A specialized FinOps skill for auditing AWS resource tagging compliance and identifying untagged spend using local data exports.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install tagging-auditor
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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Help me install tagging-auditor using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor?
The AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor is a professional-grade governance tool designed for FinOps teams to gain absolute visibility into cloud expenditures. By analyzing exported AWS resource and billing data, this skill identifies critical tagging gaps that lead to unallocatable spend and fragmented reporting. It acts as an instruction-only expert, ensuring your AWS environment adheres to organizational tagging schemas without requiring direct access to your cloud account. Using Openclaw Skills like this allows developers and finance managers to maintain a high standard of cloud hygiene while enhancing security. The skill focuses on the technical truth of your infrastructure, providing clear insights into how tagging impacts your bottom line.
AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor Use Cases
- Identify unallocatable AWS spend caused by missing or inconsistent resource tags.
- Audit existing resource compliance against a mandatory tag schema such as environment, team, and owner.
- Generate remediation plans and AWS Config rules to automate future tagging enforcement.
- Standardize tag values to eliminate fragmentation, such as fixing variations between lowercase and capitalized environment names.
- Quantify the direct dollar impact of untagged resources to prioritize FinOps cleanup efforts.
How AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor Works
- The user executes read-only CLI commands or console exports to gather resource tagging and cost explorer data.
- The Openclaw Skills agent prompts the user to share these data exports for local analysis, ensuring no credentials are exchanged.
- The skill compares the provided data against a required tag schema to identify non-compliant resources.
- It calculates the financial impact of untagged spend and ranks the top offenders by monthly cost.
- The agent generates a comprehensive remediation plan, including AWS Config rules and CLI commands to apply missing tags.
AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor Setup
To get started with this auditor, ensure you have the AWS CLI configured with read-only permissions. First, export your current tagged resources using the following command:
aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources --output json > all-tagged-resources.json
You should also download your Cost Allocation Tags report from the AWS Billing Console (Cost Explorer > Tags > Download CSV). Once you have these files, provide them to the agent to begin the audit process within Openclaw Skills.
AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor Data Schema & Taxonomy
The auditor organizes analysis based on three primary data inputs to ensure comprehensive coverage:
| Input Data | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Resource Tags | Tagging API (JSON) | Maps existing tags to resource ARNs for compliance checking. |
| Cost Reports | Cost Explorer (CSV) | Identifies spend associated with specific cost allocation tags. |
| CUR Coverage | CE API (CLI) | Provides monthly spend metrics grouped by tag keys like team or environment. |
All results are synthesized into a remediation plan that includes a tagging score and a prioritized list of resources requiring updates.
AWS Tagging & Cost Allocation Auditor Advanced Features
- Financial Impact Calculation: Automatically correlates missing tags with actual monthly dollar spend to justify remediation efforts.
- Naming Consistency Engine: Flags resources where tags exist but use inconsistent casing or values, such as prod vs production.
- Automated Policy Generation: Creates JSON-formatted AWS Config rules and Service Control Policies (SCPs) for tag enforcement.
- Multi-Service Support: Audits any AWS service supported by the Resource Groups Tagging API, providing a holistic view of account health.
- Security-First Analysis: Operates entirely on user-provided data exports, requiring zero account credentials or secret keys.
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