v1.50.0

Cloud FinOps Skill & MCP v1.50.0

The attached cloud-finops-v1.50.0.zip is the skill bundle for upload into Claude Desktop / claude.ai (Settings -> Skills -> Upload).

The attached llms-full.txt is the whole library (entry point, references, playbooks) in one file, built from this tag; llms.txt links to the latest-release copy.

For Claude Code users (and 11 other tools), see INSTALLATION.md for the cross-tool installer and the model-agnostic response contract.

What this version changes for you, in plain words: CHANGELOG.md. The list below is the generated commit log.

What's Changed

• Submission guide: record the 2026-11-06 resubmission and the tool-capture procedure by @OptimNow in #311
• Content: Gemini 2.5 rerouting, Capacity Block amortisation, Unity Gateway AI Functions, Claude gateway cost report (news digest 2026-11-07) by @OptimNow in #312
• Link the connector's Claude directory listing, correct the tool count, suspend the idle Fly machine by @OptimNow in #313
• README: one button each for the plugin and the connector, simpler install table by @OptimNow in #314
• Content: Cosmos DB autoscale rule and backup tiers corrected, throughput floor, Dev/Test pricing, Fabric mirroring when paused (YouTube batch 20) by @OptimNow in #315
• Prune finops-azure-commitments.md under the token budget by @OptimNow in #316
• Question index (questions: frontmatter, query parameter) and the private overlay convention by @OptimNow in #317
• Review follow-up on the question index: weighted ranking, overlay check tiers, model-facing wording by @OptimNow in #318
• Question index phase 3: the field on every file, a CI guard, the README role block generated by @OptimNow in #319
• CHANGELOG.md: readable release notes, starting with 1.50.0 by @OptimNow in #320
• Plugin README: open with Cloud Financial Management, the four readers, plugin or connector in plain words by @OptimNow in #321
• Feedback channel: two issue forms, the chooser, and a pointer from every surface by @OptimNow in #322
• finops-itam: the BYOL or licence-included decision, with every rule on the vendor's page by @OptimNow in #323
• Content update - 1 Nov 2026: eleven items from issue #292, each read on the provider's page by @OptimNow in #324
• CLAUDE.md: two stale lines in the private pipeline tree by @OptimNow in #325
• Playbooks: the date beside every price, AWS figures re-read on the Price List API, a guard for the class by @OptimNow in #326
• Weekly price-drift check: a manifest of every list price, a script that re-reads them, a Saturday workflow that opens an issue by @OptimNow in #328
• References: the date beside every price, three corrections, the guard on both folders by @OptimNow in #327
• Release blockers from the 1.50.0 review: query cap, privacy, llms-full questions, price check, CHANGELOG by @OptimNow in #329
• Query ranking fixes from the 1.50.0 review: acronym plurals, word families, service names, ties, empty queries by @OptimNow in #330
• Content fixes before 1.50.0: detection queries that run, facts checked on the provider pages by @OptimNow in #331
• finops-anthropic: Claude Fable 5.2, Mythos 5.2 and Haiku 5.5, read on Anthropic's pricing page by @OptimNow in #332
• Remove the Windsurf MCP config path from the installer and the docs by @OptimNow in #333
• One piece of advice on plugin and connector, in the four places that give it by @OptimNow in #334
• Content: Azure Functions plan correction, Azure cost visibility, AWS security service billing, M&A pre-close checks by @OptimNow in #335
• README: "What you can ask, by role" as one table per role by @OptimNow in #336
• A "what changed" digest: 90 dated provider changes, generated from one data file by @OptimNow in #337
• Detection through a connected account: the rule, its measured limits, and a read-only guard by @OptimNow in #338
• Release 1.50.0: question index and query, what-changed digest, detection through a connected account, dated prices by @OptimNow in #339

Full Changelog: v1.49.1...v1.50.0