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Azure Cost Agent Skill

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.

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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

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