Azure Cost

microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure-azure-cost

Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: \"Azure costs\", \"Azure bill\", \"cost breakdown\", \"how much am I spending\", \"forecast spending\", \"optimize costs\", \"reduce spending\", \"orphaned resources\", \"rightsize VMs\", \"cost spike\", \"reduce storage costs\", \"AKS cost\". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning, diagnostics, or security audits.

24k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

242

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill azure-cost

What comes with it

95 255 bytes besides the instruction

cost-forecast/error-handling.md

cost-forecast/examples.md

cost-forecast/guardrails.md

cost-forecast/request-body-schema.md

cost-forecast/workflow.md

cost-optimization/auth-best-practices.md

cost-optimization/azure-aks-anomalies.md

cost-optimization/azure-aks-cost-addon.md

cost-optimization/azure-quick-review.md

cost-optimization/azure-resource-graph.md

cost-optimization/report-template.md

cost-optimization/sdk/azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet.md

cost-optimization/services/redis/azure-cache-for-redis.md

cost-optimization/services/storage/azure-storage.md

cost-optimization/workflow.md

cost-query/dimensions-by-scope.md

cost-query/error-handling.md

cost-query/examples.md

cost-query/guardrails.md

cost-query/request-body-schema.md

cost-query/workflow.md

references/tools-and-best-practices.md

version.json

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Azure Cost Management Skill

Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.

Routing

| User Intent | Workflow |

|-------------|----------|

| Understand current costs | Cost Query |

| Reduce costs / find waste | Cost Optimization |

| Project future costs | Cost Forecast |

Quick Reference

| Property | Value |

|----------|-------|

| Query API | POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01 |

| Forecast API | POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01 |

| Required Role | Cost Management Reader + Monitoring Reader + Reader (on target scope) |

Scope Patterns

Subscription: /subscriptions/<id>
Resource Group: /subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<name>
Management Group: /providers/Microsoft.Management/managementGroups/<id>
Billing Account: /providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/<id>

Service-Specific Optimization

Redis
Storage

References

MCP Tools, Best Practices, Safety
SDK: Redis .NET

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure-azure-cost from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.