azure-cost

SKILL.md

Query historical Azure costs, forecast future spending, and identify optimization opportunities across subscriptions and resource groups.

Supports three primary workflows: cost queries with breakdown by service/resource/tag, spending forecasts with configurable time periods, and cost optimization analysis including orphaned resources and VM rightsizing

Integrates with Azure Cost Management API (query and forecast endpoints) and Azure Monitor for utilization metrics; includes MCP tools for documentation lookup, CLI command generation, and Azure Quick Review compliance scanning

Handles subscription, resource group, management group, and billing account scopes; enforces Cost Management Reader role requirement and includes rate-limit handling (4 requests/minute per scope)

Requires actual cost data validation before recommendations; always presents total bill alongside optimization suggestions and includes Azure Portal links for all resources

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)