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 s…
Install
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Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Azure Cost Management Skill
Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.
Routing
| User Intent | Workflow | |-------------|----------| | Understand current costs | [Cost Query](cost-query/workflow.md) | | Reduce costs / find waste | [Cost Optimization](cost-optimization/workflow.md) | | Project future costs | [Cost Forecast](cost-forecast/workflow.md) |
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/ - Resource Group:
/subscriptions//resourceGroups/ - Management Group:
/providers/Microsoft.Management/managementGroups/ - Billing Account:
/providers/Microsoft.Billing/billingAccounts/
Service-Specific Optimization
- [Redis](cost-optimization/services/redis/azure-cache-for-redis.md)
- [Storage](cost-optimization/services/storage/azure-storage.md)
References
- [MCP Tools, Best Practices, Safety](references/tools-and-best-practices.md)
- [SDK: Redis .NET](cost-optimization/sdk/azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet.md)
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: microsoft
- Source: microsoft/azure-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.