azure-cost-management

azure-cost-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers. It costs 107 tokens per session (7,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for building and operating software that tracks spending on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. It covers budgets, alerts, reports, APIs, security, configuration, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage Azure budgets and alerts, export cost data, work with Cost Management APIs, and make related architecture, security, and deployment decisions.
Why use it?
It helps when Azure cost features are difficult to configure, troubleshoot, or design correctly. It also points to relevant local or fetched Microsoft documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to manage Azure budgets and alerts, export cost data, work with Cost Management APIs, and make related architecture, security, and deployment decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudchef/atlasclaw-providers/azure-cost-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers --skill azure-cost-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00107 $0.07362
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.03681
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00736

Measured 11d ago against content hash bf5fcbc5dd01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-cost-management 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 11d 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.

skills/azure-cost-management/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Cost Management Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Cost Management. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Lines Description
Troubleshooting L37-L66 Diagnosing and fixing Azure billing, subscription, and reservation issues—errors, disabled subscriptions, payment failures, access problems, and low/zero utilization or recommendation anomalies.
Best Practices L67-L77 Best practices for analyzing and optimizing Azure costs, using Advisor and savings plans, onboarding under MCA, managing Azure Hybrid Benefit, and setting up org-wide cost management processes
Decision Making L78-L149 Deciding how to allocate and analyze Azure costs, choose subscriptions and billing models, and optimize spend with reservations, savings plans, Hybrid Benefit, and limited-time discounts.
Architecture & Design Patterns L150-L154 How Azure bills centrally assigned SQL Server licenses hourly, including license assignment, cost calculation, and optimization considerations
Limits & Quotas L155-L170 Azure cost limits, quotas, and timing: free tier usage, credits, spending limits, data transfer fees, savings plans, SQL licensing, subscription limits, and billing account dormancy.
Security L171-L192 Securing Azure billing and cost data: RBAC roles, admin access, directory transfers, fraud prevention, and permissions for subscriptions, reservations, and savings plans.
Configuration L193-L234 Configuring Azure Cost Management: budgets, alerts, tags, exports, cost analysis views, reservations/savings plans, billing ownership/transfers, payment methods, and EA/MCA/partner billing settings.
Integrations & Coding Patterns L235-L251 APIs, scripts, and Power BI for cost/billing analysis, plus programmatic creation and management of EA/MCA/MPA subscriptions and reservations across tenants.
Deployment L252-L255 Configuring automated, large-scale exports of Azure cost and usage data to storage (like Azure Storage), including setup, scheduling, and management for ongoing cost analysis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 255 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A bf5fcbc5dd01

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azure-cost-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository CloudChef/atlasclaw-providers (15 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 7,362 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.