azure-cost-management

azure-cost-management is a skill for Claude Code from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (5,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A reference guide for developing and operating Azure Cost Management, Microsoft's tools for tracking and controlling cloud spending. It covers billing access, budgets, alerts, exports, reservations, savings plans, and integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up budgets or alerts, exporting cost data, managing billing roles, troubleshooting Cost Management behavior, or working with Azure reservations and savings plans.
Why use it?
It helps developers diagnose cloud-cost problems and choose suitable controls for monitoring, forecasting, and reducing Azure expenditure. It also addresses limits, security, configuration, and deployment concerns.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 198 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

Good fit Use it when setting up budgets or alerts, exporting cost data, managing billing roles, troubleshooting Cost Management behavior, or working with Azure reservations and savings plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-cost-management
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 MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-cost-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 198 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,340 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 unknown 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 $0.00099 $0.05340
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02670
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00534

Measured today against content hash fb7cb5568d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 today.

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 · 195 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. today Changed · -2 tokens per session fb7cb5568d36
  2. 7d ago Changed a40c9ee036ee
  3. 8d ago First seen · 195 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A c59ff438af67

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azure-cost-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (735 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 5,340 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.

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