Azure Cost Management

by microsoft

Azure Cost Management is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in azure-skills.

1.4K stars231 forkson microsoft/azure-skillsAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install Azure Cost Management

Copy Azure Cost Management into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-cost ~/.claude/skills/azure-cost

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/azure-cost/SKILL.md in microsoft/azure-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/azure-cost
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Azure Cost Management does

Azure Cost Management queries historical Azure spending, forecasts future costs, and identifies optimization opportunities to reduce waste. Use it when you need cost breakdowns, budget forecasting, orphaned resource cleanup, or rightsizing recommendations.

Azure Cost Management is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Azure Cost Management comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure Cost Management Skill

Query historical costs, forecast future spending, optimize to reduce waste.

Routing

User Intent	Workflow
Understand current costs	Cost Query
Reduce costs / find waste	Cost Optimization
Project future costs	Cost Forecast

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Query API	`POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/query?api-version=2023-11-01`
Forecast API	`POST {scope}/providers/Microsoft.CostManagement/forecast?api-version=2023-11-01`
Required Role	Cost Management Reader + Monitoring Reader + Reader (on target scope)

Scope Patterns

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Azure Cost Management

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure Cost Management?
Azure Cost Management is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/azure-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Runway AKS Setup, App Insights Instrumentation and Azure AI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure Cost Management does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/azure-skills page.
How does Azure Cost Management compare to other Data skills?
Azure Cost Management ranks #401 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Azure Cost Management against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.