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cost-estimation

cost-estimation is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/azure-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (436 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cost-estimation, MIT.

An Azure cost-estimation skill for forecasting future cloud spending and pricing planned resources such as virtual machines or storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to forecast Azure bills, compare regions or storage tiers, check public or negotiated prices, and compare costs with a planning target.
Why use it?
It separates forecasts of existing spending from hypothetical prices, reducing confusion about what an estimate represents.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure-cost plugin — 4 skills shipped together

not rated 1.6krepo +14 today A scan 97 tokens copy · 100% MIT

Good fit Use it to forecast Azure bills, compare regions or storage tiers, check public or negotiated prices, and compare costs with a planning target.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/azure-skills/cost-estimation
View source ↗ microsoft/azure-skills
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 · 1,636 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.

Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill cost-estimation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-cost, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 436 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00097 $0.00436
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00174
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 17f6d77d27ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cost-estimation 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 1mo 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 cost-estimation — 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/skills/cost-estimation/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Azure Cost Estimation

Quick Reference

Intent Workflow Primary tools
Forecast existing spend Cost forecast forecast_costs
Price planned resources Pricing estimate Pricing tools

When to Use This Skill

Use for forecasts, pricing, and planning targets.

MCP Tools

Tool Use
forecast_costs Forecast a scope.
get_retail_prices Get public prices.
start_pricesheet_download, get_pricesheet_status Get Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) prices.

Fallback: API mappings.

Workflow

  1. Distinguish forecasts from hypothetical pricing.
  2. Confirm scope, assumptions, period, region, OS, and currency.
  3. Load the matching workflow and label every value type.
  4. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries.

Error Handling

Error Action
Ambiguous meter Ask for OS, term, tier, or usage.
Forecast unavailable Explain the history requirement.
Pricesheet pending Honor the returned polling interval.
Multiple currencies Never combine currencies.
Server error Retry once; then report the trace ID.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 17f6d77d27ed

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cost-estimation is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,636 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 436 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cost-estimation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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