cost-governance

Name: cost-governance
Author: microsoft

github.com/microsoftCloud & DevOps1.6k202 installsUpdated today

About cost-governance

A skill for managing cloud cost governance, covering budgets, alerts, tags, and policy guardrails. It guides budget checks and setup while emphasizing confirmed scope and careful handling of currency and missing data.

Key features

01Budget status checks
02Budget configuration
03Guardrail reviews
04Scope confirmation for writes
05Currency and data-gap handling

Use cases

01Check budget health and forecasts
02Set up a budget with thresholds
03Review tags and policy guardrails

MCP support

Uses cost tools for budgets and Resource Graph for guardrail reviews. Writes require confirmed scope, amounts, thresholds, and recipients.

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill cost-governance

After installing, type/cost-governancein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled files

References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.

references/

budget-health.md

budget-setup.md

guardrails.md

tool-fallback.md

Details

From the project README

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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Author: microsoft
Repository: microsoft/azure-skills
Category: Cloud & DevOps
Installs: 202
GitHub stars: 1,603

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