Read-only Tier-2 idle/anomalous-spend + idle-resource posture checker for the
R720 agent-team (design D5 / §4 / §6.3 / §7 Phase 3). Mirrors the Tier-1 checker
conventions verbatim (flags --canary/--dry-run/--no-api/--targets, mode-600
report under $REPORT_ROOT/aws-posture/<date>/, ALARM-only, finding.schema.json
spirit, exit 0/2/3, shared substrate redact/post_slack_alarm).
Detectors (complement GuardDuty/SecurityHub/Config, do not replace):
- anomalous Cost Explorer deltas (ce get-anomalies, $-impact threshold)
- stopped EC2 still paying for attached EBS
- unattached EBS volumes
- unassociated Elastic IPs
- idle NAT gateways (≈0 bytes out)
- idle load balancers (0 healthy targets)
- idle RDS (0 connections over window)
Live AWS calls are PROVISIONING-GATED: they run ONLY when Roles Anywhere creds
are available (STS identity probe) AND not --no-api/--canary. With no creds or
--no-api/--canary the checker SKIPS live calls and notes them — NEVER alarms on
missing data (memory feedback_cloudwatch_alarms). Roles Anywhere/step-ca are not
stood up (IAM cross-review PASSED 2026-06-18; see security-review/iam/).
Offline canary: fixtures of mocked AWS responses (cost/describe-* JSON) under
fixtures/aws-posture/ + EXPECTED_FINDING_COUNT=7, asserted fully offline (no aws,
no network). Identical detector code runs online and offline. shellcheck-clean
(only accepted SC1091), chmod +x.