azure-advisor-cost-optimization
Analyze Azure Advisor Cost/IdleResources findings and prevalidate deletion safety, including Service Groups. WHEN: "find unused Azure resources", "what resources am I paying for but no longer using", "idle-resource savings", "historical idle-resource savings", "are these idle resources safe to delete". Generic Cost, other subcategories, and cross-category requests use azure-advisor.
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- Azure Advisor Cost Optimization
- Shared rules
- Workflow
- Quick reference
- Response guidance
Use existing Advisor tools only with category=Cost and sub-category=IdleResources. Never substitute billing, inventory or runtime KQL. Preserve selected scope, type and tenant; pass supplied identities unchanged. Use only returned structured retail savings; MCP owns calculations. Never annualize, reconstruct amounts from dates, or fall back to legacy annualSavingsAmount/savingsAmount or raw pricing. Cost is accumulated Advisor cost, not monthly spend or yearly savings. Completed reports use Realized savings. Every monetary answer or proposal visibly shows Currency and Pricing basis: from the calculated measure or its documented source. Missing amounts are Unavailable, not zero; numeric zero stays zero. Preserve a known basis even when amounts are missing. Potential savings depend on validating and deleting eligible resources. Estimates do not establish inactivity or safe deletion and never authorize remediation. Before each flow, read its matching references below, including when using supplied results. Before scoped calls, read Scope resolution. Reuse already loaded references. If a required file is unavailable, report it and stop the affected flow. Use the matching scenario guida
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- microsoft/skills
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- .github/plugins/azure-advisor/skills/azure-advisor-cost-optimization/SKILL.md
- Fixed revision
- 18e05b845d43e869b5701d796abce6e9a49e57db
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