azure-finops

azure-finops is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only toolkit for analysing Microsoft Azure spending, including reservations, unused resources, and potential savings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate billing, check whether usage is covered by reservations or pay-as-you-go pricing, find orphaned resources, analyse reservation coverage, and prepare stakeholder reports in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why use it?
It helps explain cloud costs and identify waste without changing Azure resources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to validate billing, check whether usage is covered by reservations or pay-as-you-go pricing, find orphaned resources, analyse reservation coverage, and prepare stakeholder reports in Brazilian Portuguese.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/azure-finops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill azure-finops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 629 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 $0.00076 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00063

Measured 10d ago against content hash ddf56b36d60a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-finops 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 10d 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-finops/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AzureFinOps Skill

Azure cost optimization through reservation analysis, waste discovery, and stakeholder reporting.

Important

  • All Azure operations are READ-ONLY — zero modifications to any resource
  • Primary output language: Portuguese (BR) for stakeholder responses
  • Python CLI fallback: uv run python -m azure_finops when MCP/CLI auth unavailable

Context Files

  • AzureToolReference.md — MCP tools + CLI commands quick reference
  • ReservationInventory.md — SKU matching and reservation interpretation SOP
  • PricingComparison.md — PAYG vs RI pricing methodology and savings formulas

Workflow Routing

Workflow Trigger File
ValidateCosts "validate costs", "are these reservations or PAYG", "check billing" Workflows/ValidateCosts.md
FindWaste "find waste", "orphaned disks", "orphaned resources" Workflows/FindWaste.md
CoverageAnalysis "reservation coverage", "reservation gaps", "savings analysis" Workflows/CoverageAnalysis.md
DraftResponse "draft response for", "resposta para", "executive summary" Workflows/DraftResponse.md

Examples

Example 1 — Cost Validation:

"Are these January costs reservations or pay-as-you-go?" Routes to: Workflows/ValidateCosts.md

Example 2 — Waste Discovery:

"Find orphaned disks and wasted resources across all subscriptions" Routes to: Workflows/FindWaste.md

Example 3 — Executive Response:

"Draft a response for Jean about the January billing anomalies" Routes to: Workflows/DraftResponse.md


Gotchas

  • Reservation matching: SKU naming differs between usage data and purchase dataStandard_D8s_v3 in usage vs D8sv3 in RI. A direct join misses 100%.
  • Savings Plan vs Reservation can stack — calculators that pick one ignore the combined savings.
  • PAYG vs RI pricing: Marketplace listings are excluded from RI — surprise unreserved charges show up for SQL Server BYOL, etc.
  • Cost data lag is 24-48 hours — same-day analyses miss recent activity entirely.
  • RI scope (shared vs single-subscription): wrong scope means the RI applies to unintended workloads — and you discover it months later in an audit.
  • Currency conversion in EA reports: exchange rate is locked at month close; mid-month estimates use a different rate than the final invoice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A ddf56b36d60a

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azure-finops is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 629 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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