Orphaned Resource Reconciler

Cloud resources can survive failed provisioning, partial deletions, crashed workers, and database rollbacks. These orphaned VMs, buckets, DNS records, queues, and other resources can keep generating costs and create security risks long after the application has lost track of them.

Orphaned Resource Reconciler helps an AI coding agent safely identify and repair this drift.

What it does:

• Inventories external cloud resources and compares them with local ownership records.
• Establishes ownership using stable operation IDs and provider-native identifiers.
• Detects duplicate provisioning, partial deletion, and stale infrastructure.
• Quarantines ambiguous resources instead of deleting them blindly.
• Builds idempotent cleanup workflows with state verification before destructive actions.
• Reconciles provider state after failed operations, retries, or database recovery.

Unlike simple cleanup prompts, this skill does not assume that every unmatched cloud resource is safe to delete. It requires strong ownership evidence and protects shared or ambiguous infrastructure.

Ideal for SaaS platforms, cloud automation, infrastructure tooling, preview environments, provisioning systems, and DevOps workflows.

Known limitation: Resources with ambiguous ownership are not automatically deleted. The workspace should provide appropriate cloud-provider adapters and a local ownership model.