Azure Cost Management Skill
SkillCloud & infraazure-cost lets your AI work with Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. Once added, your AI can check what you are spending and manage your cloud resources, so everyday Azure tasks become simple conversations.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding it, ask your AI to check your Azure costs or manage one of your resources.
Then ask your AI: use the Azure Cost Management Skill skill
What your AI can do with it
- Check your Azure costs
- Manage your Azure resources
- Answer questions about your cloud spending
- Help with everyday Azure tasks
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/azure-skills in skills/azure-cost/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
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
Signals
- GitHub stars
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Installs
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Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
azure-cost- Source
- github.com/microsoft/azure-skills