Azure Cost Optimization
SkillCloud & infraLets your agent optimize Azure costs by finding idle resources, rightsizing, and reviewing Reservations or Savings Plans.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Azure Cost Optimization skill
About this skill
Optimize existing Azure resources and analyze Reservations or Savings Plans. WHEN: \"optimize Azure costs\", \"reduce cloud spending\", \"rightsize resources\", \"find idle resources\", \"orphaned disk\", \"deleted VM still charged\", \"public IP still charging\", \"reservation utilization\", \"Savi
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure in plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Quick Reference
| Intent | Workflow | Primary tools |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce waste or rightsize | Optimization | Cost and Resource Graph tools |
| Review commitments | Commitments | list_benefit_utilization, list_reservation_transactions, get_benefit_recommendations |
When to Use This Skill
Use for waste, rightsizing, and commitments.
MCP Tools
Use cost and Resource Graph tools for optimization and benefit tools for commitments. Validate queries. Fallback: API mappings.
Workflow
- Confirm scope, period, currency, and commitment intent.
- Load only the matching workflow above.
- Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request validated server-side projection, aggregation, or bounded follow-up queries.
- Separate measured cost, reported savings, and qualitative opportunities.
- Recommend changes only; do not delete, resize, purchase, or deploy resources.
Error Handling
| Error | Action |
|---|---|
| Access denied | Name the scope and permission. |
| Multiple currencies | Group and report each currency separately. |
| Missing evidence | State the gap; do not invent values. |
| Server error | Retry once; then report the trace ID. |
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 252
- Forks
- 204
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Key
cost-optimization-2- Source
- github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure
github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure