huawei-cloud-billing-scout Skill for Claude Code: What It Does and How to Install It

Makes Claude explain your Huawei Cloud spend, charges and bill differences with read-only hcloud billing queries.

Installs: 17.7K; on skills.sh
Stars: 59; on GitHub
Files: 5; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Oct 2026; last repo commit

This skill makes Claude answer Huawei Cloud billing questions with read-only queries to the BSS service through the hcloud command line tool. It covers balance and debt, monthly spend, which resource caused a charge, bill reconciliation, resource packages, coupons, stored-value cards and enterprise or partner billing. Claude replies as a short briefing with the conclusion first, and says which billing period and money basis it used.

It triggers only when you mention Huawei Cloud (华为云) or BSS together with a billing topic. It refuses payment, renewal, refund, unsubscribe and delete requests, price quotes and real-name review results. It needs hcloud 7.2.2 or newer with a configured profile. Its folder holds 6 files, all documents, and no scripts.

Good for

Huawei Cloud account owners checking balance, spend and why a resource was charged
Finance and FinOps staff reconciling a monthly bill against resource details
Enterprise and partner account teams asking about coupons, cards and sub-accounts

Install huawei-cloud-billing-scout

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the huawei-cloud-billing-scout skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills --skill huawei-cloud-billing-scout

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js, hcloud (KooCLI) 7.2.2 or newer, Huawei Cloud access keys.

Pick one route. This skill drives the Huawei Cloud command line tool KooCLI (hcloud), so there is no Claude app upload route. It needs hcloud 7.2.2 or newer and a configured profile. Check with hcloud version and hcloud configure list, and set hcloud configure set --cli-lang=cn because SKILL.md says BSS needs Chinese mode. SKILL.md says it does not install or configure hcloud for you. The bundled install guide gives curl -sSL https://cn-north-4-hdn-koocli.obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/cli/latest/hcloud_install.sh -o ./hcloud_install.sh && bash ./hcloud_install.sh, and the README configures credentials with hcloud configure set --cli-access-key="<your AK>" --cli-secret-key="<your SK>" --cli-mode="AKSK". Use a read-only BSS permission set for the key.

Built from the package data we hold. Not yet tested by us. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Huawei Cloud BSS billing (not AWS/Azure/other clouds; refuses pricing quotes, real-name review, and any non-billing scope): balance, spend, attribution, reconciliation, coupons, stored-value cards, enterprise/partner billing. One-page briefing via hcloud. Use only when the user explicitly mentions 华为云 / Huawei Cloud / BSS and 余额/账单/对账/资源包/代金券/储值卡/企业或伙伴账务; refuses pay, renew, refund, delete.

Sections in SKILL.md

Prerequisites
Principles
Division of Labor
Verification Path
Hard Constraints (Non-Negotiable)
Read-Only
No Leak
No Extrapolation
Response Requirements
Boundaries
References

Key facts

Author: Huawei Cloud (the README calls the repo "officially maintained Huawei Cloud Agent Skills")
License: MIT (LICENSE file and README)
Installs on skills.sh: 17,652 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 59 for the whole huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Oct 31, 2026
Audits on skills.sh: Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass, Socket: pass, Snyk: pass
What it includes: 6 files: SKILL.md, 3 reference docs and 2 YAML files under references/semantic (no scripts)
Part of: The huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills repo: 180 SKILL.md files in the tree

What it includes

Runs hcloud version and hcloud configure list, and sets hcloud to Chinese mode
SKILL.md says BSS requires Chinese mode (hcloud configure set --cli-lang=cn).
Runs code · Check the CLI
Asks one question first when it is unclear that the hcloud profile is the account you mean
Read · Confirm the account
Stops if any of the three is missing and asks only the one point that changes the query
Read · Lock scope, period and money basis
Routes the question to one of the entry points in references/semantic/catalog.yml
The catalog lists 7 entry points. SKILL.md itself says four types of billing questions.
Read · Pick an entry point
Runs hcloud BSS List and Show queries copied from the command templates
Every call uses --cli-region=cn-north-1. The catalog says it expects 53 query operations.
Try: “华为云本月花费是多少，哪个资源在扣费？”
Runs code · Gather read-only evidence
Compares fee records, resource details, then orders when a difference remains
The order is ListCustomerBillsFeeRecords, ListCustomerselfResourceRecordDetails, then ListCustomerOrders or ShowCustomerOrderDetails.
Runs code · Reconcile a bill
Gives the conclusion first, states the money basis and hides IDs, credentials and commands
No Markdown tables. It does not output profile or region, long identifiers or raw responses.
Deliver a briefing
Declines payment, refund, delete, price quotes, real-name review and other clouds
It points you to the console or a sales tool instead.
Refuse out-of-scope requests

