aks-cost-optimization
Analyze advanced AKS cost efficiency. WHEN: \"AKS NAP readiness\", \"AKS bin packing\", \"AKS node scaling bottleneck\", \"AKS…
@microsoftInstall SkillDevelopment
Skill
/cost-governance
Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\",
Claude Code
$ npx -y skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance --agent claude-code
Codex
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a codex -y
Cursor
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a cursor -y
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a gemini-cli -y
GitHub Copilot
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a github-copilot -y
OpenCode
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a opencode -y
Windsurf
$ npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill cost-governance -a windsurf -y
SKILL.md
cost-governance.SKILL.mdname: cost-governance
description: "Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\", \"allowed Azure regions\", \"would this SKU be denied\", \"cost guardrails\". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments."
license: MIT
metadata:
author: Microsoft
version: "0.0.0-placeholder"
Cost Governance
Quick Reference
| Intent | Workflow | Primary tools | |--------|----------|---------------| | Check budget status | [Budget health](references/budget-health.md) | `list_budgets`, `forecast_costs`, `query_costs`, `list_alerts` | | Configure a budget | [Budget setup](references/budget-setup.md) | Cost tools, `create_budget` | | Review guardrails | [Guardrails](references/guardrails.md) | Resource Graph, `list_budgets` |
When to Use This Skill
Use for budgets, alerts, tags, and policy.
MCP Tools
Use cost tools for budgets; Resource Graph for guardrails. Writes need confirmed scope, amount, thresholds, and recipients. Fallback: [API mappings](references/tool-fallback.md).
Workflow
1. Confirm scope and load the matching workflow. 2. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries. 3. Distinguish access failures from empty results. 4. Report gaps without implying budgets cap spend.
Error Handling
| Error | Action | |-------|--------| | Access denied | Name missing permission. | | No budget or forecast | Report unavailable data, not zero. | | Multiple currencies | Never sum or compare across currencies. | | Write conflict | Preserve the budget. | | Server error | Retry once; then stop with the trace ID. |
Read more
name: cost-governance description: "Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\", \"allowed Azure regions\", \"would this SKU be denied\", \"cost guardrails\". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments." license: MIT metadata: author: Microsoft version: "0.0.0-placeholder"
Cost Governance
Quick Reference
| Intent | Workflow | Primary tools | |--------|----------|---------------| | Check budget status | [Budget health](references/budget-health.md) | `list_budgets`, `forecast_costs`, `query_costs`, `list_alerts` | | Configure a budget | [Budget setup](references/budget-setup.md) | Cost tools, `create_budget` | | Review guardrails | [Guardrails](references/guardrails.md) | Resource Graph, `list_budgets` |
When to Use This Skill
Use for budgets, alerts, tags, and policy.
MCP Tools
Use cost tools for budgets; Resource Graph for guardrails. Writes need confirmed scope, amount, thresholds, and recipients. Fallback: [API mappings](references/tool-fallback.md).
Workflow
1. Confirm scope and load the matching workflow. 2. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries. 3. Distinguish access failures from empty results. 4. Report gaps without implying budgets cap spend.
Error Handling
| Error | Action | |-------|--------| | Access denied | Name missing permission. | | No budget or forecast | Report unavailable data, not zero. | | Multiple currencies | Never sum or compare across currencies. | | Write conflict | Preserve the budget. | | Server error | Retry once; then stop with the trace ID. |
Ships withgithub-copilot-for-azure
GitHub Copilot for Azure is a set of extensions for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Claude Code designed to streamline the process of developing for Azure.
25956 skills2 MCP
Stars on GitHub
Momentum
- stars in total
- 259
Other skills on github-copilot-for-azure.
@microsoftInstall Skillaks-gpu-inference
Diagnose Day-2 AKS GPU and KAITO incidents using profile-aware, read-only evidence. WHEN: 'Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu', GPU pod…
@microsoftInstall Skillaks-known-issues
Lookup documented AKS fixes only when the prompt includes an exact catalog signature and all of its qualifiers:…
@microsoftInstall Skillaks-network-capture
Collects bounded packet captures from AKS nodes and Azure network configuration for wire-level evidence. WHEN: \"capture packets…
@microsoftInstall Skillaks-troubleshooting
Debug live Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) incidents with a read-only, evidence-first investigation. WHEN: pod crashes or Pending,…
@microsoftInstall Skillazure-search-nav
Builds an Azure portal deep link to a specific blade/menu item for supported Microsoft.ContainerService, Microsoft.Kubernetes,…
@microsoftInstall SkillMore skills from other plugins.
Auto-invoked
brainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or…
@obraInstall Skillask-matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
@mattpocockInstall SkillAuto-invoked
Questions about cost-governance.
- Which coding agents can use cost-governance?
- cost-governance installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.