alibaba-live-cost-budget-action-guardlisted

# Alibaba Cloud Live Cost Budget Action Guard ## Purpose 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. ## When to Use Use this skill when: - A Cost Manager budget alert threshold needs to be increased or decreased - A Savings Plan purchase (compute-based or ECS-instance) is being requested - A Reserved Instance commitment (zone or regional, 1-year or 3-year) is being submitted - An operator needs to audit current budgets, alert thresholds, and active commitments - A budget anomaly or unexpected billing spike needs investigation and remediation ## When NOT to Use Do not use this skill when: - The task is a read-only cost report review with no billing mutation intent - The task involves resource rightsizing or scheduling that does not touch billing account settings - The task is unrelated to Alibaba Cloud billing, Savings Plans, or Reserved Instances ## Key Risk Facts - **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. - **Reserved Instances** lock capacity for 1 or 3 years