cost-governance
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\",…
Install / Use
npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill cost-governanceInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Development & EngineeringSupported Platforms
Our assessment of cost-governance
cost-governance scores 75/100 on our quality scale, 2459th of 3,481 Development & Engineering skills we index.
Its SKILL.md is 1.8 KB long, split into 6 sections and no code examples: moderately detailed.
With 3,051 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 5 days ago, so cost-governance is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
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| cost-governance (this skill)by microsoft | 75 | 3.1k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install cost-governance?
- Run
npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill cost-governance. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does cost-governance work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is cost-governance safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is cost-governance still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 5 days ago, so cost-governance is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHubname: 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"
Cost Governance
Quick Reference
| 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 |
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.
Workflow
- Confirm scope and load the matching workflow.
- Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries.
- Distinguish access failures from empty results.
- 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. | | 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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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.