finops-azure

finops-azure is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jh941213/codex-lattice. It costs 46 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only workflow for reviewing Azure cloud resources, their costs, budgets, limits, scaling, monitoring, and operational setup. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory Azure infrastructure, review cost drivers, check budgets and resource sizing, inspect alerts and diagnostics, and assess backup or restore readiness.
Why use it?
It helps find likely waste, missing safeguards, and operational gaps without changing cloud resources by default. It also defines safety limits for actions such as scaling, restarting, or deleting resources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to inventory Azure infrastructure, review cost drivers, check budgets and resource sizing, inspect alerts and diagnostics, and assess backup or restore readiness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jh941213/codex-lattice/finops-azure
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jh941213/codex-lattice --skill finops-azure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jh941213/codex-lattice

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6bda98293ce8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finops-azure 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 9d 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/finops-azure/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

FinOps Azure

Use this skill when Azure resources, infra specs, cost estimates, budgets, quotas, scaling, monitoring, or cloud operations are involved.

Workflow

  1. Use read-only az commands by default.
  2. Confirm login and subscription:
    • az account show --output json
    • az account list --output table
  3. Inventory relevant resources:
    • az resource list --output json
    • filter by resource group, tag, or service when known
  4. Check cost and waste signals:
    • budgets
    • unattached disks
    • idle public IPs
    • oversized SKUs
    • missing autoscale
    • missing tags
  5. Check operational signals:
    • diagnostic settings
    • alerts
    • metrics
    • backup/restore posture
  6. Record durable assumptions in .codex-lattice/model-visible/AZURE_INFRA_MEMORY.md.
  7. Update docs/harness/COST_MODEL.md, docs/harness/INFRA_SPEC.md, and docs/harness/OPERATIONS_RUNBOOK.md.

Safety Rules

  • Do not create, update, delete, scale, rotate, or restart Azure resources without explicit user approval.
  • Never print secrets, keys, connection strings, tokens, or full credentials.
  • Prefer JSON output for machine-readable evidence.

Required Output

Return subscription, resource scope, cost drivers, waste candidates, monitoring gaps, risk, and next commands.

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. 9d ago First seen · 43 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 6bda98293ce8

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finops-azure is a skill published in the GitHub repository jh941213/codex-lattice (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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