
azure-cost
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Unified Azure cost management: query historical costs, forecast future spending, and optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure spending", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "cost by service", "cost by resource", "how much am I spending", "show my bill", "monthly cost summary", "cost trends", "top cost drivers", "actual cost", "amortized cost", "forecast spending", "projected costs", "estimate bill", "future costs", "budget forecast", "end of month costs", "how much will I spend",...
Unified Azure cost management: query historical costs, forecast future spending, and optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure spending", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "cost by service", "cost by resource", "how much am I spending", "show my bill", "monthly cost summary", "cost trends", "top cost drivers", "actual cost", "amortized cost", "forecast spending", "projected costs", "estimate bill", "future costs", "budget forecast", "end of month costs", "how much will I spend",...
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by microsoft
Unified Azure cost management: query historical costs, forecast future spending, and optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure spending", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "cost by service", "cost by resource", "how much am I spending", "show my bill", "monthly cost summary", "cost trends", "top cost drivers", "actual cost", "amortized cost", "forecast spending", "projected costs", "estimate bill", "future costs", "budget forecast", "end of month costs", "how much will I spend",...
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-cost
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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 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
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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
References
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-costRun this in your project — your agent picks the skill up automatically.
No common issues documented yet. If you hit a problem, the repository's GitHub Issues page is the best place to look.