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its just a thought there will be some challenges but we can automate some part of it and new contributors can only work on usage part

:wave: Hey Pravin! That’s an interesting idea, we can do a lot more to make it easier for people to add resources. <@U01GH25S20L> recently sent <https://github.com/infracost/infracost/pull/824|this PR> to refactor how we separate the resource logic into IaC-specific vs not, he also updated the contributing docs. <@U01GPM7G2TD> was looking at a schema for the usage file (so it’s not just a big YAML file). I wonder if those things help with the idea of auto-generating a structured scaffolding for a resource, e.g. you can run `make scaffold aws_resource_name_here` and it detects `aws` then creates the required files in the right places with comments/examples in those files

I like what <@U022CDXBN2W> is suggesting. I think when the discussions regarding separating the core logic of resources from IACs are done we can move to implement such automation tools.

yeah it’s really cool to see how the different strands of work in the community come together to help contributors add resources quickly!