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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", "would this SKU be denied", "cost guardrails". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments.

microsoftmicrosoft/cost-governance★ 3.1kUpdated Oct 6, 2026

Description

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

  1. Confirm scope and load the matching workflow.
  2. Never transform MCP results in a shell or interpreter; request tool-side filtering or bounded follow-up queries.
  3. Distinguish access failures from empty results.
  4. 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.

Permissions

DeclaredDetected
Runs code—None
Installs—None
Runs install scripts—None
Network—None
Needs credentials—None
Outside the workspace—None
Agent tools—None

Checks

Low risk · Nothing worth a warning was found.

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Files5 files · 9.3 KB

  • SKILL.md1.8 KB
references/4
  • budget-health.md1.9 KB
  • budget-setup.md2.5 KB
  • guardrails.md1.8 KB
  • tool-fallback.md1.2 KB

Versions

  1. #11.0.1latestOct 7, 2026