cost-governance SKILL.md skillA
cost-governance from microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/cost-governance@v0.0.0-placeholderPins v0.0.0-placeholder in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure
- Path
plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.0.0-placeholder, committed Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 1,901 bytes
- Repository stars
- 261
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file 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. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/cost-governance@sha256:b658d7cc479dcc4dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.0.0-placeholder, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 22, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- 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 · 261 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-06 · 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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