan existing infrastructure-as-code projects with an AI agent to identify cost optimization opportunities and policy violations
- 04Enable AI pair-programming tools to suggest cost-optimized resource configurations in real time
- 05Enforce FinOps best practices during agent-driven refactoring or migration of cloud infrastructure code
- 06Train AI coding agents to consider budget constraints when proposing infrastructure changes
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infracost — FAQ
What are Infracost agent skills?+
Infracost agent skills are three capabilities—iac-generation, scan, and price-lookup—that plug into AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, enabling them to estimate cloud costs and enforce FinOps policies as they write or analyze infrastructure code. They work with Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
How do I install Infracost agent skills?+
Install the Infracost CLI (via Homebrew, Chocolatey, or curl script), then run 'infracost setup' which provides an interactive wizard to configure AI agent skills alongside other integrations. The setup process walks you through authenticating and wiring up the skills for your coding agents.
Which AI coding agents work with Infracost skills?+
Infracost agent skills are compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents that support pluggable agent skills. The README specifically mentions these two as shipping with support today.
Do I need an API key or account to use Infracost agent skills?+
Yes, you need to authenticate with Infracost (done during the 'infracost setup' step) to access pricing data and cost estimation. Infracost Cloud provides the centralized policy engine and pricing database that the agent skills query.
Is Infracost free to use?+
The README does not explicitly state pricing, but the project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Infracost Cloud is a SaaS dashboard that may have separate pricing for team and enterprise features.
What cloud providers does Infracost support?+
Infracost supports over 1,100 resources across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including usage-based resources like S3 and Lambda. It works with Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK infrastructure code.
How do I install infracost?+
Open the source repository on GitHub and follow its README. infracost is a skill — MCP Agents Market links you directly to the official repo.
Is infracost free?+
infracost is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. Check the repository for its license and any usage requirements.