azure-cost

azure-cost is a plugin for Claude Code from microsoft/azure-skills. Its manifest loads nothing; the 4 skills, 1 MCP server it bundles cost 392 tokens per session together, scanned A, a copy of azure-cost, MIT.

An Azure cost-management plugin that combines tools for analysing spending, estimating prices, reducing waste, and governing cloud budgets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Azure bill analysis, cost forecasts, optimization recommendations, budgets, alerts, tags, and resource-policy checks.
Why use it?
It brings several Azure cost workflows together so spending questions, forecasts, savings reviews, and budget controls use the same connection.

Plugin for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it for Azure bill analysis, cost forecasts, optimization recommendations, budgets, alerts, tags, and resource-policy checks.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills
/plugin install azure-cost
About the project

Azure Skills Plugin is an agent plugin that packages Azure-specific guidance with MCP server configurations for carrying out Azure work. Coding agents use it to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, govern, and optimize Azure applications and services. The catalogue entries are the plugin's skills, instructions, and execution integrations.

microsoft/azure-skills · 1,503 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 4 skills, 1 MCP server cost 392 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

azure-cost scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to azure-cost — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/plugins/azure-cost/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 25 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "azure-cost",
  "description": "Azure cost analysis, estimation, optimization, and governance workflows backed by Azure Resource Manager MCP.",
  "version": "1.0.2",
  "author": {
    "name": "Microsoft",
    "url": "https://www.microsoft.com"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure",
  "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "azure",
    "cost-management",
    "analysis",
    "estimation",
    "optimization",
    "budgets",
    "governance",
    "commitments"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
  "hooks": "./hooks/claude-hooks.json"
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 4 skills, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 392 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines scan A ed7acadc1365

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-cost is a plugin published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,503 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-cost, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.