cost-governance skillA
cost-governance is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure: 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", "would this SKU be denied", "cost guardrails". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments..
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.
What the file says
# Cost Governance ## Quick Reference | Intent | Workflow | Primary tools | |--------|----------|---------------| | Check budget status | [Budget health](references/budget-health.md) | `list_budgets`, `forecast_costs`, `query_costs`, `list_alerts` | | Configure a budget | [Budget setup](references/budget-setup.md) | Cost tools, `create_budget` | | Review guardrails | [Guardrails](references/guardrails.md) | 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](references/tool-fallback.md). ## Workflow 1. Confirm scope and load the matching workflow. 2. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries. 3. Distinguish access failures from empty results. 4. 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. | …
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How to install
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/cost-governance@v0.0.0-placeholdermdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/cost-governance@sha256:b658d7cc479dcc4dPin 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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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1901 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
microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure · 252 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sdzihlib73e53pfj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/cost-governance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b658d7cc479dcc4de1354ef78ed1d8a10cb6824941ec5b4c94378e6955ebd6d5
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