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cloudcostsmcp MCP Server

Anchor AI FinOps to real, live cloud pricing — AWS, GCP & Azure public and enterprise rates.

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Published as opencloudcosts on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

25 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

RC3-014 (P2, DEFERRED — blocked on RC3-004): compare_bom's 4-type enum blocks CUR-native services like DynamoDB

Citation: customer-feedback §1 (Line-item shape row)

Current behavior: compare_bom(workload={"table":{"type":"dynamodb",...}}) returns unsupported workload type "dynamodb" (supported: compute, storage, database, cache) — a hard 4-type allowlist in workloadItemToSpec's default case (compare_bom.go L536). estimate_bom has no type enum, but a DynamoDB-shaped call still fails via the AWS provider's Supports() check inside processBOMItems (bom.go L245). Note: distinct from the Dy

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 4 comments

RC3-032 (P1, PARTIAL — see #74): no canonical price field/unit across tools — naming, size_gb scaling, monthly_estimate mixing, egress unit label, no published schema

Citation: customer-feedback prioritized summary #5; gcp-report prioritized summary #6

Current behavior: Doubly-attested theme (its own prioritized-summary row in both source reports). Five distinct sub-issues: (a) inconsistent field naming — get_price returns unit price under price.amount, compare_prices under price_per_unit.amount. (b) size_gb is accepted as an input but silently does not scale the returned price_per_unit — nothing in the response tells the caller whether t

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 4 comments

RC3-004 (P1, IN PROGRESS — AWS v1, see #75): Add compare_bom_regions — weighted, SKU-native BoM tool with regions[] fan-out

Citation: customer-feedback §1 ('The big one: weighted-BoM regional comparison')

Current behavior: No such tool exists today. compare_bom's only region control is region_preference, a 3-value enum mapped to exactly one region per provider — no regions[] array, no baseline_region. estimate_bom has no top-level region concept at all. Neither can do what compare_prices already does for a single spec via Regions []string + BaselineRegion fan-out + applyBaselineDeltas.

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Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · open · 3 comments

RC3-019 (P2, IN PROGRESS): no get_coverage(provider) endpoint exists

Citation: customer-feedback §4 ('A coverage/completeness endpoint')

Current behavior: Grep for get_coverage/GetCoverage/coverage_pct across opencloudcosts-go/internal returns zero matches. The live tool surface (16 tools) contains no coverage-endpoint equivalent. describe_catalog is the closest existing tool but actively misrepresents coverage for at least two domains (RC3-020, RC3-021).

Proposed fix: Build get_coverage(provider) returning, per domain/service/region, on

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 2 comments

Server exits on a malformed JSON-RPC frame (denial-of-service)

Hello, and apologies for the unsolicited report.

Your MCP server io.github.x7even/cloudcostsmcp (opencloudcosts) was included in an automated conformance study of publicly registered Model Context Protocol servers. The study installed and executed every eligible server in the official registry and drove it through a set of protocol checks. One result looked worth reporting to you directly.

What we observed

**Server crashes or stops responding after a malformed JSON-RPC fra

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 1 comment

Most recent

RC3-023a (P2, LOWEST-RISK — needs live GCP catalog access): GCP External IP has zero catalog entry

Split from #39. External IP is the cleanest first target of the five services in #39: pricing is ≈per-hour, region-invariant (candidate for `scope:"global"` on `models.NormalizedPrice`).

Not implemented this pass — this environment has no `OCC_GCP_API_KEY` configured, so there's no way to fetch and live-verify the real GCP Billing Catalog serviceID/rate here. Per #39's DACI, this specific service is judged low-risk enough for a future autonomous pass if that pass has live catalog ac

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 0 comments

RC3-029 (P3): find_available_regions requires spec-wrapped input; validation error is opaque SDK jsonschema text

Citation: aws-report §6

Current behavior: FindAvailableRegionsInput declares Spec map[string]any json:"spec" as required — consistent with get_price's own spec-wrapping convention, so this is deliberate, not an isolated footgun. The literal error text quoted in the AWS report is generated by the mcp-go SDK's jsonschema validator, not custom application text, and could not be reproduced live (the loaded schema enforces wrapping before a call can even be issued).

Proposed fix:

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

RC3-028 (P2): publish canonical server-instructions text and a minimal-instructions commitment in README

Citation: customer-feedback §7; gcp-report §5.3

Current behavior: Both source reports independently investigated and closed a false-attribution concern: a third-party "superpowers" plugin SessionStart hook was mistaken for cloudcost's own MCP instructions, purely due to render timing adjacency. Rendered instructions match server.go L168 verbatim and are clean/pricing-only. Grep confirms this text exists ONLY in server.go — absent from README, CHANGELOG, and docs. No written commitme

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

RC3-026 (P2): aurora_postgresql naming trap — advertised as a service name but get_price rejects it

Citation: aws-report §6, prioritized summary #7

Current behavior: describe_catalog(provider=aws) shows Services["database"] = ["rds","elasticache","aurora_postgresql"] — presented as a peer service name. get_price(service="aurora_postgresql", ...) is rejected with not_supported. However describe_catalog(domain=database, service="aurora_postgresql") DOES return correct working guidance (pointing to service:"rds", engine:"aurora-postgresql"). Root cause: aws_finops.go's `Des

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

RC3-025 (P2): describe_catalog returns egress's example_invocation for lb, nat, and waf services

Citation: aws-report §6 (report cites only service='lb')

Current behavior: Beyond the originally reported service="lb": service="nat" and service="waf" both also return the identical egress example_invocation. service="data_transfer" correctly redirects. Same root cause as RC3-022 — fix together in that bundled issue/PR.

Proposed fix: See RC3-022 — same fix, same PR: add ExampleInvocations entries for "network/lb", "network/nat", "network/waf".

Effort: S

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Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

RC3-022 (P2): describe_catalog(network, lb) still returns egress's example_invocation

Citation: aws-report §6 ('Wrong service's example_invocation')

Current behavior: describe_catalog(domain=network, service="lb") has correctly-scoped filter_hints but example_invocation is still the egress shape (service:"egress", destination_type, data_gb_per_month). Root cause: ExampleInvocations map (aws_finops.go L720-857) has no "network/lb" key; HandleDescribeCatalog falls back from the missing service-specific key to the domain-level "network" key (lookup.go L1

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

RC3-021 (P2): describe_catalog(domain=database) returns service:null with no service list or hint

Citation: aws-report §6 ('Unhelpful domain-level catalog response')

Current behavior: Returns exactly {"domain":"database","provider":"aws","service":null,"supported_terms":[...]} — no available_services, no filter_hints, no example_invocation, no tip. Root cause: catalog.SupportedTerms has a domain-level "database" key distinct from the service-level "database/rds" key, so hasTerms is true; the "nothing found → show available_services" branch (lookup.go L1090) only fires wh

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · closed · 1 comment

See all 19 reports Pod holds for cloudcostsmcp — of 25 qualified upstream.

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