azure-cost: Query Your Bill Before You Optimize

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most Azure cost advice tells you to “eliminate waste” and stops there. Microsoft’s azure-cost skill (v1.3.1, MIT) works the other way: it reads your actual bill through the Cost Management API before it recommends anything. I read the full SKILL.md plus five sub-files — the cost-query workflow, its guardrails, the optimization workflow, the Azure Quick Review reference, and the tools-and-best-practices file — then scraped skills.sh on 2026-09-14: azure-cost ranks 132 with 382,419 installs.

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