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Azure Cost Management Skill — measured AI agent skill | DecimalAI

microsoft/azure-cost

SkillScore95Maintained

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.

by microsoft

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22 test cases from the publisher’s eval.yaml · each run twice on gemini-3.6-flash — with the skill injected, then without · last run 6d ago

Yes — +23% lift-8% tokens0% turns95% of whole cases pass with skill (21/22)

Test case	Without → With	Effect	Δ tokens	Δ turns
case-05	✗→✓	▲ Improved	2%	0%
case-06	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-16%	0%
case-07	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-24%	0%
case-10	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-56%	0%
case-15	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-40%	0%

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SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/1/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

microsoft / github-copilot-for-azure

plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-cost/SKILL.md

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License MITImported 8/1/2026Version v1Bundled 1 file

Skill contents

references/

SKILL.md

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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