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COSTS

THE BILL SHOCK

Serverless bills fail open: with no limit, the incident IS the invoice. A spend alert costs nothing and turns a four-digit surprise into a warning.

Train the reflex — run the drill →

Recipes your agent can apply

Written by SkillBoss and published in the open. Your agent runs one in your own repository; nothing here touches your code, and passing a gate never depends on one.

cost.provider-hard-limit

0.1.1 · free

Names the model providers this repository calls, and marks every provider limit NOT RECORDED so a person can set one in the provider console.

Answers: cost.no-budget-alert — the gate box 70:billing-alert-set

Evidence: its fixtures can say the pattern is there, not that it ran

Crew: FinOps names it in a report’s next step; your agent runs it, after your GO.

Published as recipes/provider-hard-limit in the SkillBoss dojo repository.

cost.billing-alert

0.1.0 · free

Names every budget declared in this repository’s infrastructure files, says whether anybody is declared to hear it, and withholds the evidence line when nobody is.

Answers: cost.no-budget-alert — the gate box 70:billing-alert-set

Evidence: its fixtures can say the pattern is there, not that it ran

Crew: FinOps names it in a report’s next step; your agent runs it, after your GO.

Published as recipes/billing-alert in the SkillBoss dojo repository.

The builders behind the proof

Guild members, listed by their own choice — the belt is the only claim. One track is live today, so every listed member appears here.

Below is community testimony — builders' own words under their own handles, clearly separate from the incidents SkillBoss collected above. Being here implies no endorsement by SkillBoss.

Builders’ debriefs

Tell yours: say “file it” to your agent, it writes the story; paste the file at the Forge.

Ordered by proof on this one, then by date.

Testimony, never instruction.

No community debrief on this one yet. Fought it? The floor is yours.

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