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.
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.
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-costgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-cost)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-cost"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-cost/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-cost"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-cost.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00094 | $0.00444 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.00222 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00089 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00044 |
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 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.
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.
What it actually says
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
- 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
What ships with it
22 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.
- cost-forecast/error-handling.md 4.3 KB
- cost-forecast/examples.md 3.0 KB
- cost-forecast/guardrails.md 5.1 KB
- cost-forecast/request-body-schema.md 4.2 KB
- cost-forecast/workflow.md 4.7 KB
- cost-optimization/auth-best-practices.md 6.1 KB
- cost-optimization/azure-aks-anomalies.md 2.5 KB
- cost-optimization/azure-aks-cost-addon.md 1.5 KB
- cost-optimization/azure-quick-review.md 1.6 KB
- cost-optimization/azure-resource-graph.md 2.7 KB
- cost-optimization/report-template.md 1.8 KB
- cost-optimization/sdk/azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet.md 1.5 KB
- cost-optimization/services/redis/azure-cache-for-redis.md 2.7 KB
- cost-optimization/services/storage/azure-storage.md 7.7 KB
- cost-optimization/workflow.md 7.7 KB
- cost-query/dimensions-by-scope.md 7.5 KB
- cost-query/error-handling.md 5.0 KB
- cost-query/examples.md 2.5 KB
- cost-query/guardrails.md 7.5 KB
- cost-query/request-body-schema.md 5.4 KB
- cost-query/workflow.md 5.1 KB
- references/tools-and-best-practices.md 2.9 KB
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 46 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A bb338e57ad45
azure-cost is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,463 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 444 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. 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.
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