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name: cost-governance description: "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." license: MIT metadata: author: Microsoft version: "1.0.1"

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

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.