cost-governance

by microsoft3.1k

Install

The skill file stays in the publisher's repository.

Paste the copied command in a terminal. It installs this SKILL.md into that agent.

npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill cost-governance -a cursor -y

Download skill .github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md on GitHub

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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.

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How do I install cost-governance?: Download .github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md from the publisher, or copy the path and open the repository. PlugMCP lists the skill and does not host the file.
Where does cost-governance live?: The publisher keeps it at https://github.com/microsoft/skills.
Which agents can use cost-governance?: Claude, Cursor, and Codex can read a SKILL.md you add from the publisher's repository.

name: cost-governance description: "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." license: MIT metadata: author: Microsoft version: "1.0.1"

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`

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.

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