Cost Governance

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Lets your agent check Azure budget health and manage budgets, alerts, tags, and cost policies.

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About this skill

Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\", \"allowed Azure regions\",

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure in plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Quick Reference

Intent	Workflow	Primary tools
Check budget status	Budget health	`list_budgets`, `forecast_costs`, `query_costs`, `list_alerts`
Configure a budget	Budget setup	Cost tools, `create_budget`
Review guardrails	Guardrails	Resource Graph, `list_budgets`

When to Use This Skill

Use for budgets, alerts, tags, and policy.

MCP Tools

Use cost tools for budgets; Resource Graph for guardrails. Writes need confirmed scope, amount, thresholds, and recipients. Fallback: API mappings.

Workflow

Confirm scope and load the matching workflow.
Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries.
Distinguish access failures from empty results.
Report gaps without implying budgets cap spend.

Error Handling

Error	Action
Access denied	Name missing permission.
No budget or forecast	Report unavailable data, not zero.
Multiple currencies	Never sum or compare across currencies.
Write conflict	Preserve the budget.
Server error	Retry once; then stop with the trace ID.

Signals

GitHub stars: 253
Forks: 205
Last commit: Sep 2026

Advanced

Item type: skill
Key: cost-governance-microsoft
Source: github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure

github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure