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Queries Azure costs, forecasts spending, and identifies optimization opportunities to reduce waste. Activated by billing or cost-related questions.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/azure:azure-costThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.
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| User Intent | Workflow |
|---|---|
| Understand current costs | Cost Query |
| Reduce costs / find waste | Cost Optimization |
| Project future costs | Cost Forecast |
| 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) |
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First indexed Jun 5, 2026
Queries Azure historical costs by service/resource/tag, forecasts spending, and suggests optimizations like rightsizing VMs or finding unused resources.
Provides expert guidance on Azure Cost Management: budgets/alerts, cost exports, reservations/savings plans, billing accounts, RBAC for cost data, and cost optimization best practices.
Manages Azure costs using CLI tools for Advisor recommendations, budgets, anomaly alerts, savings plans, reservations, exports, and commitment discounts.