azure-cost-governance

azure-cost-governance is a skill for Claude Code from TheLobbi/Claude-m. It costs 49 tokens per session (5,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A cost-management skill for Azure that works with spending, usage, budgets, forecasts, and resource efficiency data. FinOps is the practice of managing cloud costs together with engineering and business needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query Azure costs, check budgets and forecasts, inspect usage, find idle resources, and review possible savings.
Why use it?
It helps turn Azure billing data into concrete cost questions and savings decisions. It can identify idle resources and organize costs by account scope or other dimensions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the azure-cost-governance plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to query Azure costs, check budgets and forecasts, inspect usage, find idle resources, and review possible savings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thelobbi/claude-m/azure-cost-governance
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 TheLobbi/Claude-m --skill azure-cost-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheLobbi/Claude-m

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-cost-governance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,390 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 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 $0.00049 $0.05390
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02695
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00539

Measured 9d ago against content hash 16895a07e85f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-cost-governance 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.

azure-cost-governance/skills/azure-cost-governance/SKILL.md · 590 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 590 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 16895a07e85f

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azure-cost-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheLobbi/Claude-m (14 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 5,390 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 2026-09-03.

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