[Tool] Kulshan: Open-source AWS audit CLI that generates a local HTML report (no CUR, no SaaS)

I spent years helping AWS customers investigate cost questions.

A surprisingly common conversation looked like this:

Customer: "Our AWS bill doubled."

Followed by:

• No CUR
• No Athena
• No cost tooling
• No budget alerts
• Nobody comfortable enough with Cost Explorer to answer questions quickly

Before optimization, FinOps, chargeback, forecasting, or governance, there was a much simpler problem:

What is actually going on in this AWS account?

I built a tool to answer that question.

pip install kulshan
aws login
kulshan report

Kulshan is a free, open-source CLI that runs locally against your AWS account and generates an HTML report.

It uses read-only AWS APIs and looks at:

• Cost trends and spend changes
• Largest services and cost drivers
• RI / Savings Plan coverage
• Tagging health
• Orphaned and unused resources
• Forecast and acceleration signals

A few design decisions I cared about:

• No SaaS
• No data uploads
• No telemetry
• No write permissions
• No CUR required
• No Athena required

The idea is not to replace FinOps tooling.

It is to provide a baseline when someone asks:

"Can you help me understand what is going on with this bill?"

GitHub:
https://github.com/azz-kikkr/kulshan

PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/kulshan/

Question for the community:

When someone drops you into an unfamiliar AWS account and asks why spend increased, what is the very first thing you look at?

Kiro CLI, but mobile. Massive update to my open source Telegram bot 🚀

A few days ago I shared my open source Kiro Telegram Bot here:

👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/kiroIDE/comments/1ubn3me/i_built_an_opensource_telegram_bot_that_turns/

The goal is becoming much bigger than simply "using Kiro from Telegram".

I want it to feel like carrying your AI development workstation in your pocket.

🧭 Multi-session workflow

Control multiple Kiro sessions from one Telegram chat.

Switch between sessions instantly, let background tasks continue running, receive completion notifications, and catch up on everything you missed.

👀 Live sessions

• Attach to running Kiro sessions
• Watch them live
• Continue them from Telegram
• Kill individual sessions or all running sessions

🧩 MCP management

Manage MCP servers remotely.

• View configured servers
• Run health checks
• Enable or disable servers
• Restart the agent without opening a terminal

📈 Smarter progress tracking

The bot now displays a live progress bar while the agent works.

Even if the model never reports progress, the bot computes it from real activity so you're never staring at a silent chat wondering whether Kiro is still working.

🔐 Remote authentication

Need to switch accounts?

Run /reauth directly from Telegram.

The complete Kiro device login flow now works remotely.

👥 Subagent visibility

When Kiro launches subagents you can actually see them working.

No more waiting without knowing what's happening.

🔄 Self-healing

The bot now automatically:

• retries transient Kiro failures
• recovers from agent restarts
• auto-forks context-full sessions
• detects and removes duplicate bot instances
• automatically reconnects sessions

🔕 Better mobile experience

I spent a lot of time improving the Telegram UX.

• Silent streaming updates
• Only important events play notification sounds (Done, Error, Permissions, Scheduled Tasks)
• Persistent menu
• Live status panel
• Cleaner Markdown rendering
• Unified diffs
• Progress bars
• Image albums
• Voice transcription
• Cleaner navigation
• Automatic cleanup of old menus
• Threaded replies to every prompt
• Searchable project and session hashtags
• Background session notifications

⚙️ Easier installation

The project now supports:

• npm installation
• One-command setup
• Windows, Linux and macOS services
• Automatic updates
• Path-independent configuration
• Better single-instance detection

There's still a lot on the roadmap, but it's already becoming the workflow I wanted when I started this project.

If anyone wants to try it, break it, suggest features, or contribute:

⭐ GitHub

https://github.com/artickc/kiro-telegram-bot

I'm always looking for ideas that make remote AI development feel even more natural.