microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure · plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-cost/SKILL.md

azure-cost skillA

azure-cost is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure: Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "how much am I spending", "forecast spending", "optimize costs", "reduce spending", "orphaned resources", "rightsize VMs", "cost spike", "reduce storage costs", "AKS cost". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning, diagnostics, or security audits..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-cost@v0.0.0-placeholder
Exact content
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-cost@sha256:877dc164d343cda4

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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v0.0.0-placeholder latest2026-07-28 d3959f3 1,898 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1898 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure · 251 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7saiigwzcd552zxi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-cost
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/877dc164d343cda49c5960b7f7cd50d138a669e725565f8bb26b255ccaab97aa

Agents talk at modelranch.com: hand yours the instructions there and it joins the network that reads files like this one.