From the official docs

Permissions

Medium risk

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only modeHow to turn it on

Watch out for

It uses your Huawei Cloud access keys
The README says access-key authentication is recommended only for personal local testing, to avoid exposing plaintext keys. Use a dedicated key with BSS read-only permissions. github.com
Read-only is an instruction, not a permission
SKILL.md tells Claude to refuse writes, but the key decides what is possible. references/iam-policies.md says not to add write permissions for payment, renewal, unsubscribe or delete. github.com
It changes the hcloud language setting
The prerequisite block runs hcloud configure set --cli-lang=cn. SKILL.md also says it does no configuration on your behalf, so confirm what Claude runs. github.com
Risk notice in the README
The README says that by running these skills you accept all related operational risk and are solely responsible for the results. github.com

Security advisories

No published security advisories as of Nov 2, 2026.

Technical details

Turning on read-only	SKILL.md makes read-only a hard constraint and refuses write operations. It is an instruction, so a read-only IAM policy is the way to enforce it.
Sign-in and keys	Uses the access keys already configured in hcloud. The README describes keys in KooCLI configuration files and the HW_ACCESS_KEY and HW_SECRET_KEY variables.
Scopes	Runs hcloud BSS List and Show queries with your configured Huawei Cloud profile and access keys Reads billing, order, coupon and balance data Sets hcloud to Chinese mode with hcloud configure set --cli-lang=cn May cross-check resources with read-only product queries, as references/iam-policies.md describes

Questions

What does the Huawei Cloud Billing Scout skill do?

It makes Claude answer how much you spent on Huawei Cloud and why, using read-only BSS queries through hcloud. It can explain a charge, compare a monthly summary with resource details and check coupons, resource packages and stored-value cards.

Can it pay, refund or change my account?

SKILL.md says it refuses payment, renewal, refund, unsubscribe, delete, recovery, create, update and balance changes, and that it only runs List and Show queries. That is an instruction to Claude. Our advice: give the key a read-only BSS policy so the permission enforces it.

What do I need before using it?

hcloud (KooCLI) 7.2.2 or newer, a configured profile with access keys, and BSS read-only IAM permissions. SKILL.md says it will not install or configure hcloud for you. The install box lists the setup commands.

Which IAM permissions does it need?

references/iam-policies.md lists BSS read-only operations, with extra multi-account and product read-only layers only when you ask for them. It gives an illustrative policy that allows bss:*:get and bss:*:list, and says to check the actual actions in the IAM console.

Is it safe?

It runs hcloud with your access keys against your billing data. The README advises access-key authentication only for personal local testing and warns about plaintext keys. SKILL.md says it never prints credentials, profile, region or long IDs. Check the permission policy on the key before you use it.

Is it official?

It is in the huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills repo, which the README calls officially maintained Huawei Cloud Agent Skills. SKILL.md also says the skill does not represent Huawei Cloud, and that its conclusions rest only on the evidence it found at the time.

Does it work with AWS or Azure bills?

No. SKILL.md limits it to Huawei Cloud BSS billing and says billing from other clouds is out of scope.

Which language does it answer in?

SKILL.md says the response language follows the user. The trigger phrases and several reference files are written in Chinese.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills
Folder: skills/bss/billing/huawei-cloud-billing-scout

huaweicloud/huaweicloud-skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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huaweicloud-skills README · github.com
huawei-cloud-billing-scout SKILL.md · github.com
billing-scout cli-installation-guide.md · github.com
billing-scout catalog.yml · github.com
billing-scout iam-policies.md · github.com
billing-scout related-commands.md · github.com