azure-cost

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Azure cost analysis, estimation, optimization, and governance workflows backed by Azure Resource Manager MCP.

Claude Code4 Skills1 MCP serverStreamable HTTP

By MicrosoftLicense: MIT252 GitHub starsUpdated 2 hours ago

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Runtimes: Claude Code
Parsed components: 5 skill or MCP entries
Source updated: Sep 24, 2026
Manifest status: Canonical path parsed

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Install azure-cost for Claude Code

Installs for the current user

claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install azure-cost@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually

$ git clone https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/azure-cost/.

Plugin files

plugins/azure-cost/

├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/cost-analysis/SKILL.md
├── skills/cost-estimation/SKILL.md
├── skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md
├── skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md
└── .mcp.json

Included Skills4

cost-analysisskills/cost-analysis/SKILL.md

Analyze actual Azure spend, bill changes, and AKS or AI costs. WHEN: "Azure cost breakdown", "most expensive resources", "why did my bill increase", "cost spike", "unexpected charge", "Cosmos DB charges", "Foundry model costs", "AKS cluster cost", "namespace cost", "enable AKS cost analysis", "idle AKS capacity". DO NOT USE FOR: forecasts, pricing estimates, rightsizing, commitments, or budgets.

cost-estimationskills/cost-estimation/SKILL.md

Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: "forecast Azure spending", "project next month cost", "compare forecast to my planning target", "how much will Azure cost", "estimate VM cost", "compare storage tiers", "compare Azure regions", "retail price", "EA rate card", "negotiated pricesheet". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.

cost-governanceskills/cost-governance/SKILL.md

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.

cost-optimizationskills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md

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", "Savings Plan coverage", "commitment recommendation", "why is pay-as-you-go still charged". DO NOT USE FOR: cost spikes, forecasts, pricing estimates, budgets, or governance.

MCP servers1

azure-resource-manager-mcpStreamable HTTP

url: https://mcp.management.azure.com

Plugin manifests1

plugins/azure-cost/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

{
  "name": "azure-cost",
  "description": "Azure cost analysis, estimation, optimization, and governance workflows backed by Azure Resource Manager MCP.",
  "version": "0.0.0-placeholder",
  "author": {
    "name": "Microsoft",
    "url": "https://www.microsoft.com"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure",
  "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "azure",
    "cost-management",
    "analysis",
    "estimation",
    "optimization",
    "budgets",
    "governance",
    "commitments"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
  "hooks": "./hooks/claude-hooks.json"
}